1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452068703321

Autore

Laeven Luc

Titolo

A Reader in International Corporate Finance, 2 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, : World Bank Publications, 2006

ISBN

1-280-54774-X

9786610547746

0-8213-6701-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Disciplina

658.15

Soggetti

Corporations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; VOLUME II. PART I. CAPITAL MARKETS; VOLUME II. PART II. CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS; VOLUME III. PART III. POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FINANCE; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

A Reader in International Corporate Finance offers an overview of current thinking on six topics: law and finance, corporate governance, banking, capital markets, capital structure and financing constraints, and the political economy of finance. This collection of 23 of the most influential articles published in the period 2000-2006 reflects two new trends:interest in international aspects of corporate finance, particularly specific to emerging markets, awareness of the importance of institutions in explaining global differences in corporate finance.""In the last decade, financial economists



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777514303321

Titolo

Governing environmental flows : global challenges to social theory / / edited by Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P.J. Mol, and Frederick H. Buttel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006

ISBN

1-282-09835-7

9786612098352

0-262-28410-3

1-4237-8721-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SpaargarenGert

MolA. P. J

ButtelFrederick H

Disciplina

333.7

Soggetti

Environmental policy

Environmental policy - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Governing environmental flows in global modernity / Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P.J. Mol, and Hans Bruyninckx -- Toward a sociology of environmental flows : a new agenda for twenty-first-century environmental sociology / Arthur P.J. Mol and Gert Spaargaren -- The environmental state and environmental flows : the need to reinvent the nation-state / Martin Jänicke -- Looking through the state at environmental flows and governance / Dimitris Stevis and Hans Bruyninckx -- Detached flows or grounded place-making projects? / Zsuzsa Gille -- Globalization, environmental reform, and U.S. hegemony / Frederick H. Buttel -- Governing nature? On the global complexity of biodiversity conservation / C.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen -- Governing climate risk : a study of international rivers / Itay Fischhendler -- Environmental governance of global food flows : the case of labeling strategies / Peter Oosterveer -- Greening transnational buildings : between global flows and local places / Luciana M.S. Presas and Arthur P.J. Mol -- Environment, mobility, and the accleration of time : a sociological analysis of transport flows in modern life / Mette



Jensen -- Epilogue : Environmental flows and twenty-first-century environmental social sciences / Frederick H. Buttel, Gert Spaargaren, and Arthur P.J. Mol.

Sommario/riassunto

Lays the foundations for a new conceptualization of global environmental governance that draws on the flow perspective found in recent work in sociology.