The dollarization debate

With an emphasis on North and Latin America, this work takes a global approach to a controversial topic in the business world; dollarization. With the collapse of the former Soviet Union, and the formation of the euro in Europe, many countries and debating whether or ...

Real estate investment trusts

structure, performance, and investment opportunities

The book provides the investing public, real estates practitioners, regulators, and real estate and finance academics with up-to-date information on what modern scholarly research tells us about Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). REITs are credited to allow institutional and individual investors to invest in real ...

The economic future in historical perspective

In this volume, modern economic historians show how analysis of past experiences contributes to a better understanding of present-day economic conditions. They offer insights into major challenges that will occupy the attention of policy makers in the coming decades. The 17 essays are organized around ...

Oxford Handbook of Strategy

.Vol. 1: Strategy overview and competitive strategy

1. D. O. Faulkner and A. Campbell: Introduction Part I: Approaches to Strategy 2. J. Kay, P. McKiernan, and D. O. Faulkner: The History of Strategy 3. M. Slater: The Boundary of the Firm 4. D. Barron: Evolutionary Theory 5. R. Loveridge: Institutional Theory 6 ...

Oxford Handbook of Strategy

.Vol. 2: Corporate strategy

Employment Law

A bitter living

women, markets, and social capital in Early Modern Germany

What role did women play in the pre-industrial European economy? Sheilagh Ogilvie tackles this question in an original way, using a rich body of new evidence. By examining women's contribution to a particular pre-industrial economy - the German state of Württemberg - Ogilvie casts doubt on ...

The field and the forge

population, production, and power in the pre-industrial West

The Field and the Forge offers an innovative approach to the pre- industrial history of Europe and the Mediterranean basin from Roman times through to the Industrial Revolution. This wide-ranging analysis demonstrates how technology changed the scope of state and empire building, and explores why ...

The diversity of modern capitalism

This book proposes a comparative analysis of modern capitalism. It identifies five different types of modern economies: the market-based economies, Asian capitalism, the Continental European model, the social democratic economies, and the Mediterranean model. It presents their main institutional characteristics and relates the different models ...

Management accounting in the digital economy

The deployment of digital technologies by enterprises affects not just their functioning in economic terms, but also mobilizes broader social, institutional and organizational effects. This book explores these issues, and looks at the way in which management accounting systems structures, thinking, and practices are being ...

Business research methods

Business Research Methods is an exciting new text which provides a comprehensive introduction to the main theories and practices in the field of business research methods. Illustrated with numerous current examples highlighting specific issues faced by business school students, the book is designed to show ...

Business ethics

a european perspective.Managing corporate citizenship and sustainability in the age of globalization

Business Ethics is an exciting, new, student focused text which provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of European business ethics. It is the first business ethics textbook to feature extensive coverage of the highly topical issues of corporate citizenship, globalization and sustainability. The book ...

Asset management and investor protection

an international analysis

Scandals in financial institutions, weakness in the world economy, and volatility in financial markets bring to the fore issues of regulation and consumer protection. This comparative survey of how investors are currently protected in a range of European countries and the USA is set in ...

Why has the public sector grown so large in market societies?

the political economy of prudence in the UK, c.1870-2000

Motivation, agency and public policy

of knights and Knave, pawns and queens

Can we rely on the altruism of professionals or the public service ethos to deliver good quality health and education services? How should patients, parents and pupils behave - as grateful recipients or active consumers? The book provides new answers to these questions, and evaluates recent ...

The Politics of Europeanization

This book traces the influence of the European Union on domestic politics and public policies. Whereas the standard books on domestic politics and European integration look at different countries one by one, this volume embraces an innovative perspective based on specific concepts, indicators, and a ...

A modern history of Japan

from Tokugawa times to the present

The Oxford handbook of metaphysics

The Law of professional-client confidentiality

regulating the disclosure of confidential personal information

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

The fragmentary latin poets

The Oxford history of Ancient Egypt

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt is the only up-to-date, single-volume history of ancient Egypt available in English. The accessible essays and attractive illustrations portray the emergence and development of the distinctive civilization of the ancient Egyptians, from their prehistoric origins to their incorporation into ...