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Transgenerational entrepreneurship : exploring growth and performance in family firms across generations
Nordqvist, Mattias (contributor);  … - 2010
Introducing a new concept in family businesses Transgenerational Entrepreneurship addresses how these businesses achieve growth and longevity through entrepreneurial activities. It focuses on the resources, capabilities and mindsets that families develop and draw upon in order to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850639
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Handbook of sustainable development
Neumayer, Eric (contributor); Atkinson, Giles (contributor);  … - 2007
This timely and important Handbook takes stock of progress made in our understanding of what sustainable development actually is and how it can be achieved. Twenty years on from the publication of the seminal Brundtland Report, it has become clear that formidable challenges confront policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851467
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Population aging and the generational economy : a global perspective
Lee, Ronald - 2011
Over coming decades, changes in population age structure will have profound implications for the macroeconomy, influencing economic growth, generational equity, human capital, saving and investment, and the sustainability of public and private transfer systems. How the future unfolds will depend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851758
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Population aging, intergenerational transfers and the macroeconomy
Clark, Robert Louis (contributor);  … - 2007
Economic and policy implications of population aging / Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa -- Population aging, changing retirement policies and lifetime earnings profiles in Japan / Robert Clark, Naohiro Ogawa, Rikiya Matsukura -- Firm productivity, work-force age and educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420024
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Clusters and globalisation : the development of urban and regional economies
Pitelis, Christos (contributor);  … - 2006
Clusters and Globalisation brings together scholars with different perspectives and theoretical groundings, and from different disciplines, to consider conceptual arguments and case study material. In doing so the volume identifies key characteristics and requirements of the forms of cluster...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851518
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The dynamics of regional development : the Philippines in East Asia
Balisacan, A. M. (ed.); Hill, Hal (ed.) - Asian Development Bank Institute - 2007
extends to comparable experiences in East Asia, particularly China and Indonesia. The lessons of this book are relevant not …
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Incentives to improve education : a new perspective
McMeekin, Robert W. - 2003
Incentives to Improve Education identifies three categories of incentives: rewards, (financial rewards for teachers), competition (educational choice, often in the form of payment for education by voucher) and threats (introduction of external standards and accountability for performance)
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China's new industrialization strategy : was Chairman Mao really necessary?
Kueh, Y. Y. - 2008
-door policy. Deng basically shared Mao's aspirations and approach in pursuit of China's industrialization, and this had in fact …' strategy, only to fail miserably. Taken together, the book tells a new story about the economics of China's transition. This is …pt. I. Economics of Maoism revisited -- pt. 2. Deng Xiaoping in Mao's mantle -- pt. 3. Agriculture in China …
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China's economy in the post-WTO environment : stock markets, FDI and challenges of sustainability
Xu, Lilai (contributor) - 2011
integration of China into the global economy. The main focus of the book is on the role and nature of China's financial system and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850612
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Economic reform in China and India : development experience in a comparative perspective
Chai, C. H. - 2006
India is about to catch up with China and become another Asian miracle economy. Economic Reform in China and India examines …
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