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by Terry Crawford-Browne
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
In 2007 Terry Crawford-Browne published the explosive Eye On The Money. It was primarily an account of the international banking sanctions campaign against apartheid during the 1980s, but also dealt with the early stages of the now well-documented South African arms deal scandal. Eye On The Diamonds...
Private Management and Public Policy
The Principle of Public Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work at the intersection of business and society. First published in 1975, it focuses on the management processes that companies use to respond to social issues. The text develops the "principle of public responsibility" as an alternative...
Making Governments Accountable
The Role of Public Accounts Committees and National Audit Offices
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Over the past two decades, there has been a paradigm shift in public administration and public sector accounting around the world, with increasing emphasis on good governance and accountability processes for government entities. This is all driven both by economic rationalism, and by changing expectations...
Let Me Show You How To
Self-Publish A Business Directory
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Within this publication, you will find helpful resources that are viable to the success of practically any person with an interest in developing skills as an author, blogger or writer. The essence of this publication is to instruct you on how to develop and construct a business directory publication.
We...
Leading-Edge Research in Public Sector Innovation
Structure, Dynamics, Values and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Government and non-profit innovation has emerged as a strong cross-disciplinary research field with its own schools of study. Innovation is studied in fields and organizations that are open to trying out new policies, programs and processes. In twenty-two years of publication, The Innovation Journal:...
by Lynn E. Davis, Debra Knopman, Michael D. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Finding ways to safely store and ultimately dispose of nuclear waste remains a matter of considerable debate. This volume describes the steps needed to design a new, single-purpose organization to manage and dispose of commercial and defense high-level radioactive materials and examines three models...
The Art of Public Strategy
Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian...
Monopolies in America
Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2000
In this incisive and comprehensive history, business historian Charles Geisst traces the rise of monopolies from the railroad era to today's computer software empires. The history of monopolies has been dominated by strong and charismatic personalities. Geisst tells the stories behind the individuals--from...
by Joe Costello
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Of, By, For is a compilation of thoughts, analysis, and short essays on American politics. The underlying theme; American politics is both corrupt and dysfunctional. Its conclusion; American political economy must be democratically reformed, using both the knowledge we have from the past and imagination...
Peace through Commerce
Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
Peace through Commerce: Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact contains a foreword, introduction, and twenty-one chapters by major business leaders and scholars who discuss the issues set out by the United Nations Global Compact, launched in 2000. The...
by Lane Kenworthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
America is the one of the wealthiest nations on earth. So why do so many Americans struggle to make ends meet? Why is it so difficult for those who start at the bottom to reach the middle class? And why, if a rising economic tide lifts all boats, have middle-class incomes been growing so slowly? Social...
The International Aluminium Cartel
The Business and Politics of a Cooperative Industrial Institution (1886-1978)
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Aluminium was one of most cartelised industries in the international economic panorama of the 20th century. Born following the discovery of electrolytic smelting process in 1886, this industry, even in its infancy, established a cartel which characterised its history until nearly 1980. Managers of...
State and Local Pensions
What Now?
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
In the wake of the financial crisis and Great Recession, the health of state and local pension plans has emerged as a front burner policy issue. Elected officials, academic experts, and the media alike have pointed to funding shortfalls with alarm, expressing concern that pension promises are unsustainable...
by World Bank Group
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2017, the third report in the series, offers insights into how laws and regulations affect private sector development for agribusinesses, including producer organizations and other agricultural entrepreneurs. Globally comparable data and scored indicators encourage...