Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 179
Cover Image
The economics of health care in Asia-Pacific countries
Hu, Teh-wei (ed.); Hsieh, Chee-Ruey (ed.) - 2002
In order to control ever-increasing health care expenditure, Western and Asian countries are seeking to develop more efficient health care models. Studies on health care that focus specifically on Asian countries are rare, rendering this a unique and welcome addition to the literature. This book...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474098
Cover Image
Innovation in public sector services : entrepreneurship, creativity and management
Windrum, Paul (contributor); Koch, Per M. (contributor) - 2008
This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852048
Cover Image
Women entrepreneurs across racial lines : issues of human capital, financial capital and network structures
Smith-Hunter, Andrea - 2006
Women entrepreneurs command an increasingly large presence at the international and national levels. A significant part … of this impact is due to growing numbers of minority women becoming entrepreneurs. This volume provides some of the most … comprehensive data to date on the topic of women entrepreneurs across racial lines. It offers a systematic and conceptual framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851641
Cover Image
Market, state, and feminism : the economics of feminist policy
Dawson, Graham; Hatt, Sue; Watson-Brown, Linda; Baxter, … - 2000
market economics can improve the position, status and well-being of women. The authors argue that, far from being restrictive … performance, business attitudes to women, lobbying by women's groups and equal opportunities legislation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473922
Cover Image
The internationalisation of business R&D
Dachs, Bernhard (contributor); Zahradnik, Georg (contributor) - 2014
It has become clear that over the past few decades enterprises not only produce and sell abroad but increasingly also develop goods and services outside their home countries; a development now known as the internationalisation of business R&D. This book presents a comprehensive picture of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851934
Cover Image
The Kennedy-Johnson tax cut : a revisionist history
Prachowny, Martin F. J. - 2000
The 1964 Kennedy-Johnson tax cut is often cited as the single most successful application of Keynesian stabilization policy. The author challenges this orthodox historical view by exposing the haphazard planning, simplistic economic theorizing, irreconcilable numerical projections, and partisan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473869
Cover Image
Climate change, transport, and environmental policy : empirical applications in a federal system
Proost, S. (ed.); Braden, John B. (ed.) - 1998
This important new book presents a state-of-the-art assessment of how economic models can be used by different levels of government to combat environmental problems. It considers policies for climate change and transport that can be used at federal and confederal levels of government. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473914
Cover Image
Does financial deregulation work? : a critique of free market approaches
Coggins, Bruce - 1998
Does Financial Deregulation Work? studies the process of financial deregulation in the United States. It exposes the basic flaws in the deregulationist approach and advances a new framework for effective financial regulation. Bruce Coggins provides a detailed and comprehensive critique of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473978
Cover Image
Reforming healthcare systems
Marmor, Theodore - 2011
Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. -- Lepsius, M. Rainer (1990), Interessen, Ideen und Institutionen, Opladen … and Benefits for the Unemployed and Poor in Europe, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing …-115 -- Uwe E. Reinhardt (1996), 'Spending More Through "Cost Control " Our Obsessive Quest to Gut the Hospital', Health Affairs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420117
Cover Image
Elgar encyclopedia of healthcare management
Lega, Federico (ed.) - 2023
"Management practices within the healthcare sector are shaped by a multitude of professional, social, political and technical factors. This Elgar Encyclopedia of Healthcare Management provides insights and definitions on essential themes that clarify complexity and specificity of leading within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372525