Economics, Finance, Business and Management

This is the future.

From tracking down information to symbolising human experiences, this book is your guide to telling more effective, empathetic and evidence-based data stories.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India.

There is a large literature dealing with the spillover effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to emerging and developing economies at the aggregate level.

This book provides detailed examination of start-up companies which entered the smartphone industry following the revolution triggered by Apple with its iPhone in 2007.

This book provides an in-depth view of supplier diversity programs and how they have contributed to the meteoric rise of minority businesses.

Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the humans, using sickle and scythe.

How can society quickly convert to renewable energy?

This book provides an introduction to the use of statistical concepts and methods to model and analyze financial data.

Practical Customer Success Management is a complete "e;handbook for CSMs"e;, written by a customer success expert who has coached and trained many hundreds of customer success managers across the globe.

Contemporary Financial Intermediation, Second Edition, brings a unique analytical approach to the subject of banks and banking.

Many large corporations delegate investment decision-making authority to their divisions.

A full-color, image-packed guide to developing highly persuasive content that attracts more customers than ever-all based on the latest brain scienceThere s an overlooked but critical scientific fact that every marketing profession needs to know: Many decisions start with attention, and it s your job to grab the attention of every prospective customer as effectively as possible.

Why did the postcolonial Tunisian state promise development?

A compelling examination of how economic development projects ignore local history, and the effects of this shortsightedness Foreign aid planners rarely consider the history of the societies in which they work, an oversight noted in the development literature but rarely examined.

Big things can develop from the smallest seeds.

Modern businesses and organizations understand that corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an important factor for sustainable success.

Women are now leading companies and other enterprises in significant numbers-in developing countries as well as the Western world.

How to step into an inherited leadership role and guide your team through a polished transition process.

Exploring the importance of destination branding and destination marketing as well as their implications on sustainability in tourism, this book approaches the topic through the lens of destination image, taking into account the large influence of appearance on tourist attraction.

This volume is a vital contribution to conversations about urban sustainability, looking beyond the propaganda to explore its consequences for everyday life.

Three years ago, the first Liquid Legal book compelled the legal profession to reassess its identity and to aspire to become a strategic partner for corporate executives as well as for clients.

Business and Economics of Port Management is a comprehensive but concise textbook and reference for insights into the workings of port industry from the business and economics perspectives.

Have you ever thought that you might want to write a story but simply couldn't find a way to get started?

As with executives and managers in so many other business functions, pricing specialists are being challenged more and more to substantiate the added value of their activities.

In today's ultra-competitive global business environment, it is becoming increasingly important for companies to reduce spending while simultaneously improving their efficiency and productivity.

As hacker organizations surpass drug cartels in terms of revenue generation, it is clear that the good guys are doing something wrong in information security.

This 2007 text examines the problem of national identity formation in the context of globalization.

This Element presents the recent history of defence economics using a non-technical approach ideal for both economists and general readers.

Bond and Money Markets: Strategy, Trading, Analysis explains and analyses all aspects of the bond and money markets and is both an introduction for newcomers and an advanced text for experienced market practitioners and graduate students.

First published in 1981.

Dieses erste deutsche Standardwerk zur „Wirtschaftsästhetik“ analysiert, wie Unternehmen Ästhetik und Kunst als Inspirationsquelle nutzen und als Werkzeug zur Wertschöpfung ein-setzen.

Published in 1997, this volume is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected from the leading journal in the field.

The Mexican -- United States border represents much more than the meeting place of two nations.

The banking and financial sector has expanded dramatically in the last forty years, and the consequences of this accelerated growth have been felt by people around the world.

Das Buch geht zunächst auf körpersprachliche Grundlagen ein.

This book addresses the gap between the espoused importance of organizational human capital and how it is actually reported and assessed.

Jobs that were once well-defined are now multifaceted.

First Published in 1996.

This book addresses the use of food hydrocolloids as agents for encapsulating biological active ingredients.