The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy aims to demonstrate exactly how these two important areas have always been linked, and to illustrate the key areas of overlap. The contributors are well-known and distinguished authors from a variety of disciplines, who have been invited both to...

The Handbook on Contingent Valuation is unique in that it focuses on contingent valuation as a method for evaluating environmental change. It examines econometric issues, conceptual underpinnings, implementation issues as well as alternatives to contingent valuation. Anna Alberini and James Kahn...

pt. 1. From Schumpeter's universal social sciences to neo-Schumpeterian thinking -- pt. 2. Neo-Schumpeterian meso dynamics : theory -- pt. 3. Neo-Schumpeterian meso dynamics : empirics -- pt. 4. Neo-Schumpeterian macro dynamics : growth and development -- pt. 5. Neo-Schumpeterian economics and...

pt. I. The micro-foundations of economic organization : extending behavioral assumptions on knowledge, interest, and rationality -- pt. II. The constitution of economic organization between interacting and contracting -- pt. III. The shaping of economic organization between design and evolution...

pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. Energy security issues -- pt. III. Security of energy supply -- pt. IV. Security of energy demand -- pt. V. Energy, the environment and security -- pt. VI. Energy and human security -- pt. VII. Conclusions.

The strategic value of human resource management (HRM) in successful, sustainable competitive advantage is fully acknowledged and yet, until now there has been little in the way of descriptive analytic profiles of countries and markets outside of the US and Europe. Together with volume 1 this...

The Handbook of Islamic Marketing provides state-of-the-art scholarship on the intersection of Islam, consumption and marketing and lays out an agenda for future research. -- The topics covered by eminent contributors from around the world range from fashion and food consumption practices of...

'Given the breadth in the conflict and conflict management literatures, there have been few if any compilations that offered good coverage and quality depth, until now. This work provides both a good and timely review as well as insightful integration and extension of existing conflict research....

In the second edition of the International Handbook on Diversity Management at Work, Alain Klarsfeld and his co-editors have once again brought together an impressive group of authors to provide unique, timely, and valuable information regarding diversity management around the world. This will...

The second edition of this major Handbook provides a thoroughly revised and extensive analysis of the development of corporate governance across a broad range of countries including Australia, China, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey and the UK. Additional...