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Infrastructuring
The Key to Achieving Economic Growth, Productivity, and Quality of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
The recent global financial crisis has intensified concerns over how nations—both developed and developing — can revitalize economic growth and ensure opportunity for prosperity to all citizens. Many analysts and policymakers alike are looking to new business creation and the promotion of entrepreneurial...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on geomorphic approaches to management of lowland alluvial rivers in North America and Europe. Many lowland rivers have been heavily managed for flood control and navigation for decades or centuries, resulting in engineered channels and embanked floodplains...
Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics
New Perspectives, Practices, and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Over the past century, an extensive literature has developed, exploring the impact of entrepreneurship on economic performance. The active participation of entrepreneurs in virtually all aspects of business and economic activity has obliged policy makers within the global economy to consider entrepreneurship...
Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research
An Interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Interest in and attention to entrepreneurship has exploded in recent years. Nevertheless, much of the research and scholarship in entrepreneurship has remained elusive to academics, policymakers and other researchers, in large part because the field is informed by a broad spectrum of disciplines,...
The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies
New Challenges for Governance in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
This book brings together the study of transnationalization in three institutional fields: civil society, state and the economy. It also extends the research of processes of transnationalization to evolving new democracies and emerging market economies.
Institutional Learning and Knowledge Transfer Across Epistemic Communities
New Tools of Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Over the past several decades, as the pace of globalization has accelerated, operational issues of international coordination have often been overlooked. For example, the global financial crisis that began in 2007 is attributed, in part, to a lack of regulatory oversight. As a result, supranational...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Over the past decade, the third sector has had tremendous growth worldwide in both size and importance. As many countries struggle to address this changing reality, many have adopted policy initiatives aimed at changing the ways the third sector is addressed. It is a complex process, involving different...
Knowledge and the Family Business
The Governance and Management of Family Firms in the New Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Family businesses—the predominant form of business organization around the world—can make numerous, critical contributions to the economy and family well-being in both financial and qualitative terms. But dysfunctional family businesses can be difficult to manage, painful experiences at best,...
by Cheng-Few Lee, John C. Lee, Alice C. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, 3rd edition is the definitive Business Statistics book to use Finance, Economics, and Accounting data throughout the entire book. Therefore, this book gives students an understanding of how to apply the methodology of statistics to real world situations....
Information Systems Development
Reflections, Challenges and New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Information Systems Development: Reflections, Challenges and New Directions, is the collected proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Systems Development held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 24 - 26, 2011. It follows in the tradition of previous conferences in the series in...
Information Systems Development
Asian Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts, approaches and techniques of systems development emerge constantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from research as well as from practice.
This conference...
Physics of Societal Issues
Calculations on National Security, Environment, and Energy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book provides the reader with essential tools needed to analyze complex societal issues and demonstrates the transition from physics to modern-day laws and treaties. This second edition features new equation-oriented material and extensive data sets drawing upon current information from experts...
Electrical Transmission Systems and Smart Grids
Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Electric transmission networks are among the largest human-made engineering systems: For example, the transmission network in the United States covers over 300,000 km of lines and is served by 500 companies (electric utilities). In sharp contrast to the very incremental developments of the last century,...
Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes
Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2009
In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing countries. PES programs use market and institutional incentives in order to meet both environmental...