Accounting and Statistical Analyses for Sustainable Development : Multiple Perspectives and Information-Theoretic Complexity Reduction
| Accounting and Statistical Analyses for Sustainable Development : Multiple Perspectives and Information-Theoretic Complexity Reduction |
| Autore | Lemke Claudia |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Springer Nature, 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Collana | Sustainable Management, Wertschöpfung und Effizienz |
| Soggetto topico | Environmental economics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Environmental Economics
Sustainability Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Composite indicators Multilevel perspective Principal component analysis Information theory Open Access |
| ISBN | 3-658-33246-8 |
| Classificazione | BUS069000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of equations -- List of symbols -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background and motivation -- 1.2 Research question and aim of the dissertation -- 1.3 Procedure -- Chapter 2 Conceptual framework of sustainable development -- 2.1 Definition of sustainable development and sustainability -- 2.2 The three contentual domains of sustainable development -- 2.2.1 Environmental protection -- 2.2.2 Social development -- 2.2.3 Economic prosperity -- 2.2.4 Integration of the three contentual domains -- 2.3 Stakeholders and change agents of sustainable development -- 2.3.1 The multilevel perspective -- 2.3.2 Corporate sustainability -- 2.3.3 Political goal setting: The United Nations's (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- 2.3.4 Sustainability science -- 2.4 Summary -- Chapter 3 Measuring and assessing contributions to sustainable development -- 3.1 Principles of sustainable development measurement and assessment methods -- 3.2 Overview of quantitative sustainable development assessment methods -- 3.3 Sustainable development indicators -- 3.3.1 Corporate indicator frameworks -- 3.3.2 Meso-level indices -- 3.3.3 Macro-level indices -- 3.4 Summary -- Chapter 4 Methodology -- 4.1 Overview of sustainable development indices' calculation steps and methodological requirements -- 4.2 Methodological evaluation of sustainable development indices -- 4.3 Methodology of the Multilevel Sustainable Development Index (MLSDI) -- 4.3.1 Collection of sustainable development key figures -- 4.3.2 Preparation of sustainable development key figures -- 4.3.2.1 Meso-level transformation to macro-economic categories -- 4.3.2.2 Macro-level transformation of statistical classifications -- 4.3.3 Imputation of missing values.
4.3.3.1 Characterisation of missing values -- 4.3.3.2 Single time series imputation: Various methods depending on the missing data pattern -- 4.3.3.3 Multiple panel data imputation: Amelia II algorithm -- 4.3.3.4 Statistical tests of model assumptions -- 4.3.4 Standardisation to sustainable development key indicators -- 4.3.5 Outlier detection and treatment -- 4.3.5.1 Characterisation of outliers -- 4.3.5.2 Univariate Interquartile Range (IQR) method -- 4.3.6 Scaling -- 4.3.6.1 Characterisation of scales -- 4.3.6.2 Rescaling between ten and 100 -- 4.3.7 Weighting -- 4.3.7.1 Overview of weighting methods -- 4.3.7.2 Multivariate statistical analysis: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) -- 4.3.7.3 Multivariate statistical analysis: Partial Triadic Analysis (PTA) -- 4.3.7.4 Information theory: Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundancy Backward (MRMRB) algorithm -- 4.3.7.5 Statistical tests of model assumptions -- 4.3.8 Aggregation -- 4.3.9 Sensitivity analyses -- 4.4 Summary and interim conclusion -- Chapter 5 Empirical findings -- 5.1 Data base, objects of investigation, and time periods -- 5.2 Sustainable development key figures -- 5.2.1 Collection and preparation of sustainable development key figures -- 5.2.2 Imputation of missing values -- 5.3 Sustainable development key indicators -- 5.3.1 Alignment of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) disclosures -- 5.3.1.1 Environmental sustainable development key indicators -- 5.3.1.2 Social sustainable development key indicators -- 5.3.1.3 Economic sustainable development key indicators -- 5.3.2 Summary statistics of the sustainable development growth indicators -- 5.3.3 Outlier detection and treatment -- 5.3.4 Empirical findings of the cleaned and rescaled sustainable development key indicators -- 5.3.4.1 Summary statistics. 5.3.4.2 Comparative analysis of the selected branches -- 5.4 Weighting -- 5.4.1 The Principal Component (PC) family's eigenvalues and explained cumulative variances -- 5.4.2 The Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundancy Backward (MRMRB) algorithm's discretisation and backward elimination -- 5.4.3 Comparative analysis of weights -- 5.4.4 Statistical tests of the Principal Component (PC) family -- 5.5 Empirical findings of the four composite sustainable development measures -- 5.5.1 Summary statistics -- 5.5.2 Comparative analysis of the selected branches -- 5.6 Sensitivity analyses -- 5.7 Summary -- Chapter 6 Discussion and conclusion -- 6.1 Implications for research -- 6.2 Implications for practice -- 6.3 Limitations and future outlook -- 6.4 Summary and conclusion -- Appendix -- A.1 Statistical classification scheme of economic activities in the European Union (EU) -- A.2 German health economy's statistical delimitation -- A.3 Statistical tests of sustainable development key figures -- A.4 Summary statistics of the sustainable development key indicators -- A.5 Outlier thresholds of the sustainable development key indicators -- A.6 Normality tests of z-score scaled sustainable development key indicators -- A.7 Sensitivities by the four composite sustainable development measures -- References. |
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Big-time sports in American universities / / Charles T. Clotfelter [[electronic resource]]
| Big-time sports in American universities / / Charles T. Clotfelter [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Clotfelter Charles T. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 796.04/30973 |
| Soggetto topico | College sports - United States |
| ISBN |
1-107-22098-X
1-139-06380-4 1-283-11271-X 1-139-07618-3 9786613112712 1-139-08301-5 1-139-07847-X 1-139-08074-1 0-511-97690-9 1-139-07046-0 |
| Classificazione | BUS069000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Commercial sports as a university function. Strange bedfellows -- Priorities -- The bigness of "big time" -- The uses of big-time college sports. Consumer good, mass obsession -- Commercial enterprise -- Institution builder -- Beacon for campus culture -- Reckoning. Ends and means -- Prospects for reform. |
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Big-time sports in American universities / / Charles T. Clotfelter
| Big-time sports in American universities / / Charles T. Clotfelter |
| Autore | Clotfelter Charles T. |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 796.04/30973 |
| Soggetto topico | College sports - United States |
| ISBN |
1-107-22098-X
1-139-06380-4 1-283-11271-X 1-139-07618-3 9786613112712 1-139-08301-5 1-139-07847-X 1-139-08074-1 0-511-97690-9 1-139-07046-0 |
| Classificazione | BUS069000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Commercial sports as a university function. Strange bedfellows -- Priorities -- The bigness of "big time" -- The uses of big-time college sports. Consumer good, mass obsession -- Commercial enterprise -- Institution builder -- Beacon for campus culture -- Reckoning. Ends and means -- Prospects for reform. |
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By all means necessary : how China's resource quest is changing the world / / by Elizabeth C. Economy and Michael Levi
| By all means necessary : how China's resource quest is changing the world / / by Elizabeth C. Economy and Michael Levi |
| Autore | Economy Elizabeth <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford, University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.70951 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LeviMichael A |
| Soggetto topico |
Natural resources - Government policy - China
National security - China |
| ISBN |
0-19-937312-4
0-19-022922-5 0-19-992179-2 |
| Classificazione | BUS069000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY: HOW CHINA'S RESOURCE QUEST IS CHANGING THE WORLD; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 Introduction; 2 From Tribute to Treaty Port to Global Trade; 3 China Emerges; 4 China Goes Out; 5 China Arrives; 6 Growing Good Governance; 7 Beyond the Developing World; 8 Security and Politics in China's Backyard; 9 Security and Politics Abroad; 10 Resource Strategy in a Changing World; NOTES; MAPS; GLOSSARY OF CHINESE ENTITIES; INDEX |
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Economy Elizabeth <1962->
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By all means necessary : how China's resource quest is changing the world / / by Elizabeth C. Economy and Michael Levi
| By all means necessary : how China's resource quest is changing the world / / by Elizabeth C. Economy and Michael Levi |
| Autore | Economy Elizabeth <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford, University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.70951 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LeviMichael A |
| Soggetto topico |
Natural resources - Government policy - China
National security - China |
| ISBN |
0-19-937312-4
0-19-022922-5 0-19-992179-2 |
| Classificazione | BUS069000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY: HOW CHINA'S RESOURCE QUEST IS CHANGING THE WORLD; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 Introduction; 2 From Tribute to Treaty Port to Global Trade; 3 China Emerges; 4 China Goes Out; 5 China Arrives; 6 Growing Good Governance; 7 Beyond the Developing World; 8 Security and Politics in China's Backyard; 9 Security and Politics Abroad; 10 Resource Strategy in a Changing World; NOTES; MAPS; GLOSSARY OF CHINESE ENTITIES; INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815351903321 |
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| New York : , : Oxford, University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Cannibal capitalism [[electronic resource] ] : how big business and the feds are ruining America / / Michael Hill
| Cannibal capitalism [[electronic resource] ] : how big business and the feds are ruining America / / Michael Hill |
| Autore | Hill Michael <1971-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Income distribution - United States
Industries - United States Capitalism - United States Right and left (Political science) |
| ISBN |
1-118-19775-5
1-283-33282-5 9786613332820 1-118-19776-3 |
| Classificazione | BUS069000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cannibal Capitalism: How Big Business and the Feds are ruining America; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part One: What's Wrong with This Picture?; Chapter One: The Face of Self-Destruction; Chapter Two: Putting the Cannibalism in Capitalism; Chapter Three: Suicide-Enabling Case Study: Crash of 2007-9; Part Two: How Did We Get Here?; Chapter Four: The Evolution of Cannibal Capitalism; Chapter Five: Devolution of the Real Economy through Cannibal Capitalism; Chapter Six: Your Own Opinion or Own Facts? Selective Morality; Part Three: Where Are We Going?; Chapter Seven: The Choice of Health
Chapter Eight: Miseducation of the MassesChapter Nine: Power to the People; Chapter Ten: Bring the Money Home to Momma; Conclusion: Why Are We Promoting Economic Cannibalism? |
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Hill Michael <1971->
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| Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011 | ||
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Cannibal capitalism : how big business and the feds are ruining America / / Michael Hill
| Cannibal capitalism : how big business and the feds are ruining America / / Michael Hill |
| Autore | Hill Michael <1971-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Income distribution - United States
Industries - United States Capitalism - United States Right and left (Political science) |
| ISBN |
9786613332820
9781118197752 1118197755 9781283332828 1283332825 9781118197769 1118197763 |
| Classificazione | BUS069000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cannibal Capitalism: How Big Business and the Feds are ruining America; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part One: What's Wrong with This Picture?; Chapter One: The Face of Self-Destruction; Chapter Two: Putting the Cannibalism in Capitalism; Chapter Three: Suicide-Enabling Case Study: Crash of 2007-9; Part Two: How Did We Get Here?; Chapter Four: The Evolution of Cannibal Capitalism; Chapter Five: Devolution of the Real Economy through Cannibal Capitalism; Chapter Six: Your Own Opinion or Own Facts? Selective Morality; Part Three: Where Are We Going?; Chapter Seven: The Choice of Health
Chapter Eight: Miseducation of the MassesChapter Nine: Power to the People; Chapter Ten: Bring the Money Home to Momma; Conclusion: Why Are We Promoting Economic Cannibalism? |
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Hill Michael <1971->
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The clash of economic ideas : the great policy debates and experiments of the last hundred years / / Lawrence H. White [[electronic resource]]
| The clash of economic ideas : the great policy debates and experiments of the last hundred years / / Lawrence H. White [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | White Lawrence H (Lawrence Henry) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 428 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 330.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Economics - History - 20th century
Economics - History - 21st century |
| ISBN |
1-139-36603-3
1-107-22917-0 1-280-66406-1 9786613640994 1-139-37858-9 1-139-37572-5 0-511-99821-X 1-139-37715-9 1-139-38001-X 1-139-37173-8 |
| Classificazione | BUS069000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The turn away from laissez faire; 2. The Bolshevik revolution and the socialist calculation debate; 3. The Roaring Twenties and Austrian business cycle theory; 4. The New Deal and institutionalist economics; 5. The Great Depression and Keynes's General Theory; 6. The Second World War and Hayek's Road to Serfdom; 7. Postwar British Socialism and the Fabian Society; 8. The Mont Pelerin Society and the rebirth of Smithian economics; 9. The postwar German 'wonder economy' and ordoliberalism; 10. Indian planning and development economics; 11. Bretton Woods and international monetary thought; 12. The great inflation and monetarism; 13. The growth of government: public goods and public choice; 14. Free trade, protectionism, and trade deficits; 15. From pleasant deficit spending to unpleasant sovereign debt crisis. |
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White Lawrence H (Lawrence Henry)
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Constitutional money : a review of the Supreme Court's monetary decisions / / Richard H. Timberlake [[electronic resource]]
| Constitutional money : a review of the Supreme Court's monetary decisions / / Richard H. Timberlake [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Timberlake Richard H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 343.73/032 |
| Soggetto topico | Money - Law and legislation - United States |
| ISBN |
1-139-61122-4
1-107-23805-6 1-107-46007-7 1-139-62610-8 1-139-60938-6 1-139-61680-3 1-139-61308-1 1-139-50660-9 1-299-25774-7 |
| Classificazione | BUS069000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The current state of monetary affairs in the United States -- Emergence of money in civilized societies -- Bimetallic monetary systems and appearance of a national bank -- McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819 -- "To coin money and regulate the value thereof-- " -- Craig v. Missouri, 1830 -- Briscoe v. The Bank of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1837 -- Federal Government issues of treasury notes and greenbacks -- The track of the legal tender bills through Congress -- Bronson v. Rodes, 1868 -- Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 1869 -- Hepburn v. Griswold, 1870 : the legal tender issue -- Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis, 1871 : reversal of Hepburn -- Monetary affairs in the United States, 1871-1883 -- The third legal tender case : Juilliard v. Greenman, 1884 -- Commentaries on the legal tender decicions : the issue of sovereignty -- Other commentaries on the legal tender cases -- The (Gold) Currency Act of 1900 and monetary affairs in the United States before 1914 -- The Federal reserve system, 1914-1929 -- The great contraction, 1929-33 -- Gold! : Where did it go? : Why didn't the gold standard work? -- The gold clause cases, 1934-1935 -- Gold and monetary affairs in the twentieth century -- A constitutional monetary system. |
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Timberlake Richard H.
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Constitutional money : a review of the Supreme Court's monetary decisions / / Richard H. Timberlake
| Constitutional money : a review of the Supreme Court's monetary decisions / / Richard H. Timberlake |
| Autore | Timberlake Richard H. |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 343.73/032 |
| Soggetto topico | Money - Law and legislation - United States |
| ISBN |
1-139-61122-4
1-107-23805-6 1-107-46007-7 1-139-62610-8 1-139-60938-6 1-139-61680-3 1-139-61308-1 1-139-50660-9 1-299-25774-7 |
| Classificazione | BUS069000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The current state of monetary affairs in the United States -- Emergence of money in civilized societies -- Bimetallic monetary systems and appearance of a national bank -- McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819 -- "To coin money and regulate the value thereof-- " -- Craig v. Missouri, 1830 -- Briscoe v. The Bank of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1837 -- Federal Government issues of treasury notes and greenbacks -- The track of the legal tender bills through Congress -- Bronson v. Rodes, 1868 -- Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 1869 -- Hepburn v. Griswold, 1870 : the legal tender issue -- Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis, 1871 : reversal of Hepburn -- Monetary affairs in the United States, 1871-1883 -- The third legal tender case : Juilliard v. Greenman, 1884 -- Commentaries on the legal tender decicions : the issue of sovereignty -- Other commentaries on the legal tender cases -- The (Gold) Currency Act of 1900 and monetary affairs in the United States before 1914 -- The Federal reserve system, 1914-1929 -- The great contraction, 1929-33 -- Gold! : Where did it go? : Why didn't the gold standard work? -- The gold clause cases, 1934-1935 -- Gold and monetary affairs in the twentieth century -- A constitutional monetary system. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910957555303321 |
Timberlake Richard H.
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
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