The Disclosure and Assurance of Corporate Social Responsibility
These essays examine new trends in sustainability performance and reporting. They provide theory and evidence on voluntary disclosure and external assurance, making this book a key resource for companies, managers, shareholders, and all related stakeholders.
CARICOM nations are among the first affected by climate change, despite low emissions. This book explores policy actions they can implement to build resilience in the post-Paris Agreement era, covering climate finance, coastal adaptation, and loss and damage.
This book argues that to achieve sustainable development, developing countries must revamp their financial systems. The failure to grow is often caused by investors’ inability to access capital. Modernizing financial sectors can make resources available and industrialize growth.
A Look at China and Sino-Belarus Cooperation
A guide to China’s new era under Xi Jinping. It explores the centralization of power, the anti-corruption fight, and strengthening diplomacy. This book examines the rapprochement with Russia, rising tensions with the US, and controversies of the “Belt and Road” initiative.
This readable, non-technical collection offers a comprehensive guide to international economics and macroeconomics. Explore pressing topics from Industry 4.0 and immigration to productivity and monetary policy.
Science and the Wealth of Nations
Idea-based growth theory has been a bust. This volume presents an alternative approach, drawing from classical mechanics and thermodynamics. Consistent with the historical record and data, it explains the 1970s productivity slowdown, the Solow paradox, and policy failures.
Tomorrow’s Media
This collection of essays from an impressive group of media and broadcasting experts sheds light on where we have come from and where we are going. A unique work of interdisciplinary research, this book exists at an intersection between technology and the arts.
The Competitive Challenge of Emerging Markets
The rise of emerging economies like China and India has created a disruptive competitive challenge. This book examines their distinctive characteristics, the challenges of doing business, and the threat of emerging market multinationals as they aspire to surpass their rivals.
Trial and Error in Journalism and Communication Education
This book explores teaching journalism and communication in a changing media environment. Bringing together professors and students from across Europe, it offers training proposals and insights to strengthen university teaching for professional communicators in the digital age.
Human–Robot Interaction
This book introduces state-of-the-art technologies in human-robot interactions. It details recent advances in dynamics, controls, design, and modelling, appealing to graduate students, practitioners, and researchers in robotics, computer science, and mechanical engineering.
The Political Economy of Health and Healthcare
Our health is a reflection of our society. This book exposes how biased markets and dismantled social protections create deep health inequalities. It makes a powerful case for social medicine—a collective cure for an unequal world.
Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
This case study of migrants in Hong Kong shows early optimism for quick assimilation has given way to a long, arduous process extending to the second generation. It serves as a useful policy reference for countries balancing family reunion with the admission of skilled migrants.
This volume explores the latest advances in behavioural finance. Using insights from psychology to better understand the decisions made by investors and managers, it sheds new light on several financial puzzles.
The Co-Design of an Online Campaign for an Inclusive Community
This volume shows how communication builds our perception of “us” versus “others,” a cultural obstacle that can lead to radicalisation. We can prevent this with participation and counter-narratives, as shown by a European project that pushes the reader beyond prejudice.
This book explores the elastic-anisotropic properties of rocks, showing that velocity, density, and anisotropy increase with metamorphic transformations. It also details an acoustopolariscope for analyzing rocks, anisotropic alloys, plastics, ceramics, and gemstones.
Rescuing the Social Function of the Economy
Brazil is not a poor country. Its key challenges—deep inequality, environmental disaster, and financial chaos—stem not from a lack of resources, but from a political system where powerful elites drain the nation’s wealth. This book explains how to combat these structural issues.
This book explores the relationship between human resources and a company’s financial performance. Learn how non-financial criteria increase employee trust and discover ways to measure financial performance to empower HR’s strategic role in increasing company profit.
Under Basel III, managing capital buffers is crucial for financial stability. This book departs from previous studies through its unique focus on developing countries and their assessment of the behavior of capital and risk.
Democracy and Economy
This history of democracy uses modern economics and political sciences to explain why the system was created and how it evolves. It analyses why democracy requires strong economic structures, with case studies from Ancient Greece to the EU.
This collection of annotated essays discusses the relevance of evolving science to public discourse about climate change. The essays confront organized denial and disinformation, building support for informed decisions on how to adapt to and abate climate risks.