Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
by William H Thornton, Songok Han Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Toward a Geopolitics of Hope posits a world order marked less by univocal "globalization" than by a grating geopolitics of rival capitalisms. Now that China, Russia, and much of the undemocratic developing world have embraced capitalism, this new Second World can no longer be regarded as a fleeting...
Science and Technology in China
Implications and Lessons for India
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Science and Technology in China discusses the changing structural and institutional context of scientific research in China. The new environment of global competition entails that the norms of generation of new knowledge are as important as those for innovation and commercialization. China has been...
Positioning Research
Shifting Paradigms, Interdisciplinarity and Indigeneity
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
The availability of research methodologies and frameworks to facilitate different ways of gathering knowledge and performing research is often a matter of concern for early career researchers as well as advanced research scholars. Positioning Research, while identifying this gap, provides avenues...
HR Here and Now
The Making of the Quintessential People Champion
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
The vision of this book is to engage readers in a debate on how we see HR as a function and profession here and now, how we see the practice and the practitioner. The intent is to reflect on what we are seeing, hearing and experiencing about the function in an inclusive fashion.
This book offers...
Strategic Human Resource Technologies
Keys to Managing People
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2007
In recent years, technology has transformed human resource management (HRM). While the task of managing people in organizations is becoming ever more complex, HR professionals can now get better results with the help of new tools and techniques. This pioneering and unusual book defines HR techniques...
Institutions, Consultants and Transformation
Case Studies from the Development Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
This collection of case studies captures a range of issues faced by ‘institutions in transformation’ in the social development sector, as they evolve and mature. Leadership transitions, gender issues at the workplace and the challenges of large systems owning up to their development agenda are...
Managing in Changing Times
A Guide for the Perplexed Manager
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
This book brings together distinguished writers from diverse fields and their specialised perspectives on new ideas and the challenges they pose to the hegemony of neo-classical scientific management. It explores various possibilities for the future development of the understanding of management and...
‘Bottom-up’ Approaches in Governance and Adaptation for Sustainable Development
Case Studies from India and Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
This book analyzes how governance and climate change adaptation - both integral to sustainable development - operate outside the bureaucratic apparatus of the state. It examines ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to sustainable development and looks at a possible ‘middle-out’ approach...
Academic Writing
A Guide for Management Students and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
This book helps students and researchers write better assignments, better dissertations, and better papers for publication. Characterizing academic writing as an integral part of the knowledge generation and dissemination process, it focuses on three main aspects: understanding research, documenting...
Connected or Disconnected
The Art of Operating in a Connected World
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The promise of a connected world…
Democratization, strengthened personal relationships, and all the knowledge in the world available at your fingertips, more or less for free.
And all this regardless of whether you are in India, China, Chile, or Chad.
Indeed, the connected world...
Higher Education in Federal Countries
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Higher Education in Federal Countries: A Comparative Study is a unique study of higher education in nine federal countries—the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, China and India. In this book, leading international scholars discuss the role of federalism and how it...
Mentoring 2.0
A Practitioner’s Guide to Changing Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Mentors are magical people. They can potentially transform ordinary folks into amazing icons of achievement. The best of them can morph their subtle and exalted practice into an art form.
This book is a walking tour of the workings of the mentoring process, the key aspects of the practice of...
Social Science Learning in Schools
Perspective and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Social Science Learning in Schools: Perspective and Challenges locates the teaching and learning of social science within the larger perspective and aims of education. It emphasizes the need to take the teaching of social science beyond the confines of contemporary ideological debates, into the realm...
Performing Heritage
Art of Exhibit Walks
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Centred in academic theory in the area of exhibiting culture, this book seeks to explore the art and politics of cultural representation. While thus far this discussion has been restricted to the closed spaces of museums, exhibitions, cultural festivals and the like, here, this densely interdisciplinary...