1 Introduction -- 2 Early Globalization: Arguments and Evidence -- 3 Harbingers of Modernity: an Iberian perspective -- 4 Silver production, prices and globalization in the eighteenth century -- 5 The Austrian mining industry and the Iberian globalization -- 6 The Manila Galleon and the Age of...

1. Introduction to sustainable agriculture and agribusiness in Iran -- 2. Agricultural Risk Management Through Weather-based Insurance in Iran -- 3. Determining Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) for Food Industry Companies’ Stocks Portfolios in the Tehran Stock Market -- 4. Assessing Climate...

The gambling industry’s corporate structure in a partially liberalised market -- State-owned gambling operation in global competitive environment -- The establishment and strategies of gambling providers in French-speaking Africa: the case of Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) -- Where does the gambling...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: MNEs and Multinational Corporate Governance -- Chapter 3: Theoretical Framework for Multinational Corporate Governance -- Chapter 4: Multinational Corporate Governance – A Network Governance Framework -- Chapter 5: Foreign Subsidiary Governance -- Chapter...

Part I The modern experience of fighting climate change based on the opportunities of Industry 4.0 -- Chapter 1 Industry 4.0 as the basis of fighting climate change in developed countries -- Chapter 2 Developing countries on the path to sustainable development: technological provision of...

1. CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Activities and Impact on Firm Value: The Case of Technology Company Group -- 2. Financial determinants of development in the process of gmina management in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland -- 3. Objective assumptions for the Monte Carlo simulation when...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: An Agricultural Household Model with Tariffs -- Chapter 3: Data and Estimation -- Chapter 4: Income Gains and Inequality Costs -- Chapter 5: The Trade-Off -- Chapter 6: Alternative Models -- Chapter 7: HIT: Household Impacts of Trade -- Chapter 8:...

Convergence to the Centre -- Financial Markets: Banks Capital Markets -- Firm Size, Productivity, EU-Funds and Corruption -- Labour Markets: Structural Characteristics and the Impact of Two Crises -- Transport and Mobility -- Monetary, Macroprudential, and Fiscal Policy -- Green Economy: Energy,...

1. Introduction -- 2. Exploring the reasons behind the adoption of international norms -- 3. Closing the implementation gap with Transnational Experience and Expertise Networks -- 4. Local Content policies: aiding or harming internationalization? -- 5. The international norm on world-class...

Part I: Climate Change challenge, CSR, ESG issues: the state of the art -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapater 2: Self-consciousness and awareness as adaptation enablers -- Chapter 3: Climate change challenges and the policy makers initial response -- Chapter 4: SRI, ESG and Value of...