Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Domestic Food Production and Food Security in the Caribbean
Building Capacity and Strengthening Local Food Production Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
With the exception of Haiti, the sensationalized issues of hunger reported in certain parts of the developing world are largely unknown in the Caribbean. Despite this, there are growing concerns about the state of food security in the region, as declining domestic production and increased dependence...
The Gene Revolution and Global Food Security
Biotechnology Innovation in Latecomers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Using the concept of innovation capacity, this book, using recent field data from countries in Asia and Africa, competently demonstrates how biotechnology can contribute to sustainable economic development. The approach articulates the imperative for developing countries to build up specific capabilities backed up by policies and institutions.
Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems
A Practical Guide for Social and Corporate Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
A silent revolution is underway, as entrepreneurs challenge prevalent notions of business motives and methods to invent market-based solutions to eradicate social injustice. Yet many fail to succeed. Based on original research, the authors uncover why impressive solutions fail to scale up, featuring global case studies and practical solutions.
by Professor Alastair Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
An engaging introduction to some of the more advanced concepts in Equity and Trusts, providing a cutting edge for students who are looking to gain additional insights with which to excel. Illuminated throughout with discussion of the specific issues which reveal the practical significance of different theoretical positions.
Unmasking Project Management
The Business Perspective of Information Systems Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Unmasking Project Management helps professionals in information technology (IT) and business identify successful approaches to management of information systems (MIS) that will work for their organizations and projects.
The Business of Sharing
Making it in the New Sharing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Providing a colorful insight into the people at the forefront of the emergent Sharing Economy, a movement predicted to already be worth around $26B a year, this book gives vital advice to anyone thinking of starting or investing in a collaborative consumption business. The first of its kind, written by an author on the forefront of this new trend.
Digital Stractics
How Strategy Met Tactics and Killed the Strategic Plan
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In the world of digital business, the line between strategy and tactics is blurring. Traditionally large companies would adopt strategic frameworks which planned over three- to five-year timescales, while most digital start-ups had little interest in comprehensive and rigorous strategic processes...
Expansive Learning in Professional Contexts
A Materialist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
This book discusses approaches to organizational learning from a materialist point of view. Inspired by research into Police Firearms training, features of expansive learning inform the development of perspectives on training which challenge traditional modes of research and delivery. The book critically...
The Manager's Dilemma
Balancing the Inverse Equation of Increasing Demands and Shrinking Resources
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
This groundbreaking book provides a framework and set of key concepts enabling leaders to exert their influence over the difficult choices and competing priorities they confront. Compelling stories and vivid case studies help to deliver a serious game plan to any leader who is grappling with burnout caused by the manager's dilemma.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of virtuality, and employ the theory in order to shed light on specific practices.
Basic Income Reconsidered
Social Justice, Liberalism, and the Demands of Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Basic income is one the most innovative, powerful and controversial proposals for addressing poverty and growing inequalities. This book examines the arguments for and against basic income from the point of view of economic and social justice.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
This book is an invaluable repository of knowledge that brings clarity to key issues and trends for practitioners, academics and students of luxury brands. It sets out to decode the luxury markets in the primary emerging markets (BRICs) and provide a rich resume of the key factors that influence the effectiveness of luxury brand strategies.
Who Needs Jobs?
Spreading Poverty or Increasing Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He delves into how income and prosperity are created (businesses producing what consumers demand), proposes solutions to the unemployment problem, and provides...
Making Brazil Work
Checking the President in a Multiparty System
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
This book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise. Using Brazil as a case study in multiparty presidentialism, the authors argue that Brazil's success stems from the combination of a constitutionally strong president and a robust system of checks and balances.