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Promoting Balanced Competitiveness Strategies of Firms in Developing Countries (Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management)

Springer, 2011

Since the pioneering work of Joseph Schumpeter (1942), it has been assumed that innovations typically play a key role in firms’ competitiveness. This assumption has been applied to firms in both developed and developing countries. However, the innovative capacities and business environments of firms in developing countries are...

Globalization: A Basic Text

John Wiley & Sons, 2015

Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic Text presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies.

Features updates and revisions in its accessible introduction to key theories and major topics in...

2050 China: Becoming a Great Modern Socialist Country (Understanding Xi Jinping’s Governance)

Springer, 2020

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese road to socialist modernization, explores and summarizes the development goal and the basic logic of the socialist...

The Rise and Decline of the State

Cambridge University Press, 1999

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all moderninstitutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, either voluntarily or involuntarily, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Regardless of whether they fall apart or...

Illustrated History of Landscape Design

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

The constructed landscape embodies a vision of creative power. The gardens and landscapes of the past serve as an endless source of possibility and inspiration. Discovering how the elements of nature have been recombined in different times and places intrigues us. Our purpose in assembling a visual reference of historic landscapes is to...

Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement (Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society)

Routledge, 2007

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of...

Population, Development, and the Environment: Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the Asia Pacific

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book takes the reader into some of the most intransigent social, economic, and political issues that impact achieving sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific. Through meticulous analysis of the integrated relationships between population, development, and the environment, the chapters in this volume investigate the impacts of...

The Role of EU Agencies in the Eurozone and Migration Crisis: Impact and Future Challenges (European Administrative Governance)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This book provides a wealth of empirical material to understand key aspects of EU governance including its plurality of actors and policy making modes and its functioning during crisis management. Authored by legal scholars and political scientists, it presents new research and insights on the role of EU agencies in the context of the Euro and...

Frommer's South Africa (Frommer's Complete)

Frommers, 2009

Completely updated every 2 years, Frommer's South Africa features gorgeous color photos of the sights and experiences that await you and a brand new history and culture chapter.

Our author, a lifelong resident of South Africa, hits all the highlights-including safaris in South Africa and Botswana, side trips to Victoria...

Governing Climate Change (Global Institutions)

Routledge, 2010

Governing Climate Change provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and market actors to multilateral development banks, donors and cities.

The issue of global climate change has risen to the top of the international...

Independence in Central America and Chiapas, 1770–1823

University of Oklahoma Press, 2019

Central America was the only part of the far-reaching Spanish Empire in continental America not to experience destructive independence wars in the period between 1810 and 1824. The essays in this volume draw on new historical research to explain why, and to delve into what did happen during the independence period in Central...

Cognitive Superiority: Information to Power

Springer, 2020

In a world of accelerating unending change, perpetual surveillance, and increasing connectivity, conflict has become ever more complex. Wars are no longer limited to the traditional military conflict domains?land, sea, air; even space and cyber space. The new battlefield will be the cognitive domain and the new conflict a larger...

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