Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
Family Wealth Continuity
Building a Foundation for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Most family business owners and wealth creators share an important vision: perpetuating family and wealth for many generations to come. To ensure wealth continuity, many families put into place various structures, plans, and processes, including estate plans (which may include multiple trusts), ownership...
Christian Scripture and Human Resource Management
Building a Path to Servant Leadership through Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Christian Scripture and Human Resource Management provides a much-needed Christian faith-based perspective on human resources management written for both line and human resource managers using the framework of servant leadership, the mandated leadership approach used by Jesus.
How Asian Women Lead
Lessons for Global Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
How Asian Women Lead provides a vastly different picture than Western-focused leadership literature, highlighting obstacles Asian women face reaching the top, and looking beneath the corporate surface to show cultural and family perspectives.
The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay
Collective Memory and Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay explores how young adults in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay make sense of the 1970s socialist projects and the ensuing years of repression in their activism, film, and literature.
The Korean Economic Developmental Path
Confucian Tradition, Affective Network
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book defines the Korean development as the moral economy of growth derived from a synergy between strong state and strong society and argues that Confucian cultural orientation has played a critical role in the process.
by R. Lu
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Will China become a multiparty democracy? The author posits that the more that Chinese elite thinking on China's development and change reconciles the tension between Chinese nationalism and collectivist, family-like ethics on the one hand, and the western democratic ideals based on each self-seeking...
China's Rise to Power
Conceptions of State Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
China's combination of authoritarian rule and a market-oriented economy has proven simultaneously appealing and a source of domestic discontent. This essay collection balances policy analysis with detailed investigation of escalating popular unrest to anticipate the future of Chinese governance & society.
The Internationalization of East Asian Higher Education
Globalization’s Impact
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Develops new and intriguing insights into globalization theory and internationalization practice, expanding the investigation of East Asian values and contexts in comparison and separate from Western-dominant thoughts of globalization and internationalization in higher education.
Domestic Food Production and Food Security in the Caribbean
Building Capacity and Strengthening Local Food Production Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
With the exception of Haiti, the sensationalized issues of hunger reported in certain parts of the developing world are largely unknown in the Caribbean. Despite this, there are growing concerns about the state of food security in the region, as declining domestic production and increased dependence...
Unmasking Project Management
The Business Perspective of Information Systems Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Unmasking Project Management helps professionals in information technology (IT) and business identify successful approaches to management of information systems (MIS) that will work for their organizations and projects.
The Manager's Dilemma
Balancing the Inverse Equation of Increasing Demands and Shrinking Resources
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
This groundbreaking book provides a framework and set of key concepts enabling leaders to exert their influence over the difficult choices and competing priorities they confront. Compelling stories and vivid case studies help to deliver a serious game plan to any leader who is grappling with burnout caused by the manager's dilemma.
Basic Income Reconsidered
Social Justice, Liberalism, and the Demands of Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Basic income is one the most innovative, powerful and controversial proposals for addressing poverty and growing inequalities. This book examines the arguments for and against basic income from the point of view of economic and social justice.
Who Needs Jobs?
Spreading Poverty or Increasing Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He delves into how income and prosperity are created (businesses producing what consumers demand), proposes solutions to the unemployment problem, and provides...
Making Brazil Work
Checking the President in a Multiparty System
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
This book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise. Using Brazil as a case study in multiparty presidentialism, the authors argue that Brazil's success stems from the combination of a constitutionally strong president and a robust system of checks and balances.