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Strategic business alliances

an examination of the core dimensions

Strategic Business Alliances examines key issues in the analysis, management and performance of international joint ventures using a sample of UK-European equity joint ventures. The authors consider the viewpoint of all configurations of the international joint venture # UK parent, European parent and joint venture management ...

International conflict and the global economy

The relationship between the global economy and national segurity has been and enduring source of interest and debate. This volume contains a set of pioneering studies that paved the way for contemporary work on the political economy of national security as well as some more ...

International money relations in the new global economy

These volumes contain the best articles political scientists have published in recent years on international monetery relations. They cover every conceivable topic of interest, incluiding the domestic politics of capital mobility, monetary institutions, and policy cooperation.

The new American regionalism

This book provides a broad quantitative analysis of the new facets of regionalism in the Americas. In particular, major aspects of the New American Regionalism are discussed in terms of two basic notions: the genuine political character of economic integration schemes, and the profound inter-connectedness ...

The world's wine markets

globalizacion at work

This is a useful work which provides a comprehensive overwiew of the world's wine markets. Its particular strengths are its golobal coverage, its focus on both production and consuption, and the large number of charts and tables with which the volume is replete. With ...

Urban and regional transportation modeling

essays in honor of David Boyce

Honoring David Boyce for his legendary contributions to the fields of transportation modeling and regional science, the chapters in this festschrift highlight and analyze state-of-the-art and state-of- the-practice methodologies and theories in transportation modeling, regional and urban planning. Authors from academia and industry, all experts ...

Recent developments in environmental economics

This two volume collection includes the most important and influential contributions to environmental economics during the last ten years. The articles cover a broad range of topics and the collection gives an excellent overview over the present state of knowledge in the field. These timely ...

A tale of two global cities

comparing the territorialities of telecommunications developments in Paris and London

Since the mid-1980s, telecommunications and information technologies (IT) have become more intensely bound up than ever before in the social, economic, political and cultural processes and transformations which are increasingly concentrated in and between key strategic urban places across the globe. By analysing telecommunications developments ...

Manual de Historia del Derecho

Hipatia de Alejandría

La catedrática de historia romana antigua en la Universidad Jagelónica de Cracovia, María Dzielska, nos invita en este libro a dar un salto en el espacio y en el tiempo. Dzielska nos retrotrae a la Alejandría de los día de Hipatia, una matemática brillante, neoplatónica ...

Arquitectos españoles en la Roma del Grand Tour

1746-1796

El libro reconstruye la experiencia estética y vital del viaje que algunos arquitectos españoles realizaron a Roma -capital artística de la cultura europea de las Luces- en el siglo XVIII con la intención de ampliar sus estudios y perfeccionar su formación, en la creencia de ...

La ciudad medieval

orígenes y triunfo de la Europa urbana

Brujas, Francfort, Génova, Roma o París son tan representativas de la Edad Media como el feudalismo, el vasallaje y las expediciones de los cruzados. En el momento de su configuración definitiva, el mapa de las ciudades de Europa coincide con el de los centros de ...

Gala

biografía

Basta mencionar el nombre de Gala para que cualquiera responda enseguida: «La mujer de Dalí», pero ¿cuánta gente sabe con exactitud quién fue? Gala fue probablemente la mujer famosa más secreta de nuestro siglo. Una arpía y una bruja para unos, una intrigante, un monstruo ...

Sancho Panza lee el Quijote

Malaspina

Las reglas en juego

Un examen filosófico de la toma de decisiones basada en reglas, en el Derecho y en la vida cotidiana

El uso de reglas para orientar nuestras acciones parece, al menos a primera vista, sujeto a un problema fundamental: el de la justificación racional del seguimiento de reglas. Cualquier regla destaca como relevantes ciertas circunstancias para calificar normativamente una acción como obligatoria, prohibida o permitida ...

Kangxi Empereur de Chine

1662-1722: la cité interdite à Versailles

La empresa familiar

encrucijada de intereses personales y empresariales

El pretérito imperfecto

Institutional change for sustainable development

This volume presents a flexible conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of instututional systems, and highlighting the interdependence between policy learning and institutional change. This framework is applied and developed through the analysis of five significant arenas of institutional and ...