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  • Emerging Patterns of East Asian Investment in China: From Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong

    From Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong

    by Sumner J.La Croix ...
    Focuses on the recent surge of foreign and Taiwan investment to mainland China's coastal provinces. The 15 papers presented in this text provide data on the emerging pattern of East Asian investments in China and an understanding of the mistakes of early investors. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Financing Education in China

    by T. Lin ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Tingjin Lin explores the conflict between self-interest and the provision of equality of opportunity facing educators in China. Provincial leaders prove reluctant to equalize education when doing so means sacrificing their future promotion. ... Read more

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  • The State as Cultural Practice

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  • Authoritative Governance

    Policy Making in the Age of Mediatization

    by Maarten A. Hajer ...
    The role of the media has become a central part of politics and policy in the twenty-first century. That dominance has led many to suggest a trend of 'dumbing down': the privileging of style over content. In this provocative new book, Maarten Hajer takes issue with the 'dumbing down' thesis both on theoretical and empirical grounds. He aims to show how authoritative governance remains possible in ... Read more

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  • The Language of Public Administration

    Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity

    by Dr. David John Farmer, Ph.D. ...
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  • Business Modeling and Software Design

    5th International Symposium, BMSD 2015, Milan, Italy, July 6–8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Boris Shishkov ...
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    This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2015, held in Milan, Italy, in July 2015. The symposium was organized and sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Institute for Collaboration and Research on Enterprise Systems and Technology (IICREST), being co-organized by Politecnico di Milano and ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Think Tanks in Contemporary China

    by Silvia Menegazzi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes how Chinese think tanks have become essential actors in today’s Chinese foreign policy and diplomatic practices. By providing an in-depth analysis of their roles, functions and transformation in the last decade, this study explains how they differ from their Western counterparts and how they have developed during Hu Jintao’s and Xi Jinping’s mandates. Think tanks are often ... Read more

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    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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    Natural disasters in recent years have brought the study of disaster resiliency to the forefront. The importance of community preparedness and sustainability has been underscored by such calamities as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japanese tsunami in 2011. Natural disasters will inevitably continue to occur, but by understanding the concept of resiliency as well as the factors that lead to it, ... Read more

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  • Decision Support Systems IV - Information and Knowledge Management in Decision Processes

    Euro Working Group Conferences, EWG-DSS 2014, Toulouse, France, June 10-13, 2014, and Barcelona, Spain, July 13-18, 2014, Revised Selected and Extended Papers

    Edited by Isabelle Linden, Shaofeng Liu, Fátima Dargam, Jorge E. Hernández ...
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    This book contains extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from two events organized by the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), which were held in Toulouse, France and Barcelona, Spain, in June and July 2014. Overall, 8 papers were accepted for publication in this edition after a rigorous review process through at least three internationally known experts ... Read more

    $40.49 USD