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Global Politics and Financial Governance
by R. GermainThe financial crisis prompted many to ask how financial systems from America and Iceland to Russia and Hungary could have been so misgoverned that their near collapse plunged the entire world into recession. Randall Germain assesses what needs to be done, and by whom, to avoid a repetition of what he calls the 'great freeze'.
Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives: Studies in China, Japan and the USA (Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series)
by Chikako UsuiThis book investigates entrepreneurial initiatives in the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA. It brings together historical, institutional, and ethnographic approaches and highlights entrepreneurial patterns that result from cultural, legal, and political forces that facilitate and constrain entrepreneurship.
Inflation Targeting in MENA Countries: An Unfinished Journey
by Mongi BoughzalaThis volume assesses the current state of play for Middle East and North African countries, in the light of wider work on inflation targeting, and provides lessons from the evolution of monetary policy in Europe.
The Challenges of Vulnerability: In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life
by B. MisztalProposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to, vulnerability and promotes the need to find remedies for exposure to involuntary dependence, the unsecured future and the painful past.
The World's Largest Humanitarian Agency: The Transformation of the UN World Food Programme and of Food Aid
by D. ShawThis book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters. It examines food aid and looks to the new modalities that are required to make food more available to those in dire need.
South-South Cooperation: Africa on the Centre Stage (International Political Economy Series)
by Renu ModiThis book critically analyses the ways in which Africa has shifted from the periphery of global trade, international relations and politics to the centre of the world stage because of its existing and potential economic prowess and purchasing power that the continent has to offer.
Liberalizing Financial Services and Foreign Direct Investment: Developing a Framework for Commercial Banking FDI
by L. PáezThis book focuses on the relationship between FDI and financial service liberalization in the context of the WTO. By conducting an economic assessment on the extent of GATS liberalization in commercial banking it seeks to empirically clarify if the multilateral liberalization efforts under the WTO promote FDI.
Forecasting, Warning and Responding to Transnational Risks
by Chiara De Franco Christoph O. MeyerAssembling a high profile group of scholars and practitioners, this book investigates the interplay of forecasting; warnings about, and responses to, known and unknown transnational risks. It challenges conventional accounts of 'failures' of warning and preventive policy in both the academic literature and public debate.
Understanding Terrorist Finance
by T. WittigWittig presents the first unified coherent framework for the systematic analysis of terrorist finance. With empirical examples from around the globe, he dispels several popular myths about these activities to make an important step forward in our understanding of not only terrorist finance, but also the place of terrorism in the contemporary world.
Globalization and Human Rights in the Developing World (Global Ethics)
by Derrick M. Nault Shawn L. EnglandFocusing on world regions where human rights abuses are the most serious, extensive and sustained; this book fills a crucial gap in our knowledge of the difficulties and promise of promoting human rights in our global age.
Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China: Transferring Organizational Practices from the United Kingdom and Japan (Consumption and Public Life)
by J. GambleThis book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms and changing labour-management systems in China, as well as their impact on consumer culture.
Shaping Global Industrial Relations: The Impact of International Framework Agreements (International Labour Organization (ILO) Century Series)
by Konstantinos PapadakisThis book assesses the phenomenon of international framework agreements (IFAs), examining their implementation and impact around the world as well as their promotion of ILO standards. This volume includes contributions from fifteen international specialists to give a comprehensive discussion of the 80-plus IFAs that existed in July 2010.
Values and Stakeholders in an Era of Social Responsibility: Cut-Throat Competition?
by P. D'AnselmiAssuming a pro-business viewpoint, this book criticizes sustainability and responsibility as it appears in the reports of corporations. It launches an appeal to the representatives of SMEs around the world to make accountability happen in government organizations and monopolies.
Delivering Development: Globalization's Shoreline and the Road to a Sustainable Future
by E. CarrCalls into question the very universal, unquestioned assumptions about globalization, development, and environmental change that undergird much of development and economic policy. Compels the reader to question conventional wisdom and explores alternative ways of achieving meaningful, enduring improvements to human well-being.
Innovations in Stress and Health
by S. Cartwright C. CooperThe costs of stress and ill-health to society are enormous. In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on workplace initiatives to reduce stress and improve individual resilience. This volume brings chief medical officers, leading health professionals and academics to present their views on innovations in the field of stress and health.
Crisis: Cause, Containment And Cure
by T. Thomas F. HuertasAnalysis of the current financial/economic crisis from the Director of the Banking Sector at the FSA (Financial Services Authority). New edition updated to take account of changes in regulation and legislation in the US, EU and UK. Many of these changes were in line with the recommendations made in the original edition
The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business
by Luk Bouckaert Laszlo ZsolnaiA summary of the most important issues, approaches and models in the field of spirituality in business, economics and society. The Handbook of Spirituality and Business presents a comprehensive pluralistic view covering all the major religious and spiritual traditions.
Chinese Leadership
by Barbara Xiaoyu Wang Harold CheeWith the accelerating integration of China into the global economy, there is a thirst to understand how Chinese managers like to lead and how Chinese employees like to be managed. There is no doubt that China can be a difficult and risky market for foreign businesses. The authors show managers how to succeed when doing business in China.
Diversity, Ethnicity, Migration and Work: International Perspectives
by G. Healy F. OikelomeProviding a comprehensive picture of diversity, ethnicity, and migration in the health sector this book analyses the key themes of career and career structures, social processes, segregation, racism and sexism at international, national and local levels.
A Business and Labour History of Britain: Case studies of Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Mike Richardson & Peter NichollsBy bringing together and critically engaging with accounts of certain themes in business and labour history, and utilizing original research, this book aims to widen understanding of industrial society and provide a background to further study and research in the area management and labour relations history.
The Changing Nature of Doing Business in Transition Economies
by Marin Marinov and Svetla MarinovaStaying at the pinnacle of the advancing business development of transition economies and the impact of changing business conditions is a challenging task for all firms wanting to do business in them. This book provides insight into the way in which businesses function with a comprehensive overview of the major aspects involved.
The Long Conversation: Maximizing Business Value from Information Technology Investment (IE Business Publishing)
by O. Lorenzo P. Kawalek G. González B. RamdaniFor many years companies have been investing in enterprise systems and IT initiatives but they are now struggling to achieve the desired results. It takes a long time to make the best of your enterprise systems so businesses must stop looking for the next technology 'silver bullet' and instead maximize the value of existing IT investments.
Alternative Perspectives of a Good Society (Perspectives from Social Economics)
by J. MarangosAs a collection of alternative views on societies, methodologies, policies and assessment of the current elements of the society, Alternative Perspectives on a Good Society brings together different authors answering different questions all within the context of visions of a good society.
Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora: Guyana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by B. JosiahFrom the late 1800s, African workers migrated to the mineral-rich hinterland areas of Guyana, mined gold, diamonds, and bauxite; diversified the country's economy; and contributed to national development. Utilizing real estate, financial, and death records, as well as oral accounts of the labor migrants along with colonial officials and mining companies' information stored in National Archives in Guyana, Great Britain, and the U.S. Library of Congress, the study situates miners into the historical structure of the country's economic development. It analyzes the workers attraction to mining from agriculture, their concepts of "order and progress," and how they shaped their lives in positive ways rather than becoming mere victims of colonialism. In this contentious plantation society plagued by adversarial relations between the economic elites and the laboring class, in addition to producing the strategically important bauxite for the aviation era of World Wars I & II, for almost a century the workers braved the ecologically hostile and sometimes deadly environments of the gold and diamond fields in the quest for El Dorado in Guyana.
Private Equity in Poland: Winning Leadership in Emerging Markets
by D. KlonowskiPrivate Equity in Poland focuses on the private equity industry and emerging markets in Poland. Poland represents the most developed private equity industry in Central and Eastern Europe and is one of the most developed emerging markets worldwide