Download or read book Managing for the Long Run written by Danny Miller and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fidelity, Hallmark, Michelin, and Wal-Mart are renowned industry powerhouses with long leadership track records. Yet these celebrated companies are united by another factor not generally equated with competitive success: They are all family-controlled businesses. While many view the hallmarks of family businesses—stable strategies, clan cultures, and unencumbered family ownership—as weaknesses, Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller argue that it is these very characteristics that create formidable competitive advantages for many such firms. Managing for the Long Run draws from a worldwide study of enduring, family-run organizations—including Cargill, Timken, L.L. Bean, The New York Times, and IKEA—to reveal their unconventional success strategies and how these strategies can be adopted and applied in any organization. Miller and Le Breton-Miller show how four driving passions of family-run firms—command, continuity, community, and connection—give rise to a set of practices that defy modern management thinking yet ensure a company’s long term competitive advantage. Outlining how these practices can enhance strategic efforts from operations to brand leadership to innovation, this book shows what every company must do to manage for the long run.

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Download or read book Without Criteria written by Steven Shaviro and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, “Why is there something, rather than nothing?” Whitehead asks, “How is it that there is always something new?” In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical “constructivism” embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.

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Download or read book Empresa Familiar y Familia Empresaria written by Andrés, Vial Infante and published by Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaíso. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Andrés Vial Infante logra en este libro un acercamiento muy valioso para quien se enfrenta a la delicada situación de buscar la trascendencia de su Empresa Familiar. Con un lenguaje sencillo y mucha profundidad, este libro sintetiza de manera clara los principales retos que se presentan en las familias empresarias y propone soluciones para ello. Andrés ha logrado con su experiencia y liderazgo ayudar a cientos de empresas familiares y estoy seguro de que esta obra será de interés y beneficio para las familias iberoamericanas”. (Fernando Todd Rodríguez, Presidente Centro Mexicano de la Familia Empresaria, AC)

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Download or read book Identity and Modernity in Latin America written by Jorge Larrain and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important new book Jorge Larrain examines the trajectories of modernity and identity in Latin America and their reciprocal relationships. Drawing on a large body of work across a vast historical and geographical range, he offers an innovative and wide-ranging account of the cultural transformations and processes of modernization that have occurred in Latin America since colonial times. The book begins with a theoretical discussion of the concepts of modernity and identity. In contrast to theories which present modernity and identity in Latin America as mutually excluding phenomena, the book shows their continuity and interconnection. It also traces historically the respects in which the Latin American trajectory to modernity differs from or converges with other trajectories, using this as a basis to explore specific elements of Latin America's culture and modernity today. The originality of Larrain's approach lies in the wide coverage and combination of sources drawn from the social sciences, history and literature. The volume relates social commentaries, literary works and media developments to the periods covered, to the changing social end economic structure, and to changes in the prevailing ideologies. This book will appeal to second and third-year undergraduates and Masters level students doing courses in sociology, cultural studies and Latin American history, politics and literature. .

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Download or read book Fundamentos en la direcci n de la empresa familiar Emprendedor empresa y familia written by BASCO, , RODRIGO and published by Ediciones Paraninfo, S.A.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desarrolla un marco de estudio para la Dirección de la Empresa Familiar. Se analizan los elementos característicos y sus diferentes manifestaciones que dan lugar a comportamientos específicos que originan una forma peculiar de gestión y gobierno en este tipo de empresas. Los aspectos económicos y familiares se integran para generar una base de competencias que representa la existencia de un Management Familiar. Así pues, el texto pretende sensibilizar al lector en el conocimiento de las manifestaciones de la relación empresa-familia y sus consecuencias para el proyecto empresarial. El centro del análisis reconoce en las personas el activo intangible que genera la visión última de la empresa.

Download or read book The Paradox of Social Order written by and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on strengthening the foundations of the social sciences with hypotheses that challenge commonly held rational choice theories drawn from economics. In contrast to the rational choice theories of Becker, Hayek, Popper, and others, Moessinger argues that the stability of social structures ultimately results from a linkage of non-rational individual conduct (interpersonal imbalances, confusion of minds, etc.) with social order and hence, that a larger role for psychology is essential for the study of the social sciences. This work is an attempt at cross-fertilization of disciplines. Both of these fields are now limited, fragmented, and scattered. In the social sciences we often have to be content with a few pieces (hypotheses, theories) of a provisional construction, pieces that will be quickly modified or replaced. In this precarious situation for the social sciences, what we can do better, what we must try to do better, is to differentiate and generalize our hypotheses and integrate them into the best-established network of knowledge in order to ensure that they continue to develop. In other words, we have to articulate and systematize the social sciences, in particular to reunite sociology and psychology. Social order emerges from non-rational individual behavior (which social order, in turn, upholds). To express it positively, social order and individual non-rationality together make up a whole. The author holds that metaphors such as "machine" or "organism" are no longer adequate. Social order can no longer be conceived in terms of a dualistic framework. Social order is not some magical equilibrium that is justified by the satisfactions it produces--to all, to the most capable, or only to those in power, depending upon the justification. Nor can social order be considered either the product of either an invisible hand or of an omnipresent secretary who balances everyone's account. This work is an effort to move beyond the polarities and dualities that limit the theory and research of social science as a whole. Pierre Moessinger is professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and the Department of Psychology at the University of Fribourg. He has published in English-language journals in several fields and is the editor of New Ideas in Psychology.

Download or read book Three Treatises written by Martin Luther and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years that followed, Luther clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520. In these writings Luther tried to frame his ideas in terms that would be comprehensible not only to the clergy but to people from a wide range of backgrounds. To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation is an attack on the corruption of the church and the abuses of its authority, bringing to light many of the underlying reasons for the Reformation. The second treatise, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, contains Luther's sharp criticism of the sacramental system of the Catholic church. The Freedom of a Christian gives a concise presentation of Luther's position on the doctrine of justification by faith. The translations of these treatises are all taken from the American edition of Luther's Works. This new edition of Three Treatises will continue to be a popular resource for individual study, church school classes, and college and seminary courses.

Download or read book Empresas familiares una mirada a su funcionamiento written by Francisca Cecilia Encinas Orozco and published by Editorial Fontamara S. A. de C. V.. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El campo de estudio de las empresas familiares sigue en desarrollo y muestra un creciente interés por académicos y profesionistas, la investigación de este tema ha tenido desde sus inicios un tratamiento interdisciplinario y esta diversidad ha enriquecido teórica y metodológicamente su estudio. Este libro busca precisamente contribuir desde la mirada de académicos de diferentes contextos e instituciones al estudio de las empresas familiares en la actualidad. Los estudios mostrados son el resultado del acercamiento a investigadores a la dinámica y funcionamiento de empresas familiares de diferentes tamaños y giros, lo cual es una característica que refuerza la diversidad de empresas familiares que existen. El contenido es a partir de una convocatoria abierta publicada en diferentes medios, a la cual respondieron académicos-investigadores mayoritariamente de México y de los cuales se seleccionaron aquellos que sumaran a esta perspectiva de diversidad. Al final se logró organizar en siete capítulos el contenido, cerrando con un caso de estudio de una empresa familiar del sector salud. Se esperas que Empresas Familiares: Una mirada a su funcionamiento sea un libro que contribuya a aumentar el estudio de las empresas familiares por académicos y practicantes y, a su vez, permee en la mejora y perdurabilidad de este tipo de empresas.