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Multinationals on the Periphery
ISBN: 9781403991669 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multinational enterprises do not regard all locations as being equivalent. Smaller economies and less-developed countries are not as attractive because of a limited market size or lack of proximity to other locations. This book focuses on how multinational activity to and from peripheral economies differs from their activity in core economies.
Multinational enterprises do not regard all locations as being equivalent. Smaller economies and less-developed countries are not as attractive becaus...
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191,40 zł |
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Divergent Paths in Post-Communist Transformation: Capitalism for All or Capitalism for the Few?
ISBN: 9781403996343 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the successes and failures of 27 countries post-communism transformation. Looking at life after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the book examines and contrasts why some countries have virtually completed their transformation to a liberal polity and economy, while others lag behind.
The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the successes and failures of 27 countries post-communism transformation. Looking at life after the ...
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382,84 zł |
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African Urban Economies: Viability, Vitality or Vitiation?
ISBN: 9781403999474 / Angielski / Twarda / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century? This book analyzes the economies of East and Southern Africa's 'apex' cities, probing how they have altered structurally over time and their current sources of economic vitality and vulnerability at local, national and international levels. Case study chapters focusing on Johannesburg, Chitungwiza, Gaborone, Maputo, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Nairobi, Kampala and Mogadishu shed new light on contemporary African urban prospects and problems.
Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century? This book analyzes the economies of Ea...
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382,84 zł |
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Technology Transfer Via Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe: Theory, Method of Research and Empirical Evidence
ISBN: 9781403999528 / Angielski / Twarda / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies are suggested as one of the main channels of technology transfer to less developed economies. In Central East Europe their presence proved to be a decisive factor to economic restructuring and development. This volume is a unique guide to theory, method of research, and empirical evidence, for technology transfer via foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies. It combines the merits of a core text on technology transfer via FDI with up-to-date empirical evidence.
Foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies are suggested as one of the main channels of technology transfer to less developed economies. In Centr...
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382,84 zł |
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Conflict Cooperation
ISBN: 9781405113557 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates -the rules of the game, - how institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the impact of alternative institutions, as well as institutional change and evolution. With its broad applications and numerous practice and discussion questions, this book will be appealing not only to students of economics, but also to those studying sociology,...
Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates -the rules of the game, - how in...
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551,19 zł |
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Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
ISBN: 9781405113564 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates -the rules of the game, - how institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the impact of alternative institutions, as well as institutional change and evolution. With its broad applications and numerous practice and discussion questions, this book will be appealing not only to students of economics, but also to those studying sociology,...
Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates -the rules of the game, - how in...
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267,27 zł |
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The Broken Mosaic: For an Economics Beyond Equations
ISBN: 9781842776339 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This cogent critique of the narrowness and moral blindness of conventional economics, and its distance from any genuine concern for people's lives, is part autobiographical reflection and part summation of a lifetime's work in developing countries. Ladislau Dowbor rejects both old-fashioned statist economics and utopian 'post-economics' ideas of social organization. Instead, he pulls together a rich mixture of detailed and practical conclusions about economic and social policy, drawing on his own work as an economic adviser in countries as diverse as Poland, Portugal, Guinea Bissau,...
This cogent critique of the narrowness and moral blindness of conventional economics, and its distance from any genuine concern for people's lives, is...
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181,49 zł |
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Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830
ISBN: 9788791114885 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two very different cities, the one with a trading heritage dating back centuries, the other a new creation spawned by the declining fortunes of the once mighty Dutch East India Company. Melaka was an important commercial entrepot on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula long before it fell to Portugese forces in 1511, but thereafter began an extended process of decline that would continue after the Dutch conquest of the city in 1641. Penang became a significant port after 1786 when 'country traders'... This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two very different cities, the one with a trading herita... |
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158,07 zł |
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Competitiveness in Small Developing Economies: Insights from the Caribbean
ISBN: 9789766401320 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Possibly no group is more conscious of the challenges created by the increasing integration of markets for capital, labor, products and information than small, developing economies. Policy makers from these economies have sought a two-track response to this integration. One response lies in increasing lobbying efforts for these economies to be accorded special or more equitable treatment in market integration discussions. The second response lies in improving the competitiveness of their economies. It is this second response that provides the subject matter for this book. It explores the...
Possibly no group is more conscious of the challenges created by the increasing integration of markets for capital, labor, products and information th...
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218,56 zł |
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Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780007195312 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century sets out a vision for a century in which Europe will dominate, not America. This is the book that will make your mind up about Europe. Those who believe Europe is weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Mark Leonard, one of the UK's most visionary thinkers, argues that Europe is remaking the world in its own image. Europe only looks dead because it is seen through American eyes. But America's reach is... Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century sets ou... |
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34,65 zł |
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Purposive Diversification and Economic Performance
ISBN: 9780521430159 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines product-line diversification of large manufacturing firms. It introduces and applies methodology that discerns groups of manufacturing industries related by complementarities in production, marketing, distribution, and research and development activities. Manufacturing firms intentionally vary production to exploit these complementarities, and Professor Scott uses evidence from U.S. manaufacturing to explore hypotheses about such purposive diversification and ensuing economic performance, including product diversification's effects on both static efficiency and the...
This book examines product-line diversification of large manufacturing firms. It introduces and applies methodology that discerns groups of manufactur...
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310,97 zł |
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Africa and Asia in Comparative Economic Perspective
ISBN: 9780333790298 / Angielski / Twarda / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This invaluable collection compares the relatively unsuccessful economic development of Subsaharan Africa with that of the successful Asian economies, especially the Asian 'tigers'. It covers three main areas of comparison: the lessons for Africa from the Asian experience; secondly, the comparisons of various aspects of economic development in Africa and Asia; and finally, convergence: how far the laggard economies are catching up with, or diverging away from, each other.
This invaluable collection compares the relatively unsuccessful economic development of Subsaharan Africa with that of the successful Asian economies,...
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382,84 zł |
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Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics
ISBN: 9780521532587 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. Basing rankings on the well-being, broadly conceived, of those who are alive (or ever lived), the axiomatic method is employed. Topics investigated include the measurement of individual well-being, social attitudes toward inequality of well-being, the main classes of population principles, principles that provide incomplete rankings or rank uncertain alternatives, best choices from feasible sets, and applications.
This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. Ba...
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188,07 zł |
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Economic Development with Special Reference to East Asia
ISBN: 9780333406380 / Angielski / Twarda / 435 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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765,72 zł |
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The Knowledge-Based Economy in Central and East European Countries: Countries and Industries in a Process of Change
ISBN: 9781403936578 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After successful transition from a socialist to market economy, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are faced with the challenge of how to catch up with the EU15. This book provides the first systematic analysis of how Central and Eastern Europe has been restructuring from a knowledge-based economy perspective.
After successful transition from a socialist to market economy, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are faced with the challenge of how to cat...
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382,84 zł |
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Explorations in Pragmatic Economics
ISBN: 9780199253906 / Angielski / Twarda / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Akerlof illustrates how his 'modern', Nobel Prize-winning methodology of using 'tailor-made' economic models to solve problems differs from the standard, benchmark, all-encompassing general-equilibrium-perfect competition-based methodology.
Akerlof illustrates how his 'modern', Nobel Prize-winning methodology of using 'tailor-made' economic models to solve problems differs from the stan...
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315,88 zł |
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Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth, and Power in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780631229629 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth and Power in the 21st Century explains how culture, in various guises, modifies the standard rules of economic engagement, creating systems that differ markedly from those predicted by the theory of general market competition. This analysis is grounded in established principles, but also assumes that individual utility seeking may be culturally determined, that political goals may take precedence over public well being, and that business misconduct may be socially detrimental. Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth and Power in the 21st Century explains how culture, in various guises, modifies the standard r... |
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305,49 zł |
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Shifting Boundaries of the Firm: Japanese Company - Japanese Labour
ISBN: 9780199547036 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All firms wrestle with restructuring, involving consolidation of mergers and acquisitions on the one hand, and fragmentation through outsourcing and spin-offs on the other. Through an in-depth investigation into the organizational strategies of Japanese corporate management and union leaders in Japan, Mari Sako explores the issue of "organizational boundaries" that arises from such restructuring.
Examining the strategy and structure of both businesses and trade unions, the book draws upon empirical evidence drawn from interviews conducted at Toyota and Matsushita and their respective... All firms wrestle with restructuring, involving consolidation of mergers and acquisitions on the one hand, and fragmentation through outsourcing and s...
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340,45 zł |
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Economics: The Key Concepts
ISBN: 9780415400565 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An A-Z of contemporary economics in all its forms, Economics: the Key Concepts is an affordable, accessible reference for students, lecturers and economists at every level. The key topics explored include:
Fully cross-referenced with extensive guides to further reading, this is the essential comprehensive pocket reference to the ideas, issues and practice of economics in the twenty-first century. An A-Z of contemporary economics in all its forms, Economics: the Key Concepts is an affordable, accessible reference for students, lectur... |
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570,57 zł |
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Economic Pluralism
ISBN: 9780415777032 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The leading edges of economic thinking in the early 21st century are marked by a nascent pluralism - a positive valuing of difference and complexity - regarding the nature and evolution of human behaviour and economic organization. Economic Pluralism brings these pluralist sensibilities to the fore. Its twenty original essays explore the value and difficulties of pluralism in economic theory, philosophy, institutions, and education. These twenty original essays reflect the maturity and breadth of pluralist scholarship in economics today. The first eight chapters (including... The leading edges of economic thinking in the early 21st century are marked by a nascent pluralism - a positive valuing of difference and complexit... |
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752,12 zł |
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