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The Evolution of a New Industry

A Genealogical Approach

by Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Zur Shapira
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

The Evolution of a New Industry traces the emergence and growth of the Israeli hi-tech sector to provide a new understanding of industry evolution. In the case of Israel, the authors reveal how the hi-tech sector built an entrepreneurial culture with a capacity to disseminate intergenerational...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015

In recent years there have been reports of actions purportedly taken by People's Liberation Army (PLA) units without civilian authorization, and of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) civilian leaders seeking to curry favor with the military—suggesting that a nationalistic and increasingly influential...
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It Takes More than a Network

The Iraqi Insurgency and Organizational Adaptation

by Chad C. Serena
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014

It Takes More than a Network presents a structured investigation of the Iraqi insurgency's capacity for and conduct of organizational adaptation. In particular, it answers the question of why the Iraqi insurgency was seemingly so successful between 2003 and late 2006 and yet nearly totally collapsed...
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Community at Risk

Biodefense and the Collective Search for Security

by Thomas D. Beamish
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015

In 2001, following the events of September 11 and the Anthrax attacks, the United States government began an aggressive campaign to secure the nation against biological catastrophe. Its agenda included building National Biocontainment Laboratories (NBLs), secure facilities intended for research on...
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The Eureka Myth

Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property

by Jessica Silbey
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014

Are innovation and creativity helped or hindered by our intellectual property laws? In the two hundred plus years since the Constitution enshrined protections for those who create and innovate, we're still debating the merits of IP laws and whether or not they actually work as intended. Artists, scientists,...
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The Soul of Creativity

Forging a Moral Rights Law for the United States

by Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009

In the United States, human creativity is historically understood to be motivated by economic concerns. However, this perspective fails to account for the reality that human creativity is also often the result of internal motivations having nothing to do with money. This book addresses what motivates...
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by Annette Gardner, Claire Brindis
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017

This is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools needed to conduct effective advocacy and policy change evaluations. By integrating insights from different disciplines, Part I provides a conceptual foundation for navigating advocacy tactics within today's turbulent...
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Patriots for Profit

Contractors and the Military in U.S. National Security

by Thomas Bruneau
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011

This book develops a new approach to the analysis of civil-military relations by focusing on the effectiveness of the armed forces in fulfilling roles & missions, and on their efficiency in terms of cost. The approach is applied to the United States using official documents and interviews with...
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Organizational Transformation

How to Achieve It, One Person at a Time

by Bruce J. Avolio
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

It is estimated that approximately seventy percent of organizations fail in their attempts to implement transformative change. This book will help lessen that rate. Using real-world examples, Bruce J. Avolio maps four states of change that any organization must go through: identifying and recognizing,...
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The Italian Legal System

An Introduction, Second Edition

by Michael A. Livingston, Pier Giuseppe Monateri, Francesco Parisi
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015

For fifty years, the first edition of The Italian Legal System has been the gold standard among English-language works on the Italian legal system. The book's original authors, Mauro Cappelletti, John Henry Merryman, and Joseph M. Perillo, provided not only an overview of Italian law, but a definition...
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Hyperconflict

Globalization and Insecurity

by James Mittelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010

This book addresses two questions that are crucial to the human condition in the twenty-first century: does globalization promote security or fuel insecurity? And what are the implications for world order? Coming to grips with these matters requires building a bridge between the geoeconomics and geopolitics...
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The Next Wave

Financing Women's Growth-Oriented Firms

by Susan Coleman, Alicia M. Robb
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016

You may be familiar with the success stories of Spanx, GoldieBlox, and other women-owned businesses that have taken their markets by storm. But, today, only two percent of women-owned firms generate more than one million dollars annually. The Next Wave is here to help women drive up that number. Drawing...
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A Rising Tide

Financing Strategies for Women-Owned Firms

by Susan Coleman, Alicia Robb
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012

Women-owned firms represent an increasingly important segment of the small business sector. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 7.8 million women-owned firms in the United States in 2007, generating $1.2 trillion in revenues and providing employment for 7.6 million...
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Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps

How to Thrive in Complexity

by Jennifer Garvey Berger
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019

Author and consultant Jennifer Garvey Berger has worked with all types of leaders—from top executives at Google to nonprofit directors who are trying to make a dent in social change. She hears a version of the same plea from every client in nearly every sector around the world: "I know that...
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