Books

Deals with thematic issues including sustainability, externalities, governance, strategy, and integrated reporting
Covers the full scope of finance providing an integrated view on investing, banking, and insurance
Each chapter includes an overview and learning objectives with suggestions for further reading and a list of key concepts used to support educational goals
Makes extensive use of figures, boxes, and tables to clarify concepts and give examples
Authored by a finance professor and fund manager, offering both a theoretical and practical depth with examples taken from financial markets and corporate activities
Supported by online companion teaching materials and cases

Being a successful participant in today’s society requires an array of complex skills. Whether you are a student, a manager or a researcher, vital skills are interconnected, skills can be taught… and learned. The development of skills is a lifelong and accumulative process which can be enhanced, provided there is a willingness to take some time to understand the basic principles.This book consist of a collection of circa one hundred Skill Sheets that explain the basic principles of skill development. The sheets are organised around a set of seven comprehensive skills: research, studying (self-management), reading, listening, writing, presenting and (project) management. Rather than developing these skills separately, the formula shows in a concise manner how they are related, and how one can (and should) work on many skills simultaneously.

The author proposes a tilting approach to steer the allocation of the Eurosystem’s assets and collateral towards low-carbon sectors, which would reduce the cost of capital for these sectors relative to high-carbon sectors. Central banks have already started to look at climate-related risks in the context of financial stability. Should they also take the carbon intensity of assets into account in the context of monetary policy?

This book provides an in-depth study of the management of standards and regulation in sustainable and radical innovation development. It considers the case of micro Combined Heat and Power (mCHP) technology.

This book explores the paradox of the hospitality industry: customers demand not only personal and innovative tourism products and services, but also cost-effective ones. Enterprises have the option to meet the former demand by offering authentic products and services while the latter could be achieved through standardization.

Interfirm networks include franchising, retail and service chains, cooperatives, financial networks, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, public-private partnerships and new network forms in the digital economy. This book gathers the latest research studies that approach these networks – and the creation of innovation under the conditions of a complex, dynamic, knowledge-intensive and digital economy – from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Veel studenten in het hoger onderwijs leren niet echt goed schrijven. Om daar iets aan te doen, is deze digitale cursus Zelf leren schrijven ontwikkeld. De cursus bestaat uit negen digitale programma’s, ook wel ViP’s*) genoemd, waarin verschillende deelvaardigheden zelfstandig geoefend kunnen worden.

This book presents an extensive study on the effectiveness of recent regulations on pharmaceutical prices in India, exploring the weaknesses in the design and implementation of pharmaceutical price controls and investigating what can be done to fix the broken system.

Many students of higher education aren't taught how to write well. This digital Learning to Write Independently course has been designed to change this. The course comprises nine digital programmes, called Diskits *1, in which different sub-skills can be practised independently.

We are living in uncertain times. An often used acronym to characterise the kind of
turbulence that society faces is VUCA. This acronym was introduced by the US Military
College at the beginning of the 21st century to stand for the increased Volatility,
Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity that technological, political and economic
processes are currently creating.