Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung: 222 books
Zukunft Quartier - Lebensräume zum Älterwerden, Band 2
Eine neue Architektur des Sozialen - Sechs Fallstudien zum Welfare Mix
Language: German
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Frau Rotlaub ist 90 Jahre alt und auf pflegerische Unterstützung angewiesen. Zu ihren Nachbarn hat sie täglichen Kontakt, ein befreundetes Ehepaar besucht sie regelmäßig, um mit ihr zu musizieren, und bei der Kaffeerunde in der Wohnanlage sieht man Frau Rotlaub oft und gerne. Während sich die bezahlte...
Zukunft Quartier - Lebensräume zum Älterwerden, Band 1
Eine Potenzialanalyse ausgewählter Wohnprojekte
Language: German
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Quartiersbezogene Wohnkonzepte sind ein wichtiger Beitrag, um den demographischen und sozialen Herausforderungen gerecht werden zu können: durch kleinräumige Vernetzung von Wohn- und Betreuungsangeboten, Stärkung von Eigenständigkeit und selbstständigem Wohnen, durch Pflege im Wohnviertel und...
Sustainable Governance Indicators 2009
Policy Performance and Executive Capacity in the OECD
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Despite the limiting effects of growing interdependencies in a globalized world, national governments still have a considerably broad scope of action when it comes to ensuring sustainable policy outcomes. The key question is, however, to what extent governments can identify, formulate and implement effective...
Shaping Globalization
New Trends in Foreign Direct Investment
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
The rise of new economic powers in Asia and Latin America has changed the size and the direction of cross-border investment flows. Emerging economies like China, Brazil and India have become major destinations of foreign direct investment within the past decade, and they are also taking on the role of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Asia continues to assert ist status as a major force in the global economy, as well as a formative influence on several key political, cultural and religious issues now affecting our daily lives. This collection of articles responds to the challenges posed by Asia's emergence and gives a lucid and thorough...
Health Policy Developments 13
Focus on Health Policy in Times of Crisis, Competition and Regulation, Evaluation in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Health policy in times of crisis is one of the topics of Health Policy Developments 13 exploring the challenge the crisis has posed to health systems, but also asking whether it has provided an opportunity for reform. While some countries like Estonia drastically reduced their healthcare budgets,...
Health Policy Developments 11
Focus on Primary Care, Appropriateness and Transparency, National Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
The spotlight of Health Policy Developments 11 is on primary care. Thirty years after Alma-Ata, the WHO's declaration on primary care has lost none of its relevance. Hopes are high, realization a real challenge: Ideally, primary care overcomes the divide between the outpatient and inpatient sectors...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
The book presents the work and development of community foundations in an international perspective. It comprises essays on the history and spread of the community foundation movement, on the role of community foundations in fostering social capital and civic engagement and on key aspects of the day-to-day...
Values Management and Value Creation in Business
Case Studies on Internationally Successful Companies
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
How important is it to actually live a company's values? Values provide internal and external orientation and legitimize decisions and actions. They also send a signal that the company is a reliable cooperation partner. They can, therefore, help businesses lower their costs and improve their economic...
Cultivating Corporate Innovation
Case Studies on Internationally Successful Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
"Innovation," over the last years, has become one of the most used terms in corporate practice and management theory. Companies hardly have an alternative to constantly fostering innovation if they want to survive in the long run. In order to achieve constant willingness and capacity for innovations,...
Sustainable Governance Indicators 2011
Policy Performance and Governance Capacities in the OECD
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
The Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) 2011 make up the second and latest edition of this major study, and they build upon the work of the successful and widely acknowledged first edition, from 2009. The study examines 31 OECD countries and their performance during the period between May 2008...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
As the digital divide between urban and rural regions grows, not everyone everywhere benefits from the opportunities of digital transformation. This year's Reinhard Mohn Prize "Smart Country – Connected. Intelligent. Digital." highlights digital solutions that strengthen social inclusion...
Effectiveness, Efficiency and Accountability in Philanthropy
What Lessons can be Learned from the Corporate World?
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
This volume collects the insights of the Management Symposium on "Effectiveness, Efficiency and Accountability in Philanthropy - What Lessons can be Learned from the Corporate World?" which was held in spring 2005. It both includes contributions by individual speakers as well as an edited summary essay...
To the Man with a Hammer
Augmenting the Policymaker's Toolbox for a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
In the face of rising complexity and systemic risks, policy-making appears at a breaking point. If business and public leaders hope to create a sustainable and responsive economy, they will need to break from traditional governance and embrace new, innovative solutions. Adopting new practices will be...