Edward Elgar Publishing: 369 books
Corporate Accountability
The Role and Impact of Non-Judicial Grievance Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Whilst many of us would agree that human rights are more important than corporate profits, the reality is often different; such realities as child labour and environmental destruction caused by corporate activities make this patently clear. Recognising that balancing human rights and business interests...
by Bengt Lindell
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Providing an accessible introduction to the application of multi-criteria analysis in law, this book illustrates how simple additive weighing, a well known method in decision theory, can be used in problem structuring, analysis and decision support for overall assessments and balancing of interests in the context of law.
International Copyright Law: U.S. and E.U. Perspectives
Text and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
This ground-breaking casebook provides a comprehensive and comprehensible account of International Copyright law and its neighbouring rights, helping students to chart a path through these often difficult waters. It illuminates the fundamental influence of the conventions and treaties that have shaped...
by Carianne M. Hunt, Sandra L. Fielden
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This is the first book to present a comprehensive understanding of the role of coaching in developing women entrepreneurs. It provides a theoretical background and explores the distinctive challenges facing this group before discussing the implementation and outcomes from a coaching programme in an entrepreneurial...
LEADing Small Business
Business Growth through Leadership Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This is one of the first books to fully value and realise the connection between leadership and learning in SMEs. It provides a real-life narrative, encapsulating the development of business people on a leadership programme for SME managers, whilst explaining the key theories, models and techniques that...
Human Values and Biodiversity Conservation
The Survival of Wild Species
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This pioneering book explores the influence of human values on the willingness of individuals to pay for the conservation of individual wildlife species (and classes of these), to be for or against their survival, and to favour or oppose their harvesting.Clement Tisdell combines original theories, survey...
by Denters, S.A.H., Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How large should local governments be? Scholars and public sector reformers alike have asked this question for many years. Size and Local Democracy investigates this subject in four countries where local governments play an important role but are different in size and structure Switzerland, Norway,...
Capturing the Innovation Opportunity Space
Creating Business Models with New Forms of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Innovation is changing and this exciting book explores how the shift to more collaborative ways of working with users, on-line communities and the crowd opens up novel business possibilities. The Innovation Opportunity Space approach enables managers, policymakers and academics to better understand emerging...
Shadow Banking in China
Risk, Regulation and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This timely book investigates the dynamic causes, key forms, potential risks and changing regulation of shadow banking in China. Topics discussed include P2P lending, wealth management products, local government debts, and the underground lending market. Taking policy considerations into account, the...
Competing Values Leadership
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Praise for the first edition:‘Both the framework and the book make notable contributions to both theory and practice. The book will be of value to scholars and organization leaders in understanding the concepts of value creation and organizational effectiveness. It will be an aid to consultants in...
Corporate Venturing
Organizing for Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Large organizations can struggle to keep up with today's fast-changing market and technological developments. However, an increasing number of businesses now engage in corporate venturing as a way to enhance their innovation process. This book fills the gap in management literature by providing a...
Mobile Telecommunications Networks
Restructuring as a Response to a Challenging Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
During the past decade, no industry has grown faster than that of mobile communications, yet coverage of its operations remains scarce. This state-of-the-art book examines the evolving structure and strategic behaviour of the thirty largest operators in the mobile communications industry.The focus of...
The New Economics of Income Distribution
Introducing Equilibrium Concepts into a Contested Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
With the increased interest in the role of inequality in modern economies, this timely and original book explores income distribution as an equilibrium phenomenon. Though globalization tends to destroy earlier equilibria within industrialized and developing countries, new equilibria are bound to emerge....
The University and the Economy
Pathways to Growth and Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the many ways in which universities contribute to economic development and growth. It demonstrates the causal interactions between universities’ activities and economic outcomes, and presents up-to-date quantitative and qualitative data in...