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What is the role of international business in this dilemma? How and why do international corporations maximize value beyond core strategy and partners through corporate responsibility? This informative and accessible resource expands the readers' understanding of the ways in which profit...
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Ethics, social responsibility, leadership, governance. These terms are heard in the classroom, in the boardroom, and viewed on the front page of newspapers and magazines. Yet serious attention to the relationships among these concepts is lacking. Although commitments to leadership, ethics, and...
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This book adds a multi-disciplinary organizational perspective to the theoretical analysis of political accountability and argues for a broadening of the conventional understanding of the concepts of responsibility and accountability
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Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China addresses how knowledge transfer and innovation are interwoven within complex networks and how social capital contributes to the acquisition of crucial resources and business success in multi-type enterprises in China. The book explains how...
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"Presenting an in-depth look at cutting-edge research, this essential Research Handbook develops the current understanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its implications on an international scale. Including contributions from leading academics, highly-informed practitioners, and...
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Recommended readings (Machine generated): George V. Thompson (1954), 'Intercompany, Technical Standardization in the …), 'Standardization, Compatibility and Innovation,' Rand Journal of Economics, 16 (1), Spring, 70-83 -- Paul A. David and Shane Greenstein … Standardization', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8 (2), Spring, 117-31 -- Mark A. Lemley (2002), 'Intellectual Property Rights and …
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CE Marking, the European system of mandatory product safety standards, has created major obstacles for US exporters to the European Union (EU). CE Marking, Product Standards and World Trade is one of the first books to analyze the nature and dynamics of this major non-tariff trade barrier. David...
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economic impacts of standardization both in the manufacturing and the service sector. The author begins by providing a detailed … standardization process, the author focuses in particular on the role of the firm, which acts as the main impetus for the development … and implementation of new standards. He also examines the fundamental link between technical change and standardization …
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This insightful book discusses the use of Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) for transport policy options from an ethical perspective. Each detailed chapter deals with issues such as: the use and ethical aspects of CBA in transport, social exclusion, the environment and long term sustainability,...
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The Handbook of Economics and Ethics portrays an understanding of economic methodology in which facts and values, though distinct, are closely interconnected in a variety of ways. From theory building to data collection, and from modelling to policy evaluation, this encyclopaedic Handbook is at...
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