Faced with unprecedented socioeconomic changes, China has increasingly embraced collaborative governance (CG), the sharing…

Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and social…

This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both…

This book critically examines the operation of the partial defence of provocation in a range of comparative international…

Drawing upon a wide range of interviews with many of the key actors, Andrew Dorman examines how defence policy was…

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This book demonstrates that, when reforming the water sector, policymakers should arrange social policies that mitigate the…

Eskom is a South African company that has developed from a state utility under apartheid into a competitive state-owned…

This book examines the various channels and transmission mechanisms, such as greater openness to trade and foreign…

An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a…

The book examines the effect of various public policies on economic performance in Japan. Various public policies include…

Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume…

Hella Engerer analyses the emergence, evolution and theory of property rights and establishes the limits for privatization…

The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers' interpretation of linguistic…

Beyond Inclusion adopts a holistic and systems view of the organization, presents a behavioral model of organizational…

He argues that the growth of unemployment and long-term unemployment is mainly due to a lack of aggregated demand and not…

This book examines the range of meanings attributed to the concept of empire in the medieval and early modern world,…

This book is a collection of specially commissioned chapters from philosophers, economists, and political scientists,…

In Religion, Ethnicity and Social Change the author argues that the recent focus on religious fundamentalism in ethnic…

The first study, based on instances of everyday talk, to analyze prosodic orientation, a conversational strategy by which…

A casebook that discusses all the mega mergers and acquisitions in terms of value, that have happened in different industry…

Why do people join social movements? These central questions in the study of social movements are newly investigated in this…

Batley and Larbi examine how governments of developing countries are organized to deliver public services. Governments…

This book examines the role of competence, organization and strategies of firms in industrial dynamics linking economic,…

This book examines the impact of globalization on employment, income distribution and poverty reduction in developing…

The volume is at the forefront of the academic and policy debates on effective labour regulation, offering innovative…

The volume focuses on privatisation in transition countries, addressing issues ranging from corporate governance to the…

This is a global study of government subsidies to attract investment. The book shows how corporations use site selection as…

Contested Spaces is a global study of sites of conflict, places of loss, fear, resistance and pilgrimage where the…

This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions…

In a lively critique of how international and comparative political economy misjudge the relationship between global markets…

An examination of population movements, both forced and voluntary, within the broader context of Europe in the aftermath of…

This book relates Hegel to preceding and succeeding political philosophers. The relevance of Hegel to contemporary political…

The morality of sex, violence and money is at the centre of much human life. While the first two have been subject to…

Drawing from detailed case studies from across islands in the diverse archipelagic country, it contends that commercial…

This book examines the factors involved in the social mediation of risks, the social construction of reality, and…

This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes…

Drawing on contemporary debates and responding to an analytic lacuna in organization and management studies and calls from…

The work of motivation and consumer researcher Ernest Dichter was a milestone in the psychological creation of the modern…

The book examines selected faith-based organisations (FBOs) and their attempts to seek to influence debate and…

In a series of interviews this book explores the formative experiences of a generation of critical theorists whose work…

Andreotti illustrates how postcolonial theory is applied in the contexts of educational research/critique and in pioneering…

First published in 1980, this contribution to political thought is a statement of the traditional conservative position.…

In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding…

This study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations presents many well-known figures from the period…

An exciting new collection by world-leading researchers in L2 learning addressing: Why do conceptions of 'learning' vary so…

This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film…

This book challenges the mainstream paradigm, based on the inter-temporal optimisation of welfare by individual agents. It…