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"Covering pertinent areas of sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) this forward-looking book examines SRI in … investment strategies and philosophies that attempt to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns into … investment decision-making. In turn it provides an in-depth review of a number of different motivations for SRI, including …
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difficult. This book attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between investment, knowledge spillovers and … empirical evidence regarding the spatial dimension of investment, entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers, and features both …-country investment. Innovative methodologies and unique new models are then used to provide lessons and policy implications for economic …
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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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This book explores whether foreign direct investment (FDI) can contribute to the competitiveness of industries in … economy. Using exhaustive empirical data, the authors demonstrate that foreign investment enterprises in Central Europe have … order to maintain the country's position as a frequented investment target. However, the analysis in this book suggests that …
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Potential new entrants to the European Union from Central and Eastern European countries face many challenges to achieve financial convergence with the existing EU nations. Using detailed case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and analysis of cross country...
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In this innovative book, international scholars investigate trust and its role in relation to the entrepreneurial behaviour of small firms across a variety of institutional and cultural settings. The contributors draw on original empirical material from a number of West European and East...
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This unique book develops two different but related research agendas: the study of the spread of 'neoliberalism' - as seen from the perspective of Eastern European post-communist evolutions; and the study of Eastern European transition - as seen from an ideas-centred perspective. It challenges a...
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The debate about how best to manage the interplay between trade, industrialization and the impacts of both on the global environment continues to rage, particularly in the context of the introduction and ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. This book deals with a number of important issues...
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This book brings together ten original studies on the transition and growth experience and the foundations for long-term growth of the newly independent states created by the dissolution of the Soviet Union
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The essays in this volume describe, analyse and compare the achievements and the failures of societies that adopted market-based economies within a democratic polity after a long period of communist rule (Russia and Eastern Europe) or military authoritarianism (Latin America). Together, they...
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