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This timely book offers a fresh view on how oceans and coasts are, and should be, managed. The urgency of this issue is increasingly being recognized, as critical limits to the economic exploitation of our oceans and coasts are reached. The authors argue that ecological economics is in a unique...
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Elizabeth H. Petersen argues that economists and other social scientists are increasingly focusing their attention towards institutions (defined as humanly-devised rules) as critical determinants of economic, social and political growth and development. Institutions responsible for the...
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Terrorism : considering new policies / Bruno S. Frey and Simon Luechinger -- An empirical analysis of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) / Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan -- Airport security : time for a new model / Robert W. Poole, Jr. -- Cost-effective strategies to address...
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This important book, a successor volume to European Industries, brings together a number of in-depth and authoritative studies of key European industries, providing fascinating insights into their nature and characteristics
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the processes of innovation found in industrial clusters. The authors focus particularly on the characteristics of innovation clusters and their operation in the food industry. This is revealed through novel case studies, detailed research on the...
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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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accounting and investment management which have been published over the past half century. The first volume investigates the role …Recommended readings (Machine generated): Howard C. Greer (1964), 'The Corporation Stockholder - Accounting's Forgotten … Man', Accounting Review, 39 (1), January, 22-31 -- Ray Ball and Philip Brown (1968), 'An Empirical Evaluation of …
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accounting. Including more than thirty articles by some of the most important authors in the area, the book covers six major … themes: the conceptual framework, accounting ethics and social responsibility, corporate reporting, accounting practice and … zakat, auditing and the Islamic history of accounting. Following the rapid growth of the Islamic financial system this book …
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"This Research Handbook focuses on the collective ethical issues facing the accounting profession, as well as the users … of services provided by accountants today. Providing an overview of contemporary accounting and ethics issues around the … world, the Research Handbook on Accounting and Ethics discusses the ethical considerations involved in each of the major …
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Preface -- 1. Accounting and sustainability: An Introduction / Carol A. Adams -- Part I: Setting the scene: Accounting …, differences and possibilities / Stuart Cooper and Giovanna Michelon -- 5. Capital market perspectives on sustainability accounting … Mäkelä and Charles H. Cho -- Part II: Accounting, power, social (in)justice and (un)sustainability -- 7. Accounting for …
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