Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries

Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries
Author: Paloma Fernández Pérez
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2023-07-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1801179506

Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries provides a historical account and a managerial approach on how companies in the service industry have grown, innovated, and internationalised along the last centuries in Western Europe.

Innovations in Sustainable Consumption

Innovations in Sustainable Consumption
Author: Maurie J. Cohen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1781001340

'Few people who think about the state of the world are content with the status quo. The increasingly complex mix of economic, social, environmental and political problems at all scales requires new ways of thinking. It also requires new ways of integrating mutually supportive ideas and approaches, which is what this useful new book offers around the theme of sustainable consumption. The editors and contributors offer a breadth and depth of research from three domains: the new economics, socio-technical transitions and social practice, with a focus on consumption that meets the needs of people within the limits of the biosphere.' – Peter A. Victor, York University, Canada 'In recent years much hard thinking has been devoted to exploring the transition to true sustainability and consumption's role in it. Innovations in Sustainable Consumption offers an impressive and enormously useful synthesis of this new work. Highly recommended.' – James Gustave Speth, Vermont University Law School, US and author of America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy 'This is a very timely and inspiring book. The editors have carefully compiled original contributions from leading researchers in sustainable consumption, reflecting the important work of the SCORAI network and beyond. This is a "must" read for those who want to know where research in sustainable consumption is really heading.' – Lucia A. Reisch, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark This timely volume recognizes that traditional policy approaches to reduce human impacts on the environment through technological change – for example, emphasizing resource efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources – are insufficient to meet the most pressing sustainability challenges of the twenty-first century. Instead, the editors and contributors argue that we must fundamentally reconfigure our lifestyles and social institutions if we are to make the transition toward a truly sustainable future. These expert contributions pinpoint specific areas in which innovation will be required. These include economic policies, socio-technical systems of production and consumption, and dominant social practices. Drawing on these and other diverse areas of scholarship, this fascinating book highlights new conceptual frameworks for achieving the twin sustainability goals of decreased resource use and enhanced individual and societal well-being. Students, professors and policymakers in ecological economics, innovation studies, environmental policy and many other related fields will find much of interest in this pathbreaking volume.

Business Information Desk Reference

Business Information Desk Reference
Author: Melvyn N. Freed
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A ready-reference handbook for finding business information; introduces you to information available in almost 1,000 business information sources.

Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises

Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises
Author: Linda Lundgaard Andersen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2016-06-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317221648

Migrant women stepping into ethnic catering; homeless men employed to take care of bees producing honey for sale; young people on the edge getting microcredit funding to start social businesses; or former criminals joining forces to create social and economic structures for an honest lifestyle. These initiatives capture the transformative power of social enterprise and might indicate how social enterprises have the potential to make a difference for people and societies. The Nordic countries represent an interesting case. Social enterprises and co-operatives played a significant part in paving the way for the Nordic solicaristic welfare state. As the welfare state grew, civil society organizations and co-operatives lost ground, to a certain extent. But in recent decades, the welfare state has been restructured and, simultaneously, the concepts social entrepreneurship and social enterprises have gained attention. The Nordic context, with extensive public welfare structures and a high degree of citizens’ participation in public affairs, might affect the emergence of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises.

Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance

Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance
Author: Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-08-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137331275

This edited volume situates its contemporary practice in the tradition which emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance examines collective and devised theatre practices internationally and demonstrates the prevalence, breadth, and significance of modern collective creation.

New Serial Titles

New Serial Titles
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1768
Release: 1992
Genre: Periodicals
ISBN:

A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Where to Find Business Information

Where to Find Business Information
Author: David M. Brownstone
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Wiley
Total Pages: 664
Release: 1982-04-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Shows where current business information is located and how to get it. Lists over 5,000 publications (appearing in English throughout the world), covering all subjects of interest to the business world. Focuses on periodic publications and services such as magazines, newsletters, continuously revised loose-leaf services, computerized data bases, printouts, and microforms.