Economics

This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explo...

The demise of communism in 1989 in eastern Europe, followed by the break-up of the Soviet Union and the spectacular rise of China and India in the ...

The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labours relationship with British society during the period of 1850 to 1930 as the e...

The study of the political economy of development in India is significant as India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing countries during the l...

It has been over a century since Cooperative System of Education, a work-study programme for higher education, was initiated by Herman Schneider at...

A stable and sound financial system plays a critical role in mediating funds from surplus units to investors, making it a prerequisite for economic...

The Great Recession, including the preceding events and the subsequent recovery period, has been the dominant feature of US capitalism in the 21st ...

Political risk was first introduced as a component for assessing risk not directly linked to economic factors following the flow of capital from th...

Originally published in this format with this foreword in 1992, this volume contains Accountics: The Office Magazine from April 1898 to December 1899.

Chinas food security has never failed to attract the publics attention. Feeding Chinas large population has always been a huge challenge. The lates...

One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to di...

This book aims to provide the reader with an insight into the relevance of a section of the economy, which is often referred to as the social and ...

This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-d...

Managing building services contractors can prove to be a minefield. The most successful jobs will always be those where building site managers have...

The service sector accounts for a huge proportion of global employment, and is the biggest driver of gross domestic product in developing nations. ...

In recent years, there has been increasing implementation of group and team decision-making within organizations, much of it managed electronically...

This book provides the basic knowledge of Japanese contributions in political economy and the ongoing research agenda, such as the pursuit of theor...

The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthrop...

Who would disagree that money matters? Economists have yet to sufficiently explore issues related to monetary inflation in relation to the Cantillo...

The United Dutch East India Company was the first public company, preceding the formation of the English East-India Company by over 40 years. Its f...

The debt problems of poor countries are receiving unprecedented attention. Both federal and non-governmental organizations alike have been campaign...

This book explores the linkages between age-related pension expenditures and the fiscal space needed to fund them, as well as to organize the mix o...

Innovation is seen as an interactive process that involves many actors within and across organizational boundaries. In public sector services, inno...

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure devel...

To fully comprehend corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporations must understand the many-sided nature of CSR. This book provides insight in...

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBM&As) activity has become an important vehicle for firms internationalization and corporate restructur...

Joseph A. Schumpeter was a monumental figure in the history and development of economics. This work brings together his brilliant lectures, deliver...

Trust has been the subject of empirical and theoretical inquiry in a range of disciplines, including sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, ...

The existence and persistence of regional disparities between European regions require context-tailored policies to promote structural change. This...

In recent years, natural gas has become a major source of energy, with trade across borders increasing through both pipelines and as Liquefied Natu...

Transformational Public Policy examines how governments can more effectively handle uncertainty and risk in an uncertain and changing world. Unpred...

The purpose of this book is to evaluate the debate on partnership, using original research data. Samuel provides a novel categorisation with which ...

Although much has been written about the Korean public administration, the international academic community has little knowledge about it as most o...

Hayek thought that all economic behavior (and by implication other human behavior) is based on fallible interpretations of what information is impo...

Since mid-2007, the world scenario has been dominated by the US sub-prime mortgage crisis and its repercussions on global financial markets and eco...

European macro-regions, Euroregions and other forms of inter-regional, cross-border cooperation have helped to shape new scenarios and new relation...