This book responds to an increasingly pluricentric, reflexive, and flexible society as a result of globalization and economic liberation from the bureaucratic-political system. The third industrial revolution saw citizens, companies, and the economy acting in functional networks rather than in...

This book surveys Poland’s move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of ‘second serfdom’; late industrialization to state socialism;...

This book explores how better governance can help Africa to achieve structural transformation (understood to be the reallocation of factors of production across and within sectors to better support inclusive development), which history has shown to be key to sustained, inclusive growth. The book...

Vorworte: Reihenherausgeber: Prof. René Schmidpeter -- Alexandra Hildebrandt / Werner Landhäußer: Die Rolle der Digitalisierung: denken – verstehen - handeln -- Alexandra Hildebrandt / Werner Landhäußer: Die wichtigsten Fragen zur Digitalisierung von A bis Z -- Raimund Frey: Das Fenster...

Chapter 1. Economic Transformation and Development Experience of Indian Punjab-An Introduction -- Section I: Understanding the Crisis of Agrarian Transition -- Chapter 2. The Role of Technological and Institutional Changes in the Growth and Transformation of Agriculture in Punjab -- Chapter 3....

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Digital Media and The Transformation of Space -- Chapter 3 The Companies We Keep -- Chapter 4 Health as a Social Media -- Chapter 5 The New Rules of Engagement -- Chapter 6 The Robot Journalist in The Age of Social Physics -- Chapter 7 The Times They are A’...

This book examines, theoretically and empirically, the key aspects and differences of economic growth. It provides a comprehensive investigation of the numerous features of development in transition countries, covering the last two decades, from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the current...

Presents the results of an empirical investigation of the behaviour of Hungarian firms during the transition process focusing in particular on the role of financial market imperfections for corporate capital structure and investment decisions