Purpose – The aim of this paper is to explain the relationship between economic performance and labour manoeuvrability of township‐village enterprises in the Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China. Design/methodology/approach – After a concise general overview of recent economic...

The primary aim of meta‐analysis is to carry out a synthesis of results obtained by different single studies on common problems. It is, therefore, characterized by a high level of transversality, both horizontally (identification, selection and analysis of the case studies under consideration)...

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- Introduction to Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia -- 1 Preliminaries -- 2 Poverty -- 2.1 Regional Disparities and Poverty in the Philippines -- 2.2 Decomposition of Poverty in India -- 2.3 Rural Poverty and...

Tourism economics is partly based on established principles from the economics discipline, but it also incorporates elements from sociology, psychology, organization theory and ecology. It has over the years turned into an appealing multi-disciplinary oriented approach to the understanding of...

Key Features:First book of its kind in the fieldExamines and analyzes how key tools are used to conduct theoretical and empirical research in natural resource and environmental economics in contemporary timesCompiles various articles and accounts concerned with the relevant pedagogical...

Part I: Conceptual and Historical Contributions -- Part II: International Migration -- Part III: Migration Effects on Destination Areas -- Part IV: Migration Effects on Sending Areas -- Part V: Migration and Policy.

University spin-off firms contribute to bringing knowledge created at university to market. The networks these firms employ with other Triple Helix actors serve as not only getting access to resources but also shaping processes of collective learning in transforming the knowledge most...