Classics in Management Thought presents by theme an authoritative selection of the most important articles in management published during the last 50 years. Under the general editorship of Cary Cooper, an international panel of leading management thinkers have identified those published aricles and papers which in their view provide the essential foundations of modern management thought. These articles and papers were originally published in a wide range of journals and books many of which will not be available in scholarly libraries.

Environmental sociology attempts to elucidate the complex nature of human interactions with(in) nature, in the words of editors Redclift (international environmental policy, King's College, U. of London, UK) and Woodgate (environmental studies, Institute for the Study of the Americas, U. of London), who follow up on their earlier collection, The

This four-volume collection brings together key analytical contributions on the economies of Southeast Asia, countries which together have a population of more than 500 million people. This group of economies is of interest for a number of reasons. Firstly, they feature great diversity - Singapore has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, while several of the mainland Southeast Asian states are among the poorest. Brunei is a tiny oil sultanate, while Indonesia is the world's fourth largest nation. In addition, several of these economies have been consistently among the world's...

This three-volume compendium reproduces all the key texts on the welfare state - its rise and fall, its varying rationales and instrumentalities, its different forms in different periods and different places. Political history and social theory are interspersed with sociology and economics, and neo-liberal analyses sit alongside socialist and feminist ones. Anglo-American experiences are contrasted not only with German and Scandinavian but also with Japanese and Taiwanese, Italian and Hungarian, Austrian and South Asian, thus highlighting the many distinct styles of welfare states and the...

Economic growth in Northeast Asia during the last 50 years has, by any standards, been remarkable. This major four-volume set draws together some of the most influential papers published on the growth and industrial transformation of the economies of Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Volume 1 outlines the factors behind Northeast Asia's development which includes a discussion on the impact of the financial crisis on each of these economies. Volume 2 discusses the macroeconomic settings and policy regimes under which growth has occurred, with a particular focus on monetary policy, fiscal...

This work presents an authoritative collection of articles on monetary economics, selected to trce the origin and development of monetary economics. Included are classic papers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Emphasis is placed on papers written in the last half-century.

These two landmark volumes - prepared by leading authorities in the field - locate bureaucracy in its proper historical and theoretical context. They demonstrate that far from being a spent force bureaucratic organisations and processes are, and will continue to be, of central importance in the new millennium. Volume I outlines both the changing historical forms of bureaucracy and its operation in contemporary political systems before moving on to examine the detail of bureaucratic structures and processes. Volume II discusses bureaucrats in action and the political dimensions of bureaucratic...

The working world has changed dramatically over the last 50 years and is often referred to as a transformation from Fordism to post-Fordism. A comprehensive selection of contributors investigate this shift.