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Getting women on to corporate boards : a snowball starting in Norway

Machold, Silke (contributor) - 2013

Human Rights and Former Prime Minister of Norway (1997--2000 and 2001--2005). 'This book provides significant and important …-based reflections about gender balance in the boardroom, from Norway and beyond, help further the dialogue on this important business … get women on to corporate boards gained international momentum from its origins in Norway. Invaluable insights are gained …

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Creating resilient economies : entrepreneurship, growth and development in uncertain times

Vorley, Tim (contributor); Williams, Nick (contributor) - 2017

Contents: 1. Introduction / Nick Williams and Tim Vorley -- Part I : The resilience of entrepreneurs, industrial sectors and cities -- 2. Strategies for resilience in entrepreneurship: building resources for small business survival after a crisis / Rachel Doern -- 3. The resilience of...

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Entrepreneurship, cooperation and the firm : the emergence and survival of high-technology ventures in Europe

Ulijn, J. M. (contributor); Drillon, Dominique (contributor) - 2007

Pt. 1. The role of the individual versus that of the institution -- Pt. 2. The econo-geographic aspects of emergence, cooperation and survival -- Pt. 3. The cultural levels of nation, gender, profession, sector and region in emergence, cooperation and survival.

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Productivity in Asia : economic growth and competitiveness

Jorgenson, Dale Weldeau (contributor); … - 2007

1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The sources of growth of US industries -- 4. Total factor productivity growth in Chinese industries, 1981-2000 -- 5. Growth accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial...

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New directions in economic geography

Fingleton, Bernard (contributor) - 2007

New economic geography : some preliminaries / Bernard Fingleton -- Models of 'new economic geography' : factor mobility vs. vertical linkages / Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano -- Testing the 'new economic geography' : a comparative analysis based on EU regional data / Bernard Fingleton -- From theory...

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Environment and industry in developing countries : assessing the adoption of environmentally sound technology

Luken, Ralph Andrew - 2007

1. Introduction -- 2. Decoupling of environmental pressure from industrial growth, 1990-2002 -- 3. Heuristic model of EST adoption -- 4. Brazil -- 5. China -- 6. India -- 7. Kenya -- 8. Thailand -- 9. Tunisia -- 10. Viet Nam -- 11. Zimbabwe -- 13. Eight-country assessment of factors influencing...

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Failing to compete : technology development and technology systems in Africa

Lall, Sanjaya - 2002

1. Competitiveness and national technology systems : an introduction -- 2. The relative competitive and technological performance of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 3. Kenya -- 4. Tanzania -- 5. Uganda -- 6. Ghana -- 7. Zimbabwe.

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Corporate social responsibility in Europe : rhetoric and realities

Barth, Regine (contributor); Wolff, Franziska (contributor) - 2009

The acid test of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is simply this: does it lead to positive impacts on society and the environment or is it just rhetoric? And if it does lead to positive impacts, how can these be enhanced? This timely book tackles this cutting-edge challenge by presenting...

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Entrepreneurial growth in industrial districts : four Italian cases

Alberti, Fernando G. (contributor) - 2008

Entrepreneurial Growth in Industrial Districts illustrates that Industrial Districts (ID) have dramatically changed over the past three decades; the Marshallian notion of a cluster of small firms has been vastly transformed by the emergence of rapidly growing firms

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Narratives of organisational change and learning : making sense of testing times

Reissner, Stefanie - 2008

Narratives of Organisational Change and Learning explores how organisations learn from profound change and create new futures through the narrative process of sense-making. Stefanie Reissner investigates change and learning through the comparative and contextual analysis of organisational...

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