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Revolutionizing Retail
Workers, Political Action, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
There is a modest but growing body of scholarly literature on experiences of retail work, with only a handful of studies existing on retail organizing. Before Revolutionizing Retail, no scholar had captured or analysed the breadth of political action being pursued in this crucial economic sector.
This...
Energy and Human Resource Development in Developing Countries
Towards Effective Localization
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This book is about engaging and empowering people through their own domestic resources, by using upstream energy to create larger downstream employment opportunities. Incorporating sustainability, resource enhancement, and energy responsibility can generate awareness and better utilization of the...
Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Writing Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space.
Value Creation, Reporting, and Signaling for Human Capital and Human Assets
Building the Foundation for a Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Level Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The issues discussed in this book are the building blocks needed for an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that will allow for value creation and reporting by the most important assets organizations have, its human capital.
The Theory of Entrepreneurship
Creating and Sustaining Entrepreneurial Value
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
The Theory of Entrepreneurship examines the interiors of the entrepreneurial value creation process, and offers a new unified and comprehensive theory to afford empirical investigations as well as delineate a broader view of the entrepreneurial contextual milieu.
Management, Valuation, and Risk for Human Capital and Human Assets
Building the Foundation for a Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Level Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Perspectives on Human Capital and Assets goes beyond the current literature by providing a platform for a broad scope of discussion regarding HC&A, and, more importantly, by encouraging a multidisciplinary fusion between diverse disciplines.
Zero Lower Bound Term Structure Modeling
A Practitioner’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Nominal yields on government debt in several countries have fallen very near their zero lower bound (ZLB), causing a liquidity trap and limiting the capacity to stimulate economic growth. This book provides a comprehensive reference to ZLB structure modeling in an applied setting.
Creating Enlightened Organizations
Four Gateways to Spirit at Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
There is a growing movement to incorporate faith and spirituality in the workplace, to do things better, to utilize all the human capabilities of employees, and to truly revolutionize the role of business in the world. Creating Enlightened Organizations is the first book to provide a truly comprehensive...
by E. Bolland, C. Lopez, Carlos Lopes
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Based on an extensive national survey of workers and four separate industry-specific surveys, Generations and Work will examine and provide answers to the most common issues and problems of multi generational work by assessing differences and commonalities between and among generations.
Teaching Leadership and Organizational Behavior through Humor
Laughter as the Best Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
A unique, non-traditional, Organizational Behavioral-oriented book that is geared toward flexible leadership, and that offers a series of funny, yet thought-provoking, motivating, growth-oriented jokes and humor anecdotes that will help readers tap into their internal locus of control.
Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions
Theory and Empirical Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Since their explosion in the mid-1990s, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have turned into a global phenomenon with growing prevalence. A large number of theoretical and empirical studies focus on cross-border deals from several perspectives, such as motives, strategic issues, and performance. Most...
by A. Estache, Q. Wodon, KATHRYN LOMAS
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the extent to which, how, and how fast the infrastructure needs of the poor have been met in Sub-Saharan Africa. Estache and Wodon explore the extent to which some key policies have hurt or helped progress in trying to speed the expansions...
The Public Debt Problem
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
The European public debt problem was in the making long before the 2007-2009 recession, as budget deficits had become endemic. A similar crisis is now developing in America, where the same fundamental causes have been at work. The Public Debt Problem analyzes the situation of public debts in America...
by T. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Aimed at practitioners with no prior expertise in the subject, this book helps readers build basic real options models to aid in decision-making. Providing a pragmatic and informative approach, the authors introduce basic probability theories, before putting these theories into a real-world context.