1. Introduction: Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Governance for Social Inclusion and Sustainable Development in Latin America -- PART 1. INNOVATION POLICY -- 2. Toward a typology of public innovation. Eccentric, discrete, flat and transformative innovation -- 3. Mission-Oriented...

This edited volume comprises ideas, visions, strategies, and dreams of entrepreneurs, managers, scientists and political experts who share their best practice experience relating to the joint goal of a more sustainable, humanistic, and responsible fashion industry. Readers will find a variety of...

Chapter 1. ESG investment (by Tadahiro Nakajima) -- Chapter 2. Does ESG index have strong conditional correlations with sustainability related stock indices? (by Wenting Zhang, Tadahiro Nakajima, and Shigeyuki Hamori) -- Chapter 3. Measuring Tail dependencies Between ESG and Renewable Energy...

1. A Brief Economic History of Repeated Defaults -- 2. The Institutional Evolution and the Failed Modernizing Attempts -- 3. The Geostrategic Settings, National Resources, and the Systemic Risks -- 4. The Formation of Idiosyncratic Structure of Institutions and Culture -- 5. Sustainable...

Jorge Braga de Macedo as an Economic Historian: The Transition of the Portuguese Economy from the Authoritarian to the Democratic Period (1960-1979) -- Bagehot for “Followers”: How Did the Portuguese Lender of Last Resort Manage the First Post World War I Crisis? -- What’s in a Bond? The...

Introduction: Civil Society in the era of Globalization: emerging concerns as a social welfare provider -- Part I: Changing South Asian Society and Developmental Challenges -- Chapter 1: Role of Civil Society Organization in the Welfare of People with Deaf and blindness in South Asia: A Case...

Part I. Conceptual and Historical Perspectives of Decentralization and Local Governance -- Chapter 1. From Deconcentration to Devolution: Tracking the Historical Trajectory of Democratic Decentralization in Ghana -- Chapter 2. Historical Perspectives of Local Governance and Community Development...

This book introduces the research agenda of relational economics as a political economy for the governance of local and global economic transactions in modern societies. It analyses the mechanisms of global value creation and production networks by studying cooperation in intra- and inter-firm...