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Stories of capitalism : inside the role of financial analysts
The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to forecast the rise or fall of stock prices, the success or failure of investment products, and even the growth or decline of entire national economies.…
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- 9780226523569
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- 205 hlm
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- 332.1 STE s
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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- 9783030652876
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- xxxiv, 561p. : ill.
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- 658.421 MAS m
Asylum matters : on the front line of administrative decision-making
This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or ‘arbitrary’. Asylum Matters turns this claim on its head. Through the ethnographic study of asylum decision-making in the Swiss Secretariat for Migration, the book shows how regularities in administrative practice and ‘socialised subjectivity’…
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- 9783030615123
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- xvii, 203p. : ill.
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- 342.494083 AFF a
Social concertation in times of austerity: European integration and the polit…
Why do governments still negotiate with trade unions and employers in the design of labour market and welfare reforms despite the steady decline of trade union membership almost everywhere in Europe? Social Concertation in Times of Austerity investigates the political underpinnings of social concertation in this new context with a focus on the regulation of labour mobility and unemployment prot…
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- 9789048512997
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- 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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- Changing welfare states
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- 338.9436 AFO s
Constructions of cultural identities in newsreel cinema and television after …
Newsreel cinema and television not only served as an important tool in the shaping of political spheres and the construction of national and cultural identities up to the 1960s. Today’s potent televisual forms were furthermore developed in and strongly influenced by newsreels, and much of the archived newsreel footage is repeatedly used to both illustrate and re-stage past events and their si…
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- 9783839429754
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- 230 p.
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- MedienAnalysen
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- 791 CON c
Swiss public administration : making the state work successfully
Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other countries. This open access book provides insight into the organization and the functioning of the Swiss state. It claims that, beyond politics, institutions and public admin…
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- 9783319923819
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- xxix, 384p. : ill.
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- 320.6 SWI s
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