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Business Success in the Age of Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Today, all it takes is one organizational misstep to sink a company's reputation. Social media can be a strict ethical enforcer, with the power to convince thousands to boycott products and services. Executives are stuck on appeasing stakeholders—shareholders, employees, and consumers—but they...
Popular Music Industries and the State
Policy Notes
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This volume studies the relationships between government and the popular music industries, comparing three Anglophone nations: Scotland, New Zealand and Australia. At a time when issues of globalization and locality are seldom out of the news, musicians, fans, governments, and industries are forced...
The Great Progression
How Hispanics Will Lead America to a New Era of Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In this prophetic and profoundly hopeful book, Peabody and Emmy(r) Award-winning journalist Geraldo Rivera details the myriad ways Hispanics will help revitalize our declining economy, energize our distressed troops, and invigorate our national government.
Featuring candid and revealing interviews...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Locked in the Cabinet is a close-up view of the way things work, and often don't work, at the highest levels of government--and a uniquely personal account by the man whose ideas inspired and animated much of the Clinton campaign of 1992 and who became the cabinet officer in charge of helping ordinary...
Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy
Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
An examination of the politics of green jobs that foresees a potential ideological shift away from neoliberalism toward “developmentalism.”
Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy is the first book to explore the broad implications of the convergence of industrial and environnmental policy...
Varieties of Capitalism and Business History
The Dutch Case
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The financial crisis of 2008 brought new urgency to the question how best to organise national economies. This volume gives a business history perspective on the Varieties of Capitalism debate and considers the respective merits of the liberal and coordinated market economies. It looks at individual...
Access Granted Vol. 2- Tomorrow's Business Ethics
Access Granted - Tomorrow's Business Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Welcome to “ACCESS GRANTED: Tomorrow’s Business Ethics Vol.2”! In a classic sense you have science fiction in your hands, as it analyzes today’s developments to discuss to which potential tomorrow’s scenarios, including ethical dilemmas, they may lead. The different chapters provide answers,...
Organized Innovation
A Blueprint for Renewing America's Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
"Organized" and "innovation" are words rarely heard together. But an organized approach to innovation is precisely what America needs today. This book presents a blueprint for coordinating technology breakthroughs to advance America's global competitiveness and prosperity. That...
Social innovation and social policy
Theory, policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Social innovation has become a prominent theme in discussions of social policy reform across the world. This book examines why social innovation is important to social policy analysis. It discusses the theoretical and policy context of this concept; its origin and background; why it has emerged to...
Corporate Governance, Competition, and Political Parties
Explaining Corporate Governance Change in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
The corporate governance systems of continental Europe have traditionally been quite different to those of the liberal market economies (e.g. the US and the UK). Company ownership has been dominated by incumbent blockholders, with a relatively minor role for minority shareholders and institutional...
Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book examines trends and challenges in research on IT governance in public organizations, reporting innovative research and new insights in the theories, models and practices within the area. As we noticed, IT governance plays an important role in generating value from organization’s IT investments....
Innovation, Complexity and Policy
Contributions from 30 years of innovation policy research in Austria
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This book brings together a set of contributions that show the breadth and depth of the scientific work of Josef Fröhlich and his influence on Austrian research, technology and innovation (RTI) policy. It is edited in honour of the occasion of his retirement as Head of Innovation Systems Department...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Economic and social progress in Solomon Islands has been limited since the country's independence, and the recent global economic crisis has placed more pressure on the country's economy. The resulting fiscal crunch and emerging balance-of-payments pressures demand a coordinated macroeconomic policy...
Preference Data for Environmental Valuation
Combining Revealed and Stated Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The monetary valuation of environmental goods and services has evolved from a fringe field of study in the late 1970s and early 1980s to a primary focus of environmental economists over the past decade. Despite its rapid growth, practitioners of valuation techniques often find themselves defending...