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New Developments in Economic Sociology
Edited by Richard Swedberg
Economic sociology has gone through an explosive development, both in the United States and in Europe, in recent years. These new developments are well represented in this work. Articles by key economic sociologists, such as Mark Granove... -
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Modernizing China’s Industries
Colin G. Brown, Scott A. Waldron, John W. Longworth
Exposed to powerful new economic forces, and undergoing dramatic ownership reforms and technological changes, China’s industries are modernizing at a breakneck pace. In many industries, the outcomes have been chaotic and poorly aligned w...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Law and the State
Edited by Alain Marciano, Jean-Michel Josselin
Law and the State provides a political economy analysis of the legal functioning of a democratic state, illustrating how it builds on informational and legal constraints. It explains, in an organised and thematic fashion, how competitive...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Economics of Deforestation in the Amazon
João S. Campari
This provocative new book presents the results of twenty years of research on deforestation in the Amazon. By carefully observing the changing character of human settlements and their association with deforestation over such a prolonged ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Networks, Security and Complexity
Sean P. Gorman
Networks, Security and Complexity goes on to address specific concerns such as determining criticality and interdependency, the most effective means of allocating scarce resources for defense, and whether diversity is a viable strategy. ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Lessons on Leadership by Terror
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
Lessons on Leadership by Terror attempts to discover what happens to people when they acquire power, and whether the abuse of power is inevitable. Manfred Kets de Vries examines the life of the nineteenth-century Zulu king Shaka Zulu in ...eBook:Find out more£23.96
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Corporate Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage
Edited by Sanjay Sharma, J. Alberto Aragón-Correa
The first book to gather cutting-edge research on this complex relationship, Corporate Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage presents conceptual ideas and empirical findings, as well as a valuable review of extant literature a...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Fiscal Policy in Economic and Monetary Union
Marco Buti, Daniele Franco
This book explores the origins, rationale, problems and prospects of the European fiscal policy framework. It provides the reader with a roadmap to EMU’s budgetary framework by exploring its theoretical and empirical foundations, uncover...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Democracy and Exchange
David Reisman
Democracy is the rule of the people. Exchange is supply and demand. Individualism, agreement, tolerance and choice are the underlying values that make possible the productive collaboration of the market and the state. This book assesses ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Managing Emotions in Mergers and Acquisitions
Verena Kusstatscher, Cary Cooper
This fascinating book explains how managerial behaviour and communication styles influence the emotions of employees and affect their readiness to contribute to a successful post-merger integration. It combines emotion theories from othe...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Trade and Environment
Edited by John W. Maxwell, Rafael Reuveny
The debate about how best to manage the interplay between trade, industrialization and the impacts of both on the global environment continues to rage, particularly in the context of the introduction and ratification of the Kyoto Protoco...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Recruitment, Retention and Retirement in Higher Education
Edited by Robert L. Clark, Jennifer Ma
This volume examines some of the most pressing employment and compensation issues confronting academic administrators. Contributors discuss topics such as: ageing of faculty, changing economic conditions and shifts in faculty employme...eBook:Find out more£25.00