Outsourcing

The ever-increasing popularity of mobile devices (e.g., mobile phones and smart watches) has created a variety of crowdsourcing applications by employing the massive and distributed mobile computing resources. Typically, a task requester sends …

In the last few years, the issue of the location of logistics activities emerged in the literature, in Europe and in the United States, especially from the perspective of logistics spatial dynamics as logistics sprawl. These issues of spatial …

This study examines fits and misfits between information processing requirements and capacities in a hospital emergency department in order to identify possible explanations for the “weekend effect.” Previous research has shown that acute patients …

Industrial Estates are significant for the growth of any economy. In this research, the business mangers’ perceptions of the internal and external obstacles facing medium and large enterprises in the Industrial Estates are collected and analyzed.

In this chapter, conflicts are in focus and are outlined in relation to political economics. The reasons for the conflicts are many. One obvious reason, however, is that Scandinavian countries based their universal welfare state model on …

This chapter more closely addresses “The Regulatory State in the Study of European Governance.” The economic roots of the rise of regulatory governance in the European Union are uncovered in this chapter. The Western and Scandinavian states …

This chapter follows up the political adoption processes behind democratic and governance challenges by introducing “Translation of European Social Models.” The national government and governance models found in European countries and their …

This chapter provides an explanation rooted in historical facts. The term “trilemma” plays a central role and refers to “spillover” processes forming policy-making in the European Union and Scandinavia. “Spillover” processes and the concomitant …