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Emerging labor market institutions for the Twenty-First Century

The inflation-targeting debate

Sloan rules

Alfred P. Sloan and the triumph of General Motors

Alfred P. Sloan Jr. became the president of General Motors in 1923 and stepped down as its CEO in 1946. During this time, he led GM past the Ford Motor Company and on to international business triumph by virtue of his brilliant managerial practices and ...

Indicator Systems for Sustainable Innovation

In the recent past, environmental innovations have led to a considerable reduction of many pollutants; however, further innovation is required to tackle remaining pollution sources. This work analyses the significance and the effects of framework conditions on innovation activities that contribute to the realisation of ...

The sociology of work

introduction

This successful textbook on the sociology of work is now available in a new and updated edition. In addition to the wide range of contemporary and historical material, the second edition now has a number of new sections including a chapter on work in the ...

Innovating strategy process

Innovating Strategy Process presents a series of reflective essays by established and emerging scholars on the subject of innovation, considering it both as an outcome of strategy and as a process in itself. The book has something to offer to a wide range of readers ...

Banking for family business

a new challenge for wealth management

What is Banking for Family Business? What's special about it? How does the Family Banker contribute to the creation of value for entrepreneur families? The book covers a wide spectrum of topics: it investigates the ways family bankers really work, the relations between private ...

Issues in monetary, financial and macroeconomic adjustment policies

This volume sheds light on crucial questions in the field of monetary, financial and macroeconomic policy. Consisting of a series of surveys written by leading international economists, it addresses questions such as: What is the role of the financial sector in economic development? Is financial ...

Valuation and conservation of biodiversity

interdisciplinary perspectives on the Convention on Biological Diversity

Adjusting to globalization

The politics of Northern Ireland

beyond the Belfast agreement

In this book, one of the leading authorities on contemporary Northern Ireland politics provides an original, sophisticated and innovative examination of the post-Belfast agreement political landscape. Written in a fluid, witty and accessible style, the book explores: * how the Belfast Agreement has changed the politics ...

Health governance in Europe

issues, challenges and theories

Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments. Focusing on the health sector, this book analyzes the closely interwoven relationship between the European Union and Member States. The authors explore the dynamic ...

The territorial politics of welfare

Since the mid-1970s, European states have been reassessing the welfare state and reconfiguring their relationships with each other. The inter- linkages between these phenomena, however, have never been comprehensively examined. This innovative volume situates the expansion and ongoing development of the welfare state within the ...

¿Y por qué no?

cómo utilizar el ingenio para reiventar mercados y resolver problemas

Hay muchas grandes ideas que sólo están esperando a ser descubiertas... ¿Por qué no hacer que los comerciales le paguen a usted por su tiempo cuando le llaman para venderle algo? O, ¿por qué no ofrecer una póliza de seguros contra la devaluación del precio ...

The United Nations and Human Rights

a guide for a new era

This is a comprehensive and timely guide to the United Nations (UN) human rights machinery. Today, virtually all UN bodies and specialized agencies are undertaking efforts to incorporate the promotion or protection of human rights into their programs and activities. "The United Nations and Human ...

Globalization, governmentality and global politics

regulation for the rest of us?

Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of nations with accelerating force. This book delivers a keen assessment of how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent. Transnational social regulation is increasingly becoming the ...

Les nouveaux indicateurs de richesse

Understanding international art markets and management

Network access, regulation and antitrust

Greats architects of international finance

The Bretton Woods era