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Fair wages : strengthening corporate social responsibility

Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel - 2010

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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Innovation, agglomeration and regional competition

Johansson, Börje (contributor); … - 2009

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on regional competition and co-operation. Developing our current understanding of the new role of regions and their behaviour, this book addresses questions such as: How and why do regions compete? How does competition between...

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Entrepreneurship, universities & resources : frontiers in European entrepreneurship research

Hytti, Ulla; Blackburn, Robert A.; Fletcher, Denise E.; … - 2016

1. Introduction: Focusing on the Role of Resources and Universities in Entrepreneurship / Ulla Hytti, Robert Blackburn, Denise Fletcher and Friederike Welter -- 2. Exploring Processes and Structures in Social Entrepreneuring: A Practice-Theory Approach / Bengt Johannisson, Jan Alpenberg and Pär...

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Global governance and the role of the EU : assessing the future balance of power

Villafranca, Antonio (contributor); … - 2011

, but with significant variation. This timely book illustrates that although mature economies (the EU in particular) are … global economic governance after the crisis and, in this context, addresses the role of the EU and its economic prospects for …pt. 1. Heading to 2020 : a new world economic governance? -- pt. 2. Carving out a place for the EU …

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Monetary integration and dollarization : no panacea

Vernengo, Matias (contributor) - 2005

This book deals with the economic consequences of monetary integration, which has long been dominated by the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) paradigm. In this model, money is perceived as having developed from a private sector cost minimization process to facilitate transactions. Not surprisingly,...

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Trade and environment : theory and policy in the context of EU enlargement and transition economic

Maxwell, John W. (contributor); Reuveny, Rafael (contributor) - 2005

particular emphasis on the process of EU enlargement … -- pt. 3. Environmental policy concerns in the context of EU enlargement -- pt. 4. Economic and environmental policies in …

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The dynamics of full employment : social integration through transitional labour markets

Gazier, Bernard (contributor); Schmid, Günther (contributor) - 2002

Persistent unemployment is recognised as one of the main mechanisms of social and political exclusion. The Dynamics of Full Employment provides a new and fresh approach to the question of full employment in contemporary society. It offers an internationally comparative, interdisciplinary...

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Institutions, innovation and growth : selected economic papers

Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - 2003

The first book in this important new series, under the general editorship of Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, Institutions, Innovation and Growth assembles a stellar cast of international contributors. Leading economists join the debate on innovation and economic growth, focussing on a broad...

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Currency and competitiveness in Europe

Liebscher, Klaus (contributor) - 2008

This book combines currency matters with competitiveness considerations, with a view to raising the understanding of exchange rate dynamics and to analysing the role of exchange rates in reinforcing economic competitiveness

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Euro-Pacific investment and trade : strategies and structural interdependencies

Boyd, Gavin (ed.); Rugman, Alan M. (ed.) - 1997

This important book - written by leading scholars in international business - critically reviews the activities of European and Pacific international firms. Transformations of markets and national economic systems associated with the activities of these corporations are posing many issues of...

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