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The Keystone Advantage

What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability

By: Marco Iansiti,Roy Levien

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The Keystone Advantage

What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability

By: Marco Iansiti,Roy Levien

Today, many companies operate within a complex network of firms that all depend on each other for success. In this book, authors Marco Iansiti and Roy Levien use the powerful example of biological ecosystems to show how companies can leverage these emerging business networks for long-term success. The book's title, "The Keystone Advantage", is taken directly from biology - it refers to "keystone species", which proactively maintain the healthy functioning of their entire ecosystem for a simple reason: their own survival depends on it. In the same way, say the authors, companies can protect and ensure their own success by deliberately fostering the combined health of the network they operate in.

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Harvard Business Press

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1591393078

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Industrialisation in India

India's Neoliberal Path of Industrial Development

By: Satyaki Roy

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Industrialisation in India

India's Neoliberal Path of Industrial Development

By: Satyaki Roy

Manufacturing versus services: a misplaced debate -- Global production network: India and developing countries -- Financialisation in India: emerging trends in the corporate sector -- Hierarchies of capital and the architecture of value capture -- Informality: regime of accumulation and discourse of power -- Self-employment as disguised dispossession -- Land acquisition in India: revisiting primitive accumulation -- Decoding resistance and class formation in the neoliberal regime.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108486916

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9781108486910

Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

By: Dayabati Roy

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Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

By: Dayabati Roy

In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes. Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses unemployment in India and explains why the issues of employment and unemployment should be the appropriate prism to understand the status of wellbeing in India. The author provides a historical analysis of policy interventions on behalf of the colonial and postcolonial state with regard to the alleviation of unemployment and poverty in India and in West Bengal in particular. Arguing that, as long as poverty - either as a concept or as an empirical condition - remains as a technical issue to be managed by governmental technologies, the ‘poor’ will be held responsible for their own fate and the extent of poverty will continue to increase. The book contends that rural unemployment in India is not just an economic issue but a political process that has consistently been shaped by various socio-economic, political and cultural factors since the colonial period. The analysis which depends mainly on ethnography extends to the implementation of the ‘New Rights Agenda’, such as the MGNREGA, at the rural margin. Challenging the dominant approach to poverty, this book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of South Asian studies, Indian Political Economy, contemporary political theories, poverty studies, neo-liberalism, sociology and social anthropology as well as development studies.

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Routledge

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1351065408

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Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy

India 1947 and Beyond

By: Tirthankar Roy,Anand V. Swamy

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Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy

India 1947 and Beyond

By: Tirthankar Roy,Anand V. Swamy

Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy trace India's economic growth since 1947 and the legal reforms that have allowed it to settle in, however unevenly and tenuously, in the shadow of the stagnating effects of colonial rule. Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy portrays a long shadow of Indian "path dependence"-the persistence of colonial-era legal practices and institutions-interrupted by a series of reactive, dramatic departures from colonial inertia aimed at achieving quick or corrective growth and regulation. Roy and Swamy address five principal questions: How have new laws emerged in India? Does the explanation lie with colonialism or with post-independence politics and economic change? How were laws shaped by egalitarian goals in the Indian democracy with its universal adult suffrage? When did laws constrain economic growth? And to what extent did case law and legislation affect the evolution of law, which was also shaped by politics and the quality of legal infrastructure? Each of these questions brings together different threads of India's economic transformation and social/political history, and the format allows the authors to go deep on the country's most important market sectors and their surrounding economic and political histories. These sections include: colonialist influences on laws governing land and natural resources; politics and labor; and the alternating stifling effects of the country's economic policies and legal systems. In Roy and Swamy's telling, inadequate legal infrastructure has often been the country's primary impediment to economic growth during the last century, and it remains a primary reason that India's future may not be as bright as advertised"--

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University of Chicago Press

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022679900X

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9780226799001

The Political Outsider

Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism

By: Srirupa Roy

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The Political Outsider

Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism

By: Srirupa Roy

Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. And yet, it is a place where criticisms of actually existing democracy are intense and strident. In recent years, the trope of victimized people suffering at the hands of a predatory elite and political dysfunction has reaped rewards. The populist language of redemptive outsiders pledging to combat a corrupt system has been harnessed in successful electoral campaigns, like the majoritarian regime of Narendra Modi. Tracking the shift from postcolonial nation-building to democracy-rebuilding, Srirupa Roy shows how the political outsider came to be a valorized figure of late-twentieth century Indian democracy, tasked with the urgent mission of curing a broken democratic system—what Roy terms "curative democracy." Drawing attention to an ambivalent political field that folds together authoritarian and democratic forms and ideas, Roy argues that the long 1970s were a crucial turning point in Indian politics, when democracy was suspended by the declaration of a national emergency and then subsequently restored. By tracing the crooked line that connects the ideals of curative democracy and the political outsider to the populist antipolitics and strongman authoritarian rule in present times, this book revisits democracy from India, and asks what the Indian experience tells us about the trajectory of global democratic politics.

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Stanford University Press

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1503637999

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Evergreen

Victor Saville in His Own Words

By: Victor Saville,Roy Moseley

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Victor Saville in His Own Words

By: Victor Saville,Roy Moseley

This autobiographical film history provides recounts Saville's experience on the Western Front during World War I and includes stories of filmmaking in Britain and America during the transition from silent to sound cinema, and then from black-and-white to color. It also gives a glimpse into Hollywood as it existed in the late 1930s and early 1940s, emphasizing Saville's work with stars like Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn, and Paul Newman. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

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SIU Press

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080932315X

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Capitalism

A Ghost Story

By: Arundhati Roy

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Capitalism

A Ghost Story

By: Arundhati Roy

The “courageous and clarion” Booker Prize–winner “continues her analysis and documentation of the disastrous consequences of unchecked global capitalism” (Booklist). From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country’s one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India’s gross domestic product. Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism have subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation. “A highly readable and characteristically trenchant mapping of early-twenty-first-century India’s impassioned love affair with money, technology, weaponry and the ‘privatization of everything,’ and—because these must not be impeded no matter what—generous doses of state violence.” —The Nation “A vehement broadside against capitalism in general and American cultural imperialism in particular . . . an impassioned manifesto.” —Kirkus Reviews “Roy’s central concern is the effect on her own country, and she shows how Indian politics have taken on the same model, leading to the ghosts of her book’s title: 250,000 farmers have committed suicide, 800 million impoverished and dispossessed Indians, environmental destruction, colonial-like rule in Kashmir, and brutal treatment of activists and journalists. In this dark tale, Roy gives rays of hope that illuminate cracks in the nightmare she evokes.” —Publishers Weekly

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Haymarket Books

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1608464296

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Politics of the Poor

Negotiating Democracy in Contemporary India

By: Indrajit Roy

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Politics of the Poor

Negotiating Democracy in Contemporary India

By: Indrajit Roy

This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims. Roy explains the variations by directing attention to the dynamic interaction between the opportunity structures available to the poor and the social relations of power in which they are embedded. He analyses these intersections as 'political spaces' which both enable and constrain popular practices. Through examination of the 'political spaces' available to the poor in four different localities, Roy outlines a new analytic framework to understanding poor people's politics. Based on these observations, the book makes a strong case for an approach to democracy that appreciates people's ambivalences towards democracy. Roy urges researchers of democracy to step beyond either enthusiastic narratives - the inevitability of democracy or apocalyptic accounts of democracy's impending death.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316674347

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My Seditious Heart

Collected Nonfiction

By: Arundhati Roy

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My Seditious Heart

Collected Nonfiction

By: Arundhati Roy

Two decades of commentary by the New York Times–bestselling author: “An electrifying political essayist . . . uplifting . . . galvanizing.” —Booklist From the Booker Prize-winning author of such works as The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, My Seditious Heart collects nonfiction spanning over twenty years and chronicles a battle for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile world. Taken together, these essays are told in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defense of the collective, of the individual, and of the land, in the face of the destructive logic of financial, social, religious, military, and governmental elites. “Her lucid and probing essays offer sharp insights on a range of matters, from crony capitalism and environmental depredation to the perils of nationalism and, in her most recent work, the insidiousness of the Hindu caste system. In an age of intellectual logrolling and mass-manufactured infotainment, she continues to offer bracing ways of seeing, thinking and feeling.” —Pankaj Mishra, Time Magazine Praise for Arundhati Roy: “Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays.” —Howard Zinn “One of the most confident and original thinkers of our time.” —Naomi Klein “The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Haymarket Books+ORM

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1608466744

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The Keystone Advantage

What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability

By: Marco Iansiti,Roy Levien

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The Keystone Advantage

What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability

By: Marco Iansiti,Roy Levien

Leveraging the power of business networks for success. Whether it sells computers, clothing, or cars, your firm's fate is increasingly linked to that of many other firms, all of which must collaborate effectively in order for each to thrive. This phenomenon has changed the basis of competition from battle between firms to battles between networks of firms--and more than ever before, success depends on managing assets your company doesn't own. In The Keystone Advantage, Marco Iansiti and Roy Levien offer a new lens for understanding how these ubiquitous and complex business networks behave and explore the implications for strategy formulation, innovation, and operations management. Iansiti and Levien argue that biological ecosystems provide a powerful analogy to the functioning of business networks. Just as "keystone species" in nature play central roles in their ecosystems, companies such as Walmart, Microsoft, and Li & Fung deploy "keystone strategies" to actively shape and regulate the workings of their business ecosystems--dramatically improving their own performance in the process. Iansiti and Levien argue that the best keystones simplify the challenge of connecting a very large and distributed network of companies to their customers and provide "platforms" that other firms can leverage to increase productivity, enhance stability, and spur innovation. Drawing from more than ten years of research and practical experience across a range of industries, the authors identify three specific roles that firms play within business ecosystems: keystone, dominator, and niche. The book lays out a framework any firm can use to assess the characteristics of its own ecosystem, reevaluate its technology and operations strategy, and formulate specific tactics for gaining sustainable competitive advantage. Practical and insightful, The Keystone Advantage will help leaders, managers, and policy makers to understand, analyze, and successful execute strategy in today’s networked environments.

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Harvard Business Press

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1633697576

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Roy Rogers

King of the Cowboys

By: Roy Rogers,Georgia Morris,Mark Pollard

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Roy Rogers

King of the Cowboys

By: Roy Rogers,Georgia Morris,Mark Pollard

Two hundred photographs, many in full color, highlight an account of the life and career of the greatest of Hollywood's singing cowboys, told in Roy Rogers's own words, including stories of Dale Evans and his horse, Trigger. 15,000 first printing.

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Collins Pub San Francisco

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0002553341

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The Keystone Advantage

The Keystone Advantage

Industrialisation in India

Industrialisation in India

Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy

Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy

The Political Outsider

The Political Outsider

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Evergreen

Capitalism

Capitalism

Politics of the Poor

Politics of the Poor

My Seditious Heart

My Seditious Heart

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