Økonomi og finans

This book explores the nexus between fiscal, political, and legal arrangements for subnational governments as they design national trajectories for social and economic development in the Asia and Pacific region. It will be of interest to policy-makers, practitioners and academics in public policy, decentralization, and sustainable development.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has driven businesses to adopt new business practices rapidly, enhance product development and services, has helped to power AI-based market intelligence and customer insights, and improve customer relationship management. This timely book addresses the use of AI in marketing.

This volume brings together a collection of original investigations of the current thinking on three broad themes: the assetization of land and buildings, the relationship of land rent to valuation and speculation in the markets for private and public properties, and the different ways in which land functions as a social relation.

This book explores the impact of cultural conditions on the financial reporting quality of public companies preparing financial statements according to International Accounting Standards (IAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). It discusses the main trends in the theory of capital and earnings in the economy.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Crisis aims to address the conditions for the operations of SMEs during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the governmental support for entrepreneurs in such industries as tourism, manufacturing, recycling, education, and printing as well as the creative industry.

This book focuses on emerging new multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific and offers a useful analysis of various existing and evolving formulations and alignments in the region and will interest scholars of PolSci., Foreign Policy, Security Studies, IR, Int'l Political Economy & Area Studies, Asian, East Asian or Indo-Pacific Studies.

The book analyses segmentation, value to customer, price-value maps, segmental pricing, product differentiation and dynamic pricing, with traditional economic theory, showing how these ideas have implications for management accountants and the value that they can bring to the business.

In Governance in the 21st Century, Morris Bosin offers an integrated approach in addressing real world governance challenges.

This book examines our understanding of technology and suggests that machines are counterfeit organisms that seem to replace human bodies but are ultimately means of displacing workloads and environmental loads beyond our horizon.

This book explores existing and emerging issues of food law and policy in the context of technology governance to offer an overarching framework for the interaction between food regulation and technology.

The book examines the impact of Revolution 4.0 on the global business services sector and business project management models, in times of increasing complexity. It addresses the future and flexibility of the labour market and issues related to the emergence of new patterns of production and the distribution of public services.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the most salient features of contemporary financial systems and clarifies the major strategic issues facing the development of digital finance. It provides insight into how the digital finance system actually works in a socioeconomic context.

This book introduces the fundamentals of sport business governance, assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reader. It explains to students and practitioners alike why governance matters and how it can be better practiced in sport organisations.

This book looks at how sport, and sports organisations, have had to innovate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book critically examines the active role played by youth-led social movements in pushing for change and promoting peacebuilding in Africa, and their impacts on society. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of social movement studies, youth studies, peace and conflict studies, history, and African studies.

This book introduces readers to the concept of territory, as it applies to law, while demonstrating the particular work that territory does in organizing property relations.

The rise and spread of Covid-19 in the beginning of 2020 presents a once-in-a-century challenge and opportunity for decision makers, managers, scholars, and citizens to understand the risks, mitigate its impact and prepare for future crises.

Focusing on the changes taking place in Central Europe since 1989, this book presents a multidimensional and cross-disciplinary case study of Kraków and offers deep insight into the specific nature of the transformation taking place in the region.

Adopting curriculum vitae (CV) analysis method, this book collects CVs of university faculty from 109 universities of "The Double First Class University Plan" in China, and systematically analyses the mobility pattern of faculty in China for the first time.

Sustainability Accounting, Management Control and Reporting: A European Perspective traces a picture of innovative performance measurement tools and approaches to drive organizations to implement their shared value and sustainability strategy, considering different perspectives around accounting, managerial control and reporting.

This book takes religion as an entry point for a deeper exploration into why practices of gender-based violence continue, and what possible actions might help to contribute to their eradication. It presents empirical cases of religious, non-religious and secular actors.

Viewing the Arctic as a key region for global development in the 21st century, this book offers a cross-disciplinary conceptual framework for understanding what international cooperation is, why it is difficult and what kind of alternative views can apply in the Arctic.

Non-profit Organizations and Co-production: The Logics Shaping Professional and Citizen Collaboration develops a novel framework for analyzing the practices of co-production between citizens and professionals in the non-profit sector.

This book addresses the fascinating relationship of these two contemporary topics and explores the role of digital transformation in promoting public innovation.

This book discusses management and governance initiatives undertaken by agencies and stakeholders towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the Southeast Asian region, specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore.

This book builds trust, consensus, and capacity through enhanced understanding through a water conflict management framework designed to bolster collaborative skills. Built on case studies analysis and hands-on applications, the authors assess the complexities of climate challenges and explain how to provide sustainable water solutions

The book aims to assess the impacts and future of sustainable infrastructure investments and examines the role of governments in mobilizing financial resources and new models for unlocking private investment in sustainable infrastructure.