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...

The aging and migration megatrends and their impact on spatial - regional and local - labor market performance is the core theme of this book, and thus together define its scope and focus. The contributions provide an overview of key aging and migration issues in various countries together with...

Unternehmen sehen sich heute mit neuen Herausforderungen und Veränderungen durch die großen Trends der Digitalisierung, des demografischen Wandels, des Wertewandels und der Internationalisierung konfrontiert. Auswirkungen sind zum Beispiel Fachkräfteengpässe, vielfältige Belegschaften und...

GfK und Serviceplan haben die Flops und Tops von über 1.000 Marken analysiert und daraus empirische Handlungsempfehlungen für Wachstumsstrategien der Zukunft entwickelt. „Endlich wieder ein wichtiges, ein notwendiges Buch. Eines, das konkret aufzeigt, wie Marketing geht. Und wie nicht. Mit...

Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some published but not readily...

Evelina Sander rekonstruiert den Demographie-Diskurs in Deutschland. mit Blick auf das Personalfeld und setzt dabei den Schwerpunkt auf die Periode nach der Jahrtausendwende. In ihrer auf der Wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse basierenden Untersuchung geht die Autorin folgenden Fragen nach:...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Industrial crop production -- Chapter 3. Measurement of Performance and Review of the Literature -- Chapter 4. Parametric and Non-Parametric Models for Efficiency Measurement -- Chapter 5. Models Applied to Iran’s Cotton and Sugar Beet Production --...

This volume explores Iran’s industrial and trade policy options for achieving sustainable, export-oriented, and pro-employment growth. The first part of the book discusses Iran’s economic and industrial development performance, as well as strategies for enhancing capabilities, fostering...

This book depicts the role of both formal and informal institutions in achieving long-term economic efficiency and development. It is organized into three sections: the first section deals with the historical and political roots that make institutions favorable to development; the second section...

This book focuses on Iran to explore the question of how the nature of industrial organizations and the whole system they constitute can exert a great influence on an industry’s competitiveness and resilience. The author examines what happens if firms and companies participating in the...