Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. Upgrading from Above: Industry 4.0 and China’s New Development Strategies -- Chapter 2. Made in China 2025: Advanced Manufacturing and Transformation of Production Networks -- Chapter 3. Alibaba’s Distribution-Driven Approach Towards the Industrial...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

This book features an in-depth comparative study of South American National Development Bank’s governance systems. It explores the relationship between bank governance and performance frameworks, both in terms of financial-economic indicators and development impact. It seeks to observe,...

PART I. ECONOMY BASED ON RESOURCE SECTOR -- Chapter 1. Institutional reform in Kazakhstan -- Chapter 2. Oil and gas industry development -- Chapter 3. The effects of oil revenues on Kazakhstan’s economy -- PART II. KAZAKHSTAN: STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES -- Chapter 4. Infrastructure investment and...

Deutschlands Erfolgsrezept - Soziale Marktwirtschaft -- Chinas Weg von alter zu neuer Stärke - ein Abriss einer einzigartigen Transformation -- Deutschland versus China – verbindet die beiden Nationen mehr als sie trennt? -- Deutschland und China – Kulturen und wirtschaftlicher Erfolg --...

This book aims to explain the secret to China’s rapid growth over the last 40 years from the viewpoint of a firsthand witness. Zheng Xinli was enrolled as a graduate student of economics 40 years ago, at a time when very few Chinese people could enroll in higher-level education, let alone...

Energy policies play a pivotal part in helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals. Further, energy is one of the critical raw materials in companies’ production processes. Therefore, ensuring a steady energy supply is essential to increasing production; otherwise, countries...

Part 1: General Systems Theory -- Chapter 1: Mesarovic-Takahara Time Systems under the Effect of Feedback Mechanism -- Chapter 2: Generalization of Law of Requisite Variety -- Chapter 3: Isomorphy of Subsystem and Component Subsystem of Input-Output System -- Chapter 4: Meta-Analysis of...

Part 1: Social/Organizational Theory and Application -- Chapter 1: Complex Systems and Postmodernism: A New Perspective for Society in the 21st Century -- Chapter 2: A Retrospective on the University-Industry Innovation Nexus in Japan: Empirical Assessment of Coauthorship in the Light of New...

Chapter 1. Creating an Epistemic Community: The Experience of the Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar -- Chapter 2. Will the EU Grow Faster Than in the Past Decade After Covid-19? -- Chapter 3. Covid-19 and the Golden Rule of Social Distancing -- Chapter 4. The New European...