Over the past 30 years sustainability has become increasingly important to scholarly research and business in practice. This book explores a variety of challenges faced by businesses when becoming sustainable and how this links to economic development and its corruption, ethical and taxation...

This book examines the current and controversial topic of the sulphur cap in maritime supply chains, a new regulation set to be enforced in 2020. The author presents extensive research on three northern countries - Finland, Sweden and Estonia - and the effects they felt when these regulations...

1.Introduction: The Institution and the Imaginary in a Nordic Light; Søren Askegaard and Jacob Östberg -- 2. Democracies of taste Ruled by the Law of Jante? Rudiments of a Nordic Sociology of Consumption; Henri A. Weijo -- 3. Market Wonderland: An Essay about a Statist Individualist Consumer...

Understanding Values Work in Organisations and Leadership -- Values – Reviewing the construct and drawing implications for values work in organisation and leadership -- What is values work? A review of values work in organisations -- Institutional Complexity Challenging Values and Identities...

1. Kautilya’s Arthashashtra and a mixed economy within Monarchy -- 2. Socialism in the Soviet Union -- 3. Socialism within a Democracy, Fabian Socialism in Yugoslavia, Scandinavia, India -- 4. Socialist theory of Feldman and Mahalanobis -- 5. Socialist Calculation -- 6. Contemporary capitalism...

1. Introduction -- 2. Guides on a crossroad - between deregulation and entrepreneurship -- 3. Tourism Employment and Education in a Danish Context -- 4. Tourism work - Public management of the tourism workforce in Finland -- 5. A Potential Treasure for Tourism – Crafts as employment and a...

Chapter 1: Theoretical Framework: Natural Resources and Economic Development -- Chapter 2: Taxation and Fiscal Policy Understand the Resource Curse -- Chapter 3: Trade: The role of External Sector in Development -- Chapter 4: Human Capital and Knowledge: Education, practical learning and...

1. Introduction; Jorge Alvarez and Svante Prado -- Part 1. Latin America and Scandinavia -- 2. Latin American and Nordic countries: a renewed tradition of comparative studies; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin -- Part 2: Trade, industrialisation and growth -- 3. Foreign trade and...

Part I. Religiosity, Spirituality, and Business -- Chapter 1. Corporate Society, the Foundation of Order, and “Quaker Codes” -- Chapter 2. Management of Miracles and Pilgrimage: A Comparative Study of Votive Offering in Europe and Japan -- Chapter 3. Spiritual Leadership: Background, Theory...