Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
The State and the Private Sector in Latin America
The Shift to Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This book follows ten political economic histories since the 1970s, showing how different forms of partnership have developed, flourished or declined over the time. The author's argument is supported by rich empirical material. It places partnership schemes in a broader social context and provides a deep insight into the phenomenon.
The Science of Why
Decoding Human Motivation and Transforming Marketing Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
In this groundbreaking book, author David Forbes explains human motivation and provides ways that marketers can effectively reach the consumer. The book uses decades of psychology research and the author's own tool, the Forbes Matrix that identifies, organizes, and explains the nine core motivations.
Prosocial Leadership
Understanding the Development of Prosocial Behavior within Leaders and their Organizational Settings
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This book explores the behavioral phenomenon that is intended to aid in the benefit of others, known as prosocial behavior. The author combines eight years of quantitative and qualitative research to explain and delineate the antecedents to prosocial leadership and align these findings into an understandable...
Creating Good Work
The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build A Healthy Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Creating Good Work is a practical guide book, that recounts the stories of some of the most successful social entrepreneurial programs operating today, with real life examples of and how they overcame both physical and societal barriers to create a lasting impact on the world they encounter.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This comprehensive volume tackles all aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions activity - including regional concentration of M&As at a global level, the impact of the economic crisis, and theoretical concepts and practical applications.
Executive Greed
Examining Business Failures that Contributed to the Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
By looking at the three most recent economic crises, the S&L crisis, the dot-com bubble, and the recent subprime mortgage disaster, the author explains why and how corporate managers led their organizations toward disasters in the long-run.
by A. Coskun Samli
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
This book argues that the strength of our dynamic society is a market economy, which functions well only if positive and constructive marketing practices are performed. It offers innovative alternatives for achieving economic progress and outlines strategies to create conditions for equal opportunity....
Social Economies of Fear and Desire
Emotional Regulation, Emotion Management, and Embodied Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
All behaviours, indeed all forms of agency, are viewed as emotionally-driven. This book provides an approach to emotional experience and agency which drastically nuances the commonly held view that fear has predominantly irrational, morally, or ideologically suspect effects which thwart the exercise of autonomy.
Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies
Change and Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic)....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This book offers a unique view of how innovation and competitiveness improve when organizations establish alliances with partners who have strong capabilities and broad social capital, allowing them to create value and growth as well as technological knowledge and legitimacy through new knowledge...
The Quadruple Innovation Helix Nexus
A Smart Growth Model, Quantitative Empirical Validation and Operationalization for OECD Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The Quadruple Innovation Helix concept is the synthesis of top-down policies and practices from Government, University and Industry balanced and shaped by bottom-up initiatives and actions by Civil Society. In addition, of significance is the complementary expansion and completion of the Quadruple...
Open Innovation through Strategic Alliances
Approaches for Product, Technology, and Business Model Creation
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Open Innovation through Strategic Alliances demonstrates the vital role and applications of strategic alliances between firms and research organizations in creating and applying knowledge for the development of new products, technologies, or business models.
More than Revenue
Taxation as a Development Tool
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This exciting new volume provides an up-to-date overview of the current state of taxation in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, its main reform needs, and possible reform strategies that take into account the likely economic, institutional, and political constraints on the reform process.
Dominant Narratives of Colonial Hokkaido and Imperial Japan
Envisioning the Periphery and the Modern Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Recasts the commonly dismissed colonial project pursued in Hokkaido during the Meiji era (1868-1912) as a major force in the production of modern Japan's national identity, imperial ideology, and empire.