Chapter 1. Introduction: Governance, Rent-seeking and Upgrading in Global Value Chains -- Part I: Interdisciplinary Theoretical Contributions – Framing The Debate -- Chapter 2. Contemporary Globalization and Value Systems: What Gains for Developing Countries? -- Chapter 3. Global Value Chains...

Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- Research Design and Methodology -- Case Descriptions of the studied Communities of Practice -- CoPs as Enabler of Organizational Knowledge Creation -- CoPs as Loci of Collective Lead Userness -- CoPs as an Enhancement of Organizations’ Innovative...

“This book sets out not only to understand Public Service Motivation, but to find its place among other more traditional organisational research topics. In doing so, Homberg and Costello show that PSM is no longer in its infancy and can be successfully employed to tackle issues beyond public...

This book responds to key issues in strategic management control beyond the numbers. Grounded in research but written with practitioners and students in mind, this second volume addresses the most up-to-date management control issues in the public sector, forecasting, budgeting and controls in...

Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and enduring poverty....

1. Employment Relations in Outsourced Public Services: Working Between Market and State -- Part I. The Case of Italy -- 2. Public Services under Austerity: Structure of the Public Sector and Drivers of Outsourcing -- 3. State-controlled Dualisation between Public and Private Employment:...

Chapter 1: The international context of corporate digital security -- Chapter 2: National frameworks for the implementation of digital security -- Chapter 3: The complexity of digital technology makes it difficult for enterprises to conceive of its security -- Chapter 4: Intense inter-state...

1. Introduction -- 2. The What, How, and Why of Bottom-up Rebuilding and Recovery after Natural Disasters -- 3. Nonviolent Action -- 4. The Private Sector's Contribution to Natural Disaster Response -- 5. Formation of Public-Private Partnerships by Local Emergency Managers -- 6. Children Take...