This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of...

Empirical Overview and Theoretical Perspectives -- Politics and Power in Emerging Market Multinationals -- Sustainability and Emerging Market Multinationals -- Changing Global Labor Conditions -- Regional Expansion Strategies to Europe -- Conclusions

Subsistence Entrepreneurship: The Role of Collaborative Innovation, Sustainability and Social Goals -- Firm Founder's Passivity as a Source of Serendipitous Opportunity Discovery -- Commonomics: Rhetoric and Reality of the African Growth Tragedy -- Entrepreneurship in the Solidarity Economy: A...

This book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries. By balancing external social and environmental costs against its corresponding benefits, the book demonstrates that MNEs can have a...

Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...

Chapter 1: Promoting Environmentally Friendly Behaviours in Emerging Markets: An Urgent Need (Nguyen) -- Chapter 2: The Green Consumers in Emerging Markets: Who are They? (Yadav) -- Chapter 3: Green Food Consumption in China (Dang) -- Chapter 4: Key Determinants of Green Purchase Behaviour in...

The book reflects on how intelligent urban regeneration can be an extraordinary driver of sustainable social and economic progress. It provides a friendly, evergreen and flexible thinking methodology that can serve as a reference guide to address a wide range of initiatives creating the...

1 Introduction: The Project Abandonment Problem -- References -- 2 What We Know About the Management of Very Large Projects -- 2.1 Project Success Factors as Lists -- 2.2 The Project Success Frameworks of Miller and Lessard and Morris and Hough -- 2.2.1 Miller and Lessard (2000) -- 2.2.2 Morris...

1. Traditional and Contemporary Notions of Marketing Communications -- 2. Power Shift: Analyzing the Changing Role of Public Relations in the Mar-keting Mix -- 3. Marketing Communication Planning for SMEs in Emerging Markets -- 4. Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives: A...

Section 1: Economics and Finance -- Chapter 1: The Political Economy of Financial Development: A Review -- Chapter 2: Grievance Redressal in the Indian Financial Regulatory Space - The Unified Approach -- Chapter 3: Role of Intermediaries in Providing Financial Access: Current and Future...