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Cover Research Handbook on Project Performance
Research Handbook on Project Performance
Edited by
Vittal Anantatmula
and
Chakradhar Iyyunni

This engaging Research Handbook presents a fresh look at how to improve project performance for the project sponsor, client and end user using a number of empirical research studies. Focusing on project performance concepts and methods, the Handbook provides a fresh look at successful project completions, achieving project objectives, on-time or ahead of time project completion or delivering within budget.

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Published:
17 Mar 2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802207613
Collection:
Business 2023
Cover The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance
The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance
Innovation, Concepts and Cases
Edited by
Matthias Finger
and
Numan Yanar

A comprehensive overview of the governance of urban infrastructures, this Companion combines illustrative cases with conceptual approaches to offer an innovative perspective on the governance of large urban infrastructure systems. Chapters examine the challenges facing urban infrastructure systems, including financial, economic, technological, social, ecological, jurisdictional and demand. 

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Published:
22 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375611
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2022
Cover Handbook of Proximity Relations
Handbook of Proximity Relations
Edited by
André Torre
and
Delphine Gallaud
This Handbook is a state-of-the-art analysis of proximity relations, offering insights into its history alongside up-to-date scientific advances and emerging questions. Its broad scope – from industrial and innovation approaches through to society issues of living and working at a distance, territorial development and environmental topics – will ensure an in-depth focus point for researchers in economics as well as geography, organizational studies, planning and sociology.
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Published:
18 Jan 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786434784
Collection:
Economics 2022
Cover Big Data Applications in Geography and Planning
Big Data Applications in Geography and Planning
An Essential Companion
Edited by
Mark Birkin
,
Graham Clarke
,
Jonathan Corcoran
, and
Robert Stimson
This unique book demonstrates the utility of big data approaches in human geography and planning. Offering a carefully curated selection of case studies, it reveals how researchers are accessing big data, what this data looks like and how such data can offer new and important insights and knowledge.
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Published:
07 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909791
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
A Contextualized Approach
Edited by
Paresha Sinha
,
Jenny Gibb
,
Michèle Akoorie
, and
Jonathan M. Scott
This Research Handbook offers contextualized perspectives on entrepreneurship in emerging economies. Emphasizing how national context profoundly shapes incentives for entrepreneurial efforts, chapters dissect the opportunities emerging from various institutions and social practices from the Middle East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. This Handbook is an ideal guide for researchers working on emerging economies, particularly those with an interest in global entrepreneurship.
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Published:
10 Feb 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973717
Collection:
Business 2020
Cover Handbook of Universities and Regional Development
Handbook of Universities and Regional Development
Edited by
Attila Varga
and
Katalin Erdős
The Handbook on Universities and Regional Development offers a comprehensive and up-to-date insight into how academic institutions spur their surroundings. The volume sheds light on universities as regional development actors from a historical perspective by introducing institutional changes and discussing the interrelatedness of society, business and academia. It provides detailed investigations on various knowledge transfer mechanisms to help understand the diverse ways through which ideas and intellectual property can flow between universities and businesses. Detailed case studies from three continents (Europe, Asia, and America) demonstrate the highly contextual nature of the interactions between academia, industry and government.
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Handbook
Published:
13 Dec 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784715717
Collection:
Economics 2019
Cover Handbook of Regions and Competitiveness
Handbook of Regions and Competitiveness
Contemporary Theories and Perspectives on Economic Development
Edited by
Robert Huggins
and
Piers Thompson
The aim of this Handbook is to take stock of regional competitiveness and complementary concepts as a means of presenting a state-of-the-art discussion of the contemporary theories, perspectives and empirical explanations that help make sense of the determinants of uneven development across regions. Drawing on an international field of leading scholars, the book is assembled and organized so that readers can first learn about the theoretical underpinnings of regional competitiveness and development theory, before moving on to deeper discussions of key factors and principal elements, the emergence of allied concepts, empirical applications, and the policy context.
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Handbook
Published:
31 Mar 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783475018
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2017
Cover Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation
Handbook on the Geographies of Innovation
Edited by
Richard Shearmu
,
Christophe Carrincazeaux
, and
David Doloreux
The geography of innovation is changing. First, it is increasingly understood that innovative firms and organizations exhibit a wide variety of strategies, each being differently attuned to diverse geographic contexts. Second, and concomitantly, the idea that cities, clusters and physical proximity are essential for innovation is evolving under the weight of new theorizing and empirical evidence. In this Handbook we gather 28 chapters by scholars with widely differing views on what constitutes the geography of innovation. The aim of the Handbook is to break with the many ideas and concepts that emerged during the course of the 1980s and 1990s, and to fully take into account the new reality of the internet, mobile communication technologies, personal mobility and globalization. This does not entail the rejection of well-established and supported ideas, but instead allows for a series of new ideas and authors to enter the arena and provoke debate.
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Published:
25 Nov 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784710774
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2016
Cover Handbook of Creative Cities
Handbook of Creative Cities
Edited by
David Emanuel Andersson
,
Åke E. Andersson
, and
Charlotta Mellander
With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the ‘creative city’ became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist Åke E. Andersson and the psychologist Dean Simonton are the other members of this ‘creative troika’. In the Handbook of Creative Cities, Florida, Andersson and Simonton appear in the same volume for the first time. The expert contributors in this timely Handbook extend their insights with a varied set of theoretical and empirical tools. The diversity of the contributions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of creative city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics, economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology, and urban planning. The stated policy implications are equally diverse, ranging from libertarian to social democratic visions of our shared creative and urban future.
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Published:
31 Aug 2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857936394
Collection:
Economics 2011
Cover Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth
Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth
Edited by
Philip Cooke
,
Bjørn Asheim
,
Ron Boschma
,
Ron Martin
,
Dafna Schwartz
, and
Franz Tödtling
Today, economic growth is widely understood to be conditioned by productivity increases which are, in turn, profoundly affected by innovation. This volume explores these key relationships between innovation and growth, bringing together experts from both fields to compile a unique Handbook.
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Handbook
Published:
31 Aug 2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857931504
Collection:
Social And Political Science 2011