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Nonlinear Financial Econometrics: Markov Switching Models, Persistence And Nonlinear Cointegration
by Greg N. Gregoriou Razvan PascalauThis book proposes new methods to value equity and model the Markowitz efficient frontier using Markov switching models and provide new evidence and solutions to capture the persistence observed in stock returns across developed and emerging markets.
Nonlinear Financial Econometrics: Forecasting Models, Computational And Bayesian Models
by Greg N. Gregoriou Razvan PascalauThis book investigates several competing forecasting models for interest rates, financial returns, and realized volatility, addresses the usefulness of nonlinear models for hedging purposes, and proposes new computational techniques to estimate financial processes.
Technology, Innovations and Growth
by J. K. SenguptaThis book provides detailed empirical analysis of countries in Asia to examine various dynamic models that incorporate the impact of technology and innovations on the industry evolution and overall economic growth.
The Individual in Business Ethics: An American Cultural Perspective
by T. KavaliauskasToday we are witnessing social and political dominance of large corporations. They provide for its employees moral values and business principles. Moreover, they institutionalize their codes of ethics. The theory of Business Ethics provides the moral guideline and standards for corporate life and concrete business organizations apply those standards to practice. The individual employee, as a member of a business organization, accepts those standards. Therefore, it is important to examine the foundation of the individual's moral value in Business Ethics in order to understand on what the foundation of the moral value depends on. This highly interdisciplinary text is a critique of Business Ethics as an ideology and life politics. The author discloses how contemporary business ethics grovels before corporations, how it is too weak to create a truly critical voice of American capitalist economy. The individual's treatment in corporate life is revealed through the eyes of American Protestant culture and its coercive work tradition where efficiency value usurps values of individual choice and freedom. This book suggests a new concept of an out-corporate individual.
Wise Wealth: Creating It, Managing It, Preserving It
by J. Schwass H. Hillerström H. Kück C. LiefCaptures the insights of leading academics and practitioners based on decades of research around the globe on factors of success and failures of private wealth, over time. It presents a deep and broad approach to understanding why and how wealth is created, managed and preserved over generations.
Developing Innovative Organizations: A roadmap to boost your innovation potential
by B. GaillyCombining 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.
People-Centred Businesses: Co-operatives, Mutuals and the Idea of Membership
by J. BirchallSo what is a member-owned business? What does it look like? How can we distinguish it from an investor-owned business? The crucial distinction is between a business that is people-centred, and one that is money-centred. This book explores the growing number of companies which use this model and their wider significance in society.
The Transformation of Japanese Employment Relations: Reform without Labor
by J. ImaiThis book systematically evaluates the impacts of deregulatory reforms on employment relations in Japan especially focusing on the core white collar workers. Concentrating on changes in three aspects of employment relations; contracts, employee mobility and worker effort, it examines the process of social negotiation and its results.
A Social and Economic Theory of Consumption
by David Kivinen Keijo Rahkonen Jukka Gronow Arto NoroKaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption, arguing that the enthusiasm of 'the third wave' exaggerated the role of the symbolic and imaginary at the expense of the materiality of human societies.
Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work: Dimensions of Transformative Practice
by M. Büscher D. Goodwin J. MesmanThis book explores ethnographic studies of diagnostic work in diverse settings. Switching attention from product ('diagnosis') to process ('diagnosing'), it reveals the importance of collaborative, socio-material, technologically augmented practices, exploring the potential of the multi-disciplinary studies presented to inform innovation.
Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia
by G. ÖzcanThe transition economies of Central Asia are faced with the most daunting challenge of modern capitalism: the move from vassal pseudo-states of the former Soviet Union to competitive nations. This book is the first to explore the first 15 years of economic emergence, and assess the capabilities of these countries to transform their economies.
The Rise and Fall of an Economic Empire: With Lessons for Aspiring Economies
by C. ReadWe have seen many empires come and go. From the Roman Empire to the British Empire, we are now witnessing the decline of the US as a superpower. How do economic innovations foster global economic dominance, and how does the natural evolution of an economic empire eventually bring about its demise and replacement by other economic superpowers?
Financial Instability: Toolkit for Interpreting Boom and Bust Cycles (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)
by V. D'Apice G. FerriThis book explains what is behind the wave of increasingly frequent and severe financial crises since the 1980s. It links theoretical and policy misconceptions to explain, in plain words, why and how global finance needs fixing. Otherwise, the world may not withstand the next, even bigger, financial crisis.
The Swedish Financial Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)
by A. ÖgrenHow did Sweden go from a financially backward country to one with a well functioning financial system? Why did this financial revolution occur after the mid-nineteenth century and not before? This book discusses the role of politics and economics in this change and what it means for economic development, market integration and financial crises.
Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses (International Political Economy Series)
by Paul Bowles & John HarrissGlobalization has pushed China and India to the centre of the stage but what has been the impact on workers in these countries? This book demonstrates the complexity of the processes and responses at play. There are signs that both states are shifting their role in a 'counter movement from above'. But will this be enough to quell the social unrest?
Integrated Brand Marketing and Measuring Returns
by Philip J. KitchenA successful marketing manager needs to be able to use different media channels to reach specific audiences, and know through campaign research and evaluation, how the component parts of integrated brand marketing are working. This book explores this criteria.
Economic Development in Latin America: Essay in Honor of Werner Baer
by H. Esfahani G. Hewings Giovanni FacchiniThis book addresses a diverse set of challenges facing Latin American economies. These range from the role of neo-liberal policies, deficit targeting, import substitution, role of institutions, trade and regional development and human capital and poverty.
Human Resource Management in Project-Based Organizations: The HR Quadriad Framework
by K. Bredin J. SöderlundPresenting findings from research into Sweden's leading multinationals this book focuses on engineering companies operating in global industries such as pharmaceutical, aerospace, packing systems and automotive. It explores research and practice within the area of HRM focusing on project-based organizations.
Privatisation in Ireland: Lessons from a European Economy
by D. Palcic E. ReevesThis book analyzes privatization in Ireland, a European economy that has experienced rapidly changing fortunes over the last thirty years. It examines the effects of privatization in terms of corporate performance, public finances and the distributional aspects of privatization including the impact on employment and share ownership.
The Logistics and Politics of the British Campaigns in the Middle East, 1914-22 (Studies in Military and Strategic History)
by Kristian Coates UlrichsenAn examination of how the logistical demands of the British military campaigns in Palestine and Mesopotamia led to a more intrusive and authoritarian form of imperial control in 1917-18. This early example of Western military intervention in the Middle East provoked a localized backlash in 1919-20 whose effects continue to be felt today.
The Social Psychology of Communication
by D. Hook B. Franks M. BauerThis is the first comprehensive text on social psychological approaches to communication, providing an excellent introduction to theoretical perspectives, special topics, and applied areas and practice in communication. Bringing together scholars of international reputation, this book provides a unique contribution to the field.
The Cost of Capital
by E. PorrasThe relationship between risk, return and the cost of capital is contextualized by relating it to the needs of investors and borrowers, the historical evidence, and theories of choice and behavior. The text spans financial theory, its empirical tests and applications to real-world financial problems while keeping an entertaining easy-to-read style.
Crisis in the Global Mediasphere: Desire, Displeasure and Cultural Transformation
by J. LewisCrisis in the Global Mediasphere examines the evolution of contemporary global crises as an effect of mediation and cultural change. The book argues that a crisis consciousness has emerged through the interaction of crisis conditions and a more expansive human desire for pleasure.
Money and Calculation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives (Bocconi on Management)
by Massimo Amato, Luigi Doria, Luca FantacciMoney is an important instrument of calculation: as a unit of account and means of payment, it serves the purpose of exchange. Yet, it is increasingly becoming itself an object of exchange and calculation on financial markets, which tend less to the production and exchange of real goods. The question therefore is: has the economy lost its measure?
Values and Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship
by Kai Hockertsy Johanna Mair Jeffrey RobinsonOver the past few years social entrepreneurship has grown as a research field. In this 3rd volume in the series, contributions explore questions of values in social entrepreneurship as well as the identification and exploitation of social venturing opportunities.