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Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom: How to Make Sure Your Organization Lives Happily Ever After
By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries. 2016
We know where we are with a fairy story. There is a cast of predictable characters, the hero or heroine…
is submitted to terrible trials, cruelty, and injustice but in the end the baddies get their comeuppance, good triumphs, and everyone lives happily ever after. In this book Manfred Kets de Vries, one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of leadership, and a pioneering practitioner in the field of psychodynamic executive coaching, draws on the format of traditional fairy tales and tells us five stories that dramatize five key themes of dysfunctional leadership.Swedish Taxation: Developments Since 1862
By Magnus Henrekson, Mikael Stenkula. 2015
Sustainable Industrialization in Africa: Towards a New Development Agenda
By Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Padmashree Gehl Sampath. 2016
Sustainable Growth in Global Markets provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of market and business management outside the domestic…
market. It covers complex elements of market management, analysing behavioural theories such as theory of comparative advantage, theories of macro and micro marketing economics, socio-cultural theories, and various contemporary concepts of international business management. The book puts forward a broad foundation of the subject beginning with a discussion of the concept of market dynamics and followed by an analysis of the changing behaviour of markets and its components. The core discussion focuses upon the ability to do business in international markets, putting forward critical insights on the significance of leadership, building consumer value through innovation, tracking the external environment for organizational change as well as important emerging trends towards building an innovative venture.Supporting Sleep: The Importance of Social Relations at Work
By Maria Nordin. 2015
Moonshine: A Life In Pursuit Of White Liquor
By Alec Wilkinson. 1985
A wonderfully alive portrait of an American original who is the most successful revenue agent in the history of a…
state that has always been enormously productive of moonshine, also serving as a memorable account of life in backwoods Halifax County, North Carolina.Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies
By Dal Yong Jin. 2020
In Transnational Korean Cinema author Dal Yong Jin explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to…
contextualize the development of Korean cinema and its current place in an era of neoliberal globalization and convergent digital technologies. The book emphasizes the economic and industrial aspects of the story, looking at questions on the interaction of politics and economics, including censorship and public funding, and provides a better view of the big picture by laying bare the relationship between film industries, the global market, and government. Jin also sheds light on the operations and globalization strategies of Korean film industries alongside changing cultural policies in tandem with Hollywood’s continuing influences in order to comprehend the power relations within cultural politics, nationally and globally. This is the first book to offer a full overview of the nascent development of Korean cinema.Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business (Techstars) (Techstars)
By Matt Blumberg. 2020
You’re only a startup CEO once. Do it well with Startup CEO, a "master class in building a business."—Dick Costolo,…
Former CEO, Twitter Being a startup CEO is a job like no other: it’s difficult, risky, stressful, lonely, and often learned through trial and error. As a startup CEO seeing things for the first time, you’re likely to make mistakes, fail, get things wrong, and feel like you don’t have any control over outcomes. Author Matt Blumberg has been there, and in Startup CEO he shares his experience, mistakes, and lessons learned as he guided Return Path from a handful of employees and no revenues to over $100 million in revenues and 500 employees. Startup CEO is not a memoir of Return Path's 20-year journey but a thoughtful CEO-focused book that provides first-time CEOs with advice, tools, and approaches for the situations that startup CEOs will face. You'll learn: How to tell your story to new hires, investors, and customers for greater alignment How to create a values-based culture for speed and engagement How to create business and personal operating systems so that you can balance your life and grow your company at the same time How to develop, lead, and leverage your board of directors for greater impact How to ensure that your company is bought, not sold, when you exit Startup CEO is the field guide every CEO needs throughout the growth of their company.Modern Principles: Microeconomics (Second Edition)
By Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok. 2013
The book explains how markets generate cooperation from people across the world, how prices act as signals and coordinate appropriate…
responses to changes in economic conditions, and how profit maximization leads to the minimization of industry costs.Originally published in 1992. At its foundation FAO was conceived as an organization that would bring together health and agriculture.…
It would manage the world’s food output to greater advantage and improve the well-being of its people. Almost a half-century on, FAO faced mounting criticism from its major funding nations, professionals within the field, and developing countries. The efficacy of its constitution, bureaucracy and aid, and even its fidelity to original ideals are questioned. This book presents an informed, if irreverent, insider’s view. The first part of the book sets out the structure and activities of FAO. It gives a human dimension, describing the personalities that have influenced decisions and performance, the motivations of its staff, its location in Rome. The second part appraises FAO’S success in achieving its ultimate objective the alleviation of poverty. Throughout, the concern is both for a more visionary organization to help develop a sustainable income base for the rural poor in the developing world.On the History of Economic Thought (British and American Economic Essays)
By A. W. Coats. 1992
On the History of Economic Thought is introduced by an essay in intellectual autobiography outlining the development of Coats key…
ideas and the distinctive elements of his approach. Two themes in particular emerge. The first is the difference between British and American economics, both in content and in the practice of the profession. This is an important element in all areas of his research. The second theme is in the interrelationships between economic ideas, events (or conditions) and policy issues. The book concludes by offering an assessment of the current state of the discipline indicating the advantages an historian of economics can offer as a commentator on recent developments.The Long Wave in the World Economy: The Current Crisis in Historical Perspective
By Andrew Tylecote. 1992
Long waves are cycles of some fifty years duration in which a period of rapid expansion is followed by one…
of slow growth of stagnation. This book provides a critical examination of long wave theory and an original explanation of long fluctuations which is highly relevant to the current crisis in the world economy.State Policies and Techno-Industrial Innovation
By Ulrich Hilpert. 1991
Behind the rhetoric of `intervention' and `deregulation' which has accompanied state attempts to stimulate technological innovation in the last decade…
is secreted a story of failed ambitions, confusion, muddle and incoherence.Techno-industrial innovation does make demands on the state, not only in terms of new industries, but also in regard to the inter-relation of industrial and R&D policy and the creation of markets.This book provides a comparative analysis of techno-industrial innovation in Europe, Japan and the USA. Drawing on case studies ranging from the semi-conductor to the biotechnology industries, the book presents a comprehensive and detailed survey of national strategies for the internal and world markets and sets them in their political context, where `the costs may be high and the pay-offs uncertain'.Primitive Capital Accumulation in the Sudan
By Abbas Abdelkarim. 1992
After the Waste Land: Democratic Economics for the Year 2000
By David M. Gordon, Samuel Bowles, Thomas E. Weisskopf. 1991
This critique of Reaganomics attempts to provide alternatives to both the supply experiments of the 1980s and neoliberal strategies of…
austerity. It presents arguments for economic democracy with a worker-oriented blueprint for improving productivity, growth, employment and economic justice.Multinational Investment in Developing Countries: A Study of Taxation and Nationalization
By Thomas Andersson. 1991
This book explores the struggle for gains from direct investment between multinationals and developing countries. It discusses which policies work…
best in influencing the behaviour of MNEs and how developing countries compete with one another for multinational investment. It argues that the tax regimes of different countries rarly deter investors but that nationalisation acts as a powerful disincentive. It also concludes that governments should not be expected to sacrifice the environment to attract multinationals.Companion to Contemporary Economic Thought (Routledge Companion Encyclopedias)
By Ian Stewart, Michael Bleaney, David Greenaway, Dr Ian Stewart. 1992
* 41 in-depth essays cover current economic theory and applied economics in a single, comprehensive volume* Interfaces section considers economics…
as it relates to other disciplines* Extensive notes, bibliographies and suggestions for further reading; detailed index of Topics and People`A treasure-house of stimulating argument and vast amounts of, mostly, well marshalled information. The market for general survey volumes, while already crowded, should surely find room for this offering.' - The World Economy`The work under review scores very high marks.' - The Economic Journal`The chapters are written by people who are excellently qualified and frequently well-known in their field ... The book's strengths lie in the range of contributors, the very high quality of most of the contributors and its emphasis on applied economics. For these reasons alone it is an important book, which will be invaluable both to students and to economists wishing to learn about developments in other branches of their discipline.' - EconomicaThis book argues that ultimately human rights can be actualized, in two senses. By answering important challenges to them, the…
real-world relevance of human rights can be brought out; and people worldwide can be motivated as needed for realizing human rights. Taking a perspective from moral and political philosophy, the book focuses on two challenges to human rights that have until now received little attention, but that need to be addressed if human rights are to remain plausible as a global ideal. Firstly, the challenge of global inequality: how, if at all, can one be sincerely committed to human rights in a structurally greatly unequal world that produces widespread inequalities of human rights protection? Secondly, the challenge of future people: how to adequately include future people in human rights, and how to set adequate priorities between the present and the future, especially in times of climate change? The book also asks whether people worldwide can be motivated to do what it takes to realize human rights. Furthermore, it considers the common and prominent challenges of relativism and of the political abuse of human rights. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of human rights, political philosophy, and more broadly political theory, philosophy and the wider social sciences. The Open Access version of this book, available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003011569, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.The Quest for Utopia: Jewish Political Ideas and Institutions Through the Ages
By Zvi Y. Gitelman. 1992
This exploration of the Jewish political tradition elucidates a long, rich, and diverse experience of both sovereignty and dispersed statelessness.…
It holds insights, as Zvi Gitelman points out in his introductory chapter, for anyone interested comparative and ethnic politics, Jewish history, and the prehistory of contemporary Israeli politics. Stuart Cohen analyzes the "covenant idea" and the constitutional character of ancient Israel, which had a profound influence on Western political thought through the medium of the Bible. Gerald Blidstein examines rabbinic strategies for accommodation to the realities of Jewish dispersion in the middle Ages, while Robert Chazan focuses on communal authority and self-governance in the same period. Jonathan Frankel and Paula Hyman move the study into modern times with attempts to characterize the diverse patterns of Jewish political culture and activity in different parts of Europe, in the process revealing the dynamics of political cultural influence. Finally, Peter Medding looks at the "new politics" of contemporary American Jews - as voters, as public officials, and as organizational actors.