The main purpose of this book is to enhance the understanding of differences in productivity performance between countries and sectors and to improve our insight in the drivers of productivity levels and its growth. Due to demographics the speed-up of productivity growth will be of increasing...

Skills are key to a better job and a better life. Yet acquiring them is often most difficult for the people who need them most: those trapped in low-paid jobs with hard working conditions. Innovative experiments throughout OECD member countries show that barriers to skills acquisition can be...

Introduction : about the origin of local innovations / Hubert Heinelt, Björn Egner and Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas -- Why are some cities more innovative than others? : an answer based on an interpretive concept / Hubert Heinelt and Georgios Terizakis -- Athens / Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas --...

Entrepreneurial ecosystems constructed by disadvantaged entrepreneurs often exist beside, within, and in opposition to 'mainstream' ecosystems focused on high growth high technology entrepreneurial ventures. Disadvantaged Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem addresses the lack of...

Diese arbeitsrechtliche Fallsammlung setzt an der Nahtstelle zwischen theoretischem Fachwissen und der praxisorientierten Anwendung an und bietet dem Leser die Möglichkeit, sein Wissen gleichermaßen zu überprüfen und zu vertiefen. Sowohl für Entscheidungsträger in personalrechtlicher...

Fallstudien sind praxisnah und erfreuen sich in der Lehre wachsender Beliebtheit. Dennoch fehlt es gerade im Fach Tourismus noch an branchentypischen Problemstellungen in der Literatur, die fachspezifische Grundlagen vermittelt. Dieses Buch ist eine wahre Fundgrube verschiedenster...