Erik: 1534 books
by Erik Olin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
One of the major works of the new American Marxism, Wright’s book draws a challenging new class map of the United States and other, comparable, advanced capitalist countries today. It also discusses the various classical theories of economic crisis in the West and their relevance to the current...
Legal Environment for businesses in the US market
The Oettinger Brewery - Entering the US market
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2009
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,0, Pfeiffer University, language: English, abstract: This summary deals with a German company planning to enter the US market. The company 'Oettinger Brauerei GmbH' is engaged in the business of beer brewing. It...
Working the Street
What You Need to Know About Life on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Written by a former Managing Director at Merrill Lynch, Working the Street is the resource for readers hoping to build a successful career on Wall Street. It is not a "how-to" career book or a job guide. It doesn't tell the reader who to contact for a job or what classes to take to prepare...
by Erik Jones, Anand Menon
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
This is an authoritative, one-volume, and independent treatment of the history, functioning and nature of the European integration. Written by a selection of leading scholars. It covers the major institutions, policies, and events in the history of integration, whilst also providing a guide to the...
Democracy
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
What is democracy? Under what conditions does it thrive? What are the consequences of democracy?
This book aims to answer these questions and more by exploring different varieties of democracies around the world. It starts with definitions of democracy and then divides the concept into three...
Library Linked Data
Research and Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Computers increasingly collect, manage, and analyze data for scholarly research. Linked data gives libraries the ability to support this e-research, making it a powerful tool. Libraries are at a tipping point in adoption of linked data, and this issue of Library Technology Reports explores current research...
by Erik Jonathan Rivenes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The story of Albert Alonzo "Doc" Ames is perhaps the greatest political scandal in Minnesota history. As mayor of Minneapolis, Ames exposed the city to national humiliation–and helped jump-start an era of reform.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Minneapolis was moving away...
by David B. Audretsch, Max C. Keilbach, Erik E. Lehmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of knowledge...
Growth Clusters in European Metropolitan Cities
A Comparative Analysis of Cluster Dynamics in the Cities of Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Helsinki, Leipzig, Lyons, Manchester, Munich, Rotterdam and Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This title was first published in 2001. Analyzing and comparing several growth clusters in nine European cities, this compelling volume examines the critical success factors that determine the economic development of urban regions.
Institutional Change: Theory and Empirical Findings
Theory and Empirical Findings
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book brings together some 15 papers drawn from the 330 papers presented at the Third Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in Stockholm, Sweden in June 1991. Part 1 outlines a basic theory of institutional change; Parts 2 and 3 examine case studies in international...
Tourists in Space
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Forget Hawaii or the Mediterranean. Soon – very soon – you’ll be able to add a much more exotic stamp to your passport: space. How will you get there, what will the trip be like and how much training will you need? All you need to know is right here in this guide. Tourists in Space: A Practical...
by Sven-Erik Hjelt
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Geophysical measurements are not done for the sake of art only. The ultimategoal is to solve some well-defined geological, tectonical or structural problems. For this purpose, the data have to be interpreted, translated, into a physical model of the subsurface. ... This book describes some ofthe most...
Governing Hybrid Organisations
Exploring Diversity of Institutional Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Intuitively, organisations can easily be categorised as ‘public’ or ‘private’. However, this book questions such a black and white dichotomy between public and private, and seeks a deeper understanding of hybrid organisations. These organisations can be found at micro, meso and macro levels...
Offshore Risk Assessment vol 2.
Principles, Modelling and Applications of QRA Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Offshore Risk Assessment was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used for more than three decades in the offshore oil and gas industry, and their use is set to...