This atlas provides a macro-regional overview of the areas that surround the European Union, from the Sahara to the Middle East, Western Balkans to European Russia, Turkey to the Arctic. Detailing key socio-economic data as well as developmental trends, the maps provide a comprehensive...

This book introduces the reader to local development economics and policy, with a special focus on the place-based paradigm that covers its justification, its difficulties and the types of public intervention that it suggests. The starting point for the analysis is that economic development in...

Länderinformationen und wirtschaftlicher Überblick -- Politische und wirtschaftliche Systeme sowie Bildungssysteme im heutigen Frankreich -- Leben und arbeiten in Frankreich -- Kommunikation in der interkulturellen Zusammenarbeit.

Acknowledgements -- The terrible August 2013 -- The start of the Mediterranean crisis -- The world’s economic crisis -- The chickens have come home to roost -- The old and new convergence -- Responding to strategic divergence -- Fossil hydrocarbons and the fragmentation of growth -- The future...

This book investigates the socio-economic impacts of Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific region. The authors put forward a strategy and action plans that can enhance the capacity of government agencies and non-governmental organizations to reduce the negative impacts of climate change. The needs...

1 Introduction -- 2 The development of the modern business corporation in 19th century India: Building the foundations for the emergence of TISCO in the 20th century -- 3 TISCO during the decade of the 1900s: The Formation period -- 4 Initial failure to produce competitive steel, capitalization...

This book offers a dynamic perspective on regional entrepreneurship, knowledge, innovation and economic growth, with a particular focus on the role that history and culture play. The authors provide comprehensive empirical analyses offering unique insights into the spatial patterns of long-term...

This book analyzes the dynamic growth of the U.S. scholarly publishing industry in the United States during 1939-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences. It explains how the key publishing players positioned...

This book traces the emergence and development of the relationship between management consultancies and the British state. It seeks to answer three questions: why were management consultants brought into the machinery of the state; how has state power been impacted by bringing profit-seeking...

This book explores how the distinctive "Quaker" approach to responsible business is based on honesty, truth and integrity. It analyzes how networks, family and succession are at its heart, and how much this approach offers to current debates on corporate social responsibility, as well as to...