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Communicating Climate Change
The Path Forward
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book asks and answers the question of what communication research and other social sciences can offer that will help the global community to address climate change by identifying the conditions that can persuade audiences and encourage collective action on climate.
While scientists often...
Social Innovation
Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important themes in social innovation: strategies and logics, performance measurement and governance, and finally, sustainability and the environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dynamic Systems in Management Science
Design, Estimation and Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Dynamic Systems in Management Science explores the important gaps in the existing literature on operations research and management science by providing new and operational methods which are tested in practical environment and a variety of new applications.
Developments in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Containing the most influential papers from the International Symposium on Logistics, Developments in Logistics and Supply Chain Management demonstrates the evolution in logistics and supply chain management since the 1990s.