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Is rational choice theory all of social science?

Advocates of rational choice theory in political science have been perceived by their critics as attempting to establish an intellectual hegemony in contemporary social science, to the detriment of alternative methods of research. The debate has gained a nonacademic audience, hitting the pages of the ...

The challenge of hegemony

grans strategy, trade, and domestic politics

Volatile states

institutions, policy, and the performance of American state economies

Why do American state economies grow at such vastly different rates and manifest such wide differences in living standards? Volatile States identifies the sources of rising living standards by examining the recent economic and fiscal history of the American states. Delving deeply into the historical ...

Toxics and Transnational Law

international and european regulation of toxic substances as legal symbolism

The morality of laughter

Protest and the politics of blame

the russian response to unpaid wages

The wage arrears crisis has been one of the biggest problems facing contemporary Russia. At its peak, it has involved some $10 billion worth of unpaid wages and has affected approximately 70 percent of the workforce. Yet public protest in the country has been rather ...

The psychological assessment of political leaders

with profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton

Understanding knowledge management

critical and postmodern perspectives

Knowledge management has emerged as a new perspective on organizations. Conceiving of firms as being based on their capacity to create, distribute and make use of knowledge, Knowledge Management theory takes an alternative view of the nature of the firm. Understanding Knowledge Management presents an ...

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 ...

Contemporary meanings in physical geography

from what to why?

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 ...

Globalization and technology

interdependence, innovation systems and industrial policy

Technology and globalization are interdependent processes. Globalization has a fundamental influence on the creation and diffusion of technology, which, in turn, affects the interdependence of firms and locations. This volume examines the international aspect of this interdependence at two levels. First, between locations, by examining ...

Inside the business schools

the content of European business education

This book fills an important gap in the literature on business education by exploring the content of European business education. Based on thorough studies of several European business schools it shows that the formation of the content is a complex issue that only can be ...

The handbook of country risk 2003-2004

a guide to international business and trade

Prometheus revisited

the quest for global justice in the twenty-first Century

Understood as a metaphor for the human mastery of nature, the myth of Prometheus has long served as a symbol of the modern world. Industrialization, individualism, the triumph of instrumental rationality and technological prowess in every aspect of life, all can be seen as expressions ...

Gurus on business strategy

A guide to the world's most important writers on business strategy. It summarizes all the key concepts and the contribution of each of the leading thinkers in the field, with pros and cons of each theory. It also provides a series of checklists to ...

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 ...

El Reino de León en la Edad Media. X

(Fuentes y Estudios de Historia Leonesa; 98)

Time charters

Steel carriage by sea