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The impact of technical change on employment is investigated in this important new book which offers a critical appraisal of how far current economic analysis and theory can deal with this key policy issue. The Economics of Technology and Employment addresses the impact of technical change on...
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An entrepreneur who decides to found a firm and to hire employees has to tackle two central problems: their employees' coordination and motivation. Drawing on findings from cognitive, social and organizational psychology, this book sheds new light on the relevance of bounded rationality and...
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Entrepreneurial cognition research is at a crossroads, where static views give way to dynamic approaches. This Handbook … draws on a variety of perspectives from experts in the field of entrepreneurial cognition to highlight the key elements in a … socially-situated view, where cognition is action-oriented, embodied, socially-situated, and distributed. It provides readers …
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1. Purpose, scope, concepts and positioning -- 2. Embodied cognition -- 3. Organizational focus -- 4. Organization …
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, the demand for children, inter-generational relationships, and the economics of inheritance. The family is analysed using …1. Economists and the family -- 2. The family as an economic unit -- 3. Marriage(I) -- 4. Marriage (II) -- 5. Children …This comprehensive and authoritative book offers a global approach to the modern economics of the family, family law …
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traditional family pattern in Europe is being challenged by the growing number of dual-income families, and by the rise of women … compatible with the need, increasingly expressed by employees, for greater integration between work and family life. The book …
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Machine generated contents note: 1 Technology and entrepreneurship 1 -- 2 Knowledge, innovation and firm size 24 -- 3 Local geographic spillovers 44 -- 4 Sectoral characteristics 63 -- 5 Innovation of entrepreneurial firms 74 -- 6 Capital structure, innovation and firm size 98 -- 7 Employment...
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The question of why citizens pay their taxes has attracted increased attention in the tax compliance literature of late. In this book, Benno Torgler considers the evidence that suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance within society. To attempt to...
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This book was born from the editor's conviction that a wide set of contributors should provide the economic and corporate sectors with guidelines, developed from rigorous research and case studies, to analyse those adjustments made necessary through international terrorism, as known since...
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This is the second of two volumes of case studies that illustrate how environmental economists place values on environmental assets and on the flows of goods and services generated by those assets. This important book assembles studies that discuss broad areas of application of economic...
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