Edward Elgar Publishing: 369 books
by Nooteboom, B.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this thought-provoking book, Bart Nooteboom offers a radical critique of the principal intellectual and moral assumptions underlying economic science, unravelling the notion of markets: how they work and fail, and how they may be redirected to better serve us. Initially, the inadequacy of economic...
Rethinking Corporate Governance
The Forming of Operative and Financial Strategies in Global Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Rethinking Corporate Governance’s extensive and insightful empirical investigation offers a radically new approach to corporate governance. This ground-breaking volume describes and analyses the key nature-based and actor-based forces that ultimately determine corporate governance processes and long-term...
State and Trade
Authority and Exchange in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
In the age of globalisation, goods, services, labour and capital are crossing international borders on a scale never before known. They are creating a nationless market. Governed by both the invisible hand of business and interest and the visible hand of authority and direction, a world market can be...
by G. Scott Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
New Methods of Market Research and Analysis prepares readers for the new reality posed by big data and marketing analytics. While connecting to traditional research approaches such as surveys and focus groups, this book shows how new technologies and new analytical capabilities are rapidly changing the...
Environmental Governance
Institutions, Policies and Actions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In this innovative book, Arild Vatn presents an overview of the field of environmental governance, from its theoretical foundations, to the major issues and practical applications. While having an interdisciplinary orientation, the main theoretical basis is in institutional theory. The book spans issues...
Heat, Greed and Human Need
Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for sustainable development and social justice. Beyond ‘green growth’...
The Market Oriented University
Transforming Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
The next decade will be transformative for the higher education sector. Government funding is decreasing. Through their marketing activities universities have created the ‘student consumer.’ The student consumer is prepared to shop around, compare prices and value, and once purchased expects a return...
Information Environmentalism
A Governance Framework for Intellectual Property Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the 21st century the information commons provides critical raw material for creativity and innovation. This book explores ways and means of protecting the ‘information environment’ by drawing upon four theories of contemporary environmentalism: welfare economics, the commons, ecology and public...
Morality and Power
On Ethics, Economics and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Offering a compelling critique of orthodox economic analysis in the public realm, Mike Berry exposes the lack of development in economic thinking in public policy since the economic crisis of 2008. Focusing on both the ethically unacceptable outcomes of recent public policy and the threat of populism...
Patents for Development
Improved Patent Information Disclosure and Access for Incremental Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This book investigates whether it is possible to execute the disclosed technologies just by reading the patent application. Nefissa Chakroun argues that while TRIPS Agreement obliges inventors to disclose full and complete disclosure, patent information users lack the capacity to fully utilise such information...
Industrial Policy in Developing Countries
Failing Markets, Weak States
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Against the backdrop of persistently high levels of poverty and inequality, critical environmental boundaries and increasing global economic interdependence, this book addresses the role and impact of industrial policies in developing countries. Accepting the reality of both market failure and policy...
EU Intellectual Property Law and Policy
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Intellectual property remains not just economically significant, but also of daily importance to most businesses and individuals. The digital age brings many opportunities, but also presents continuing challenges to IP law, and the EU’s programme of harmonisation unfolds in this context. Taking account...
by Robert D. Hisrich
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
In this unique and original Advanced Introduction, Robert Hisrich pinpoints the essential principles of forging a new venture in an existing corporate context. In this environment, starting and operating a new business includes considerable risk and requires effort to overcome inertia to create something...
Limited Liability
A Legal and Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The modern corporation has become central to our society. The key feature of the corporation that makes it such an attractive form of human collaboration is its limited liability. This book explores how, by allowing those who form the corporation to limit their downside risk and personal liability to only the amount they invest, there is the opportunity for more risks taken at a lower cost.