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Business and Climate Change Governance
South Africa in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
How and why do business organisations contribute to climate change governance? The contributors' findings on South Africa, Kenya and Germany demonstrate that business contributions to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change vary significantly.
by Marina Nicoli
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, with directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, and Leone, and actors like Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni known to audiences around the world. But by the end of the 1980s, the Italian film industry was all but dead. The Rise and Fall of the Italian...
Political Risk
How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University professor Amy B. Zegart comes an examination of the rapidly evolving state of political risk, and how to navigate it.
The world is changing fast. Political risk-the probability...
by Bradley Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
The surge in growth of U.S. wineries begun in the 1940’s with about a thousand wineries in operation. Fast forward to 2014, the wine industry has blossomed to nearly 8,400 wineries doing business in all 50 states. In addition to the rapid growth spurred on by an increased appetite for quality wines...
Successful Nations
Harnessing the Aspirations of the People
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Richard Barrett interviewed by Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Beecroft. Richard is an author, speaker and social commentator on the evolution of human values in business and society. Richard’s latest book is Love, Fear and the Destiny of Nations; the impact of the evolution of human consciousness on world...
Democratization Without Representation
The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
When countries become more democratic, new opportunities arise for individuals and groups to participate in politics and influence the making of policy. But democratization does not ensure better representation for everyone, and indeed some sectors of society are ill-equipped to take advantage of...
Industrial Policy (Routledge Revivals)
USA and UK Debates
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
With the advent of Thatcherism in the UK and Reaganomics in the USA, ‘industrial policy’ had become something of a discredited notion in the 1980s. The emphasis had shifted to programmes of deregulation, de-nationalization, and tax reform.
The essays in this challenging and vigorous collection,...
Corporate Sustainability in the 21st Century
Increasing the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Corporate sustainability needs a rethink. We have entered the human-influenced Anthropocene age, and we are witnessing accelerating changes in earth system processes. Businesses’ current initiatives, such as product innovation and pollution reduction, are not enough to combat the intensifying social-ecological...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The current world economy is interconnected; however, due to recent economic crises, trade deficits, and nationalist movements, there is a political trend of economic nationalism that is taking root in countries around the world. As such, global economies around the world are decreasing their international...
Consumer, Prosumer, Prosumager
How Service Innovations will Disrupt the Utility Business Model
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Consumers, Prosumers, Prosumagers: How Service Innovations will Disrupt the Utility Business Model examines customer stratification in the electric power sector, arguing that it is poised to become one of the fundamental drivers of the 21st century power network as distributed energy generation, storage,...
Public Value
Deepening, Enriching, and Broadening the Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Over the last 10 years, the concept of value has emerged in both business and public life as part of an important process of measuring, benchmarking, and assuring the resources we invest and the outcomes we generate from our activities. In the context of public life, value is an important measure...
by Nicolae Sfetcu
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Guide touristique bilingue anglais/français (Bilingual English/French Tourist Guide)Londres, seule ville à avoir organisé trois fois les Jeux olympiques (1908, 1948, 2012), est dynamique et très diverse sur le plan culturel. Elle joue un rôle important dans l'art et dans la mode....
by Jean-Baptiste-Bertrand Durban
Language: French
Release Date: December 13, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: December 13, 2014
L’INTEREST qu’avoit chaque individu de mettre sa vie & ses propriétés a couvert de la violence & de l’avidité du plus fort, est le motif qui, dès les premiers âges du monde, a porté les hommes à se réunir en société ...
Stress Test
Reflections on Financial Crises
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
**New York Times Bestseller
Washington Post Bestseller
Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises.**
As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the...