This book investigates the perceptions of political actors towards the creation of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in Europe. The research is largely based on personal interviews conducted with key informants in central banks, finance ministries, employers' organizations and trade unions in...

This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden world of France’s migrant worker hostels, it explores why older North and West African men continue to live past retirement age in this sub-standard housing. Conventional...

Neue Produkte erfolgreich in den Markt einzuführen stellt heute mehr denn je eine zwingende Voraussetzung für den nachhaltigen Unternehmenserfolg dar. Dies gilt besonders für Hersteller schnelldrehender Konsumgüter, die neben einem zusehends mächtigeren Handel, mit kurzen...

Der erfolgreiche Aufbau von Vertrauensbeziehungen ist in internationalen Arbeitskontexten besonders schwierig. Kulturell unterschiedliche Erwartungen und Bewertungsschemata können zu Missverständnissen in der Vertrauensentwicklung führen. Robert Münscher zeigt in einer Studie mit deutschen...

This book constitutes the tutorial lectures of the 6th European Business Intelligence Summer School, eBISS 2016, held in Tours, France, in July 2016. Tutorials were given by renowned experts and covered recent and various aspects of Business Intelligence and Big Data. This volume contains the...

This book studies the process of demographic transition which has played a key role in the economic development of Western countries. The special focus is on France, which constitutes the first clear case of fertility decline in Europe. The book analyzes the reasons behind this phenomenon by...

This book examines the everyday-life patterns of young adults under circumstances of vulnerability and precariousness. Its main focus is on the web of social relations that structure the everyday life of young people, for instance by providing resources and tools of solving problems, exerting...

This book explores the relationship between economic thought, proposals for reform of political institutions, and civil society in the period between the rise to power of Napoleon and the eve of the First World War in Italy and France - two countries with a similar cultural and political...

This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three...