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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Several Asian cities have already invested in initiatives to build and promote Green Cities. Owing to the limited capacity of local governments, the funding of urban infrastructure has become a critical issue. Against this background, this book explores a new funding mechanism which demands the engagement...
Beyond the Low Cost Business
Rethinking the Business Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Clients are consistently demanding lower prices at the time of each purchase and companies can only react by reducing costs. This volume shows that the only way to do this, is to reinvent the business model. New consumers, new pricing, new brands, new strategies.
Developing Innovative Organizations
A roadmap to boost your innovation potential
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Combining insights from leading academic research and experienced managers, this book provides a systematic framework to understand what innovation is, why it matters, how it can be managed and how it can help your organization to reach its objectives.
Cluster-Based Industrial Development
A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
This book examines how to promote industrial development in low-income countries. It considers the role of traders in the evolution of a cluster, the role of managerial human capital, the effect of the 'China shock', and the role of industrial policies focused on international knowledge transfer in supporting the upgrading of clusters.
Employee-Driven Innovation
A New Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Presents research in Employee-Driven Innovation, an emergent field of study that meets the demand for exploiting new innovative potentials in organizations. There is a growing interest in creating new knowledge in innovation, emphasizing human resources and social processes. The authors intend to take the global lead in research on these areas.
Absence in Science, Security and Policy
From Research Agendas to Global Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
This book explores the absent and missing in debates about science and security. Through varied case studies, including biological and chemical weapons control, science journalism, nanotechnology research and neuroethics, the contributors explore how matters become absent, ignored or forgotten and...
Public Accountability and Health Care Governance
Public Management Reforms Between Austerity and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This book deals with the critical empirical void created by the speed at which healthcare restructuring has taken place in Europe. Chapters explore the political uncertainty and budgetary pressures which have led governments increasingly to turn to New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms to attempt...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This book explores the contested notion of compassionate migration in its discourse and practice. In the context of today's migration patterns within the Americas, compassionate migration can play a fundamental role in responding to the hardships that many migrants suffer before, during, and after...
Claude Lefort
Thinker of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
This is the first English language volume to offer such a wide-ranging scholarly and intellectual perspective on Claude Lefort. It constitutes the most comprehensive attempt to reconstruct Lefort's engagement with his theoretical interlocutors as well as his influence on today's democratic thought and contemporary continental political philosophy.
Iberian Military Politics
Controlling the Armed Forces during Dictatorship and Democratisation
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
By applying the nodality, authority, treasure and organisation public policy framework and neo-institutional theory to the dictatorship of Salazar and Franco respectively, this study explores the instruments that governments used to control the military and explains the divergent paths of civil-military relations in 20th Century Portugal and Spain.
EU Railway Policy-Making
On Track?
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Through policy and intervention national governments in Europe have long held an active interest in railways, an interest that has transferred to the supranational level via the EU commission. This book explores why the EU Commission has been so slow in creating an EU railway policy, pointing the finger at strong resistance by national governments
Management and Culture in an Enlarged European Commission
From Diversity to Unity?
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This book explores how the European Commission faced the challenge of enlargement. Based on extensive interviews, the work provides a lively and readable picture of life within the Commission, exploring how thousands of newcomers were recruited and socialized and how they changed the organization, including its gender balance.
The Politics of Judicial Review
Supranational Administrative Acts and Judicialized Compliance Conflict in the EU
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book unites scholarship on law and politics with compliance research in the EU to shed light on the political role of a neglected dimension of litigation in the EU: the political role of governmental actions for annulment. The book does not portray national governments as passive actors within...
Mixed Methods Research in Poverty and Vulnerability
Sharing Ideas and Learning Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make research more credible, usable and responsive to complexity.