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Partnership at Work the Quest for Radical Organizational Change
The partnership established between the Irish Airports Authority and its trade unions in the mid-1990s was groundbreaking in promoting union and staff involvement in all aspects of company decision-making. This book charts the progress, achievements and obstacles faced by the partnership based on full access to the partners, documents, observations on how the partnership functioned and three su…
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The Science and Technology Labor Force the Value of Doctorate Holders and D…
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the demand for PhDs on the labor markets of twelve countries. The authors analyze the role of PhDs in the creation of innovation in a knowledge-based economy and examine economic issues such as the return on investment for the education and training of doctoral graduates. To provide a more comprehensive picture of the employment patterns, career paths …
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- 978-3-319-27210-8
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The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services from Regulation to Inno…
This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding outcomes in practice. In particular, the author challenges the theory behind Payments for Envi…
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Corporate China 2.0 the Great Shakeup
This book argues that that the rise of great firms -- those with sustainable high return on invested capital (ROIC) -- will lay the foundation for China's successful economic transformation. Drawn from the author's research on corporate finance and the Chinese economy, the author maintains that being big could be easy but means little for corporate China, especially in the context of China's tr…
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Social Entrepreneurship
This contributed volume features state-of-the-art research from ten different countries on implementation, institutionalization and the future prospects of social entrepreneurship. This volume aims at bringing together research that considers the context of economy, politics and cultural issues combining with the needs of social and human development. By conceptualizing the notion of social ent…
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A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences
A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences includes essays on the ways in which the histories of psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, history and political science have been written since the Second World War. Bringing together chapters written by the leading historians of each discipline, the book establishes significant parallels and contrasts and makes the case for a comparati…
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Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics
Over the past century, an extensive literature has developed, exploring the impact of entrepreneurship on economic performance. The active participation of entrepreneurs in virtually all aspects of business and economic activity has obliged policy makers within the global economy to consider entrepreneurship as a determining variable in any political force, not only for bodies and groups creat…
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- 978-1-4614-1293-9
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Entwicklung und Erprobung eines kompetenzorientierten Leistungstests auf unte…
Steffen Spitzner entwickelt und erprobt im Rahmen dieses Buches einen kompetenzorientierten Leistungstest auf unternehmerisches Wissen und Denken. Dazu erschließt er die fachwissenschaftliche Perspektive des Entrepreneurships, ergänzt diese um fachdidaktische Konkretisierungen der Entrepreneurship Education und integriert kompetenz- und testtheoretische Grundlagen. Auf dieser Basis entwickelt…
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- 978-3-658-41591-4
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New Economic Engine: Effective Government and Efficient Market
This book contains at least three main highlights: breaking through the limitations of the mainstream Western economics system and the market theory framework, correctly explaining the successful experience of China’s reform and opening up over the past 40 years from an economic perspective, and developing a new economics system and market theory. China’s reform and opening up and innovativ…
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- 978-981-15-2922-1
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Chinese Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is hot. China is hot. Combining these two concepts could therefore be a dangerous act, as it may cause overheating. Chinese entrepreneurs are indeed the subject of a rapidly growing body of literature, academic and popular. However, the bulk of it tends to focus on a few aspects. There are the biographies of ‘famous’ entrepreneurs. While informative, these are usually of a …
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