The Shame of Reason in Organizational Change: A Levinassian Perspective
ISBN: 9789400736436 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rational thought according to Levinas has the merit of making the world lucid and controllable. But at the same time it strips things and people of their identity and incorporates them in a homogenized rational order. Illusory, but nonetheless oppressive. Rationality's totalitarian character can provoke resistance and grief with people who are enlisted by it. This can lead to a shameful confrontation in which the thinker is being confronted with his victim's resistance and sees himself and his thinking made questionable. By proceeding along this route, thinking can be brought to... Rational thought according to Levinas has the merit of making the world lucid and controllable. But at the same time it strips things and people of... |
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Social Systems and Design
ISBN: 9784431544777 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We live in the worlds that we help to create every day. Every activity either supports an existing system or effects some change, however small. But is it possible to consciously create the worlds in which we want to live? This volume brings together systems theorists and practitioners who have worked on that question for decades. It explores connections between design and systems ideas to explain why some efforts have been more successful than others, and what is needed if we are to move forward. It offers reflections on early and large-scale attempts at impacting societal systems,... We live in the worlds that we help to create every day. Every activity either supports an existing system or effects some change, however small. Bu... |
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Global Boards: One Desire, Many Realities
ISBN: 9780230212121 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing an insightful and challenging view of board functioning, governance application and top director interaction with business and the state. Scrutiny of board practice in countries as China, Russia, Turkey and Kazakhstan, establishes as many realities concerning governance and boards as there are nations, cultures, boards and directors.
Providing an insightful and challenging view of board functioning, governance application and top director interaction with business and the state. Sc...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
The Dynamics of Emerging Stock Markets: Empirical Assessments and Implications
ISBN: 9783790823882 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emerging markets have received a particular attention of academic researchers and practitioners since they decided to open their domestic capital markets to foreign participants about three decades ago. At the same time, we remark that theoretical and empirical research in emerging stock markets has been particularly challenged by their fast changes in nature and size under the effects of financial liberalization and reforms. This evolving feature has particularly led to a commensurate increase in sophistication of modeling techniques used for understanding financial markets. In this spirit,...
Emerging markets have received a particular attention of academic researchers and practitioners since they decided to open their domestic capital mark...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
German Business Management: A Japanese Perspective on Regional Development Factors
ISBN: 9784431543022 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How are German capitalism and German business management to be understood from the perspective of Japan? Both Germany and Japan as defeated nations in World War II received significant American leadership and support after the war. Both countries developed their enterprises, industries, and economy by deploying and adapting technology and management methods from the United States while establishing systems of industrial concentration in their own ways. By these means, both nations became major trading countries. However, current economic and business conditions differ greatly between... How are German capitalism and German business management to be understood from the perspective of Japan? Both Germany and Japan as defeated natio... |
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Ngos as Legitimate Partners of Corporations: A Political Conceptualization
ISBN: 9789400737587 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The interaction between corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has become an important topic in the debate about corporate social responsibility (CSR). Yet, unlike the vast majority of academic work on this topic, this book explicitly focuses on clarifying the role of NGOs, not of corporations, in this context. Based on the notion of NGOs as political actors it argues that NGOs suffer from a multiple legitimacy deficit: they are representatives of civil society without being elected; the legitimacy of the claims they raise is often controversial; and there are often doubts...
The interaction between corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has become an important topic in the debate about corporate social resp...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Consumption and Well-Being in the Material World
ISBN: 9789400773677 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world. It builds on previous works that find that materialism is associated with lowered well-being (materialists are less happy) and that consumerism, in all its profusion, is harmful to environmental well-being. How can we use the money and possessions in our lives in the service of well-being? Apparently not by being materialistic. Can we benefit from the many wonders of the marketplace -- in technology, convenience and aesthetics -- without falling prey to the lures and dangers of excessive material... This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world. It builds on previous works that find that materialism is ass... |
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Psychology and Modern Warfare: Idea Management in Conflict and Competition
ISBN: 9781137349613 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout history, both military and commercial entities around the world have utilized these methods, and even since the formalization of psychological operations during WW2 our methods have improved greatly, but we are still only touching the 'tip of the iceberg', so to speak, of what is truly possible.
Throughout history, both military and commercial entities around the world have utilized these methods, and even since the formalization of psychologi...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Collaboration for Sustainability and Innovation: A Role for Sustainability Driven by the Global South?: A Cross-Border, Multi-Stakeholder Perspective
ISBN: 9789400776326 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A number of arguments are made by an international group of authors in this though provoking book about an understudied and socially important context. A future in which financial wealth transfers across the North-South divide from richer to poorer countries is far from sufficient for the relief of poverty and the pursuit of sustainability. Caution must be taken when growth is achieved through the liquidation of the natural wealth of poorer nations, in order to maintain a global economic status quo. Neither poverty reduction nor sustainability will ultimately be achieved. The financial...
A number of arguments are made by an international group of authors in this though provoking book about an understudied and socially important context...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
The Western Edge: Work and Management in the Information Age
ISBN: 9789401081030 / Angielski / Miękka / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this part we have discussed the impact of information technol ogy on the quantity and quality of work, on organizational struc ture, and on products. We have examined if, and to what extent, this impact differs from that of technological innovation in the past. Our findings strongly suggest that there is a difference. With regard to the quantity of work, the introduction of informa tion technology seems to accelerate the historical trend of capital intensification which is accompanied by reductions in the average numbers of hours worked per year. The other changes associated of with...
In this part we have discussed the impact of information technol ogy on the quantity and quality of work, on organizational struc ture, and on product...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Marketing Aspects of International Business
ISBN: 9789401089906 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The old ways break down, times change, and new life blossoms from the ruins. Frederich Schiller These words of a great poet express a basic fact of life-the inevitability of change. If marketers were asked to envision the future, they would not hesitate to answer that the entire globe is involved in a human revolution like no other in history. The changes now taking place, in both industrially developed and developing nations, are indications of the problems, chal lenges, and opportunities confronting future economic growth and development. Perhaps the most prominent characteristic of this...
The old ways break down, times change, and new life blossoms from the ruins. Frederich Schiller These words of a great poet express a basic fact of li...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Diffusion of New Technologies in the Post-Communist World: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Marketing of High-Tech Know How St Pe
ISBN: 9789401064354 / Angielski / Miękka / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The end of this century has witnessed dramatic changes in morality, history and geography - changes that have been felt throughout the world and in all professions. This volume presents a series of views on the effect of these changes on science and technology, more specifically on the international diffusion of new technologies. It provides an update on the changes in the legal and administrative cultures and structures in the former Soviet bloc and offers assessments of opportunities for technology transfer between the former communist bloc and the rest of the world. It integrates a...
The end of this century has witnessed dramatic changes in morality, history and geography - changes that have been felt throughout the world and in ...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Manufacturing Strategy: The Research Agenda for the Next Decade Proceedings of the Joint Industry University Conference on Manufacturing Strat
ISBN: 9789401074810 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Hispanics in the Labor Force: Issues and Policies
ISBN: 9781489906571 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bright side of the 1980s, or the "Hispanic decade," as it was dubbed early on, may ironically turn out to be the detail and sophistication with which the economic and social reversals affecting most Latinos in this period have been tracked, with a fresh cohort of Latino scholars playing an increasingly prominent role in this endeavor. As this volume conveys, these analyses are steadily probing more deeply into the fine grain of the processes bearing on the social conditions of U. S. Latinos and particularly into the diversity of the experiences of the several Latino-origin nationalities...
The bright side of the 1980s, or the "Hispanic decade," as it was dubbed early on, may ironically turn out to be the detail and sophistication with wh...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Eco-Innovation and the Development of Business Models: Lessons from Experience and New Frontiers in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9783319050768 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental challenges such as pollution, climate change, water and natural resources depletion and dwindling bio-diversity are true threats to the survival of our civilization, forcing us to learn how to act now. Fortunately this is exactly what this book does: presenting real life cases, along with theory, methodologies and tools demonstrating how eco-innovation can support sustainable economic growth and save our planet for future generations. Following an introduction describing developments and directions of eco-innovation, Section One discusses Models and Frameworks Supporting...
Environmental challenges such as pollution, climate change, water and natural resources depletion and dwindling bio-diversity are true threats to the ...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Knowledge Perspectives of New Product Development: A Comparative Approach
ISBN: 9781461429470 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Product Development (NPD) is about the ideation, formulation, and implementation of new and superior solutions in the market. Beyond the obvious need for organizations to innovate in order to compete, embedded in any NPD program are knowledge, technological expertise, and the social networks that convert these capabilities into offerings that create value at every level-for customers, industries, communities, and regions.
This volume provides an array of knowledge perspective in NPD across multiple levels of analysis and geographic regions, including Europe, the United... New Product Development (NPD) is about the ideation, formulation, and implementation of new and superior solutions in the market. Beyond the obviou... |
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
International Industrial Networks and Industrial Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9781475788495 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International Industrial Networks and Industrial Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe analyses the role of international industrial networks in industrial restructuring and corporate growth in central Europe, Russia and Ukraine. It shows that two distinct patterns of international industrial integration - domestic vs. foreign led modernisations - have developed in these two regions which have significant effects on patterns of growth and integration of these economies. International Industrial Networks and Industrial Restructuring in Central and Eastern... International Industrial Networks and Industrial Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe analyses the role of international in... |
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
ISBN: 9781137453624 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Operational Research (OR) deals with the use of advanced analytical methods to support better decision-making. It is multidisciplinary with strong links to management science, decision science, computer science and many application areas such as engineering, manufacturing, commerce and healthcare. In the study of emergent behaviour in complex adaptive systems, Agent-based Modelling & Simulation (ABMS) is being used in many different domains such as healthcare, energy, evacuation, commerce, manufacturing and defense. This collection of articles presents a convenient introduction to ABMS with...
Operational Research (OR) deals with the use of advanced analytical methods to support better decision-making. It is multidisciplinary with strong lin...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Dynamic Modeling for Business Management: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781475778656 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modelling is a tool used by savvy business managers to understand the processes of their business and to estimate the impact of changes. Dynamic Modelling for Business Management applies dynamic modelling to business management, using accessible modelling techniques that are demonstrated starting with fundamental processes and advancing to more complex business models. Discussions of modelling emphasize its practical use for decision making and implementing change for measurable results. Readers will learn about both manufacturing and service-oriented business processes using hands-on...
Modelling is a tool used by savvy business managers to understand the processes of their business and to estimate the impact of changes. Dynamic Mo...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Financing the World Economy in the Nineties
ISBN: 9789401075138 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The present volume contains the texts of the papers and criti cal commentary presented at the one-day conference "Financing the world economy in the nineties" at Tilburg University (23 March 1988). This conference was organized by the Post-graduate School of Banking and Finance of "The Tilburg Institute of Advanced Studies" (T .I.A.S.) which is closely associated to Tilburg University. It should be borne in mind that all the chapters were written before March 1988. Although some were revised later, none of the authors has been asked to include develop ments which have occurred since. To...
The present volume contains the texts of the papers and criti cal commentary presented at the one-day conference "Financing the world economy in the n...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |