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Generational Gap in Japanese Politics
A Longitudinal Study of Political Attitudes and Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
After decades of stable and seemingly semi-permanent single-party dominance, Japanese politics have gone through fundamental changes since the early 1990s. Government ministries have been reorganised, prime ministerial powers strengthened, and rules for electing the lower house of parliament overhauled....
Korean Entrepreneurship
The Foundation of the Korean Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
The growth of entrepreneurship in South Korea has turned the country into an economic powerhouse. In this collection of essays, scholars highlight the favourable political and cultural values conductive to its development, including the characteristics of entrepreneurial family firms and the impact of new media and globalization.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Fair Trade In CSR Strategy of Global Retailers shows how retailers can improve the success of their fair trade strategy. Using Polish market research, the authors analyze the aggressive and detrimental competition between retailers such as Ikea, and Tesco to emphasize the benefits of CSR strategy for stakeholders and society at large.
The Establishment Responds
Power, Politics, and Protest since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which political parties, the business world, foreign policymakers, and the intelligence community experienced, confronted, and even actively contributed to domestic and transnational forms of dissent.
German Unification
Expectations and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
This wide-ranging collection brings together contributions from historians, political scientists, policymakers, and others to provide much-needed perspective on the unification of Germany as it actually played out in real historical time.
Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia
A Dialogue across Continents
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the twenty-first century...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Too often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of globalization.
The German Wall
Fallout in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
This interdisciplinary volume addresses the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the revitalizing effect it had on Germany to the new challenges of integrating socially and politically old and new minorities, and forming a new European identity. It also considers how the fall was represented by the media.
Reimagining the European Family
Cultures of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Re-imagining the Family explores contemporary films and literature about the effects of legal and illegal immigration on the structure and the stories of the contemporary 'European' family, with a focus on Germany.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
This volume serves up a combination of broad questions, theoretical approaches, and manifold case studies to explore how people have sought to understand markets and thereby reduce risk, whether they have approached this challenge with a practical view based on their own business acumen or used the tools of scholarship.
Innovation in Science and Organizational Renewal
Historical and Sociological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
This book looks at the types of new research organizations that drive scientific innovation and how ground-breaking science transforms research fields and their organization. Based on historical case studies and comparative empirical data, the book presents new and thought-provoking evidence that...
Latin American Foreign Policies
Between Ideology and Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
In recent years several Latin American countries have adopted a more assertive and autonomous stance in their foreign policy. The growing rejection of neo-liberalism as an ideological dogma seems to have given space to more pragmatic stances in favour of national interests.
Inequalities in Creative Cities
Issues, Approaches, Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This edited volume is a lively and timely appraisal of “ordinary cities” as they struggle to implement creative redevelopment and economic growth strategies to enhance their global competitiveness. The book is concerned with new and often unanticipated inequalities that have emerged from this...
Journalism Across Boundaries
The Promises And Challenges Of Transnational And Transborder Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Journalistic activity crosses national borders in creative and sometimes unexpected ways. Drawing on many interviews and newsroom observation, this book addresses an overlooked but important aspect of international journalism by examining how journalists carry out their daily work at the transnational and regional transborder level.