Multiple welfare states : histories of a keyword / Nils Edling -- The languages of welfare in Sweden / Nils Edling -- The concept "welfare state" in Danish public and political debates / Jorn Henrik Petersen and Klaus Petersen -- The winding road of the Norwegian "welfare state" / Per Haave --...

Klappentext: Early modern trade and shipping through the Danish Sound has attracted the interest of many historians since a long time. A prominent reason for this is that the route via the Sound connected Europe?s main economies with the economically important Baltic Sea region. The other reason...

Bang & Olufsen, the famous Danish producer of high-end home electronics, is well known as an early exponent of value-based management: the idea that there should be consistency in what the organisation does, a certain continuity between what the company develops and sells, and the beliefs and...

Are strikes going out of fashion or are they an inevitable feature of working life? This is a longstanding debate. The much-proclaimed 'withering away of the strike' in the 1950s was quickly overturned by the 'resurgence of class conflict' in the late 1960s and 1970s. The period since then has...

Transnational Corporations and Local Firms in Developing Countries - Linkages and Upgrading -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I Introduction and Conceptual Issues -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction and Analytical Framework -- Introduction -- A Conceptual and Analytical Framework -- The Structure...

Drawing on comparative politics and social network analysis, this book examines how the domestic institutional and organizational settings, as well as the network governance patterns determine variation in administrative responses to EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in two European Union...