Stanford University: 1318 books
Chinese Hegemony
Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History joins a rapidly growing body of important literature that combines history and International Relations theory to create new perspectives on East Asian political and strategic behavior. The book explores the strategic...
by Ken Stone
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Animal studies may be a recent academic development, but our fascination with animals is nothing new. Surviving cave paintings are of animal forms, and closer to us, as Ken Stone points out, animals populate biblical literature from beginning to end. This book explores the significance of animal studies...
A Thrice-Told Tale
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her research in Taiwan—a piece of fiction, anthropological...
Asia's Regional Architecture
Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
During the Cold War, the U.S. built a series of alliances with Asian nations to erect a bulwark against the spread of communism and provide security to the region. Despite pressure to end bilateral alliances in the post-Cold War world, they persist to this day, even as new multilateral institutions...
Fallen Elites
The Military Other in Post–Unification Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Military officers are often the first to be considered politically dangerous when a state loses its authority. Overnight, actions once considered courageous are deemed criminal, and men once praised as heroes are redefined as villains. In Fallen Elites, Andrew Bickford examines how states make soldiers...
Companies on a Mission
Entrepreneurial Strategies for Growing Sustainably, Responsibly, and Profitably
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
"Let your social and environmental conscience be your guide" can be a successful and durable strategy for a firm. This is the first book to explain how following a vision for the earth and for society can be a powerful route to profits for small and medium sized companies.
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Beyond the Champion
Institutionalizing Innovation Through People
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Large, mature companies often struggle when it comes to the uncertain process of breakthrough innovation. But innovation is an imperative in today's cutthroat business environment. To fulfill its potential, there has to be a better way—and there is.
Beyond the Champion argues that innovation...
Philip Selznick
Ideals in the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Philip Selznick's wide-ranging writings engaged with fundamental questions concerning society, politics, institutions, law, and morals. Never confined by a single discipline or approach, he proved himself a major figure across a range of fields including sociology, organizations and institutions,...
Riding Shotgun
The Role of the COO, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
The role of Chief Operating Officer is clearly important. In fact, it's arguable that the number two position is the toughest job in a company. COOs play a critical part in executing the strategies developed by top management. And, in many cases, they are being groomed—or test-driven—as the firm's...
The HP Phenomenon
Innovation and Business Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
The HP Phenomenon tells the story of how Hewlett-Packard innovated and transformed itself six times while most of its competitors were unable to make even one significant transformation. It describes those transformations, how they started, how they prevailed, and how the challenges along the way...
Enduring Success
What We Can Learn from the History of Outstanding Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Enduring Success addresses a key question in business today: How can companies succeed over time? To learn the source of enduring greatness, author Christian Stadler directed a team of eight researchers in a six-year study of some of Europe's oldest and most stellar companies, targeting nine that...
Money Well Spent
A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Philanthropy is a booming business, with hundreds of billions of dollars committed to the social sector each year. Money Well Spent, an award-winning guide on how to structure philanthropy so that it really makes a difference, offers a comprehensive and crucial resource for individual donors, foundations,...
by Jason Mazzone
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Intellectual property law in the United States does not work well and it needs to be reformed—but not for the reasons given by most critics. The issue is not that intellectual property rights are too easily obtained, too broad in scope, and too long in duration. Rather, the primary problem is overreaching...
Leadership Dispatches
Chile's Extraordinary Comeback from Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
On February 27, 2010, Chile was rocked by a violent earthquake five hundred times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti just six weeks prior. The Chilean earthquake devastated schools, hospitals, roads, and homes, paralyzing the country for weeks and causing economic damage that was equal to 18...