Economy & Finance

This book presents a fresh perspective into the nuances of ECSRS education especially with reference to the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) pedagogy and framework in a novel context; the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This book brings together all the latest methodologies, tools and techniques related to the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence in a single volume to build insight into their use in sustainable living.

All over the world, vast research is in progress on the domain of industry 4.0 and related techniques. Industry 4.0 is expected to have a very high impact on labor markets, global value chains, education, health, environment, and many social economic aspects.

This book describes how Human Factors and Sensemaking can be used as part of the concept and design of safety critical systems, in order to improve safety and resilience.

What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong?   In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research a big question: why does gun violence happen, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades later, the answers aren't what he expected. Unforgiving Places is Ludwig's revelatory portrait of gun violence in America's most famously maligned city.   Disproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually grow out of a more fleeting source: interpersonal conflict, especially arguments. By examining why some arguments turn tragic and others don't, Ludwig reveals gun violence in America to be more comprehensible-and more solvable-than our traditional approaches suggest.   Drawing on decades of research and Ludwig's immersive fieldwork in Chicago, including "countless hours in schools, parks, playgrounds, housing developments, courtrooms, jails, police stations, police cars, and lots and lots of McDonald's," Unforgiving Places is a breakthrough work at the cutting edge of behavioral economics. As Ludwig shows, progress on gun violence doesn't require America to solve every other social problem first; it only requires that we find ways to intervene in the places and the ten-minute windows where human behaviors predictably go haywire.

Business corporations are political entities and need to be considered as such. Seeing Like a Firm invites readers to do just that by providing a political theory of the business firm. It argues that firms 'see' in a conservative way and embrace a 'conservatism of commerce' that requires socioeconomic inequality. By offering a new interpretation of conservatism based not on preserving the existing system but on an 'aesthetics of inequality', Néron provides an alternative way to think about the main challenges that proponents of equality face.

Informationen stellen insbesondere in der Wirtschaft und bei der Teilhabe an Unternehmen die Grundlage für fundierte Entscheidungen dar. Es verwundert daher nicht, dass in Rechtspolitik und täglicher Praxis der Kapitalgesellschaften die Thematik der Informationsbereitstellung eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Aktuelle Brisanz erlangte das Themenfeld rund um Informationspflichten der Aktiengesellschaft mit dem In-Kraft-Treten des ARUG II, welches das bestehende Informationssystem um zusätzliche Pflichten erweiterte. Der Autor beleuchtet neben der Ausgestaltung des Informationssystems das in diesem Hinblick bestehende Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Kommunikation, Informationsfluss und Transparenz einerseits sowie Systemkohärenz, Handlungsfähigkeit und Vertraulichkeit andererseits. Zudem wird die Frage beantwortet, ob die bestehenden und neuen Pflichten mit Verfassungs- und Unionsprimärrecht vereinbar sind und ob sie sich in das deutsche System einfügen oder ob es sich um Fremdkörper handelt.

Examining the roots of decisional errors stemming from biases, shortcuts, and reliance on incentives, Yildirim offers a deeper understanding of the influences on modern healthcare decisions and provides an avenue to guide the design of a more effective healthcare system which fosters improved mutual understanding among stakeholders.

This volume offers cutting-edge theoretical and empirical analysis on the challenges that small states face in multilateral economic negotiations and also how they can bargain more effectively.This book was published as a special issue of The Round Table.

This book aims to show the social and economic consequences of a model of economic growth based on massive investments by financial capital on real-state dvelopments as well as some urban proposals and policies that have been put into practice along the last decade.This book was published a sa special issue of Urban Research and Pract

This is the first book to systematically examine the full cost of labour migration, and is intended as a primer for evidence-based policy for reducing the costs of international labour mobility.

A seminal volume in the burgeoning sociology of ignorance, this collection introduces theoretical and empirical tools for studying the productive uses of ignorance in political, social and legal organizations. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society.

The competitiveness of local and regional clusters vis-à-vis the challenge set by increasing globalization. The global dispersion of production is currently increased by formation of global business networks that can make regional and national innovation systems replaceable. All this weakens the resilience of clusters. What solution may be envis

This book shows that sustainable development should be analysed and managed as an innovation journey in which social, technological, political and cultural dimensions become aligned.This book was published as a special issue of Technology Analysis & Strategic Management.

This book is concerned with developing new ideas on economic policies designed for equitable and sustainable development.This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Review of Applied Economics.