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The World Scientific Reference on Entrepreneurship
In 4 Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This multi-volume set focuses on a topic of growing interest to academics, policymakers, university administrators, state and regional economic development officials, and students: entrepreneurship. In recent years, we have witnessed a proliferation of entrepreneurship courses, programs, and initiatives...
by Peter T. Muchlinski
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Multinational Enterprises and the Law presents the only comprehensive contemporary and interdisciplinary account of the various techniques used to regulate multinational enterprises (MNEs) at the national, regional and multilateral levels. In addition it considers the effects of corporate self-regulation...
by Tony Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
In the summer of 1995 a start-up company led by the son of a Greek shipping tycoon, took up residence in an orange painted tin shack next to the runway at Luton airport. Initially dismissed by British Airways as "a peanut airline", easyJet became one of the most successful start-ups in UK...
Financial Accounting and Equity Markets
Selected Essays of Philip Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Philip Brown is one of the most admired and respected accounting academics alive today. He was a pioneer in capital markets research in accounting, and his 1968 article, co-authored with Ray Ball, "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers," arguably had a greater impact on the...
The Foundations and Future of Financial Regulation
Governance for Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Financial regulation has entered into a new era, as many foundational economic theories and policies supporting the existing infrastructure have been and are being questioned following the financial crisis. Goodhart et al’s seminal monograph "Financial Regulation: Why, How and Where Now?"...
Company Law and Sustainability
Legal Barriers and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
This investigation of the barriers to and opportunities for promoting environmental sustainability in company law provides an in-depth comparative analysis of company law regimes across the world. The social norm of shareholder primacy is the greatest barrier preventing progress, and it also helps...
Managing Global Legal Systems
International Employment Regulation and Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Presenting a framework for understanding the corporate strategy-public policy interface as it relates to human capital management, this unique text treats legal systems as factors that must be actively managed in the firm’s larger pursuit of international competitive advantage. It provides readers...
Financing the Future
Market-Based Innovations for Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Financial innovation can drive social, economic, and environmental change, transforming ideas into new technologies, industries, and jobs. But when it is misunderstood or mismanaged, the consequences can be severe. In this practical, accessible book, two leading experts explain how sophisticated capital...
Big Steel
The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation 1901-2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2001
At its formation in 1901, the United States Steel Corporation was the earth’s biggest industrial corporation, a wonder of the manufacturing world. Immediately it produced two thirds of America’s raw steel and thirty percent of the steel made worldwide. The behemoth company would go on to support...
The NEW ROI
Return on Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Ask anyone from the CEO to the shipping clerk about the organization’s most valuable asset, and you’ll get the same answer: “The people!” However, when it comes to the valuation of that organization, especially in terms of intangible assets, items like patents and trademarks wind up seeming...
Working Knowledge
Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their "property," or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that...
by Geoffrey Morse
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
This book covers the essential principles of both partnership law and the law relating to limited liability partnerships. In addition to explaining established principles it explores the unresolved issues in partnership law, including fixed share partnerships and whether partners can be workers, dissolution...
by Daniel I. DeWolf
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
“An excellent overview of the venture capital process from both the perspective of the investor and that of the company. ” —Legal Information Alert A single venture capital transaction can involve legal issues relating to corporate, securities, intellectual property, information technology,...
Reshaping Markets
Economic Governance, the Global Financial Crisis and Liberal Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Set against the origins and consequences of the global financial crisis, this timely book offers an enriching and revealing narrative of the role that the state plays in regulating markets. Focusing on core areas of private law such as corporate, labour and banking law, the contributors offer a conceptual...