Economics

Much has been written about the men and women who shaped the field of advertising, some of whom became legends in the industry. However, the contri...

This book offers a sociological analysis of globalised capitalist markets, advancing the notion of disembedded markets to challenge the idea of soc...

Originally published in 2005. Countries at different stages of social, cultural and economic development approach the process of skill formation in...

This book explores the key economic issues facing Southeastern Europe and Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the context of the serious challenges that...

Unleashing Intellectual Capital reveals breakthrough principles for structuring Knowledge Age organizations. It helps leaders and knowledge profess...

Economics for an Information Age examines the central role of information within economics and society. The neoclassical economic model, taught as ...

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the changes and development of the civil international aircraft/aviation industry. It offers a fu...

In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital. The traditional firm has a need for innova...

This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and imple...

This book focuses on the dialectics between spatio-organisational gaps and local contexts that characterise cross-border investments. Interspatial ...

First published in 1998, this collection of essays deals with four different areas of international economics: the theory of international trade, t...

More than a decade since the global financial crisis, economics does not exhibit signs of significant change. Mainstream economists act on an ideal...

First published in 1975, this book provides a straightforward examination of regional differences and regional development in the countries of West...

This book explores the complex problem of how to measure the success of social organisations, projects and activities. Whether improving a local si...

This title was first published in 2003. Korea has had considerable success in developing its high technology industries and these have become signi...

Adam Smiths An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the product of the rich tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment but ...

Portfolio theory and much of asset pricing, as well as many empirical applications, depend on the use of multivariate probability distributions to ...

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become a popular development policy throughout the world over the last half a century. These zones form designat...

The 'new realities' of the title refer to the state of government, society and the economy in the USA, Japan, Western Europe, Russia and the Third ...

In this volume, Lena Sommestad explores the significance of rural womanhood in the formation of Swedens gender-egalitarian welfare state in the ear...

The secret weapon for business experts to ensure strategically creative results, this is an indispensable field guide to evaluating creative advert...

No society can escape population ageing. This demographic phenomenon has profound social consequences on the lifestyles of individuals and societie...

Over the past two decades the use of flexible employment relations has increased in most developed countries. The growth of temporary agency work c...

This book, first published in 1945, is based primarily on some fifty regional reports submitted to the Government between 1941 and 1943. The origin...

The Islamic labor market rests on the principles of the free market exchange of Islamic economics. Regrettably, the latter has failed to keep pace ...

Money is a core feature in all discussions of economic crisis, as is clear from the debates about the responses of the European Central Bank and th...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...

In common with most other advanced capitalist economies of the Global North, the UK has experienced a decline in the manufacturing industry and an ...

Although Otto Neurath left his mark across an array of fields in the first half of the twentieth century, he was trained as an economist and wrote ...

Centering on the investment and financing infrastructure of Chinas Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this book puts forth the basic principles and ge...

Since the crisis in governance which led to a shortage of capable board members, recent years have seen the emergence of the enterprising arts orga...

Organization theory is a fast-developing field of microeconomics. Organizational approaches are now used in a wide range of topics in business stud...

This title was first published in 2002: From Individualism to the Individual treats finance as a social and cultural process, exploring the unseen ...

This book is a critique of claims regarding how emerging economies are supposedly rewriting the rules of global governance and ushering in alternat...

There can be no doubt that the influence of the financial sphere has intensified rapidly in recent years, but there is much debate about the effect...

This title was first published in 1968. Economic development and the system of the functioning of socialist economies have become the subject matte...