Economy & Finance

This collection examines a key new development in the contemporary marketing landscape, the relationship between the informal exchange of information and advice among consumers - known as word of mouth (WOM) - and emerging social media.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Marketing Communications.

This book brings into focus social patterns and policies of the Southern Rim of Europe and asks if there is a special Southern social pattern, comparable to the Nordic, Continental, and Anglo-Saxon Welfare regimes. This question has a new political and socio-economic relevance with the current debt and finance crisis of these countries.Th

This volume explores the relationships between economic development and community development practice and research. It centers on the role that economic development plays in community structures and processes, as well as the influences and impacts it holds. This book is a compilation of articles published in the Journal of the Commun

In this collection, academics and policy-makers from Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore present research results on a variety of topics based around three key themes: macroeconomics and trade, labour and social issues, and taxes and government spending. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of th

Cooperatives are an alternative organizational structure for fostering collaborative process and outcomes in communities. Centered on the power of participation by members, coops serve as a "model" means for achieving desired goals and outcomes.This book is a compilation of articles published in the journal Community Development.

The economy is commonly described either as the apolitical realm of calculation or as the fully political one of domination. This book scrutinizes the ways in which the economy is performed, in order to situate where precisely politics is located with regard to economic matters.This book was originally published as a special issue of the

This book presents, uniquely, a variety of cases from differing national and international contexts that enable a valuable, comparative analysis of policy transferring and learning that is absent from most books currently available. These cases suggest a number of exciting research directions with implications for policy making, transference and

This book answers the questions on the ways in which the ongoing global economic crisis is transforming international political hegemony.This book was published as a special issue of Global Discourse.

From the time of Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" through the Great Depression, American towns and cities sought to lure footloose companies by offering lavish benefits

Gambling is a fascinating subject which for many centuries has attracted public interest. Yet, despite its ubiquity, gambling leads a marginal existence within the boundaries of scholarly research. This title promotes a historical understanding of the subject enriched with a diverse academic approach that draws upon sociology, economics and psychol

This book assesses the changing role of its markets and managers in the PRC and examines the next steps in the evolution of its management theory and practice.This book was published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.

This book provides an introduction to the major perspectives in critical marketing studies and contains theoretical reflections on critical marketing whilst building on the key concepts and ideas through detailed empirical studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Marketing Management.

In this innovative and insightful collection, an international selection of leading management scholars explore key topics in current organizational discourse, including networked organizations, control and ambiguity, technologies, work and responsibility, extending Bauman's liquid modernity to the "liquid organization".

This book addresses the relationship between food consumption, status and power at the royal courts of Europe in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The volume addresses issues of social networks, prestige, politics and diplomacy, banquets and their design, income and spending, economic aims, taste and preference, cultural innovations, so

This book provides fundamental notions of information and its consequences for information service success, business models and processes, and architecture and exploitation. These topics are essential for modern curricula of management, communication science and information systems, and for anyone in search of a foundational understanding of inf

Taxation: A Fieldwork Research Handbook opens up new avenues of enquiry in the research of taxation by introducing tax as a field of enormous potential for research to all social scientists and offering suggestions on how research might be conducted into actual tax practice, rather than abstract models.