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New Age Globalization
Meaning and Metaphors
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Using the frameworks of systems theory, modernization, and the world system, New Age Globalization presents a composite multilevel, multidirectional picture of globalization informed by eight different but interdependent subsystems.
Challenge and Change
Global Threats and the State in Twenty-first Century International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This edited volume addresses how the state system, the organizing political institution in world politics, copes with challenges of rapid change, unanticipated crises, and general turmoil in the twenty-first century. These disruptions are occurring against the background of declining US influence...
The New Chinese Economy
Dynamic Transitions into the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
The most recent account of what is going on in the fast changing world and Chinese economics. Topics in the book include economic development, banking and finance, education reform, consumption patterns, the impact of social networking, population dynamics, policy making, and the challenges ahead for the rising economic global superpower.
Re-Examining EU Policies from a Global Perspective
Scenarios for Future Developments
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
New perspectives and analyses of key European policies through their past successes and failures, present challenges such as the global financial crisis and future developments. This book captures a critical turning point in the functioning of European policies and highlights the necessity of quick adjustments for critical new global developments.
by Scott Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book probes the hollow rhetoric of debt, deficits and austerity. It explores the decisions of parties of the left which have attempted to deflect criticisms of economic mismanagement and gain trust by depoliticising the budget process and financial management with various rules, albeit with elements...
The Future BRICS
A Synergistic Economic Alliance or Business as Usual?
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The Future BRICS provides in depth quantitative and qualitative questions and answers about the future of the BRICS Forum as a synergistic economic alliance and is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the ongoing international debate about the economic future and sustainability of the emerging markets in general.
Applied Financial Macroeconomics and Investment Strategy
A Practitioner’s Guide to Tactical Asset Allocation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The absolute and relative performance of various asset classes is systematically related to macroeconomic trends. In this new book, Robert McGee provides a thorough guide to each stage of the business cycle and analyzes the investment implications using real-world examples linking economic dynamics to investment results.
Talent Management of Knowledge Workers
Embracing the Non-Traditional Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Freelancers possess a tremendous amount of knowledge, skill, and ability. Identifying, defining, and implementing talent management strategies aimed at ensuring the effective management of non-traditional knowledge employees in an organization are the key themes of this book.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Human Resource Management, Innovation and Performance investigates the relationship between HRM, innovation and performance. Taking a multi-level perspective the book reflects critically on contentious themes such as high performance work systems, organizational design options, cross-boundary working, leadership styles and learning at work.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
This first volume in the series addresses the pressing need to align business practices with the requirements of a sustainable world. Delivering new models for conducting business, implications of undertaking new approaches, and ways businesses are transforming and being transformed by their environments.
Poverty, Hunger, and Democracy in Africa
Potential and Limitations of Democracy in Cementing Multiethnic Societies
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political problems that divided the continent.
Creating a Eurasian Union
Economic Integration of the Former Soviet Republics
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Creating a Eurasian Union offers a detailed analysis of the economies of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan and the proposed Eurasian Union. The authors employ econometric analysis of business cycles and cointegration analysis to prove the fragility of the union's potential economic...
When Family Businesses are Best
The Parallel Planning Process for Family Harmony and Business Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
The authors explore how effective planning and communication helps business families around the world address growth challenges as they strive to become high performing multi-generation family enterprises. This book shows family businesses working together at their best.
Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-First Century
Principles and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant provision of meaningful jobs, and low levels of inequality and social ills, Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-first Century provides a wide range of principles and policies that would be necessary if we are to achieve a good society.