Corporate social responsibility in Europe

rhetoric and realities

Eds. Regine Barth, Franziska Wolff. CONTENTS: Foreword Pt. I Analytical Framework 1 Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Impact: Opening up the Arena by Regine Barth and Franziska Wolff 2 A Framework for Assessing the Sustainability Impact of CSR by Jon Birger Skjaeseth and Jorgen Wettestad ...

Cases in technological entrepreneurship

converting ideas into value

Ed. Claudio Petti; Preface by Aldo Romano. This book carries key cases and field insights by a group of distinguished contributors. It shows how government bodies, private investors and companies deal with the transformation of new ideas into value, from start-ups to incumbents. This book ...

Creating value through innovation

In open and dynamic markets, only innovation can give a firm a competitive advantage and with it the superior cash flows that generate value. Using analytical models, this timely book analyzes the conditions under which innovation strategy can create and maintain value, based on different ...

Population ageing, pensions and growth

intertemporal trade-offs and consumption planning

Many areas of economics require the evaluation of time streams of costs and benefits. Societies face long-term phenomena affecting costs and benefits far into the future, such as demographic change and climate change. These present challenges for policy makers in planning inter- temporal consumption paths ...

Economics of knowledge

theory, models and measurements

The accumulation of knowledge through higher education, scientific research and industrial R&D is a key factor in economic and social development. This timely and valuable book focuses on the microeconomics of knowledge production and on the analysis of technical constraints, possibilities of collaboration and ...

Islamic finance

principles and practice

Hans Visser presents a fascinating study of both the foundations of Islamic finance and its recent developments. This highly topical book explores the products and practices of Islamic finance, specifically targeting the tensions that may arise between the ideology and the practices. The author describes ...

Say's Law and the keynesian revolution

how macroeconomic theory lost its way

This highly original contribution examines one of the most controversial concepts in the history of economics - the true meaning of the Law of Markets. This has been a contentious issue since the publication of "Keynes' General Theory", but has also divided economists since it first ...

Peer-to-peer file sharing and secondary liability in copyright Law

Ed. Alain Strowel. In this book prominent academics and specialised practitioners from the US and the EU offer a comprehensive review on the issue of secondary liability for copyright infringement, particularly P2P file sharing and online infringements. Some contributions analyse the relevant case law on ...

Legal challenges in Eu Administrative Law

towards an integrated administration

Eds. Herwig C.H. Hofmann, Alexander H. Türk. The move toward a system of integrated administration in the EU poses considerable legal challenges. These arise from the transformation of the EU legal system in all its policy areas. Decreasing separation of the EU from the ...

Agriculture and the WTO

towards a new theory of international agriculture trade regulation

International agricultural trade regulation remains problematic despite the creation of the WTO and a specific Agreement on Agriculture in 1995. Fiona Smith challenges this orthodoxy and presents a new conceptual method by which the problem of international agricultural trade in the WTO can be understood ...

International knowledge and innovation netwokrs

knowledge creation and innovation in medium-techonology clusters

This book illustrates the distinct nature of innovation in medium technology industrial sectors, which are the key to European international competitiveness, and the recent changes of networks within regional clusters. It presents best-practice management and regional strategies, and an original and coherent theoretical framework for ...

Money and households in a capitalist economy

a gendered post keynesian-institutional analysis

Post Keynesian analysis of monetary production have not provided much attention to households as institutions, while a good deal of the literature in feminist economics discusses households in a strictly microeconomic context, with little consideration of monetary phenomena. This book, a unique study of the ...

Macroeconomic methodology

a post-keynesian perspective

Jesper Jespersen presents a treatise on the importance of the choice of methodology within macroeconomics. Given that no scientifically based macroeconomic policy recommendation should be established without an evaluation of the methods employed, this book gives a clear exposition of how proper macroeconomic analysis should ...

Competition policy and merger analysis in deregulated and newly competitive industries

A number of important American industries have undergone a significant transformation from direct regulation to a market-oriented system, commonly referred to as deregulation. Recognized scholars examine seven of these industries - electricity, natural gas pipelines, telecommunications, railroads, airlines, hospitals and banking - to show how competition policy ...

Fiscal federalism and political decentralization

lessons from Spain, Germany and Canada

This highly original book analyses political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. The three key issues required for a well designed financing ...

The economics of courts and litigation

Dissatisfaction with the working of courts is ubiquitous. Legal inertia and maladministration are the norm in many countries, with significant social and economic repercussions. No longer a theme delegated to the peripheries of economic analysis, the administration of justice is recognised by most economists as ...

Liberalizing european energy markets

an economic analysis

The vital importance of energy and the challenges associated with it necessitates the efficient structuring of energy markets and well-designed policies. This book presents an economic analysis of the main effects of liberalizing the electricity and natural gas markets across Western Europe. It is based ...

Full employment abandoned

shifting sands and policy failures

The authors' contention in this book is that much of the blame for labour under-utilisation across OECD countries lies with the policy failures of national governments. They argue that at a time when budget deficits should have been used to stimulate the demand needed to ...

Financialization and the US economy

Profound transformations have taken place both in the US and the global economy, most especially in the realm of finance. Financial markets and transactions have been growing continuously in size and in importance while finance in general has acquired an increasingly prominent position in the ...

Ageing labour forces

promises and prospects

This provocative book considers the changing status of older workers, the evolution of public policy on age and work and the behaviour of employers. It attempts to answer the critical question: In an ageing society, can older workers look forward to the prospect of longer ...