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International business under adversity : a role in corporate responsibility, conflict prevention, and peace

Suder, Gabriele G. S. (contributor) - 2008

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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Modern cost-benefit analysis of hydropower conflicts

Kriström, Bengt (ed.); Johansson, Per-Olov (ed.) - 2011

This important book sheds light on the ways in which modern tools of welfare economics can be used to assess the benefits and costs of resource conflicts involving hydropower. The chapters highlight key methodological issues in this area; ranging from the intersection between cost-benefit analysis...

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Good governance in the 21st century : conflict, institutional change, and development in the era of globalization

Ahrens, Joachim (ed.); Caspers, Rolf (ed.); … - 2011

This book explores the interdependences of economic globalization, political tensions, and national policymaking whilst analysing opportunities for governance reform at both national and international levels. It considers how governance mechanisms can be fashioned in order to both exploit the...

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Handbook on the economics of conflict

Braddon, Derek L. (ed.); Hartley, Keith (ed.) - 2011

The Handbook on the Economics of Conflict conveys how economics can contribute to the understanding of conflict in its … various dimensions embracing world wars, regional conflicts, terrorism and the role of peacekeeping in conflict prevention …. The economics of conflict is a relatively new branch of the discipline of economics. Conflict provides opportunities for …

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Handbook of research on entrepreneurship and creativity

Sternberg, Rolf G. (ed.); Krauss, Gerhard (ed.) - 2014

This Handbook focuses on the interdependent relationship between entrepreneurship and creativity. This relationship is …, psychology, and also in different spatial contexts. Creativity and entrepreneurship are central concepts for understanding the … introduction to the role of creativity in the field of entrepreneurship, and vice versa. This Handbook assembles some of the …

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Creative knowledge environments : the influences on creativity in research and innovation

Martin, Ben R. (contributor); … - 2004

, we currently know little about the conditions for stimulating creativity in relation to research and innovative activity …

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Handbook of research on creativity

Thomas, Kerry (ed.); Chan, Janet B. L. (ed.) - 2013

pt. I. Research on creativity -- pt. II. Ways of conceptualising and assessing creativity -- pt. III. The creative … process -- pt. IV. Practices of creativity -- pt. V. Conditions for creativity -- pt. VI. Leading/managing creativity. … human innovation, contributing to a developing sociocultural approach to the study of creativity. These chapters directly …

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Entrepreneurship and the creative economy : process, practice and policy

Henry, Colette (ed.); De Bruin, Anne (ed.) - 2011

Entrepreneurship and the Creative Economy contains a range of theoretical and empirically based research contributions that collectively consider and debate the process, policy and practice of the creative economy. -- The ‘creative economy’ and the broad spectrum of creative industries that...

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Diversity in the knowledge economy and society : heterogeneity, innovation and entrepreneurship

Kaloudis, Aris (contributor); … - 2008

The key message of this book is that heterogeneity should be seen as an intrinsic and indispensable element of knowledge systems. The authors address the concept of heterogeneity in a multi-disciplinary fashion, including perspectives from evolutionary economics and innovation system studies,...

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Creative knowledge cities : myths, visions and realities

Geenhuizen, Marina S. van (ed.); Nijkamp, Peter (ed.) - 2012

This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. The authors provide a critical...

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