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Entrepreneurs and managers are increasingly aware that the environment can be both a threat and an opportunity to their current economic activities. This timely book discusses the question of environmental performance versus corporate practices and finds that environmental considerations can...
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Do environmental regulations harm international competitiveness? In answer to this question, this book focuses on the impact of regulatory policies on competitiveness and employment at the firm level. It investigates the trade-off between environmental regulations and competitiveness across...
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Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, national governments have introduced a range of policy measures designed to steer their economies along a more sustainable path. Yet how are we to know how successful these have been? This significant new book discusses the ways in which sustainable...
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becoming cost-efficient whilst acquiring less polluting technologies, in the face of fierce competition. The authors also … the largest copper producer in the world / Claes Brundenius -- Technological change and the environmental imperative : the …
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Regulating Utilities and Promoting Competition continues the series of annual books, published in association with the … competition policy … -- 4. The competition appeal tribunal : five years on / Christopher Bellamy -- 5. A year under Ofcom / Robin Mason -- 6 …
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Emissions taxes, tradeable emission permits and voluntary compliance policies are becoming the instruments of choice in controlling environmental problems at the national and international level. Careful design of these policies in second-best environments is a very important factor for their...
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The postal and delivery sector has been the subject of considerable interest in recent years. This Handbook brings together a number of contributions directed at understanding developments in the field of postal reform. The authors review the experience and plans of individual countries to...
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pt. 1. Trade liberalization -- pt. 2. Competition -- pt. 3. The World Trade Organization … and competition policy issues arising from trade liberalization …
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facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. The European Commission and member states wrestle with the problem … addresses the impact of electronic competition as well as other problems facing the field …
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This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on regional competition and co-operation. Developing … why do regions compete? How does competition between border regions operate? Which regions are successful and which … regions fail? What are the implications of regional competition in terms of resource allocation, the location of economic …
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