1. Post-Faustmann Forest Resource Economics -- Part one: Human behaviour and forest resource economics -- 2. Are Forest User Groups Rational Economic or Social Agents? Experimental Evidence from India -- 3. Complexity Theory and Forest Resource Economics -- 4. Modeling Forest Sector Structural...

Services from information technology to research to finance are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...

The Decision to Patent with Vertical Product Differentiation -- An Empirical Investigation of the Decision to Patent with Vertical Product Differentiation -- The Decision to Patent with Horizontal Product Differentiation -- An Empirical Investigation of the Decision to Patent with Horizontal...

Discussing the economics of entrepreneurship, this book views that it should establish a framework of analysis that integrates the understanding of the determinants and the effects of entrepreneurship and innovation without neglecting the functioning of the inducement mechanisms. For this...

Identification of Performance Measurement Systems Applied in Polish Enterprises -- The Impact on the Organisational Effects of the Implementation of ERP and Selected Management Methods -- Industry Concentration and Performance: Case of Life Insurance Industry -- Communication Infrastructure and...

What are organizations? What is their point? How should one design successful organizations? Although these questions have been treated by many authors in many different ways, this book offers a new perspective. In a nutshell, the book combines cybernetics, social systems theory and...

The thesis of Kristina Reimer provides a comprehensive analysis of asymmetric cost behavior (also known as cost stickiness) by discussing its origin and development in the theoretical and empirical research from the 1920s of the past century up until today. Further, using an empirical approach,...

This book offers a comprehensive and readable introduction to modern business and data analytics. It is based on the use of Excel, a tool that virtually all students and professionals have access to. The explanations are focused on understanding the techniques and their proper application, and...