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    Bruno Latour in pieces : an intellectual biography (2014-2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780823263738
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xiii, 175 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Forms of living
    Series Statement: Forms of Living (FUP)
    Series Statement: Forms of Living Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Bruno Latour in Pieces : An Intellectual Biography
    DDC: 340.115
    Keywords: Latour, Bruno ; Law Philosophy ; Law -- Philosophy ; Latour, Bruno ; Law ; Philosophy ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- C o n t e n t s -- A b b r e v i at i o n s f o r F r e q u e n t ly C i t e d W o r k s -- A c k n ow l e d g m e n t s -- Introduction -- Exegesis and Ethnology -- A Philosopher in the Laboratory -- Machines of Tradition -- Pandora and the History of Modernity -- Of Actants, Forces, and Things -- Science and Action -- Questions Concerning Technology -- The Coming Parliament -- Conclusion -- T i m e l i n e -- N o t e s -- B i b l i o g r a p h y -- I n d e x.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""C o n t e n t s""; ""A b b r e v i at i o n s f o r F r e q u e n t ly C i t e d W o r k s""; ""A c k n ow l e d g m e n t s""; ""Introduction""; ""Exegesis and Ethnology""; ""A Philosopher in the Laboratory ""; ""Machines of Tradition""; ""Pandora and the History of Modernity""; ""Of Actants, Forces, and Things""; ""Science and Action""; ""Questions Concerning Technology""; ""The Coming Parliament""; ""Conclusion""; ""T i m e l i n e""; ""N o t e s""; ""B i b l i o g r a p h y""; ""I n d e x""
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  • 2
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    Getting value from your data scientists (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Personnel management ; Database industry ; Electronic data processing personnel ; Database management ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Simply hiring expensive data scientists isn't enough. To create real business value with data scientists, top management must learn how to manage them effectively.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed May 5, 2015)
    URL: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/53863MIT56119/?ar
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    The opportunity paradox (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Opportunism (Psychology) ; Business ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Capturing new growth opportunities is fundamental to strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship. These days, experimentation and improvisational change are in. But how should managers address the challenge? The answer, the authors argue, can be more complex and more crucial to a company's success than previously thought. Their research on mature corporations, growing businesses and new ventures suggests a paradoxical tension between focus and flexibility that can define or break a business. Based on more than 150 interviews with managers at 30 companies in North America, Europe and Asia, the authors conclude that focus is still critical and may be just as important as flexibility. What's more, they conclude that a company's focus may influence its flexibility and vice versa. There are two components to capturing a new business opportunity: opportunity selection and opportunity execution. Opportunity selection involves determining which customer problem to solve, whereas opportunity execution deals with solving the problem. The authors point out that most books, articles and thought leaders focus on opportunity execution - how to create value by developing solutions. But research suggests that innovation initiatives often move so quickly to identify a solution that the innovators have to cycle back to figure out which problem they are actually solving. The authors found that opportunity selection appears to matter as much as opportunity execution. More importantly, how managers approach opportunity selection (whether with flexibility or with focus) has a critical impact on how successful they are at opportunity execution. The authors observed that managers and entrepreneurs tend to fall into two groups: opportunists and strategists. Opportunists rely on a less scripted and more flexible approach to opportunity selection, letting emergent customer inquiries shape opportunity selection. Strategists follow a different pattern. They constrain the selection of opportunities so that they pursue opportunities that are more likely to result in success, and they try to capture several opportunities in a row versus one in isolation. The authors found that companies that were more focused in opportunity selection were often more flexible in opportunity execution.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed April 27, 2015)
    URL: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/53863MIT56114/?ar
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    Creating more accurate acquisition valuations (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Investment analysis ; Business planning ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Managers often must make decisions about complex strategic issues, and they are expected to make choices carefully and objectively. A retailer, for example, may need to decide whether to bid more in a highly competitive auction. Or a manufacturer may want to determine how long to hold onto a money-losing plant as the economy sinks into a recession. In boom times, deals are often in demand and expensive (and acquirers tend to know it); but when the economy cools off, acquisitions fall out of favor and prices decline. Conventional capital budgeting methods for valuing acquisitions and investments (such as discounted cash flow) may result in overpricing in "hot" deal markets and underpricing in "cold" deal markets. By setting potential deals in the context of real options theory and behavioral economics, authors Han Smit and Dan Lovallo write, executives can compensate for potential biases. Investor exuberance, the positive sentiments of boards and interest by rivals can cause executives to view acquisition opportunities as more attractive than they actually are in "hot" deal markets. Loss aversion and a narrow perspective that does not consider long-term growth options, meanwhile, can subdue acquisition behavior during "cold" markets. The article is designed to improve the use of valuation methods and help mitigate decision biases. Treating acquisition decisions as simple go/no-go choices based on expected cash flows, the authorswrite, creates an unhealthy dynamic. Because it's difficult for executives to recognize their own biases, the authors suggest using a formalized process to de-bias the decision-making team. First, managers must determine whether they are facing an investment in a "hot" or "cold" deal market (something that can often be revealed by the number of deals), after which the authors propose taking a broader view, supported by checklists. A valuation checklist can help executives temper their natural inclination to focus on growth options in "hot" markets and refocus it on staging, deferring or recouping their investments. Similarly, a checklist can help executives divert their natural attention from short-term risk to long-term growth options in "cold" deal markets.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed April 27, 2015)
    URL: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/53863MIT56109/?ar
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    Finding the right corporate legal strategy (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Corporation law ; Corporate governance ; Law and legislation ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Companies have increasingly recognized that legal capabilities are crucial for ongoing corporate success, and they understand the importance of working with legal counsel. All too often, though, senior executives still view the law as a constraint on managerial decisions, primarily perceiving it as an issue of cost and compliance. But this limited perspective of the law does not explain how some leading companies, such as Qualcomm and the Walt Disney Co., have managed to deploy their legal departments to shape the legal environment in order to secure long-term competitive advantage. In their research, the authors have developed a framework that can help executives identify the different ways in which legal strategies can be used to achieve various corporate goals, including the identification of value-creating opportunities. The framework consists of five different legal pathways, which the authors describe using examples such as Qualcomm, Microsoft, United Parcel Service and Xerox. In order of least to greatest strategic impact, the five legal pathways are (1) avoidance, (2) compliance, (3) prevention, (4) value and (5) transformation. In the avoidance pathway, managers see the law as an obstacle to their desired business goals. Companies operating in the avoidance pathway will often have lax internal controls or a failure to perform due diligence, and this approach can lead to disaster. Companies in the compliance pathway recognize that the law is an unwelcome but mandatory constraint, and they think of compliance basically as a cost that needs to be minimized. For businesses in the prevention pathway, managers take a more proactive approach, using the law to preempt future business-related risks. The value pathway represents a fundamental shift in mind-set, from risk management to value creation; managers use the law to craft strategies that increase ROI in ways that can be directly tied to a profit-and-loss statement. For companies in the transformation pathway, executives have integrated their legal strategy not only within the organization's various value-chain activities but also with the value chains of important external partners. Finding the right legal pathway for a particular company requires more than just a consideration of the overall business model. Other key factors include managers' attitudes toward the law and their level of legal knowledge, the sophistication of legal counsel and, in particular, the legal department's abil...
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed April 27, 2015)
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    Finding the value in social business (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Social media ; Marketing ; Internet marketing ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: A recent survey by Deloitte and MIT Sloan Management Review suggests that companies are starting to derive real value from social business (defined to include activities that use social media, social software and technology-based social networks to enable connections between people, information and assets). However, that business value is concentrated most strongly in companies that have reached a certain level of sophistication in relation to their social business initiatives. MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte have been exploring the impact of social media on business over the past three years through surveys, data analysis and interviews with executives and academics. The latest survey explored whether companies are deriving value from their social business initiatives. Sixty-two percent of managers surveyed report that their organization's social business initiatives are at least somewhat successful at meeting their stated business objectives, while 63% of respondents report that social business has positively affected business outcomes at their company. Fifty-nine percent of respondents in multinational companies report that social business helps them operate across geographies. Perhaps equally compelling is the extent to which individual employees indicate the value of social business to their daily work. Fifty-seven percent of respondents say that it is at least somewhat important for them to work for companies with mature social business practices, while 46% of respondents say that social business is at least somewhat important for decision making in their day-to-day role. A key factor in whether companies are able to derive positive benefits from social business is social business maturity. The researchers asked survey respondents to envision a company with ideal social business practices and then to assess how close their company was to that ideal. The higher a respondent rates his or her company, the more likely they are to report that the company is deriving business value from its social business initiatives. For example, 92% of respondents from the companies with the most mature social business practices say that social business helps them operate across geographies. The data shows that, based on maturity, different groups share distinctive social business practices. Thus, while incremental improvements to existing social business practices are likely to yield positive business outcomes, the kinds of benefits asso...
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    Bringing fun and creativity to work (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Employee motivation ; Creative ability in business ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: How do you inspire employees to become more motivated and perform better? By challenging them to test their creativity and collaboration skills through a team-based contest.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed April 27, 2015)
    URL: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/53863MIT56102/?ar
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    Protecting intellectual property in China (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Intellectual property ; China ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Intellectual property protection is the No. 1 challenge for multinational corporations operating in China. According to the U.S. government, China accounted for nearly 80% of all IP thefts from U.S.- headquartered organizations in 2013, causing an estimated $300 billion in lost business. For European manufacturers, the loss of IP in China reduced potential profits by 20%. The effects from IP leakage are visible in counterfeited items including toys, luxury goods and automotive and aircraft parts. But IP violations go beyond products. They extend to pirated operational processes and entire business and service models. For many multinational corporations, IP leakage becomes a barrier to integrating Chinese sites and partners into global innovation activities. IP leakage frequently occurs through staff transfers or shared practices from foreign multinational corporations to local joint ventures or supply chain partners. For multinationals, this type of IP leakage is often a calculated risk worth taking. However, unintended IP leakage can affect a company's reputation and profitability. Even worse, it can create powerful local or even global competitors. To learn about how companies are managing the China IP protection challenge, authors Andreas Schotter and Mary Teagarden studied more than 50 multinational corporations. They identified nine IP protection practices that companies can use in China. Four of the practices are defensive and externally focused; the other five are proactive and internal. Together, these practices, which operate on the strategy, legal and business intelligence layers, create what the authors call the "IP protection web," which allows corporations to (1) expand faster within China and across other emerging markets; (2) improve performance; and (3) enhance local and global innovativeness. According the authors, most of the companies they studied learned to protect their IP through trial and error - there is no single "best" process or practice. However, the changing composition of IP risk creates a need for ongoing reconfiguration. Indeed, as Chinese companies become more skillful at absorbing leaked IP from those employees who formerly worked for international rivals, international companies must develop more sophisticated responses and develop new ways to engender loyalty.
    Note: "Global"--Cover. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed April 27, 2015)
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    When customers help set prices (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Pricing ; Consumer goods ; Customer relations ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: For most companies, pricing has always been a sensitive, private affair. This article is directed at managers who seek to profit from product differentiation and take maximum advantage of their ability to stand out. Instead of leaving good money on the table and struggling to convert product differentiation into revenue, the authors argue, companies should consider enlisting the pricing help of their customers. Outsourcing pricing isn't an all-or-nothing proposition. Managers can select pricing models ranging from complete oversight to complete delegation. Citing examples from companies including Google, Uber, Orbitz, Volkswagen, Coca-Cola and Humble Bundle, the article integrates classic views on pricing with the latest research and practice to develop a simple framework to help managers decide how much pricing control they should retain and how much they should relinquish to customers. For most businesses, the default approach is having a single fixed price and selling to anyone willing to pay that amount. However, authors Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg argue that this is economically inefficient: Those prepared to pay more in effect receive a discount; those willing to pay less (but an amount that's still profitable) are turned away. For companies interested in interactive approaches to pricing, the authors discuss three collaborative models: auctions, name-your-own-price auctions and negotiations. In the authors' view, asking customers to weigh in on price can have benefits that go beyond promoting greater efficiency. It can promote customer engagement, provide opportunities for customization, allow managers to signal information about their company or product and open up opportunities for increasing market share.
    Note: "Marketing"--Cover. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed May 5, 2015)
    URL: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/53863MIT55419/?ar
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    The problem with online ratings (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Decision making ; Electronic discussion groups ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: In the digital age, we are inundated with other people's opinions. We browse books on Amazon with awareness of how other customers liked (or disliked) a particular tome. On Expedia, we compare hotels based on user ratings. On YouTube, we can check out a video's thumbs-up/thumbs-down score to help determine if it's worth our time. For the most part, consumers have faith in online ratings and view them as trustworthy. But, the author argues, this trust may be misplaced. The heart of the problem lies with our herd instincts - natural human impulses characterized by a lack of individual decision making - that cause us to think and act in the same way as other people around us. When it comes to online ratings, our herd instincts combine with our susceptibility to positive "social influence." When we see that other people have appreciated a certain book, enjoyed a hotel or restaurant or liked a particular doctor, this can cause us to feel the same positive feelings and to provide a similarly high online rating. The author describes an experiment that he and two colleagues conducted on a social news-aggregation website. On the site, users rate news articles and comments by voting them up or down based on how much they enjoyed them. The researchers randomly manipulated the scores of comments with a single up or down vote and then measured the impact of these small manipulations on subsequent scores. The results were striking. The positive manipulations created a positive social influence bias that persisted over five months and that ultimately increased the comments' final ratings by 25%. Negatively manipulated scores, meanwhile, were offset by a correction effect that neutralized the manipulation: Although viewers of negatively manipulated comments were more likely to vote negative (evidence of negative herding), they were even more likely to positively "correct" what they saw as an undeserved negative score. This social-influence bias snowballs into disproportionately high scores, creating a tendency toward positive ratings bubbles. Positively manipulated scores were 30% more likely than control comments (the comments that the researchers did not manipulate) to reach or exceed a score of 10. A positive vote didn't just affect the mean of the ratings distribution; it pushed the upper tail of the distribution out as well, meaning a single positive vote at the beginning could propel comments to ratings stardom.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed April 27, 2015)
    URL: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/53863MIT55224/?ar
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    Raising the bar with analytics (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Quantitative research ; Industrial management ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: A majority of managers see the importance of increasing the use of analytics in decision making, according to a recent survey of 2,037 managers conducted by MIT Sloan Management Review, in partnership with SAS Institute. More than half of this year's survey respondents strongly agree that their organization needs to step up the use of analytics to make better business decisions - and that percentage rises to 87% if respondents who agree "somewhat" are included. This finding - that a majority of survey respondents agree strongly about the need to step up analytics use - holds true across a range of industries. Several forces, the authors argue, are helping spur managers' interest in analytics, including increased market complexity (for example, omnichannel retailing that encompasses both digital and brick-and-mortar channels) and the availability of better analytics tools and data. The authors report that some companies are sharing their data and analytics with business partners in order to meet strategic business objectives. For example, WellPoint, a U.S. health insurer based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is using analytics to help forge a payment model with physicians that rewards providers when they reduce overall health-care costs and enhance quality and health outcomes. Specifically, WellPoint is converting administrative claims and authorization data into useful information about populations of patients and sharing that information with physicians and their care teams. The survey data suggests that companies for which analytics has improved the ability to innovate are more likely to share data with partners and suppliers. Half of this year's survey respondents somewhat or strongly agree that analytics is helping their organization innovate - and 16% believe that strongly. Those survey respondents who strongly agree that analytics is helping their organization innovate are much more likely to say they collaborate with partners and suppliers through the use of analytics than respondents who don't think that analytics is helping their company innovate. The authors conclude that as companies use analytics to improve their ability to innovate, they also tend to collaborate more through their use of analytics: Analytics becomes an important medium through which organizations interact with both internal and external stakeholders. Thus, organizations that innovate thanks to analytics don't merely increase their use of analytics in decision ma...
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    The upside to large competitors (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Marketing ; Competition ; Commerce ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: New research suggests that a smaller company can benefit by making consumers aware that it competes against bigger corporations.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed May 5, 2015)
    URL: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/53863MIT56118/?ar
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    Why managers still matter (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Performance ; Management ; Executives ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: The Industrial Revolution brought the decline of small-scale, cottage production and the rise of large, integrated businesses; Adam Smith's invisible hand was replaced with what business historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr., called the "visible hand" of management. But now that pendulum appears to be swinging the other way - to a system of loose networks, virtual businesses and peer-to-peer interactions. A supposed hallmark of the new economy has been the decline of managerial authority. Management gurus, consultants and pundits have proclaimed that hierarchy is out. Modern organizations such as online retailer Zappos have come to favor flat hierarchies with widely distributed authority. And yet, given the demands of the current environment, authors Nicholai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein argue that managerial authority is still essential in situations where (1) decisions are time-sensitive; (2) key knowledge is concentrated within the management team; and (3) there is need for internal coordination. Such conditions, they observe, are also hallmarks of our networked, knowledge-intensive and hypercompetitive economy. While it is true that many knowledge workers no longer need a boss to direct them to tasks or monitor their day-to-day progress, the authors contend that the role of managers and the definition of "authority" needs to change. Managers need to move away from specifying methods and processes in favor of defining the principles they want people to apply or the goals they want people to meet. In other words, the main task for top management is to define and implement the organizational rules of the game. To be sure, procedures for defining rules and frameworks can themselves be delegated and nested. Indeed, when a company's key assets are knowledge workers whose skills and behaviors are difficult to assess objectively, companies will need to increasingly rely on more subjective assessments of performance, which must be carried out by managers.
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    The dandelion principle : redesigning work for the innovation economy (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Technological innovations ; Management ; Creative ability in business ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: In May 2013, software giant SAP announced plans to hire hundreds of people diagnosed with autism, with a target of having people with autism represent 1% of the company's work force by 2020. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines autism as a developmental disorder associated with "impairment of the ability to communicate with others" and "preoccupation with repetitive activities of restricted focus." Companies don't typically seek out these characteristics in new hires. But SAP took a different perspective. "We share a common belief that innovation comes from the 'edges,'" one SAP executive stated in the company's press release. "Only by employing people who think differently and spark innovation will SAP be prepared to handle the challenges of the 21st century." More specifically, the company had discovered that some people with autism have abilities that are extremely well-suited to performing some vital information technology tasks. SAP's move embodies an emerging management principle - the authors Robert D. Austin and Thorkil Sonne call it "the dandelion principle" - and offers an alternative way of thinking about human resources management. In some ways, the "dandelion principle" turns some of the basic tenets about how to recruit and manage people inside out. The authors use the dandelion as metaphor because, they note, dandelions are actually nutritious - but are seen as weeds in the context of a green lawn that demands uniformity. The industrial economy, the authors argue, required uniformity in operations. In the industrial economy, companies could often win by operating more efficiently than rivals. Today, that's no longer enough. Faced with lower-cost competition from developing countries, established companies also need to innovate, to offer products that are better than what's available from competitors. But innovation, the authors observe, calls for organizational capabilities different than efficiency. Efficiency requires getting people and machines to mesh more smoothly; the emphasis is on parts fitting in and reducing variation around averages. Innovation, by contrast, involves finding new and better ideas and using new processes. Managing innovation is less about averages and more about understanding outliers. The emphasis is on increasing interesting variation, then identifying value in some of the variants. In an innovation-oriented economy, the authors contend, companies may benefit from accommodating employees wit...
    Note: "Leading your team"--Cover. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed April 27, 2015)
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    Experimenting with social norms : fairness and punishment in cross-cultural perspective (2014)
    New York : Russell Sage Foundation
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    ISBN: 1610448405 , 9781610448406
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Experimenting with social norms
    DDC: 303.3/7
    Keywords: Experimental economics Cross-cultural studies ; Game theory Cross-cultural studies Social aspects ; Social norms Cross-cultural studies ; Economics Cross-cultural studies Sociological aspects ; Economics ; Sociological aspects ; Experimental economics ; Social norms ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; Cross-cultural studies ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Informed by a pioneering set of cross-cultural data, Experimenting with Social Norms, advances our understanding of the evolution of human cooperation and the expansion of complex societies. Innovative and ambitious, the book synthesizes and unprecedent analysis of social behavior from an immense range of human societies."
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    On the margins of a minority : leprosy, madness, and disability among the jews of medieval europe (2014)
    Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press
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    ISBN: 9780814339329 , 0814339328
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shoham-Steiner, Ephraim On the Margins of a Minority : Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe
    DDC: 305.9080940902
    Keywords: Marginality, Social Religious aspects ; History ; To 1500 ; Marginality, Social History ; To 1500 ; Europe, Northern ; Jews History ; To 1500 ; Europe, Northern ; Marginality, Social History To 1500 ; Jews History To 1500 ; Marginality, Social Religious aspects To 1500 ; History ; Jews History To 1500 ; Marginality, Social Religious aspects To 1500 ; History ; Marginality, Social History To 1500 ; Jews History ; To 1500 ; Europe, Northern ; Marginality, Social History ; To 1500 ; Europe, Northern ; Marginality, Social Religious aspects ; History ; To 1500 ; Europe, Northern ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Jews ; Marginality, Social ; Marginality, Social ; Religious aspects ; History ; Northern Europe ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Leprosy as a Concept -- 2. Social Attitudes toward Lepers -- 3. What Is Madness? -- 4. Social Attitudes toward the Insane -- 5. The Physically Impaired -- 6. Disability in Sacred and Private Space -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: Drawing on material from the late-tenth- to fifteenth-centuries, examines how Jews further marginalized by illness or disability were regarded by both Christian and Jewish communities
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    Cape Cod : an environmental history of a fragile ecosystem (2014)
    Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
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    ISBN: 9781613763377 , 1613763379
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: Environmental history of the Northeast
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cumbler, John T Cape Cod
    DDC: 304.20974492
    Keywords: Nature Effect of human beings on ; Massachusetts ; Cape Cod ; Human ecology History ; Massachusetts ; Cape Cod ; Human ecology History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; Human ecology History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; SCIENCE ; Environmental Science ; Ecology ; Human ecology ; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; History ; Electronic books ; Cape Cod (Mass.) Environmental conditions ; Massachusetts ; Cape Cod ; Cape Cod (Mass.) Environmental conditions ; Cape Cod (Mass.) Environmental conditions ; Massachusetts ; Cape Cod ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: The ice, the crow, and the plague : before European exploration -- From continental drift to nomadic land use -- Fire, fishing, and farming of native peoples -- The era of local resource production and extraction : settlement to the start of the twentieth century -- On the way to an amphibious society -- Mining the bounty of nature -- The decline of the established economy -- Dependence on distant resources, and revenue from recreation : early twentieth century to the present -- Trains, cars, cottages, and restaurants -- The golden age of tourism -- Problems in paradise
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    Anti-modernism : radical revisions of collective identity (2014)
    New York : Central European University Press
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    ISBN: 9789633860953 , 9633860954
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: Discourses of collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945): texts and commentaries VOLUME IV
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Anti-modernism
    DDC: 305.800943
    Keywords: Group identity Balkan Peninsula ; Group identity Europe, Central ; National characteristics ; Group identity ; Group identity ; Group identity ; National characteristics ; Group identity ; National characteristics ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Group identity ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political Ideologies ; Nationalism & Patriotism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; Balkan Peninsula ; Central Europe ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction -- Approaching anti-modernism / Balázs Trencsenyi and Sorin Antohi -- Integral nationalism -- The crisis of the European conscience -- In search of a national ontology -- Conservative redefinitions of tradition and modernity -- The anti-modernist revolution -- Basic secondary literature on identity discourses in Central and Southeast Europe -- Glossary.
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionApproaching anti-modernism / Balázs Trencsenyi and Sorin Antohi -- Integral nationalism -- The crisis of the European conscience -- In search of a national ontology -- Conservative redefinitions of tradition and modernity -- The anti-modernist revolution -- Basic secondary literature on identity discourses in Central and Southeast Europe -- Glossary.
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    Aesthetics of sorrow : the wailing culture of yemenite-jewish women (2014)
    Detroit : Wayne State University Press
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    ISBN: 9780814339756 , 0814339751
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 450 pages)
    Series Statement: Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology
    Parallel Title: Print version Aesthetics of sorrow
    DDC: 393.909450902
    Keywords: Jews, Yemeni Funeral customs and rites ; Israel ; Weepers (Mourners) Israel ; Jewish mourning customs Israel ; Jewish women Israel ; Weepers (Mourners) ; Jewish mourning customs ; Jewish women ; Jews, Yemeni Funeral customs and rites ; Jewish women ; Jewish mourning customs ; Weepers (Mourners) ; Jews, Yemeni Funeral customs and rites ; Jews, Yemeni Customs and practices ; Israel ; Mourning customs Israel ; Weepers (Mourners) Israel ; Jewish mourning customs ; Jewish women ; Weepers (Mourners) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Death & Dying ; Israel ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Wailing : a topic that defies research -- Johara : mother of the wailers -- Giving words -- The performance stage -- Melancholic power -- Mission -- Epilogue : the lament of the printed words
    Description / Table of Contents: Wailing : a topic that defies researchJohara : mother of the wailers -- Giving words -- The performance stage -- Melancholic power -- Mission -- Epilogue : the lament of the printed words.
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    Transnational traditions : new perspectives on American Jewish history (2014)
    Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press
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    ISBN: 9780814338629
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Transnational Traditions : New Perspectives on American Jewish History
    DDC: 973/.04924
    Keywords: Jews History ; Jewish diaspora History ; Jews -- United States -- Identity ; Jews -- United States -- Politics and government ; Jews -- United States -- History ; Jews ; United States ; Identity ; Jews ; United States ; Politics and government ; Jews ; United States ; History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: An Anglophone Diaspora -- 1. The Sacrifices of the Isaacs: The Diffusion of New Models of Religious Leadership in the English-Speaking Jewish World -- 2. Roaming the Rim: How Rabbis, Convicts, and Fortune Seekers Shaped Pacific Coast Jewry -- 3. Creating Transnational Connections: Australia and California -- PART II: From Europe to America and Back Again -- 4. Currents and Currency: Jewish Immigrant "Bankers" and the Transnational Business of Mass Migration, 1873-1914 -- 5. A Taste of Freedom: American Yiddish Publications in Imperial Russia -- PART III: The Immigrant as Transnational -- 6. "German Jews?" Reassessing the History of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Immigrants in the United States -- 7. The Gypsy in Them: Imagined Transnationalism amid New York City's Little Rumania -- 8. No American Goldene Medina: Harbin Jews between Russia, China, and Israel, 1899-2014 -- PART IV: Creating New Homelands in Argentina, America, and Israel -- 9. Cultivating Jewish Farmers in the United States and Argentina -- 10. Transforming Identities: Bene Israel Immigrants in Israel and the United States -- 11. Transnational Aspirations: The Founding of American Kibbutzim, 1940s, 1970s -- Contributors -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: An Anglophone Diaspora; 1. The Sacrifices of the Isaacs: The Diffusion of New Models of Religious Leadership in the English-Speaking Jewish World; 2. Roaming the Rim: How Rabbis, Convicts, and Fortune Seekers Shaped Pacific Coast Jewry; 3. Creating Transnational Connections: Australia and California; PART II: From Europe to America and Back Again; 4. Currents and Currency: Jewish Immigrant "Bankers" and the Transnational Business of Mass Migration, 1873-1914
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. A Taste of Freedom: American Yiddish Publications in Imperial RussiaPART III: The Immigrant as Transnational; 6. "German Jews?" Reassessing the History of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Immigrants in the United States; 7. The Gypsy in Them: Imagined Transnationalism amid New York City's Little Rumania; 8. No American Goldene Medina: Harbin Jews between Russia, China, and Israel, 1899-2014; PART IV: Creating New Homelands in Argentina, America, and Israel; 9. Cultivating Jewish Farmers in the United States and Argentina
    Description / Table of Contents: 10. Transforming Identities: Bene Israel Immigrants in Israel and the United States11. Transnational Aspirations: The Founding of American Kibbutzim, 1940s, 1970s; Contributors; Index
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    Gender and law in the Japanese imperium (2014)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaiʿi Press
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    ISBN: 0824839196 , 9780824839192
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (pages cm)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ausg
    Parallel Title: Print version Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium
    DDC: 305.420952
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    Keywords: Women's rights Case studies ; Congresses ; Domestic relations Case studies ; Congresses ; Sex and law Case studies ; Congresses ; Prostitution Case studies Law and legislation ; Congresses ; Women Case studies Legal status, laws, etc ; Congresses ; Women''s rights -- Japan -- Case studies ; Domestic relations -- Japan -- Case studies ; Prostitution -- Law and legislation -- Japan -- Case studies ; Sex and law -- Japan -- Case studies ; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Japan -- Case studies ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on East Asian Names and Terms -- Introduction -- Part I. Prostitution, Law, and Human Rights -- Chapter 1. The Maria Luz Incident: Personal Rights and International Justice for Chinese Coolies and Japanese Prostitutes -- Chapter 2. Disputing Rights: The Debate over Anti-Prostitution Legislation in 1950s Japan -- Part II. Crime, Punishment, and Gender -- Chapter 3. Gender in the Arena of the Courts: The Prosecution of Abortion and Infanticide in Early Meiji Japan -- Chapter 4. Adultery and Gender Equality in Modern Japan, 1868-1948 -- Chapter 5. Of Pity and Poison: Imprisoning Women in Modern Japan -- Chapter 6. Burning Down the House: Gender and Jury in a Tokyo Courtroom, 1928 -- Part III. Colonial Law and the Problem of the Family -- Chapter 7. Sim-pua under the Colonial Gaze: Gender, "Old Customs," and the Law in Taiwan under Japanese Imperialism -- Chapter 8. Japanese Colonialism, Gender, and Household Registration: Legal Reconstruction of Boundaries -- Chapter 9. A New Perspective on the "Name-Changing Policy" in Korea -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Maria Luz incident and international justicefor Chinese coolies and Japanese prostitutes / Douglas Howland -- Disputing rights: the debate over anti-prostitution legislation in 1950s Japan / Sally A. Hastings -- Gender in the arena of the courts: the prosecution of abortion and infanticide in early Meiji Japan / Susan L. Burns -- Adultery and gender equality in modern Japan: 1868-1948 / Harald Fuess -- Of pity and poison: imprisoning women in modern Japan / Daniel Botsman -- Burning down the house: gender and jury in a Tokyo courtroom, 1928 / Darryl Flaherty -- Sim-pua under the colonial gaze: gender, "old customs," and the law in Taiwan under Japanese imperialism / Chao-ju Chen -- Japanese colonialism, gender, and household registration: legal construction of boundaries / Barbara J. Brooks -- An attempt to integrate the Korean family with the Japanese: a new perspective on the "name-changing policy" in Korea / Motokazu Matsutani.
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    Unsettling assumptions : tradition, gender, drag (2014)
    Boulder, Colorado : Utah State University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Unsettling Assumptions : Tradition, Gender, Drag
    DDC: 305.3
    Keywords: Folklore ; Manners and customs ; Queer theory ; Sex role ; Gender identity ; Gender expression ; Folklore ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Manners and customs ; Queer theory ; Sex role ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "In Unsettling Assumptions, editors Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye link gender studies with traditional and popular culture studies to examine how tradition and gender can intersect to unsettle assumptions about culture and its study.Contributors explore the intersections of traditional expressive culture and sex/gender systems by challenging their conventional constructions, using sex/gender as a lens to question, investigate, or upset concepts like family, ethics, and authenticity. Individual essays consider myriad topics such as Thanksgiving turkeys, rockabilly and bar fights, Chinese tales of female ghosts, selkie stories, a noisy Mennonite New Year's celebration, the Distaff Gospels, Kentucky tobacco farmers, international adoptions, and more.In Unsettling Assumptions, expressive culture emerges as fundamental both to our sense of belonging to a family, an occupation, or friendship group and, most notably, to identity performativity. Within larger contexts, these works offer a better understanding of cultural attitudes like misogyny, homophobia, and racism as well as the construction and negotiation of power"--
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents""; ""Thematic Clusters""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction / Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye""; ""Chapter 1. Three Dark-Brown Maidens and the Brommtopp: (De)Constructing Masculinities in Southern Manitoba Mennonite Mumming / Marcie Fehr and Pauline Greenhill""; ""Chapter 2. Cutting a Thousand Sticks of Tobacco Makes a Boy a Man: Traditionalized Performances of Masculinity in Occupational Contexts / Ann K. Ferrell""; ""Chapter 3. "If Thou Be Woman, Be Now Man!" "The Shift of Sex" as Transsexual Imagination / Pauline Greenhill and Emilie Anderson-Grégoire""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter 4. From Peeping Swans to Little Cinderellas: The Queer Tradition of the Brothers Grimm in American Cinema / Kendra Magnus-Johnston""""Chapter 5. Global Flows in Coastal Contact Zones: Selkie Lore in Neil Jordan's Ondine and Solveig Eggerz's Seal Woman / Kirsten Møllegaard""; ""Chapter 6. "Let's All Get Dixie Fried": Rockabilly, Masculinity, and Homosociality / Patrick B. Mullen""; ""Chapter 7. Man to Man: Placing Masculinity in a Legend Performed for Jean-François Bladé / William G. Pooley""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter 8. Sexing the Turkey: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality at Thanksgiving / LuAnne Roth""""Chapter 9. Listening to Stories, Negotiating Responsibility: Exploring the Ethics of International Adoption through Narrative Analysis / Patricia Sawin""; ""Chapter 10. "What's under the Kilt?" Intersections of Ethnic and Gender Performativity / Diane Tye""; ""Chapter 11. "Composed for the Honor and Glory of the Ladies": Folklore and Medieval Women's Sexuality in The Distaff Gospels / Theresa A. Vaughan""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter 12. "Just Like Coming to a Foreign Country:" Dutch Drag on a Danish Island / Anne B. Wallen""""Chapter 13. Encountering Ghost Princesses in Sou shen ji: Rereading Classical Chinese Ghost Wife Zhiguai Tales / Wenjuan Xie""; ""Bibliography""; ""Filmography""; ""About the Authors""; ""Index""
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    Stepping into zion : Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the remaking of Jewish identity (2014)
    Tuscaloosa, Ala : University Alabama Press
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    ISBN: 9780817387471 , 0817387471
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (pages cm)
    Series Statement: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fernheimer, Janice W Stepping into zion
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Jews Identity ; Jews Identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Jews ; Identity ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "By studying the multiracial Jewish organization Hatzaad Harishon, Janice W. Fernheimer's Stepping into Zion considers the question "Who is a Jew?"-- a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike"--
    Abstract: "By studying the multiracial Jewish organization Hatzaad Harishon, Janice W. Fernheimer's Stepping into Zion considers the question "Who is a Jew?"- a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike. Hatzaad Harishon ("The First Step") was a New York-based, multiracial Jewish organization that worked to increase recognition and legitimacy of black Jews in the sixties and seventies. In Stepping into Zion, Janice W. Fernheimer examines the history and archives of Hatzaad Harishon to illuminate the definition and borders of Jewish identity, which have critical relevance to Jews of all traditions as well as to non-Jews. Fernheimer focuses on a period when white Jewish identity was in flux and deeply influenced by the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. In 1964, white and black Jews formed Hatzaad Harishon to foster interaction and unity between black and white Jewish communities. They raised the question of who or what constitutes Jewishness or Jewish identity, and in searching for an answer succeeded-both historically and rhetorically-in gaining increased recognition for black Jews. Fernheimer traces how members of Hatzaad Harishon, who did not share the same set of definitions, were able to create common ground in a process she terms "interruptive invention." Through insightful interpretation of Hatzaad Harishon's archival materials, Fernheimer chronicles the group's successes and failures within the larger rhetorical history of conflicts that emerge when cultural identities shift or expand. Stepping into Zion offers "interruptive invention" as a framework for understanding and changing certain dominant discourses about racial and religious identity, allowing those who may lack institutional power or authority to begin to claim it"--
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    What it takes to reshore manufacturing successfully (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Industrial location ; United States ; Industrialists ; United States ; Regional planning ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Rising labor costs in China and other emerging economies, high supply chain and logistics costs, and wide differentials in energy costs in different parts of the world are provoking a fresh round of relocation of manufacturing and production. While some labor-intensive jobs are moving out of China to Southeast Asia or the next emerging low-cost regions, some manufacturing work is also returning to the United States. Wal-Mart is facilitating reshoring efforts among its suppliers, and consultants are offering reshoring conferences, reports and lots of advice. While the data on comparative labor and factor costs may be compelling, reshoring - bringing assembly work back from abroad - is hard work, notes author Willy C. Shih. This is especially true when needed resources (the supplier base, the workforce and even the company's own internal product design capabilities) have atrophied. Shih studied several initiatives aimed at rebuilding regional capacity in the United States (including at GE's Appliance Park in Kentucky and two Flextronics International plants in Texas) and other examples in Europe and Asia to identify lessons about what works. The benefits were no surprise. Placing manufacturing close to the market minimizes inventory in the pipeline, reduces delivery times and shortens ordering cycles. The challenges were less apparent: the need to stabilize the workforce, address skill gaps, rethink the capital/labor ratio, localize the supply base and rethink product design to leverage the proximity to manufacturing. In many ways, Shih writes, the challenges of reshoring to the United States are the challenges of reshoring in any market in the world. Managers must design supply chains for the production of goods that balance proximity to diverse markets with the locations of their capabilities and their supply ecosystems. Doing that well, Shih argues, will always be a source of competitive advantage.
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    Stories that deliver business insights (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Consumers ; Research ; Ethnology ; Marketing research ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Ethnography has often been portrayed as a "fly on the wall" technique, with anthropologists lurking in people's homes to observe consumers' unadulterated lives. The authors argue that this description does not do justice to the way ethnography actually works in the corporate world or to ethnography's increasingly important role in formulating business strategy. The authors' research across a variety of companies suggests that ethnography - artful in situ investigation into what customers do and feel and how they talk about what they do and feel - is a powerful tool to use to gain insights into your market. To arrive at a more in-depth understanding of how corporations use ethnography to their advantage, the authors conducted interviews with executives in various industries worldwide, including Ford and Wells Fargo. Where data analytics and surveys provide flattened snapshots, ethnography contributes an empathic understanding of how consumers live, work and play through gritty and detailed descriptions. Whether conveyed in video format, presentations or reports, these stories describe how people confront and surmount the hurdles they encounter in meeting their responsibilities and fulfilling their hopes in our globalized consumer culture. By delving into the richness of people's life stories, ethnographic research can pivot companies away from less meaningful segmentation parameters, such as demographics or purchase history, and toward those that drive behavior, such as purpose and intent. Quantitative techniques such as factor analysis can subsequently be applied to locate and size market segments. Consistent with the idea that ethnography helps organizations deal more effectively with market complexities, the executives the authors interviewed often talked about ethnography as having helped them sort out puzzling data. While these discussions call into dispute the perception that ethnography is merely an exploratory technique, they also underline the point that ethnographic stories often provide insight into consumer behavior that is hard to come by in other ways.
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    How strategic is your board? (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Boards of directors ; Management ; Strategic planning ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: In a world where business models are evolving rapidly and new competitors can emerge almost overnight, strategic thinking - especially at the top of the company - is more important than ever to a company's survival. However, the authors argue, boards of directors have no clear model to follow when it comes to developing the strategic role that is best suited to the company they oversee. As with other leadership roles, the one played by the board varies with the company's culture and the norms and legal requirements of its home country, as well as the norms of the industry. More importantly, the board must play a role that matches the strategic needs of the company and the state of its sector. The board of a young company, for example, usually needs to wrestle with different strategic issues than the board of a long-established company. In the authors' view, three dimensions shape the board's contributions to strategy: 1. A Definition of Strategy Companies define strategy in different ways, depending on their place in their industry and the nature of their industry. Often boards go wrong simply because they have not defined the right measures of competition or the right challenges on which to focus. 2. The Role of the Board The board's role in strategy may range from that of advisers who supervise the strategy to full coauthors of the company's game plan. 3. The Context of the Company The board's involvement in strategy also depends on the context or environment in which the company competes. If the company operates in a market that has a fairly simple and stable competitive dynamic, the board may be well advised to remain distant and largely hands-off on strategy questions. In a more chaotic context, however, a board may choose to take a stronger, hands-on approach to strategy development. These three variables, and the interaction among them, make determining a board's responsibilities for strategy a complex decision. However, the authors suggest, analyzing the three variables in detail can help clarify how a given board can best contribute to a company's strategy.
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    Grimms' tales around the globe : the dynamics of their international reception (2014)
    Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press
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    ISBN: 9780814339213
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Series in fairy-tale studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 398.20943
    Keywords: Kinder- und Hausmärchen Influence ; Kinder- und Hausmärchen ; Fairy tales Cross-cultural studies ; Grimm, Jacob, -- 1785-1863 ; Grimm, Wilhelm, -- 1786-1859 ; Grimm, Jacob ; 1785-1863 ; Grimm, Wilhelm ; 1786-1859 ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Cultural Resistance and Assimilation -- 1. No-Name Tales: Early Croatian Translations of the Grimms' Tales -- 2. Polishing the Grimms' Tales for a Polish Audience: Die Kinder- und Hausmärchen in Poland -- 3. The Grimms' Fairy Tales in Spain: Translation, Reception, and Ideology -- 4. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm in Colombia: A Bibliographical History -- 5. "They are still eating well and living well": The Grimms' Tales in Early Colonial Korea -- 6. The Influence of the Grimms' Fairy Tales on the Folk Literature Movement in China (1918-1943) -- 7. The Grimm Brothers' Kahaniyan: Hindi Resurrections of the Tales in Modern India by Harikrishna Devsare -- 8. Before and after the "Grimm Boom": Reinterpretations of the Grimms' Tales in Contemporary Japan -- II. Reframings, Paratexts, and Multimedia Translations -- 9. Translating in the "Tongue of Perrault": The Reception of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen in France -- 10. Skeptics and Enthusiasts: Nineteenth-Century Prefaces to the Grimms' Tales in English Translation -- 11. German Stories/British Illustrations: Production Technologies, Reception, and Visual Dialogue across Illustrations from "The Golden Bird" in the Grimms' Editions, 1823-1909 -- 12. Marvelous Worlds: The Grimms' Fairy Tales in GDR Children's Films -- 13. Retelling "Hansel and Gretel" in Comic Book and Manga Narration: The Case of Philip Petit and Mizuno Junko -- 14. Fairy-Tale Scripts and Intercultural Conceptual Blending in Modern Korean Film and Television Drama -- Contributors -- Index.
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    Through the window : kinship and elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2014)
    New York : Central European University Press
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    ISBN: 9789633860618
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 305.40949742
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    Keywords: Bosnians Marriage customs and rites ; Marriage customs and rites ; Women ; Marriage ; Elopement ; Electronic books
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/36152
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    Death, belief and politics in Central African history (2014)
    Lusaka, Zambia : Lembani Trust
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    ISBN: 9789982680028 , 9982680021
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 PDF (xxv, 384 pages) , illustrations.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 393.0967
    Keywords: Death Political aspects ; Africa, Central ; Nationalism Religious aspects ; Africa, Central ; Christianity and politics Africa, Central ; Funeral rites and ceremonies Zambia ; Funeral rites and ceremonies Malawi ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Death Political aspects ; Nationalism Religious aspects ; Christianity and politics ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Death & Dying ; Death ; Political aspects ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Nationalism ; Religious aspects ; Christianity and politics ; Africa, Central Religious life and customs ; Africa, Central Religious life and customs ; Central Africa ; Malawi ; Zambia ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this set of essays Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan explore themes in the history of death in Zambia and Malawi from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on extensive archival and oral historical research they examine the impact of Christianity on spiritual beliefs, the racialised politics of death on the colonial Copperbelt, the transformation of burial practices, the histories of suicide and of maternal mortality, and the political life of the corpse
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgementsIntroduction : death -- again? / Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan -- Translating the soul : death and Catholicism in Northern Zambia / Megan Vaughan -- Sex, death and colonial anthropologists in the inter-war period / Megan Vaughan -- Death, Christianity and African miners : contesting indirect rule on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1935-2013;1962 / Walima T. Kalusa -- Corpses, funerals, imageries of modernity and the making of an African elite identity on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1935-2013;1964 / Walima T. Kalusa -- Politics of the gravesite : funerals, nationalism and the reinvention of the cemetery on the Zambian Copperbelt / Walima T. Kalusa -- The killing of Lilian Margaret Burton and black and white nationalisms in northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in the 1960s / Walima T. Kalusa -- Suicide : a hidden history / Megan Vaughan -- Maternal mortality in Malawi : history and moral responsibility / Megan Vaughan -- Big houses for the dead : burying Presidents Banda and Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi / Megan Vaughan -- Select bibliography.
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    Extremism in America (2014)
    Gainesville : University Press of Florida
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    ISBN: 9780813048543 , 0813048540
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (336 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Michael, George, 1961- Extremism in America
    DDC: 303.484
    Keywords: Right and left (Political science) United States ; Ideology United States ; Social movements United States ; Radicalism United States ; Right and left (Political science) ; Ideology ; Social movements ; Radicalism ; Radicalism ; Right and left (Political science) ; Social movements ; Ideology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Ideology ; Radicalism ; Right and left (Political science) ; Social movements ; HISTORY / United States / General ; United States ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Gathers essays by area specialists to provide an assessment of contemporary American extremism, exploring the views of each group in context and examining the tension between civil liberties and possible threats to society
    Description / Table of Contents: The Tea Party and the far right: fellow travelers? / George Michael"Hell yes, we're fighting!" revolutionary anarchism's call for destruction and creation / Jose Pedro Zúquete -- The new Black Panther Party, black nationalism, and the tangled legacy of COINTELPRO / J. Mulloy -- The Chicano separatist movement / Donald W. Trivett -- Islamic extremism in the United States / James M. Lutz and Brenda J. Lutz -- Terrorism by Jewish extremists in the United States / James M. Lutz and Brenda J. Lutz -- The Christian identity movement / George Michael -- Antiabortion extremism and violence in the United States / Aaron Winter -- The radical environmental and animal liberation movements / Donald R. Liddick -- Misidentified and misunderstood: extremists and extremist groups incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities / Jeffrey Ian Ross -- Terrorism and extremism in the United States: a historical overview / Christopher Hewitt -- Conclusion: the outlook for extremism in the twenty-first century / George Michael.
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    What to expect from corporate lean programs (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Lean manufacturing ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Corporate "lean" programs, often modeled after the Toyota Production System, can be powerful instruments for improving the performance of manufacturing plants. They help to emphasize parts of the production process that add the most value and eliminate those that don't. However, misplaced expectations can make implementation difficult and reduce the benefits. The authors argue that if managers better understood the rates at which lean programs produce improvements, then implementations would go more smoothly. Typically, the goal of a production system is to provide a clear and stable structure and a road map for instilling a culture of continuous improvement throughout a company's production network. But, as the authors point out, every plant is different, and different plants are likely to face different sets of competitive and market conditions. For the growing number of multinational manufacturers that have introduced or are considering lean production systems, the issue is not whether the programs are useful but how to manage their implementation. The authors studied the implementation of the Volvo Group's production system. (The company, a leading maker of trucks and other heavy vehicles, sold its car-manufacturing unit in 1999.) Volvo Group introduced the Volvo Production System in 2007, and since then, it has been implementing it in its factories around the world. The authors examined the five-year history of the Volvo Production System, visited 44 of Volvo's 67 plants and interviewed 200 managers. The authors found that there were four distinct stages of change in the rate of performance improvement and that there was a strong relationship between a plant's maturity in a production system implementation and its performance; progress roughly followed the shape of an S-curve. The pattern implies that a plant's rate of improvement changes in the shape of a bell curve as the plant becomes more mature in implementing the production system. Performance improves slowly at first, and then at an increasing rate before the improvement rate gradually decreases. To measure the performance of the plants, the authors focused on nonfinancial metrics related to the quality, cost, delivery and safety of the plant's output. They obtained this data from the company's documents and during plant visits and interviews. They then used statistical methods to find patterns. Volvo's assessment process provides a structure and a standard by which loca...
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    Should you outsource analytics? (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Quantitative research ; Contracting out ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: The surge of interest in big data has led to growing demand for analytics teams. Assembling such teams, however, is difficult. For one thing, many companies lack the in-house knowledge and experience needed to put together a world-class analytics team. What's more, the labor market for analytics professionals has grown increasingly tight. The shortage of analysts - particularly those capable of developing and leading world-class teams that can enable a company to create a competitive advantage from its data and analytics - is driving organizations to consider outsourcing their analytics activities. Analytics is the latest in a string of activities companies are outsourcing to business process organizations (BPOs). It draws heavily on mathematics and statistics knowledge, and many analytics-oriented BPOs have operations in India. Although some companies have world-class analytics capabilities in-house, the authors posed the question: Can an analytically naïve company "buy" world-class analytics functions by hiring outside experts? The authors studied both four multinational companies that used one or more offshore analytics BPOs and four analytics BPOs. Two of the client companies had skills that were judged to be "analytically superior"; the other two were judged to be "analytically challenged." The analytically challenged companies saw analytics BPOs as a way to obtain the resources and training needed to manage and execute their analytics and to gain quick access to important insights. By contrast, the analytically superior companies wanted to expand their internal analytic capabilities, in part because they wanted to preserve their ability to develop and protect intellectual property; they tended to use offshore BPOs to perform low-level analytics. According to the authors, the best analytics BPOs have core competencies that go beyond what most companies can perform on their own with internal teams. They advise companies working with analytics BPOs to be clear about who does what, who owns what, how each party can use the information it has and what happens to the information and knowledge in the event that the BPO is acquired.
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    Rewriting the playbook for corporate partnerships (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Business networks ; Partnership ; Business planning ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Today's business environment is unforgiving of companies that are slow to adapt. To extend their capabilities and facilitate change, many organizations have experimented with different types of strategic partnerships with suppliers and customers that help them design and deliver products and services efficiently. But some innovative companies are attempting to redefine the parameters of strategic partnerships through multileveled relationships with customers and suppliers that leverage the resources and capabilities of the respective parties. What makes such partnerships - which the author calls adaptive strategic partnerships - counterintuitive is that they are being used in situations where the two most relevant streams of organizational economics would argue for vertical integration. One company that has pursued adaptive strategic partnerships is Bharti Airtel Ltd., the Indian telecommunications services company. Back in 2004, Bharti Airtel's managers found that negotiating and updating contracts with vendors interfered with their ability to focus on satisfying the company's customers and outsmarting its competition. Contrary to what other telecom operators have done, it negotiated unconventional relationships with some of its leading vendors, including Nokia Siemens Networks (now Nokia Solutions and Networks), Ericsson and IBM. Instead of expanding network infrastructure by purchasing increasing amounts of equipment (such as exchanges and cellular antennas), which often results in unused capacity, Bharti Airtel pays the vendors to operate the network; it compensates them based on telecom volume, paying only when equipment is in use. In addition to rethinking its approach to network capacity, vendors take responsibility for network performance and troubleshooting. Typically, companies with outside partners rely on simple tools such as service-level agreements, which specify what is expected from each party and provide for performance standards to assess compliance. But in managing its partnerships with vendors, Bharti Airtel uses a joint governing structure that encourages people at different levels of the organizations to communicate and address problems as they arise (for example, restoring service after a severe storm). In some cases, such interactions have led the company and its partners to redraw the scope of their collaborations (for example, assign responsibility for building and maintaining the cell towers to a new company), ...
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    Strategic decisions for multisided platforms (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Multi-sided platform businesses ; Business enterprises ; Technological innovations ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Multisided platforms (MSPs) are technologies, products or services that create value primarily by enabling direct interactions between two or more customer or participant groups. Prominent examples of MSPs and the participants they connect include eBay (buyers and sellers), Airbnb (dwelling owners and renters), the Uber app (professional drivers and users), Facebook (users, advertisers, third-party game or content developers and affiliated third-party sites), and Ticketmaster (event venues and consumers). As these examples illustrate, MSPs include some of the largest and fastest-growing businesses of the past decade. Why? Successful MSPs create enormous value by reducing search costs or transaction costs (or both) for participants. As a result, MSPs often occupy privileged positions in their respective industries; most other industry participants revolve around and depend on MSPs in important ways. This article begins with a description of how MSPs work and why they can erect such high barriers to entry for new participants. It then offers an analysis of four fundamental strategic decisions and associated trade-offs that set MSPs apart from other types of businesses and that every MSP entrepreneur and investor should carefully consider. These challenges are as follows: •the number of sides to bring on (deciding whether to bring on two or more); •design (ensuring the interests of the different platform sides are not in conflict with each other or the MSP); • pricing structures (determining which platform side or sides should be charged more, based on the groups' relative value from interacting with each other); and • governance rules (regulating the participation and activities undertaken by the various platform sides to ensure a high level of quality, or outsourcing that function to users through ratings systems). After examining the factors that drive each of these decisions and using real-world case examples, the author presents general principles that apply to both startups and incumbent MSPs.
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    What unhappy customers want (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Consumer satisfaction ; Evaluation ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Although companies have invested heavily in technology and other resources to provide better customer service, many businesses are finding that being able to create satisfied and loyal customers is more difficult today. Hurdles include a daunting rise in customer expectations; challenges posed by the Internet, social media and online word of mouth; and poor execution of upgraded corporate complaint-handling policies. Since the 1970s, the authors have conducted six customer satisfaction surveys patterned after a baseline survey by the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs. Their latest survey found that: • The explosion of online social networking and other communication tools has raised the stakes in the area of customer satisfaction. • The intensity of negative reactions seems to be increasing. • In addressing complaints, companies are failing in their efforts to create one-stop services with technology and people dedicated to resolving customer problems. So, what can companies do to improve the level of customer satisfaction? The authors identify five areas of focus. 1. Encourage unhappy customers to complain, but be prepared to resolve the complaints. Today' unhappy customers expect businesses to handle customer service flawlessly (even if it is outsourced to a third party). 2. Understand what results your investments in customer service will produce. Since the 1970s, companies have invested billions of dollars in upgraded corporate complaint-handling practices. Only 20% of recent complainants were "completely satisfied" with the results of their complaint (compared to 23% in 1976). 3. Recognize that technology has limits - and that some customers want to interact directly with a person. Only 6% of today's complainants consider the Internet their primary channel for complaining. The authors say that online communication channels might be utilized more effectively to steer customers to live complaint handlers rather than pursuing totally automated solutions. 4. Be aware that customers may be even more influenced by positive online word of mouth than by negative word of mouth. By a margin of 46% to 19%, prospective buyers cited positive posts more often than negative comments as being most influential on their future purchases. 5. For most customers, customer dissatisfaction is about more than money. Only 26% of survey respondents wanted financial compensation for their lost time, inconvenience or injury. Many more people seek nonmonetary remedies...
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    Why customer participation matters (2014)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Market surveys ; Focus groups ; Marketing research ; Consumers ; Research ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Most managers know that listening to customers makes good business sense. Businesses have much to gain from actively seeking and encouraging customer participation, which the authors define as getting customers to provide constructive suggestions and share their ideas on how to shape product and service offerings. Yet many companies only pay lip service to this idea. Rather than encouraging customers to share their views about the company and its products with managers, the authors found, companies tend to focus on encouraging customers to take part in spreading positive word of mouth. Yet word of mouth is only one type of voluntary behavior that customers engage in. Moreover, it indicates only what people on the outside are saying, not how companies can improve their offerings or what customers may be looking for. The authors, who conducted surveys of customers as well as interviews and roundtable discussions with senior executives in a variety of industries, found that both customer word of mouth and customer- to-business interactions are associated with a customer's propensity to buy more of a company's products and services. While not all satisfied customers become repeat buyers, encouraging them to provide feedback and suggestions helps tie them more closely to the business. Companies can even recapture defecting customers simply by contacting them and encouraging them to participate. In addition, customer-to-business interaction is often more malleable than customer-to-customer word of mouth and more readily within the control of management. In a study of customers of a global bank, the authors found that customers who purchased the most were individuals who participated and engaged in much word-of-mouth behavior. High participation/ high word-of-mouth customers were the most loyal and attached to the brand; customers who did not participate tended to be the least valuable, the least loyal and the least attached to the organization regardless of whether they spread positive word of mouth. The implications of the findings are that fostering customer participation can be very valuable and that companies are better off emphasizing customer participation over word of mouth (as opposed to the reverse), because it creates more customer "stickiness" (as in greater attachment and commitment). Nevertheless, the authors say, the two approaches should be seen as two sides of a coin, working both internally and externally to build financ...
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    Amelioration and empire : progress and slavery in the plantation Americas (2014)
    Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press
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    ISBN: 9780813936222
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (280 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Jeffersonian America
    Parallel Title: Print version Amelioration and Empire : Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas
    DDC: 306.362097
    Keywords: Plantation life History ; Slaves Social conditions ; Slave trade History ; Slavery Political aspects ; History ; Slavery History ; Progress Social aspects ; History ; Antislavery movements History ; Antislavery movements History ; Slavery -- America -- History ; Slavery -- Political aspects -- America -- History ; Slave trade -- America -- History ; Slaves -- America -- Social conditions ; Plantation life -- America -- History ; Progress -- Social aspects -- America -- History ; Antislavery movements -- America -- History ; Slavery ; America ; History ; Slavery ; Political aspects ; America ; History ; Slave trade ; America ; History ; Slaves ; America ; Social conditions ; Plantation life ; America ; History ; Progress ; Social aspects ; America ; History ; Antislavery movements ; America ; History ; Antislavery movements ; Great Britain ; History ; America ; History ; To 1810 ; Great Britain ; Colonies ; America ; History ; Electronic books ; America History To 1810 ; Great Britain Colonies ; History
    Abstract: "This book examines arguments made in the colonial Americas for the gradual mitigation of slavery rather than outright abolition"--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionI. Virginia -- "The great improvement and civilization of that race" -- "The desideratum is to diminish the Blacks and increase the Whites" -- II. South Carolina -- "Rising gradations to unlimited freedom" -- "The enormous evil that has haunted the imaginations of men" -- III. The British West Indies -- "We may alleviate, though we cannot cure" -- "A matter of portentous magnitude, and still more portentous -- Difficulty" -- Conclusion: Amelioration and empire, ca. 1845.
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    Happily sometimes after : discovering stories from twelve generations of an american family (2014)
    Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
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    ISBN: 9781613763469 , 1613763468
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (320 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tucher, Andie Happily sometimes after
    DDC: 305.20973
    Keywords: Tucher, Andie Family ; Woodson family ; Tucher, Andie Family ; Woodson family ; Tucher, Andie Family ; Tucher, Andie ; Woodson family ; Oral tradition United States ; Intergenerational relations United States ; Pioneers Biography ; United States ; Pioneers Biography ; Kentucky ; Oral tradition ; Intergenerational relations ; Pioneers Biography ; Pioneers Biography ; Oral tradition ; Intergenerational relations ; Pioneers Biography ; Pioneers Biography ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; General ; Families ; Intergenerational relations ; Oral tradition ; Philosophy ; Pioneers ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Biographies ; Genealogy ; History ; Kentucky Biography ; United States Biography ; United States Genealogy ; United States History ; Philosophy ; United States History ; Philosophy ; Kentucky Biography ; United States Biography ; United States Genealogy ; United States History ; Philosophy ; Kentucky Biography ; United States Biography ; United States Genealogy ; Kentucky ; United States ; Electronic books ; Biografie ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Biografie
    Abstract: Seeking paradise in the new world -- Camelot in the tobacco fields -- Declaring independence -- The kentucky pioneers speak out -- The civil war, real and unreal -- Damned yankees -- Grandmother grace
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    Dubious gastronomy : the cultural politics of eating Asian in the USA (2014)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaiʿi Press
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    ISBN: 082483920X , 9780824839208
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 290 pages.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ausg
    Series Statement: Food in Asia and the Pacific
    Series Statement: Food in Asia and the Pacific Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Dubious Gastronomy : The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA
    DDC: 394.1/20973
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    Keywords: Food habits ; Food in popular culture ; Gastronomy ; Cooking, Asian ; Food in popular culture -- United States ; Gastronomy -- United States ; Food habits -- United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. INAUTHENTIC GASTRONOMY -- 1. California Roll -- 2. Chinese Take- Out -- Part II. DISREPUTABLE GASTRONOMY -- 3. Kimchi -- 4. Dogmeat -- Part III. ARTIFICIAL GASTRONOMY -- 5. Monosodium Glutamate -- 6. SPAM -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Food Terms -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I. INAUTHENTIC GASTRONOMY""; ""1. California Roll""; ""2. Chinese Take- Out""; ""Part II. DISREPUTABLE GASTRONOMY""; ""3. Kimchi""; ""4. Dogmeat""; ""Part III. ARTIFICIAL GASTRONOMY""; ""5. Monosodium Glutamate""; ""6. SPAM""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary of Food Terms""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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    Using open innovation to identify the best ideas (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Interactive management ; Group problem solving ; Creative ability in business ; Management ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: As innovation becomes more democratic, many of the best ideas for new products and services no longer originate in well-financed corporate and government laboratories. How can companies tap into distributed knowledge and diverse skills? Increasingly, organizations are considering using an open-innovation process, but many are finding that making open innovation work can be more complicated than it looks. The authors' research suggests that executives in numerous industries face the same fundamental decisions when exploring open innovation: (1) whether to open the idea-generation process, (2) whether to open the idea-selection process or (3) whether to open both. The key to success, the authors argue, is careful consideration of what to open, how to open it and how to manage the new problems created by the openness. Although the authors found that many managers were fearful about venturing into an entirely new type of innovation process, they maintain that open innovation is rooted in classic innovation principles such as idea generation and selection. The first benefit of open innovation is the number of ideas that become available. Statistically, the more ideas generated, the better the quality of the best one is likely to be. A second, lesser-known advantage of open innovation is that the value of the best idea generally increases with the variability of the ideas received. There are advantages to casting the net widely enough to access ideas of diverse quality: The quality of the average idea may fall, but the best idea is more likely to be spectacular. While managers are often apprehensive about idea creation through open innovation, many are completely unfamiliar with the possibilities offered by opening idea selection. They assume that only company employees can make good choices about which ideas are best. Yet the authors found that outsiders provide distinctive expertise and perspectives, which enable companies to pick winning ideas and generate significant value. This is particularly true with products that can be used in many ways, or when fashions or requirements change quickly. A potential problem in open innovation, the authors point out, relates to how companies contract with idea generators. A second challenge in managing open innovation is caused by a shift in who bears the cost (and risk) of idea generation. With open innovation, the company pays for a design only after it has been completed. This means that the idea gene...
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    Should you punish or reward current customers? (2013)
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Consumer behavior ; Customer loyalty programs ; Customer relations ; Management ; Marketing ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Is it better to reward existing customers for loyalty - or spend your marketing dollars on attracting new ones? Many companies face that management dilemma, and expert opinions on the subject conflict. The authors argue that the answer to that question depends on how fluid customer preferences are in a market and to what degree some of a company's customers are much more valuable than others. In markets where consumer preferences are highly fluid and where the highest-value customers are much more valuable than others, companies should focus on rewarding their best existing customers. Examples of industries in which this is the case include airlines and car rentals. However, if either or both of those two characteristics - customer shopping flexibility and concentrations in customer value - is not in place, then companies should focus on offering their best prices to new customers. When identifying high-value customers, it's important to remember that revenues and profits may not necessarily be correlated. The authors note that it is not only possible that high-volume customers are not as valuable as they seem, but, in some settings, they may be downright unprofitable. For example, at one bank with which one of the authors worked, about 50% of customers contributed negatively to profits. The authors suggest several approaches to addressing the problem of unprofitable customers, including customer education and selectively increasing prices to those customers.
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    How Ceasars entertainment is betting on sustainability (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Sustainable development ; Case studies ; Economic development ; Case studies ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: This case study examines Caesars Entertainment's sustainability initiative. In the past few years Caesars, the world's most geographically diversified gaming company, has come a long way toward earning a reputation as an environmental leader in the hospitality industry. It has received more than 50 awards and certifications for sustainability leadership. In just five years, the company has reduced its carbon footprint by nearly 10% and reduced its energy use per square foot by 20%. Gary Loveman, the company's chairman and CEO, stepped up the company's sustainability efforts beginning in 2007 as the economy was starting to weaken. Caesars' revenues were collapsing, forcing the company to reduce staffing levels by more than 20 percent. Staff members were developing creative ways to cut costs, reduce energy consumption and waste, and increase recycling, and Loveman saw an opportunity to build on their initiative. The program, dubbed CodeGreen, has become institutionalized across more than 50 Caesars properties, in part by a scorecard that continues to be refined. Although Caesars' properties have substantially reduced their carbon footprint and increased efficiencies, the next stage of Caesars' sustainability program is still being mapped out. This case study features details about Caesar's sustainability initiative, as well as expert commentary by two business school professors: Michael W. Toffel of Harvard and Gregory Unruh of Thunderbird School of Global Management.
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    Designing trustworthy organizations (2013)
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Business ethics ; Social responsibility of business ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: In the aftermath of the well-publicized frauds of Enron, WorldCom and Tyco circa 2001 and 2002, there were major efforts in the United States to restore trust and enforce corporate compliance. Among other things, the U.S. Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, corporate spending on compliance increased an estimated $6 billion annually and leading business schools created ethics centers and made ethics training mandatory. Yet despite these reform efforts, corporate trust violations continue. In fact, some of the most insidious practices from the Enron era (notably, disguising financial weakness with offbalance-sheet debt) were front and center again during the global financial crisis of 2008. Why do trust failures continue to occur with such frequency, and how can they be reliably prevented? The authors found that building and sustaining organizational trust is different from building and sustaining interpersonal trust, and that major organizational trust violations are almost never the result of "bad apples" or "rogue employees." Rather, these violations are predictable in organizations that allow dysfunctional, conflicting or incongruent elements to take root. Trust betrayals occur, the authors note, when the organization actively caters to a group (or groups) at the expense of and even causing harm to another group. Given the global prevalence of social media, online global forums and 24-hour news cycles, a breach of trust with any one stakeholder group can rapidly undermine an organization's reputation for trust in its broader stakeholder community. Ironically, the authors note, trust failures can act as catalysts for creating a high-trust organization. Much can be learned about how to establish and sustain organizational trustworthiness by examining how organizations successfully restore trust after a major violation. In analyzing cases of companies that have attempted to repair trust, the authors identified three critical stages: investigation, organizational reform and evaluation. Reforms must be evaluated to ensure they are working as intended, and shortfalls must be addressed. Successful trust repair requires taking a systems perspective to accurately diagnose and reform the true faults in the organizational system.
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    The executive's role in social business (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Business communication ; Industrial management ; Social media ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Social technologies are becoming more important to business, according to a survey conducted by MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte. However, the adoption of social technologies often means changing the way people work, and that means executives need to invest time and effort in explaining the purpose and value of using the new tools, as well as providing the necessary financial and organizational supports to sustain these work flow changes over time. The authors' research is based on two surveys conducted in 2011 and 2012, as well as dozens of interviews with executives and social business thought leaders. The 2012 survey had more than 2,500 respondents from 25 industries and 99 countries. According to its findings, 52% of managers say their companies are at an early stage of developing social capabilities. For these managers, the top barriers to using social business are a lack of strategy, no business case and a lack of management understanding. The authors explain the importance of three types of senior leadership support for initiatives that rely on social technologies: (1) support for these initiatives over time, not just when they are launched, (2) executives' own use of social technologies as a signal of their importance, and (3) a pragmatic attitude about what to measure and when to measure results from these initiatives. As marketers capitalize on social tools, the relationship between CMOs and CIOs can change, and some organizations are hiring chief digital officers, the authors note. They observe that successful social business initiatives can produce changes in the way executives work together.
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    How much does a company's reputation matter in recruiting? (2013)
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    Keywords: Employees ; Recruiting ; Personnel management ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Recently, the idea has emerged that a key to winning the talent war through recruitment is to place greater emphasis on an organization's reputation for social responsibility, not just the company's overall reputation or its reputation as a good employer. But, the authors argue, few studies validly examine the degree to which a company's social reputation or other aspects of its reputation are more or less important than other, more utilitarian job choice factors. When a survey task simply asks people to rate the importance of a laundry list of job attributes such as corporate social responsibility, it hides the marginal value of each attribute to the potential employee. The authors report on three job choice studies they undertook - one with a sample of MBA students, the second with white-collar office workers and the third with workers from a mixture of occupations (legal, medical, government/public service and manual labor). They systematically analyzed the way potential and actual employees make choices involving job contracts with various utilitarian and reputation components. From the results of their research, the authors conclude that for potential employers of MBA students, neither a corporate reputation for social responsibility nor a reputation as a good place to work is as important as those facets of the job contract that are more directly material to MBAs' careers - salary, compensation structure, time demands and promotion opportunities. These talented employees want to work for good employers, the authors conclude, but their employers do not have to be leaders in corporate social responsibility. Across job categories, the authors found a degree of heterogeneity that implies that overly simplistic prescriptions that do not account for the demands of workers in different professions could lead managers astray. For example, manual workers appear to be less concerned about a company's reputation, while those in the legal profession are clearly paying attention to the social and workplace dimensions of an organization's reputation. When it comes to reputation and the war for talent, the authors conclude, there is every indication it is not a case of one size fits all.
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    How innovative is your company's culture? (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Creative ability in business ; Corporate culture ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Everyone wants an innovative corporate culture, but how do you develop one? Prior research has suggested that the degree to which a company is innovative depends much less on capital, geography or sector than on the company's culture. The authors of this article say that the ability of a culture to support innovation depends on six key building blocks. They developed an assessment tool based on these building blocks, which can be used by managers to help make their culture more conducive to innovation. The authors say the six basic building blocks of an innovative corporate culture are values, behaviors, climate, resources, processes and success. Values drive priorities and decisions, which are reflected in how a company spends its time and money. Behaviors involve how people act in the cause of innovation. Climate is the tenor of workplace life. An innovative climate cultivates enthusiasm, challenges people to take risks within a safe environment, fosters learning and encourages independent thinking. Resources are comprised of three main factors: people, systems and projects. Of these, people - especially "innovation champions" - are the most critical, because they have a powerful impact on the company's values and climate. Processes are the routes innovations follow as they are developed. Finally, the internal and external success of an innovation drives many actions and decisions that may have an impact on the next one: who will be rewarded, which people will be hired and which projects will get the green light. After exploring this framework, the authors offer examples of companies that exemplify each quality. They also include a 54-element test they developed to enable managers to assess a company's "Innovation Quotient." Over the past three years, more than 1,000 employees in 15 companies around the world have taken this assessment. The authors give examples of companies that have implemented changes to make their culture more innovative based on what they learned from the survey, and a case study outlines the experience of a Latin American company with the assessment tool.
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    How to change an organization without blowing it up (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Organizational change ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Too often, conventional approaches to organizational transformation resemble the Big Bang theory. Change occurs all at once, on a large scale, and often in response to crisis. Yet we know from a great deal of experience that Big Bang transformation attempts often fail, fostering employee discontent and producing mediocre solutions with little lasting impact. Instead of undertaking a risky, large-scale makeover, organizations can seed transformation by collectively uncovering "everyday disconnects" - the disparities between our expectations about how work is carried out and how it is actually is. The discovery of such disconnects encourages people to think about how the work might be done differently. Continuously pursuing these smaller-scale changes - and then weaving them together - offers a practical middle path between large-scale transformation and smallscale pilot projects that run the risk of producing too little too late. The author has found that organizations take three approaches to discovery that are both particularly effective for uncovering everyday disconnects in the organization's work and seeding transformation from the bottom up. These techniques can be used together. The three techniques are: 1. Work Discovery Instead of assuming that you know how work is designed, examine it firsthand as it is actually conducted. Determine how to turn the (inevitable) surprises you uncover into assets. 2. Better Practices Instead of simply adopting the best practices of other organizations, screen the way work gets done in your organization through those best practices to generate new ideas. In other words, use best practices to generate even better practices. 3. Test Training Instead of locking down standard operating procedures during training, experiment with other, potentially better possibilities for changing the way the work will get done. Use training for testing these possibilities.
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    Strategic choices in converging industries (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Consolidation and merger of corporations ; Case studies ; Corporate reorganizations ; Case studies ; Business planning ; Case studies ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: In the relentless evolution of technology and markets, many industries are in the midst of major reconfigurations of their fundamental architectures and how companies capture value. When industries converge, companies that were in seemingly unrelated businesses can become rivals. Managers need to recognize the different drivers and the types of strategic choices that are available to them. Turning a blind eye as the industry's ecosystem begins to change can be costly. Perhaps the most dramatic example of industry convergence is in telecommunications, information technology, media and entertainment, which many people now refer to as a single field, the "TIME" industries. This article is based in part on interviews at 26 companies in these industries. The authors identify four main drivers of industry convergence: technological advancement, open architectures and standards, policy and regulatory reforms, and changes in customer expectations and preferences. In addition, the authors describe four strategies companies have used to sustain growth in converging industries: technology pioneer, market attacker, ecosystem aggregator and business remodeler. Technology Pioneer Technology pioneers enter the market early and make strategic choices on the appropriate technological specialization as well as the control of intellectual property. New ventures following this path recognize that they need to demonstrate the technological potential of their inventions and evaluate the conditions for early customer adoption. Successful technology pioneers pursue these goals by driving standards, becoming the technology of choice and negotiating nonexclusive licenses. Market Attacker Market attackers try to exploit the commercial application of advanced technologies and tap into revenue opportunities generated by the fragmentation of well-established value chains. A particularly effective strategy is to team up with an incumbent and collaborate vertically in the value chain. This often involves three steps: establishing relationships with partners; consolidating the engagement model; and extending their partnerships, weighing different paths to expand scale and reach. Ecosystem Aggregator Ecosystem aggregators attempt to exploit the market opportunities resulting from a wave of emerging technologies. Typically, they are incumbents in the industry and leverage their competences and market experience to establish an innovation platform aimed at complementary pr...
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    How to overcome a power deficit (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Leadership ; Industrial management ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: At some point in their careers, most executives - even the most talented - will face a power deficit. Regardless of their titles and nominal responsibilities, they will confront situations in which they have insufficient influence and authority to get their job done effectively. Fortunately, two strategies can almost always help the sidelined executive capture more clout and build an enduring power base. A variety of situations can lead a manager into a power deficit. Demographics (race, ethnicity, gender or age) can contribute to the power-deficient executive's predicament, as can inexperience, poor reputation, personality, background, training or outlook. It can happen to people with high potential. It can even happen to executives who are already high performers. Typically, an executive winds up with a power deficit because he or she lacks one or more of the following power sources: legitimacy, critical resources or networks. The high level of interaction between these three sources of power means that a shortage in one can easily produce shortages in the other two. The authors argue that, generally, executives who have a power deficit can solve the problem in one of two ways: they must either play the game more effectively or change the game by, for instance, reshaping their role in the organization. The authors offer examples and recommendations and provide a short questionnaire to help managers identify potential power deficits. The good news is that the odds of success are good. The authors report that in their coaching work with 179 executives who wrestled with power deficits, only four failed to improve the situation.
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    The question every project team should answer (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Project management ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Many aspects of project management are well understood, but one key factor is frequently overlooked: A significant number of projects fail to meet their business objectives because they were launched without a clearly articulated purpose. In more than 20 years of consulting with hundreds of teams, the authors have found that lack of a focused "why statement" is perhaps the most common reason projects fail. Without a solid why, it is more difficult for a team to maintain its internal momentum and keep higher-level managers interested in the project. Projects are launched without a clear why statement for a number of reasons. Sometimes, the group feels pressured to do something, anything, right away. On other occasions, decision makers are unwilling to engage in discussions that might involve conflict or expose hidden agendas. Finally, a failure of imagination can lead to shortsighted reasoning, as the organization chooses a familiar course of action before realizing it won't actually address the problem that needs to be solved. The authors contend that a project team can improve its chances of success by considering four dimensions associated with clear why statements: 1. Identity requires that the core problem be clearly articulated. 2. Location is the second dimension of an effective why statement and answers the question, "Where do we see the problem?" 3. Timing involves specifying when the problem occurs, when it began and how long it is likely to persist if no action is taken. 4. Magnitude speaks to the significance and scale of the issue and answers the question, "How big is the problem or gap in measurable terms?" The four dimensions of a why statement provide a structured description of the business gap that drives the project. A why statement should be developed early in the gestation of a project before significant resources are misdirected toward a poorly defined venture that misses the mark, or worse, solves the wrong problem.
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    Capturing the value of synchronized innovation (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Creative ability in business ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: In industries where innovation is highly distributed, companies often attempt to gain market advantages by coordinating their product introductions with those of other companies in hopes of generating increased sales and customer satisfaction. Synchronization can take a number of forms, and the implementation costs vary widely. Moreover, keeping part of a company's operations synchronized with those of another can present substantial challenges involving control. The challenges are magnified when capturing the benefits of synchrony depends on many other players in the industry network. Understanding what it takes to coordinate critical activities across industry networks can be extremely helpful, particularly in technology-intensive industries, where innovation is distributed and companies are strategically interdependent. Sony and Microsoft, leading manufacturers of video game consoles, for example, often try to coordinate product releases with game manufacturers such as Electronic Arts. The network of relationships among companies within an industry plays a key role in producing synchronization. Such relationships can range from intense collaborations to arm's-length alliances involving less interaction. Enterprises synchronize their product development work in three different ways: by planning the synchrony proactively with a few other partner organizations; by reacting to signals by other companies; or by combining these two approaches to create a hybrid approach. In industries that produce highly complex products, industry leaders can overcome the weaknesses of planned and reactive synchronization by blending the two approaches. This involves proactively engaging with the company or companies they absolutely must coordinate with and "signaling" their intentions to a selected group of other companies in hopes that the broader network of companies will respond.
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    Navigating the politics and emotions of change (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Organizational change ; Office politics ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: In today's fast-paced business world, leaders know that their organization's success is tightly linked to its ability to change again and again. Yet many change initiatives fail. One reason, the authors say, is that leaders often underestimate the impact of the politics and emotions of change. The authors suggest a five-step process for leading a major change initiative: Step 1: Map the political landscape. Map the key external and internal, formal and informal stakeholders who will be affected by the change. Step 2: Identify the key influencers within each stakeholder group. Once the key stakeholder groups are mapped, leaders should identify the key influencers within each group. Key influencers are those individuals who might be able to marshal resources, enroll others, build legitimacy and momentum, and provide ideas crucial to driving the change. Step 3: Assess influencers' receptiveness to change. People have different levels of receptiveness to a given change. Both supporters and skeptics must be engaged. Step 4: Mobilize influential sponsors and promoters. Sponsors have access to financial and human resources. Promoters, on the other hand, can be extremely useful in igniting the enthusiasm that can draw fence-sitters into the process and propel change forward. Step 5: Engage influential positive and negative skeptics. Skeptics can either make a change process more effective or turn a minor hurdle into a major roadblock. Positive skeptics may offer important perspectives and insights about the vulnerabilities of proposed changes. Influential negative skeptics are also important to work with.
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    Competing in the age of omnichannel retailing (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Competition ; Business ; Retail trade ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT Sloan School of Management), Yu Hu (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Mohammad S. Rahman (University of Calgary) Recent technology advances in mobile computing and augmented reality are blurring the boundaries between traditional and Internet retailing, enabling retailers to interact with consumers through multiple touch points and expose them to a rich blend of offline sensory information and online content. In the past, brick-and-mortar retail stores were unique in allowing consumers to touch and feel merchandise and provide instant gratification; Internet retailers, meantime, tried to woo shoppers with wide product selection, low prices and content such as product reviews and ratings. But as the retailing industry evolves toward a seamless "omnichannel retailing" experience, the distinctions between physical and online will vanish, the authors suggest, turning the world into a showroom without walls. This will push retailers and their supply-chain partners in other industries to rethink their competitive strategies The growing prevalence of location-based applications on mobile devices is a critical enabler. Mobile technology is well on its way to changing consumer behavior and expectations, the authors argue. By giving consumers more accurate information about product availability in local stores, retailers can draw people into stores who might otherwise have only looked for products online. The enhanced search capability is especially helpful with niche products, which are not always available in local stores. The availability of product price and availability information, the ability of consumers to shop online and pick up products in local stores, and the aggregation of offline information and online content have combined to make the retailing landscape increasingly competitive. Retailers used to rely on barriers such as geography and customer ignorance to advance their positions in traditional markets. However, technology is removing these barriers. The authors point to several possible success strategies for companies operating in the new competitive environment, including providing attractive pricing and curated product-related content; harnessing the power of data and analytics; avoiding direct price comparisons; learning to sell niche products; establishing switching costs; and embracing competition. In an omnichannel world, the authors say, there is a premium on learning rapidly from consumers and ca...
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    Managing the human cloud (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Electronic commerce ; Computing platforms ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Online crowdsourcing platforms are growing at double-digit rates and are starting to attract the attention of large companies. Just as cloud computing offers unconstrained access to processing capacity and storage, what the authors call the "human cloud" promises to connect businesses to millions of workers on tap, ready to perform tasks and solve problems that range from the simple to the complex. Although the initial concept for the human cloud was to create an eBay-like marketplace for talent and labor, there were obstacles. The simple auction model seemed ill-suited for large, complex undertakings. The model was also often perceived as too risky by managers, who had a hard time developing "virtual" rapport with workers. Today, four new human cloud models have developed, each aiming to overcome these problems in a distinct way: 1. The Facilitator model connects suppliers and buyers directly through a bidding process but offers increased visibility into the supplier's identity and work processes. Elance and oDesk are examples of this model. 2. The Arbitrator model enables buyers to compare the inputs of multiple providers before choosing which to purchase. Arbitrator platforms such as CrowdSpring and InnoCentive follow this approach. 3. The Aggregator model breaks down a job, such as proofreading, translation, transcription or tagging, into tiny bits of work - microtasks - and finds workers willing to complete these tasks, sometimes in the context of a game. Platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk and CrowdFlower offer such capabilities. 4. The most sophisticated model, the Governor, provides project management, supplier certification and quality control to assure qualified coordination and management of complex projects. The authors note that harnessing the human cloud's power will - as with earlier outsourcing waves - require hard work and learning. Buyers may find it helpful to think about managing a human cloud initiative much the same way that they manage the main phases of any outsourcing engagement.
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    Innovation lessons from 3-D printing (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Three-dimensional printing ; Rapid prototyping ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: These days, 3-D printing is much in the news. Also known as "additive manufacturing" or "rapid prototyping," 3-D printing is the printing of solid, physical 3-D objects. Unlike machining processes, which are subtractive in nature, 3-D printing systems join together raw materials to form an object. Some see 3-D printing and related technologies as having transformative implications. "Just as the Web democratized innovation in bits, a new class of 'rapid prototyping' technologies, from 3-D printers to laser cutters, is democratizing innovation in atoms," Wired magazine's longtime editor-in-chief, Chris Anderson, stated in his new book Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. "A new digital revolution is coming, this time in fabrication," MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld wrote in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs. But in addition to 3-D printing's technological implications, recent evolutions in 3-D printing offer important management lessons for executives about the changing face of technological innovation - and what that means for businesses. In this article, the authors examine the rapid emergence of a movement called open-source 3-D printing and how it fits into a general trend toward open-source innovation by collaborative online communities. They then discuss how existing companies can respond to - and sometimes benefit from - open-source innovation if it occurs in their industry.
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    Between ruin and restoration : an environmental history of Israel (2013)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822978114 , 0822978113
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 400 p.) , illustrations.
    Series Statement: History of the urban environment
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Between ruin and restoration
    DDC: 304.2095694
    Keywords: Environmental policy History ; Israel ; Environmental policy History ; Environmental policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography ; Ecology ; HISTORY ; Middle East ; Israel ; History ; Israel Environmental conditions ; History ; Israel ; History ; Israel Environmental conditions ; History ; Israel ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The environment in Palestine in the late Ottomas period, 1789-1918 -- The environmental legacy of the Fellaheen and the Bedouin -- Human impact on wildlife in Israel since the nineteenth-century -- Zionist and Israeli perspectives on population growth and environmental impact in Palestine and Israel -- Combating desertification : evolving perceptions and strategies -- The agricultural roots of Israel's water crisis -- Open space in an urban society -- The battle of the "True Believers" : environmentalism in Israeli party politics -- Environmental challenges facing the Arab Society in Israel -- A prolonged recessional : the continuing influence of British rule on Israeli environmental law -- Marin-pollution abatement along Israel's Mediterranean coast : a story of policy success -- Olive green : environment, militarism, and the Israel Defense Forces -- "Going beyond Israel" : epistemic communities, global interests, and international environmental agreements -- Toward sustainable development : mainstreaming environment in Israel -- Anthropogenic climate change in Israel -- Nature knows no boundaries? : notes toward a future history of regional environmentalism -- The future of the Israeli environmental movement : is a major paradigm shift under way?
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    Louis Marshall and the rise of Jewish ethnicity in America : a biography (2013)
    Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press
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    ISBN: 9780815651987 , 0815651988
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (644 p.) , ill.
    Edition: First Edition
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Modern Jewish history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Silver, M.M. (Matthew Mark), 1961- Louis Marshall and the rise of Jewish ethnicity in America
    DDC: 305.8924073092
    Keywords: Marshall, Louis 1856-1929 ; Marshall, Louis ; Marshall, Louis ; Marshall, Louis ; Jews Identity ; United States ; Jews Biography ; United States ; Jews Identity ; Jews Biography ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Lawyers & Judges ; Jews ; Jews ; Identity ; Biographies ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Part One : From upstate to uptown -- Syracuse -- Manhattan and moral reform -- Part Two : A national organization for the Jews -- The origins of organized activism -- Abrogation -- Avoiding the guillotine of immigration restriction -- Part Three : War and peace -- World War I -- Paris and Haiti -- Part Four : Marshall law -- Ford -- Jews and birds -- Ethnic affairs in the 1920s -- Crimea and Eretz Israel -- Epilogue : Massena, Zurich, Emanu-el.
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    A Jewish professor's political punditry : fifty-plus years of published commentary (2013)
    New York : Syracuse University Press
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    ISBN: 0815652135 , 9780815652137
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (pages cm)
    Edition: First edition
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ausg
    Parallel Title: Print version Rubin, Ron A Jewish Professor's Political Punditry : Fifty-Plus Years of Published Commentary By Ron Rubin
    DDC: 070.4/82092
    Keywords: Rubin, Ron ; Jewish journalists Biography ; Jewish journalists--United States--Biography ; Electronic books
    Abstract: c -- Rubin & Devaney Final -- bc
    Description / Table of Contents: The university student, 1957-1965A young professor in a young school, 1965-1969 -- An established professor and author: at home and abroad, 1970s and 1980s -- The turn of the century, 1990-2008.
    Note: "This anthology takes a look at the Jewish world of the past fifty-plus years through Rubin's writings. It looks at Judaism, the religion; Israel, the country; Jewish American politics; world politics"--publisher's note , Includes bibliographical references and index , Description based on print version record , Online-Ausg.
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    Humour in Chinese life and culture : resistance and control in modern times (2013)
    Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press
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    ISBN: 9789888268054 , 9888268058
    Language: English , Chinese
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 PDF (xxii, 348 pages) , illustrations.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Humour in Chinese life and culture
    DDC: 306.0951
    Keywords: Joking China ; Chinese wit and humor History and criticism ; Chinese wit and humor History and criticism ; Chinese wit and humor ; Chinese wit and humor ; Joking ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Chinese wit and humor ; Joking ; Humor ; Witz ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; China ; China ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book investigates the use of humor in the public sphere and in personal life in China. The contributors cover modern and contemporary forms -- comic films and novels, cartooning, pop-songs, internet jokes, and humor in advertising and education. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes designed for the general reader as well as academic audiences, the book explores the relationship between political control and popular expression of humor, including the mutual exchange of comic stereotypes between China and Japan, and draws out important methodological implications for psychological and cross-cultural studies of humor
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations and tables viiContributors xi -- Editors' note xix -- Preface -- Humour and its cultural context : introduction and overview / Jessica Milner Davis -- The phantom of the clock : laughter and the time of life in the writings of Qian Zhongshu and his contemporaries / Diran John Sohigian -- Unwarranted attention : the image of Japan in twentieth-century Chinese humour / Barak Kushner -- Chinese cartoons and humour : the views of first- and second-generation cartoonists / John A. Lent and Xu Ying -- "Love you to the bone" and other songs : humour and rusheng rhymes in early Cantopop / Marjorie K.M. Chan and Jocelyn Chey -- A "new" phenomenon of Chinese cinema : the Happy-New-Year comic movie / Xu Ying and Xu Zhongquan -- Spoofi ng (e'gao) culture on the Chinese Internet / Christopher G. Rea -- Humour in new media : comparing China, Australia and the United States / Heather J. Crawford -- Chinese concepts of humour and the role of humour in teaching / Guo-Hai Chen -- Laughing at others and being laughed at in Taiwan and Switzerland : a cross-cultural perspective / Hsueh-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Chan, Willibald Ruch and Rene T. Proyer -- Freedom and political humour: their social meaning in contemporary China / X.L. Ding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. - "A companion volume to 'Humour in Chinese life and letters: classical and traditional approaches. - Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-341) and index. - Chiefly in English; includes some Chinese with English translation. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-341) and index , Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE , Chiefly in English; includes some Chinese with English translation
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    Media ethics and regulation : insights from Africa (2013)
    Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing
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    ISBN: 9789956790234 , 9956790230
    Language: English , French
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 PDF (ii, 209 pages) , color illustrations.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.23096982
    Keywords: Mass media Self-regulation ; Africa ; Journalistic ethics Africa ; Mass media Moral and ethical aspects ; Africa ; Mass media Self-regulation ; Journalistic ethics ; Mass media Moral and ethical aspects ; Journalistic ethics ; Mass media ; Moral and ethical aspects ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; Africa ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book provides useful pointers to help journalists navigate the dilemmas they face in the professional practice. It provides an enlightening overview of the views of Mauritian journalists on their own industry and an in-depth look at the South African model for self-regulation. As part of the ethical approach, the book also reviews the main issues related to gender-sensitive reporting, in view of the significant role the media have to play in gender education. In an age of information overload, over-exposure to a hyper-mediated culture and the rise of user-generated content, journalists increasingly strive to remain relevant. The temptation to use lower standards, resort to sensationalism and even paycheck journalism is strong. Such examples of unethical practice can only further undermine the credibility of a profession which purports to act as a watchdog, a Fourth Estate. Claims that ethics is a private affair no longer hold good. Journalism is a public good and the need to a clear social contract is stronger than ever in a world where transparency and accountability are on the agenda. Mechanisms for ensuring ethical practice are essential and should be hailed as beacons for a stronger journalism
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    Sex tourism in Bahia : ambiguous entanglements (2013)
    Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press
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    ISBN: 9780252095191 , 0252095197
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: National women's studies association
    Series Statement: University of Illinois press first book prize
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Williams, Erica Lorraine Sex tourism in Bahia
    DDC: 306.740981
    Keywords: Sex tourism Brazil ; Bahia (State) ; Sex tourism Brazil ; Salvador ; Sex tourism ; Sex tourism ; Sex tourism Social aspects ; Sex tourism Social aspects ; Prostitutes ; Prostitutes ; Prostitution Social aspects ; Prostitution Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Social conditions ; Prostitution ; Social aspects ; Prostitutes ; Sex tourism ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Salvador (Brazil) Social conditions ; Bahia (Brazil : State) Social conditions ; Brazil ; Bahia (State) ; Brazil ; Salvador ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil, this pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships
    Abstract: Geographies of blackness : tourism and the erotics of black culture in Salvador -- Racial hierarchies of desire and the specter of sex tourism -- Working-class kings in paradise : coming to terms with sex tourism -- Tourist tales and erotic adventures -- Aprosba : the politics of race, sexual labor, and identification -- Se valorizando (valuing oneself) : ambiguity, exploitation, and cosmopolitanism -- Moral panics : sex tourism, trafficking, and the limits of transnational mobility -- Conclusion : the specter of sex tourism in a globalized world.
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    Fairy tales transformed? : twenty-first-century adaptations and the politics of wonder (2013)
    Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press
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    ISBN: 081433928X , 9780814339282
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (pages cm)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ausg
    Series Statement: Series in fairy-tale studies
    Parallel Title: Print version Fairy Tales Transformed? : Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder
    DDC: 398.2
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""Half-title ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Introduction. The Fairy-Tale Web: Intertextual and Multimedial Practices in Globalized Culture, a Geopolitics of Inequality, and (Un) Predictable Links ""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""1 Activist Responses: Adaptation, Remediation, and Relocation """"2 Double Exposures: Reading (in) Fairy-Tale Films ""; ""3 Fairy-Tale Remix in Film: Genres, Histories, and Economies ""; ""4 Resituating The Arabian Nights: Challenges and Promises of Translation ""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Epilogue: The Politics of Wonder """"Notes ""; ""Works Cited ""; ""Filmography ""; ""Index ""; ""Acknowledgments ""
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    Who's your Paddy? : racial expectations and the struggle for Irish American identity (2013)
    New York : New York University Press
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    ISBN: 9780814744130 , 0814744133
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (pages cm.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Nation of newcomers
    Series Statement: immigrant history as American history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Duffy, Jennifer Nugent Who's Your Paddy? : Racial Expectations and the Struggle for Irish American Identity
    DDC: 305.8916207307471
    Keywords: Irish Americans Social conditions ; New York (State) ; Yonkers ; Irish Americans History ; New York (State) ; Yonkers ; African Americans Relations with Irish Americans ; Irish Americans Race identity ; New York (State) ; New York ; Irish Americans Social conditions ; New York (State) ; New York ; Irish Americans History ; New York (State) ; New York ; Irish Americans Race identity ; Irish Americans Social conditions ; Irish Americans History ; African Americans Relations with Irish Americans ; Irish Americans Social conditions ; Irish Americans History ; HISTORY ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; African Americans ; Relations with Irish Americans ; Irish Americans ; Irish Americans ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; New York (State) ; New York ; New York (State) ; Yonkers ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what does it mean to be Irish American besides St. Patrick's Day? Who's Your Paddy traces the evolution of "Irish" as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day. Exploring how the Irish have been and continue to be socialized around race, Jennifer Nugent Duffy argues that Irish identity must be understood within the context of generational tensions between different waves of Irish immigrants as well as the Irish community's interaction with other racial minorities. Using historic and ethnographic research, Duffy sifts through the many racial, class, and gendered dimensions of Irish-American identity by examining three distinct Irish cohorts in Greater New York: assimilated descendants of nineteenth-century immigrants; "white flighters" who immigrated to postwar America and fled places like the Bronx for white suburbs like Yonkers in the 1960s and 1970s; and the newer, largely undocumented migrants who began to arrive in the 1990s. What results is a portrait of Irishness as a dynamic, complex force in the history of American racial consciousness, pertinent not only to contemporary immigration debates but also to the larger questions of what it means to belong, what it means to be American. Jennifer Nugent Duffy is Associate Professor of History at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut. "--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Who's Your Paddy? Irish Immigrant Generations in Greater New YorkFrom City of Hills to City of Vision: The History of Yonkers, New York -- Good Paddies and Bad Paddies: The Evolution of Irishness as a Race-Based Tradition in the United States -- Bar Wars: Irish Bar Politics in Neoliberal Ireland and Neoliberal Yonkers -- They're Just Like Us: Good Paddies and Everyday Irish Racial Expectations -- Bad Paddies Talk Back -- Paddy and Paddiette Go to Washington: Race and Transnational Immigration Politics.
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    Building your company's capabilities through global expansion (2013)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: International business enterprises ; International trade ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: New markets and new possibilities for expansion and acquisition make the global competitive landscape more dynamic, creating both threats and opportunities. The task of the global strategist involves not only identifying where to leverage a company's existing strengths but also how to enhance and renew its capabilities. The authors argue that the risks of global expansion can be greatly reduced by taking a systematic approach to the decision-making process about entering a new country. They conclude that the experience of many global companies suggests that expensive mistakes are often made when companies don't ask certain key questions before they make such internationalization decisions. By better understanding the nature of their own competitive advantages and how those advantages might fit into or be augmented by a new market, companies can greatly improve their chances of success. The authors illustrate their argument by drawing on the examples of companies such as CEMEX, Telefónica, Accor, Wal-Mart and IKEA. The authors propose two tests for the global strategist, one to use when a company is considering replicating a successful strategy in a new country, and the other to use when a company is seeking to acquire a new capability in a new market.
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    Creating and Maintaining an Information Literacy Instruction Program in the Twenty-First Century (2013)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Chandos Publishing | Boston, MA : Safari
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    ISBN: 9781843347057
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (246 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) set forth Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline. Creating and Maintaining an Information Literacy Instruction Program in the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a real-world, practical guide for creating an instruction program step-by-step, as well as a framework for reviewing, assessing, and updating existing programs. Each chapter focuses on one of the main aspects of the ACRL guidelines. Current research, anecdotal evidence and tools provide the reader with the support and instruments needed to either begin, or reinvigorate, an instruction program. The book begins by placing information literacy in programme context. It then covers how to survey your current program, and how to develop and implementing a program plan. The next chapters concentrate on administrative and institutional support; curriculum integration and campus collaboration; present and future students; pedagogy for the information professional; program marketing and outreach; assessment and future trends. Finally, this book concludes by asking its readers to re-survey their information literacy instruction program landscape once again. Provides a practical, scalable information literacy instruction program framework based upon the 2011 draft ACRL Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices Reflects current scholarship and practice Contains sample worksheets, templates, and assessment instruments
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    Tropic tendencies : rhetoric, popular culture, and the anglophone Caribbean (2013)
    Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822979111 , 082297911X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (pages cm.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Browne, Kevin Adonis Tropic tendencies
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    LB 40640
    Keywords: Popular culture Caribbean Area ; English language Rhetoric ; Caribbean Area ; English language Caribbean Area ; Caribbean Area ; Popular culture ; English language Rhetoric ; English language ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; General ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Rhetoric ; English language ; English language ; Rhetoric ; Popular culture ; Caribbean Area ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Anglophone Karibik ; Rhetorik ; Volkskultur
    Abstract: "A legacy of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and class struggle has profoundly impacted the people and culture of the Caribbean. In Tropic Tendencies, Kevin Adonis Browne examines the development of an Anglophone Caribbean rhetorical tradition in response to the struggle to make meaning, maintain identity, negotiate across differences, and thrive in light of historical constraints and the need to participate in contemporary global culture"--
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    Making mergers work (2012)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Consolidation and merger of corporations ; Corporate reorganizations ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Planning for post-merger integration typically focuses on operational issues, such as harmonizing product lines and financial and human resource information systems, and determining which employees are retained and which ones are let go. Attention is also paid to the identity of the merged enterprise in a superficial sense. The name of the acquirer may be retained, or a new logo may be created or a new name found. But for organizations to achieve the psychological synergies required to realize economic synergies from mergers and acquisitions, the authors argue that executives need to attend to a more complex, deeper set of identity issues. These issues define the essence of the entity and give employees a clear answer to the question "Who are we?" and external stakeholders a clear answer to the question "Who are they?" The first question refers to an organization's members' view of what makes it unique among all other organizations. The second question captures what external audiences believe is the essence of the organization. Left unattended, these deeper identity issues will diminish engagement and will inevitably affect the performance of the merged entity. Operational integration post-merger is a necessary but not sufficient condition for successful performance. Careful attention to identity integration is also essential for success. The authors argue that there is no "one best way" and that in fact there are four distinct paths that can be followed to achieve identity integration: assimilation, federation, confederation and metamorphosis. Each of these paths represents a particular combination of the answers to two questions that managers must confront in anticipation of a merger or acquisition: What should be done with the identities that the parties to the merger bring with them (in other words, their historical identities)? And how should a common identity for the future be built?
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    Increasing the ROI of social media marketing (2012)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Social media ; Marketing ; Rate of return ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: With the growth of social media, influencing consumer preferences and purchase decisions through online social networks and word of mouth is an increasingly important part of every marketer's job. Companies such as Geico, Dell and eBay are adapting the traditional "one-way" advertising message and using it as a stepping-stone to begin a two-way dialogue with consumers via social media. Marketers know that theoretically, social media should be a powerful way to generate sustainable, positive word-of-mouth marketing. If marketers can only select the right social media platform, design the right message and engage the right users to spread that message, their campaign should be a success. But until now, that's been a big if. The authors propose a seven-step framework for success in social media marketing campaigns. Their framework involves identifying social media users who are not only influential but also particularly interested in the company's product or service category and then recruiting and incentivizing those influencers to talk about the company's product or service. The authors describe the implementation of their seven-step framework at Hokey Pokey Ice Cream Creations, an upscale ice-cream retailer with more than a dozen outlets across India. Hokey Pokey's social media campaign resulted in substantial increases in brand awareness, social media ROI and sales revenue growth rate for the company. The authors also explain three new metrics they developed for use in social media marketing campaigns: the Customer Influence Effect, which measures the influence a social media user has on other users in the network; the Stickiness Index, which helps identify social media users who actively discuss the company's product or service category; and Customer Influence Value, which helps measure the monetary gain or loss realized by a company in social marketing campaigns by accounting for an individual's influence on purchases by other customers and prospects.
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    The key to social media success within organizations (2012)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Organizational change ; Social media ; Business communication ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: In this article, the authors show that although the use of social media can be an extremely valuable way to enrich a company's culture and enhance its productivity, it isn't a sure thing. Based on a survey of 1,060 executives about their experience with social media and a number of indepth qualitative case studies, the authors argue that the main reason some social media initiatives fail to bring benefits to companies is because the initiatives don't create emotional capital, which they define as a strong emotional connection between stakeholders and the company. In the end, social media is still media - that is, mediums of communication - and those new mediums can be used as badly and counterproductively as any traditional mode. To show how companies can create a winning strategy, the authors contrast the experiences of two companies - an unnamed technology company and Tupperware Nordic, the Scandinavian branch of the kitchenware company. The technology company focused on software to facilitate social networking, not on using those new tools to build communities. It also tended to communicate in ways employees found insincere. Between insincere messages from the executive team and easier communication with other disgruntled employees, the initiative had no real positive effects for the company. Tupperware, by contrast, used the technology to help the company convey community spirit to its sales associates and took advantage of social media's unique ability to foster better vertical and horizontal communication. The authors conclude that although social media can help create closer and more dynamic stakeholder relationships, success with an online community requires a leader who can build emotional capital and who values community building as a means of creating economic value.
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    The messy business of management (2012)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Leadership ; Business ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Author Mitroff opens his opinion piece with the question "Are you prepared to handle a mess?" In a period of rapid technological and business change, successful executives particularly need the ability to think critically - and to be aware that some of their most cherished assumptions may, at any point, be challenged or invalidated by changing events. Mitroff particularly focuses in his opinion piece on how business schools excel at teaching young managers well-structured models, theories and frameworks but need to spend more time helping their students surface, debate and test the assumptions underlying each model, theory or framework they are learning about. In this way, by developing students' critical thinking skills, universities would prepare young business leaders to succeed in a messy, uncertain world.
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    The benefits of combining data with empathy (2012)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Customer relations ; Empathy ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Everyone has had encounters with automated telephone response systems and experienced the frustration of having to repeat voice commands multiple times before finally asking to speak to a service representative. Many large companies have become so focused on optimizing their business processes and systems that they have become all too willing to forget about cultivating emotional connections with customers. But in order to detect and respond to shifting customer needs, the authors argue, companies need to show more, not less, empathy with their customers. Some companies have found an approach that optimizes business processes and technology, the ability to foster emotional connections and the ability to use data empathetically. The authors call this approach softscaling. Successful softscaling is based on three core activities: nurturing emotional connections to achieve commitment and loyalty from employees, customers, suppliers and other business partners; optimizing business processes to achieve low-cost and reliable operational excellence; and combining data (captured by optimized processes and technology) with a deep understanding of local context to make empathic decisions. Being excellent at just one is not enough - it takes all three. These abilities are particularly important to businesses attempting to expand beyond their traditional customer bases and home markets, especially into volatile environments. Although the research was conducted in India, the authors maintain that the core tenets are equally applicable to companies in other emerging economies, as well as in sectors in developed markets that are experiencing rapid change. The authors examined five companies - Hero MotoCorp, Bharti Airtel, Tata Motors, Housing Development Finance Corp. and Max Healthcare - all of which integrate optimization and emotion, using evidence-based empathy that is grounded in data analytics. This strategy has enabled the companies to exploit opportunities to become market leaders in highly unstable, resource-constrained settings.
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    Innovating with analytics (2012)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume) , illustrations
    Keywords: Commercial statistics ; Electronic data processing ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: In a recent data and analytics survey conducted by MIT Sloan Management Review in partnership with SAS Institute Inc., the authors found a strong correlation between the value companies say they generate using analytics and the amount of data they use. Combining the responses to several survey questions, they identified five levels of analytics sophistication, with those at Level 5 being most sophisticated and innovative. These analytical innovators in Level 5 had several defining characteristics. First, they tended to use more data than other groups. In fact, they were three times more likely than the 8% of those respondents who fell into the Level 1 category to say they used a great deal or all of their data. Second, there was a strong correlation between driving competitive advantage and innovation with analytics and how effective a company is at managing what the authors term "the information transformation cycle." This cycle refers to the process of capturing data, analyzing information, aggregating and integrating data, using insights to guide future strategy and disseminating information and insights. Respondents who fell into the Level 5 category also had a stronger need for speed than other survey respondents. Eighty-seven percent reported that the ability to process and analyze data more quickly was very important. Utilizing speed fell into three separate areas: customer experience, pricing strategy and innovation. Another intriguing finding from the survey involved the cultural impact on organizations. Some respondents reported that the use of analytics is shifting the power structure within their organizations. Analytical innovators, as a group, tended to be more likely than other groups to say that analytics has started to shift the power structure in their organizations.
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    What matters most in internet retailing (2012)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Electronic commerce ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Online retailing is far and away the fastest growing retail sector in the United States. The growth is being fed by two forces: (1) traditional retailers are getting their "Internet acts" together, and (2) "pure play" retailers are becoming increasingly innovative. The authors studied two groups: online retailers selling popular-brand consumables for the home, such as laundry detergent, pet supplies and diapers (represented by Netgrocer.com and Diapers.com); and online retailers selling specialty items, including fashion eyeglasses and apparel for men (represented by WarbyParker.com and Bonobos.com). They came up with a set of findings that may have important implications not just for pure-play Internet retailers but for more traditional retailers, too. Among them: Individual consumer acceptance depends on offline shopping costs. For Internet retailers, the best market opportunities are with customers in locations where offline retail shopping is limited and costs (including sales tax) are high. Sales evolution is structured and predictable. Although initial online sales in a particular region, and some geographic variation in sales across regions, may be driven by offline product costs, growth is fueled by the sharing of information among friends and neighbors. The authors' research on Netgrocer.com, an online retailer that delivers groceries, found that ZIP codes with lots of new customers tended to be adjacent to areas that had high concentrations of customers in earlier periods. Migrating from "good" to "great" requires expansion to niche locations. Although sales emerge first in areas where customers face high offline shopping costs and are propagated through local customer interactions, in order for online retailers to extend their reach they need to tap into hundreds or thousands of markets that individually represent few sales but collectively add up to significant numbers. Different locations require different customer acquisition strategies. In ZIP codes with a high physical density of customers, offline word of mouth can be particularly powerful. Traditional print advertising tended to work well in less dense environments.
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    Driving growth and employment through logistics (2012)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Business logistics ; Industrial management ; Logistics ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Author Yossi Sheffi makes the argument that Logistics Clusters create jobs that are difficult to move offshore, and therefore lead to economic growth in multiple sectors. Logistics clusters are local networks of businesses that provide a wide array of logistics services, including transportation carriers, warehousing companies, freight forwarders and third-party logistics service providers. They also include the distribution operations of retailers, manufacturers (for both new products and aftermarket parts) and distributors. These clusters attract companies for whom logistics is a critical element of their service offering or a large part of their overall costs. In recent years, logistics clusters have received support and funding from regional and national governments all across the world seeking to promote economic growth. Logistics clusters have the ability to address several challenges many economies face, including the pressing need for good jobs, higher levels of foreign trade and infrastructure renewal. In addition to helping companies navigate global supply networks, logistics clusters can lead the way in sustainable transportation and energy-efficient storage and transportation operations. The author contends they are contributing to the efficiency of global supply chains and, in the process, increasing international trade and global trade flows.
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    The role of the chief strategy officer : a summary of research identifying four archetypes of chief strategy officers, and how boards and CEOs can use this information to choose the right type of CSO for their leadership teams (2012)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Strategic planning ; Management ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: The Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) is a comparatively new but increasingly important role in many organizations. To explore the role of the CSO, the authors conducted 24 interviews with CSOs at U.K. companies that are part of the FTSE 100 Index, across a number of industrial sectors. Secondary data - company reports, strategy documents and presentations - were used to complement the interviews. From this study of interviews and secondary data, the authors have developed a typology of four CSO archetypes - Internal Consultant, Specialist, Coach and Change Agent - who carry out a variety of responsibilities in the role of the CSO. By understanding how the duties of the CSO can vary significantly from organization to organization, boards and CEOs can make better decisions about which type of CSO is necessary for their leadership teams.
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    How disruptive will innovations from emerging markets be? : a brief discussion of disruptive innovation in emerging markets and the challenges that new low-cost products present to developed markets (2012)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: New products ; Competition ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Companies located in developing countries are currently serving billions of local consumers with innovative and inexpensive products. Author Constantinos C. Markides poses the question of what happens when more of those companies make the leap into more developed markets. Is it inevitable that these low-end companies will overtake the more developed companies? Markides examines and explores the "The Disruption Process" in the marketplace. To begin with, to be disruptive, a product has to meet two conditions: it must start out as inferior in terms of the performance that existing customers expect, but superior in price. As a result, existing customers will initially ignore it, but other customers (usually non consumers of the incumbent products) will be attracted by its low price. Then, for a product to truly become disruptive, it must evolve to become "good enough" in performance (attracting mainstream customers from the earlier generation of incumbent products) while at the same time remaining superior in price. In other words, it must become "good enough" in performance and superior in price. Using historical examples, Markides looks at how disruptors and incumbents manage competition in the marketplace. Whether low-cost innovations from emerging countries end up disrupting markets in developed countries depends not only on whether the disruptors succeed in putting in place an innovative business model that supports their cost advantage but also on how aggressively the incumbents respond. For incumbents, knowing that much of their fate rests in their hands is half the battle won.
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    Aging and the art of living (2012)
    Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
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    ISBN: 9781421407098 , 1421407094
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (320 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Baars, Jan Aging and the art of living
    DDC: 305.26
    Keywords: Aging Philosophy ; Aging Social aspects ; Longevity ; Aging Philosophy ; Aging Social aspects ; Longevity ; Aging Philosophy ; Aging Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Aging ; Philosophy ; Aging ; Social aspects ; Longevity ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ""3.3 Cicero and the Stoic Art of Living in Old Age""""Cicero""; ""Cato Maior de Senectute: On Old Age""; ""Cicero�s Defense of Old Age against Four Complaints""; ""A Statesman�s View of Old Age""; ""Conclusions""; ""4 Modern Science, the Discovery of a Personal History, and Aging Authentically""; ""Introduction""; ""4.1 Aging in a World of Meaningful Repetition""; ""4.2 (Ir)reversible Time and the Senescing of Organisms""; ""Does Nature Repeat Itself Eternally?""; ""Nature Changes and Time Is Irreversible""; ""Senescing, Irreversible Time, and the Organism""
    Abstract: ""€œTake Years Off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Lifeâ€?""""2.3 The Much-desired Long and Invulnerable Life: Magic and Magic Technology""; ""A Fundamental Vulnerability""; ""Conclusions""; ""3 A Passion for Wisdom and the Emergence of an Art of Aging""; ""Introduction""; ""3.1 Early Greek Thought about the Life Course""; ""Solonâ€?s Untraditional Views""; ""3.2 The Search for Wisdom and the Emergence of an Art of Life""; ""Platoâ€?s Academy""; ""Aristotleâ€?s Lyceum""; ""The Garden of Epicurus""; ""The Stoics""; ""Wisdom, Aging, and Old Age""
    Abstract: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Chronocratic Emperor Has No Clothes""; ""Overview""; ""1 Chronometric Regimes: The Life Course, Aging, and Time""; ""Introduction""; ""1.1 Historical Backgrounds of the Chronometric Life Course""; ""A Biographical Sandglass""; ""Age in Social Legislation""; ""Late Modern Systemic Worlds and Life Worlds""; ""1.2 Chronometric Life Courses: Beyond Standardization and De-standardization""; ""The Continuing Importance of Chronometric Age""; ""Chronometric Regimes""; ""1.3 Care and Its Chronometric Regimes""
    Abstract: ""Chronometric Care and Its Acceleration""""Time-efficient Lives""; ""1.4 Chronometric Aging: Exactly Arbitrary""; ""Intrinsic Time and Intrinsic Malleability""; ""The Heisenberg Principle of Aging""; ""Conclusions""; ""2 Exclusion, Activism, and Eternal Youth""; ""Introduction""; ""2.1 From Natural Passivity to Activating Activities for Older People""; ""From “Idleness with Dignity� to Being as Being Busy""; ""Stay Active: “Use It or Lose It�""; ""2.2 The Emergence of an Anti-aging Culture""; ""“Don�t Call �em Old, Call �em Consumers!�""
    Abstract: ""4.3 The Idealization of Science and the Epistemological Reduction of Time""""4.4 The Struggle for a Fuller Experience of Time""; ""Augustine: A Threefold Present""; ""Bergson: Time as Creativity""; ""Husserl: The Phenomenological Experience of Time""; ""Heidegger: Authentic Temporal Being in the Face of Death""; ""Time Is Lived in Constitutive Life Worlds""; ""Conclusions""; ""5 Aging and Narrative Identities""; ""Introduction""; ""5.1 Embedding Aging in Narratives""; ""Narratives and Narrative Identity""; ""Narrative Integration as a “Good Life�""; ""Life Plans""
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    Bound lives : Africans, Indians, and the making of race in colonial Peru (2012)
    Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822977964 , 0822977966
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (280 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Pitt Latin American Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als O'Toole, Rachel Sarah Bound lives
    DDC: 305.800985
    Keywords: Caste History ; Peru ; Slavery History ; Peru ; Africans Colonization ; Peru ; Africans Government relations ; Peru ; Indians of South America Colonization ; Peru ; Indians of South America Government relations ; Peru ; Caste History ; Slavery History ; Africans Colonization ; Africans Government relations ; Indians of South America Colonization ; Indians of South America Government relations ; Diplomatic relations ; Colonization ; Caste ; Indians of South America ; Colonization ; Indians of South America ; Government relations ; Slavery ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; HISTORY ; General ; Spanish colonies ; Colonies ; Administration ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; History ; Spain Colonies ; Administration ; America ; Spain Foreign relations ; Peru ; Peru Foreign relations ; Spain ; Peru Colonization ; Peru Colonization ; Spain Colonies ; Administration ; Spain Foreign relations ; Peru Foreign relations ; Spain ; America ; Peru ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines how Andeans and Africans negotiated and employed casta, and in doing so, constructed these racial categories. This study highlights the tenuous interactions of colonial authorities, indigenous communities, and enslaved populations and shows how the interplay between colonial law and daily practice shaped the nature of colonialism and slavery
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    Unveiling the harem : elite women and the paradox of seclusion in eighteenth-century Cairo (2012)
    Syracuse, N.Y : Syracuse University Press
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    ISBN: 9780815651703 , 0815651708
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (344 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Series Statement: Project MUSE
    Series Statement: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fay, Mary Ann Unveiling the harem
    DDC: 305.4096216
    Keywords: Households History ; 18th century ; Egypt ; Cairo ; Harems History ; 18th century ; Egypt ; Cairo ; Mamelukes Social conditions ; 18th century ; Women Social conditions ; 18th century ; Egypt ; Cairo ; Harems History 18th century ; Mamelukes Social conditions 18th century ; Women Social conditions 18th century ; Households History 18th century ; Women Social conditions 18th century ; Mamelukes Social conditions 18th century ; Households History 18th century ; Harems History 18th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; Middle East ; Egypt ; Harems ; Households ; Mamelukes ; Manners and customs ; Women ; Social conditions ; History ; Cairo (Egypt) Social life and customs ; 18th century ; Cairo (Egypt) Social life and customs 18th century ; Cairo (Egypt) Social life and customs 18th century ; Egypt ; Cairo ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Reimagining the harem: from orientalist fantasies to historical reconstruction -- Egypt in the eighteenth century: the transition from the medieval to the early modern -- Slaves in the family: Islam, household slavery, and the construction of kinship -- The Mamluk household: how a house became a home -- Mamluk women and the Egyptian economy: a comparative perspective on women's property rights -- The city as text: space, gender, and power in Cairo -- The architecture of seclusion: in search of the historical harem -- Everyday life in the harem -- Changing the subject: gender and the history of the Mamluk revival -- Epilogue.
    Abstract: There is a long history in the West of representing Middle Eastern women as uniformly oppressed by Islam, by Islamic law, and by men. Stereotypical views of Middle Eastern women today maintain that they are without legal rights, do not attend universities or have jobs outside their homes, and are not full citizens of their countries because they cannot vote or hold public office. Similar misinformation circulated in the eighteenth century when European male travellers to Egypt, documenting their observations, depicted harem women as sexual objects, deprived of autonomy, and held captive by their husbands. Fay's Unveiling the Harem offers a persuasive corrective to this distorted view of Middle Eastern women. Instead of the odalisque of nineteenth-century painting and the fevered imaginings of European travellers, historical research reveals that elite women in powerful, wealthy households exercised their rights under Islamic law, property rights in particular, to become owners of lucrative real estate in Cairo as well as influential members of their families and the wider society. One such woman, Sitt Nafisa, who was literate in several languages, commissioned a public water fountain and a Qur'anic school that still stands today. She played a pivotal role as the intermediary between French officials and her husband, who was leading the revolt against the French from Upper Egypt. Based on documents from various archives in Cairo, including records of women's property ownership, repeated visits to eighteenth-century palaces and their family quarters, and textual reconstruction's of the elite residential neighbourhoods of the city, Unveiling the Harem presents a lucid and historically grounded portrait of Egyptian women, stripped of the powerless victim narrative that is still with us today
    Description / Table of Contents: Reimagining the harem: from orientalist fantasies to historical reconstructionEgypt in the eighteenth century: the transition from the medieval to the early modern -- Slaves in the family: Islam, household slavery, and the construction of kinship -- The Mamluk household: how a house became a home -- Mamluk women and the Egyptian economy: a comparative perspective on women's property rights -- The city as text: space, gender, and power in Cairo -- The architecture of seclusion: in search of the historical harem -- Everyday life in the harem -- Changing the subject: gender and the history of the Mamluk revival -- Epilogue.
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    Super girls, gangstas, freeters, and xenomaniacs : gender and modernity in global youth cultures (2012)
    Syracuse, N.Y : Syracuse University Press
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    ISBN: 9780815651697 , 0815651694
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (304 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Project MUSE
    Series Statement: Gender and globalization
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Super girls, gangstas, freeters, and xenomaniacs
    DDC: 305.235
    Keywords: Civilization, Modern 21st century ; Young women Cross-cultural studies ; Youth Social conditions ; Youth Cross-cultural studies ; Young women Cross-cultural studies ; Youth Social conditions ; Youth Cross-cultural studies ; Civilization, Modern 21st century ; Youth Social conditions ; Youth Cross-cultural studies ; Young women Cross-cultural studies ; Civilization, Modern 21st century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Civilization, Modern ; Young women ; Youth ; Youth ; Social conditions ; Cross-cultural studies ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Mobile phones and the "commercialization" of relationships : expressions of masculinity in southern Mozambique / Julie Soleil Archambault -- Claiming youth, the modern feminine self, and womanhood in northern Namibia / Sayumi Yamakawa -- Still a child? Liminality and the construction of youthful masculinities in Japan / Emma E. Cook -- Gendered modernities among rual indigenous Fijian children / Karen J. Brison -- Androgynous beauty, virtual sisterhood : stardom, fandom, and Chinese talent shows under globalization / Hui Faye Xiao -- Teenage girls and global television : performing the "new" Hindi film song / Shikha Jhingan -- Xenomania : globalized and gendered discourses of the nation in Cyprus / Miranda Christou -- Children as barometers of social decay : perceptions of sex tourism in Goa, India / Susan Dewey and Lindi Conover -- Negotiating agency : local youth activism in Aotearoa-New Zealand / Fiona Beals and Bronwyn Wood -- Imagining Papua New Guinean cultural modernities in urban Australia : youth, cultural schools, and informal education / Jacquelyn A. Lewis-Harris -- Islanders among a sea of gangs : diasporic masculinities and gang culture among Tongan American youth / Joseph Esser.
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    Transgressive tales : queering the Grimms (2012)
    Detroit : Wayne State University Press
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    ISBN: 9780814338100 , 0814338100 , 0814334814 , 9780814334812
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (p. cm.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Series in fairy-tale studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Transgressive tales
    DDC: 398.20943
    Keywords: Grimm, Jacob 1785-1863 Criticism and interpretation ; Grimm, Wilhelm 1786-1859 Criticism and interpretation ; Grimm, Wilhelm Criticism and interpretation ; Grimm, Jacob Criticism and interpretation ; Grimm, Wilhelm 1786-1859 Criticism and interpretation ; Grimm, Jacob 1785-1863 Criticism and interpretation ; Grimm, Jacob ; Grimm, Wilhelm ; Kinder- und Hausmärchen ; Kinder- und Hausmärchen ; Fairy tales History and criticism ; Germany ; Homosexuality in literature ; Queer theory ; Fairy tales History and criticism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Fairy tales ; Homosexuality in literature ; Queer theory ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Germany ; Electronic books ; Deutsch ; Märchen ; Homosexualität ; Queer-Theorie
    Abstract: "The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years, the brothers, especially Wilhelm, revised, edited, sanitized, and bowdlerized the tales, publishing the seventh and final edition in 1857 with many of the sexual implications removed. However, the contributors in Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms demonstrate that the Grimms and other collectors paid less attention to ridding the tales of non-heterosexual implications and that, in fact, the Grimms' tales are rich with queer possibilities. Editors Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill introduce the volume with an overview of the tales' literary and interpretive history, surveying their queerness in terms of not just sex, gender and sexuality, but also issues of marginalization, oddity, and not fitting into society. In three thematic sections, contributors then consider a range of tales and their queer themes. In Faux Femininities, essays explore female characters, and their relationships and feminine representation in the tales. Contributors to Revising Rewritings consider queer elements in rewritings of the Grimms' tales, including Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, Jeanette Winterson's Twelve Dancing Princesses, and contemporary reinterpretations of both 'Snow White' and 'Snow White and Rose Red.' Contributors in the final section, Queering the Tales, consider queer elements in some of the Grimms' original tales and explore intriguing issues of gender, biology, patriarchy, and transgression."--Publisher description
    Abstract: Introduction: once upon a queer time /Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill --Whetting her appetite: what's a "clever" woman to do in the Grimms' collection? /Cristina Bacchilega --Nurtured in a lonely place: the wise woman as type in "The goose girl at the spring" /Kevin Goldstein --Queering kinship in "The maiden who seeks her brothers" /Jeana Jorgensen --"But who are you really?": ambiguous bodies and ambiguous pronouns in "Allerleirauh" /Margaret R. Yocom --A desire for death: the Grimms' Sleeping Beauty in The bloody chamber /Kimberly J. Lau --Happily ever after, according to our tastes: Jeanette Winterson's "Twelve dancing princesses" and queer possibility /Jennifer Orme --The lost sister: lesbian eroticism and female empowerment in "Snow White and Rose Red" /Andrew J. Friedenthal --Queering gender: transformations in "Peg Bearskin," "La Poiluse," and related tales /Pauline Greenhill, Anita Best, and Emilie Anderson-Grégoire --The true (false) bride and the false (true) bridegroom: "Fitcher's bird" and gendered virtue and villainy /Catherine Tosenberger --Becoming-mouse, becoming-man: the sideways growth of Princess Mouseskin /Joy Brooke Fairfield --Playing with fire: transgression as truth in Grimms' "Frau Trude" /Kay Turner --Destroying patriarchy to save it: Safdár Tawakkolí's Afghan boxwoman /Margaret A. Mills --"The grave mound": a queer adaptation /Elliot Gordon Mercer --Appendix: trans and drag in traditional folktales.
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    Speaking Soviet with an accent : culture and power in Kyrgyzstan (2012)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822978091 , 0822978091
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 236 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Central Eurasia in context
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Igmen, Ali Speaking Soviet with an accent : culture and power in Kyrgyzstan
    DDC: 306.09584309041
    Keywords: Politics and culture History ; Kyrgyzstan ; Popular culture History ; Kyrgyzstan ; Kyrgyz Cultural assimilation ; History ; Soviet Union ; Minorities Government policy ; History ; Soviet Union ; Politics and culture History ; Popular culture History ; Kyrgyz Cultural assimilation ; History ; Minorities Government policy ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; HISTORY ; General ; Cultural policy ; Ethnic relations ; Intellectual life ; Minorities ; Government policy ; Politics and culture ; Popular culture ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; History ; Kyrgyzstan Intellectual life ; 20th century ; Soviet Union Ethnic relations ; History ; Soviet Union Cultural policy ; History ; Soviet Union Ethnic relations ; History ; Soviet Union Cultural policy ; History ; Kyrgyzstan Intellectual life 20th century ; Kyrgyzstan ; Soviet Union ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Speaking Soviet with an Accent presents the first English-language study of Soviet culture clubs in Kyrgyzstan. These clubs profoundly influenced the future of Kyrgyz cultural identity and fostered the work of many artists, such as famed novelist Chingiz Aitmatov. Based on extensive oral history and archival research, Ali Igmen follows the rise of culture clubs beginning in the 1920s, when they were established to inculcate Soviet ideology and create a sedentary lifestyle among the historically nomadic Kyrgyz people. These "Red clubs" are fondly remembered by locals as one of the few places where lively activities and socialization with other members of their ail (village or tribal unit) could be found. Through lectures, readings, books, plays, concerts, operas, visual arts, and cultural Olympiads, locals were exposed to Soviet notions of modernization. But these programs also encouraged the creation of a newfound "Kyrgyzness" that preserved aspects of local traditions and celebrated the achievements of Kyrgyz citizens in the building of a new state. These ideals proved appealing to many Kyrgyz, who, for centuries, had seen riches and power in the hands of a few tribal chieftains and Russian imperialists. This book offers new insights into the formation of modern cultural identity in Central Asia. Here, like their imperial predecessors, the Soviets sought to extend their physical borders and political influence. But Igmen also reveals the remarkable agency of the Kyrgyz people, who employed available resources to meld their own heritage with Soviet and Russian ideologies and form artistic expressions that continue to influence Kyrgyzstan today."--Project Muse
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    Quand l'amour et l'État rendent aveugle : le mythe du mariage automatique (2012)
    Quebec : Presses de l'Universite du Quebec
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    ISBN: 9782760533103 , 2760533107
    Language: French
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 158 p. )
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Belleau, Hélène Quand l'amour et l'État rendent aveugle : le mythe du mariage automatique
    DDC: 306.8109714
    Keywords: Couples Québec (Province) ; Social perception Québec (Province) ; Common law marriage Québec (Province) ; Concubinage Québec (Province) ; Marriage Québec (Province) ; Québec ; Couples ; Social perception ; Common law marriage ; Concubinage ; Marriage ; Concubinage ; Marriage ; Couples ; Social perception ; Common law marriage ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Marriage ; Common law marriage ; Concubinage ; Couples ; Marriage ; Social perception ; Québec ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ""Remerciements ""; ""Table des mati�res ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Partie 1 ""; ""1. Le droit canon et les représentants de l'�glise ""; ""2. Les régimes matrimoniaux et l'influence des notaires ""; ""3. La fin du mariage comme institution pérenne, universelle et publique ""; ""4. Le législateur québécois, un être polyglotte ""; ""5. Entre individualisme et amour conjugal ""; ""Partie 2 ""; ""6. Le mythe du mariage automatique ""; ""7. Les changements lexicaux dans la langue québécoise ""; ""8. Les raisons pour se marier ou non ""
    Abstract: ""9. Les similitudes et les différences entre le mariage et l'union de fait """"10. Les perceptions de l'encadrement juridique de la vie conjugale ""; ""Conclusion générale ""; ""Annexe 1 -- Quelques mots sur la méthodologie ""; ""Annexe 2 -- Lexique ""; ""Annexe 3 -- Ligne du temps ""; ""Bibliographie ""
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    Media, sound, and culture in Latin America and the Caribbean (2012)
    Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822977957 , 0822977958
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (160 p.)
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    Series Statement: Pitt Latin American Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Media, sound, and culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
    DDC: 302.23098
    Keywords: Radio broadcasting Caribbean Area ; Radio broadcasting Latin America ; Mass media and culture Caribbean Area ; Mass media and culture Latin America ; Caribbean Area ; Latin America ; Sound in mass media ; Radio broadcasting ; Radio broadcasting ; Mass media and culture ; Mass media and culture ; Mass media and culture ; Radio broadcasting ; Sound in mass media ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; HISTORY ; General ; Caribbean Area ; Latin America ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Introduction:Media, sound, and culture /Alejandra Bronfman & Andrew Grant Wood --Part I. Embodied sounds and the sounds of memory.Recovering voices: the popular music ear in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Brazil /Fernando de Sousa Rocha --Radio transvestism and the gendered soundscape in Buenos Aires, 1930s-1940s /Christine Ehrick --Part II. The media of politics.How to do things with waves: United States radio and Latin America in the times of the good neighbor /Gisela Cramer --Weapons of the geek: romantic narratives, sonic technologies, and tinkerers in 1930s Santiago, Cuba /Alejandra Bronfman --Music, media spectacle, and the idea of democracy: the case of DJ Kermit's "Góber" /Alejandro L. Madrid --Part III. The sonics of public spaces.Alba: musical temporality in the carnival of Oruro, Bolivia /Gonzalo Araoz --Such a noise! Fireworks and the soundscapes of two Veracruz festivals /Andrew Grant Wood --Postcript.Sound representation: nation, translation, memory /Michele Hilmes.
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    Under Solomon's throne : Uzbek visions of renewal in Osh (2012)
    Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822977926 , 0822977923
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (328 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Central Eurasia in context
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Liu, Morgan Y Under Solomon's throne
    DDC: 305.89432505843
    Keywords: Nativistic movements Kyrgyzstan ; Osh ; Post-communism Kyrgyzstan ; Osh ; Uzbeks Government relations ; Kyrgyzstan ; Osh ; Uzbeks Economic conditions ; Kyrgyzstan ; Osh ; Uzbeks Social conditions ; Kyrgyzstan ; Osh ; Nativistic movements ; Post-communism ; Uzbeks Government relations ; Uzbeks Economic conditions ; Uzbeks Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Politics and government ; Ethnic relations ; Nativistic movements ; Post-communism ; Osh (Kyrgyzstan) Politics and government ; Osh (Kyrgyzstan) Ethnic relations ; Osh (Kyrgyzstan) Ethnic relations ; Osh (Kyrgyzstan) Politics and government ; Kyrgyzstan ; Osh ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Interviews, Translations, and Transliteration -- Introduction: A City for Thought -- Chapter 1. Bazaar and Mediation -- Chapter 2. Border and Post-Soviet Predicament -- Chapter 3. Divided City and Relating to the State -- Chapter 4. Neighborhood and Making Proper Persons -- Chapter 5. House and Dwelling in the World -- Chapter 6. Republic and Virtuous Leadership -- Conclusion: Central Asian Visions of Societal Renewal -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Abstract: Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences. Under Solomon's Throne provides a rare ground-level analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia's social and political paradoxes by focusing on an urban ethnic community: the Uzbeks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, who have maintained visions of societal renewal throughout economic upheaval, political discrimination, and massive violence. Morgan Liu illuminates many of the challenges facing Central Asia today by unpacking the predicament of Osh, a city whose experience captures key political and cultural issues of the region a
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    L'information : la necessaire perspective citoyenne (2012)
    Quebec : Presses de l'Universite du Quebec
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    ISBN: 9782760534209 , 2760534200
    Language: French
    Pages: Online Ressource (139 p. )
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Corriveau, Raymond Information : la nécessaire perspective citoyenne
    DDC: 302.2309714
    Keywords: Communication Public opinion ; Québec (Province) ; Freedom of information Québec (Province) ; Communication Social aspects ; Québec (Province) ; Québec ; Communication Social aspects ; Communication Public opinion ; Freedom of information ; Freedom of information ; Communication Social aspects ; Communication Public opinion ; Communication ; Social aspects ; Freedom of information ; Communication ; Public opinion ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Québec ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ""Remerciements""; ""Avant-propos""; ""Table des mati�res""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapitre 1 -- De l'information""; ""Chapitre 2 -- L'information au Québec""; ""Chapitre 3 -- Les réalités irréconciliables""; ""Chapitre 4 -- Les solutions sont nombreuses""; ""Conclusion -- Nos solutions""; ""Références""
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    Silence et rencontre : la disponibilite de l'autre (2012)
    Quebec : Presses de l'Universite du Quebec
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    ISBN: 9782760531390 , 2760531392
    Language: French
    Pages: Online Ressource (xviii, 160 p. )
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Communication
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barsalou, Marc André, 1977- Silence et rencontre
    DDC: 302.2
    Keywords: Silence ; Silence (Philosophy) ; Interpersonal relations ; Social interaction ; Silence (Philosophy) ; Interpersonal relations ; Social interaction ; Silence ; Interpersonal relations ; Silence ; Silence (Philosophy) ; Social interaction ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Communication Studies ; Electronic books
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    Looking for non-publics (2012)
    Quebec : Presses de l'Universite du Quebec
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    ISBN: 9782760533721 , 2760533727
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vii, xxvii, 158 p. )
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Collection Publics et culture
    Series Statement: Collection Culture et publics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Looking for non-publics
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Arts audiences ; Authors and readers ; Arts and society ; Audiences ; Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Arts and society ; Arts audiences ; Audiences ; Authors and readers ; Culture ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; Electronic books
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    The megarhetorics of global development (2012)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822977414 , 0822977419
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (p. cm.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Megarhetorics of global development
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Rhetoric Social aspects ; Globalization Social aspects ; Economic development Social aspects ; Communication in economic development Social aspects ; Rhetorical criticism ; Rhetoric Social aspects ; Globalization Social aspects ; Economic development Social aspects ; Communication in economic development Social aspects ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Rhetoric ; Economic development ; Social aspects ; Globalization ; Social aspects ; Rhetoric ; Social aspects ; Rhetorical criticism ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: After World War II, an unprecedented age of global development began. The formation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund allowed war torn and poverty stricken nations to become willing debtors in their desire to entice Western investment and trade. New capital, it was foretold, would pave the way to political and economic stability, and the benefits would "trickle down" to even the poorest citizens. The hyperbole of this neocolonialism, however, has left many of these countries with nothing but compounded debt and unfulfilled promises. The Megarhetorics of Global Development examines rhetorical strategies used by multinational corporations, NGOs, governments, banks, and others to further their own economic, political, or technological agendas. These wide-ranging case studies employ rhetorical theory, globalization scholarship, and analysis of cultural and historical dynamics to offer in-depth critiques of development practices and their material effects. By deconstructing megarhetorics, at both the local and global level, and following their paths of mobilization and diffusion, the concepts of "progress" and "growth" can be reevaluated, with the end goal of encouraging self-sustaining and ethical outcomes
    Abstract: Tracking "transglocal" risks in pharmaceutical development: Novartis's challenge of Indian patent law / J. Blake Scott -- Meeting the challenge of globalization: President Clinton's "double movement" discourse / Jason A. Edwards and Jaime L. Wright -- Ethos in a bottle: corporate social responsibility and humanitarian doxa / D. Robert DeChaine -- Developmental shifts: changing feelings about compassion in Korea / Matt Newcomb -- Staging the Beijing Olympics: intersecting human rights and economic development narratives / Tim Jensen and Wendy S. Hesford -- Framing the megarhetorics of agricultural development: industrialized agriculture and sustainable agriculture / Eileen E. Schell -- Turning the tables on the megarhetoric of women's empowerment / Rebecca Dingo -- Making the case: Bamako and the problem of anti-imperial art / Bret Benjamin -- Enfreakment; or, aliens of extraordinary disability / Robert McRuer.
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    Asian diaspora and East-West modernity (2012)
    West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press
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    ISBN: 9781612492094 , 1612492096
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (228 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Comparative cultural studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ma, Sheng-mei Asian diaspora and East-West modernity
    DDC: 305.895
    Keywords: American literature Asian American authors ; History and criticism ; Popular culture Asia ; Asian diaspora Asia ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Civilization, Modern ; East and West ; Popular culture ; American literature Asian American authors ; History and criticism ; Asian diaspora ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; Asian American ; American literature ; Asian American authors ; Asian diaspora ; Civilization, Modern ; East and West ; Popular culture ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Asia ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Acknowledgments --Introduction: Digging to China (or America) --Chapter 1.Asian Cell and Horror --Chapter 2.Asian Diaspora Does Vegas --Chapter 3.Diasporic Authors of Children's and Young Adult Books --Chapter 4.A Child's Passing into Asian Diaspora --Chapter 5.yEast for Modern Cannibals --Chapter 6.Bugman in Modernity --Chapter 7.Kim Ki-duk's Nonperson Films --Chapter 8.Nakazawa's A-bomb, Tezuka's Adolf, and Kobayashi's Apologia --Chapter 9.Orientation Goes to War in the Twentieth Century --Chapter 10.Hyperreal Beijing and the 2008 Olympics --Works Cited --Index.
    Abstract: In this book, Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity, Sheng-mei Ma analyzes Asian, Asian diaspora, and Orientalist discourse and probes into the conjoinedness of West and East and modernity's illusions. Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature, as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema, the internet, and the Korean Wave, Ma's analyses render fluid the two hemispheres of the globe, the twin states of being and nonbeing, and things of value and nonentity. Suspended on the stylistic tightrope between research and poetry, critical analysis and intution, Asian Diaspora restores affect and heart to diaspora in between East and West, at-homeness and exilic attrition. Diaspora, by definition, stems as much from socioeconomic and collective displacement as it points to emotional reaction. This book thus challenges the fossilized conceptualizations in area studies, ontology, and modernism
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    The Russian folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (2012)
    Detroit : Wayne State University Press
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    ISBN: 9780814337219 , 081433721X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
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    Series Statement: Series in fairy-tale studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Propp, V. I︠A︡. (Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich), 1895-1970 Russian folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp
    DDC: 398.20947
    Keywords: Tales History and criticism ; Russia (Federation) ; Fairy tales Classification ; Folklore Russia (Federation) ; Fairy tales Classification ; Folklore ; Tales History and criticism ; Tales ; Russisch ; Märchen ; Volksliteratur ; Folksagor ; historia ; Sagor ; historia ; Folksagor ; historia ; Fairy tales ; Folklore ; Classification ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Russland ; Russia (Federation) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "[The Russian Folktale is] an impressively wide-ranging work that stimulates through speculation, it provides precisely what the early elaboration of functions declaratively lacks: an etiology of genre, a broad historical perspective, analyses of individual tales, commentary on tale-tellers, engagement with previous scholarship, and examination of a sufficiently broad European context to enable thought-provoking insights into the distinctiveness of Russian folk narratives."--Helena Goscilo -- Book jacket
    Abstract: Foreword: toward understanding the complete Vladimir Propp / Jack Zipes -- Vladimir Propp and the Russian folktale / Sibelan Forrester -- The Russian folktale / Vladimir Yakolevich Propp. Introduction ; The history of collection ; The history of study of the folktale ; Wonder tales ; Novellistic tales ; Cumulative tales ; Animal tales ; The life of the folktale.
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    Amoeba management : lessons from Japan's Kyocera (2012)
    Cambridge, MA : MIT
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    Pages: 1 online resource (1 volume)
    Keywords: Kyōsera Kabushiki Kaisha ; Industrial management ; Organizational effectiveness ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: A persistent challenge for companies as they grow is how to maintain the high level of dynamism and employee commitment that drove success in the early days. Over the years, thoughtful managers and management theorists have formulated many approaches for dealing with the problem, all aimed at giving managers and employees more responsibility and accountability for the performance of their own profit centers. But the authors argue that few companies have taken things as far as Kyocera Corp. Headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, Kyocera produces a range of industrial ceramics, semiconductor components, electronics devices and information and telecommunications equipment. During its more than five decades in business, a key driver of Kyocera's growth and success, the authors say, has been its distinctive entrepreneurial culture, known internally as "amoeba management." Kyocera founder Kazuo Inamori developed the amoeba management system to help ordinary employees without any operations or finance backgrounds see how they can contribute to the success of the business. Within Kyocera, there are some 3,000 amoebas, most of which have between five and 50 employees. They are expected to operate independently and find ways of working with other amoebas to achieve profitable growth. Amoebas share their plans with senior managers at plantwide assemblies. Hourly efficiency is the primary measure of amoeba performance. The ratio allows management to make profitability comparisons across amoebas and time. The authors note that Kyocera's system is better suited for business environments characterized by intense competition and fast technological change, because companies in such environments require decentralized structures.
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    Islam in Hong Kong : Muslims and everyday life in China's world city (2012)
    Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press
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    ISBN: 9789882208407 , 9882208401 , 9789882208827 , 9882208827
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 electronic text (xiv, 217 p.) , ill., digital file.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Hong Kong culture and society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.697095125
    Keywords: Muslims China ; Hong Kong ; Social conditions ; Muslims Social life and customs ; China ; Hong Kong ; Muslims China ; Hong Kong ; Muslims ; Muslims ; Muslims Social life and customs ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Islamic Studies ; Muslims ; Social conditions ; Ethnic relations ; Muslims ; Muslims ; Social life and customs ; Hong Kong (China) Ethnic relations ; China ; Hong Kong ; Hong Kong (China) Ethnic relations ; China ; Hong Kong ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "More than a quarter of a million Muslims live and work in Hong Kong. Among them are descendants of families who have been in the city for generations, recent immigrants from around the world, and growing numbers of migrant workers. Islam in Hong Kong explores the lives of Muslims as ethnic and religious minorities in this unique postcolonial Chinese city. Drawing on interviews with Muslims of different origins, O'Connor builds a detailed picture of daily life through topical chapters on language, space, religious education, daily prayers, maintaining a halal diet in a Chinese environment, racism, and other subjects. Although the picture that emerges is complex and ambiguous, one striking conclusion is that Muslims in Hong Kong generally find acceptance as a community and do not consider themselves to be victimised because of their religion."--Publisher's website
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    Performing China : virtue, commerce, and orientalism in eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760 (2011)
    Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
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    ISBN: 9781421404417 , 1421404419
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 270 p. :) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Yang, Chi-Ming Performing China : Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660-1760
    DDC: 303.4824205109033
    Keywords: European literature 18th century ; European literature 18th century ; European literature 18th century ; European literature ; Public opinion, British ; Civilization ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; History ; China Civilization ; History ; China Foreign public opinion, British ; History ; 18th century ; China Civilization ; History ; China Foreign public opinion, British 18th century ; History ; China Foreign public opinion, British 18th century ; History ; China Civilization ; History ; China ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction: spectacle and the example of China -- Heroic effeminacy and the conquest of China -- Sincerity and authenticity : George Psalmanazar's experiments in conversion -- Transmigration, fabulous pedagogy, and the morals of the orient -- Luxury, moral sentiment, and the orphan of China -- Epilogue: global orientalism and the business of spectacle
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: spectacle and the example of ChinaHeroic effeminacy and the conquest of China -- Sincerity and authenticity : George Psalmanazar's experiments in conversion -- Transmigration, fabulous pedagogy, and the morals of the orient -- Luxury, moral sentiment, and the orphan of China -- Epilogue: global orientalism and the business of spectacle.
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    Science transformed? : debating claims of an epochal break (2011)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822977506 , 0822977508
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vii, 222 p. :) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Science transformed?
    DDC: 303.483
    Keywords: Science Technological innovations ; Science Philosophy ; Science Social aspects ; Science Technological innovations ; Science Philosophy ; Science Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; PHILOSOPHY ; General ; Science ; Philosophy ; Science ; Social aspects ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Advancements in computing, instrumentation, robotics, digital imaging, and simulation modeling are changing science into a technology-driven institution. The pragmatic interests of government, industry, and society increasingly exert their influence over science, raising questions of values and objectivity. These and other profound changes in the world of science have led many to speculate that we are in the midst of an epochal break in scientific history. This edited volume presents an in-depth examination of these issues from philosophical, historical, social, and cultural perspectives. It presents arguments both for and against the epochal break thesis in light of historical antecedents, offering an important occasion for philosophical analysis of the epistemic, institutional and moral questions affecting current and future scientific pursuits. "--P. 4 of cover
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    La communaute politique en question : regards croises sur l'immigration, la citoyennete, la diversite et le pouvoir (2011)
    Quebec : Presses de l'Universie du Quebec
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    ISBN: 9782760532281 , 2760532283 , 2760532283 , 9782760532274
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 375 p.)
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies ; Citizenship ; Cultural pluralism ; Emigration and immigration ; Ethnicity ; Nationalism ; Social integration ; Migration ; Nationalismus ; Nationalism ; Ethnicity ; Social integration ; Citizenship ; Emigration and immigration ; Cultural pluralism ; Electronic books
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    Le pouvoir, c'est pas sorcier : il suffit d'en avoir les cles (2011)
    Quebec : Presses de l'Universite du Quebec
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    ISBN: 9782760532496 , 2760532496
    Language: French
    Pages: Online Ressource (139 p. )
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: PRATICOM
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Landry, Simone Pouvoir, c'est pas sorcier : Il suffit d'en avoir les clés
    DDC: 303.3
    Keywords: Power (Social sciences) ; Social influence ; Social control ; Leadership ; Social influence ; Social control ; Leadership ; Power (Social sciences) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Leadership ; Power (Social sciences) ; Social control ; Social influence ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ""Remerciements ""; ""Table des mati�res ""; ""Introduction ""; ""COMPRENDRE LE POUVOIR POUR MIEUX L�EXERCER""; ""À LA SOURCE DE TOUT POUVOIR""; ""LES D�TERMINANTS DU POUVOIR""; ""LA QUESTION DU LEADERSHIP""; ""LA MISE EN ACTE DU POUVOIR: STRAT�GIES D�INFLUENCE ET JEUX DE POUVOIR ""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""CORRIG� DES EXERCICES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHIE""; ""GLOSSAIRE""; ""Dans la collection PratiCom ""
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    Women of the conquest dynasties : gender and identity in Liao and Jin China (2011)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press
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    ISBN: 0824860241 , 9780824860240
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (a xxxiii, 254 p) , ill., maps
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Women of the Conquest Dynasties : Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China
    DDC: 305.40951
    Keywords: Women History ; Manchuria (China) - History - To 1500 ; Electronic books ; Manchuria (China) History To 1500
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Time Line -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One Womanly Ideals in the Liao and Jin Periods -- Chapter Two Liao Women's Daily Lives -- Chapter Three Jin Women's Daily Lives -- Chapter Four Sexuality and Marriage -- Chapter Five Widowhood and Chastity -- Chapter Six Warrior Women -- Chapter Seven Private Affairs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: Womanly ideals in the Liao and Jin periodsLiao women's daily lives -- Jin women's daily lives -- Sexuality and marriage -- Widowhood and chastity -- Warrior women -- Private affairs.
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    The vigorous core of our nationality : race and regional identity in northeastern Brazil (2011)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822977704 , 0822977702
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 315 p. :) , maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Blake, Stanley E Vigorous core of our nationality : race and regional identity in northeastern Brazil
    DDC: 305.8009813
    Keywords: Group identity Brazil, Northeast ; Regionalism Brazil, Northeast ; National characteristics, Brazilian ; Group identity ; Regionalism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; General ; Civilization ; Group identity ; National characteristics, Brazilian ; Race relations ; Regionalism ; Social conditions ; Brazil, Northeast Social conditions ; 20th century ; Brazil, Northeast Social conditions ; 19th century ; Brazil, Northeast Race relations ; Brazil, Northeast Civilization ; Brazil, Northeast ; Brazil, Northeast Social conditions 19th century ; Brazil, Northeast Race relations ; Brazil, Northeast Civilization ; Brazil, Northeast Social conditions 20th century ; Northeast Brazil ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction : nordeste and nation -- The nineteenth-century origins of the nordestino, 1850-1870 -- Racial science in Pernambuco, 1870-1910 -- The medicalization of nordestinos, 1910-1925 -- Social hygiene : the science of reform, 1925-1940 -- Mental hygiene : the science of character, 1925-1940 -- Inventing the homem do nordeste : race, region, and the state, 1925-1940.
    Abstract: The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period. Beginning with the abolition of slavery and ending with the demise of the Estado Novo under Getúlio Vargas, Stanley E. Blake offers original perspectives on the paradoxical concept of the nordestino and the importance of these debates to the process of state and nation building. Since colonial times, the Northeast has been an agricultural region based primarily on sugar production. The area's
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    Crimes of dissent : civil disobedience, criminal justice, and the politics of conscience (2010)
    New York : New York University Press
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    ISBN: 9780814753477 , 0814753477
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 239 p. :) , ill.
    Edition: [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library
    DDC: 303.62
    Keywords: Crime United States ; Social movements United States ; Civil disobedience United States ; Civil disobedience United States ; Crime United States ; Social movements United States ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: From animal rights to anti-abortion, from tax resistance to anti-poverty, activists from across the political spectrum often deliberately break the law to further their causes. While not behaviors common to hardened or self-seeking criminals, the staging of civil disobedience, non-violent resistance, and direct action can nevertheless trigger a harsh response from law enforcement, with those arrested risking jail time and criminal records. Crimes of Dissent features the voices of these activists, presenting a fascinating insider?s look at the motivations, costs and consequences of deliberately
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