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Using a diffusion approach and comparisons between Australia and the U.S., this book examines the question: what are the barriers keeping the American coal mining industry and the U.S. government from moving toward risk-based governance?

The book shows how targeted institutional transformation to increase gender equity, diversity and inclusion in academic science and engineering at 19 U.S. universities has been successful. It provides a comprehensive, stand-alone description of effective approaches to increase the recruitment, advancement and retention of women faculty throughout the academic career pipeline.

Along with examining latest developments in the integrated formal structures for the formulation of international accounting principles, analyzing new accounting regulations and the extrapolating on the lessons that can be learned from the harmonization of accounting principles in Europe, Law, Corporate Governance, and Accounting provides the analyses of the convergence in both auditing and corporate governance as well as US perspective on IFR...

The book goes behind the innovation frenzy characterizing society today. It brings attention to the commercial waste, policy ineffectiveness and human suffering caused by the way corporations have executed and policy makers have regulated innovation. It emphasizes the unexploited opportunities of approaches that consider also long term and undesirable consequences of innovation.

Multinational Enterprises and Innovation contributes to a better understanding of the organisational choices between spatially concentrated and internationally distributed forms of innovation as well as between internal and external constellations by analysing the relationship between organisational, regional, national and European arenas of knowledge production and knowledge transfer.

Following a suite of health technologies, this book maps out the complex relationship between users and designers, offering three outstanding case-studies of the development and use of new health technology. These studies follow the evolution of new health technology in detail through several rounds of design and deployment across various organisations.

The recent financial crisis sparked debates surrounding the nature and role of accounting in informing capital markets and regulatory bodies about the financial performance and position of a firm. These debates have drawn attention to the broader implications of accounting for the economy and society. Accounting and Business Economics brings together leading international scholars to examine the current state of accounting theory and its funda...

The aim of this book is to improve our understanding of creativity and the management of creativity, as discussed in the fields of management (including strategic management, organization science, organizational behaviour, and entrepreneurship), economics, sociology, regional studies, and political science.

Asia is no longer simply the continent to which the world turns for outsourcing and off shoring of production, leaving retailing to Western countries. Asia now contains many of the world¿s largest markets plus many emergent markets as well. Each chapter of this volume details the characteristics of an individual market in Asia and demonstrates the challenges that marketers are likely to face in these environments. Covering not just production ...

This book contributes to the theorization of CSR by presenting the meaning of CSR in a clear and distinct manner, giving the ongoing CSR debate a new direction anchored on a firm economic philosophy. It reinforces the view of firms as social institutions as well as economic actors, establishing CSR as a form of justice rather than philanthropy. Articulating CSR as private governance of corporate externalities, for the first time, this book pro...

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Un cataclysme a dévasté le royaume insulaire d'Isulgaar. Trente-et-une années plus tard, le Nord de l'île prospère grâce à un nouveau roi autoritaire, alors que la famine guette le Sud, livré à lui-même. Entre eux, le centre de l'île est devenu une terre de pillards et de hors-la-loi. Tandis qu'au Sud, la haine de ce roi qui les a délaissés attise les tensions et les velléités de conquête, au Nord se profile un complot machiavélique qui risq...

Vintage Parisian scenes from the time of the Belle Epoque and beyond are matched with the same views today to give a fascinating insight into the romantic capital of Europe in this bilingual edition.

This book uniquely integrates the hitherto segmented and fragmented approaches to the challenge of access to energy. It provides theoretical, philosophical and practical analysis of energy for the low energy (non-hydrocarbon based) Other Third of the world, and how the unmet needs of the energy poor might be satisfied. It comprehensively addresses the range of issues relating to energy justice and energy access for all, including appropriate s...

This book illustrates the ways in which liberalization has contributed to increasing private and foreign ownership of public services, the decentralization of labor relations has amplified pressure on wages, and decreasing employment numbers and increasing workloads have improved productivity partly at the cost of service quality. Examining diverse public-service sectors including network industries, public transportation, and hospitals, and u...

Business and Management Environment in Saudi Arabia provides insightful information to optimally guide western managers in conducting their operations in Saudi Arabia. The book offers essential information on how to engage effectively, manage business activities, resolve cultural misunderstandings, and tackle issues of group dynamics, human resource management, managing change and development, and relations with the government and the general ...

Green Business, Green Values, and Sustainability offers a concise and definitive book on the green transformation of business. The book examines the dramatic changes in business values and strategies that have taken place in recent years in response to the sustainability imperative. Government, industry, academic and science leaders spell out the green future for business.

This book offers an in-depth look at how the distinctive nature of NPOs shapes the development and implementation of their HR practices. Using examples from an exploratory multiple case study of NPOs selected across different fields, it addresses the learning and adapting processes through which NPOs alter their HRM.

One of the most pervasive and persistent questions in philosophy is the relationship between the natural sciences and traditional philosophical categories such as metaphysics, epistemology and the mind. This collection is a unique and valuable contribution to the literature on this issue.

This book examines the power of doing through not-doing. Should we act through inaction? Our society has reached its limits. A good strategy for addressing this problem is to allow inaction to become a productive way of acting-inaction as a point of reference for society. For only through conscious not-doing can we understand what is really essential.