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Cover Standing up for a Sustainable World
Standing up for a Sustainable World
Voices of Change
Editors: Claude Henry, Johan Rockström, and Nicholas Stern
The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
11 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781
Collections:
Economics 2020
Cover The Evolution of Electricity Markets in Europe
The Evolution of Electricity Markets in Europe
Leonardo Meeus
Bridging theory and practice, this book offers insights into how Europe has experienced the evolution of modern electricity markets from the end of the 1990s to the present day. It explores defining moments in the process, including the four waves of European legislative packages, landmark court cases, and the impact of climate strikes and marches.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
17 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789905472
Collections:
Economics 2020
Cover Governing Finance in Europe
Governing Finance in Europe
A Centralisation of Rulemaking?
Editors: Adrienne Héritier and Magnus G. Schoeller
How do regulatory structures evolve in EU financial governance? Incorporating insights from a variety of disciplines, Governing Finance in Europe provides a comprehensive framework to investigate the dynamics leading to centralisation, decentralisation and fragmentation in EU financial regulation.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
07 Aug 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839101120
Collections:
Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Measuring Innovation Everywhere
Measuring Innovation Everywhere
The Challenge of Better Policy, Learning, Evaluation and Monitoring
Fred Gault
This book is about measuring innovation, not just in the business sector but in every sector of the economy, using, for the first time, an internationally agreed general definition of innovation. The resulting indicators can be used to inform policy development, and offer a better understanding of the impact of the innovation policy of governments, the strategy of businesses and the practice of households, in a more digital economy. Innovation is a systems phenomenon and systems provide a structure throughout the book.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
09 Jul 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904567
Collections:
Economics 2020
Cover Organizing Matters
Organizing Matters
Two Logics of Trade Union Representation
Guy Mundlak
Organizing Matters demonstrates the interplay between two distinct logics of labour’s collective action: on the one hand, workers coming together, usually at their place of work, entrusting the union to represent their interests and, on the other hand, social bargaining in which the trade union constructs labour’s interests from the top down. The book investigates the tensions and potential complementarities between the two logics through the combination of a strong theoretical framework and an extensive qualitative case study of trade union organizing and recruitment in four countries – Austria, Germany, Israel and the Netherlands. These countries still utilize social-wide bargaining but find it necessary to draw and develop strategies transposed from Anglo-American countries in response to continuously declining membership.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 May 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839104039
Collections:
Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Telework in the 21st Century
Telework in the 21st Century
An Evolutionary Perspective
Editor: Jon C. Messenger
Technological developments have enabled a dramatic expansion and also an evolution of telework, broadly defined as using ICTs to perform work from outside of an employer’s premises. This volume offers a new conceptual framework explaining the evolution of telework over four decades. It reviews national experiences from Argentina, Brazil, India, Japan, the United States, and ten EU countries regarding the development of telework, its various forms and effects. It also analyses large-scale surveys and company case studies regarding the incidence of telework and its effects on working time, work-life balance, occupational health and well-being, and individual and organizational performance.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Nov 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903751
Collections:
Economics 2019
Cover A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance
A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance
Editor: Oksana Mont
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Evaluating achievements, challenges and future avenues for research, this book explores how new dimensions of knowledge and practice contest, reshape and advance traditional understandings of sustainable consumption governance.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
01 Oct 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814
Cover Skilled Labor Mobility and Migration
Skilled Labor Mobility and Migration
Challenges and Opportunities for the ASEAN Economic Community
Editor: Elisabetta Gentile
One of the primary objectives of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), established in 2015, was to boost skilled labor mobility within the region. This insightful book takes stock of the existing trends and patterns of skilled labor migration in the ASEAN. It endeavors to identify the likely winners and losers from the free movement of natural persons within the region through counterfactual policy simulations. Finally, it discusses existing issues and obstacles through case studies, as well as other sectoral examples.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Aug 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788116176
Collections:
Economics 2019
Cover Towards Convergence in Europe
Towards Convergence in Europe
Institutions, Labour and Industrial Relations
Editor: Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
This book aims to answer a number of important questions. To what extent have European countries converged or diverged with EU-wide economic and social indicators over the past 20 years? What have been the drivers of convergence? Why do some countries lag behind, while others experience continuous upward convergence? Why are these trajectories not always linear? Particular attention is paid to the role of institutions, actors and industrial relations – focusing on the resources and strategies of governments, employers and trade unions – in nudging EU countries onto an upward convergence path.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Apr 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978071
Collections:
Economics 2019
Cover The State, Business and Education
The State, Business and Education
Public-Private Partnerships Revisited
Editors: Gita Steiner-Khamsi and Alexandra Draxler
The State, Business and Education contributes to the ongoing debates surrounding the effects of public funding of private entities by examining the ways in which they affect the quality and equity of those services, and the realization of human rights. Using case studies from both the developing and developed world this book illustrates the variety of ways in which private actors have expanded their involvement in education as a business.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Oct 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788970334
Collections:
Social and Political Science 2018