&Quot;Practical Energy Efficiency Optimization presents basic information for optimizing power plants. Whether at a major utility, or at an industrial facility, these formulas are proven to increase power plant efficiency. Review exercises and practical case studies provide real…
"Growing international trade has helped lift living standards around the world, and yet free trade is always under attack. Critics complain that trade forces painful economic adjustments, such as plant closings and layoffs of workers, and charge that the World Trade Organization…
This volume offers a systems approach to learning how to understand and address some of the major complex issues that have emerged in the food industry. The book is broad in coverage and provides a foundation for a practical understanding in food safety initiatives and safety ru…
This text emphasises the economics of labour markets in the US and their relationship to overall economic performance. It will be of value on any course that requires specific material on the diverse subject of labour economics in North America.
The past several decades have seen widespread reform of labour markets across advanced industrial countries, but most of the existing research on job security, wage bargaining, and social protection is based on the experience of the United States and Western Europe. In this book…
"Over four editions, Alison Baverstock's How to Market Books has established itself as the industry standard text on marketing for the publishing industry, and the go-to reference guide for professionals and students alike. With the publishing world changing like never before, a…
The first volume of this handbook explores different aspects of sustainable luxury textiles and fashion, broadly based on the following topics:℗ℓSustainability and business management, Value chain management, Use of materials and Sustainable production processes.
Many of today's most troubling environmental and economic issues have come to seem insoluble: carbon emissions, overshoot, inequality, joblessness, and a dysfunctional food system. Can we change direction, move away from business as usual, and achieve a more sustainable, empower…
This timely book analyses the relationship between trade unions, immigration and migrant workers across eleven European countries in the period between the 1990s and 2015. It constitutes an extensive update of a previous comparative analysis - published by Rinus Penninx and Judi…
This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers from the 22nd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference in Rome. It gathers scholarly contributions on the latest applied economics research from developing countries such as Croati…
Comprised of specially commissioned essays, this handbook provides an overview of alternative theories of economic growth. It highlights issues such as the relationship between finance and growth, the interplay of trend and cycle and the role of aggregate demand in the long run.
"This book frames the evolutionary path of medicine and provides a useful forecasting model. Tracing health spending from ancient times to the present with a single ratio, health expenditures as a share of income, reveals an s-shaped growth curve, rising rapidly after science ma…
Migration in the modern world, rather than being seen as a symptom or result of underdevelopment, is now understood more as a route towards development and a strategy for alleviating poverty. This study of Albania is significant in this new debate on migration and development.
Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.
Entrepreneurship in context
by Gelderen, Marco van, Masurel, Enno
fromRoutledge studies in entrepreneurship
Much research in entrepreneurship presents results as if they are universally and timelessly valid. 'Entrepreneurship in Context' takes the opposite tack: it studies entrepreneurship as a context bound phenomenon.