This book explains the design thinking approach both for designing new services and delivering the services. This approach itself can be applied to areas other than pure services, because it contains the innovative and intrinsic ingredients that can be applied to any human activ…
"Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communications equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to i…
A study of the methods used to analyse fertility and mortality, this book explores population dynamics and population projections and examines the fundamental principles behind most demographic methods.
Revised textbook on public finance.
For more than a century the creation of national parks and protected areas was a major threat to the survival of indigenous peoples. Parks based on wilderness ideals outlawed traditional ways of life and forced from their homelands peoples who had shaped and preserved local ecos…
"Much current writing about agrarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations such as debt bondage are archaic forms, destined to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. Here it is argued that the incidence of bonded labour is much greater than gene…
"At a time when social welfare is undergoing structural economic change, this text puts the important emerging field of social development into the hands of the student. Inspired by the conceptual insights of contemporary political economy, social development offers a macro view…
International human rights and indigenous peoples
"This exciting new book is the only one of its kind. International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples (Aspen Elective Series) will be the first published compilation of materials and commentary intended for use in courses focusing on the subject of indigenous peoples within the…
Three experts in Human Resources introduce a measurement system that convincingly showcases how HR impacts business performance. Drawing from the authors' ongoing study of nearly 3,000 firms, this book describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm's ove…
Reviews important developments related to the internationalization of financial issues and their implications for the economic growth and development of nations since 1970. The book contains 22 essays grouped under six headings: Part I: The Scope of the Volume; Part II: The Maas…
Comprises a collection of papers on a wide range of subjects related to globalization and the roles of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry explores how tourism is defined and examines whether or not tourism can be conceptualized as an industry. Detailed analyses of key sectors of the travel and tourism industry, such as tour operators, airlines and the hotel industry, …
In the wake of the global financial crisis, there is a new impetus for industrial policy. In Europe and the United States, where the crisis emphasized that markets are by themselves imperfect, industrial policy has re-entered the dialogue about restoring growth. And in emerging …
"In his worldwide bestseller The Innovator's Dilemma, Christensen explained how industry leaders get blindsided by disruptive innovations precisely because they focus too closely on their most profitable customers and businesses. The Innovator's Solution shows how companies get …
Presenting the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a constantly evolving field with direct impact on organizational strategies and success, this work links numerous subjects such as strategy, marketing and ethics, encouraging a multidisciplinary approach to this sub…