“Crouching Tiger”
The Irish software industry faces new challenges from competitors like India. This volume explores attitudes towards software process quality in both nations, comparing their implementation and concluding with recommendations to support Irish competitiveness.
Eminent scholars and administrators analyze fiscal federalism, centre-state relations, and decentralization. This collection addresses growing fiscal stress and offers strategies for sustainability for national and sub-national governments in a globalized world.
Multidimensional Poverty among Social Groups in Kerala
This book investigates multidimensional poverty among social groups in Kerala, India. It highlights the disparity hidden within the state’s famed human development achievements, revealing an intra-state mirage and exploring the socio-cultural barriers facing marginalized groups.
This book assesses the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of farming enterprises, focusing on Bulgarian farms under the EU CAP. It identifies crucial factors and perspectives for improving sustainability, appealing to researchers, farmers, and policy-makers.
Driver distraction results in 340,000 roadway deaths annually. While most research covers personal vehicles, this book focuses specifically on transit bus driver distractions. It is an essential guide for transit agencies and professionals involved in transportation safety.
Using primary sources, this book reconstructs the international disputes sparked when early 20th-century Italy created a state monopoly on life insurance. It is an interesting debate on the relationship between public and private and the rise of the “entrepreneurial state.”
Sports Journalism in the Age of Paterno
For decades, sports journalists made Joe Paterno an American hero. When a devastating scandal revealed the villain beneath, they had to confront their profession. This book examines an industry that built a monster and asks: Is sports journalism journalism at all?
Performance of Public and Private Mining Firms in India
Are private mining firms in India better than public ones? This book compares their productivity, environmental, and social compliance. It finds private firms are more productive, but both sectors fail to comply with environmental and social regulations.
Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
This guide to age-oriented transmission schemes integrates space, air, ground, and sea networks into a single architecture. A comprehensive resource for professionals and newcomers, it provides a current understanding of efficient, flexible network design.
This book offers a unique financial evaluation of all forest ecosystem services and their contribution to economic sectors. The reader will find answers and results in this book to help them account for all the benefits that a forest offers.
Media and COVID-19
This book dives into media dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring how traditional and social media coped with uncertainty and the surge of misinformation. Through a case study of Israel, it reveals key lessons for journalists, policymakers, and media consumers alike.
Disability Pension
This much-needed treaty on long-term sick leave and disability benefits is a unique book on insurance medicine. It tackles the difficult aspects of patient evaluation, ethics, medical criteria, and rehabilitation from an international perspective. Essential for all stakeholders.
This book details China’s strategy for blockchain payment systems, providing a theoretical framework for its developing role. Analyzing the efficiency, cost, and risk of blockchain in cross-border payments, it offers policy suggestions and vital insights for countries worldwide.
Rural Industry Development
This book explores the “whole of chain approach” to improve farmers’ livelihoods in developing countries. It provides a methodology to evaluate this approach and offers lessons for practitioners, policymakers, and businesses on linking farmers to the market.
Publishers, Profits and Poverty
In 19th-century Bohemian Fleet Street, radical publishers campaigned for political reform while a market for sensational literature boomed. This book charts the lives of around 100 of these figures, highlighting new information about the forgotten pioneers of popular literature.
The Influence of Smart Buildings on Smart Cities
Explore smart buildings, the technologies shaping them, and their impact on urban life. This accessible book explains how smart buildings lead to the development of smart cities, offering insights for anyone curious about the future of urban living.
Liquidity and Asset Pricing
Explore the role of liquidity in asset pricing models, from risk premiums to market crises. This book empirically tests how augmented liquidity factors improve models and explains policy implications relevant to researchers, regulators, traders, and portfolio managers.
This book examines the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies and the ongoing debate surrounding it. Uniquely, it studies the issue from the perspective of developing countries, with a special focus on India. It acts as an essential primer for students and researchers.
Digital Business Ecosystems in the Service Industry
This guide explores the transformative potential of Digital Business Ecosystems (DBEs) for the service industry. Combining theory with case studies from leaders like Amazon and Netflix, it offers actionable insights to reshape business models and achieve sustainable growth.