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Advances in digital technologies continue to impact all areas of
life, including the business sector. Digital transformation is
ascertained to usher in the digitalized economy and involves new
concepts and management tools that must be considered in the
context of management science and practice. For business leaders to
ensure their companies remain competitive and relevant, it is
essential for them to utilize these innovative technologies and
strategies. The Handbook of Research on Digital Transformation
Management and Tools highlights new digital concepts within
management, such as digitalization and digital disruption, and
addresses the paradigm shift in management science incurred by the
digital transformation towards the digitalized economy. Covering a
range of important topics such as cultural economy, online consumer
behavior, sustainability, and social media, this major reference
work is crucial for managers, business owners, researchers,
scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.
Sustainable development has always been a contested concept and has
been extensively debated over the last 30 years with new
classifications arising since then. There was a previous push for
the radical transformations of the market economy to downscale
production and consumption that would increase human well-being and
enhance ecological conditions. Because of this conflict, there was
a need for a new model that challenges and could be the alternative
for the liner economy; this new model is called the circular
economy. A circular economy aimed at eliminating waste and the
continual use of resources. It gained its ground in the era of
disruptive technological advancement and a dynamic global value
chain. By supporting resource-efficient industrial models, the
circular economy preserves and improves natural capital, optimizes
the value of resources, and abolishes negative environmental
externalities such as pollution. Examining the Intersection of
Circular Economy, Forestry, and International Trade explores the
link between the circular economy and various aspects of the
business and environment to understand the usage and viability of
adapting the circular economy from a business perspective. The
chapters highlight the transition to the circular economy, its
implementation across society, its intersection with forestry and
international trade, and the solutions and challenges of the
circular economy. This book is aimed at researchers in the field of
business management, economics, and environmental studies along
with practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and
students looking for more information on the various fields
impacting the circular economy as well as the implementation,
usage, and viability of a widespread adoption of a circular
economy.
This detailed and perceptive book examines the extent and scope of
how rules for accession to the WTO may vary between countries,
approaching the concerns that some countries enter with a better
deal than others. Dylan Geraets critiques these additional ?rules?
and aims to answer the question of whether new Members of the WTO
are under stricter rules than the original Members, whilst
analysing the accession process to the multilateral trading system.
Taking an integrated approach, the author combines the results of a
Mapping Exercise of all 36 Protocols of accession with a legal
analysis of the decisions by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body
involving Protocols of Accession. In doing so, this book provides
the first comprehensive analysis of the issue of Member-specific
?WTO-Plus? commitments in Protocols of Accession. Whilst addressing
the institutional and historical aspects of the WTO accession
process, it provides a vital update to the existing scholarship on
WTO accession, offering coverage of all accessions including those
of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Liberia. Accession to the World
Trade Organization will be invaluable reading for academics
interested in WTO accession practice, as well as lawyers,
practitioners and government officials in the field of WTO
accession.
A critical analysis of contemporary art collections and the value
form, this book shows why the nonprofit system is unfit to
administer our common collections, and offers solutions for
diversity reform and redistributive restructuring. In the United
States, institutions administered by the nonprofit system have an
ambiguous status as they are neither entirely private nor fully
public. Among nonprofits, the museum is unique as it is the only
institution where trustees tend to collect the same objects they
hold in "public trust" on behalf of the nation, if not humanity.
The public serves as alibi for establishing the symbolic value of
art, which sustains its monetary value and its markets. This
structure allows for wealthy individuals at the helm to gain
financial benefits from, and ideological control over, what is at
its core purpose a public system. The dramatic growth of the art
market and the development of financial tools based on
art-collateral loans exacerbate the contradiction between the needs
of museum leadership versus that of the public. Indeed, a history
of private support in the US is a history of racist discrimination,
and the common collections reflect this fact. A history of how
private collections were turned public gives context. Since the
late Renaissance, private collections legitimized the prince's
right to rule, and later, with the great revolutions, display
consolidated national identity. But the rise of the American museum
reversed this and re-privatized the public collection. A
materialist description of the museum as a model institution of the
liberal nation state reveals constellations of imperialist social
relations.
This book makes a contribution towards the development of M&A
pedagogy. The book is based on an empirical study on UK listed
companies, which focuses on the impact of the acquiring firm's
motives for acquisition on the post-acquisition performance.
Findings suggest a strong correlation between merger motives and
post-acquisition performances and have practical implications for
re-searchers, practitioners, and policy makers. M&A is a
phenomenon that focuses on the growth of businesses. As a result of
on-going globalisation and continued economic development, M&A
is increasing on an expedited trajectory across the globe. The
education and training need as a consequence of the eruption of
this phenomenon, which may enable managers, CEOs, and investors to
under-stand the art of M&A, is therefore axiomatic. This book
has been designed to satisfy the growing management education
/training requirement and in particular it aims to offer a
reference point in the territory for business management educators.
Chad Jones's Macroeconomics teaches students to think like modern
macroeconomists, with strong and engaging growth coverage and a
more intuitive approach to models. Praised by adopters for its
clear explanations, flexible organisation, timely case studies,
data and emphasis on problem solving, Macroeconomics gives students
the practical tools they need to understand and analyse the
macroeconomy. This innovative text makes macroeconomics less
complicated without sacrificing rigour.
Comparing Income Distributions brings together John Creedy's recent
original research and analyses of income distribution. The book is
concerned with both static, or cross-sectional, comparisons, and
dynamic aspects of income mobility. The author presents new methods
of depicting and measuring income mobility and poverty persistence.
Income mobility is explored in terms of individuals' relative
income changes and their positional changes within the
distribution. The first half of the book covers a range of
technical aspects of inequality measurement, including less
well-known properties of inequality indices, and the decomposition
of inequality changes into component contributions. The second half
explores various aspects of the graphical display and measurement
of income mobility. While the focus of the book is on methods,
illustrative examples are provided using New Zealand data. Graduate
students, public sector economists, and researchers interested in
income distribution will welcome this important work.
Coronavirus caused a significant tourism crisis in Portugal in
2020. This book aims to analyze the situation and proposes
practical local solidarity and business models for information and
knowledge dissemination about/against the pandemic causes/impact.
It includes suggestions and rules to be used by social actors to
better cope with Covid-19. These suggestions may augment their
social solidarity, inclusive practices, citizenship education, and
lifelong learning opportunities, within a safe, resilient, and
sustainable city. Such recommendations may also inspire other
socioeconomic stakeholders, medium/small corporations, ONGs,
associations, and local communities to develop and diffuse such
instruments. The book aims to revitalize cultural tourism
industries and services during and after the Covid-19 pandemic by
helping create jobs in the areas of restoration, leisure, and
culture via enhancement of knowledge transfer among universities,
innovating industries, tourism agencies, museums, etc. This book is
ideal for researchers, teachers, students, and other social agents
within scientific communities, in connection with the
above-mentioned scientific purposes, applied to technological and
social needs.
Water covers some 75% of the earth's surface, while land covers
25%, approximately. Yet the former accounts for less than 1% of
world GDP, the latter 99% plus. Part of the reason for this
imbalance is that there are more people located on land than water.
But a more important explanation is that while land is privately
owned, water is unowned (with the exception of a few small lakes
and ponds), or governmentally owned (rivers, large lakes). This
gives rise to the tragedy of the commons: when something is
unowned, people have less of an incentive to care for it, preserve
it, and protect it, than when they own it. As a result we have oil
spills, depletion of fish stocks, threatened extinction of some
species (e.g. whales), shark attacks, polluted and dried-up rivers,
misallocated water, unsafe boating, piracy, and other indices of
economic disarray which, if they had occurred on the land, would
have been more easily identified as the result of the tragedy of
the commons and/or government ownership and mismanagement. The
purpose of this book is to make the case for privatization of all
bodies of water, without exception. In the tragic example of the
Soviet Union, the 97% of the land owned by the state accounted for
75% of the crops. On the 3% of the land privately owned, 25% of the
crops were grown. The obvious mandate requires that we privatize
the land, and prosper. The present volume applies this lesson, in
detail, to bodies of water.
In Progress and Poverty, economist Henry George scrutinizes the
connection between population growth and distribution of wealth in
the economy of the late nineteenth century. The initial portions of
the book are occupied with refuting the demographic theories of
Thomas Malthus, who asserted that the vast abundance of goods
generated by an economy's growth was spent on food. Consequently
the population rises, keeping living standards low, poverty
widespread, and starvation and disease common. Henry George had a
different attitude: that poverty could be solved and economic
progress preserved. To prove this, he draws upon decades of data
which show that the increase in land prices restrains the amount of
production on said land; business owners thus have less to pay
their workers, with the result being mass poverty especially within
cities.
The second edition of this important textbook introduces students
to the fundamental ideas of heterodox economics. It is written in a
clear way by top heterodox scholars. This introductory book offers
not only a critique of the dominant approach to economics, but also
presents a positive and constructive alternative. Students
interested in an explanation of the real world will find the
heterodox approach not only satisfying, but ultimately better able
to explain a money-using economy prone to periods of instability
and crises. Key features of this textbook include: A
non-conventional understanding of economic analysis on a number of
relevant topics A new analysis of the state of macroeconomics Deep
and convincing criticism of orthodox thinking Discussion of the
crucial importance of money, banking and finance today New
discussions of the theories of consumption and investment Analysis
of the roots of the 2008 global financial crisis A presentation of
the features of sustainable development. Students of economics at
all levels can use this textbook to deepen their understanding of
the heterodox approach, the fundamental roots of the 2008 global
financial crisis and the need to rethink economics afresh.
This forward-thinking book examines the potential impacts of the
Covid-19 pandemic on productivity. Productivity and the Pandemic
features 21 chapters authored by 46 experts, examining different
aspects of how the pandemic is likely to impact on the economy,
society and governance in the medium- and long-term. Drawing on a
range of empirical evidence, analytical arguments and new
conceptual insights, the book challenges our thinking on many
dimensions. With a keen focus on place, firms, production factors
and institutions, the chapters highlight how the pre-existing
challenges to productivity have been variously exacerbated and
mitigated by the pandemic and points out ways forward for
appropriate policy-thinking in response to the crisis. An important
read for scholars and students interested in the impact of the
pandemic, this book will also be an invigorating read for
economists and policy-makers looking for more information on how
the pandemic and resulting economic recession is affecting
productivity.
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