What effect did the Great Recession have on national innovation? Did countries with high GDPs and GDPs per capita sustain efficient innovation? How did the recession affect the time lag between innovation development and implementation? This book presents the most comprehensive data set in...

This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty alleviation experience, and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal logic and core elements of China's poverty...

This brief presents a detailed look at the entrepreneurial ecosystem of nations around the wold by combining individual data with institutional components. Presenting data from the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), which measures the quality and scale of entrepreneurial...

This brief captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship by measuring entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities, and aspirations at both the individual- and country-level. Featuring data from the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), which measures the quality and scale of...

This book investigates the existence of stochastic and deterministic convergence of real output per worker and the sources of output (physical capital per worker, human capital per worker, total factor productivity -TFP- and average annual hours worked) in 21 OECD countries over the period...

Logistics in China -- Electronic Procurement Systems in India: Importance and Impact on Supply Chain Operations -- Use of Third Party Logistics Services: An Asia-Pacific Perspective -- The Greater Mekong Sub-region of Southeast Asia: Improving Logistics Connectivity -- Strategic and Tactical...

Foreword: Markku Markkula -- Foreword: Bror Salmelin -- Foreword: Se-Hwa Wu -- Preface: Leif Edvinsson -- Preface: Carol Yeh-Yun Lin -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- 3. National Intellectual Capital Development of the Six BRICKS...

Die Marke ist der bedeutendste Vermögenswert vieler Unternehmen. Durch die Globalisierung der wirtschaftlichen Aktivitäten muss sich die Marke zunehmend in heterogenen Märkten beweisen. Entscheidend für den nachhaltigen Markterfolg ist das von den Nachfragern in den Zielmärkten...

Weltumspannende Güterflüsse und Logistikleistungen sowie Rahmenbedingungen einer globalen Logistik -- Logistik in West- und Osteuropa sowie in Nord- und Südamerika -- Logistik im Mittleren Osten und in Asien.

Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Context, Purpose and Structure of the Book.- 2 State Aid for Newspapers.- Part II: Theories -- 3 State Support for News -- 4 Industrial Subsidies -- 5 Newspaper Subsidies and Journalistic Quality -- 6 State Aid to the Press in the EU -- 7 Press Governance.-...