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  • Humanitarian Logistics

    Meeting the Challenge of Preparing for and Responding to Disasters and Complex Emergencies

    by Professor Graham Heaslip, Peter Tatham ...
    In rapidly developing emergencies, it is vital for aid agencies to understand how to establish an agile supply chain that resists the chaos of a crisis and can cater to unknown needs.Now in its fourth edition, Humanitarian Logistics presents chapters from a wide range of academics and practitioners and offers cutting edge research into how complex problems such as distribution of the COVID-19 ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

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  • The Immigrant Exodus

    Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent

    by Vivek Wadhwa ...
    A 2012 ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARMany of the United States' most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating trillions of dollars annually, employing millions of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Promise and Limits of Private Power

    Promoting Labor Standards in a Global Economy

    by Richard M. Locke ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book examines and evaluates various private initiatives to enforce fair labor standards within global supply chains. Using unique data (internal audit reports and access to more than 120 supply chain factories and 700 interviews in 14 countries) from several major global brands, including NIKE, HP and the International Labor Organization's Factory Improvement Programme in Vietnam, this book ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Regulating Big Tech

    Policy Responses to Digital Dominance

    Edited by Martin Moore, Damian Tambini ...
    Selected chapters from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/. Since Digital Dominance was published in 2018, a global consensus has emerged that technology platforms should be regulated. Governments from the United States to Australia have sought to reduce the power of these platforms and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Public Procurement

    International Cases and Commentary

    Edited by Louise Knight, Christine Harland, Jan Telgen, Khi V. Thai, Guy Callender, Katy McKen ...
    In many countries and sectors, public procurement is developing from a functional orientation to an effective socio-economic policy lever. There is a great interest among managers and academics to learn from other countries’ and other sectors’ change initiatives and how they dealt with the challenges they encountered. This text provides such learning opportunities, presenting case studies of ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs

    Key Issues, Concerns, and Prospects

    Edited by Brajesh Panth, Rupert Maclean ...
    Series Book 55 - Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
    This open access book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies the implications for education and training in the region. It also assesses how education and training philosophies, curricula, and pedagogy can be reshaped to produce workers with the skills required to meet the emerging demands of the Fourth Industrial ... Read more

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  • Better Data, Better Decisions: Towards Impactful Forest Monitoring

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Decisions based on data and analysis are often deemed to produce a better outcome and providing decision-makers with information is seen as an important development strategy. The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals reinforces the importance of science-policy linkages. In the forestry sector, efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) have created ... Read more

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  • Catalysing Young Agri-Entrepreneurs' Investments and Ensuring Their Sustainability – Strategic Planning Tool

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The achievement of the first two Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – end poverty and hunger by 2030 – requires substantial investments. To fully contribute to sustainable development, both public and private investments should be perfectly aligned with the SDGs. In this context, empowering youth to invest in their own farms and businesses along agricultural value chains should be a key ... Read more

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  • The Global Governance of Knowledge

    Patent Offices and their Clients

    by Peter Drahos ...
    Patent offices around the world have granted millions of patents to multinational companies. Patent offices are rarely studied and yet they are crucial agents in the global knowledge economy. Based on a study of forty-five rich and poor countries that takes in the world's largest and smallest offices, Peter Drahos argues that patent offices have become part of a globally integrated private ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Contemporary Issues in Construction in Developing Countries

    Edited by George Ofori ...
    Series series CIB
    Economic growth and socio-economic development are particuliarly important for developing countries, and the construction industry plays a central role in driving both of these.Traditionally the issues faced have been assumed to be merely offshoots of those encountered in industrialised nations and are usually discussed only in this context. In addition, research in construction management and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Global Public Procurement Theories and Practices

    Edited by Khi V. Thai ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses current theories and practices in the field of public procurement. Over the past few decades, public procurement has had to evolve conceptually and organizationally in the face of unrelenting budget constraints, government downsizing, public demand for increased transparency in public procurement, as well as greater concerns about efficiency, fairness and equity. Procurement ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • International Business

    by Michael R. Czinkota, Ilkka A. Ronkainen, Suraksha Gupta ...
    Thoroughly updated, the 9th edition of this bestselling textbook incorporates global trends and data, supported by an exemplary case selection based on firms from around the world. The internationally cited author team of Czinkota, Ronkainen, and Gupta balance conceptual understanding of business theory with the day-to-day realities of business practice, preparing students to become successful ... Read more

    $62.39 USD