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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
This book focuses on various issues of energy, energy efficiency and environmental policy in China. It discusses different aspects on how China may maintain its fast economic growth through good management of energy consumption and development of various energy sources.
Wine Economics
Quantitative Studies and Empirical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
The book proposes an overview of the research conducted to date in the field of wine economics. All of these contributions have in common the use of econometric techniques and mathematical formalization to describe the new challenges of this economic sector.
Global Anti-Unionism
Nature, Dynamics, Trajectories and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
One of the major obstacles unions face in building influence in the workplace is the opposition and resistance from those that own those workplaces, namely, the employers. This volume examines the nature of this anti-unionism, and in doing so explains the ways and means by which employers have successfully maintained their right to manage.
Managing Social Businesses
Mission, Governance, Strategy and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Social businesses and non-profit organizations act at the interface of markets and civil societies. Their executives are challenged by issues of social mission and economic rationale. This book presents a new concept of social businesses and a framework for the mission and strategy-related decision making in this complex concept.
by Anabella Davila, Marta Elvira, Jacobo Ramirez
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Explores the concept of complexity and analyses how organizational governance can contribute to environmental sustainability. A common theme in these chapters is that organizations actively engage with their environments. Consequently, organizational responses are partly the result of iterative processes with the environment.
Shaping the Future of Business Education
Relevance, Rigor, and Life Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
In a world economy where rapid change is the only constant, what is the best way for business schools to prepare the leaders of tomorrow? The authors of this volume argue that a broad and rigorous education is needed; one that fuses business knowledge with arts and sciences, technology, and ethical training.
Multinationals in Latin America
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
The book deals with cases about the impact of, and interaction between, the different Latin American cultural, economic, legal, and political settings on activities, strategies, structures and decision-making processes of MNCs. The cases focus on business processes, settings and organizational behavior in Latin America.
Customer Experience Management Rebooted
Are you an Experience brand or an Efficiency brand?
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Walden shows why most customer experience management fails to improve the customer’s real experience and how to concentrate on the subjective emotional perceptions that drive the customer’s actual “experience” rather than the quantitative service efficiency metrics gathered by most CX tools.
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The Modern Family Business
Relationships, Succession and Transition
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Provides real world studies of the family in business, by observing typical firms rather than dynasties. It looks at how the nature of family business is changing in our times and provides insight into the lessons we can learn from this. The book focuses on the impact for the professional non-family manager.
Eco-Innovations in Emerging Markets
Analyzing Consumer Behaviour and Adaptability
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Through a comprehensive analysis of cognitive factors and eco-innovation attributes, this book provides an understanding into why and how renewable energy technologies are adopted in an emerging market. Drawing on theories such as theory of reasoned action and theory of planned behaviour, Eco-Innovations...
Sustainable Development and Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Transformation of Learning and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
To help address the challenges of sustainable development, higher education institutions must transform themselves, bringing together best practice in quality management for tertiary education with best practice in education for sustainable development. This book provides tested strategies and pathways for undertaking this successfully.
An Option Greeks Primer
Building Intuition with Delta Hedging and Monte Carlo Simulation using Excel
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This book provides a hands-on, practical guide to understanding derivatives pricing. Aimed at the less quantitative practitioner, it provides a balanced account of options, Greeks and hedging techniques avoiding the complicated mathematics inherent to many texts, and with a focus on modelling, market practice and intuition.
Dark Pools
Off-Exchange Liquidity in an Era of High Frequency, Program, and Algorithmic Trading
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book deals with the topic of dark trading, or non-displayed, off-exchange trading execution. It discusses the development, importance and practice of dark equity trading in an environment dominated by high frequency, program, block and algorithmic trading, and considers its future prospects in a world of mobile capital and changing regulation.
Financing Illegal Migration
Chinese Underground Banks and Human Smuggling in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This unique study explores the relationship between informal financial systems, illegal migration and human smuggling. Focusing on Chinese illegal immigrants working in the US, it examines the motivation and patterns of the use of illegal fund transfer systems, providing a revealing insight into the workings of Chinese underground banks.