A Research Agenda for Governance

A Research Agenda for Governance

Author: Peters, B. Guy

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1788117999

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This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive study of existing and emerging general principles of EU law by scholars from a wide range of expertise in EU law, international law, legal theory and different areas of substantive law. It explores the theory, content, role and function of general principles in EU law to better understand general principles as a mechanism for the substantive openness of the EU legal order as well as for cross-fertilization and coherence of legal orders. Their potential as a tool to manage the interaction of legal regimes and orders is a particular focal point and will make this Handbook a must-read for scholars of EU Law.


A Research Agenda for Knowledge Management and Analytics

A Research Agenda for Knowledge Management and Analytics

Author: Jay Liebowitz

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1800370628

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Leveraging the knowledge gained from Knowledge Management and from the growing fields of Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), this Research Agenda highlights the research gaps, issues, applications, challenges and opportunities related to Knowledge Management (KM). Exploring synergies between KM and emerging technologies, leading international scholars and practitioners examine KM from a multidisciplinary perspective, demonstrating the ways in which knowledge sharing worldwide can be enhanced in order to better society and improve organisational performance.


A Research Agenda for Governance

A Research Agenda for Governance

Author: Jon Pierre

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-05-28

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781788117982

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This incisive Research Agenda for Governance draws together unique contributions from leading scholars to examine the two distinct models of governance: the traditional model, based on the state and exercise of control through law and bureaucracy, and an alternative model centred on the collaboration of public and private sector actors.


A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance

A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance

Author: Oksana Mont

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1788117816

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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} Evaluating achievements, challenges and future avenues for research, this book explores how new dimensions of knowledge and practice contest, reshape and advance traditional understandings of sustainable consumption governance.


A Research Agenda for Family Business

A Research Agenda for Family Business

Author: Andrea Calabrò

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-09-25

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1788974077

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This exciting Research Agenda expertly addresses the question: What will be important within the family business field and for family businesses in practice over the next decade? Top international contributors explore farsighted theories, methods and topics, often taking a multi-disciplinary approach in order to outline the potential routes for further advancing family business research. Chapters cover the significance of new family trends, entrepreneurial legacy, board diversity, spatial-familiness, corruption, innovation and digital business transformation, challenging core assumptions surrounding the family business phenomenon and mapping the future of the discipline.


A Research Agenda for Public Administration

A Research Agenda for Public Administration

Author: Andrew Massey

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1788117255

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This book addresses salient current issues in public administration research. It seeks to suggest where future research may or indeed ought to be focussed. To advocate the future routes for the development of research, this book is divided into themes, with a clear overlap between different approaches. The book has contributions that will assist students of public administration/public sector management and public policy, especially new PhD students, but will also be a useful resource for more established researchers to understand the major emerging issues within the field.


A Research Agenda for Federalism Studies

A Research Agenda for Federalism Studies

Author: John Kincaid

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019-12-27

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1788112970

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In this forward-thinking book, fifteen leading scholars set forth cutting-edge agendas for research on significant facets of federalism, including basic theory, comparative studies, national and subnational constitutionalism, courts, self-rule and shared rule, centralization and decentralization, nationalism and diversity, conflict resolution, gender equity, and federalism challenges in Africa, Asia, and the European Union. More than 40 percent of the world’s population lives under federal arrangements, making federalism not only a major research subject but also a vital political issue worldwide.


A Research Agenda for Sport Management

A Research Agenda for Sport Management

Author: David Shilbury

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-05-28

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781800378315

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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Challenging the existing perspectives and models upon which sport management has been founded, this Research Agenda compiles cutting-edge research from expert contributors to offer a new definition of sport management. Examining the evolution of sport management as an academic discipline, this Research Agenda challenges the concepts, theories and standards for what should constitute legitimate future contributions to the field. Focussing on key strategic paradigms in sport governance and leadership, it tracks current management and research trends, and discusses the emergence, application, and relevance of emotion-related research into sport management. Examining sport organisations and professional sport at both international and national level, it identifies sport as both a high-profile social institution and an important leisure pursuit that exists within an increasingly business-like framework. Directing further research into community sport organisations, high performance sport systems and volunteer contributions to sport delivery, this Research Agenda will be an invigorating read for students and scholars of sport management studies. Its insights into governance, leadership and strategy in sport management will prove invaluable to practitioners working in the field.


A Research Agenda for Climate Justice

A Research Agenda for Climate Justice

Author: Paul G. Harris

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1788118170

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Climate change will bring great suffering to communities, individuals and ecosystems. Those least responsible for the problem will suffer the most. Justice demands urgent action to reverse its causes and impacts. In this provocative new book, Paul G. Harris brings together a collection of original essays to explore alternative, innovative approaches to understanding and implementing climate justice in the future. Through investigations informed by philosophy, politics, sociology, law and economics, this Research Agenda reveals how climate change is a matter of justice and makes concrete proposals for more effective mitigation.


A Research Agenda for Social Finance

A Research Agenda for Social Finance

Author: Othmar M. Lehner

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1789907969

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This insightful Research Agenda explores social finance and impact investing, surveying the latest research in this area. It considers a range of actors from across the social finance ecosystem, from investors and social banks, to the entrepreneurs who propose sustainable solutions and seek finance.