Economy & Finance

Building on evidence from international experience, this book provides grounded solutions to challenges affecting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), particularly in Africa, and offers guidance on how to build resilience to counteract future shocks.

Through a sample comparative historical study focusing on the question of the emergence of the large-scale steel industry (1880-1914) of four chosen countries it is shown how the yardstick of parity can be applied without the categorization of societies as either developed or underdeveloped.

This is the final volume in a four-book miniseries dealing with disruption in audit and financial reporting, this last book focusing on the importance of developing the purpose and concept of auditing in a holistic rather than piecemeal way, whilst reflecting on the case for audit reform.

This book comprehensively explores the messy and contested relationship between everyday practices of remittance sending and receiving, processes of market making, and operations of micro- and global finance.

The number one textbook for intermediate macroeconomics courses since its first edition, this title is known for conveying the cutting edge in macroeconomics theory, research, and policy to the classroom, explaining complex concepts with exceptional clarity.

This book explores the origins and evolution of China's institutions and communist totalitarianism in general. Contemporary China's fundamental institution is communist totalitarianism. Introducing the concept of "institutional genes" (IGs), the book examines how the IGs institutional genes of Soviet Russia merged with those of the Chinese imperial system, creating a durable totalitarian regime with Chinese characteristics - Regionally Administered Totalitarianism. Institutional Genes are fundamental institutional elements that self-replicate and guide institutional changes and are empirically identifiable. By analyzing the origins and evolution of IGs institutional genes in communist totalitarianism from Europe and Russia, as well as those from the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Communist Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and post-Mao reforms, the book elucidates the rise and progression of communist totalitarianism in China. The ascent of communist China echoes Mises' warning that efforts to halt totalitarianism have failed. Reversing this trend necessitates a thorough understanding of totalitarianism.

This book looks at the changing global economy through legal phenomena, specifically at the changes in legal orders since the 2000s. This volume scrutinizes the past, present and the future and discusses what the global legal order in economic fields after the Covid-19 pandemic could be like.

Die Reihe ¿Innovatives Wissensmanagement" führt Theorie und Praxis zusammen, indem nicht nur fachtheoretische Arbeiten, sondern auch innovative Konzepte, neuartige Lösungsansätze für aktuelle Herausforderungen sowie anwendungsbezogene Fallstudien aus den verschiedensten Branchen vorgestellt werden. Der multidisziplinäre Ansatz der Schriftenreihe erlaubt es überdies, die Themenbereiche Innovationsmanagement und Wissensmanagement zu verknüpfen und aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven zu beleuchten.Der vorliegende Band widmet sich in erster Linie aktuellen Problemen und deren Lösungen durch Wissensmanagement.

This book explores the transformation of the American-led alliances, as well as of US allies' responses to potential American disengagement from regional security amid the rising Russian and Chinese threats. It comes with 4 new chapters and a revised Introduction. The other chapters were originally published in Asian Affairs.

Using climate justice as an analytical tool, this volume examines the role of local mitigation and adaptation actions in Southern Africa.

This book discusses smart technologies and their influence in the field of manufacturing and industrial systems engineering, in the context of performability enhancement, and explores the development of the workforce for the execution of such smart and advanced technologies.

This book emphasises the need to empower marginalised communities to contribute to decision-making processes within policy realms.

Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of "capital," departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills offer an expanded perspective on Marxian value theory by addressing its main limitations and building their own integrative value theory.