This book discusses the art and science of economic decision making. It combines logical thinking with analytics, economics, and finance to draw decision insights for the upstream petroleum projects. The book offers useful analysis skills for practitioners in industry, including analysts,...

Chapter 1: Understanding Money and Finance -- Chapter 2: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times -- Chapter 3: When Oil Shocked the Globe -- Chapter 4: A Monetary Revolution -- Chapter 5: Private Sector Takes the Control -- Chapter 6: A New Global Debt Cycle -- Chapter 7: Adapting...

Introduction (Valery Salygin) -- Part 1. Governing Energy Projects in the Russian Artic -- Chapter 1. International Legal Framework of Arctic Exploration (Igor Shulyatyev) -- Chapter 2. Russia’s Chairmanship in the Arctic Сouncil: In Search of Balance? (Dmitryi Yakovenko) -- Part 2. Energy...

1. Lower Forever -- 2. The OPEX Challenge -- 3. Supply Chain Development in Oil & Gas Industry -- 4. The Missing Pieces -- 5. 12 Modules for Supply Chain Transformation -- 6. When Culture Meets Transformation -- 7. Getting Started.

1. Introduction: Ghana’s Petroleum Industry in Transition -- 2. Examining Ghana’s New Exploration and Production Act and Other Legislative Developments -- 3. The Ghana-Cote-d’Ivoire Maritime Border Dispute and Transboundary Resource Management in the Gulf of Guinea -- 4. Upstream Petroleum...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: O&G industry -- Chapter 3: Social Investment in the O&G Sector -- Chapter 4: Social Investment Discourses -- Chapter 5: Social Investment Management -- Chapter 6: Social Investment Principles -- Chapter 7: Social Investment of The Future.

MNEs, Organizational Legitimacy and the Need for Nonmarket Strategies -- Nonmarket strategies within conflicting institutional pressures –The case of western multinationals in a post-socialist context -- Balancing to Utopia: Multinationals in Oligarchies -- Political strategies of...

This book explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the formulation of a global code of conduct for transnational corporations. It assesses the current state of research on global regulations intended to enhance the social responsibility of transnational corporations, and provides a...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Philosophical questions and aspects pertaining to businesses relationships -- Chapter 3. Business relationships between Businesses and Businesses and Customer -- Chapter 4. Business relationships between Government (through their intervention) and Businesses...

This book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries. By balancing external social and environmental costs against its corresponding benefits, the book demonstrates that MNEs can have a...