Learning by design

building sustainable organizations

Learning is an essential process for attaining and maintaining sustainability at both the individual and business level. Establishing a learning organization requires a wholehearted and sustained endeavour. This text facilitates such an endeavour by providing both a coherent framework for analysis and practical models for ...

The revolution in corporate finance

After universalism

re-engineering access to justice

Cults and new religious movements

a reader

What is cult? Why do cults emerge? Who joins them? And why do tragedies such as the Solar Temple murder-suicides and Jonestown occur? This Reader brings together the voices of historians, sociologists, and psychologists of religion to address these key questions about new religious movements ...

Images of strategy

"Images of Strategy" develops an innovative and multi-faceted approach to strategic management which should enable students to use and develop interesting and wide-ranging applications alongside contemporary ideas and analysis. It does so by asking if we really are looking in at the same static object ...

Handbook of organizational learning and knowledge management

A state-of-the-art, international handbook for a field of inquiry that is still emergent and yet occupies a central position in contemporary management and organization theory. Marjorie Lyles and Mark Easterby-Smith draw together analyses and critical commentary from the leading experts on organizational learning and knowledge ...

A companion to the history of economic thought

This companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. It has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought; the history of economics as a discipline; and the historiography of economic thought. The essays in the first section focus on ...

The italian Renaissance

the essential sources

The welfare of food

rights and responsibilities in a changing world

Everyone needs reliable access to safe, appropriate and healthy food; yet despite regular public pronouncements and apparent commitments by states and institutions, the reality is very different for many consumers in both rich and poor countries. This book explains why, looking at the role of ...

Ancient greek democracy

readings and sources

The world economy

global trade policy 2002

This volume is the ninth in an annual series in which top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Each annual volume examines key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements ...

The Blackwell Handbook of principles of organizational behavior

This international handbook identifies and explains 29 management principles - that can be applied to all types of work situations. It is based on knowledge accumulated by numerous experts over many years of research and consulting. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including: selection ...

The capable company

building the capabilities that make strategy work

Most companies don't flounder because of poor strategy. The culprit is poor execution of the game plan. If executives know this, why don't they do something about it? The problem is that strategic intent, written in the language of a few visionaries, gets ...

A History of Latin America

c. 1450 to the present

The SMS blackwell handbook of organizational capabilities

emergence, developement, and change

How do the resources and capabilities of organizations emerge and develop over time? This handbook brings together scholars of strategic management, economics, history, organizational theory, international business, and technology management in order to address this question. Many of the contributions present new theoretical or empirical ...

A theology of engagement

Political economy

This thought-provoking introduction to economics exposes readers to the workings of the market in a democratic state. The text explains basic economic concepts from a political perspective: how the price mechanism substitutes for central authority in determining production and allocation of goods; the use of ...

Migration in european history

Guide to econometrics

This fifth edition updates the contents and references throughout, while retaining the basic structure and flavour of earlier editions. New chapters on panel data and applied econometrics expand the text's coverage, while other chapters are significantly revised. With these new revisions, the text should ...

The hellenistic period

historical sources in translation

A new introduction to Islam

The Blacwell Companion to criminoly