This open access book explores the role of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in building global social governance from multiple and mutually complementary perspectives. It explores the impact of this UN´s oldest agency, founded in 1919, on the transforming world of work in a global...

This book offers deep insights into the functioning of humanitarian organizations (HOs) from a managerial perspective. Presenting an in-depth case study on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), it demonstrates how HOs can professionalize the management of their operations by...

1. A roadmap to economic violations of sport rules and the law -- 2. Sport manipulations: breaching the sport rules to gain advantage -- 3. Economic dysfunctions of sport: violating managerial rules and the law -- 4. Economic distortions: infringing human rights in sport -- 5. Conclusion

1. From Small is Beautiful to The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Management “as if people mattered” -- 2. A Paradigm Shift in Management Philosophy: Future Challenges in Global Organizations -- 3. 21st Century Global Human Resource Management; Strategic Business Partner and Servant...

Introduction -- Energy Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: General Context -- Risk Analysis and Mitigation Strategy Identification -- Public Policies and Initiatives in the Energy Sector -- Direct and Indirect Investments in the Energy Sector -- Capital Markets for the Financing of Clean Energy Access...

1. NATO at 70: Achievements -- 2. The need for NATO? -- 3. Burden Sharing -- 4. NATO: An Economics, Politics and Public choice analysis -- 5. NATO and Europe: Improving Efficiency -- 6. Future Challenges.

International Leadership: Effecting Success Across Borders in a Boundaryless World -- Enacting Opportunities Across Borders -- Early and Rapid or Late and Slow? -- Cooperation with Distributors in Arabic-Speaking Countries -- The Curious Case of Leadership in International Branch Campuses in...

Chapter 1: The socio-economic impact of cultural heritage: setting the scene -- Part 1: From cultural heritage to local development: the role of tourism -- Chapter 2: Cultural heritage, tourism and economic development in the existing literature and beyond -- Chapter 3: From cultural heritage to...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Ideological Trick of Climate Change and Sustainability -- 3. Words Count: the Role of Language in Overcoming Climate Inertia -- 4. Measuring Complex Socio-Economic Phenomena. Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- 5. Glaciers: Vanishing Elements of our Mountains and...

Part 1: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Human Resources Management -- A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing Employee Ecological Behavior 0f Academics in Higher Education -- Leadership in Various Project Management Methodologies -- Part 2: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Management -- Impact...