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Internationalisation Theory and Technological Accumulation
An Investigation of Multinational Affiliates in East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
This is the first book to explain the expansion of multinational enterprises (MNEs) into a transition economy from a technology accumulation perspective. The author provides a theoretical alternative to accepted wisdom regarding technology transfer, and discusses the policy implications of this new approach for economic development.
Accountability and Regulatory Governance
Audiences, Controls and Responsibilities in the Politics of Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This collection improves our understanding of the problems associated to accountability in regulatory governance, focusing on audiences, controls and responsibilities in the politics of regulation and through a systematic exploration of the various mechanisms through which accountability in regulatory governance
Transnational Corporations and Transnational Governance
The Cost of Crossing borders in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Transnational Corporations and Transnational Governance examines the different kinds of distance-related barriers related to cross-border investment. Different forms of governance, whether inside the firm or as part of its network of external relationships, have the aim of reducing uncertainty and creating a more predictable environment.
Location of International Business Activities
Integrating Ideas from Research in International Business, Strategic Management and Economic Geography
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
In recent years an extensive range of new research has been revisiting the topic of the location of international business activities, from a variety of different perspectives and background interests. This work has been inspired in part by two apparently quite different but actually related contemporary...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
The globalized economy depends on local and context-specific factors. This edited volume addresses local-global nexuses via case studies of global interactions in developed and developing areas, and of particular firms' approaches to these issues. The chapters build up a prospectus on how best to create globally capable localities.
Regimes of Social Cohesion
Societies and the Crisis of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
In an original, and highly interdisciplinary, mixed method approach, Green and Janmaat identify four major traditions of social cohesion in developed societies, analyzing how these various mechanisms are withstanding the strains of the current global financial crisis.
Frank H. Knight
Prophet of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
This book argues for the reconsideration of Frank Knight and the Chicago School of Economic thought in a post-Financial Crisis world. The author posits that the discussion of the founder of "Knightian Uncertainty" can reveal new insights into what the economy can do for society, as his...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
The proliferation of the internet has often been referred to as the fourth technological revolution. This book explores the diffusion of radical new communication technologies, and the subsequent transformation not only of products, but also of the organisation of production and business methods.
by D. Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
The industrialisation of China prompted the biggest commodity boom of modern times. Soaring prices gave rise to talk of a commodity super cycle and induced a wave of resource nationalism. The author, who was chief economist at two of the world's largest mining companies, describes how this resulted in a transformation of the global mining industry.
Energy and Ethics
Justice and the Global Energy Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Benjamin K. Sovacool applies concepts from justice and ethics theory to contemporary energy problems, and illustrates particular solutions to those problems with examples and case studies from around the world.
Data Quality in Southeast Asia
Analysis of Official Statistics and Their Institutional Framework as a Basis for Capacity Building and Policy Making in the ASEAN
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book explores the reliability of official statistical data in the ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations), and the benefits of a better vocabulary to discuss the quality of publicly available data to address the needs of all users. It introduces a rigorous method to disaggregate and...
Energy, Capitalism and World Order
Toward a New Agenda in International Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
This original, timely and innovative collection is the first to offer critical IPE perspectives on the interconnections between energy, capitalism and the future of world order. The authors discuss the importance of energy for our understanding of the global political economy, climate change and key new developments like 'fracking'.
Global City Challenges
Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The contributors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political stances to the concept of the 'global city'.
by D. Toke
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Develops a new theory of 'identity' ecological modernization (EM), to analyse renewable history and policy development in many of the world's states which are leading the drive to install renewable energy. 'Identity EM' concerns how an industry has arisen allied to environmental NGOs to challenge the ascendancy of conventional energy technologies.