Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
The Independent Director
The Non-Executive Director’s Guide to Effective Board Presence
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Non-executive directors play a very important role in modern business. Providing a rare emphasis on 'soft skills', culture and relationship building, this comprehensive guide offers a unique insight into what it's actually like to be a non-executive director, backed up by global case studies, research and interviews.
The End of the Performance Review
A New Approach to Appraising Employee Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
A thoroughly tested, distinctive alternative to the appraisal process that draws on well-established principles of organizational behavior. Based around Tim Baker's '5 Conversations' approach, and with a timely focus on fostering innovation, this book is practical and easy to use – featuring case studies, interviews and useful templates.
The Social License
How to Keep Your Organization Legitimate
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
A distinctive and direct guide to legitimacy in business, focusing on the new benchmark of a 'Social License to Operate'. Featuring case studies of what is and isn't working, this book explains how business owners and CSR professionals can integrate legitimacy into the heart of their company strategy, beyond CSR and good PR.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
What does global justice look like, and how can leadership help get us there? The contributors explore justice in various spheres: citizenship, the marketplace, health, education, and the environment. And they provide creative and constructive moral approaches for evaluating and promoting global justice.
Management Ethics
Placing Ethics at the Core of Good Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The recent financial crisis has awakened a renewed sensibility to ethics in business and management, and an increasing interest in a better understanding of how ethics and economics are intertwined. Managers and executives must understand not just the moral value of ethical behaviour, but also how this can strengthen and benefit the organization.
Managing Climate Change Business Risks and Consequences
Leadership for Global Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Although the title of this volume and its major focus will be on one major aspect of global sustainability - climate change - this volume continues with the overall framing of the series: global sustainability is a multi-faceted, global, multi-generational, economic, social, environmental, and cultural phenomenon and challenge to our species.
by M S S el Namaki
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Strategic Thinking for Turbulent Times is a conceptual and operational guide to the process of business strategy formulation within a turbulence driven economic and business environment. This book features pioneering work on the process of strategic thinking after the dramatic shift in the fundamental premises of strategic management.
Practical Sustainability
From Grounded Theory to Emerging Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
A structured guideline for development and implementation of business strategies, programs, and models with core sustainability values is then proposed and explicitly discussed, drawing upon management models, tools and techniques proven to be effective in organizational decision-making and prognostication.
Have Japanese Firms Changed?
The Lost Decade
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
If we ask simply whether Japanese business has changed, our answer must be an unequivocal yes and this is answered with a primary focus on technology, the traditional source of Japan's strong competitiveness. But if we ask whether Japanese firms have also changed in any substantive ways we must accept a less sanguine conclusion.
Cross-Sector Leadership for the Green Economy
Integrating Research and Practice on Sustainable Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Technology breakthroughs in sustainable renewable energy and energy conservation technologies require that there be a strong institutional ecosystem in place which supports innovation, but the nature of this foundation and how it works is not well-known. Becoming a leader necessitates new forms of cross-sector cooperation.
Technology Financing and Commercialization
Exploring the Challenges and How Nations Can Build Innovative Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book offers insights on effective policies that can be applied to other economies in terms of using technology financing to foster technological innovations. It outlines the role of government in accelerating the nation's innovative capacity by promoting technology investments that will achieve successful and sustainable economic development.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
With contributions from international scholars, this second volume by Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Guzman comprises of theoretical, empirical, and policy-based chapters which carefully utilize theory and data analysis.
Part I focuses on the issues of global inequality, poverty measurement and...
Contemporary Issues in Macroeconomics
Lessons from The Crisis and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In this edited collection, Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Guzman present a series of studies on contemporary macroeconomic issues. The book discusses a set of key lessons for macroeconomic theory following the recent global financial crisis and explores unconventional monetary policy in a post-crisis...
Towards a General Theory of Deep Downturns
Presidential Address from the 17th World Congress of the International Economic Association in 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Joseph Stiglitz examines the theory behind the economic downturns that have plagued our world in recent times. This fascinating three-part lecture acknowledges the failure of economic models to successfully predict the 2008 crisis and explores alternative models which, if adopted, could potentially restore a stable and prosperous economy.