Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Secrecy at Work
The Hidden Architecture of Organizational Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Secrecy is endemic within organizations, woven into the fabric of our lives at work. Yet, until now, we've had an all-too-limited understanding of this powerful organizational force. Secrecy is a part of work, and keeping secrets is a form of work. But also, secrecy creates a social order—a hidden...
The Politics of Space Security
Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
The past five decades have witnessed often fierce international rivalry in space, but also surprising military restraint. Now, with an increasing number of countries capable of harming U.S. space assets, experts and officials have renewed a long-standing debate over the best route to space security....
Grow to Greatness
Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Simply put, most entrepreneurial start-ups fail. Those fortunate enough to succeed then face a second, major challenge: how to grow. This book focuses on the key questions an entrepreneur must answer in order to grow a business. Based on extensive research of more than fifty successful growth companies,...
Restoring the Innovative Edge
Driving the Evolution of Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Considerable evidence indicates that the U.S. is falling behind when it comes to innovation. In part, this shift stems from the globalization of research and the advancement of other nations. But, it also arises from a widespread failure to adapt to the competitive environment generated by the evolution...
Knowledge as Power
Criminal Registration and Community Notification Laws in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst. America is surely no exception. Knowledge as Power traces the evolution of a modern technique that has come to enjoy nationwide popularity—criminal registration laws. Registration, which originated...
The Culture of Military Innovation
The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US, and Israel.
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their perception of and approach to warfare. However, the intellectual history of the Revolution in Military...
Raised Right
Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members? What, and who, holds together its large corporate interests, small-government libertarians, social and racial traditionalists, and evangelical Christians?
Raised Right pursues these...
Creating New Knowledge in Management
Appropriating the Field’s Lost Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Creating New Knowledge in Management rediscovers lost sources in the work of Mary Parker Follett and Chester Barnard, providing a foundation for management as a unique and coherent discipline. This book begins by explaining that research universities, and the management field in particular, have splintered...
by William Perry
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons...
Invention and Reinvention
The Evolution of San Diego’s Innovation Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Formerly prosperous cities across the United States, struggling to keep up with an increasingly global economy and the continued decline of post-war industries like manufacturing, face the issue of how to adapt to today's knowledge economy. In Invention and Reinvention, authors Mary Walshok and Abraham...
Transforming Relationships for High Performance
The Power of Relational Coordination
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Whether from customers, supply-chain partners, policymakers, or regulators, organizations in virtually every industry are facing calls to do more with less. They are feeling compelled to provide higher-quality outcomes, more rapidly, at a lower cost.
This book offers a road-tested approach...
The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change
North American Business Schools After the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Some rather remarkable changes took place in North American business schools between 1945 and 1970, altering the character of these institutions, the possibilities for their future, and the terms of discourse about them. This period represents a minor revolution, during which business school are reported...
Constructing Cassandra
Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947–2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Constructing Cassandra analyzes the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four key strategic surprises experienced by the US: the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks—surprises still play out today...
Laws of Image
Privacy and Publicity in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Americans have long been obsessed with their images—their looks, public personas, and the impressions they make. This preoccupation has left its mark on the law. The twentieth century saw the creation of laws that protect your right to control your public image, to defend your image, and to feel...