Zuverlässige Aussagen über die weitere Entwicklung unserer Volkswirtschaft, der Güter- und Finanzmärkte oder eines Betriebes sind nicht nur für Politiker und Unternehmer von großer Bedeutung, sondern betreffen auch jeden Einzelnen. In diesem Buch wird in kompakter Form die Fortsetzung...

I argue that in its adaptation from Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation, the concept of embeddedness has itself undergone a great transformation. In the process, significant meanings of the concept have vanished, while others have been added. First I explore the different meanings the...

What's old is new again -- PART I: Theoretical underpinnings -- Business and peace: a need for new questions and systems perspectives -- Business, peace, and human rights: a political responsibility perspective -- The messy business of peace amid the tyranny of the profit motive: complexity and...

chapter 1 Introduction to the study of linkages -- chapter 2 A ‘governance space’ theory on linkages -- chapter 3 The normative hierarchy debate and its distractions -- chapter 4 The disputed role of the dispute settlement body -- chapter 5 WTO and the shrinking of governance space --...

Introduction -- The rise of regulatory governance -- Theories of regulation -- Regulatory space and regulatory regimes -- Policy processes and the regulatory policy cycle -- Bad, better and legitimate regulation -- Define: agenda-setting, issue diagnosis and objective setting -- Design: regime...