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By Xiaohong Liu. 2019
This book gathers together invited presentations from the 12th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (ICLS2017) held in Beijing,…
China, August 20–23, 2017. The focus of the ICLS2017 was environmental sustainability in logistics and supply chains, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. It addressed a variety of themes in the domains of green logistics and supply chain management (SCM), including green logistics and environmental impact, green SCM and business performance, green operations and optimization, supply chain sustainability, carbon management in logistics, and green SCM and corporate social responsibility (CSR). The editors selected high-quality presentations from the highly successful symposium, and invited the presenters to prepare full chapters for this book in order to disseminate their findings and promote further research collaborations. This timely book sheds new light on the theories and practices associated with greening logistics and SCM in Asia.By Gary L., Reback. 2009
Why we need government intervention in the free market to protect competition and encourage innovation Starting about thirty years ago,…
conservatives forced an overhaul of competition policy that has loosened business rules for everything from selling products to buying competitors. Gary Reback thinks the changes have gone too far. Today's competition policies, he argues, were made for the old manufacturing economy of the 1970s. But in a high-tech world, these policies actually slow innovation, hurt consumers, and entrench big companies at the expense of entrepreneurs. Free the Market! is both a memoir of Reback's titanic legal battles-involving top companies such as Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and AT&T-and a persuasive argument for measured government intervention in the free market to foster competition. Among the fascinating questions he considers:* Can a company ever compete too hard for the public good?* Should policy makers worry more about promoting competition or improving efficiency?* Does it help consumers when a manufacturer sets the prices its retailers charge?* Should the government do more to stop controversial mergers?* At what point does intellectual property protection hurt innovation?By Charles Eastman.
By David W.F. Huang, Michael Reilly. 2018
This book is the first comprehensive exploration of the impact Brexit might have on both Britain s and…
the EU s role in a rising East Asia From the internationalization of the renminbi to Hong Kong s fraught political status quo and from former British colonies exploring their place in the world to America s place in East Asia in the Trump era the EU plays an influential role in Asia today However much of this derives from Britain s role and interests even as Asian models were explicitly cited as models for post-Brexit Britain particularly the Singaporean model This book will be of value to scholars policymakers and journalists seeking to understand what role the EU and Britain will play in the Asian centuryBy Ann E. Cudd, Nancy Holmstrom. 2011
Political philosophy and feminist theory have rarely examined in detail how capitalism affects the lives of women. Ann Cudd and…
Nancy Holmstrom take up opposing sides of the issue, debating whether capitalism is valuable as an ideal and whether as an actually existing economic system it is good for women. In a discussion covering a broad range of social and economic issues, including unequal pay, industrial reforms and sweatshops, they examine how these and other issues relate to women and how effectively to analyze what constitutes 'capitalism' and 'women's interests'. Each author also responds to the opposing arguments, providing a thorough debate of the topics covered. The resulting volume will interest a wide range of readers in philosophy, political theory, women's studies and global affairs.By Fabrice Lehmann, Jean-Pierre Lehmann. 2011
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) was created in 1919 by business leaders who described themselves as 'merchants of peace'…
and whose motto was 'world peace through world trade'. Since then a number of initiatives, including the founding of the WTO in 1995, have provided the proper regulatory conditions for a dramatic increase in world trade. This has generated unprecedented growth and allowed many countries to enjoy great gains in wealth and welfare. Yet despite these gains we are still far from achieving the ICC's goal of world peace through world trade. This book provides a broad overview of the forces that shape international trade and global interdependence, showing business leaders and entrepreneurs how we can address the shortcomings of the multilateral trading system. Most importantly, it shows how we can turn international trade into one of the key global instruments to achieve peace and prosperity in the twenty-first century.By John B. Davis. 2011
This book examines the different conceptions of the individual that have emerged in recent new approaches in economics, including behavioral…
economics, experimental economics, social preferences approaches, game theory, neuroeconomics, evolutionary and complexity economics, and the capability approach. These conceptions are classified according to whether they seek to revise the traditional atomist individual conception, put new emphasis on interaction and relations between individuals, account for individuals as evolving and self-organizing, and explain individuals in terms of capabilities. The method of analysis uses two identity criteria for distinguishing and re-identifying individuals to determine whether these different individual conceptions successfully identify individuals. Successful individual conceptions account for sub-personal and supra-personal bounds on single individual explanations. The former concerns the fragmentation of individuals into multiple selves; the latter concerns the dissolution of individuals into the social. The book develops an understanding of bounded individuality, seen as central to the defense of human rights.By Kobus Jonker, Bryan Robinson. 2018
This book provides the first comprehensive academic study of what China s trade with and investment in African…
countries mean for the socio-economic well-being of the continent Based on the African Tree of Organic Growth Framework developed in the book Jonker and Robinson outline the factors necessary in realizing Africa s Renaissance vision and the impact that the Chinese might have on this process Using the metaphor of the Baobab tree the authors analyze the historical cultural and economic contexts within African countries the channels available to produce development and growth and the fruits or social and economic well-being created by this integrated process The book takes readers on a journey of numerous African examples and case studies describing and analyzing the challenges and complexities of countries in their desire to achieve organic cultural scientific and economic renewal and the improvement of the well-being of their citizens This book will be of great value to economists people who wish to do business in Africa China-watchers those who are following the development and growth of Africa and moreBy Ran Li, Kee Cheok Cheong. 2019
This book focuses on the nature and significance of China s state enterprises which have undergone substantial changes…
since China s economic liberalization in 1978 It argues that much of the criticism is based on mistaken premises where even the term state-owned enterprises is a misnomer given that the emphasis is much less on ownership than on control Using numerous case studies this book highlights the extent to which these enterprises have evolved in response to reforms and provides an in-depth analysis of their role in China s outward investment strategy in the Belt and Road initiative This role speaks to their growing influence as China expands her global footprintBy Michael Kinsley, Conor Clarke. 2008
Bill Gates is more than the world's most successful capitalist; he's also the world's biggest philanthropist. Gates has approached…
philanthropy the same way he revolutionized computer software: with a fierce ambition to change the rules of the game. That's why at the 2008 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Gates advocated a creative capitalism in which big corporations, the distinguishing feature of the modern global economy, integrate doing good into their way of doing business. This controversial new idea is discussed and debated by the more than forty contributors to this book, among them three Nobel laureates and two former U.S. cabinet secretaries. Edited by author and columnist Michael Kinsley, Creative Capitalism started as a first-of-its-kind online conversation that brought together some of the world's best minds to engage Gates's challenge. From Warren Buffett, who seconds Gates's analysis, to Lawrence Summers, who worries about the consequences of multiple corporate objectives, the essays cover a broad spectrum of opinion. Judge Richard Posner dismisses Gates's proposal as trumped-up charity that will sap the strengths of the profit-maximizing corporation, while journalist Martin Wolf maintains that the maximization of profit is far from universally accepted, and rightly so. Chicago Nobel laureate Gary Becker wonders whether altruistic companies can survive in a competitive economy, while Columbia Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps argues that a little altruism might be the right prescription for a variety of market imperfections. Creative Capitalism is not just a book for philanthropists. It's a book that challenges the conventional wisdom about our economic system, a road map for the new global economy that is emerging as capitalism adapts itself once again to a changing world.By Charles A. Eastman. 2012
The Memoirs of an Indian Boyhood is an autobiography by Charles Eastman. Eastman was a Native American physician, writer, national…
lecturer, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he worked to improve the lives of youths and founded 32 Native American chapters of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). He also helped found the Boy Scouts of America. He is considered the first Native American author to write American history from the native point of view.By Marvin T. Brown. 1970
When a handful of people thrive while whole industries implode and millions suffer, it is clear that something is wrong…
with our economy. The wealth of the few is disconnected from the misery of the many. In Civilizing the Economy, Marvin Brown traces the origin of this economics of dissociation to early capitalism, showing how this is illustrated in Adam Smith's denial of the central role of slavery in wealth creation. In place of the Smithian economics of property, Brown proposes that we turn to the original meaning of economics as household management. He presents a new framework for the global economy that reframes its purpose as the making of provisions instead of the accumulation of property. This bold new vision establishes the civic sphere as the platform for organizing an inclusive economy and as a way to move toward a more just and sustainable world.This book is the first book that provides comprehensive economic analysis of cross-border outsourcing by Japanese manufacturing firms based on…
microdata Previous literature on many other countries has often been constrained by limited data availability about outsourcing but research contained in this book exploits unique firm-level data and directly tests theoretical hypotheses derived from new firm heterogeneity trade models Productivity capital labor ratio and R D intensity are examined at the firm level While rich empirical results in this book convince us how powerful the orthodox economic theory is in understanding Japanese firms detailed firm-level findings combined with accessible and concise overviews of Japanese international trade are widely informative for international economists experts of Japanese society business strategists for offshoring and policy makers in both developed and developing economies This book further discusses how boundaries of Japanese firms traditionally sheltered by language and cultural barriers are affected by outsourcing decisions simultaneously crossing national borders and firm boundaries The interpretations of Japanese characteristics in outsourcing have deep implications for understanding drastically changing Japanese business amid globalizationBy Kathleen Thelen. 2014
This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing…
on developments in three arenas - industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. While confirming a broad, shared liberalizing trend, it finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates liberal capitalism with inequality and coordinated capitalism with higher levels of social solidarity. However, this study explains why the institutions of coordinated capitalism and egalitarian capitalism coincided and complemented one another in the 'Golden Era' of postwar development in the 1950s and 1960s, and why they no longer do so. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this study reveals that the successful defense of the institutions traditionally associated with coordinated capitalism has often been a recipe for increased inequality due to declining coverage and dualization. Conversely, it argues that some forms of labor market liberalization are perfectly compatible with continued high levels of social solidarity and indeed may be necessary to sustain it.By J. C. Spender, Bruce A. Strong. 2014
Most organizations fail to take full advantage of their employees' knowledge, initiative, and imagination. In this accessible and practical book,…
J. -C. Spender and Bruce Strong provide a guide for building entrepreneurial workforces through carefully designed conversations between management and employees. These 'strategic conversations' make employees partners in the strategy development process, engaging them to help shape the organization's future. The result is transformational: instead of strategy being a dry, periodic planning exercise for the few, it becomes a dynamic and continuous act of co-creation enriched by the many. Case studies illustrate how leading organizations have used strategic conversations to build sustained competitive advantage, create innovative business models, make better decisions under uncertainty, reduce the need for change management, and enhance employee engagement. The book will appeal to managers, entrepreneurs of all stripes, and teachers and students in schools of business and public administration.The book discusses how to establish a land-use system for small and medium-sized cities in order to promote low carbon…
economic development and to ensure sustainable development It also presents the objectives and requirements of urban green development The first objective is to establish a green city with ecological harmony The second is the establishment of a people-oriented harmonious city which is important for the green development of city Drawing on past experience and combining this with the current situation in China s cities it argues that the construction of people-oriented harmonious cities should be a priority The third objective is to build multi-functional organic cities in which the urban function is relatively independent Lastly the fourth objective is to establish a city with unique charm applying historical ways of thinking to today s worldBy Edward Castronova. 2014
Private currencies have always existed, from notes printed by individual banks to the S&H Green Stamps to Bitcoin. Today’s economy…
has seen an explosion of new forms of monetary exchange not created by the federal government. Credit card companies offer points that can be traded in for a variety of goods and services, from airline miles to online store credit. Online game creators have devised new mediums of electronic exchange that turn virtual money into real money. Meanwhile, real money is increasingly going digital, where it competes with private currencies like Bitcoin. The virtual and the real economic worlds are intermingling more than ever before, raising the possibility that this new money might eventually replace the government-run system of dollars, euros, and yen. Edward Castronova is the leading researcher in this field, a founder of scholarly online game studies and an expert on the economies of virtual worlds. In this dynamic and essential work, he explores the current phenomenon of virtual currencies and what it will mean legally, politically, and economically in the future. In doing so, he provides a fascinating, often surprising discourse on the meaning of money itself#151;what it is, what we think it is, and how we relate to it on an emotional level.By Chandra Venkataraman, Trupti Mishra, Subimal Ghosh, Subhankar Karmakar. 2019
This book provides a synthesis of research findings in terms of strategic knowledge outcomes regarding emergence of recent regional…
climate signals implications for impacts assessment and mitigation and adaptation response relevant in the Indian context The first part discusses evidence of climate change and its underlying scientific processes across India chiefly focusing on impacts that are already visible and attributable to anthropogenic activities The latter part deals with the responses to climate change highlighting the mitigation and adaptation strategies in various sectors and communities The book presents a concise interpretation distilling practical recommendations and policy prescriptions at national and sub-national levels It serves as a reference point for understanding scientific advances and persisting uncertainty future vulnerability and response capacity of interlinked human and natural systems pertaining to India It is an excellent resource for policy makers and industry watchers in addition to the research fraternityBy Anssi Smedlund, Arto Lindblom, Lasse Mitronen. 2018
This book offers a service science perspective on platform orchestration and on collaborative consumption providing an overview of research…
topics related to service dominant logic in multi-sided markets The chapters give an international and multi-disciplinary overview of the current topics of digital service platforms from many angles This overview helps in filling the gap between service science and recent research of the platform economy and paves the way for future service platform research Open standards and distributed databases such as blockchain configurations increase the connectivity of business ecosystems as devices and systems exchange data with each other instead of through intermediaries This exchange opens up opportunities for new value constellations makes services globally scalable and connects local service systems as integrated systems of systems The book brings together established academics from a number of disciplines This collaboration makes it possible to provide novel constructs and empirical results that help the reader to understand how value is co-created and orchestrated in the era of digital service platforms In addition to theory building practical implications for wider managerial and policy use are highlighted The topics in this book are related to service platform technologies organizational capabilities and strategies and management in the contexts of retail healthcare and the public sector A wide selection of case studies is used to demonstrate the implications of platforms for different service and economic contexts Combining both theory and practice this book is highly recommended for readers interested in the service and marketing point of view on the platform economy and for practitioners strategizing for scalable service platforms Chapters 4 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4 0 International License via link springer comBy Venkatachalam Anbumozhi, Kaliappa Kalirajan, Fukunari Kimura. 2018
This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the state of low-carbon investments in Asia analyzing the rationales …
mandates and public private financing activities Based on the experiences of several regional initiatives wherein public financing is catalyzing private investments in low-carbon infrastructure this book proposes a framework that can be used as a tool to identify factors that influence private investment decisions and policy instruments that can scale up the private capital Placing the Asian economies onto a low-carbon development pathway requires an unprecedented shift in investments This book addresses this situation by asking questions such as What is the central role of private finance in achieving the Paris Agreement targets What key policy levers and risk mitigation can governments use in an effort to unlock the potentials of private capital How can regionally coordinated actions hold significant promise for scaling up private investments