Economics

Financial capital continues to dominate Western economic organisations, despite major financial and economic crises. While these have not affected ...

This volume shows that in todays globalized world, clusters are an important factor in explaining the different growth rates of firms, cities and r...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of transactional forms of the digital across the Asian region by addressing the platforms and infrastru...

Economic globalization is the process of increased integration among nations, characterized and fostered by three elements of international trade- ...

The United States has been near the forefront of global consumption trends since the 1700s, and for the past century and more, Americans have been ...

Leveraging Diversity: Strategic Learning Capabilities for Breakthrough Performance is designed to help business leaders and diversity practitioners...

The excessive pursuit of economic interests has resulted in severe environmental and social problems, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, an...

While innovation in products and services continues apace, todays competitive strategy is equally based on innovation in the route to market. Tesco...

This title was first published in 2002. Examining cluster development policy in Europe and outlining its distinctive features, this innovative text...

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership...

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In...

Workplace diversity has become increasingly relevant to academics and practitioners alike. Often, this issue is tackled merely from a business-orie...

Produced throughout the first fifteen years of Hayek's career, the writings collected in Capital and Interest see Hayek elaborate upon and extend h...

Power, Diversity and Public Relations addresses the lack of diversity in PR by revealing the ways in which power operates within the occupation to ...

Existing literature looks at national innovation systems from the perspective of either inside the black box or outside the black box. This is the ...

Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States, edited by Yvette Sánchez and Claudia Franziska Brühwiler, is the first handbook on the BRIC Sta...

Our elaborate market exchange system owes its existence not to our calculating brain or insatiable self-centeredness, but rather to our sophisticat...

This book explores why Japan, despite being a world leader in many high technology industries such as automobiles and consumer electronics, is only...

The era of globalisation brought waves of consolidation in business ownership alongside Leviathon-like state actors. Digital disruption too can lea...

Most existing texts covering topics in Islamic finance discuss the potential of Islamic banking; very few talk about other forms of financing and t...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) aims to achieve greater integration between the ASEAN region and its six free trade agreemen...

There is an increasing interest in inclusive wealth, and inclusive wealth can be a solution to the problematic narrowness of the traditional nation...

The field of management and organizational history has reached a level of maturity that means an overview is long overdue.Written by a team of glob...

The goal of behavioural economics is to improve the explanatory and predictive power of economics. This can be achieved by using theoretical and me...

In the past two decades, several millions of IT-enabled services jobs have been relocated or offshored from the US and Europe to, in particular, lo...

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecur...

Intense pressures pose considerable challenges to executives striving to succeed in an environment of increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexit...

David Ricardos theories have been widely studied and discussed, including the prominent theory on comparative advantage. Ricardo and International ...

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

Originally published in 1919, this book is an outgrowth of classroom discussions. It contains in substance the talks on economics which have been m...

Recent developments in the global economy, such as the Greek budget crisis, have led to new focus on the role of Europe, and in particular on the c...

This book is set against the assumption that humans' unique feature is their infinite creativity, their ability to reflect on their deeds and to co...

Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times. Yet, we still do not know how to tackle the issue effectively. The book argues that th...

The theory of the firm did not exist, in any serious manner, until around 1970. Only then did the current theory of the firm literature begin to em...

The recent economic events driven by the great financial crisis of 2007-08 has challenged some dogma, highlighting various limits and drawbacks of ...

Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Fourth Edition provides a compact but complete analysis of leadership for students and practition...