The book provides a comprehensive study of the banking system in Cyprus from the time that the first bank was founded on the…

Economakis analyses the processes of proletarianization and urbanization undergone by St. Petersburg's industrial working…

An examination of his fiction and nonfiction reveals Huxley's significance for cross-disciplinary debates between religion,…

The Death of Life dissects biology's claim to be the Cinderella science that rose above its station. Early attempts to study…

In an age when continued financial and other support for teaching and research in sociology cannot be taken for granted,…

This volume provides a timely and revealing account of women's constitutional strategies and struggles. It compares and…

Based on a decade of study, this book provides a scholarly overview of organic dairy politics, showing how politics, policy,…

This book explores the disastrous economic consequences of pseudo lending for pseudo reforms that occurred when the IMF, as…

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This book sets the experiences of former communist countries as they head towards capitalism against the 'varieties of…

This volume considers the spread of Spanish today and particularly its role in the processes of globalization. Spanish is…

This is an edited collection of items on unionism worldwide, recognising the crisis that an informatised and globalised…

Economic development is a necessary but not sufficient condition for welfare development. This book examines complex…

This book takes a distinctive and innovative approach to a relatively under-explored question, namely: Why do we have human…

The marriage of neuroscience and the science of choice behaviour gave birth to neuroeconomics. Jan de Jong explores this new…

This text takes a view of the crucial issues involved in supply chain management. The discussion introduces the concept of…

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The behaviour of fiscal authorities and their interplay with budgetary institutions are increasingly important areas of…

At the beginning of the transition process, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe faced the task of creating a…

John Adair is one of the most important figures on leadership thought and practice. This book shows the depth of his…

This book consists of a collection of essays that deal with glocalization in Europe, including the idea of Europeanization…

This book explores how young people perceive the severity of crime and delinquency. In so doing, it offers thick description…

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Both quantitative and qualitative analysis is used to review China's stock market in a book containing the latest research…

During the 1980s, deregulation became adopted as a slogan and set of practices which by setting market forces free could…

This book evaluates three decades of change in employment and social regulation, questioning the paradigm of Post-Fordism as…

Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since…

This book studies the main causes, consequences and nature of the Asia-Pacific's new free trade agreement (FTA) trend, and…

This book reviews the character and impacts of 'actually-existing' neoliberalism in Ireland. It examines the…

This books looks specifically at ICT adoption and learning trajectories in developing countries; a context characterized by…

A new look at nearly 20 years of theoretical and practical research on IT outsourcing. The book explores how good IT…

As places face increased competition for human and capital resources, public managers turn toward corporate-like governance…

How can European societies more effectively promote the active engagement of immigrants and their children in the political…

Through the analysis of institutional dynamics Kwon argues that social policy development in Korea is not due to common…

This book investigates the role of the Irish language movement in the social construction of competing versions of Irish…

Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory this book historicizes psychoanalysis through a new, and significant,…

This volume is a timely survey of the changes that have been occurring in South African politics and society since the…

The book presents a novel multi-level approach capturing how trade unions and labor rights NGOs have mobilized along…

This comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley features entries on all…

Using a Schumpeterian approach, this book views competitiveness as the outcome of rivalry and competition between industries…

This book provides a theoretical framework to explain the formation and growth of economic agglomerations and industrial…

This book broadens the scope of Latina/o criticism to include both widely-read and understudied nineteenth through…

This book provides a critical reading of Foucault's writings on the archaeology of political economy, analyzing some of…

This book examines and illustrates the potential of narrative technology, the integration and synthesis of storytelling and…

This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in…

Through case studies this volume provides evidence that a link between sourcing capabilities and organizational structure…

This book provides a comparative study of the use of partnerships and new forms of governance to achieve policy goals that…

This book provides a fascinating analysis of the external and internal linkages that have for decades impeded economic and…

The strategic concepts and tools illustrated in this book provide a framework for devising and implementing strategies…

This book examines the treatment of suspects in interrogation and explores issues surrounding the right to silence.…

This book, based upon a large-scale research project, examines alternative types of exchange rate policies being pursued and…