"This book provides the first full analysis of smart specialisation strategies both at theoretical and practical levels. As a new policy approach smart specialisation has already been widely adopted in Europe and beyond. Smart Specialisation: Opportunities and Challenges for Regional Innovation...

The growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has led to renewed attention to the relationship between businesses and key stakeholders, such as NGOs or local communities. Curiously, however, one societal actor - trade unions - is largely missing from such discussions, while the...

Preface -- The background : channels of contagion in the us financial crisis1 -- Methodology -- The data -- Estimates of single-state var models -- Results from markov switching models -- Estimating and disentangling the contagion channels -- Comparing the us and european contagion experiences...