Nach welchen Kriterien sollte die Führung von Gruppen legitimiert sein? Sollte man eine demokratische Wahl durchführen, per Dekret bestimmen, wer die Führung einer Gruppe übernehmen soll, dies einem Rotationsprinzip überlassen oder gänzlich auf eine formal festgelegte Führerrolle...

As the international behaviour of firms changes, so too must the theories used to describe, explain and predict that behaviour change. This volume is conceived as an exploration of the evolving nature of internationalization in the context of shifting environmental forces in an effort to:...

This book addresses the need to move international advertising in new directions by summarizing existing knowledge in several areas, reporting findings of new studies, and providing future research directions. It is aimed both at scholars who have an interest in international advertising...

Public health has, for many years, been concerned with efforts to increase the efficiency of health care delivery, to measure changes in health care resource utilization and associated costs, and to link these changes to different types of interventions. These efforts, as well as collaboration...

Entrepreneurship is recognized as critical for the growth of both individual firms and overall economies. Entrepreneurship fosters the introduction of new products, processes and organizations. It provides the flexibility and dynamism required for responding to new market opportunities and...

This volume brings together a set of studies analyzing different aspects of food and agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This sector is of crucial importance to the MENA economies, especially in terms of employment. Agriculture is particularly important for the poor, both on...

Transactions often differ on important dimensions from spot exchanges on perfect neo-classical markets. Information is seldom complete and instantaneous exchange is just as rare as full competition. The authors in this volume extend the standard economic model stressing the proposition that the...

This work brings together empirical research and thematic commentaries which chart out research directions for politically-inflected studies of organizational and institutional change. The chapters give practical voice to the theoretical questions and research designs of an emerging agenda for...