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The 2008 State New Economy Index : Benchmarking Economic Transformation in the States

Atkinson, Robert D.; Andes, Scott M. - 2014

In the midst of economic slowdowns, it's often hard to think beyond the near term. But, just as the most effective companies take advantage of slowdowns to better position themselves for subsequent periods of strong economic growth, so, too, should states. For the current slowdown, caused in...

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Unions Without Borders : Recent Developments in the Theory, Practice and Law of Transnational Unionism

Hyde, Alan; Ressaissi, Mona - 2009

cultural misunderstanding harmful to future support. (3) Although systematic comparison is not possible, many anecdotes suggest … that alternative worker support organizations in the developed world, are more effective allies for unions in the … developing world, than are developed-world unions …

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Thermodynamics and the Economic Process : An Application to World Energy Resources and Climate Change

Bryant, John - 2014

data of world energy resources and climate change. The paper concludes that both energy resource availability and climate …

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Butterfly Spotting : An Industrial Real Estate Perspective on Globalisation and Transnational Economies

Lecomte, Patrick; Whitaker, Bill; Mcintosh, Willard - 2009

As national economies are becoming ever more global and interconnected, this paper addresses the need for real estate investors to develop new, efficient ways to assess how variables and phenomena central to economic globalization (e.g. outsourcing) might impact their domestic portfolios and...

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Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Human Rights Obligations : The Status of Discussion in International Organisations

Razzaque, Jona; Ssenyonjo, Manisuli - 2014

reality, in the discussions on the protection and the use of traditional knowledge within the World Trade Organisation, the … Convention of Biological Diversity, and the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the human rights dimension is often …

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Which Institutions are Good for Your Health? The Deep Determinants of Comparative Cross-Country Health Status

Knowles, Stephen; Owen, P. Dorian - 2009

We extend the literature on the deep determinants of economic development by focusing on life expectancy, instead of income per capita, as an indicator of economic development, and by examining the role of informal, as well as formal, institutions. Our empirical results suggest that formal and...

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A Globalized Task Environment (Un contesto di lavoro globalizzato)

Martin, Maximilian - 2013

The main challenge today's civil society organizations face is adaptation to a rapidly changing task environment. We currently witness a globalization of both problems and solutions. Why? Basically, this is the consequence of the intensification of worldwide social relations, linking distant...

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Between Entrepreneurship and Surveillance : An Interpretive Political Economy Perspective on the Globalizing Organization

Martin, Maximilian - 2009

In the 1980s, the cumulative impact of a host of technical-economic and macro-social trends began to fundamentally alter value creation dynamics at the workplace and organizational reality. Rapid social change has relevant implications at all levels of social reality. Via a comprehensive review,...

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Leadership in a Globalizing World : Addressing the Challenges

Martin, Maximilian - 2009

What are the challenges a globalizing world poses for leadership studies? And how can we address them? The paper …'s central hypothesis is that a globalizing world will reshape our thinking about leadership substantially over the next decades … develop to properly analyze leadership in a globalizing world and make useful prescriptions for practitioners? Third, to …

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Global Credit Market Disruption : Challenges and Risks

Oldani, Chiara - 2009

The present international financial market is characterized by remarkably high financial volatility, which reflects a substantial loss of confidence, drying up inter-bank credit and spiking short-term interest rates. Inflationary pressures combined with financial risks, both originating in the...

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