Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Solving the Strategy Delusion
Mobilizing People and Realizing Distinctive Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Solving the Strategy Delusion matters to anyone interested in realising strategy in the 21st century. The book challenges conventional and 'delusional' approaches to strategy. It offers different ways of seeing, thinking, planning, acting, and mobilising when it comes to making strategy happen in a world of volatility and complexity.
Negotiating Against the Odds
A Guide for Trade Negotiators from Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Drawing on the experiences of more than 100 developing country negotiators and the insights of leading academic studies, this guide brings together practical advice and lessons on ways to negotiate effectively with larger parties, and avoid common pitfalls.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Globalization and the technological revolution have forced organizations to rethink decision-making structures favouring the adoption of highly innovative practices. This book analyzes the impact of new technologies testing empowerment, engagement and democratization against the new organizational morphology of political parties and corporations.
Towards Better Work
Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers. This volume provides solutions-oriented approaches for promoting improved working conditions and labour rights in the apparel industry.
Taming Capital Flows
Capital Account Management in an Era of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This volume contains country experiences explained by policy makers and studies by leading experts on causes and consequences of capital flows as well as policies to control these flows. It addresses portfolio flow issues central to open economies, especially emerging markets.
Economic Management in a Volatile Environment
Monetary and Financial Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This book discusses some of the challenges relating to macroeconomic and financial management in a volatile and uncertain world brought about by greater financial openness. It explores the implications of a key set of issues emanating from financial globalisation on emerging market economies in a rigorous but readable manner.
by Ilan Alon, Victoria Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Emerging market economies account for eighty percent of the world's population and some 75% of its trade growth in the foreseeable future, following US Department of Commerce data. This volume provides insights for success in rapidly growing education markets that can be used by educators, administrators, policy makers and planners.
Corporate Social and Human Rights Responsibilities
Global, Legal and Management Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
This book challenges the separation between CSR and law. It also demonstrates that BRHR may be gradually separating from CSR through emphasis on state obligations. Authors from around the world discuss how businesses engage in CSR and human rights, and how governments and intergovernmental organisations may support business in taking responsibility
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
This collection analyses new forms and expressions of conflict at work under capitalism. Using theoretical and empirical approaches, it demonstrates an underlying historical continuity to new forms and expressions of conflict at work and a path dependency by country and culture.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
The challenge in the post crisis world is how business, government and academia come together to foster conditions for sustainable economic development. Understanding this requires an examination of the fundamental principles of IB, including location decisions, returns to multinationality and links between government and business, and CSR.
Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century
Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.
Beyond the Business Plan
10 Principles for New Venture Explorers
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This insightful practical guide argues that the traditional business plan may not be appropriate for many new ventures and presents an alternative, effectual approach that encourages flexibility and development through exploration and experience. 10 principles demonstrate how to respond better to uncertainty during the business development process.
Beyond Management
Taking Charge at Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Traditional management structures, systems,and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete. Applying them to knowledge-work has exactly the opposite effect, causing all kinds of breakdowns. This book explains why knowledge workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Academics, policy-makers and practitioners from Africa and beyond document new ways of thinking about issues concerning governance and revenue flows in mining activities in Ghana, Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.