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Globalization and Marketization in Education

Mok, Ka-Ho; Tan, Jason - Edward Elgar

Globalization has effected tremendous change to the character and functions of education worldwide. This unique book … tide of marketization in shaping and developing their education policies. The authors discuss the way in which increasingly … management of education in these two Asian economies. They aim to identify and examine the crucial socio-historical, socio …

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Governing Universities Globally

King, Roger - Edward Elgar

will be invaluable to higher education researchers and students, and to public policy academics, students and practitioners …

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Leadership and Cooperation in Academia

Sugden, Roger (contributor); Valania, Marcela (contributor); … - Edward Elgar

. Similarly, policymakers and higher education commentators need the space and stimulus to reflect on the role of universities …

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Innovation in Public Sector Services

Windrum, Paul (contributor); Koch, Per (contributor) - Edward Elgar

This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains...

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Improving Irrigation in Asia

Ostrom, Elinor; Lam, Wai Fung; Pradhan, Prachanda; … - Edward Elgar

Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of interventions, and explicates lessons for resource management and...

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Globalization in the Asian Region

Davies, Gloria (contributor); Nyland, Chris (contributor) - Edward Elgar

Bringing together contributors from both the university sector and business-centered research institutions, this comprehensive volume offers diverse perspectives on the impacts and consequences of globalization in different parts of the Asian region.

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Fair Wages

Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel - Edward Elgar

Over the last decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has contributed towards better corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and basic human rights violations. However, as the author argues in this important new book, the time has now come to...

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Shareholding System Reform in China

Ma, Shu-Yun - Edward Elgar

Since the 1980s, there has been a global wave of transfer of state assets to private hands. China is a relatively late participant of this worldwide trend, yet, in the last decade it has emerged as one of the largest privatizing countries. Shu-Yun Ma argues that China’s privatization is not...

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Modern State Intervention in the Era of Globalisation

Karagiannis, Nikolaos; Madjd-Sadjadi, Zagros - Edward Elgar

The authors of this book argue that in order to meet the challenges of globalisation and promote their own economic welfare, governments need strong policy instruments that will enable them to take up a strategic role in selected policy arenas. They illustrate how this retooling of policymaking...

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The Dark Side of Globalization

Buckley, Peter J. (contributor); … - Edward Elgar

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