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  • 2005-2009  (5)
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9780511753671
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 339 pages)
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    DDC: 306.4/82
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte ; Risk ; Competition ; Decision making ; Wealth ; Social history ; Gambling ; Chance ; Risikoverhalten ; Risikobereitschaft ; Kapitalanlage ; Risikobereitschaft ; Kapitalanlage ; Risikoverhalten
    Abstract: Although financial markets often try to distance themselves from gambling, the two factors have far more in common than usually thought. When, historically, there were no financial institutions such as banks, lotteries constituted the ways by which expensive items were disposed of, and governments raised money quickly. Gambling tables fulfilled roles that venture capital and banking do today. 'Gamblers' created clearinghouses and sustained liquidity. When those gamblers bet on price distributions in futures markets, they were redefined as 'speculators'. Today they are called 'hedge fund managers' or 'bankers'. Though the names have changed, the actions undertaken have essentially stayed the same. This book shows how discussion on 'chance', 'risk', 'gambling', 'insurance', and 'speculation' illuminates where societies stood, where we are today, and where we may be heading
    Description / Table of Contents: From religion to risk management: what to do when facing uncertainty? / Reaven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner -- Anything wrong with gambling as a pastime? / Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner -- Are you rich? Risk-taking and gambling, or the leapfrogging instinct / Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner -- Betting on futures and creating prices / Reuven Brenner -- Gambling as banking: poker, junk bonds, and central banks / Reuven Brenner, Aaron Brown -- Lottery is a taxation, and heav'n be prais'd, it is easily rais'd / Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner -- Politics and prohibitions; or, what's a good tax anyway? / Reuven Brenner -- How gamblers and risk-takers correct the future / Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner -- Gambling and risk-taking: the leapfrogging instinct / Reuven Brenner -- Human nature and the civilizing process / Reuven Brenner -- A statistical profile of gamblers / Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner, Claude Montmarquette
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9780511753749
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 310 pages)
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 30
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    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Organizational behavior / Social aspects ; Social networks ; Self-perception ; Social perception ; Power (Social sciences) ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Organisationssoziologie ; Organisationskultur ; Organisationspsychologie ; Organisationsverhalten ; Organisationsverhalten ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Organisationskultur ; Organisationssoziologie ; Organisationspsychologie
    Abstract: 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
    Description / Table of Contents: Perceiving networks. A network approach to leadership ; An analysis of the internal market for reputation in organizations ; Systematic biases in network perception ; Effects of network accuracy on individuals' perceived power -- The psychology of network differences. Social structure and decision making in an MBA cohort ; The social networks of low and high self-monitors ; Centrality in the emotion helping network : an interactionist approach -- Network dynamics and organizational culture. Network perceptions and turnover in three organizations ; Organizational crises; The control of organizational diversity ; Future directions
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9780511509568
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages)
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    DDC: 302
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    Keywords: Psychologie ; Social psychology ; Culture / Psychological aspects ; Pädagogische Psychologie ; Kulturpsychologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Pädagogische Psychologie ; Kulturpsychologie
    Abstract: The last two decades have seen an international explosion of interest in theories of mind, culture, and activity. This unique collection is the first to explicitly reach back to the tradition's original critical impulse within which the writings of Karl Marx played such a central role. Each author pushes this impulse further to address leading contemporary questions. It includes a diverse array of international scholars working from the fields of education, psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, communications, industrial relations, and business studies. Broken into three main sections - education, work, and everyday life - each chapter builds from an analysis of practice and learning as social cultural participation and historical change in relation to the concept of activity, contradiction, and struggle. This book offers insight into an important complex of overlapping practices and institutions to shed light on broader debates over such matters as the 'knowledge economy' and 'lifelong learning'
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Exploring activity across education, work, and everyday life , Is there a Marxist psychology? , The cultural-historical activity theory : some aspects of development , Epistemological scepticism, complacent irony : investigations concerning the neo-pragmatism of Richard Rorty , The importance of play in pre-school education : naturalisation versus a Marxist analysis , Estranged labor learning , "Our working conditions are our students' learning conditions" : a CHAT analysis of College Teachers , Contradictory class relations in work and learning : some resources for hope , From labor process to activity theory , Values, rubbish, and workplace learning , Education as mediation between the individual's everyday life and the historical construction of society and culture by humankind , Activity and power : everyday life and development of working-class groups
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9780511584350
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.2/09438/09045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1980-2000 ; Politik ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Social change / Hungary ; Social change / Poland ; Post-communism / Hungary ; Post-communism / Poland ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Polen ; Ungarn ; Hungary / Economic policy / 1968-1989 ; Hungary / Economic policy / 1945-1968 ; Poland / Politics and government / 1980-1989 ; Poland / Politics and government / 1945-1980 ; Ungarn ; Polen ; Ungarn ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Polen ; Geschichte 1980-2000
    Abstract: The profound transformations that preceded the downfall of Communism originated in Poland and Hungary, but played out in strikingly different ways. Hungary led through economic reform, Poland through open political struggle. Analysis of these transformational variants yields important insights into systemic change, marketization, and democratization. This book shows how these changes were possible in authoritarian regimes as, over time, state and society became mutually vulnerable, neither fully able to dictate the terms of engagement. For Poland this meant principled confrontation; for Hungary, innovative accommodation. This book argues that different conceptual frameworks and strategies of persuasion account for these divergences in virtually identical institutional settings. Seleny traces the different political-institutional residues which, in both Hungary and Poland, now function as constraining or enabling legacies. In particular, she demonstrates that state socialist legacies account for salient differences between these two new capitalist democracies, and now condition their prospects in the European Union
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : points of permeable contact -- History and theory in practice -- Precocious reformer : Hungary -- Injustice: poland 1948--1980 -- Poland : from solidarity to 1989 -- Hungary : property relations recast -- Schumpeter by the Danube : from second economy to private sector -- Action and reaction : institutional consequences of private-sector expansion -- Conclusion : despotism, discovery, and surprise
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511812415
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 235 pages)
    DDC: 302.35
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    Abstract: In today's volatile business environment, organizational design is a serious challenge for any manager, whether of a multinational enterprise or a small team. This book sets out a step-by-step approach to designing an organization. All the key aspects of organizational design are covered, including goals, strategy, structure, process, people, coordination and control, and incentives. The text engages with critical issues affecting organisations, such as globalization, worldwide competition, deregulation and ever-new technologies, and contains many helpful features such as end-of-chapter reviews and unique step-by-step diagrams to orientate the reader in the design process. Diagnostic questions help the reader to determine the changes needed in an organization. The action oriented approach of this text helps the reader to assess and re-design the complex organizations of today, and plan for the information-rich organizations of tomorrow.
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