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Business Systems in East Asia

Firms, Markets and Societies

By: Professor Richard Whitley

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Business Systems in East Asia

Firms, Markets and Societies

By: Professor Richard Whitley

In this major contribution to comparative-international business Richard Whitley compares and contrasts the dominant characteristics of firms and markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, relating these to their particular social, political and economic contexts. At the level of the firm he looks at such areas as management styles and structures, decision-making processes, owner-employee relations, and patterns of company growth and development. He also discusses market development, customer, supplier and inter-firm relations, and the roles of the financial sectors and the state in market and industry development. The book also examines the ways in which key social institutions in each country have affected the evolution of business. Finally, the author makes a comparison of East Asian business systems with dominant Western practices.

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1446224015

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Great Writers on Organizations

The Third Omnibus Edition

By: Professor David J Hickson,Professor Derek S Pugh

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Great Writers on Organizations

The Third Omnibus Edition

By: Professor David J Hickson,Professor Derek S Pugh

Great Writers on Organizations presents succinctly each of the contributions made by 80 of the most prominent management thinkers to the understanding of organizational behaviour and managerial thinking. Among those included are early theorists such as Henri Fayol, Frederick W. Taylor and Max Weber, classical writers such as Alfred D. Chandler, Peter Drucker and Frederick Herzberg, through to modern thinkers such as Oliver Williamson, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Charles Handy. New writers included in the Third Omnibus Edition are: Lex Donaldson, Stewart Clegg, Richard Whitley, Michel Foucault and Kathleen Eisenhardt. The volume is an indispensable resource for academics, students and managers on what the great writers have to say about the key managerial tasks of how to organize and motivate.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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140945987X

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Disciplining Reproduction

Modernity, American Life Sciences, and "the Problems of Sex"

By: Adele Clarke,Professor Adele E Clarke

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Disciplining Reproduction

Modernity, American Life Sciences, and "the Problems of Sex"

By: Adele Clarke,Professor Adele E Clarke

A book that will alter substantially our conceptions regarding the development and influence of a crucial modern science."--Philip J. Pauly, Rutgers University "Clarke gives us a window into a part of the history of science that has never before been made so accessible but one about which there is great concern. . . . An extremely valuable work."--Emily Martin, Princeton University "As an excellent case study of the powerful analytical potential of the social world's approach, Disciplining Reproduction is a major contribution to theory building in science studies."--Nelly Oudshoorn, University of Amsterdam

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448

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Univ of California Press

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0520207203

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9780520207202

Quakers and the American Family : British Settlement in the Delaware Valley

British Settlement in the Delaware Valley

By: Amherst Barry Levy Assistant Professor of History University of Massachusetts

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Quakers and the American Family : British Settlement in the Delaware Valley

British Settlement in the Delaware Valley

By: Amherst Barry Levy Assistant Professor of History University of Massachusetts

Americans have an unusually strong family ideology. We believe that morally self-sufficient nuclear households must serve as the foundation of a republican society. In this brilliant history, Barry Levy traces this contemporary view of family life all the way back to the Quakers. _____ Levy argues that the Quakers brought a new vision of family and social life to America--one that contrasted sharply with the harsh, formal world of the Puritans in New England. The Quaker emphasis was on affection, friendship and hospitality. They stressed the importance of women in the home, and of self-disciplined, non-coercive childrearing. _____ This book explains how and why the Quakers' had such a profound cultural impact (and why more so in Pennsylvania and America than in England); and what the Quakers' experience with their own radical family system can tell us about American family ideology. ______ Who were the Northwest British Quakers and why did their family system so impress English, French, and New England reformers--Voltaire, Crevecouer, Brissot, Emerson, George Bancroft, Lydia Maria Child, and Lousia May Alcott, to name just a few? To answer this question, Levy tells the story of a large group of Quaker farmers from their development of a new family and communal life in England in the 1650s to their emigration and experience in Pennsylvania between 1681 and 1790. The book is thus simultaneously a trans-Atlantic community study of the migration and transplantation of ordinary British peoples in the tradition of Sumner Chilton Powell's Puritan Village; the story of the formation and development of a major Anglo-American faith; and an exploration of the origins of American family ideology.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198021674

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Law, Corporate Governance and Partnerships at Work

A Study of Australian Regulatory Style and Business Practice

By: Mr Anthony O'Donnell,Ms Meredith Jones,Ms Shelley Marshall,Professor Ian Ramsay,Professor Richard Mitchell

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Law, Corporate Governance and Partnerships at Work

A Study of Australian Regulatory Style and Business Practice

By: Mr Anthony O'Donnell,Ms Meredith Jones,Ms Shelley Marshall,Professor Ian Ramsay,Professor Richard Mitchell

This book examines how businesses manage their labour systems, and particularly how they manage the complex interaction of factors which give rise to instances of 'partnership' style relations between businesses and their employees. The book draws from the literature concerning 'Varieties of Capitalism' (VoC) and the different institutional and regulatory designs inherent in different types of political economy. The book is informed by a new and extensive set of empirical data from Australia that examines the activities of national and multinational business corporations, their outlooks and relationships with stakeholders, and relates these to new and evolving theoretical frameworks based in political economy and law. The book places the Australian regulatory model within this international debate, and assesses the extent to which the system does or does not fit into the general categorisation created in the VoC literature.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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140949781X

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9781409497813

A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution

St Helens 1750-1900

By: T.C. Barker,Professor J R Harris,J.R. Harris

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A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution

St Helens 1750-1900

By: T.C. Barker,Professor J R Harris,J.R. Harris

First published in 1994. This book is an outstanding product of St Helens, as remarkable in its way as sheetglass and Beechams pills. It is the first full scale nineteenth century history of a small industrial town as distinct from the bigger and better-known cities and as such it deserves to be very widely read and studied.

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Routledge

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1136298665

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The Great American Crime Decline

By: Wolfen Distinguished Scholar Franklin E. Zimring William G. Simon Professor of Law, and Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute University of California Berkeley

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The Great American Crime Decline

By: Wolfen Distinguished Scholar Franklin E. Zimring William G. Simon Professor of Law, and Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute University of California Berkeley

Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic? More police using better tactics? Or even the effects of legalized abortion? And what can we expect from crime rates in the future? Franklin E. Zimring here takes on the experts, and counters with the first in-depth portrait of the decline and its true significance. The major lesson from the 1990s is that relatively superficial changes in the character of urban life can be associated with up to 75% drops in the crime rate. Crime can drop even if there is no major change in the population, the economy or the schools. Offering the most reliable data available, Zimring documents the decline as the longest and largest since World War II. It ranges across both violent and non-violent offenses, all regions, and every demographic. All Americans, whether they live in cities or suburbs, whether rich or poor, are safer today. Casting a critical and unerring eye on current explanations, this book demonstrates that both long-standing theories of crime prevention and recently generated theories fall far short of explaining the 1990s drop. A careful study of Canadian crime trends reveals that imprisonment and economic factors may not have played the role in the U.S. crime drop that many have suggested. There was no magic bullet but instead a combination of factors working in concert rather than a single cause that produced the decline. Further--and happily for future progress, it is clear that declines in the crime rate do not require fundamental social or structural changes. Smaller shifts in policy can make large differences. The significant reductions in crime rates, especially in New York, where crime dropped twice the national average, suggests that there is room for other cities to repeat this astounding success. In this definitive look at the great American crime decline, Franklin E. Zimring finds no pat answers but evidence that even lower crime rates might be in store.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019534619X

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First Among Friends : George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

By: H. Larry Ingle Professor of History University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

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First Among Friends : George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

By: H. Larry Ingle Professor of History University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

In First Among Friends, the first scholarly biography of George Fox (1624-91), H. Larry Ingle examines the fascinating life of the reformation leader and founding organizer of the Religious Society of Friends, more popularly known today as the Quakers. Ingle places Fox within the upheavals of the English Civil Wars, Revolution, and Restoration, showing him and his band of "rude" disciples challenging the status quo, particularly during the Cromwellian Interregnum. Unlike leaders of similar groups, Fox responded to the conservatism of the Stuart restoration by facing down challenges from internal dissidents, and leading his followers to persevere until the 1689 Act of Toleration. It was this same sense of perseverance that helped the Quakers survive--the only religious sect of the era still existing today. Firmly grounded in primary sources and enriched with gripping detail, this well-written and original study reveals hitherto unknown sides of one who was clearly "First Among Friends.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198024029

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Strange and Secret Peoples : Fairies and Victorian Consciousness

Fairies and Victorian Consciousness

By: Stern College for Women Carole G. Silver Professor of English

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Strange and Secret Peoples : Fairies and Victorian Consciousness

Fairies and Victorian Consciousness

By: Stern College for Women Carole G. Silver Professor of English

Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.

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0198028466

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A Reader in Ecclesiology

By: Professor Bryan P Stone

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A Reader in Ecclesiology

By: Professor Bryan P Stone

This Reader presents a diverse and ecumenical cross-section of ecclesiological statements from across the twenty centuries of the church's existence. It builds on the foundations of early Christian writings, illustrates significant medieval, reformation, and modern developments, and provides a representative look at the robust attention to ecclesiology that characterizes the contemporary period. This collection of readings offers an impressive overview of the multiple ways Christians have understood the church to be both the 'body of Christ' and, at the same time, an imperfect, social and historical institution, constantly subject to change, and reflective of the cultures in which it is found. This comprehensive survey of historical ecclesiologies is helpful in pointing readers to the remarkable number of images and metaphors that Christians have relied upon in describing the church and to the various tensions that have characterized reflection on the church as both united and diverse, community and institution, visible and invisible, triumphant and militant, global and local, one and many. Students, clergy and all interested in Christianity and the church will find this collection an invaluable resource.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409481824

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Business Systems in East Asia

Firms, Markets and Societies

By: Professor Richard Whitley

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Firms, Markets and Societies

By: Professor Richard Whitley

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The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

Cracking the Concrete Ceiling

By: Professor Marilyn J Davidson, Professor

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The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

Cracking the Concrete Ceiling

By: Professor Marilyn J Davidson, Professor

Based on the author s analysis of in-depth interviews and relevant research literature, this booki nvestigates and explores the experiences, problems and pressures faced by black and ethnic minority women managers in the United Kingdom. To date, research addressing the issues of black managers has been almost exclusively American, predominantly black African-Americans, and the overall amount of published research has been limited. Indeed, studies of black and ethnic minority professional women, especially in corporate settings, have been virtually excluded from the growing body of research on women in management. This book has been written to fill this gap.

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1446223620

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European Business Systems

Firms and Markets in Their National Contexts

By: Professor Richard Whitley

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European Business Systems

Firms and Markets in Their National Contexts

By: Professor Richard Whitley

As Europe moves towards greater integration there is increasing recognition of national "differences "in European business - because of significant diversity in national cultures and social institutions affecting business systems. This book explores key characteristics of firms and markets in eight European countries - Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands and Germany compared with Britain, Sweden, Italy and France. Some contributors focus on overall business patterns in the countries concerned while others examine particular industries and sectors to consider the relationship between national influences and cross-national sector developments. To provide a European/East Asian comparison one contribution looks at firms and strategies in Japan and Hong Kong.

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1446227731

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Business Systems in East Asia

Business Systems in East Asia

Great Writers on Organizations

Great Writers on Organizations

Disciplining Reproduction

Disciplining Reproduction

Quakers and the American Family : British Settlement in the Delaware Valley

Quakers and the American Family : British Settlement in the Delaware Valley

Law, Corporate Governance and Partnerships at Work

Law, Corporate Governance and Partnerships at Work

A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution

A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution

The Great American Crime Decline

The Great American Crime Decline

First Among Friends : George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

First Among Friends : George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

Strange and Secret Peoples : Fairies and Victorian Consciousness

Strange and Secret Peoples : Fairies and Victorian Consciousness

A Reader in Ecclesiology

A Reader in Ecclesiology

Business Systems in East Asia

Business Systems in East Asia

The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

European Business Systems

European Business Systems

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