<i>¡°Even with the latest and best vehicles, machinery, technology and buildings, if we continue to use resources irresponsibly ¡ª if we continue to waste food, water and energy ¡ª we are not even in the race.¡±</i> This book looks at the sustainable issues and the accompanying opportunities,...

This book is the first to cover marketing management issues in geographically remote industrial clusters (GRICs). The phenomena of GRICs have increased in importance, especially in the Nordic countries, due to changes in industry structures as well as political ambitions. The practice of...

<i>International Strategic Alliances</i> is a practical guide that tackles major issues one might encounter when establishing a Chinese-based or US-based joint venture. It targets small and middle-market US companies that wish to establish strategic alliances based in China or other Asian countries, in...

Microfinance is regarded as a lynchpin in private sector solutions to a host of complex social challenges, from child labor, education, and women's rights, through to sustainable local economic development. The principle of self-help through capital accumulation in the US inner city looks...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a large, complex, and diverse region, which faces a wide range of economic issues. The MENA group includes Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia,...

This book is based on the findings, issues and questions related to an ongoing decade-old research project named the Innovation Lab (<a href="http://www.innovation-lab.org">www.innovation-lab.org</a>). The research project focuses on discontinuous innovation in more than thirteen countries, most of which are European, and provides useful...

There is a lack of knowledge on how corporations in Asia develop strategies, organize their work processes and deal with competition. Western managers and business students need to know more about Asian corporations and their management styles. Learning about Asia, however, has always been a...

In the era of globalization and liberalization, the world is enjoying high growth as well as suffering from the ill-effects of unequal distribution of its economic outcomes. The activities of anti-government demonstrations in China and across the world via the Occupy Wall Street Movement...

This book sheds light on how global warming has caused the ongoing environmental disaster in the Arctic, namely its melting. This development, if left unabated, will have a major negative environmental impact, not only on the Arctic itself, but on the entire planet, including the worsening of...

This book discusses the essence, concepts, techniques, and applications of business intelligence. It also explores different aspects of crisis management, knowledge management and knowledge sciences, the applications of business intelligence in contingencies and crises, environmental issues and...