Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Corporation written by Thomas Clarke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Corporation assesses the contemporary relevance, purpose, and performance of the corporation. The corporation is one of the most significant, if contested, innovations in human history, and the direction and effectiveness of corporate law, corporate governance, and corporate performance are being challenged as never before. Continuously evolving, the corporation as the primary instrument for wealth generation in contemporary economies demands frequent assessment and reinterpretation. The focus of this work is the transformative impact of innovation and change upon corporate structure, purpose, and operation. Corporate innovation is at the heart of the value-creation process in increasingly internationalized and competitive market economies, and corporations today are embedded in a world of complex global supply chains and rising state and state-directed capitalism. In questioning the fundamental purpose and performance of the corporation, this Handbook continues a tradition commenced by Berle and Means, and contributed to by generations of business scholars. What is the corporation and what is it becoming? How do we define its form and purpose and how are these changing? To whom is the corporation responsible, and who should judge the ultimate performance of corporations? By investigating the origins, development, strategies, and theories of corporations, this volume addresses such questions to provide a richer theoretical account of the corporation and its contested future.
Download or read book Cross Cultural Management written by Jean-François Chanlat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things ‘correctly’, while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric. When people from different cultures work together and cannot take shared meanings for granted, managers face serious challenges. An individual’s parsing of an experience and its meaning may vary according to several cultural scales – national, professional, industrial and local. Awareness of cultural differences and the willingness to view them as a positive are therefore crucial assets. This edited textbook sets itself apart from existing cross-cultural management texts by highlighting to the reader the need to avoid both ethnocentrism and the belief in the universality of his or her own values and ways of thinking: the success of international negotiations and intercultural management depends on such openness and acceptance of real differences. It encourages the development of ‘nomadic intelligence’ and the creative use of a culture’s resources, according to a symbolic anthropology perspective. Through the essays and case studies in the chapters, readers will become aware of the intercultural dimension of business activities and better understand how they affect work. Cross-Cultural Management will help interested parties – students of business management, international relations and other disciplines, and business managers and other professionals – develop their ability to interact, take action and give direction in an intercultural context.
Download or read book Cognition incertitude et pr visibilit written by Bernard Cadet and published by Editions Publibook. This book was released on 2008 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etudier et discuter des possibilités de traitement de situations impliquant incertitude et prévisibilité, tel était le but que s'étaient fixés les participants au colloque international des 8 et 9 juin 2007 qui s'est tenu à la Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines de l'Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. B. Cadet, G. Chasseigne et G. Foliot ont réuni ici le fruit des travaux menés durant ces deux jours. Les contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage ont pour caractéristique commune l'étude de situations quotidiennes ou exceptionnelles où coexistent information et incertitude, et qui requièrent la mise en œuvre de fonctions cognitives de haut niveau (jugement, évaluation, estimation, prédiction, décision, langage, raisonnement, etc.). Avec la thématique "Cognition, incertitude et prévisibilité" comme référence commune, les auteurs, relevant de disciplines différentes (linguistique, sciences de gestion, économie, microbiologie, épistémologie, robotique, sciences de l'éducation, psychologie, etc.) présentent et analysent des modes de traitement sensiblement différents qu'une perspective pluridisciplinaire propre au lecteur permet ensuite de dépasser et de synthétiser. Une telle approche permet de dégager des repères conceptuels fondamentaux comme l'existence de différentes formes d'incertitude, leurs dénominations, leurs traitements écologiques par des modèles, des procédures cognitives et / ou statistiques applicables à de tels contextes, leurs effets sur les conduites individuelles ou collectives, etc. Rédigé dans un style très clair sans pour autant sacrifier à la précision de l'analyse, l'ouvrage s'adresse aux lecteurs intéressés, aux professionnels, aux étudiants et aux chercheurs souhaitant acquérir une plus grande pertinence dans le traitement des nombreuses situations présentant incertitude et prévisibilité. Il constitue à ce jour un bilan original très actuel sur cette question.
Download or read book Dangerous Others Insecure Societies written by Michalis Lianos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous Others, Insecure Societies examines the turn in post-industrial societies towards a fear of cultural, racial or religious externality, adopting a ground-breaking analysis which considers 'insecurity' a constituent part of 'otherness', rather than something separate or following from it. By addressing the link between insecurity and otherness, this book sheds light on the contemporary cultures of fear and risk that have made possible the aggressive measures that followed the 2001 terrorist attacks in the US and which continue to dominate contemporary geopolitics. The result of particular socio-economic and political circumstances, a sense of fear in relation to the Other has emerged as a replacement for the social bond, as otherness and danger are increasingly associated with one another - a development that appears paradoxical in the modern, globalized world. Bringing together the latest research from scholars in the UK, Europe and Australia, Dangerous Others, Insecure Societies engages with diverse issues surrounding migration, authoritarianism and social exclusion to consider the implications of a culture of fear and exclusion for multicultural, globalized, networked societies. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, geographers, social anthropologists and political scientists concerned with questions of identity, citizenship, exclusion and belonging.
Download or read book Homo Anthropologicus written by Jean-François Chanlat and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skilfully analysing the challenges posed by management practices to the human condition, Jean-François Chanlat examines the sociological evolution of modern management. This book acts as a crucial pedagogical guide to the history and essence of managerial operations.
Download or read book Les normes internationales du travail written by Nicolas Valticos and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2004 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interventions in Career Design and Education written by Valérie Cohen-Scali and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of a series of reflections by career counseling and guidance specialists on a question central to society: "How can career and life design interventions contribute to fair and sustainable development and to the implementation of decent work all over the world? ". This question was formulated by Professor J. Guichard, the director of the UNESCO Chair in Lifelong Guidance and counseling at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. The researchers involved in this Chair’s activities proposed answers which form the chapters of this book. These reflections emphasize the need to focus on the study and implementation of certain central psychological processes which can enable individuals to face the main challenges of our society. The contributions also propose new avenues of intervention for career counseling and guidance. The entire book is the bedrock of a program of research and interventions to be implemented in order that the field of career counseling and guidance plays a key role for individuals who must design their lives in a rapidly changing, and ever more complex context. This book is therefore a major scientific contribution and marks a turning point for researchers and practitioners in career counseling and guidance, and for all professionals who support the self-construction of individuals in the 21st century. "The authors draw on a diverse range of disciplines and research traditions and offer readers a rich array of insights, helping them reflect on how career guidance can be mobilised to serve citizens in a world that is increasingly challenged by complex, seemingly intractable problems. A central, crosscutting concern is the ways in which career guidance can foster well-being by facilitating access to meaningful and fulfilling work in contexts that promote equity, social justice, and dignity for all. While engaging the micro-worlds of individuals, and throwing light on their valiant efforts to design a life that realises their hopes and aspirations, it is a commendable feature of many of these papers that they do not eschew the societal – indeed planetary – stage across which personal dramas are enacted.” Prof. Ronald G. Sultana, Director, Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research, University of Malta. "The primary strengths.....are the authors' capacity to provide forward thinking perspectives on the important issue of sustainable lifelong interventions and career design in its broadest sense. The volume offers depth in a way of thinking that is pertinent to the 21st century and provokes both an in interest in the further study of this domain as well as providing tools and references for novice and experienced researchers and professionals. The book is sure to become a major text in the field." Prof. Maurice Taylor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada
Download or read book Labostat Guide de validation des m thodes d analyse written by FEINBERG and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique en son genre dans sa conception et dans son contenu, Labo-Stat - Guide de validation des méthodes d'analyses présente une nouvelle stratégie de validation selon une démarche raisonnée fondée sur le profil d'exactitude. Les techniques statistiques adaptées y sont explicitées sous une forme didactique et les solutions possibles ainsi que les limites éventuelles de diverses normes existantes sont largement développées et illustrées d'exemples concrets directement exploitables. Les applications numériques, sous forme de feuilles de calcul modèles pour des tableurs et des petits scripts, sont téléchargeables en ligne. Complétée par les explications de cet ouvrage, elles permettent au non-statisticien d'accéder aisément à une interprétration graphique des résultats. Labo-Stat a été conçu pour pouvoir être facilement utilisé sur la paillasse du laboratoire et permettre à tout un chacun, responsable, ingénieur, chercheur, technicien ou étudiant, de s'approprier les techniques indispensables pour déboucher sur une conclusion claire et sans ambiguïté et mener la validation des méthodes dans un souci de contrôle des coûts.
Download or read book African Yearbook of International Law written by African Association of International Law and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Handbook of Career Guidance written by James A. Athanasou and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-02 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a comprehensive review on career guidance, with an emphasis on the applied aspects of guidance together with research methods and perspectives. It features contributions from more than 30 leading authorities in the field from Asia, Africa, America, Australasia and Europe and draws upon a wide range of career guidance paradigms and theoretical perspectives. This handbook covers such subjects as educational and vocational guidance in a social context, theoretical foundations, educational and vocational guidance in practice, specific target groups, testing and assessment, and evaluation.
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Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by Leo P. Chall and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Download or read book Jud o christianisme written by Jean Daniélou and published by Editions Beauchesne. This book was released on 1972 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recueil Des Cours Collected Courses 1980 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1983-03-21 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Academy is a prestigious international institution for the study and teaching of Public and Private International Law and related subjects. The work of the Hague Academy receives the support and recognition of the UN. Its purpose is to encourage a thorough and impartial examination of the problems arising from international relations in the field of law. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. All courses at the Academy are, in principle, published in the language in which they were delivered in the Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law .
Download or read book The Philosophy of Chemistry written by Jean-Pierre Llored and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume connects chemistry and philosophy in order to face questions raised by chemistry in our present world. The idea is first to develop a kind of philosophy of chemistry which is deeply rooted in the exploration of chemical activities. We thus work in close contact with chemists (technicians, engineers, researchers, and teachers). Following this line of reasoning, the first part of the book encourages current chemists to describe their workaday practices while insisting on the importance of attending to methodological, metrological, philosophical, and epistemological questions related to their activities. It deals with sustainable chemistry, chemical metrology, nanochemistry, and biochemistry, among other crucial topics. In doing so, those chemists invite historians and philosophers to provide ideas for future developments. In a nutshell, this part is a call for forthcoming collaborations focused on instruments and methods, that is on ways of doing chemistry. The second part of the book illustrates the multifarious ways to study chemistry and even proposes new approaches to doing so. Each approach is interesting and incomplete but the emergent whole is richer than any of its components. Analytical work needs socio-historical expertise as well as many other approaches in order to keep on investigating chemistry to greater and greater depth. This heterogeneity provides a wide set of methodological perspectives not only about current chemical practices but also about the ways to explore them philosophically. Each approach is a resource to study chemistry and to reflect upon what doing philosophy of science can mean. In the last part of the volume, philosophers and chemists propose new concepts or reshape older ones in order to think about chemistry. The act of conceptualization itself is queried as well as the relationships between concepts and chemical activities. Prefaced by Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Roald Hoffmann, and by the President of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, Rom Harré, this volume is a plea for the emergence of a collective cleverness and aims to foster inventiveness.
