Employee-ownership and co-operatives

Taxes are a crucial policy issue, especially in developing countries.

A comprehensive textbook that integrates tools from technology, economics, markets, and policy to approach energy issues using a dynamic systems and capital-centric perspective.

Author of the acclaimed work Iceberg Risk: An Adventure in Portfolio Theory, Kent Osband argues that uncertainty is central rather than marginal to finance.

Why companies need to move away from a “product first” orientation to pursuing innovation based on customer need.

The Right to Know is a timely and compelling consideration of a vital question: What information should governments and other powerful organizations disclose?

At once a social history and anthropological study of the world s oldest voluntary collective farms, All or None is a story of how landless laborers joined together in Ravenna, Italy to acquire land, sometimes by occupying private land in what they called a strike in reverse, and how they developed sophisticated land use plans, based not only on the goal of profit, but on the human value of providing work where none was available.

The late Honourable Michael Wilson was a Canadian politician and business professional.

"e;This is that rarity, a useful book.

The Brand-Driven CEO demonstrates how senior leadership can use their brand to align and guide the behaviors, decisions, and operations of their entire organization in order to drive value.

This 12th edition of "e;Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms"e; contains a stimulating collection of original papers spanning a wide variety of topics.

Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business.

Human Rights after Corporate Personhood offers a rich overview of current debates, and seeks to transcend the "e;outrage response"e; often found in public discourse and corporate legal theory.

Commons are self-organized, self-governed, autonomous networks and organizations that function outside the state and the private sector.

The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries.

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are state-owned investment funds with combined asset holdings that are fast approaching four trillion dollars.

Commons are self-organized, self-governed, autonomous networks and organizations that function outside the state and the private sector.

Adult Education contradicts the theorists and practitioners who claim that empowering organizations can only be created when those at the top decide to share power.

Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt.

Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives.

An anthology Malcolm Gladwell has called "e;riveting and indispensable,"e; The Best Business Writing is a far-ranging survey of business's dynamic relationship with politics, culture, and life.

This book provides case studies of worker-controlled firms and surveys available evidence on their behavior.

Stories of predatory lending practices and the reckless destruction of the environment by greedy corporations dominate the news, suggesting that, in business, ethics and profit are incompatible pursuits.

In the 1930s, when the competitive, free market system lay in ruins and the competing systems of fascism and communism were gaining strength, the Antigonish Movement emerged offering a "e;middle way.

Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960.

How non-IT managers can turn IT from an expensive liability into a cost-effective competitive tool.

Digital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society, reinventing age-old practices of public communication and at times circumventing traditional media and challenging its privileged role as gatekeepers of news and entertainment.

Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism.

The first swap was executed over thirty years ago.

The Economists' Voice: Top Economists Take On Today's Problems featured a core collection of accessible, timely essays on the challenges facing today's global markets and financial institutions.

Human Rights after Corporate Personhood offers a rich overview of current debates, and seeks to transcend the "e;outrage response"e; often found in public discourse and corporate legal theory.

Leiharbeiter sind scheinbar die Sklaven der neuen Arbeitswelt.

Focusing on the electronic media-television, radio, and the Internet-Audience Economics bridges a substantial gap in the literature by providing an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses involved in generating and selling audiences to advertisers.

Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt.

Based on fieldwork in four African countries, this study reveals how African businesses can be key responders to wider social and political crises.

Volume 39 of Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management contains eight original scholarly monographs written by thought leaders in the field of human resources management.

The Right to Know is a timely and compelling consideration of a vital question: What information should governments and other powerful organizations disclose?

Latino small businesses provide social, economic, and cultural comfort to their communities.

David Hurst has a unique knowledge of organizations-their function and their failure-both in theory and in practice.

An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics.

Employee participation programs have many faces, many definitions, many forms-and they change all the time.

"e;This is that rarity, a useful book.

The economy of India is growing at a rate of 8 percent per year, and its exports of goods and services have more than doubled in the past three years.

Actions taken by the United States and other countries during the Great Recession focused on restoring the viability of major financial institutions while guaranteeing debt and stimulating growth.

Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.

Much has been written about the ups and downs of financial markets, from the lure of prosperity to the despair of crises.

A provocative analysis of market-based interventions into public problems and the consequences.

Ownership and decision-making are key issues in the economic restructuring taking place as economies struggle to emerge from the Great Recession, and technological change and globalization continue to place new demands on workers and firms.