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Cover Russian Oil Companies in an Evolving World
Russian Oil Companies in an Evolving World
The Challenge of Change
Indra Overland
and
Nina Poussenkova
This book examines Russia’s capacity to respond to a changing world through the lens of the country’s oil industry. Against a backdrop of social, political and climatic change, Indra Overland and Nina Poussenkova present a systematic analysis of how modern energy developments in the form of shale oil, offshore oil and the global energy transition are handled.
Open access
Monograph Book
Publication Date:
14 Aug 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978019
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.
Open access
Monograph Book
Publication Date:
09 Jul 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904567
Collections:
Economics 2020
Cover Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research
Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research
Navigating Participant Protection and Research Promotion
Edward S. Dove
This timely book examines the interaction of health research and regulation with law through empirical analysis and the application of key anthropological concepts to reveal the inner workings of human health research. Through ground-breaking empirical inquiry, Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research explores how research ethics committees (RECs) work in practice to both protect research participants and promote ethical research. This thought-provoking book provides a new perspective on the regulation of health research by demonstrating how RECs and other regulatory actors seek to fulfil these two functions by performing a role of ‘regulatory stewardship’.
Open access
Monograph Book
Publication Date:
03 Feb 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975353
Collections:
Law 2020
Cover Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline
Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline
Michael Barzelay
While public management has become widely spoken of, its identity and character is not well-defined. Such disparity is an underlying problem in developing public management within academia, and in the eyes of practitioners. In this book, Michael Barzelay tackles the challenge of making public management into a true professional discipline. Barzelay argues that public management needs to integrate contrasting conceptions of professional practice. By pressing forward an expansive idea of design in public management, Barzelay formulates a fresh vision of public management in practice and outlines its implications for research, curriculum development and disciplinary identity.
Open access
Monograph Book
Publication Date:
27 Sep 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119108
Collections:
Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Conflict and Transnational Crime
Conflict and Transnational Crime
Borders, Bullets & Business in Southeast Asia
Florian Weigand
Exploring the links between armed conflict and transnational crime, Florian Weigand builds on in-depth empirical research into some of Southeast Asia’s murkiest borders. The disparate voices of drug traffickers, rebel fighters, government officials and victims of armed conflict are heard in Conflict and Transnational Crime, exploring perspectives that have been previously disregarded in understanding the field.
Open access
Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Jun 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789905205
Collections:
Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Information Environmentalism
Information Environmentalism
A Governance Framework for Intellectual Property Rights
Robert Cunningham
Information Environmentalism applies four environmental analytical frameworks – ecology, ‘the commons’, public choice theory, and welfare economics – to the information environment. The book neatly captures the metaphorical relationship between the physical environment and the information environment by alluding to the environmental philosophy of ‘social ecology’ and the emergent informational discourse of ‘cultural environmentalism’.
Open access
Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Sep 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857938442
Collections:
Law 2014
Cover The Generational Welfare Contract
The Generational Welfare Contract
Justice, Institutions and Outcomes
Simon Birnbaum
,
Tommy Ferrarini
,
Kenneth Nelson
, and
Joakim Palme
This groundbreaking book brings together perspectives from political philosophy and comparative social policy to discuss generational justice. Contributing new insights about the preconditions for designing sustainable, inclusive policies for all of society, the authors expose the possibilities of supporting egalitarian principles in an aging society through balanced generational welfare contracts.
Open access
Monograph Book
Publication Date:
25 Aug 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783471034
Collections:
Social and Political Science 2017
Cover Human Rights and Tobacco Control
Human Rights and Tobacco Control
Editors:
Marie E. Gispen
and
Brigit Toebes
Large-scale adverse health and developmental outcomes related to tobacco affect millions of people across the world, raising serious questions from a human rights perspective. In response to this crisis, this timely book provides a comprehensive analysis of the promotion and enforcement of human rights protection in tobacco control law and policy at international, regional, and domestic levels. This book was realised with funding from the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF).
Open access
Monograph Book
Publication Date:
14 Aug 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974820
Collections:
Law 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.
Open access
Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Nov 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903751
Collections:
Economics 2019
Cover Philanthropy in Education
Philanthropy in Education
Diverse Perspectives and Global Trends
Editors:
Natasha Y. Ridge
and
Arushi Terway
Challenging commonly held perceptions of philanthropic organisations, this book brings together a range of interdisciplinary contributors from across the globe to explore the most pressing issues facing those working in and with philanthropy and education. It focuses on the increasing influence of new philanthropic actors on the global education sector, offering a thorough insight into the topic.
Open access
Monograph Book
Publication Date:
04 Nov 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904123
Collections:
Social and Political Science 2019