This book is the one of the first-if not the first one-to address aid effectiveness from a comparative economics perspective. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transition of its republics to market structures and representative forms of government, the European Commission had...

Foreign aid has connected China and the international community through many channels, and created new types of strong partnerships throughout the world. As a recipient country, China and donors have engaged in an unprecedentedly deep level of cooperation on development-related issues. China’s...

"The ""Two Minds"" noted economist Roger Frantz explores in this landmark book are, first, the analytical mind and, second, the intuitive mind. In part one he presents the leading theories on intuition, discusses recent developments in cognitive science, and borrows from such non-economist...

This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to...

Introduction -- Research Flyover -- Design Science - The Science of the Artificial -- Design Science Research -- Class of Problems and Artifacts -- Proposal for Conducting Researches by using a Design.

This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life and population biology, then...

1. Hosting a Successful Metamodern Party: Mixed Methods Management Research on the Web 2.0+; Anna K. Zarada, George G. Panigyrakis and Eugenia Tzoumaka -- 2. Why Consumer Psychology Needs Neurophilosophy; Paul M. W. Hackett and Gordon R. Foxall -- 3. Emotivity and Ephemera Research; Kip Jones --...

This fully revised 3rd edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management and economics. It brings to students the concept of the maximum principle in continuous and discrete time by using dynamic programming and Kuhn-Tucker theory. While some...

This book deconstructs the case study, describes the case writing process and explains how a good case study is composed. It is a reference book that accompanies case writers on their case writing journey. It serves as a guide for writers to develop case studies for teaching, research, and...