Economics

Economic growth has extraordinarily increased the availability of market goods to satisfy peoples need for comfort, but at the same time it has als...

The Economies of European Union Small Member and Candidate States deals with the small states and candidate states of the EU, with a focus on their...

Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in tra...

Self-Balancing is not just a tweak or change to assembly line balancing, but a completely transformed method for achieving continuous flow. Among t...

This Dictionary provides entries on the history and economy of each constituent country of the region, as well as entries on any distinct territori...

Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the politicalrevolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ong...

The global 'financial' crisis at the turn of the decade has accelerated changes in the relative standing of major regions. As both the US and Euroz...

For years, North Carolina has been one of the nation's fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the state's people, industries, jobs, ...

A unified framework for understanding monetary policy, including recent unprecedented interventions by central banksOver the past two decades, mone...

As trade and production have increasingly crossed international boundaries, private bodies and governments alike have sought new ways to regulate l...

Advances in nanotechnology are transforming the ways of creating materials and products, leading society to the threshold of a second industrial re...

Practice management for Land, Construction and Property Professionals presents the expert views and practical experience of researchers and practit...

The proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented here and in the companion volu...

Greeces economy and society have undergone important structural changes in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and consequent austerit...

This book focuses on the nature and role of entrepreneurship in modern developed and emerging economies and societies, its relation to governments ...

Investment is the engine of growth. In consequence, the social welfare of the populace depends on the expectations of uncertain profitability as un...

In this fourth and final volume of the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, Ronnie Lessem integrates all that has come before in terms of: Com...

There are 60 million health care workers globally and most of this workforce consists of nurses, as they are key providers of primary health care. ...

Turkey has experienced growth in both the population and the workforce. However, female participation in the workforce in Turkey is extremely low, ...

This book reveals the key trends in the modern Russian trade policy to provide a deeper understanding of the main challenges and barriers, possible...

Over 20 years ago Philip Sadler, then head of a leading British business school, wrote Managerial Leadership in the Post-Industrial Society. In it ...

In an easy-to-understand, nontechnical yet mathematically elegant manner, An Introduction to Exotic Option Pricing shows how to price exotic option...

Growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has focused attention on the relationship between businesses and key stakeholders, such a...

These proceedings compile selected papers from presenters at the Conference: Managing Digital Industry, Technology and Entrepreneurship 2019 (CoMDI...

In recent decades, there have been significant changes in the way corporate innovation activities are performed. They include changes in the innova...

Postmodern global terrorist groups engage sovereign nations asymmetrically with prolonged, sustained campaigns driven by ideology. Increasingly, tr...

China's engagement in Africa is generally portrayed simply as African countries being exploited for their mineral wealth by a wealthy political and...

This book represents the manifestation of a new presentation of old perspectives within the discipline of criminal justice. It contains practical c...

When a venture seems to be faltering, do you persist and hope that things will get better or do you cut your losses? This may be one of the most im...

Labour migration has been on the agenda of many countries around the globe at the same time as governments of both sending and receiving countries ...

Savvy managers no longer look at contracts and the law reactively but use them proactively to reduce their costs, minimize their risks, secure key ...