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Handbook on International Business Policy
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The EU Between Federal Union and Flexible Integration
The Road Ahead for the European Union: Between Federal Union and Flexible Integration
The sixth volume in the Interdisciplinary European Studies assesses the changes that are taking place in the EU’s policies, institutions, and political structures. On the eve of a new chapter of Europ…
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The EU Between Federal Union and Flexible Integration
The State of European Integration: Where Does the EU Stand and in What Direction Is It Heading?
In the concluding chapter, the editors take stock of the state of integration seventy years after the EU’s inception. In the early 2020s, the EU faces once again the fateful question of whether integr…
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The EU Between Federal Union and Flexible Integration
Against a backcloth of tumultuous events in Europe, the EU faces once again the fateful question of moving towards a federal union or letting flexible integration guide the Union. The sixth volume in…
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Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 40B
William J. Baumol: Innovative Contributor to Entrepreneurship Economics
William J. Baumol was one of the most prolific economists of his generation, analyzing a broad range of central economic issues addressing real problems of the world. In this essay, we present and cri…
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Routes to a Resilient European Union
The EU and the Precarious Routes to Political, Economic and Social Resilience
This chapter introduces the theme of the book—resilience in the EU. It presents definitions for these concepts and explores what the challenges of societal resilience entail for the EU. It is argued t…
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Routes to a Resilient European Union
Conclusion: The EU and the Search for Sustainability and Resilience
The concluding chapter reviews the EU’s handling of current crises and its search for sustainability and resilience. Beginning with its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing public health…
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Routes to a Resilient European Union
The fifth volume of the Interdisciplinary European Studies series aims to explore the EU’s pursuit of societal resilience and its role in the transition to a green economy. It brings together scholars…
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Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Wage Policies and the Integration of Immigrants Revisited
This chapter reflects on the role of wage policies in facilitating the labour market integration of immigrants. The overall analysis in this chapter suggests that minimum wage cuts, combined with othe…
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Enterprise Risk Management: Today’s Leading Research and Best Practices for Tomorrow’s Executives
Foreign Exchange Risk Management
In this essay, we discuss the requirements of a successful management of a company's exposure to foreign exchange risks. We argue that the company's performance is affected by foreign exchange risks a…
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The European Union and the Technology Shift
Digitalisation, Productivity and Jobs: A European Perspective
This chapter describes economic insights from research having studied the ongoing information and communications technology (ICT)-based structural transformation of the business sector. It also descri…
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The European Union and the Technology Shift
Money for Nothin’: Digitalization and Fluid Tax Bases
This chapter analyses in what way digitalisation changes the conditions for taxation. In the 2020s, firms create value less using machines and more using intangibles, such as copyrights, R&D and s…
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The European Union and the Technology Shift
What Does the Technological Shift Have in Stall for the EU? Opportunities and Pitfalls for European Societies
This introductory chapter sheds light on the opportunities and challenges that the digital era has in store for the European Union (EU) at a time when its fundamental values are being called into ques…
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Regional Science Perspectives on Tourism and Hospitality
Microgeography of Restaurants: Sub-City Analysis of Restaurant Location and Colocation Using Swedish Geo-Coded Data
In this chapter, we offer an exploatory empirical analysis that captures the general location and colocation patterns for restaurants using Swedish geo-coded data for the year 2015, which allows us to…
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Regional Science Perspectives on Tourism and Hospitality
Introduction – Worlds Collide: Regional Science and Tourism Research
With this book, we aim at contributing to the existing efforts to bridge these two extensively realated strands of literature where we compiled several individual contributions that present how touris…
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Regional Science Perspectives on Tourism and Hospitality
This book approaches the tourism and hospitality industry from a regional science perspective. By analyzing the spatial context of tourist travels, the hospitality sector, and the regional impacts of…
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The Far East and Australasia 2021
Timor–Leste: The Economy
Economic growth in Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) has displayed dramatic volatility since the country´s independence in 2002. The first few years were characterized by negative or extremely low gro…
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The European Union and the Technology Shift
This book explores the multiple challenges that the global technology shift is posing to the EU. It raises the question of how European societies will mobilize the positive effects of the rapid techno…
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Privatizing Welfare Services
Lessons from the Swedish experiment
Focusing on health care, education, and elderly care, Privatizing Welfare Services draws on extensive research on the consequences of introducing market-based mechanisms to deliver welfare services.
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The Entrepreneurial Society – A Reform Strategy for Italy, Germany and the UK
This open access book is an outcome of the EU's Horizon 2020 project 'Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society' (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal analysis,…
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Corporate Foreign Exchange Risk Management
Virtually any organisation active in the global economy is impacted by fluctuations in foreign exchange (FX or ForEx) markets. Managers need to understand this increasingly complex issue and measure t…
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The Entrepreneurial Society – A Reform Strategy for Italy, Germany and the UK
A Reform Strategy for Italy
In this chapter, we outline a reform strategy to promote an entrepreneurial society in Italy. From a Varieties-of-Capitalism perspective, Italy has been classified as a Mixed or Mediterranean Market E…
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The Entrepreneurial Society – A Reform Strategy for Italy, Germany and the UK
A Reform Strategy for Germany
In this chapter, we outline a reform strategy to promote a more entrepreneurial society in Germany. Germany has developed a successful model of capitalism in which high productivity growth is driven b…
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The Entrepreneurial Society – A Reform Strategy for Italy, Germany and the UK
A Reform Strategy for the UK
In this chapter we outline a reform strategy to promote an entrepreneurial society in the UK. To put it in the words of the Varieties of Capitalism framework, the UK today represents a distinct libera…
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Digital Transformation and Public Services: Societal Impacts in Sweden and Beyond
Telemedicine and the Welfare State: The Swedish Experience
Health care in Sweden finds itself at a crossroads as regards digitalization. In this chapter, we will focus on one issue in particular that is causing consternation among primary care physicians: the…
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The European Union in a Changing World Order
This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order. These challenges arise both within the EU itself and beyond its borders, and put into q…
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The Entrepreneurial Society: A Reform Strategy for the European Union
This book builds on the European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). The authors outline how Europe can move towards more in…
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The Creation of the East Timorese Economy. Volume 1: History of a Colony
This two-volume study explores the economy of East Timor, of which very little has been written since the country gained independence in 2002. Currently, no comprehensive account exists of the economi…
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Digitalization and Health Care
Digitalization can open new pathways to health care, strengthen patients, and also improve the accessibility of care. Taking advantage of these possibilities will be crucial to addressing citizens’ hi…
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Disrupted Economic Relationships. Disasters, Sanctions, Dissolutions
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