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Entrepreneurial strategy : starting, managing, and scaling new ventures
This open access book focuses on explaining differences amongst organizations regarding various attributes, forms, and outcomes. By focusing on the “how” of new venture creation and management to produce well-established organizations, the authors aim to increase our understanding of the antecedents of most management research assumptions. New ventures are the source of most newly created j…
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- 9783030789350
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- xvii, 131p. : ill.
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- -
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- 658.4012 SHE e
Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation: Re-thinking Spatial …
Despite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of agglomerations are stagnating or even declining. Against this background this book aims to provide an understanding of the underlying processes of …
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- 1st ed. 2019.
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- 9789811311901
- Collation
- XXIV, 382 p
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- Call Number
- 304.2 REG r
Insurance distribution directive : a legal analysis
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force on 1 October 2018 and regulates the distribution of insurance products in the EU. The book examines the main changes accompanying the IDD and analyses its impact on insurance…
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- -
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- 9783030527389
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- xi, 439p. : ill.
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- -
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- 346.4086 INS i
Social work, sociometry, and psychodrama : experiential approaches for group …
This open access book outlines the intersections between social work and the methods of sociometry and psychodrama. Different sections offer essential practice wisdom for both trauma-focused and trauma-informed experiential work for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. This text enriches the understanding of various action-based approaches and highlights how to enliven social wo…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789813363427
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- xxxiii, 435p. : ill.
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- -
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- 616.891523 GIA s
Mapping urban spaces : designing the european city
"Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sustainable – accessibility, ease of travel, urban sustainability, social inclusiveness – can be traced back to the …
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- -
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- 9781032041247
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- xi ,308 p.; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 307.1216094 MAP p
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers' integration in European labour markets…
This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a beneficial or negative impact on the effective capacity of these countries to integrate migrants, refugees a…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030672843
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- xi, 258p. : ill.
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- -
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- 331.62094 MIG m
Masterpieces of Swiss entrepreneurship : Swiss SMEs competing in global markets
This open access book focuses on Switzerland-based medium-sized companies with a longstanding export tradition and a proven dominance in global niche markets. Based upon in-depth documentation and analysis of 36 Swiss companies over their entire history, an expert team of authors presents several parallels in the pathways and success factors which allowed these firms to become dominant and oper…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030652876
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- xxxiv, 561p. : ill.
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- -
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- 658.421 MAS m
Familial feeling : entangled tonalities in early black Atlantic writing and t…
This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial “writing back” to the centre. Accordingly, the narrative strategies in the texts of early Black Atlantic authors, like Equiano, Sancho, Wedderburn, and Seacole, and British canonical novelists, such as…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030586416
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- -
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- 823.709352 YEK f
Early printed music and material culture in Central and Western Europe
This book presents a varied and nuanced analysis of the dynamics of the printing, publication, and trade of music in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries across Western and Northern Europe. Chapters consider dimensions of music printing in Britain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy, showing how this area of inquiry can engage a wide range of cultural, hist…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429342844
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- XXI, 333 p.
- Series Title
- Music and Material Culture
- Call Number
- 070.5794094 EAR e
Towards a comparative analysis of social inequalities between Europe and Lati…
This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030484422
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- xxiii, 480p. : ill.
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- -
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- 305.5 TOW t
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