This paper analyses data released by the three EC member countries' Central Banks on payments and receipts for services traded between West Germany, France, and the Netherlands on the one hand and the five founding member states of ASEAN on the other. Chapter II analyses the changing role of...

"This book provides insights into Japanese production and operations management through the roles and human resource management of Japanese manufacturing engineers and how their roles contribute to efficient manufacturing. The book looks at six industries i.e. automobile, electronics, business...

This book fills a gap in the literature on economic liberalism in France as it strives to resolve a paradox. How do we reconcile the fact that while France has been among the most fertile of soils for the liberal intellectual tradition, the theoretical ideas it has produced has little impact on...

"This title offers a dynamic understanding of tourism, usually defined in terms of clearly circumscribed places and temporalities, to grasp its changing spatial patterns. The hybridisation of tourist practices and ordinary practices is explored through a range of international case studies and...

This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The right to collective bargaining for economically dependent workers with a self-employed status -- Chapter 3: The European Court of Justice and Trade Unions’ Power in Europe -- Chapter 4: Trade Unions and Migration in Europe -- Chapter 5: Confronting a...

Making Energy Markets charts the emergence and early evolution of electricity markets in western Europe, covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Liberalising electricity marked a radical deviation from the established paradigm of state-controlled electricity systems which had...