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The Changing Governance of the Sciences

The establishment of national systems of retrospective research evaluations is one of the most significant of recent changes ...

The EU and China in African Authoritarian Regimes

This open access book analyses the domestic politics of African dominant party regimes, most notably African governments’ ...

The Economics of Water Rules and Institutions

This book provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation ...

The Front-end of Large Public Projects : Paradoxes and Ways Ahead / Terry M. Williams, Knut Samset, Gro Holst Volden

Delves into the reality of large public projects, to show how they can be managed effectively and efficiently, recognising ...

The Future of Africa Challenges and Opportunities

This textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three ...

The Future of Election Administration

This book is designed to be a companion piece to The Future of Election Administration, which surveys these critical dimensions ...

The Future of Management in an AI World : Redefining Purpose and Strategy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution / Jordi Canals, Franz Heukamp

Containing international insights from leading figures from the world of management and technology, this book addresses the ...

The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition

The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies ...

The German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Self-governance, Service, the General Representation of Interests and the Dual System of Professional Education

This book examines a particular factor in the enduring international success of German companies. Beyond industrial specialization, ...

The Governance of British Higher Education

The purpose of this book is to place these radical changes within the context of the governance of British higher education. ...

The Governance of Insurance Undertakings : Corporate Law and Insurance Regulation

This volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors ...

The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus

This book analyses the interplay between governing, evaluation and knowledge with an empirical focus on Swedish higher education. ...

The Hackable City : Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Network Society

This book presents a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted ...

The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment

This volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific ...

The Information Society: Innovation, Legitimacy, Ethics and Democracy

The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The ...

The Market for Corporate Control in Japan

This book analyzes the modern trend in the Japanese M and A market. It reveals from different perspectives the process of ...

The New Common How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Transforming Society

This book presents the scientific views of some fifty experts on how they believe the COVID-19 pandemic is currently affecting ...

The New Politics of Numbers : Utopia, Evidence and Democracy

This book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they ...

The Onlife Manifesto : Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era

What is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the human condition? In order to address this ...

The Professoriate

What does it mean to be an academic in the twenty first century? Clearly, there is no one answer to this question, as the ...

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