John Foster

This book explores the many ways companies around the world can achieve such a competitive advantage. Use this volume to stay informed in this field, which will only grow in importance as technology continues to shed light on who provides the goods and services we rely on.

This book explores the many ways companies around the world can achieve such a competitive advantage. Use this volume to stay informed in this field, which will only grow in importance as technology continues to shed light on who provides the goods and services we rely on.

Foster (economics, University of Queensland, Australia) and H lzl (economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria) develop an empirically based foundation for …

How the Victorians invented Christmas as we know it today - through the eyes of four professional bakers, who make favourite festive products from the most revolutionary era in British history. Featuring the long lost centrepiece of British Christmas known as twelfth cake, mince pies with actual meat in them (tripe - and roast beef), surprisingly recent innovations such as Christmas cake, cards, crackers and even Santa Claus, and the strange shapes favoured by some Victorians for their newly-named Christmas puddings.

Valuing Nature? questions the dominant economic methods of evaluating the environment.