Building business in post-communist Russia, eastern Europe, and Eurasia : collective goods, selective incentives, and predatory states / / Dinissa Duvanova, State University of New York, Buffalo [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463174103321
• Autore: Duvanova Dinissa <1977->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-139-60414-7; 1-139-61101-1; 1-139-60923-8; 1-139-61287-5; 1-139-62217-X; 1-139-62589-6; 1-139-61659-5; 1-139-34323-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiii, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 381.06/047
• Soggetti: Trade associations - Russia (Federation); Pressure groups - Russia (Federation); Trade associations - Europe, Eastern; Pressure groups - Europe, Eastern; Trade associations - Eurasia; Pressure groups - Eurasia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Collective action in adverse business environments -- 3. Postcommunist business representation in a comparative perspective -- 4. Business environment and business organization: the quantitative approach -- 5. What you do is what you are: business associations in action -- 6. Compulsory versus voluntary membership -- 7. Conclusions -- Appendices.
• Sommario/riassunto: Prior to 1989, the communist countries of Eastern Europe and the USSR lacked genuine employer and industry associations. After the collapse ; of communism, industry associations mushroomed throughout the region. Duvanova argues that abusive regulatory regimes discourage the formation of business associations and poor regulatory enforcement tends to encourage associational membership growth. Academic research often treats special interest groups as vehicles of protectionism and non-productive collusion. This book challenges this perspective with evidence of market-friendly activities by industry associations and their benign influence on patterns of public governance. Careful analysis of cross-national quantitative data spanning more than 25 countries, and qualitative examination of business associations in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Croatia, shows that postcommunist business associations function as substitutes for state and private mechanisms of economic governance. These arguments and empirical findings put the long-standing issues of economic regulations, public goods and collective action in a new theoretical perspective.

Meditations upon Our Saviour's parable of The prodigal son [[electronic resource] ] : being several sermons on the fifteenth chapter of St. Luke's Gospel / / by Obadiah Grew .

• Record Nr.: UNISA996396213603316
• Autore: Grew Obadiah <1607-1689.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed by S. Roycroft for Nevill Simmons ..., 1678
• Descrizione fisica: [16], 256 p
• Soggetti: Sermons, English - 17th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Marginal notes.; Imperfect: part 2 lacking in filmed copy.; Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0113

Constituent, confederate, and conquered space : the emergence of the Mittani state / / edited by Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Nicole Brisch, Jesper Eidem

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910132208803321
• Autore: Eidem Jesper
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: De Gruyter, 2014; Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 3-11-037029-8; 3-11-026641-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
• Collana: Topoi, Berlin Studies of the Ancient World, , 2191-5806 ; ; Volume 17
• Disciplina: 930
• Soggetti: HISTORY / Ancient / General; Mitanni (Ancient kingdom) History Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Proceedings of a conference held summer of 2009."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva / Brisch, Nicole / Eidem, Jesper -- I. Imperial Constructs - Modes of Governance -- Levantine Polities under Mittanian Hegemony / Dassow, Eva von -- The Organisation of Residential Space in the Mittani Kingdom as a Mirror of Different Models of Governance / Otto, Adelheid -- The Mittani State: The Formation of the Kingdom of Mittani / Martino, Stefano de -- The Imperial Space - The Early Hittite Kingdom / Klinger, Jörg -- II. Political Landscapes - Antecedents in Upper Mesopotamia -- Inherited Space - Third Millennium Political and Cultural Landscape / Biga, Maria G. -- Central Anatolia in the Nineteenth and Eighteenth Centuries BC / Michel, Cécile -- The Kingdom of Šamšī-Adad and its Legacies / Eidem, Jesper -- Political Space - Local Political Structures in Northern Syria: The Case of the Country of Ida-Maras· in the Eighteenth Century BC / Guichard, Michaël -- III. Cultural Landscapes - Regional Diversity vs. Political Unity -- Marginal and Steppic Areas as Sources for Archaeological Debate: A Case for "Active Symbiosis" of Town and Country / Meijer, Diederik J. W. -- Settled Space. Evidence for Changes ; in Settlement Patterns of Northern Mesopotamia at the Advent and at the Turn of the Mittani Era / Koliński, Rafał -- The Settlement Pattern of the Western Upper Khabur from the Old Babylonian Period to the End of the Mittani Era / Lyonnet, Bertille / Faivre, Xavier -- Spaces of Measures and Numbers in Upper Mesopotamia / Chambon, Grégory -- IV. Reflections -- The Age of Opportunity: Social and Political Transitions in Mid-Second Millennium BC Mesopotamia / Yoffee, Norman -- Reflections on the Mittani Emergence / Schwartz, Glenn M. -- Abbreviations -- Indices
• Sommario/riassunto: Das Mittani-Reich war eine der großen imperialen Strukturen des Alten Orients im 2. Jahrtausend v.Chr. Es erstreckte sich von der Levante über Obermesopotamien bis an den Zagros. Doch noch immer ist das Wissen um Entstehung und die innere Verfasstheit dieses Staates begrenzt. In diesem Band untersuchen Altorientalisten, vorderasiatische Archäologen und Historiker das Verhältnis von älteren und zeitgenössischen Formen der Organisation des Territoriums - politisch, kulturell, gesellschaftlich - zu diesem neuen Staat.; The Mittani empire is one of the most enigmatic political structures in Mesopotamian history. Reconstructing the emergence and the organisation of this state, whose territory encompassed Upper Mesopotamia touching the Levant and the piedmont plains of the Zagros in the East at the height of its power, is exceedingly difficult. Cuneiform specialists, archeologists and historians discuss the Mittani state with regard to modes of spatial organisation co- and preexisting in the region.