Civil service and public sector

In the light of multiple corporate debacles, financial crises and environmental disasters across the globe, the need for corporate goals to transition from simply maximising shareholder wealth to optimising stakeholder welfare is being echoed in various quarters.

Philippe Zittoun analyses the public policymaking process focusing on how governments relentlessly develop proposals to change public policy to address insoluble problems.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been widely derided as a failed state, unable to meet the basic needs of its citizens.

The United States today supports the strongest, most varied nonprofit sector in the world, an economic force of about $2 trillion, responsible for 5.

Policy Uncertainty and Risk presents a contribution to risk analysis and risk management in public policy and management at large.

This book seeks to promote a new spiritual approach to organizational leadership that goes beyond visionary management to a new focus on the spiritual for both leader and led.

Getting what you want - even if you are the boss - isn't always easy.

This book is especially valuable for its policy evaluation studies using both a theoretical model for policies carried out at national and regional levels and for gathering policy evaluation studies in diverse disciplines by empirical study.

Is there a limit to technological advancements?

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The book provides an up-to-date analysis of the restructuring of public service employment relations in six European countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark and the UK.

The ruling class plays a major role in society.

The volume collects a selection of papers presented and discussed during the two Meetings held in 1992 of the EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling.

The book is a collection of essays written since 2010, and dealing, in one way or another, with the place of values in economic analysis.

Divided into four sections-public safety agencies, key issues like interoperability and cybercrime, management skills, and emerging trends like the transfer of military technologies to civilian agencies, Managing Public Safety Technology illustrates how essential managing technology is to the success of any project.

Most books on politics and government take a view from the top down.

China's emerging financial markets reflect the usual contrast between the country's measured approach toward policy, regulatory, and market reform, and the dynamic pace of rapid economic growth and development.

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This book presents an overview of the economics and politics implemented in the European Union and especially the Eurozone during the crisis of 2008-2012.

This global encyclopedic work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration, public policy, governance, and management.

Drei von vier der 50- bis 75-jährigen können sich gesellschaftliches Engagement im Alter grundsätzlich vorstellen, für 48% stellt die Gründung eines sozialen Unternehmens einen vorstellbaren Weg dar, sich für die Gesellschaft zu engagieren.

Public Management and Governance examines the factors which make government critically important and the barriers which often stop it being effective.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This volume presents the history and current state of the public-private partnership (PPP) sector in Russia.

The book reports on the development of householdfinances in rural China.

Social entrepreneurship is one of the most controversial actualities of the modern economy.

This edited volume brings together international and national scholars and major activists leading or spearheading basic income guarantee political initiatives in their respective countries.

Public safety, as well as the safety of products and services, is of paramount importance and interest to individuals, organisations and society.

The character of economic life] in a society is dependent upon, among 2 other things, its political-legal-economic institutional setting.

This book provides an overview of the evolution and theories of the Austrian School of Economics and develops answers to current economic questions and the pressing problems of the 21st century from the Austrian perspective.

This book describes the history of the IMF from its birth, through the Bretton Woods era, and in the aftermath.

This book provides a comprehensive presentation on energy-efficient management in urban rail transit system via operations research and uncertain optimization methods.

Why do people evade paying taxes?

Today's health care systems need doctors and consultants to act as leaders, within the multi-disciplinary team, in addition to carrying out their clinical role.

This book describes the ontology structure, types of actors, their potential actions, and ways that actions can affect the things that are part of the conflict.

The Asian crisis of 1997-1998 was a major influence on macroeconomic thinking concerning exchange rate regimes, the functioning of international institutions, such as the IMF and the World Bank, and international contagion of macroeconomic instability from one country to another.

A thorough analysis of insider trading requires the integration of law and finance, and this book presents a theoretical and empirical examination of insider trading by incorporating a synthesis of securities law with that of financial theory.

It is quite easy to find corruption within nonprofits.

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism-in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.

Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions, and one where the implementation of the SDGs is particularly urgent.

This book critically discusses the changing relationship between the Indian state and capital by examining the mediating role of society in influencing developmental outcomes.

This book examines the emerging trends in vanishing borders of urban local government finance due to uncertain local tax and expenditure regimes.

The Law Officer's Pocket Manual is a handy, pocket-sized, spiral-bound manual that highlights basic legal rules for quick reference and offers examples showing how those rules are applied.

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