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"Our Elgar Concise Introductions are inspiring and considered. They explain the key principles in business and are expertly written by some of the world's leading scholars. The aims of the series are two-fold: to pinpoint essential concepts of business and management, and to offer insights that...
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Recommended readings (Machine generated): Kenneth J. Arrow (1962), 'Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention', in Richard R. Nelson (ed.), The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors, Chapter 23, Princeton, New Jersey, USA: Princeton University...
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There is great discussion but little consensus on the best measures of organizational performance. This book redresses this imbalance. Measuring Organizational Performance offers a framework with which to better understand the implications of selecting variables for use in both empirical studies...
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This book develops and illustrates a comprehensive, multi-level framework for the evaluation of industrial R&D activities and the measurement of their performances. The framework encompasses a set of hierarchical, interrelated levels at which R&D evaluation and performance measurement could be...
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It has long been recognized that R&D plays a key role in the global battle for technological leadership. However, due to intense competition and rivals' imitations, firms are not always able to reap rewards from their innovations. Mario Kafouros theoretically and empirically examines the impacts...
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"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...
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accounting and investment management which have been published over the past half century. The first volume investigates the role …Recommended readings (Machine generated): Howard C. Greer (1964), 'The Corporation Stockholder - Accounting's Forgotten … Man', Accounting Review, 39 (1), January, 22-31 -- Ray Ball and Philip Brown (1968), 'An Empirical Evaluation of …
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accounting. Including more than thirty articles by some of the most important authors in the area, the book covers six major … themes: the conceptual framework, accounting ethics and social responsibility, corporate reporting, accounting practice and … zakat, auditing and the Islamic history of accounting. Following the rapid growth of the Islamic financial system this book …
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"This Research Handbook focuses on the collective ethical issues facing the accounting profession, as well as the users … of services provided by accountants today. Providing an overview of contemporary accounting and ethics issues around the … world, the Research Handbook on Accounting and Ethics discusses the ethical considerations involved in each of the major …
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Preface -- 1. Accounting and sustainability: An Introduction / Carol A. Adams -- Part I: Setting the scene: Accounting …, differences and possibilities / Stuart Cooper and Giovanna Michelon -- 5. Capital market perspectives on sustainability accounting … Mäkelä and Charles H. Cho -- Part II: Accounting, power, social (in)justice and (un)sustainability -- 7. Accounting for …
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