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Mercantilism: The Shaping Of An Economic Language
By Eli F. Heckscher. 1995
First published in 1994. Environmental issues present a daunting challenge to the international system. The destruction of the tropical rainforest,…
the Chernobyl explosion and the ozone layer ‘hole’ all underline the transnational nature of environmental threats and the need for states to act together in order to tackle them. How have such environmental issues entered political agendas in different parts of the world and how has that affected national positions? Can governments ever reconcile their own national interests with the international cooperation needed to deal with transboundary issues such as climate change? This book traces the history of international environmental negotiations and regulations and looks at the domestic policies upon which cooperation in the international community depends. It covers some major milestones in recent history, from the Torrey Canyon accident through to the Rio ‘Earth Summit’ and the emergence of the European Community as a major international environmental actor. It also looks at cross-cutting issues such as the role of non-governmental organizations, the environmental impacts of world agriculture and trading arrangements, industry’s attitudes, and the relationship between democracy and environmental protection. It concludes by examining how the international system has adapted, and may adapt further, to deal effectively with environmental problems, and reflects on the implications of this for the future.Policy and Practice in European Human Resource Management: The Price Waterhouse Cranfield Survey (Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management)
By Chris Brewster, Ariane Hegewisch. 1994
This volume, first published in 1994, lays out and considers the evidence of trends in HRM in a variety of…
areas: overall strategy, the role and education of HR professionals, recruitment, training and development, pay, industrial relations, communication, flexibility, equal opportunities and EC social policy. Because the research examined data at the organisational level, the book is able to provide a unique analysis of what is happening in HRM in the very different cultures of European states, both EC and EFTA. This volume is an indispensable source for all teachers and students of European HRM practices and policies. This book will also be a key reference source for practitioners wishing to understand HRM in the various European countries and to ‘benchmark’ their organisation against current practice.Handbook of Data Center Management: Second Edition (CRC Press Revivals)
By Layne C. Bradley. 1994
Accounting for the rapid and often confusing changes currently underway in the information systems of organizations, such as the rush…
to replace mainframes with networks and the decentralization of data storage and processing, provides insights on the duties and challenges of a data center manager. Covers strategic planning, management practices, controls, systems and contingency planning, network technology, human resources, desktop computing, and future directions....Protecting the Periphery: Environmental Policy in Peripheral Regions of the European Union (Routledge Library Editions: Environmental Policy #1)
By Steven Yearley, Susan Baker, Kay Milton. 1994
First published in 1994. ln Protecting the Periphery the editors present a series of papers revealing the impact of EU…
policies on environmental quality in regions at the edge of the European Union and in those lying just outside it. In many cases these regions contain habitats and landscapes of international importance; they have also often escaped some of the environmental damage caused by industrialization. But, as the papers' reveal, attempts by the EU to safeguard these environmental benefits are often contradicted by the EU’s own development policies, bringing air pollution from new roads, contamination from new industries, and leading to habitat destruction from modern agricultural practices and increases in tourism. As the Union pushes for the deepening of the integration process, including completing the internal market, the pressures on the periphery's environment are increasing. Furthermore, the efforts of the periphery to catch-up economically with the developed core can often heighten the tension between economic considerations on the one hand and the need for environmental protection on the other. The studies in this book examine the ambivalent responses to EU environmental policy among policy-makers and environmentalists in the periphery. Both the willingness as well as the capacity of the periphery to protect its environmental heritage are explored. In particular, the administrative capacity, institutional arrangements, political culture as well as economic development needs are taken into account in an examination of the nature of the periphery’s response to and implementation of Union environmental policy. The book will appeal to policy-makers and academics in the countries of the European periphery and to analysts of European policy-making everywhere, especially those concerned with environmental policy and politics.Why did Economics, in its formative phase, have so much input from medically educated writers? The innovations that physicians brought…
to their economic discourse played a key role in shaping the future of the discipline, and this volume draws together the work of leading international academics to address this fascinating topic. This book examinesThis book conducts a simulation study creating universal, hypothetical bank holding companies (BHCs) through mergers to examine whether BHC expansion…
into nonbank business areas, those currently prohibited by law, will increase the riskiness of the universal BHCs. Part 2 reviews the contemporaneous literature and Part 3 discusses the weaknesses of that literature. Later sections specify an analytical model and describe the date and estimating procedure as well as presenting empirical results.Understanding Corporate Criminality (Current Issues in Criminal Justice #Vol. 3)
By Michael B. Blankenship. 1995
The Fifth Tiger: Study of Thai Development Policy
By Robert J. Muscat. 1994
Thailand's dynamic economic development has earned it a reputation as the "Fifth Tiger" (following on the heels of the superperforming…
"Four Tigers" - South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong). This is a study of Thailand's development experience since 1955.The Self-Reliant Manager (Routledge Library Editions: Management #15)
By Christopher Bones. 1994
Originally published in 1994. What is a self-reliant manager? The self-reliant manager is one who can grow an organization by…
exploiting his or her role in the management of people. Not every manager is involved in top-level decision-making and the development of global strategies. Every manager is, however, by being involved in managing the people in an organization, empowered to take the company forward. The book covers key topics such as empowerment, motivation, performance appraisal, the development of management learning systems, environmental awareness, ethics, and management style. It presents a model to show how managers can improve their own effectiveness. To succeed with people, managers need to understand themselves, the internal framework of their organization and the external environment in which their business operates. They have become self-reliant to develop the leadership and vision needed to influence their organization.The Social Economics of Health Care (Advances In Social Economics Ser.)
By John B. Davis. 1996
For too long now, the issue of health care reform has been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and…
the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it.Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require a more sensitive approach to the setting of budgetsThe Goals of Macroeconomic Policy
By Martin Prachowny. 1994
Politicians win elections by promising 'Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!' but in practice these promises quickly fall by the wayside. The Goals…
of Macroeconomic Policy asks why. It begins with the observation that there is no convincing economic argument that full employment should be the primary objective of economic policy in all circumstances. In the light of this it examines whcy policy has failed so consistantly. It explains this by a theory of the labour market which shows why most workers are happy to operate in a way which militates against full employment. It then proceeds to analyse the rather dire consequences of this for the budget deficit.A Manager's Guide to Sexual Orientation in the Workplace
By Bob Powers, Alan Ellis. 1995
For the first time ever, managers will have a tool that will enable them to effectively grapple with the controversial,…
and sometimes explosive issues surrounding sexual orientation. Cultivated from Bob Power's 25 years business experience with some of the world's finest organizations, A Manager's Guide to Sexual Orientation in the Workplace provides managers with the knowledge, skills and resources to foster higher productivity and performance through an all-inclusive work environment.Management: Grundlagen der Unternehmensführung (Kohlhammer Edition Management Ser. #25)
By Jochen Koch, Georg Schreyögg. 2020
In ihrem zum Standardwerk avancierten und bereits übersetzten Lehr- und Lernbuch geben die Autoren einen umfassenden und gut verständlichen Überblick…
über das komplexe Gebiet des Managements. Die Neuauflage ist in allen Kapiteln grundlegend überarbeitet und...Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought (Studies In Institutional Economics)
By Stephen Edgell. 1994
This work discusses the impact and contemporary relevance of the work of Thorstein Veblen, as well as the source of…
his ideas. It suggests that he was one of the first modern sociologists of consumption whose analysis of contemporary display and fashion anticipated later theories and research.Urban Intelligence and Applications: Proceedings of ICUIA 2019 (Studies in Distributed Intelligence)
By Mohamed Elhoseny, Xiaohui Yuan. 2020
This volume presents selected papers from the International Conference on Urban Intelligence and Applications (ICUIA), which took place on May 10-12,…
2019 in Wuhan, China. The goal of the conference was to bring together researchers, industry leaders, policy makers, and administrators to discuss emerging technologies and their applications to advance the design and implementation of intelligent utilization and management of urban assets, and thus contributing to the autonomous, reliable, and efficient operation of modern, smart cities. The papers are collated to address major themes of urban sustainability, urban infrastructure and management, smart city applications, image and signal processing, natural language processing, and machine learning for monitoring and communications applications. The book will be of interest to researchers and industrial practitioners working on geospatial theories and tools, smart city applications, urban mobility and transportation, and community well-being and management.Außenhandel: Grundlagen internationaler Handelsbeziehungen
By Clemens Büter. 2020
Dieses Buch ist ein Fach- und Grundlagenbuch des Außenhandels. Es erläutert den Ordnungsrahmen internationaler Handelsbeziehungen und gibt darauf aufbauend eine…
grundlegende Darstellung aller wesentlichen Teilgebiete und Zusammenhänge des Außenhandelsgeschäfts.Die 5. Auflage wurde vollständig überarbeitet und erweitert. Wichtige Neuerungen betreffen Weiterentwicklungen der außenwirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen, Neuregelungen des Außenwirtschafts- und Zollrechts, die neuen Incoterms® 2020 der Internationalen Handelskammer sowie Entwicklungen im elektronischen Datenaustausch über Außenhandelsdokumente. Auch die Fragen und Aufgaben am Ende eines jeden Kapitels wurden aktualisiert.Business and Social Media in the Middle East: Strategies, Best Practices and Perspectives
By Nehme Azoury, Lindos Daou. 2020
This book discusses the effectiveness of Western organizations’ social media strategies in the Middle East. Social media has changed the…
rules of doing business, but the exact impacts vary across regions. In the context of Middle Eastern societies, social media is seen as a way for individuals and communities to communicate with each other and is generally not viewed as a means for brands to interact with individuals. Examining how the use of social media in the Middle East is shaped by the region’s culture, authors discuss the factors that businesses need to consider when creating digital marketing strategies targeted there. Including case studies of Middle Eastern companies, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the rise of social media in the MENA region and the often-neglected role of culture in research in this area. It will provide researchers and practitioners with a deeper understanding of conducting business in the Middle East through the effective and efficient use of social media.