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eBranding verde y redes sociales

Las comunicaciones interactivas logran mediante determinadas herramientas como microsites o boletines, la sensibilización puntual del usuario. Este estado es insuficiente, y por ello los gestores de comunicación deben también desarrollar nuevas herramientas propias de la Web 2.0 (blog, redes sociales, microblogging, wikis) cuyo objetivo ...

Derecho europeo de contratos

Libros II y IV del Marco Común de Referencia

El borrador de Marco Común de Referencia (DCFR) constituye una pieza central en la construcción de un derecho de obligaciones y contratos europeo, por lo que su influencia en el derecho español se va a dejar sentir necesariamente. Son ya una decena de sentencias las ...

Azione amministrativa materiale e diritti dei cittadini

La dottrina pubblicista, mentre ha dedicato notevole attenzione alla “organizzazione amministrativa” ha, sin qui, dedicato solo sporadica attenzione alle disfunzioni e disorganizzazioni amministrative. Questo disinteresse teorico per l’attività amministrativa materiale porta la dottrina a negare lo stesso fondamento teorico della distinzione tra attività amministrativa ...

The clash of economic ideas

the great policy debates and experiments of the last hundred years

The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed over time to take their present forms. It traces the connections running from historical events ...

The rise of the quants

Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes, and Merton

This is the third in a series of books about the 'great minds' in the history and theory of finance. The first book in the series examines the role of returns in our personal financial decisions. The second book adds risk and uncertainty to the ...

Commercial Law

principles and policy

This innovative textbook examines commercial law and the social and political context in which it develops. Topical examples, such as funding for terrorism, demonstrate this fast-moving field's relevance to today's concerns. This wide-ranging subject is set within a clear structure, with part and ...

13 ways to steal a bicycle

theft Law in the Information Age

Theft claims more victims and causes greater economic injury than any other criminal offense. Yet theft law is enigmatic, and fundamental questions about what should count as stealing remain unresolved - especially misappropriations of intellectual property, information, ideas, identities, and virtual property. In "Thirteen Ways to ...

Investment treaty arbitration

judging under uncertainty

Investment claims have exposed the vague nature of the standards by which arbitral tribunals are expected to adjudicate them and the policy reasons which explicitly or implicitly have an influence. The ad hoc nature of the tribunals and the decisions reached on various controversial issues ...

Clases medias y procesos electorales en América Latina

La formación de nuevas clases medias en las sociedades latinoamericanas de la última década puede modificar el mapa político del continente. Entre 2009 y 2010 hubo elecciones presidenciales o generales en El Salvador, Ecuador, Panamá, Uruguay, Honduras, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica y Brasil, mientras que ...

Principles of organizational behavior

realities and challenges

CONTENTS: Part I: INTRODUCTION. 1. Organizational Behavior and Opportunity. 2. Challenges for Managers. Part II: INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES AND BEHAVIOR. 3. Personality, Perception, and Attribution. 4. Attitudes, Emotions, and Ethics. 5. Motivation at Work. 6. Learning and Performance Management. 7. Stress and Well-Being at Work. Part ...

The grammar and writing handbook for lawyers

The Grammar and Writing Handbook shows you precisely which rules need to be followed, how to choose the correct words, and the most effective way to structure every sentence to help you compose more persuasive, stronger material that's flawlessly written. The book includes a ...

Good Italy, bad Italy

why Italy must conquer its demons to face the future

Once Italy was Europe's own emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is a major threat to the future of the Euro, and of the European Union as a whole ...

Capitalism from below

markets and institutional change in China

More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise ...

Rethinking patent Law

Scientific and technological innovations are forcing patent law into the spotlight and revealing its many glaring inadequacies. Take, for example, the patent case that almost shut down the BlackBerry, or the growing phenomenon of patent trolling, in which patents are acquired for the sole purpose ...

Theory of strategic management

with cases

CONTENTS: PART I: INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT. 1. Strategic Leadership: Managing the Strategy-Making Process for Competitive Advantage. 2. External Analysis: The Identification of Opportunities and Threats. PART II: THE NATURE OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. 3. Internal Analysis: Distinctive Competencies, Competitive Advantage, and Profitability. 4. Building Competitive ...

The evolution of economic thought

In this scholarly and timely presentation of the history of economic thought, you'll see how new ideas, evidence, problems, and values can be used to reconsider basic disputes and major contributions of the past. "The Evolution Of Economic Thought, 8/e, International Edition" covers ...

The constitutional dimension of european criminal Law

Criminal law is one of the most rapidly changing areas of contemporary EU law and integration. The Treaty of Lisbon has elevated it to a central place in the constitution of the EU, within the dynamic area of freedom, security and justice. The phenomenon of ...

The harm in hate speech

Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech - except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Against this absolutist view, Jeremy Waldron argues powerfully that hate speech should be regulated as part ...

Creating the administrative Constitution

the lost one hundred years of american administrative Law

This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. Contrary to conventional understandings, Mashaw demonstrates that from the very beginning of the republic Congress delegated vast discretion to administrative officials and armed them ...

A legal guide to doing business in South America

This new book, A Legal Guide to Doing Business in South America, discusses the legal environment of 10 major countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.