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The Geography of Creativity
Gunnar Törnqvist
What is creativity and who exactly is creative? In this insightful and highly readable book, Gunnar Törnqvist attempts to answer these questions by arguing that geographical millieux are hotbeds for creativity and renewal – places where ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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New Directions in Social Impact Assessment
Edited by Frank Vanclay, Ana Maria Esteves
This important new book outlines current developments in thinking in the field of Social Impact Assessment (SIA). It advances the theory and practice of SIA, and argues that a dramatic shift is required in the way socioeconomic studies a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2012
Zoltán J. Ács, László Szerb
The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index both captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development. Building on recent advances in entrepreneurship and economic development, the aut...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Contingent Valuation
Richard T. Carson
This major reference work – the first of its kind – provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the large and growing literature on contingent valuation. It includes entries on over 7,500 contingent valuation papers and st...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Short History of Ethics and Economics
James E. Alvey
Arising from a disenchantment with mainstream economics – a dissatisfaction that is widespread today – A Short History of Ethics and Economics sketches the emergence and decline of the ethical tradition of economics and the crisis of mod...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Improving Energy Efficiency through Technology
Edited by Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Henri L.F. de Groot, Peter Mulder
This innovative book explores the adoption of energy-saving technologies and their impact on energy efficiency improvements. It contains a mix of theoretical and empirical contributions, and combines and compares economic and physical in...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy
Graham Room
Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualisation and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result, researchers are ill-equipped to offer policy advice. This book offers a new analytica...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Corporate Strategy and Firm Growth
Angelo Dringoli
This book explores the conditions for growth that can create value for shareholders, focusing on the main strategies adopted by firms including horizontal expansion, vertical integration and product diversification. To evaluate whether o...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Fair Wages
Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
Over the last decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has contributed towards better corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and basic human rights violations. However, as the author arg... -
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Academic Entrepreneurship in Asia
Edited by Poh Kam Wong
This timely book examines the rising phenomenon of academic entrepreneurship and technology commercialization among leading universities in Asia, by presenting in-depth analysis of thirteen leading universities from nine Asian economies,...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Foreign Direct Investment in China
Chunlai Chen
Foreign Direct Investment in China is one of the most comprehensive studies of FDI in China and provides a remarkable background of information on the evolution of China’s FDI policies over the last 30 years.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Maternal Employment and Child Health
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
As women’s labor force participation has risen around the globe, scholarly and policy discourse on the ramifications of this employment growth has intensified. This book explores the links between maternal employment and child health usi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
