Edward Elgar Publishing: 369 books
The New Consumer Online
A Sociology of Taste, Audience, and Publics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
It’s a new world online, where consumers can publish their writing and gain a public presence, even a mass audience. This book links together blogging, writing reviews for Yelp, and creating pinboards for Pinterest, all of which provide ordinary people the opportunity to display their tastes to strangers....
Visual Branding
A Rhetorical and Historical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Visual Branding pulls together analyses of logos, typeface, color, and spokes-characters to give a comprehensive account of the visual devices used in branding and advertising. The book places each avenue for visual branding within a rhetorical framework that explains what that device can accomplish...
Reputation Risk and Globalisation
Exploring the Idea of a Self-Regulating Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Recently, multinational corporations have begun to reinvent themselves as socially responsible actors. This is largely in response to activist pressure. These activists have perceptively understood the link between corporate success and corporate behaviour. Corporate self-regulation has emerged as an...
Resource Economics
An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Resource Economics engages students and practitioners in natural resource and environmental issues from both local and global standpoints. The fourth edition of this approachable but rigorous text provides a new focus on risk and uncertainty as well as new applications that address the effect of new...
Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities
Creating New Urban Landscapes in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
While global cities have mostly been characterized as sites of intensive and extensive economic activity, the quest for global city status also increasingly rests on the creative production and consumption of culture and the arts. Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities examines such ambitions...
Water Allocation in Rivers under Pressure
Water Trading, Transaction Costs and Transboundary Governance in the Western US and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Water trading and river basin governance have been upheld as institutional blueprints for allocating water for people, agriculture and ecosystems in a changing climate. Progress has been uneven, however, despite multiple decades of institutional reforms in river basins under pressure from demand, development...
by Henri L.F. L.F. de Groot, Gerard Marlet, Coen Teulings
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
After a long period of suburbanisation, cities have been in vogue again since the 1980s. But why are people prepared to spend far more money on a small house in the city than on a large house in the countryside and why doesn't this apply to all cities? This book shows that the appeal of the city in...
Financing Nonprofits and Other Social Enterprises
A Benefits Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This book applies benefits theory to the financing of nonprofit and other social purpose organizations. Individual chapters are devoted to organizations primarily reliant on earned income, gifts, government support and investment income, respectively, as well as organizations that are highly diversified...
Wine and Economics
Transacting the Elixir of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Wine and the wine trade are steeped in culture and history; few products have consistently enjoyed both cultural importance and such wide distribution over time—even seen by some as “an elixir of life”. While wine has been produced and consumed for centuries, what is distinctive about the economics...
Managing the Family Business
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This innovative textbook covers the most important managerial challenges facing family businesses. It is research-based and includes theory and practice along with concepts, cases and reflection questions to illustrate the key topics.
by John F. Tomer
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Leading researcher John F. Tomer presents an invigorating and concise introduction to behavioral economics that offers essential behavioral theories, perspectives, trends and developments within this ever-evolving discipline.
Institutional Reform of Air Navigation Service Providers
A Historical and Economic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Institutional Reform of Air Navigation Service Providers deals with the changes that have taken place in this major, technologically progressive industry as many countries moved away from direct provision by the government to forms of corporate or private provision. The author provides an up-to-date...
Governing Compact Cities
How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development. Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence...
Code Wars
10 Years of P2P Software Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The content industry spent the better part of the last decade seeking to hold P2P software providers liable for the infringements of their users. Its emphatic victories against the providers of Napster, Aimster, Grokster, Morpheus and Kazaa led directly to a massive shakeout of large commercial file...