Development Growth category: 1653 books
Organization Development
The Process of Leading Organizational Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change, Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive look at individual, team, and organizational change, covering classic and contemporary organization development techniques. Today's practitioners seek a solid foundation that is academically...
Beyond Market Access for Economic Development
EU-Africa relations in transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
The Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries have drastically restructured Europe’s trade architecture towards the third world. This volume examines the consequences of EPAs for development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
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Problem Solving
Guidebook for ADB-Assisted Projects
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This guidebook is a product of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Accountability Mechanism's Office of the Special Project Facilitator (OSPF). Built on the experiences and lessons of OSPF's problem solving with ADB-assisted projects, it spells out a practical approach to solving problems encountered...
Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation?
Networking, Knowledge and Regional Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative policy-makers and as the implementers of programmes and initiatives originating from the national or European level. By drawing on a combination of conceptual reflection, surveys,...
Managing Technological Innovation
Tools and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The management of technological innovation is both an art, as well as a science; the process involves the know-how and technological core skills to deliver the functionality on the one hand, and (with an ear on the ground) the ability to identify changes in technologies to come up with new innovations...
Spaces and Places in Central and Eastern Europe
Historical Trends and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned economies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), was defined by these countries differences, rather than their common ideological...
Social Regeneration and Local Development
Cooperation, Social Economy and Public Participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Social regeneration is about the transformative processes that, through institutional choices that embody cooperation and inclusion, develop opportunities and capabilities for weak categories, and transversally for society. The challenge of social regeneration can be addressed, in part, through organisational...
Environment, Development, Agriculture
Integrated Policy Through Human Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This reissue, first published in 1995, focuses on philosophy and social science in human ecology, and includes case studies dealing with the problems of political implementation of development plans and schemes. Part One deals with theory, including a comprehensive introduction to the field and an...
Territorial Policy and Governance
Alternative Paths
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
In response to both policy and conceptual debates, alternative narratives have begun to emerge about territorial governance and policymaking. As local and regional policy actors strive to respond to the geographically uneven effects of the economic crises of the early twenty-first century, a crucial...
by Gallup John Luke; Gaviria Alejandro; Lora Eduardo
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies should take it into account. In fact, charges that...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
As entrepreneurs seek to gain an advantage against their competitors, understanding how to share information throughout their organization will be vital in their success. Accordingly, it is critical for researchers, managers, and consultants to strengthen their own systems to facilitate knowledge...
Assessment of Public-Private Partnerships in Viet Nam
Constraints and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
This report is a diagnostic assessment of the readiness of Viet Nam to develop and manage public-private partnerships (PPPs). It was prepared jointly with the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), and it is part of a series of studies being prepared by the Southeast Asia Department of the Asian...
The Value of Arts and Culture for Regional Development
A Scandinavian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In this new volume, 28 Scandinavian researchers and others who are active in arts and culture seek to answer the questions: What has been the effect of regional and local investment in arts and culture? And what positive and negative experiences have there been? This book describes and analyzes the...
Awakening Integral Consciousness
A Developmental Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This is the second of four volumes in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, focused on CARE: Community activation, Awakening consciousness, innovation driven institutionalized Research and transformative Education. In this book, the author focuses on ways and means of developing, in an explicitly...