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Public Services and Financial Austerity: Getting Out of the Hole?
by R. Latham M. ProwleThe authors suggest that some of the problems of the public sector are self-inflicted and that current policies may only deliver partial success 'at a price we cannot afford'. It proposes a radical alternative and discusses practical ways it could be implemented. It also explores the threats and opportunities that such an approach might face.
Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change: The Asia-Pacific Experience (Energy, Climate and the Environment)
by Luca Anceschi and Jonathan SymonsLeading scholars assess the transformations in energy security policy that flow from recognition of global climate change. They explore through case studies the key policy responses formulated in the Asia-Pacific and identify potential synergies between energy policy and climate mitigation efforts.
Global Governance and Corporate Responsibility in Conflict Zones (Global Issues)
by M. FeilCorporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private actors are increasingly sources of governance contributions that regulate public goods. Feil highlights the discrepancies between political and theoretical expectations of corporate engagement and governance contributions.
Corporate Management in a Knowledge-Based Economy
by Gianfranco ZandaCorporate Management in a Knowledge-Based Economy traces the evolution of corporate governance over time, with a particular focus on the changing nature of power. The control of scarce resources used in production materials, labour and capital has evolved considerably over the past centuries, with government, landowners, non-owner managers, and institutional investors acting as controlling powers at different points in time. In order to appropriately protect the various, and changing, stakeholders, the system of corporate governance has also developed over the years a process that continues to the present. In today's knowledge-based economy, with the rising importance of intangible assets, a new corporate management paradigm is needed. This book incorporates theoretical work as well as practical applications to analyse these developments and explore emerging trends of the 21st century. It examines how the pursuit of profit maximization has resulted in governance failures and it focuses on the prospective role of business ethics (once again in the spotlight following the credit crisis) in helping reform flawed governance structures. It argues that, in the long term, a system based on ethics can maximize social responsibility, customer satisfaction, human capital development and economic targets.
Rethinking Rational Choice Theory: A Companion on Rational and Moral Action
by Jan de JongeThe marriage of neuroscience and the science of choice behaviour gave birth to neuroeconomics. Jan de Jong explores this new discipline, investigating the relationship between choice behaviour and brain activity, and the light that this sheds on our systems of reasoning.
Intervention in the Modern UK Brewing Industry
by J. Spicer C. Thurman J. Walters Simon WardThis is the story of the radical intervention carried out by the Thatcher administration in response to 1986-89 Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into brewing. It describes the creation of big brewers, the official investigations into what many saw as an uncompetitive structure and the damaging consequences for consumers and licensees.
Continuous Improvement Strategies: Japanese Convenience Store Systems (Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series)
by D. MarutschkeThis book discusses continuous improvement strategies of Japanese convenience store operators. The study highlights the efforts of companies operating under lean management systems to identify new, dynamic, firm-specific capabilities in highly competitive markets.
England after the Great Recession: Tracking the Political and Cultural Consequences of the Crisis
by P. W. PrestonAn exploration of the recent financial crisis which argues that the hitherto dominant intellectual and policy paradigm of neo-liberalism has been fatally weakened and will in due course be replaced. The implications of the crisis for politico-cultural identities and our sense of ourselves as members of an ordered society are explored.
The Production of Seriousness: The Metaphysics of Economic Reason
by C. GustafssonThis book is about the roots of managerial rationality. A theoretical base, founded on the concept of 'memetics' is developed in order to explain human thinking and human reason as products of cultural evolution. Cultural change and development are explained by simple, value-driven memetic mechanisms like 'ritualization' and 'extremization'.
Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century (International Political Economy Series)
by Timothy M. Shaw Scarlett Cornelissen Fantu CheruThis book examines key emergent trends related to aspects of power, sovereignty, conflict, peace, development, and changing social dynamics in the African context. It challenges conventional IR precepts of authority, politics and society, which have proven to be so inadequate in explaining African processes. Rather, this edited collection analyses the significance of many of the uncharted dimensions of Africa's international relations, such as the respatialisation of African societies through migration, and the impacts this process has had on state power; the various ways in which both formal and informal authority and economies are practised; and the dynamics and impacts of new transnational social movements on African politics. Finally, attention is paid to Africa's place in a shifting global order, and the implications for African international relations of the emergence of new world powers and/or alliances. This edition includes a new preface by the editors, which brings the findings of the book up-to-date, and analyses the changes that are likely to impact upon global governance and human development in policy and practice in Africa and the wider world post-2015.
Finance, Politics, and Imperialism: Australia, Canada, and the City of London, c.1896-1914 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)
by A. DilleyAndrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs the occasionally imperialistic politic of finance which pervaded the British World at this time.
Regulating Corporate Governance in the EU: Towards a Marketization of Corporate Control (International Political Economy Series)
by L. HornIn the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate governance and regulatory supervision failures, Laura Horn investigates one of the defining questions in social power relations in contemporary capitalism: who controls the modern corporation, and why.
The Economics Companion (Macmillan Student Companions Series)
by Graham MallardAn invaluable resource for those considering and starting degree courses in Economics. It introduces readers to the core theories and techniques of economics and presents some of the most interesting controversies and wider themes. It is an essential guide for those wanting to study the subject successfully.
Strategic International Marketing: An Advanced Perspective
by T C Melewar Suraksha GuptaStrategic International Marketing collates the most recent ideas, trends and original research in the theory and practice of global marketing strategy and tactics. Straightforward language and illustrative case studies feature throughout this text from the leading thinkers in the international marketing field.
The Modernisation of the Public Services and Employee Relations: Targeted Change (Management, Work and Organisations)
by Stephen Bach Ian KesslerThe Modernisation of the Public Services and Employee Relations provides an integrated and up-to-date account of changes in work and employment in the public services. The book examines a range of different sectors focusing on core public services, especially local government, the NHS and the civil service.
Corporate Governance: Theory and Practice
by Carol PadgettRecent financial crises and instances of corporate malpractice have prompted many questions about how companies are run - and whether this tallies with how they should be run. This book systematically explores the factors that shape corporate governance, and discusses both those governance practices implemented by companies and those imposed by regulators. It also tries to determine how good corporate governance can help companies to create value for their shareholders. To illustrate that some practices are global while others are appropriate only in certain settings, case studies of individual companies from Europe, Asia, North and South America are discussed in each chapter. Corporate Governance: Theory and Practice is firmly grounded in academic literature and packed with empirical evidence from around the world, making it an ideal book for students of business, management, finance, accounting and law taking a one-term course in the subject. It offers considerable lecturer and student support, both in the text itself and on the accompanying website: www.palgrave.com/finance/padgett.
Measuring Global Poverty: Toward a Pro-Poor Approach
by S. WisorThe author examines the moral, methodological, and practical problems that arise from poverty measurement. He establishes a methodological framework for analyzing poverty conceptions and measures, and concludes with concrete recommendations regarding both the procedures for and substance of future global poverty measurement.
Transnational Transfers and Global Development (International Political Economy Series)
by Stuart S. BrownThis pioneering volume invites scholars from different social science disciplines to contribute their competing perspectives to a far-ranging albeit understudied dimension of globalization. Globalization has been defined as progressively integrated, national product and factor markets, cemented by the revolution in transportation and communications technology. This process has been driven by transnational corporations who have erected intricate, global supply chains. Such commercial advances have, in turn, intensified the interdependence among states and the authors raise a number of questions: Can the multi-variegated, cross-border activities in which such non-state actors engage be analyzed through a single conceptual lens? Can non-state transnational transfers be so clearly distinguished from exchanges in practice? What are the implications of transnational transfers, where material and non-material value is transferred abroad with no assurance, or even expectation of reciprocal compensation, for sovereignty? The case studies range from the impact of worker remittances on failed states to capacity building by global civil society on behalf of nascent NGOs in China to the transfer of security (or insecurity) via peacekeepers, track two diplomats and private security contractors.
Perspectives in Entrepreneurship: A Critical Approach
by Monder Ram Kevin MoleThis core textbook presents different ways of thinking about entrepreneurship: instead of topics such as finance or opportunities, the book focuses on perspectives or ways of seeing. Written by leading experts, the text examines the emergence and development of entrepreneurship as an academic discipline and takes a critical look at the varying positions in the field as well as their overall contribution to entrepreneurship as a whole. Through twelve chapters, written from such wide ranging perspectives as feminism, psychology, institutionalism, critical realism and evolution, the book provides a clear and accessible framework that encourages students’ critical engagement with the subject.This is an essential textbook for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of entrepreneurship.
Bancassurance in Europe: Past, Present and Future (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)
by Ornella RicciThis book offers a comprehensive view on bancassurance from its origin to future challenges and opportunities, considering the relevant changes currently interesting the financial services industry. It also provides a detailed review of theoretical and empirical literature dealing with financial conglomeration.
Hedge Fund Replication
by Greg N. Gregoriou Maher KooliWhile there may be a consensus in the industry that hedge funds clones will bring better liquidity and lower fees, it is still debatable whether replication products should serve as a complement in the hedge fund allocation decision or as a replacement. This book offers the reader valuable insights into the thinking behind hedge fund replication.
Basel III, the Devil and Global Banking (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)
by D. ChorafasThe banking industry extensively lobbied against Basel III and governments have been keen to delay its full implementation. Chorafas' latest book takes a well-rounded approach on Basel III's strengths and weaknesses and explains how, without deep restructuring of the global banking industry, (like Basel II) Basel III will fail.
Rethinking the Post Soviet Experience: Markets, Moral Economies and Cultural Contradictions of Post Socialist Russia (Euro-Asian Studies)
by J. HassIn this unique contribution to economic sociology, Jeffrey Hass examines the impact of culture, norms and political authority on Russia's post-socialist transition. The interactions and contradictions of moral economies and market relations are examined, exploring the often overlooked social dimension to market-building in Russia.
Property Investment (Building and Surveying Series)
by David Isaac John O'LearyThis textbook brings together three important aspects of property investment - strategies for investment, markets and appraisal - and explains many difficult concepts in a readable and understandable way. The authors outline the developments in investment and finance theory that have had such an impact on the property investment sector. Concepts are explained with great clarity and worked examples are used to elucidate key principles where possible.This book is ideal for modules taught on third year undergraduate and postgraduate level in Property Investment, Property Funding, Property Management Estate Management, Land Management, Planning and Development Studies, Land Economics, Real Estate (value and management) and is also of interest to students of Architecture, Construction and Surveying.New to this Edition:- Thoroughly updated to reflect changes in government policy on sustainability, assessing the implications of sustainability for both residential and commercial property investment- Reflections on the reverberations of the credit crunch, considering the extent to which risk reduction techniques can mitigate against globally induced and volatile market swings- Greater prominence given to the growth of the buy-to-let market in residential property investment- A review of the key investment performance issues which have arisen from the introduction of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)- Includes more worked examples and case studies
Global Trends: Facing up to a Changing World (IESE Business Collection)
by A. DoneLooks at the bigger picture, and the future trends that are going to affect the global business world over the next few years. The author analyses traditional themes such as technology and sustainability but also takes into consideration the effects of developments in other areas such as health, education and demographics