Economics, Finance, Business and Management

This book demonstrates how the Thalidomide catastrophe of the 1960s and the BSE crisis of the 1990s led to regulatory regimes for pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs in Europe.

The second edition of Arts Management has been thoroughly revised to provide an updated, comprehensive overview of this fast-changing subject.

Although 'VUCA' is not a new term, the features of the world it describes, a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment, have never been more valid.

The Caspian redefines a Caspian debate long characterized by one-sided and politically motivated analyses and, at times, fantastic reporting.

First published in 1997, this book has been produced by the leading scholars of the economic history of the region in the belief that the events of 1989/90, and the subsequent turmoil in every country affected, can only be accurately interpreted from an informed historical perspective.

History is full of examples of how the skilful use of language is a fundamental aspect of charismatic leadership.

The definition of a consultant is someone who facilitates organisational change and provides expertise on technical, functional and business topics during development or implementation.

This book offers the latest research on formation of modern workers in the context of digitalization: from constant improvement of new training technologies to growing requirements for employees in workplace, as well as an assessment of specialists' digital skills and dynamics of changes over the past years.

This textbook offers a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Optimization Programming Language (OPL).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the four workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2012, which took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, May 21-23, 2012.

The adoption and management of the common currency has led the Eurozone to a critical point.

Successful Time Management is packed with proven tips, tools and techniques to help you review and assess your time management and adopt new work practices to improve it.

Recently I taught short courses on functional equations at several universities (Barcelona, Bern, Graz, Hamburg, Milan, Waterloo).

This book presents the outcomes of the trans- and interdisciplinary research project NEMo (Nachhaltige Erfullung von Mobilitatsbedurfnissen im landlichen Raum - Sustainable Fulfilment of Mobility Needs in Rural Areas).

In the Summer of 1973, workers occupied the Lip watch and clock factory, sparking a national cause and controversy.

Filling a gap in the current literature, this book addresses the social approach to the design and use of innovative business models in the digital economy.

Multinational Corporations and Global Justice: Human Rights Obligations of a Quasi-Governmental Institution addresses the changing role and responsibilities of large multinational companies in the global political economy.

This book highlights the social, economic and environmental importance of the mutual relations between industries in the same and in different regions and nations, and demonstrates how to model these relations using regional, interregional and international input-output (IO) models.

Political uncertainty and instability characterise many regions around the world and, increasingly, can be observed in more established democracies.

Most of the time, industrial wastes contain recoverable resources that would be useful in other applications.

While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this collection of essays examines the god's Roman and Italian manifestations.

This authored monograph covers a viability to approach to traffic management by advising to vehicles circulated on the network the velocity they should follow for satisfying global traffic conditions;.

Law, Economics, and Morality examines the possibility of combining economic methodology and deontological morality through explicit and direct incorporation of moral constraints into economic models.

East Asian imagery resonates throughout Martin Heidegger's writings.

Auch in der Personalarbeit geht es vermehrt darum, die Personalkosten aktiv zu gestalten.

Professional Practice in Learning and Development guides learning and development professionals and students in designing and delivering effective people development in the modern organization.

Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups.

Monetary and Financial Integration in West Africa details the progress, challenges faced, and potential of the project intended to create a West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) between Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

Salinity is one of the acute problems causing enormous yield loss in many regions of the world.

Embedding Culture and Quality for High Performing Organizations (978-1-138-48338-5, K349105)Shelving Guide: The aim of this book is to bridge two different core disciplines: quality management and cross-cultural management, based on how multinational corporations work, and how culture determines individual practices and values.

Brazil is considered one of the world's most important environmental powers.

Career Pathways: From School to Retirement brings together leading workforce researchers and practitioners to provide new perspectives on school-to-work and workplace career pathways.

Explores how China has reached a threshold where continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics.

As well as reviewing traditional models, this book proposes an alternative model for estimating the cost of risk capital.

​​Im Zeitalter der Globalisierung bietet die kooperative technologische Frühaufklärung für Unternehmen eine Möglichkeit, die eigene Zukunftsfähigkeit zu stärken.

Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions.

This work contains papers presented at a conference held in March 1988.

Kluge Investitions- und Finanzierungsentscheidungen sind die Basis für den Erfolg eines Unternehmens.

The book presents a novel socio-economic approach to analysing the - ergy system and energy consumption in India from a household persp- tive.

Für den Erhalt und den Ausbau von Marktanteilen können Unternehmen im Premiumsegment der Automobilwirtschaft auf verschiedene Kommunikationsinstrumente zurückgreifen, um mit potenziellen Neukunden in Kontakt zu treten und diese für die Marke und Produkte des Unternehmens zu gewinnen.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th IFIP WG 11.

While a positive correlation between capitalism and democracy has existed in Western Europe and North America, the example of late-industrializing nations such as Turkey has demonstrated that the two need not always go hand in hand, and sometimes the interests of business coincide more firmly with anti-democratic forces.

Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt die wichtigsten multivariaten Analysemethoden, dies sind Regressionsanalyse, Varianzanalyse, Diskriminanzanalyse, Kreuztabellierung und Kontingenzanalyse, Faktorenanalyse, Clusteranalyse, Kausalanalyse (LISREL), multidimensionale Skalierung und Conjoint-Analyse.

Financial crime in Canada remains a mystery: omnipresent, but we know little about its operation.

Finding and arranging the best mortgage for your dream home purchase can be a confusing and daunting experience.

Kirkuk is Iraq's most multilingual city, for millennia home to a diverse population.

Capitalist Economics introduces and explains the basic economic forces that shape the present and structure the future of capitalist societies today.