Authors:Darrin Grimsey, Mervyn K. Lewi,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: provision, project, finance, infrastructure, revolution, private, partnerships, worldwide, public
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2007-04-07
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1847202268
ISBN-13: 9781847202260

This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies. One outstanding feature of the book is that it brings together an academic assessment of this phenomenon with practitioner-based experience of organizing partnerships and advising government bodies in Australia, Canada, Continental Europe, Hong Kong and the UK. While the volume, as a whole, draws on this extensive experience of the market, there are als

Author: Hans Visser
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: theories, systems, policies, rate, exchange, international, monetary, economics, guide
Number of Pages: 259
Published: 2006-01-06
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1845426932
ISBN-13: 9781845426934

Now in its third incarnation, this widely acclaimed and popular text has again been fully updated and revised by the author. There is a bewildering array of models to explain the volatility of exchange rates since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s. It is therefore invaluable that Hans Visser is able to bring method to this ‘model madness’ by grouping the various theories according to the time period for which their explanation is relevant, and further subdividing them according to their assumptions as to price flexibility and international financial asset substituta

Author: Charlie Karlsso
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: handbook, research, policies, clusters, cluster, innovation, cases
Number of Pages: 461
Published: 2008-12-30
List price: $235.00
ISBN-10: 1847208428
ISBN-13: 9781847208422

The role of innovations and clusters has increasingly dominated local and regional development policies in recent decades. This authoritative and accessible Handbook considers important aspects of high-tech clusters, analyses insightful cluster case studies, and provides a number of recommendations for cluster policies. The chapters in this Handbook are written by international experts in the field and present evidence of the scope, effects, and potential of clusters as concentrations of innovative activities. The authors emphasize that cluster development is not the only option for local and

Author: Robert Boyer
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: economic, gobain, centre, series, saint, studies, old, growth, new, becomes, future
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1843766078
ISBN-13: 9781843766070

In this book, Robert Boyer follows the origins, course and collapse of the ‘new economy’ and proposes a new interpretation of US dynamism during the 1990s. He argues that the diffusion of information and communication technologies is only part of a story that also requires understanding of the transformation of the financial system, the reorganization of the management of firms and the emergence of a new policy mix. The book includes a long-term retrospective analysis of technological innovation, and an international comparison of OECD countries delivers an unconventional and critical assess

Author: Frederique Six
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: building, interpersonal, dynamics, trouble
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1847206409
ISBN-13: 9781847206404

"The Trouble with Trust" poses the question: if trust is considered to be important for successful cooperation, why don’t high-trust work relationships predominate? Part of the explanation, the author argues, is that it is particularly difficult to build and maintain trust in work relations. This book addresses this problem by providing an in-depth, multi-level empirical analysis of the process by which trust builds up and breaks down in the interaction between people within organizations. The author illustrates how trust works as an interactive and asymmetrical process, how trust is bui

Authors:M. Kabir Hassan, Mervyn K. Lewi,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: banking, islamic, handbook
Number of Pages: 443
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 1848444737
ISBN-13: 9781848444737

The Handbook of Islamic Banking comprises 25 studies by leading international experts on Islamic banking and finance specially commissioned to analyse the various debates and the current state of play in the field. From its origins thirty years ago, Islamic banking has expanded rapidly to become a distinctive and fast growing segment of the international banking and capital markets. Despite this expansion, Islamic banking still remains poorly understood in many parts of the Muslim world and continues to be a mystery in much of the West. This comprehensive Handbook provides a succinct analysis

Author: Alejo Jose G. Siso
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: horizons, leadership, studies, series, new, perspective, governance, ethics, aristotelian, corporate
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2008-09-08
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 1845427467
ISBN-13: 9781845427467

Corporate Governance and Ethics is an illuminating and practical reading of Aristotle’s Politics for today’s corporate directors. With a deft synthesis of ethics, economics and politics, Alejo Sison elevates the discussion of corporate governance out of the realm of abstract rules and structures into a more effective form of Aristotelian politics. He argues that corporate governance is a human practice where subjective, ethical conditions outweigh the mastery of techniques, since the firm is not a mere production function but, above all, a community of workers. Corporate governance