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Beyond Shareholder Value - A Framework for Stakeholder Governance
Vasudev, P. M. - 2021
inequality. "Beyond Shareholder Value - A Framework for Stakeholder Governance" (Forthcoming) (Edward Elgar 2021) is an effort to … good. This supplied the legitimacy for corporations, and the public interest in them is foundational for the stakeholder … governance the book advocates.Tracing the origin of the stakeholder vision and the methods that have been tried until now, an …
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Sociology of sociology : strengthening the role of social sciences as a new priority of climate and sustainability policy
Strzałkowski, Andrzej - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 3, pp. 453-468
Today, there are a lot of studies on climate change and sustainability from social sciences’ perspectives. Achievements of sociology, psychology or political sciences can be extremely helpful in designing, adopting, implementing and evaluating of effective climate and sustainability policy....
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Book Review to Muhammad Yunus - Creating a World Without Poverty (2008)
Reggiani, Tommaso - 2011
In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one-dimensional beings...
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The Use, Nonuse and Abuse of Economics in WTO and Investor-­State Dispute Settlement
Pauwelyn, Joost - 2012
What is the role of economic evidence and arguments in WTO and investor-state dispute settlement? Both regimes epitomize the search for an international rule of law and legal stability. At the same time, both trade and investment agreements are economic contracts. Economics provides insights not...
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Outsourcing
Moreland, Janice L. - 2012
After World War II the continent of Europe was devastated both structurally and economically by the war. George C. Marshall is the man who can be considered the father of outsourcing and foreign aid, because of his military skills and training he was able to devise a foreign policy plan as an...
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Measuring Economic Competitiveness of Magharib Countries Export Commodities
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2012
The geographic structure of the Magharib countries necessitates its political and economic partnership. However, there were many hindrances that curtailed further mutual benefits in the past decades. That minimized its economic cooperation in many ways. The emergence of the WTO adds to questions...
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Poverty, Human Rights and the Global Order : Framing the Post-2015 Agenda
Pogge, Thomas - 2012
A recent "Update" from the World Bank has caused widespread media celebrations of "drastic" progress against poverty in the 2005-10 period. But no such progress is visible in the data on undernutrition provided by the FAO. This paper discusses the discrepancy and, more broadly, better ways of...
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The Great Crash of 2008 and the Reform of Economics
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. - 2010
The 2008 economic crash led to remarkable shifts of opinion among world leaders. Does this crisis create favourable conditions for the reform and revitalisation of economics itself-from a subject dominated by mathematical techniques to a discipline more oriented to understanding real-world...
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Media, Money and Trust
Little, Graham - 2019
Humans act based on the ideas they adopt and apply to circumstance with the intensity of action derived from the associated emotions. It follows that in any society the presentation of the ideas to citizens a major driver of citizen opinion and hence a major driver of social development. After...
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National Airline Policy
Ravich, Timothy - 2014
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