Edward Elgar Publishing: 369 books
Madness and Leadership
From Antiquity to the New Common Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Madness and Leadership studies leaders and followers from social, cultural, and biologic perspectives and explores aspects of their personalities that induce them to assume their respective roles. It proposes that leadership and followership are evolutionary adaptations, developed to enhance survival...
by Ali, A.J.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Drawing on original sources found in the first century of Islam and guided by contemporary developments in the field of business ethics, this book offers Islamic perspectives on ethical conduct in the marketplace: what organizations and other market actors do to deal with monumental challenges in today’s...
The Privatisation of Biodiversity?
New Approaches to Conservation Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Current regulatory approaches have not prevented the loss of biodiversity across the world. This book explores the scope to strengthen conservation by using different legal mechanisms such as biodiversity offsetting, payment for ecosystem services and conservation covenants, as well as tradable development...
Terrorism in East and West Africa
The Under-focused Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since 9/11, despite extensive international efforts against global terrorism, there has been a worrying lack of focus on terrorist activity in Africa. Terrorism in East and West Africa: The Under-focused Axis addresses this strategic deficit by drawing together and analysing the various domestic and...
Politics as a Peculiar Business
Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Economists typically treat government as something outside the business realm, a sort of “Lord of the Manor”. Richard Wagner argues that this is the wrong approach and can ultimately be destructive to capitalism and to society.
by Michael Schneider, Mike Pottenger
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book is about the distribution of wealth among people, described by statisticians as the size distribution of wealth, and the way that this distribution has changed over time. It provides answers to a host of important questions including, why is the distribution of wealth important and how can...
Labor Standards in International Supply Chains
Aligning Rights and Incentives
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Labor Standards in International Supply Chains examines developments in working conditions over the past thirty years. The authors analyze the stakeholders and mechanisms that create challenges and opportunities for improving labor rights around the world, in sectors including apparel, footwear and electronics....
by Björn Lundqvist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This fascinating new book dissects, from a Competition law perspective, how Research and Development collaborations operate under both US and EU antitrust law. Analyzing the evolution of this innovation landscape from the 1970s to the present day, Blomqvist details the modifications and amendments made...
by Aurora Plomer
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The new millennium has been described as ‘the century of biology’, but scientific progress and access to medicines has been marred by global disputes over ownership of the science by universities and private companies. This book examines the challenges posed by the modern patent system to the right of everyone to access the benefits of science in international law.
by Luke McDonagh
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
With the introduction of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the new European Patent with Unitary Effect, the European patent litigation system is undergoing a set of fundamental reforms. This timely book assesses the current state of European patent litigation by analysing recently published data on...
The Political Economy of Aerospace Industries
A Key Driver of Growth and International Competitiveness?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Aerospace is often viewed as a key high-technology industry, important for a nation’s future growth prospects and international competitiveness. This book presents an economic and political analysis of the world’s aerospace industries and their performance. Keith Hartley uses examples from most...
Anti-Corruption Strategies in Fragile States
Theory and Practice in Aid Agencies
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Aid agencies increasingly consider anti-corruption activities important for economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries. In the first major comparative study of work by the World Bank, the European Commission and the UNDP to help governments in fragile states counter corruption,...
Data Localization Laws and Policy
The EU Data Protection International Transfers Restriction Through a Cloud Computing Lens
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Countries are increasingly introducing data localization laws, threatening digital globalization and inhibiting cloud computing adoption despite its acknowledged benefits. This multi-disciplinary book analyzes the EU restriction (including the Privacy Shield and General Data Protection Regulation) through...
Regulatory Autonomy and International Trade in Services
The EU Under GATS and RTAs
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This book considers how the interplay between multilateral and preferential liberalisation of trade in services increasingly raises concerns, both from the perspective of the beneficiaries of such liberalisation (whose rights are uncertain) and that of regulators (whose regulatory autonomy is constrained)....