infonet-economy

This chapter explores new advances and possible added value to the geo-economic study of global cities from an international business and corporate management perspective. First, this chapter reviews existing literature and knowledge, which reveals that the economic intermediation role of global cities has been mainly studied in terms of localization of transnational corporations (...

Purpose
The focus of this paper is the evolution of supply chain management (SCM) and logistics and the relationship between these concepts. Its purpose is to generate deep insights into practice, particularly in relation to the fundamental issue of how practitioners from different industrial and geographical contexts define the supply chain, SCM and logistics.

Design/...

La gestione del rischio non riguarda affatto soltanto i gruppi industriali. Essa rientra tra i principali compiti imprenditoriali anche in una piccola impresa. Una gestione professionale e pianificata di rischi e opportunità è infatti un importante fattore di successo ai fini del raggiungimento degli obiettivi aziendali.

Turning the Paris Agreement’s greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting. First, we analyze voting behavior in a large ballot on energy taxes, rejected in Switzerland in 2015 by more than 2 million people. Energy taxes were aimed...

Carbon pricing is a recurrent theme in debates on climate policy. Discarded at the 2009 COP in Copenhagen, it remained part of deliberations for a climate agreement in subsequent years. As there is still much misunderstanding about the many reasons to implement a global carbon price, ideological resistance against it prospers. Here, we present the main arguments for carbon pricing,...

The Commons discussion proliferates on natural resources and material reproduction. When this discussion happens, it tends to distance itself from the “digital commons”, as the latter should be understood as something different: an area of instability, of undefined laws, or even of abuse. We would like to contribute to a law of the commons discussion with an approach that considers...

The research presented in this paper reports on making change happen and the challenge of tuming educators into change agents. The project is being carried out at the University of Applied Sciences & Arts Wester Switzerland, where there are over 20'000 students. lt is an action research project related to the inclusion of technology in the higher education classroom to add...