Efficient Consumer Response Kooperationen zwischen Molkereiunternehmen und dem Lebensmittelhandel -- Kooperationsformen und ihre theoretischen Erklärungsmuster -- Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) als Teilstrategie eines Supply Chain Managements (SCM) in der Wertschöpfungskette Lebensmittel --...

Introduction -- Buyback Contracts with Price-dependent Demands: Effects of Demand Uncertainty -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Wholesale Price Contracts with Stochastic Price-dependent Demand -- Franchise Fee Contracts in Product Service System with Demand Information Asymmetry -- Coordination of Supply...

Basic income is an innovative, powerful egalitarian response to widening global inequalities and poverty experiences in society, one that runs counter to the neoliberal transformations of modern welfare states, social security, and labor market programs. This book is the first collective volume...

The book examines the expansion of investment and trade between China and New Zealand, and its changing composition within the political framework, especially the 2008 Free Trade Agreement. Particular attention is paid to China's volatile agrifood market, where New Zealand dairy products play an...

This book identifies and explores the mechanisms linking political institutions and variation in capitalist systems. A strong correlation exists between varieties of political regimes and varieties of capitalism: majoritarian political regimes are correlated with liberal market economies (LMEs)...

This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- Chapter 3 National Intellectual Capital Development of the Five Advanced Countries -- Chapter 4 Beyond the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- Chapter 5 Future Perspectives and Policy Implications.

In the management of business activity by companies operating in more than one country, the complex array of issues and practices that characterize their movements of assets between constituent company units centres around what has become known as international transfer payments. This book,...

Paul G. Buchanan and Kate Nicholls explore the political and economic fortunes of organised labour in five small open democracies between 1975 and 2000. Of particular interest is the role of labour market institutions, organisational histories, and trade union ideologies in shaping outcomes...