Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
Letting Go
Preparing Yourself to Relinquish Control of the Family Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Letting Go helps family business owners and CEOs make the decision to begin succession planning. It provides new ways of thinking about giving up control of the family business and explores practical strategies for preparing, managing, and carrying out the decision to do so.
Trendology
Building an Advantage through Data-Driven Real-Time Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In this, the first data-driven guide to real time marketing, Chris Kerns outlines the value of RTM via a comprehensive social data performance analysis. He lays out best practices for measuring RTM, injects a data-driven mindset into every step of its methodology, and shows how marketers can grow RTM into a daily win for brands across the globe.
Work and Family in Urban China
Women’s Changing Experience since Mao
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China’s recent market reform. It depicts transformations in urban women’s experiences with both paid and non-paid domestic work. The book challenges China’s free-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts...
Entr'acte
Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Generally taking place in front of closed curtains during set changes between acts, the entr'acte delivers a fleeting new purpose and event to the otherwise sometimes inert space between stage and pit. This collection employs the entr'acte as a model for conceptualizing emerging formations of publics and of public space.
Learning Leadership in a Changing World
Virtue and Effective Leadership in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Learning Leadership in a Changing World provides direction and support in the form of the 4R Model of Leadership—a theoretically sound, conceptually straightforward, and educationally powerful framework.
Cities and the Super-Rich
Real Estate, Elite Practices and Urban Political Economies
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically. This collection critically engages with and advances existing debates on the super-rich and their roles in these transformations. An interdisciplinary range of contributions from international experts including sociologists,...
New Age Globalization
Meaning and Metaphors
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Using the frameworks of systems theory, modernization, and the world system, New Age Globalization presents a composite multilevel, multidirectional picture of globalization informed by eight different but interdependent subsystems.
The New Chinese Economy
Dynamic Transitions into the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
The most recent account of what is going on in the fast changing world and Chinese economics. Topics in the book include economic development, banking and finance, education reform, consumption patterns, the impact of social networking, population dynamics, policy making, and the challenges ahead for the rising economic global superpower.
Applied Financial Macroeconomics and Investment Strategy
A Practitioner’s Guide to Tactical Asset Allocation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The absolute and relative performance of various asset classes is systematically related to macroeconomic trends. In this new book, Robert McGee provides a thorough guide to each stage of the business cycle and analyzes the investment implications using real-world examples linking economic dynamics to investment results.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
This first volume in the series addresses the pressing need to align business practices with the requirements of a sustainable world. Delivering new models for conducting business, implications of undertaking new approaches, and ways businesses are transforming and being transformed by their environments.
Creating a Eurasian Union
Economic Integration of the Former Soviet Republics
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Creating a Eurasian Union offers a detailed analysis of the economies of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan and the proposed Eurasian Union. The authors employ econometric analysis of business cycles and cointegration analysis to prove the fragility of the union's potential economic...
Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-First Century
Principles and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant provision of meaningful jobs, and low levels of inequality and social ills, Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-first Century provides a wide range of principles and policies that would be necessary if we are to achieve a good society.
Real Leaders Negotiate!
Gaining, Using, and Keeping the Power to Lead Through Negotiation
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This book examines the central role of negotiation in gaining, exercising, and retaining leadership within organizations, large and small, public and private. Its aim is to instruct readers on the way to use negotiation to lead effectively.
For far too long conventional wisdom has proposed...
The Pacific Islands in China's Grand Strategy
Small States, Big Games
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
This book looks at Chinese policy towards the South Pacific in the context of China's grand strategy. Analysts are divided on the implications of China's deepening involvement in the region and the study of Chinese involvement in the South Pacific is a part of the great debate on the rise of China.