In this timely Handbook, leading scholars from around the world explore the challenges presented by infrastructure PPPs, and contemplate what lies ahead as governments balance the need to provide innovative new infrastructure against the requirement for good public governance. This Handbook...

The first book to gather cutting-edge research on this complex relationship, Corporate Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage presents conceptual ideas and empirical findings, as well as a valuable review of extant literature and future directions for researchers. At an organizational...

Human beings create knowledge as a result of interaction with others. This book is devoted to the idea that collective knowledge management can be strategically promoted through these interactions in order to enhance a firm's competitiveness. Haruo H. Horaguchi explores a new perspective of...

This comprehensive Handbook provides a survey of all the major research areas in sports economics written by almost all of the active researchers in this field. It offers not only an accessible insight into the major findings of the literature but also presents some of the world's principal...

Techno-entrepreneurship is broadly defined as the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial activities of both existing and nascent companies operating in technology-intensive environments. Boasting rich conceptual and empirical contributions by leading international specialists, this highly original...

In recent years our understanding of corporate sustainability has moved from exploitation to exploration, from corporate environmental management to sustainable entrepreneurship, and from efficiency to innovation. Yet current trends indicate the need for radical innovation via entrepreneurial...

The creative industries represent a vital, exciting and rapidly changing field of activity; one that is now recognised as a key growth sector in the knowledge-based economy. However, there is still a general lack of understanding of what is meant by the term 'creative industry,' and the creative...

1. Introduction -- 2. Economic criteria for water allocation and valuation -- 3. Water as an economic good -- 4. Appraising flood control investments in the UK -- 5. Cost-benefit analysis and flood control policy in the Netherlands -- 6. Cost-benefit analysis of river restoration in Denmark --...

Contents: 1. Research on sport governance: an introduction / Christos Anagnostopoulos and Mathieu Winand -- Part I Principles of good governance in sport -- 2. Assessing sports governance principles and indicators / Jean-Loup Chappelet and Michaël Mrkonjic -- 3. Measuring governance: the sports...

Contents: 1. Why do we need a cultural economics? History and development of the field / Samuel Cameron -- 2. Contemporary challenges to cultural economics / Samuel Cameron -- 3. Individual choice behaviour / Samuel Cameron -- 4. Flexible digital supply behaviour / Christian Peukert -- 5....