Public services are increasingly delivered through the web of collaborative networks, in which organizations compete and cooperate simultaneously. This Element explores how coopetition, namely the simultaneous presence of competition and collaboration, shapes innovation in the health care sector.
Focusing on evidence-based studies from impoverished rural areas in China over the past two decades, this collection delves into critical social issues. It highlights the challenges and progress in poverty reduction, gender equality, social protection, the elimination of social exclusion, and food security, drawing insights from individual interviews and data analyses. The work aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of these interconnected themes within the context of rural Chinese society.
Oil tankers are not solely to blame for pollution at sea. Non-tankers have released numerous spills. The International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage has been adopted, but has not yet come into force. This timely and comprehensive book studies compulsory insurance, its main purpose of ensuring compensation and its interrelations with other features such as the rule of strict liability, the limitation of liability of that convention.