Government Business category: 2241 books
by Constantine Samaras, Henry H. Willis
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Department of Defense (DoD) installations rely on the commercial electricity grid for 99 percent of their electricity needs, but the U.S. electricity grid is vulnerable to disruption from natural hazards and actor-induced outages, such as physical or cyber attacks. Using portfolio analysis methods for...
Capitalism on Campus
Sex Work, Academic Freedom and the Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Capitalism on Campus examines the university’s journey into market hands and the sexual sell-off of students, which has come with it. It raises critical questions about the forces which conjoin higher education to both sex work and declining academic freedom. In so doing it questions the role our...
Waste Management and Sustainable Consumption
Reflections on consumer waste
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The accelerated pace of global consumption over the past decades has meant that governments across the world are now faced with significant challenges in dealing with the dramatically increased volume of waste.
While research on waste management has previously focused on finding technological...
by Francine Mestrum
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2016
As the world's neo-liberal economic order continues to self-destruct in a climate of non growth and widening inequality, the birth of new social movements and alternatives are disrupting the old politics and business "as usual" in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The Social Commons: Rethinking...
by Stephen Morse, Dongyong Zhang, Uma Kambhampati
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important concept in the last few decades. Although it originated in the developed countries of the West, the concept has been embraced and adapted by corporations and policy-making agencies in many developing countries. Not surprisingly, given the...
Cities and the Knowledge Economy
Promise, Politics and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Cities and the Knowledge Economy is an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge and urban development in the contemporary era. Through the lenses of promise, politics and possibility, it examines how the knowledge economy has arisen,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Sustainable entrepreneurship has attracted growing attention in both scholarly and practitioner circles. Focusing on generating social, environmental and business value, the notion has been raised more recently to address the contribution of entrepreneurial activities to sustainable economic and social...
Entrepreneurship and Institutions
The Causes and Consequences of Institutional Asymmetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Entrepreneurship does not occur in a vacuum. The institutions which provide the framework for economic activity matter. As countries around the world strive for economic growth, this book examines how institutional arrangements are critical in fostering entrepreneurship. Through 12 case studies drawn...
SOUL OF THE SEA
In the Age of the Algorithm
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
This publication draws upon the fields of science, economics and business strategy to chart the future of humankind's relationship to the ocean. A healthy ocean provides the basis for a prosperous world, and oceans have been largely ignored as a driver of human well-being until now. Ocean health has...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
While sustainability has become a buzzword in discussions about the environment and development, work on theories of sustainable development has received much less attention. However, theory is vital as understanding the origins and development of the concept is the key to achieving successful implementation...
Sustainability at Work
Careers that make a difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for everyone who wants to have both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.
Containing career advice of great value to students of sustainability, and explaining how they can apply their knowledge to their future...
Ending the Culture War
A Devoted Conservative and a Diehard Liberal Make Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Professor Phil Neisser and Jacob Hess interviewed by Dr Nicholas Beecroft. “You’re not as crazy as I thought. (but you’re still wrong) Conversations between a Devoted Conservative and a Die-Hard Liberal” by Phil Neisser and Jacob Hess is an inspiring attempt by its authors to show how we can...
by Fernando D'Alessio Ipinza, Beatrice Avolio Alecchi, Mabel Andrade Adaniya
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 13, 2017
CENTRUM Católica Graduate Business School, publicó el libro Planeamiento estratégico de la agroexportación de frutas y hortalizas frescas en el Perú. Este trabajo de investigación tiene como principal objetivo desarrollar un Planeamiento Estratégico del Sector Agroexportador de Frutas y Hortalizas...
Retirement in Japan and South Korea
The past, the present and the future of mandatory retirement
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book analyses reforms to retirement policies in Japan and South Korea, especially in the context of rapid population ageing. A defining feature of the labour markets and workplaces in these two nations, and the lives of workers and families, is involuntary retirement at relatively young ages....