Development economics and emerging economies

The book provides a detailed analysis of the causes of West Africa's current economic high-growth episode and proposes ways to extend it sustainably.

This book reveals all that can potentially happen when a private company takes over a local water supply system, both the good and the bad.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the Brazilian sugarcane complex with a special focus on technological advances that promote sustainable development.

This book focuses on how companies are innovating with regard to the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) - the lowest socio-economic segment, and the organizational conditions they need to be successful.

The book presents case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America addressing global development issues in the fields of health, energy, ICT and urbanism in an interdisciplinary way.

This volume of selected articles is being released in light of the new economic, social and environmental challenges Europe and the United States have been faced with following the end of the Cold War and in the evolving era of globalization.

The purpose of this edited collection is to analyse the cultural aspects of Indian organizations.

The volume presents innovative approaches to improving energy access in underprivileged communities.

This book challenges the quasi-consensus that Latin American countries dominate global homicide rankings mainly due to the illegal nature of drug production and trafficking.

The first volume of the Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, the official proceedings series of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES), includes selected papers from the 13th EBES Conference held in Istanbul in 2014.

This book takes the concept of social audit and lifts it beyond the role of functioning largely as a management tool.

This book introduces the reader to local development economics and policy, with a special focus on the place-based paradigm that covers its justification, its difficulties and the types of public intervention that it suggests.

This book covers the main aspects of regional and urban economics and presents state-of-the-art theories in a comprehensive and concise way.

This book covers the issues related to human resource management (HRM) in an international context.

This book provides an economic perspective on the effects of food safety standards on international trade.

The aim of this book is to analyze the relationships among entrepreneurship, regional development and culture in the current economy.

This book collects and reports on the results of a study conducted on the Chinese Software and Services Outsourcing (SSO) industry, focusing on one of its main players as a key case study.

Growth theory provides a rich and versatile analytical framework through which fundamental questions about economic development can be examined.

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This book discusses the use, economic importance and impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in public and private Sudanese universities.

This book presents current research on boundary spanning elements.

This book addresses the recent debate about copyright law and its impact on the distribution of scientific knowledge from an economic perspective.

This volume focuses on the spotlight on Romania and Moldova, two distinct nations that share a common language, history and culture.

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This briefs provides foundations of both community wellbeing and community development, and the relationships between the two areas, including both similarities and differences.

This volume presents empirical studies and theoretical reflections on Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), its most important concepts and their interrelations.

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This book aims to contribute to the literature and aid in developing a theoretical and practical framework in the area of health and wellness tourism.

This book contains a unique collection of studies on key economic and social policy challenges faced by countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region in a short- and long-term perspective.

In an era of globalization, technological innovation, and social transformations, universities face the challenge of training students with the competencies needed to meet the demands of the market and to successfully integrate into today's workforce.

The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory.

This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of National Basketball Association (NBA) expansion franchises and of any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another from 1950 to 2013.

This monograph offers a detailed analysis of the creation, pilot implementation, and possible wide adoption of the real property tax at the local level in China.

This book covers key discussions involving major US and European multinational companies (MNCs) that source products from suppliers in developing countries.

Public debt has become a severe problem for a great many economies.

Many countries have implemented policies to increase the number and quality of scientific researchers as a means to foster innovation and spur economic development and progress.

Industrial and technology parks are commonly regarded as a policy panacea.

China is entering a new stage of economic and societal development, called China 2.

Rapid advancement of interactive technologies during the past two decades has made access to information easier though at the expense of a clear digital divide.

This book discusses national development planning in the context of a globalized world economy.

Against the background of realities of underdevelopment and economic growth, environmental pressures and global governance challenges, this volume presents a broad picture of contemporary issues in African development.

Against the background of a long and continuing record of political instability in Africa, this edited collection presents a multi-disciplinary approach to selected issues in African political studies.

This book focuses on supply chain management in emerging markets.

This book bridges the research and practice of global talent management.

This book presents some definitions and concepts applied in Latin America on lean manufacturing (LM), the LM tools most widely used and human and cultural aspects that most matter in this field.

The aim of this book is to analyze the quality of entrepreneurial management and economic development in the Latin American region from a microeconomic point of view.

This book deals with the concepts of leadership and communication in business organizations, initially on a general level and then in detail through an analysis of specific cases.

This book examines key determinants of private sector development in West Africa, putting special emphasis on government's cardinal role in fostering and supporting entrepreneurship.

This book explores the new challenges for work and employment relations in the wake of globalization.

This book presents an excellent analysis of how a family business is different from other forms of organization and especially its peculiarities in relation to entrepreneurship.