Libros de: Ashgate
Mostrando 388 libros encontrados. (20 páginas).
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The Globalization Of Corporate Governance
Dignam, Alan
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754646259
- Páginas: 458
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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The process of economic globalization, as product and capital markets have become increasingly integrated since WWII, has placed huge, and it is argued by some, irresistible pressures on the world's 'insider' stakeholder oriented corporate governance ...
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The Pacific In The Age Of Early Industrialization
Pomeranz, Kenneth
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754658801
- Páginas: 434
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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The essays selected for this volume show how the Pacific rapidly became part of an industrializing world. Its raw materials (notably rubber and copper) were critical, some of its handicraft industries were devastated by mechanized ...
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A Social History Of Company Law "Great Britain And The Australian Colonies 1854 1920"
Great Britain And The Australian Colonies 1854 1920Mcqueen, Rob
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754621683
- Páginas: 374
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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The history of incorporations legislation and its administration is intimately tied to changes in social beliefs in respect to the role and purpose of the corporation. By studying the evolution of the corporate form in ...
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The Medieval Account Books Of The Mercers Of London "An Edition And Translation"
An Edition And TranslationJefferson, Lisa
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754664048
- Páginas: 1180
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.291,00 €
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As the premier livery company, the Mercers Company in medieval England enjoyed a prominent role in London's governance and exercised much influence over England's overseas trade and political interests. This substantial two-volume set provides a ...
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Corruption In International Business "The Challenge Of Cultural And Legal Diversity"
The Challenge Of Cultural And Legal DiversityEicher, Sharon
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754671374
- Páginas: 262
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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is common practice to assume that business practices are universally similar. Business and social attitudes to corruption, however, vary according to the wide variety of cultural norms across the countries of the world. International business ...
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The Political Economy Of The Dutch Republic
Gelderblom, Oscar
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754661597
- Páginas: 346
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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In the first half of the seventeenth century the Dutch Republic emerged as one of Europe's leading maritime powers. The political and military leadership of this small country was based on large-scale borrowing from an ...
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The Ottoman Economy And Its Institutions
Pamuk, Sevket
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754659815
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.101,90 €
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The Ottoman Empire stood at a crossroads of intercontinental trade, stretching from the Balkans and the Black Sea region through the present day Middle East and most of the North African coast for six centuries ...
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Crisis Management In The Tourism Industry "Beating The Odds?"
Beating The Odds?Pforr, Christof
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754673804
- Páginas: 268
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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An important challenge facing tourism is the anticipation of the threat of crises precipitated by natural and people-made catastrophes, and being adequately prepared for them. Despite an increase in research on this issue there is ...
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Cultural Tourism And Sustainable Local Development
Fusco Girard, Luigi
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754673910
- Páginas: 338
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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With the exponential rise in leisure mobility, tourism has increasingly become of great economic significance. Cultural heritage, such as museums, churches, historical landscapes, urban parks, and exhibitions attract many visitors and countries, regions and cities ...
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International Finance
Kirton, John
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754626718
- Páginas: 578
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.203,85 €
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The topic of international finance is of increasing interest in international relations, especially in our twenty-first century globalizing world. This collection provides information and perspectives on international finance of the past, present and future. It ...
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Markets, Trade And Economic Development In England And Europe, 1050-1550
Britnell, R. H.
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754659839
- Páginas: 350
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.101,90 €
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England's economy between 1050 and 1550 mirrored that of much of continental Europe in its growing dependence upon trade over both short distances and long. The essays in this collection are the fruit of forty ...
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Ecotourism And Environmental Sustainability "Principles And Practice"
Principles And PracticeHill, Jennifer
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754672623
- Páginas: 278
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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'Ecotourism' is generally defined as fostering sustainable consumption of natural areas, including educative and conservation-supporting elements. It overlaps with and incorporates characteristics of wildlife, adventure and nature-based tourism, as alternatives to mass tourism. This book ...
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Foreign Direct Investment Externalities And Regional Economic Development
Jordaan, Jacob
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754647294
- Páginas: 220
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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By critically appraising current theories of both Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and agglomeration, this book explores the variety of links that may exist between these two externality-creating phenomena and, for the first time, explores interrelationsips ...
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Globalising Worlds And New Economic Configurations
Tamasy, Christine Taylor, Michael
Ashgate (2008)
- EAN: 9780754673774
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.87,35 €
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Over the last few decades, circuits of capital have been stretched through processes of economic globalisation, leading to complex and hybrid outcomes that result in different modes of production and consumption. Understanding these new economic ...
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Upgrading Clusters And Small Enterprises In Developing Countries "Environmental, Labour, Innovation And Social Issues"
Environmental, Labour, Innovation And Social IssuesPuppim De Oliveira, Jose Antonio
Ashgate (2008)
- EAN: 9780754672975
- Páginas: 180
- Fecha de edición: 2008
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In the last two decades, the concept of cluster has become popular both in academia and in practice. As small and medium sized firms (SMEs) were acknowledged as effective sources of jobs and income, they ...
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Theories Of Local Economic Development "Linking Theory To Practice"
Linking Theory To PracticeRowe, James
Ashgate (2009)
- EAN: 9780754673057
- Páginas: 398
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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In economic development, theory and practice exist as two seemingly separate realities. Academics strive to develop or refine theory by drawing on abstract concepts about the way people behave and institutions work, while practitioners draw ...
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Agricultural Trade And Policy In China
Summer, Daniel A.
Ashgate (2003)
- EAN: 9780754632238
- Páginas: 334
- Fecha de edición: 2003
pvp.101,90 €
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Two decades of reform in China have achieved remarkable agricultural and rural industrial growth, reduced poverty and reversed some environmental degradation, but the rural sector still faces considerable developmental challenges. This book explores the opportunities ...
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China'S Rural Market Development In The Reform Era
Him Chung
Ashgate (2004)
- EAN: 9780754637646
- Páginas: 204
- Fecha de edición: 2004
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The rural market in China is not only the venue where 60 per cent of the country's 1.3 billion inhabitants buy their daily necessities and sell agricultural products, but also a key area of conflict ...
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On The Role Of Paradigms In Finance
Ardalan, Kavous
Ashgate (2008)
- EAN: 9780754645245
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.99,95 €
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Social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four key paradigms: functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist. The four paradigms are founded upon different assumptions about the nature of society and each generates ...
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Technical Change And Economic Growth "Inside The Knowledge Based Economy"
Inside The Knowledge Based EconomyKorres, George
Ashgate (2008)
- EAN: 9781840149920
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.118,30 €
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Technological change is not only a determinant of growth but is also a pivotal factor in international competition and the modernisation of an economy. In one of the most in-depth and detailed studies of its ...