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An Elusive Victorian

The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace

By: Martin Fichman

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An Elusive Victorian

The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace

By: Martin Fichman

Codiscoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace should be recognized as one of the titans of Victorian science. Instead he has long been relegated to a secondary place behind Darwin. Worse, many scholars have overlooked or even mocked his significant contributions to other aspects of Victorian culture. With An Elusive Victorian, Martin Fichman provides the first comprehensive analytical study of Wallace's life and controversial intellectual career. Fichman examines not only Wallace's scientific work as an evolutionary theorist and field naturalist but also his philosophical concerns, his involvement with theism, and his commitment to land nationalization and other sociopolitical reforms such as women's rights. As Fichman shows, Wallace worked throughout his life to integrate these humanistic and scientific interests. His goal: the development of an evolutionary cosmology, a unified vision of humanity's place in nature and society that he hoped would ensure the dignity of all individuals. To reveal the many aspects of this compelling figure, Fichman not only reexamines Wallace's published works, but also probes the contents of his lesser known writings, unpublished correspondence, and copious annotations in books from his personal library. Rather than consider Wallace's science as distinct from his sociopolitical commitments, An Elusive Victorian assumes a mutually beneficial relationship between the two, one which shaped Wallace into one of the most memorable characters of his time. Fully situating Wallace's wide-ranging work in its historical and cultural context, Fichman's innovative and insightful account will interest historians of science, religion, and Victorian culture as well as biologists.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226246159

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Organizational Outsourcing Readiness

Empirically Investigating the Role of Client’s IT Capability, Knowledge, and Alignment for Outsourcing Success

By: Sebastian F Martin

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Organizational Outsourcing Readiness

Empirically Investigating the Role of Client’s IT Capability, Knowledge, and Alignment for Outsourcing Success

By: Sebastian F Martin

How can prospective outsourcing clients prepare their internal organizational workflows to meet the challenges associated with an outsourcing venture with little penalty in time, cost, and effort? Along this guiding question, the author empirically investigates the ways in which several factors of the client company's internal organizational context affect the outcomes of their outsourcing efforts. The investigated factors represent the client's IT capability, the explicit knowledge in form of business process documentation available within the company, and the level of alignment between the client's IT and business domains. Based on qualitative and quantitative empirical data, S. F. Martin demonstrates that each of these client-specific factors has a significant inter-organizational impact, affecting the quality of the relationship between client and provider, the vendor’s performance, and outsourcing success.

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ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press

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3838260295

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9783838260297

The Entrepreneurial Group

Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action

By: Martin Ruef

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The Entrepreneurial Group

Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action

By: Martin Ruef

Recent surveys show that more than half of American entrepreneurs share ownership in their business startups rather than going it alone. Yet the media and many scholars continue to perpetuate the myth of the lone visionary who single-handedly revolutionizes the marketplace. In The Entrepreneurial Group, Martin Ruef shatters this myth, demonstrating that teams, not individuals, are the leading force behind entrepreneurial startups. This is the first book to provide an in-depth sociological analysis of entrepreneurial groups, and to put forward a theoretical framework for understanding activities and outcomes within them.

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307

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Princeton University Press

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1400835208

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9781400835201

Organizations Evolving

By: Howard E Aldrich,Martin Ruef

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Organizations Evolving

By: Howard E Aldrich,Martin Ruef

`Howard Aldrich and Martin Ruef's tour de force shows us how the evolutionary approach can explain change not only in organizational populations, but within sectors and within organizations. Aldrich and Ruef display an astonishing command of the management literature, using vivid illustrations from cutting edge research to show how the processes of variation, selection, retention, and struggle operate within organizations and across them. A lucid and engaging book that should appeal both to the newcomer to organization theory and to the old pro' - Frank Dobbin, Harvard University A keenly anticipated Second Edition of an award winning classic, Organizations Evolving presents a sophisticated evolutionary view of key organizational paradigms that will give readers a unified understanding of modern organizations. This Second Edition is an up-to-date survey of the literature, as well as an overview of the new developments across organization studies. It contains new sections on organizational forms, community evolution and methods for studying organizations at multiple levels. The field of organization studies contains many contending paradigms that often puzzle and perplex students. This book is a stunning synthesis of the major organizational paradigms under the umbrella of organizational theory. Scholars and students will find it an excellent guide to the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches, as well as an outstanding review of the best recent empirical research on organizations. The book includes many helpful features, such as: - Review questions and exercises that will consolidate reader's learning - A methodological appendix that assesses common research methods - Engaging cases that bring principles and concepts to life This Second Edition is a rich resource for study, discussion and debate amongst organizational scholars and postgraduate students of organizations.

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345

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SAGE

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1849202087

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9781849202084

Interpersonal Networks in Organizations

Cognition, Personality, Dynamics, and Culture

By: Martin Kilduff,David Krackhardt

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Interpersonal Networks in Organizations

Cognition, Personality, Dynamics, and Culture

By: Martin Kilduff,David Krackhardt

This book brings a social networks perspective to bear on topics of leadership, decision-making, turnover, organizational crises, organizational culture, and other major organizational behavior topics. It offers a new direction for organizational behavior theory and research by drawing from social network ideas. Across diverse research topics, the authors pursue an integrated focus on social ties both as they are represented in the cognitions of individuals and as they operate as constraints and opportunities in organizational settings. The authors bring their 20 years worth of research experience together to provide a programmatic social network approach to understanding the internal functioning of organizations. By focusing a distinctive research lens on interpersonal networks, they attempt to discover the keys to the whole realm of organizational behavior through the social network approach.

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310

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Cambridge University Press

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1139474103

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9781139474108

Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society

Properties of Technology

By: Phillip Kalantzis-Cope,Karim Gherab-Martin

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Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society

Properties of Technology

By: Phillip Kalantzis-Cope,Karim Gherab-Martin

Analyzing the relationship between digital technologies and society this book explores a wide range of complex social issues emerging in a new digital space. Itexamines both the vexing dilemmas with a critical eye as well as prompting readers to think constructively and strategically about exciting possibilities.

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388

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Springer

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0230299040

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9780230299047

Intellectual Property Management in R&D Collaborations

The Case of the Service Industry Sector

By: Martin A. Bader

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Intellectual Property Management in R&D Collaborations

The Case of the Service Industry Sector

By: Martin A. Bader

This work examines the current, relevant and complex problem of how companies can take an intellectual property lead within research and development collaborations. Special emphasis is placed on the early phases of the innovation process and the service industry sector in which intellectual property management is still a new phenomenon. The author derives archetypes for managing intellectual property in collaborations and analyses their strengths and weaknesses.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3790817031

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9783790817034

The Righteous

The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

By: Martin Gilbert

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The Righteous

The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

By: Martin Gilbert

As a researcher and collector of historical source material, Mr. Gilbert has no peer among contemporary historians." --The New York Times According to Jewish tradition, "Whoever saves one life, it is as if he saved the entire world." In The Righteous, distinguished historian Sir Martin Gilbert explores the courage of those who, throughout Germany and in every occupied country, took incredible risks to help Jews whose fate would have been sealed without them. Indeed, many lost their lives for their efforts. From Greek-Orthodox Princess Alice of Greece to the Ukrainian Uniate Archbishop of Lvov, from priests and soldiers to employees and neighbors, many risked, and sacrificed, everything to help their fellow man. Drawing from twenty-five years of original research, Gilbert re-creates the remarkable stories of the non-Jews who have received formal recognition by the State of Israel as Righteous Among the Nations.

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598

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Macmillan

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0805062610

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9780805062618

Essential Knowledge and Management Issues in Law Firms

By: Martin Apistola,Petter Gottschalk

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Essential Knowledge and Management Issues in Law Firms

By: Martin Apistola,Petter Gottschalk

Knowledge management plays an important role in helping law firms as knowledge organizations create, share and apply knowledge to the needs of law firm clients. This book covers important topics such as characteristics of knowledge, knowledge management systems, objectives and strategies, knowledge processes, change analysis, and change strategy framework.

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Universal-Publishers

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1612330096

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9781612330099

The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859–1909

Darwinism's Generations

By: Martin Hewitt

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The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859–1909

Darwinism's Generations

By: Martin Hewitt

The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations uses the impact of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) in the 50 years after its publication to demonstrate the effectiveness of a generational framework for understanding the cultural and intellectual history of Britain in the nineteenth century. It challenges conventional notions of the 'Darwinian Revolution' by examining how people from across all sections of society actually responded to Darwin's writings. Drawing on the opinions and interventions of over 2,000 Victorians, drawn from an exceptionally wide range of archival and printed sources, it argues that the spread of Darwinian belief was slower, more complicated, more stratified by age, and ultimately shaped far more powerfully by divergent generational responses, than has previously been recognised. In doing so, it makes a number of important contributions. It offers by far the richest and most comprehensive account to date of how contemporaries came to terms with the intellectual and emotional shocks of evolutionary theory. It makes a compelling case for taking proper account of age as a fundamental historical dynamic, and for the powerful generational patternings of the effects that age produced. It demonstrates the extent to which the most common sub-periodisation of the Victorian period are best understood not merely as constituted by the exigencies of events, but are also formed by the shifting balance generational influence. Taken together these insights present a significant challenge to the ways historians currently approach the task of describing the nature and experience of historical change, and have fundamental implications for our current conceptions of the shape and pace of historical time.

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Oxford University Press

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0192891006

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9780192891006

An Elusive Victorian

The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace

By: Martin Fichman

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An Elusive Victorian

The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace

By: Martin Fichman

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An Elusive Victorian

An Elusive Victorian

Organizational Outsourcing Readiness

Organizational Outsourcing Readiness

The Entrepreneurial Group

The Entrepreneurial Group

Organizations Evolving

Organizations Evolving

Interpersonal Networks in Organizations

Interpersonal Networks in Organizations

Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society

Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society

Intellectual Property Management in R&D Collaborations

Intellectual Property Management in R&D Collaborations

The Righteous

The Righteous

Essential Knowledge and Management Issues in Law Firms

Essential Knowledge and Management Issues in Law Firms

The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859–1909

The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859–1909

An Elusive Victorian

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