Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development

"Exploring the process of university collaboration from the perspective of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this book offers an in-depth examination of the collaboration process, dispelling the myth of the disengagement of these firms. Andrew Johnston and Robert Huggins present a...

1. Introduction -- 2. Internal influences on women entrepreneurs -- 3. External influences on women entrepreneurs -- 4. Coaching as a technique for development -- 5. The potential of coaching for women entrepreneurs -- 6. Delivering the tailored e-coaching (TEC) programme -- 7. The impact of the...

Ronald H. Coase, one of the most innovative and provocative economists of the twentieth century, has had a lasting influence in economics, law and economics, organization theory, management and political science. In this comprehensive Companion, 31 leading economists, social scientists and legal...

Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Managing academics -- 1. Managing academics -- 2. Academic work and identity -- 3. A question of perspective -- Part II: Key perspectives -- 4. Managerialism -- 5. Professionalism -- 6. Quality of worklife -- 7. Prosocial identity -- Part III: Perspective taking...

Introduction -- Ethics : the sources of Keynes's vision -- Knowledge : uncertainty, probabilities and the moral sciences -- politics : beyond liberalism and socialism -- War and peace : from the Boer War to Versailles -- Money : economic motor and social pathology -- Labour : the battle against...

Introduction : aims of the book -- The emergent knowledge economy : concepts and evidence -- Knowledge-based sectors : key drivers of innovation and models of knowledge exchange -- Local clusters and global networks -- Varieties of business system and innovation -- Introduction to key research...

Introduction -- Shifting from coal to oil : what price security? -- The European coal and steel community -- Moving the margin to the centre : pricing electricity -- Electricity investment : rewarding the past, discounting the future -- Deregulation, privatisation and liberalisation -- Conclusion.

1. Introduction : the world economy in historical perspective -- 2. Economic growth and development : a very long-run view -- 3. Growth theories : old and new -- 4. Managing aggregate economic instability : from Keynes to Lucas -- 5. International economic integration in the Second Global Age.