Public administration

This book explains supply chain management (SCM) using the strategy-structure-process-performance (SSPP) framework.

The proceedings focus on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics and decision-making.

This book is about the institutional disrespect experienced by refugee immigrants at the hands of the state and its institutions.

This book is primarily based on data from the third analysis of domestic energy consumption, and it combines the conclusive summarizes from the previous two investigations.

The theme of this book is the political practices by Zhejiang Government under the guidance of "e;China Dream"e; policy.

This book explores the effects of product market and labour market reforms on firms, labour institutions and labour rights in the economic and industrial relations system in India.

This book provides an overview of the rapid development Beijing has seen in a wide range of areas in 2017, both in itself and as an integral part of a larger region, as China's economic development continues to improve in overall quality and regional coordination.

The distinctive contribution of this book is the formulation of an integrated social, environmental, and economic framework for public policy.

This book gives a thorough and systematic introduction to the latest research results on hesitant fuzzy and its extensions decision making theory.

This book provides a genealogical study of Australian agricultural restructuring, focusing on the case study of wheat export market deregulation.

This book assesses China's reputation as a global clean energy champion, and applies institutional and public policy theories to explain how the country has achieved so much and why there continue to be so many unintended consequences and constraints to progress.

This book addresses essential questions about housing by building theoretical models based on various real world problems in Japan and testing these models using econometric methods.

This book focuses on human trafficking and the anti-trafficking movement, particularly as it is expressed in Southeast Asia.

This book highlights the rise of the Strauss-Corbin-Gioia (SCG) methodology as an important paradigm in qualitative research in the social sciences, and demonstrates how the SCG methodology can be operationalized and enhanced using RQDA.

Public transport in low-income Asian (LIA) cities fails to meet people's mobility needs, generates high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and worsens social exclusion.

This book discusses how Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is practiced in developed and developing economies.

This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia.

This book explores a new model for addressing the central issue of environmental and other collective actions.

This book explores dominance in Australia's medical culture through the positioning of international medical graduates (IMGs).

This book provides one of the most comprehensive and compelling analysis of Non-Market Economies (NMEs) and their treatment under the current world trading system.

This book explores how public policy advocacy can be used to approach policy issue identification, resolution or, at the least, support the management of wicked policy issues.

This book explains how to bring about institutional change and foster new institutional structures (institution building) by resolving power inequities in a rural ecosystem in India, and advocates the identification of an appropriate institutional champion to make this happen.

This book primarily addresses various game theory phenomena in the context of management practice.

This book addresses a broad range of problems commonly encountered in the fields of financial analysis, logistics and supply chain management, such as the use of big data analytics in the banking sector.

This book examines the national automotive policy in Malaysia to help readers gain an understanding of the country's industrial policy-making processes.

The central theme of this book is national land and infrastructure design in the age of the declining population and the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake in the affected regions in Japan.

This book focuses on the public policy and political dimensions of Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias (AD/D) in the United States, with coverage of the global dimensions and relevant examples from other countries.

This book is a third-party evaluation of H1N1 prevention and control effects in China.

This edited collection examines seminal changes and major policy challenges in metropolitan governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim that are being faced by governments (national and sub-national) and their polities.

This edited volume examines key questions about evidence-informed policymaking in Indonesia.

This book explores the role of intellectuals and governance processes in post-authoritarian Indonesia.

It is said that the duty of public servants is to 'speak truth to power' - to give honest, sound and sometimes unpopular advice to political leaders.

Crowdfunding is already transforming the way many entrepreneurs and enterprises around the globe think about community engagement and fundraising for various causes.

This book explores consumer protection in the major financial markets in the world and provides an international comparison among the countries of different cultural background and economic development.

This book discusses the increasing use of contract labour in India that has accompanied attempts to liberalise the economy.

This book provides a conceptual framework of global value chains, flexibility and sustainability, supported by research projects, case applications and models in various related areas organized into three parts.

This book discusses economic development in general and selected public policy issues with a focus on philosophy, Gandhian thoughts and sectoral issues in the Indian context.

The proceedings volume consists of academic papers on decision-making under uncertainty, smart decision, stochastic optimization, management simulation and its applications.

This book is devoted to the analysis of the Six Development Concepts of China titled "e;Xi Jinping's New Development Philosophy"e;, namely Innovative Development, Coordinated Development, Green Development, Open Development, Sharing Development, and Security Development.

The book aims at perfecting the national governance system and improving national governance ability.

This monograph applies Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework to two policymaking episodes of implementing pay for performance in general practice, conducted in England and New Zealand.

This book defines China's road towards modernization with Chinese characteristics by systematically examining a typical Chinese political process - the National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), during which diverse opinions are collected and a unified political consensus is formed.

This is the first book to articulate resilience-based public policy for a constantly changing, complex, and uncertain risk society.

This book integrates the fundamentals of quantitative significance, using existing estimates of the elasticities of demand for tax, health insurance, and medical services in a static microsimulation model.

This book, a collection of previously published articles, focuses on the role of the Singaporean State in social cultural engineering.

This book presents an evaluation of the impacts of megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis on regional economies and subsequent reconstruction, as well as regional revitalization by the spatial economic model and dynamic macro and regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) models.

This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world's largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).

This book provides essential information on emergency management.

This book includes a series of reports that mainly discuss the Middle Income Trap against the backdrop of population ageing in China.

This is a study of Malaysia's new political economy, with a focus on ownership and control of the corporate sector.