The Modern Silk Route is offering a potential land-bridge between China and Europe through Central Asia and Russia that offers a complement to existing shipping routes, and is attracting growing interest by a selected number of multinational companies. However, the main role of the Silk Route is...

Intro -- The Brave New World of European Labor -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. European Unions Face the Millennium -- Chapter 2. Unforgiven -- Chapter 3. Every Which Way But Loose -- Chapter 4. "Yesterday's Modern Times Are No Longer...

Intro -- Section 1 Diversity in Higher Education Systems -- Is German higher education non-discriminatory? -- Gender Diversity in the German Higher Education System -- Discipline-Specific Teaching Efficiency -- Section 2 Management and Efficiency in Higher Education Systems: An International...

Using case studies from European countries, chapters discuss trust-building methods for food networks in an e-business environment. Key issues include the influence of cultural disparity and cross-border transactions upon major product groups such as meat, cereal products and fresh produce.

Intro -- European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Introductory Essays -- Chapter 1. Business, Political Risk, and Historians in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 2. Multinationals and Dictatorship -- Part II....

The monograph disseminates the very topical issue of retirement and its timing as the key to one of the greatest challenges facing ageing societies. Postponing retirement is now almost universally regarded as indispensable in order to relieve European welfare states from the demography-related...

SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do Europeans age? Under which circumstances do older people and their families live, how healthy and active are they, and how did the crisis affect them? The authors of...

When did Europe pull ahead of Asia in terms of living standards? A number of well-known scholars compare economic and demographic indicators of well-being in the pre-industrial period. The emerging picture is not one of great differences, but of considerable similarities in standard of living...

This book presents the results of Cleverbio, a project funded by theEuropean Commission. The project examined the process of growth anddevelopment of clusters in the biotech industry, identifying andstudying the main driving forces. The empirical work involved in-depthanalysis of five clusters...

"Front Cover" -- "The Agm in Europe: Theory and Practice of Shareholder Behaviour" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "List of Abbreviations and Legislation" -- "Part I: Introduction" -- "1 The Law & Economics of the AGM" -- "1. Introduction" -- "1.1. Outline of This...