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Food Consumption in Global Perspective
Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food.
Ethical Leadership
Global Challenges and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Presents analysis, examples, and ideas about the future in a lively yet academically robust format. The book presents the ethical leadership dilemmas of day-to-day international business life in all their complexity, providing a range of angles, options and ideas to feed a questioning mind.
The Illusion of Management Control
A Systems Theoretical Approach to Managerial Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This book shows how a system theoretical concept of technology helps us to understand the paradoxes of control. It describes a phenomenon which shows regularity that is unexpected against the background of received knowledge within management studies. It presents a series of cases which touch upon a range of technologies within the public sector.
Subversion in Institutional Change and Stability
A Neglected Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This book theorizes subversive action, a neglected mechanism in the new institutionalism literature. Subversive action is political in nature, secretly undermining some institutions to open up alternative ideas or to secure existing institutions by secretly undermining adversaries. An example is a...
Hybrid Forms of Governance
Self-suspension of Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
This book is about how power communication inrecent years hasbegun to reflect on its own limits in a new way. It focuseson a number of areas within the welfare state and how power desires non-power. It looks at financial policy, voluntary policy, educational policy and public steering technologies.
Law and Policy in Latin America
Transforming Courts, Institutions, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to law and policy responses to contemporary problems in Latin America, such as human rights violations, regulatory dilemmas, economic inequality, and access to knowledge and medicine. It includes 19 chapters written by sociologists, lawyers, and political...
Crisis, Austerity, and Everyday Life
Living in a Time of Diminishing Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Will austerity never end? This timely and insightful book argues that austerity seeks to set the terms of political and economic life for the foreseeable future, extending techniques of exclusion to ever-greater sections of the population.
Reverse Migration in Contemporary China
Returnees, Entrepreneurship and the Chinese Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The authors investigate the phenomenon of highly skilled Chinese returnees and their impact on the development of the Chinese economy and society, and on the transformation of China into a key player on the global stage. They analyse the reasons why Chinese entrepreneurs choose to return to their...
Regulating for Decent Work
New Directions in Labour Market Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Regulating for Decent Work is a response to the dominant deregulatory approaches that have shaped labour market regulation in recent years. The inter-disciplinary and international approach invigorates current debates through the identification of new challenges, subjects and perspectives.
Youth Unemployment and Job Precariousness
Political Participation in a Neo-Liberal Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This book explores the relationship between youth labour market marginality and political participation, focusing on the example of Portugal and the role played by austerity policies in shaping patterns of activism. Through integrating primary and secondary empirical evidence with key ideas from classical...
Digital Insurance
Business Innovation in the Post-Crisis Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This book explores the ways in which the adoption of new paradigms, processes, and technologies can lead to greater revenue, cost efficiency and control, as well as improved business agility in the insurance industry.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Expanding upon Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice and Leadership and Collaboration, the third installment to this original and innovative collection of books considers a variety of research models and theories. Emphasizing research and evaluation in leadership...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
The first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior group of women academics and a younger group who are at early and mid-career stages. Major themes in the autobiographical stories of these women were national context; organisational context; family, class and location; and agency.
by David Pendleton, Adrian Furnham
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Leadership successes and failures are in the media every day. We are in a global political and financial crisis which is changing how we think about our lives and our futures. The authors present a leadership model for the future which creates the right conditions for people to thrive, individually and collectively, and achieve significant goals.