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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781107447219 , 9781107027039
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 259 Seiten , Diagramme
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Strategisches Management ; Risiko ; Organisationsverhalten ; Unternehmen ; Organisation ; Organisationsverhalten ; Fallstudien ; Strategische Planung ; Organizational behavior--Case studies. ; Strategic planning--Case studies. ; Unternehmen ; Organisation ; Organisationsverhalten ; Risiko ; Strategisches Management
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  • 2
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    ISBN: 9781139015882
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 486 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge surveys of economic literature
    DDC: 306.85
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    Abstract: The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides a comprehensive, modern and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. The first half of the book develops several alternative models of family decision making. Particular attention is paid to the collective model and its testable implications. The second half discusses household formation and dissolution and who marries whom. Matching models with and without frictions are analyzed and the important role of within-family transfers is explained. The implications for marriage, divorce and fertility are discussed. The book is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781107070264 , 1107070260
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 315 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    DDC: 382.09182/4
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    Keywords: 1750-1850 ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Handelsgeschichte ; Indischer Ozean ; Südasien ; Afrika ; Merchants History 18th century ; Merchants History 19th century ; Merchants History ; International trade History ; Production (Economic theory) History ; Consumption (Economics) History ; Merchants History ; 18th century ; South Asia ; Merchants History ; 19th century ; South Asia ; Merchants History ; Indian Ocean ; International trade History ; Production (Economic theory) History ; Consumption (Economics) History ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History ; Commerce ; Consumption (Economics) ; International trade ; Merchants ; Production (Economic theory) ; Indian Ocean Commerce 18th century ; History ; Indian Ocean Commerce 19th century ; History ; South Asia Commerce ; History ; Africa Commerce ; History ; Indian Ocean Commerce ; History ; 18th century ; Indian Ocean Commerce ; History ; 19th century ; South Asia Commerce ; History ; Africa Commerce ; History ; Africa ; Indian Ocean ; South Asia ; History ; Indischer Ozean Region ; Gujarat ; Daman ; Diu ; Afrika Südost ; Fernhandel ; Textilhandel ; Elfenbeinhandel ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte 1750-1850 ; Gujarat ; Daman ; Diu ; Kaufmann ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Geschichte 1750-1850 ; Indischer Ozean ; Textilhandel ; Elfenbeinhandel ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte 1750-1850
    Abstract: "Offers an innovative study of trade, production and consumption across the Indian Ocean between the years 1750-1850"--
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures and MapsNote on Currencies -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Merchants of the Ocean -- Crossings -- Threads that Bind --White Gold -- Africa in India -- Conclusion.
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  • 4
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    ISBN: 9781139015882
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxi, 486 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge surveys of economic literature
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    Keywords: Families / Economic aspects ; Households / Economic aspects ; Familienökonomie ; Haushaltsökonomie ; Familienökonomie ; Haushaltsökonomie
    Abstract: The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides a comprehensive, modern and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. The first half of the book develops several alternative models of family decision making. Particular attention is paid to the collective model and its testable implications. The second half discusses household formation and dissolution and who marries whom. Matching models with and without frictions are analyzed and the important role of within-family transfers is explained. The implications for marriage, divorce and fertility are discussed. The book is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Models of Household Behavior: 1. Facts; 2. The gains from marriage; 3. Preferences and decision making; 4. The collective model: a formal analysis; 5. Empirical issues for the collective model; 6. Uncertainty and dynamics in the collective model; Part II. Equilibrium Models of the Marriage Market: 7. Matching on the marriage market: theory; 8. Sharing the gains from marriage; 9. Investment in schooling and the marriage market; 10. An equilibrium model of marriage, fertility, and divorce; 11. Children and family structure
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139381338
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 194 pages)
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    DDC: 302.23/1
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Consumers / Research ; Social media ; Marketing / Social aspects ; Internet marketing / Social aspects
    Abstract: In the world of Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, water-cooler conversations with co-workers and backyard small talk with neighbors have moved from the physical world to the digital arena. In this new landscape, organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies to political campaigns continuously monitor online opinions in an effort to guide their actions. Are consumers satisfied with our product? How are our policies perceived? Do voters agree with our platform? Measuring online opinion is more complex than just reading a few posted reviews. Social media is replete with noise and chatter that can contaminate monitoring efforts. By knowing what shapes online opinions, organizations can better uncover the valuable insights hidden in the social media chatter and better inform strategy. This book can help anyone facing the challenge of making sense of social media data to move beyond the current practice of social media monitoring to more comprehensive use of social media intelligence
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139548946
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 45
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    DDC: 953.8
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    Keywords: Stadt ; Petroleum industry and trade / Saudi Arabia ; Cities and towns / Growth ; Kraftwagen ; Jugend ; Subkultur ; Ungleichheit ; Riad ; Riad ; Jugend ; Ungleichheit ; Subkultur ; Kraftwagen
    Abstract: Why do young Saudis, night after night, joyride and skid cars on Riyadh's avenues? Who are these 'drifters' who defy public order and private property? What drives their revolt? Based on four years of fieldwork in Riyadh, Pascal Menoret's Joyriding in Riyadh explores the social fabric of the city and connects it to Saudi Arabia's recent history. Car drifting emerged after Riyadh was planned, and oil became the main driver of the economy. For young rural migrants, it was a way to reclaim alienating and threatening urban spaces. For the Saudi state, it jeopardized its most basic operations: managing public spaces and enforcing law and order. A police crackdown soon targeted car drifting, feeding a nation-wide moral panic led by religious activists who framed youth culture as a public issue. This book retraces the politicization of Riyadh youth and shows that, far from being a marginal event, car drifting is embedded in the country's social violence and economic inequality
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of figures -- A night with 'Ajib -- Repression and fieldwork -- City of the future -- The business of development -- Street terrorism -- Street politics -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Photo credits
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139227193
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 373 pages)
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 36
    DDC: 302.3
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    Keywords: Soziales Netzwerk ; Organisation
    Abstract: This edited volume demonstrates the potential of mixed-methods designs for the research of social networks and the utilization of social networks for other research. Mixing methods applies to the combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative methods. In social network research, mixing methods also applies to the combination of structural and actor-oriented approaches. The volume provides readers with methodological concepts to guide mixed-methods network studies with precise research designs and methods to investigate social networks of various sorts. Each chapter describes the research design used and discusses the strengths of the methods for that particular field and for specific outcomes.
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781139059138
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 470 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Capabilities, gender, equality
    DDC: 330.9172/4001
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    Keywords: Equality ; Economic development ; Social planning ; Economic development ; Developing countries ; Equality ; Developing countries ; Social planning ; Developing countries ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geschlecht ; Gleichberechtigung ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Entwicklungsländer
    Abstract: Questions of gender, injustice and equality pervade all our lives, and as such, the capabilities or 'human development' approach to understanding well-being and basic political entitlements continues to be debated. In this thought-provoking book, a range of authors provide unique reflections on the capabilities approach and, specifically, Martha C. Nussbaum's contributions to issues of gender, equality and political liberalism. Moreover, the authors tackle a broad range of development issues, including those of religion, ecological and environmental justice, social justice, child care, disability and poverty. This is the first book to examine Nussbaum's work in political philosophy in such depth, bringing together a group of distinguished experts with diverse disciplinary perspectives. It also features a unique contribution from Nussbaum herself, in which she offers reactions to the discussion and her latest thoughts on the capabilities approach. Capabilities, Gender, Equality will interest a wide range of readers and policy-makers interested in new human development policies
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , 10. The Capabilities Of Women: Towards An Alternative Framework For Development , Machine generated contents note: 1. Perfectionist Liberalism And Political Liberalism , 11. Applying The Capabilities Approach To Disability, Poverty, And Gender , 12. Educational Transformation, Gender Justice And Nussbaum's Capabilities , 13. The Social Contract, Unpaid Child Care And Women's Income Capability , 14. Lists And Thresholds: Comparing The Doyal-Gough Theory Of Human Need With Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach , 15. Nussbaum, Rawls, And The Ecological Limits Of Justice: Using Capability Ceilings To Resolve Capability Conflicts , 16. Social Justice And Nussbaum's Concept Of The Person , 17. God And Martha C. Nussbaum: Towards A Reformed Christian View Of Capabilities , 2. Rawlsian Social-Contract Theory And The Severely Disabled , 3. Logos, Pathos And Ethos In Martha C. Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach To Human Development , 4. Building Capabilities: A New Paradigm For Human Development , 5. Capabilities Or Functionings? Anatomy Of A Debate , 6. From Humans To All Of Life: Nussbaum's Transformation Of Dignity , 7. Questioning The Gender-Based Division Of Labour: The Contribution Of The Capabilities Approach To Feminist Economics , 8. Primary Goods, Capabilities, And The Millennium Development Target For Gender Equity In Education , 9. The Weight Of Institutions On Women's Capabilities: How Far Can Microfinance Help?
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107588905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 217 pages)
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    Abstract: While most people work ever-longer hours, international statistics suggest that the average time spent on non-work activities per employee is around two hours a day. How is this possible, and what are the reasons behind employees withdrawing from work? In this thought-provoking book, Roland Paulsen examines organizational misbehavior, specifically the phenomenon of 'empty labor', defined as the time during which employees engage in private activities during the working day. This study explores a variety of explanations, from under-employment to workplace resistance. Building on a rich selection of interview material and extensive empirical research, it uses both qualitative and quantitative data to present a concrete analysis of the different ways empty labor unfolds in the modern workplace. This book offers new perspectives on subjectivity, rationality and work simulation and will be of particular interest to academic researchers and graduate students in organizational sociology, organization studies, and human resource management.
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  • 10
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    ISBN: 9781107035041 , 1107728495 , 1306376378 , 1107723884 , 110703504X , 1139542737 , 9781107732001 , 9781107728493 , 9781306376372 , 9781107723887 , 110773200X , 9781139542739
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 275 S.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. The Hague OAPEN Foundation Online-Ressource Knowledge unlatched pilot collection
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    Keywords: Politics ; International development policy ; Economic development Finance ; Economic assistance ; Development banks ; Nongovernmental organisations ; Corporate governance ; Economic assistance ; Economic development Finance ; Development banks ; Corporate governance ; Non-governmental organizations ; Internationaler Währungsfonds ; Weltbank ; Global Governance ; Entwicklungsfinanzierung ; Misserfolg
    Abstract: Jacqueline Best argues that the changes in International Monetary Fund, World Bank and donor policies in the 1990s, towards what some have called the 'Post-Washington Consensus, ' were driven by an erosion of expert authority and an increasing preoccupation with policy failure. Failures such as the Asian financial crisis and the decades of despair in sub-Saharan Africa led these institutions to develop governance strategies designed to avoid failure: fostering country ownership, developing global standards, managing risk and vulnerability and measuring results. In contrast to the structural adjustment era when policymakers were confident that they had all the answers, the author argues that we are now in an era of provisional governance, in which key actors are aware of the possibility of failure even as they seek to inoculate themselves against it. This book considers the implications of this shift, asking if it is a positive change and whether it is sustainable
    Abstract: Traces an important shift in international development policy as global institutions have become preoccupied with policy failure
    Abstract: 6 Developing global standardsGood governance; The evolution of a governance agenda; The World Bank; International Monetary Fund; Analysing good governance; A new kind of universal; New actors and sites of authority; New techniques: governing through universals; New forms of power and authority; Standards and codes; Developing the initiative; An analysis of standards and codes; A new kind of universal; More performative techniques; New actors and sites of authority; More indirect power; A more provisional kind of governance; 7 Managing risk and vulnerability
    Abstract: Assessing poor countries' vulnerability to shocksUnderstanding the shift; Three new policies; Changing governance factors; Small ""i"" ideas; Actors; Techniques; Power and authority; Redefining poverty as social risk and vulnerability; Understanding the shift; The social risk and vulnerability framework; Changing governance factors; Small ""i"" ideas; Techniques; Actors; Power and authority; A more provisional kind of governance; 8 Measuring results; Where it came from; The ""failure"" of government and new public management; Results in development agencies
    Abstract: ActorsTechniques; Knowledge and ideas; Authority; Power; Recognizing governance styles; Understanding change; Part II History; 3 What came before; What came before; Before standardization; Before ownership; Before risk and vulnerability; Before results-based measurement; A confident style of governing; Tensions emerge; 4 Transformations; Some traditional accounts; An alternative account; The fragility of expert authority; The politics of failure; The problematization of structural adjustment practices; The problems (and possibilities) of politics; The limits of technical universals
    Abstract: Debating success and failureThe problem of contingency; Conclusions; Part III New governance strategies; 5 Fostering ownership; The evolution of ownership; Redesigning conditionality; Streamlining at the IMF; A more gradual change at the World Bank; More radical shifts in some donor states; Analysing conditionality reform; Small ""i"" ideas; Symbolic and informal techniques; Informalizing power; Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs); The push for the PRSP; Analysing the PRSP; Engaging new actors; New techniques; New forms of authority and power; A more provisional style of governance
    Abstract: Part I Understanding how global governance works; 1 Introduction; How and why the shift occurred; How the new practices work; Implications; Empirical contributions; Methodological innovations; Theoretical insights; The importance of practice: between materiality and ideas; Understanding change; Expertise and failure; Provisional governance beyond risk; The plan of the book; 2 A meso-level analysis; Understanding governance as practice; Focusing on governance strategies; Examining factors of governance
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781107015692
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 470 Seiten , 23 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Capabilities, gender, equality
    DDC: 330.9172/4001
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    Keywords: Economic development ; Equality ; Social planning ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 12
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    ISBN: 9781107002913
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (532 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Rising Inequality in China
    DDC: 305.800951
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    Abstract: Examines the evolution of economic inequality in China from 2002 to 2007; a sequel to Inequality and Public Policy in China (2008)
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Glossary; One Rising Inequality in China; I. Introduction; II. The Policy Context; A. Social Welfare and Social Security Programs; B. Employment Policy: Labor-Market Policies and Minimum Wage Regulations; C. Taxation Reforms; D. Pro-Rural Policies; E. Poverty Alleviation; F. Migration and Hukou Reform; III. Measurement of Income; IV. Data and Surveys; A. The Urban and Rural Household Samples; B. The Migrant Samples; C. Questionnaire Design, Variables, and Sources of Data; D. Weighting
    Description / Table of Contents: E. Comparison with NBS Income StatisticsIV. Major Findings; V. Conclusion; Two Overview; I. Introduction; II. Main Findings of Previous Studies; III. Data and Sample Weights; IV. National Household Income Inequality: Main Findings; V Household Income Growth and Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants; VI. The Structure of Inequality: The Urban-Rural Income Gap; VII. The Structure of Inequality: Regional Income Differences; VIII. Poverty; IX. Conclusion; Three Housing Ownership, Incomes, and Inequality in China, 2002-2007; I. Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: II. Institutional and Policy Background of Chinese Housing ReformA. Urban Housing Policy; B. Rural Housing Reform; III. Estimation of Housing Wealth and Imputed Rental Income: Methodology and Data Issues; IV. Housing Tenure and Levels of Housing Wealth; V. Inequality of Housing Wealth; VI. Income Inequality and Housing; VII. Determinants of Housing Tenure and Housing Wealth; A. Housing Tenure Choice of Urban Households; B. Determinants of Housing Wealth in the Urban Areas; C. Determinants of Housing Wealth in the Rural Areas; VIII. Concluding Comments
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix: Additional Discussion of Housing Data in the CHIP 2002 and 2007 SurveysA. Mortgage Data and Treatment of Negative Equity; B. Inconsistent 2002 NBS and CHIP Data on Urban Rental Values of Housing; C. Costs of Ownership and Alternative Estimates of Imputed Rents; Four Educational Inequality in China; I. Introduction; II. Literature; III. Education Policies and Trends in China; IV. Theory and Methodology; V. The Data; A. Aggregate Educational Mobility; 1. Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Overall, and by Urban-Rural and Birth Year
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Mothers, Fathers, Sons, and DaughtersB. Educational Mobility: A Microeconomic Analysis; 1. All Cohorts Combined; 2. By Birth Cohort; 3. Educational Mobility of Uneducated Households; C. Educational Inequality; 1. The Extent of Educational Inequality; 2. The Contribution of Parental Education to Educational Inequality: Methodology; 3. The Contribution of Parental Education to Educational Inequality: Findings; VI. Conclusion; Appendix: Data Issues; five Inequality and Poverty in Rural China; I. Introduction; II. Data and Methods
    Description / Table of Contents: III. Trends in Rural Incomes
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  • 13
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    ISBN: 9781139035057
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 499 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Keywords: Equality ; Equality ; China ; China ; Social policy ; 21st century ; China ; Economic conditions ; 2000- ; China Social policy 21st century ; China Economic conditions 2000-
    Abstract: This book, a sequel to Inequality and Public Policy in China (2008), examines the evolution of inequality in China from 2002 to 2007, a period when the new 'harmonious society' development strategy was adopted under Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. It fills a gap in knowledge about the outcomes of this development strategy for equity and inequality. Drawing on original information collected from the recent two waves of nationwide household surveys conducted by the China Household Income Project, this book provides a detailed overview of recent trends in income inequality and cutting-edge analysis of key factors underlying such trends. Topics covered include inequality in education, changes in homeownership and the distribution of housing wealth, the evolution of the migrant labor market, disparities between public and non-public sectors, patterns of work and non-work, gender, ethnicity, and the impacts of public policies such as reforms in taxation and social welfare programs
    Abstract: Rising inequality in China: key issues and findings / Li Shi, Hiroshi Sato, and Terry Sicular -- Overview: Income inequality and poverity in China, 2002-2007 / Li Shi, Luo Chuliang, and Terry Sicular -- Housing Ownership, incomes, and inequality in China, 2002-2007 / Hiroshi Sato, Terry Sicular, and Yue Ximing -- Educational inequality in China: The intergenerational dimension / John Knight, Terry Sicular and Yue Ximinhg -- Inequality and poverity in rural China / Luo Chuliang and Terry Sicular -- The evolution of the migrant labor market in China, 2002-2007 / John Knight, Deng Quheng and Li Shi -- A new episode of increased urban income inequality in China / Deng Quheng and Bjorn̈ Gustafsson -- Unemployment and the rising number of nonworkers in urban China: causes and distributional consequences / Bjorn̈ and Ding Sai -- Do employees in the public sector still enjoy earnings advantages? / Yang Juan, Sylvie Deḿurger and Li Shi -- Redistributive impacts of the personal income in urban China / Xu Jing and Yue Ximimg -- Changes in gender-wage gap in urban China, 1995-2007 / Li Shi and Song Jin -- Intertemporal changes in ethic urban earnings disparities in China / Luo Chuliang, Li Shi, Terry Sicular, Deng Quheng and Yue Ximing
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9781139052498
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 433 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: 1995
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als People in transit
    DDC: 973/.0431
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    Keywords: German Americans History ; Germans ; Germans History ; Germans ; United States ; History ; German Americans ; History ; Germans ; Foreign countries ; Germany ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; United States ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; United States Emigration and immigration ; History ; Germany Emigration and immigration ; History ; Germany Emigration and immigration ; History ; Deutschland ; Migration ; Auswanderung ; Binnenwanderung ; Geschichte 1820-1930
    Abstract: The demographic shockwaves of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe produced tremendous change in the national economies and affected the political, social, and cultural development of these societies. Migration historians have begun to connect the various European migratory streams during this period with transcontinental migration to North America. This volume contains empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s, placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration to North America. Special emphasis is placed on the role of women in the process of migration. By looking specifically at postwar Germany, Klaus J. Bade underscores the relevance of this history in a concluding essay
    Abstract: German emigration research, north, south, and east : findings, methods, and open questions / Walter D. Kamphoefner -- Colonist traditions and nineteenth-century emigration from East Elbian Prussia / Rainer Mühle -- Overseas emigration from Mecklenburg-Strelitz : the geographic and social contexts / Axel Lubinski -- Emigration from Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt/Oder, 1815-1893 / Uwe Reich -- Preserving or transforming role? Migrants and Polish territories in the era of mass migrations / Adam Walaszek -- Traveling workers and the German labor movement / Horst Rössler --Migration in Duisburg, 1821-1914 / James H. Jackson, Jr. -- In-migration and out-migration in an area of heavy industry : the case of Georgsmarienhütte, 1956-1870 / Susanne Meyer -- Foreign workers in and around Bremen, 1884-1918 / Karl Marten Barfuss -- The international marriage market : theoretical and historical perspectives / Suzanne M. Sinke -- Making service serve themselves : immigrant women and doemstic service in North America, 1850-1920 / Joy K. Lintelmann -- German domestic servants in America, 1850-1914 : a new look at German immigrant women's experiences / Silke Wehner --Acculturation of immigrant women in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century / Deirdre M. Mageean -- Communicating the old and the new : German immigrant women and their press in comparative perspective around 1900 / Monika Blaschke -- Return migration to an urban center : the example of Bremen, 1850-1914 / Karen Schniedewind -- Migration, ethnicity, and working-class formation : Passaic, New Jersey, 1889-1926 / Sven Beckert -- Changing gender roles and emigration : the example of German Jewish women and their emigration to the United States, 1933-1945 / Sibylle Quack -- Conclusion : migration past and present : the German experience / Klaus J. Bade -- Research on the German migrations, 1820s to 1930s : a report on the state of German scholarship / Dirk Hoerder
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9781107614857
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxix, 768 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    DDC: 304.809403
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Migration ; Internationale Migration ; Minderheit ; Europa ; Wörterbuch
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    ISBN: 9781107029590 , 9781139845229
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 247 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: The CICSE Lectures in Growth and Development
    Parallel Title: Print version Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability
    DDC: 304.6/32
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    Abstract: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Abstract: Outlines key parallels between demographic development and economic outcomes, explaining how fertility, growth and inequality are related
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability; HalfTitle; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of symbols; List of definitions; List of propositions; Introduction; Part ONE Differential fertility; 1 Benchmark model; 1.1 The model; 1.2 Introducing a lump sum transfer; 1.3 Numerical illustration; 2 Implications for the growth--inequality relationship; 2.1 The model economy; 2.2 Theoretical results; 2.2.1 The tradeoff between the quality and quantity of children; 2.2.2 The balanced growth path; 2.2.3 The dynamics of individual human capital
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.4 Extension with endogenous child rearing time2.3 Computational experiments; 2.3.1 Calibration; 2.3.2 Initial inequality, fertility, and growth; 2.3.3 The dynamics of inequality, fertility, and growth; 2.4 Conclusion; 3 Understanding the forerunners in fertility decline; 3.1 Rouen and Geneva data; 3.2 A simple model of fertility; 3.3 Numerical experimentscalibration; 3.4 Numerical experiments -- comparative statics; 3.5 Additional data; 3.6 Conclusion; Part TWO Education policy; 4 Education policy: private versus public schools; 4.1 The model; 4.1.1 The set-up with private education
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.1.2 Fertility and education choices under private education4.1.3 The set-up with public education; 4.1.4 Fertility and policy choices under public education; 4.2 Comparing private and public education; 4.2.1 Long-run dynamics; 4.2.2 Implications for growth; 4.3 Growth and inequality over time; 4.3.1 Calibration; 4.3.2 Initial conditions and growth; 4.3.3 Human capital accumulation and inequality dynamics; 4.4 Conclusion; 5 Education politics and democracy; 5.1 The model economy; 5.1.1 Preferences and technology; 5.1.2 Timing of events and private choices; 5.1.3 The political mechanism
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1.4 The equilibrium5.2 Comparing the education regimes; 5.3 Political power and multiple equilibria; 5.4 Alternative timing assumptions; 5.4.1 Outcomes with full government commitment; 5.4.2 Outcomes with partial government commitment; 5.5 A dynamic extension; 5.5.1 The model economy; 5.5.2 Private choices; 5.5.3 The political mechanism; 5.5.4 The equilibrium; 5.5.5 Comparing the education regimes; 5.5.6 The dynamics of education regimes; 5.6 Extensions to an ethnic dimension; 5.7 Conclusion; 6 Empirical evidence; 6.1 Inequality, fertility, and schooling across US states
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2 Determinants of fertility and public versus private schooling at the household level6.3 Schooling over time; 6.4 Inequality, fertility, and schooling across countries; 6.5 Public education spending and democracy; 6.6 Conclusion; Part THREE Sustainability; 7 Environmental collapse and population dynamics; 7.1 Historical evidence; 7.2 The model; 7.2.1 Preferences and technology; 7.2.2 The bargaining problem; 7.2.3 The fertility choice; 7.2.4 Dynamics; 7.3 Numerical simulations and robustness analysis; 7.3.1 The Nash Equilibrium; 7.3.2 Resources and population dynamics
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.3.3 Simulation of transition paths
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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521003858
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 312 Seiten
    Edition: 21st printing
    Series Statement: The John Robert Seeley lectures [3]
    Series Statement: The John Robert Seeley lectures
    DDC: 305.42091724
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    Keywords: Women in development ; Women Developing countries ; Frauen Rechtsstellung von Gruppen ; Soziale Lage ; Human Development ; Entwicklungsplanung ; Feminismus ; Kulturelle Werte und Normen ; Internationale Frauenbewegung Religiöse Faktoren ; Soziale Werte ; Gleichberechtigung ; Indien ; Frau ; Entwicklungsländer ; Politische Philosophie
    Note: Originally published: 2000 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139600484
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 736 pages)
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    Abstract: Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today. Collated in this specially commissioned book, a group of more than 50 experts make their cases for investment, discussing how to combat problems ranging from armed conflicts, corruption and trade barriers, to natural disasters, hunger, education and climate change. For each case, 'Alternative Perspectives' are also included to provide a critique and make other suggestions for investment. In addition, a panel of senior economists, including four Nobel Laureates, rank the attractiveness of each policy proposal in terms of its anticipated cost-benefit ratio. This thought-provoking book opens up debate, encouraging readers to come up with their own rankings and decide which solutions are smarter than others.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139225793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 384 pages)
    DDC: 303.3/72
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2013 ; Prognose 2013-2050 ; Geschichte 1900-2050 ; Soziale Probleme ; Umweltverschmutzung ; Kosten ; Wirtschaft ; Weltproblematik ; Soziale Kosten ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: There are often blanket claims that the world is facing more problems than ever but there is a lack of empirical data to show where things have deteriorated or in fact improved. In this book, some of the world's leading economists discuss ten problems that have blighted human development, ranging from malnutrition, education, and climate change, to trade barriers and armed conflicts. Costs of the problems are quantified in percent of GDP, giving readers a unique opportunity to understand the development of each problem over the past century and the likely development into the middle of this century, and to compare the size of the challenges. For example: how bad was air pollution in 1900? How has it deteriorated and what about the future? Did climate change cost more than malnutrition in 2010? This pioneering initiative to provide answers to many of these questions will undoubtedly spark debate amongst a wide readership.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107027039
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (272 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Catino, Maurizio Organizational myopia
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    Keywords: Unternehmensorganisation ; Verhalten in Organisationen ; Risiko ; Strategisches Management ; Fallstudien ; Organisationsverhalten ; Strategische Planung ; Electronic books ; Unternehmen ; Organisation ; Organisationsverhalten ; Risiko ; Strategisches Management
    Abstract: The book examines the mechanisms that generate myopia in organizations and explores how organizations can foresee and contain unexpected events
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations and acronyms; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The theme; The book; 1 Cases of myopia; 1.1 Myopia of a society: the trees of Easter Island; 1.2 Myopia of a nation: the 9/11 terrorist attacks; Could the US defense system have managed the hijacking in a different way?; Air defense system procedure; Could the al Qaeda suicide mission have been foreseen?; Individual and cognitive factors: the failure of imagination; Organizational and interorganizational factors: the failure to connect the dots
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.3 Myopia of an organization: NASA and the space shuttle accidentsNormalization of deviance; The culture of production; Structural secrecy; 1.4 Other cases of myopia; The tragedy of the commons; When numbers do not mean strength; 1.5 Positive myopia and the principle of the hiding hand; 2 Uncertainty and predictability in organizations; 2.1 Risk and uncertainty in complex non-ergodic systems; Risk and uncertainty; Uncertainty and ambiguity; 2.2 Organizations and the future; 2.3 Predictable surprises versus bolts from the blue; Predictable surprises; The hindsight bias problem
    Description / Table of Contents: Bolts from the blue2.4 Financial crises: black, white, or gray swan?; 3 The mechanisms of organizational myopia; 3.1 The various levels of myopia; Level I: Individual; The problem of rationality; Distorted interpretations; The importance of framing; The perception of risk and danger; Level II: Organizational; Failures in analysis; Failures in coordination and integration; Failures in control; Failures in deciding; Organizing and the failure of the imagination; Level III: The interorganizational field; The problem of special interest groups and veto players
    Description / Table of Contents: The problem of specialization and coordinationThrough the levels; 3.2 Myopia of the gatekeepers; The auditing companies and the failure of control; The various levels of failure: micro-meso-macro; Individual level - micro; Organizational level - meso; Interorganizational level - macro; Auditing companies and the financial crisis; Conclusion; 4 Anticipating risk; 4.1 Learning from failures, errors, and problems; 4.2 Myopia of learning and rare events; Learning from rare events; 4.3 Incubation period and latent factors; The Latent Factors Theory; Latent factors
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 Beyond human error: individual blame logic versus organizational function logicThe Individual Blame Logic (blame culture) and its side effects; Organizational function logic; 5 Implications for organizational design; 5.1 High Reliability Organizations; Examples of HROs; The requirements of HROs; How to improve reliability; 1. Preoccupation with failure rather than success; 2. Reluctance to simplify interpretations; 3. Sensitivity to operations; 4. Commitment to resilience; 5. Deference to expertise; High reliability management to avoid organizational myopia; 5.2 Detecting weak signs
    Description / Table of Contents: Cultivating imagination
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107013940 , 1107013941 , 9781139211543 , 1139211544 , 9781139222877 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Edition: Ann Arbor Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139222877
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 302.13
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    Keywords: Empirische Sozialforschung ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Verteilungsgerechtigkeit
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781280647536 , 1280647531 , 9781139378604
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xv, 445 p.)) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Governance, regulations and powers on the Internet
    DDC: 303.48330973
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    Keywords: Cyberspace Government policy ; Internet Government policy ; Electronic books ; Internet Government policy ; Cyberspace Government policy ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Internet ; Electronic Government ; Governance ; Cyberspace ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Cyberspace ; Government policy ; Internet ; Government policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Internet ; E-Government ; Governance ; Cyberspace
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-435) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    ISBN: 9780511781841
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxix, 768 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The encyclopedia of migration and minorities in Europe
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    Keywords: 1600-2000 ; Internationale Migration ; Arbeitsmigranten ; Migranten ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Sozialgeschichte ; Europa ; Immigrants Encyclopedias History ; Immigrants ; Europe ; History ; Encyclopedias ; Europe ; Emigration and immigration ; Encyclopedias ; Europe ; Emigration and immigration ; Economic aspects ; Encyclopedias ; Europe Encyclopedias Emigration and immigration ; Economic aspects ; Europe Encyclopedias Emigration and immigration ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Migration ; Minderheit ; Geschichte 1600-2005
    Abstract: Although migration and integration have become important concepts today as a result of globalization, migration movements, integration, and multiculturalism have always been part of the history of Europe. Few people realize how many ethnic groups participated in migration within Europe or into Europe and this ignorance has grave consequences for the social and political status of immigrants. Newly available to an English-speaking audience, this encyclopaedia presents a systematic overview of the existing scholarship regarding migration within and into Europe. The first section contains survey studies of the various regions and countries in Europe covering the last centuries. The second section presents information on about 220 individual groups of migrants from the Sephardic Jews emigration from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present-day migration of old-age pensioners to the holiday villages in the sun. The first resource of its kind, The Encyclopaedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe is a comprehensive and authoritative research tool
    Abstract: The encyclopaedia: idea, concept and realization / Klaus J. Bade [and others] ; -- Terminologies and concepts of migration research / Dirk Hoerder, Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen -- Countries -- Groups
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    ISBN: 9781139192798
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Marktwirtschaft ; Sozialer Wandel
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139173834
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 354 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: 1994
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Skocpol, Theda, 1947 - Social revolutions in the modern world
    DDC: 303.6/4
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    Keywords: Politische Unruhen ; Sozialgeschichte ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Welt ; Revolutions ; Economic history ; Social history ; Social history ; Economic history ; Revolutions ; Sozialrevolution
    Abstract: In this collection of essays, Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning book States and Social Revolutions (1979), updates her arguments about social revolutions. How are we to understand recent revolutionary upheavals in countries across the globe? Why have social revolutions happened in some countries, but not in others that seem similar? Skocpol shows how she and other scholars have used ideas about states and societies to identify the particular types of regimes that are susceptible to the growth of revolutionary movements and vulnerable to transfers of state power to revolutionary challengers. Skocpol engages in thoughtful dialogue with critics, and she suggests how culture and ideology can properly be incorporated into historical and comparative studies. She also vigorously defends the value of an institutionalist, comparative and historical approach against recent challenges from Marxists, rational choice theorists, and culturally oriented interpreters of particular revolutions
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139004145
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 445 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/330973
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Digital technologies have prompted the emergence of new modes of regulation and governance, since they allow for more decentralized processes of elaboration and implementation of norms. Moreover, the Internet has been raising a wide set of governance issues since it affects many domains, such as individual rights, public liberties, property rights, economic competition, market regulation, conflict management, security and the sovereignty of states. There is therefore a need to understand how technical, political, economic and social norms are articulated, as well as to understand who the main actors of this process of transformation are, how they interact and how these changes may influence international rulings. This book brings together an international team of scholars to explain and analyse how collective regulations evolve in the broader context of the development of post-modern societies, globalization, the reshaping of international relations and the profound transformations of nation-states.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107013940
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (229 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Empirical Social Choice : Questionnaire-Experimental Studies on Distributive Justice
    DDC: 302/.13
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    Abstract: The first self-contained analysis of the use of questionnaire data to test theories of distributive justice
    Description / Table of Contents: Empirical Social Choice; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction; 2: Empirical social choice: Why and how?; 2.1 WHY EMPIRICAL SOCIAL CHOICE?; 2.1.1 Towards application of social choice; 2.1.2 Correcting biases; 2.1.3 Suggesting interesting puzzles; 2.1.4 Empirical work as a complement; 2.1.5 Empirical work as essential; 2.1.6 Conclusion; 2.2 METHODOLOGICAL PRELIMINARIES; 2.2.1 Experiments or questionnaire studies?; 2.2.2 A quasi-experimental approach: direct versus indirect testing of axioms; 2.2.3 Representative versus student samples
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.4 Experienced versus inexperienced respondents2.2.5 Formulation and framing issues; 2.3 CONCLUSION; 3: Traditional questions in social choice; 3.1 WELFARISM: NEEDS, TASTES AND BELIEFS; 3.2 THE RAWLSIAN EQUITY AXIOM; 3.3 FROM BEING AN OUTSIDE OBSERVER TO BEING INVOLVED UNDER A VEIL; 3.4 UTILITARIANISM WITH A FLOOR?; 3.4.1 Experimental results; 3.4.2 Questionnaire studies; 3.5 THE PARETO PRINCIPLE; 3.6 CONCLUSION; 4: New questions: fairness in economic environments; 4.1 RESPONSIBILITY-SENSITIVE EGALITARIANISM; 4.2 THE CLAIMS PROBLEM AND THE PROPORTIONAL SOLUTION; 4.3 BENEFITS AND HARMS
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 CONCLUSION5: Fairness in health; 5.1 WEIGHTING FOR DIFFERENT NEEDS; 5.2 VEIL OF IGNORANCE; 5.3 RESPONSIBILITY; 5.4 GAINS AND LOSSES, BENEFITS AND HARMS; 5.4.1 Gains, outcomes and monotonicity; 5.4.2 Threshold effects; 5.4.3 A warning: the issue of framing; 5.5 CLAIMS; 5.6 CONCLUSION; 6: Further observations, views and final remarks; 6.1 ARE QUESTIONNAIRE STUDIES INFORMATIVE?; 6.1.1 Arbitrariness and misunderstandings; 6.1.2 Questionnaires and experimental games; 6.2 FROM EMPIRICAL FINDINGS TO THEORY; 6.2.1 Intertemporal and intercultural variation; 6.2.2 Fertilizing the theoretical debate
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesAuthor index; Subject index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511808678
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 152 Seiten)
    Series Statement: The political economy of institutions and decisions
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Institutional economics ; Organizational change ; Economic development ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Wirtschaft ; Politische Ökonomie ; Politisches System ; Organisationswandel ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Wirtschaftsordnung ; Einrichtung ; Wirtschaftssystem ; Institution ; Institutionenökonomie ; Produktivität ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Institutionenökonomie ; Wirtschaftsordnung ; Geschichte ; Institutionenökonomie ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Wirtschaftsordnung ; Organisationswandel ; Organisationswandel ; Produktivität ; Politische Ökonomie ; Einrichtung ; Einrichtung ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftssystem ; Politisches System ; Wirtschaft ; Institution
    Note: First published 1990
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107020573 , 9781139377492 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 426 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139377492
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: Documents poverty systematically for the world's indigenous peoples in developing regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107402409 , 1107402409
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 v. , 25 cm
    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Organizational behavior ; Corporate culture ; Cross-cultural studies ; Cultural relations ; Social values ; Cross-cultural studies ; National characteristics ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Originally published: 2009. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9780511898402
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 329 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: 1985
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Population and development projects in Africa
    DDC: 304.6/096
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    Keywords: Economic development projects ; Migration, Internal ; Rural development projects ; Migration, Internal ; Africa ; Economic development projects ; Africa ; Rural development projects ; Africa ; Africa ; Population ; Africa south of the Sahara. Population. Distribution. Effects of development projects ; Africa Population ; Africa Population ; Konferenzschrift 1982 ; Konferenzschrift 1982 ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Bevölkerungsgeografie ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Afrika ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Afrika ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung
    Abstract: The urgent needs of economic development and of specific development projects throughout Africa have marked effects on the mobility, distribution and demography of local populations. In this wide-ranging volume, professional geographers and others examine the problems of relating development goals to their potential impact on populations and population change. Attention is paid to developments in Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and particularly to the Republic of the Sudan, where there is concern for the balance between urgent needs for the economic development of the Nile's waters, and the effects on patterns of human settlement. This book, brought together for the Commission on Population Geography of the International Geographical Union, will be of value to all concerned with the economic, social and political development of Africa
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139844796
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 287 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Zheng, Yu Managing human resources in China
    DDC: 658.300951
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    Keywords: Multinationales Unternehmen ; Personalmanagement ; China ; International business enterprises Personnel management ; China ; Personnel management China ; Electronic books ; International business enterprises -- China -- Personnel management ; Personnel management -- China ; International business enterprises ; China ; Personnel management ; Personnel management ; China ; Electronic books ; Personnel management ; China ; International business enterprises ; China ; Personnel management ; China ; Personalpolitik ; Multinationales Unternehmen
    Abstract: Introduction: economic transition, multinational corporations (MNCs) and employment practices at workplace level in China -- MNCs and management space: a framework to study subsidiary HRM -- Doing case studies with mixed research methods -- Multinationals in China: an overview -- Household white goods manufacturing plants: targeting an emerging consumer market -- Synthetic fibre manufacturing plants: developing a regional production base -- Management learning, strategic repositioning and power struggles: dynamics in developing subsidiary HRM -- Conclusion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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    ISBN: 9780511761539
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 388 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Wirtschaft ; Economics / Sociological aspects ; Culture / Economic aspects ; Wirtschaftssoziologie ; Wirtschaftssoziologie
    Abstract: Many economists now accept that informal institutions and culture play a crucial role in economic outcomes. Driven by the work of economists like Nobel laureates Douglass North and Gary Becker, there is an important body of work that invokes cultural and institutional factors to build a more comprehensive and realistic theory of economic behavior. This book provides a comprehensive overview of research in this area, sketching the main premises and challenges faced by the field. The first part introduces and explains the various theoretical approaches to studying culture in economics, going back to Smith and Weber, and addresses the methodological issues that need to be considered when including culture in economics. The second part of the book then provides readers with a series of examples that show how the cultural approach can be used to explain economic phenomena in four different areas: entrepreneurship, trust, international business and comparative corporate governance
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Historical and Methodological Reflections: 1. Defining culture; 2. How culture disappeared from economics; 3. Explaining the rise of culture in modern economics; 4. Culture in economics: contemporary theoretical perspectives; 5. A methodological perspective on culture in economics -- Part II. Contemporary Application: Introduction to Part II; 6. Entrepreneurial culture; 7. Trust; 8. International business; 9. Comparative corporate governance -- Part III. Evaluation: 10. Discussion
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139028547
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 248 pages)
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    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: For those who own it, wealth can have extraordinary advantages. High levels of wealth can enhance educational attainment, create occupational opportunities, generate social influence and provide a buffer against financial emergencies. Even a small amount of savings can improve security, mitigate the effects of job loss and other financial setbacks and improve well-being dramatically. Although the benefits of wealth are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly throughout the United States. In the United States, because religion is an important part of cultural orientation, religious beliefs should affect material well-being. This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511581151
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (560 p.)) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Cambridge handbook of culture, organizations, and work
    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Corporate culture Cross-cultural studies ; Social values Cross-cultural studies ; National characteristics ; Globalization ; Corporate culture Cross-cultural studies ; Social values Cross-cultural studies ; Corporate culture ; Cross-cultural studies ; Social values ; Cross-cultural studies ; National characteristics ; Globalization ; Internationale Organisation ; Globalisierung ; Kulturkonflikt ; Interkulturelles Management ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Organisationssoziologie ; Globalisierung ; Kulturkontakt ; Internationale Organisation ; Globalisierung ; Interkulturelles Management ; Kulturkonflikt ; Globalisierung ; Kulturkontakt ; Organisationsverhalten ; Organisationssoziologie
    Abstract: It is now widely recognized that countries around the world are becoming increasingly interconnected, and that both public and private organizations are of necessity becoming increasingly global. As political, legal, and economic barriers recede in this environment, cultural barriers emerge as a principal challenge to organizational survival and success. It is not yet clear whether these global realities will cause cultures to converge, harmonize, and seek common ground or to retrench, resist, and accentuate their differences. In either case, it is of paramount importance for both managers and organizational scholars to understand the cultural crosscurrents underlying these changes. With contributions from an international team of scholars, this book reviews, analyzes, and integrates available theory and research to give the best information possible concerning the role of culture and cultural differences in organizational dynamics.
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  • 36
    ISBN: 9780511921520
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxiii, 631 pages)
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    Keywords: Environmental education ; Environmental sciences ; Interdisziplinarität ; Umwelterziehung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Humanökologie ; Umweltwissenschaften ; Umweltwissenschaften ; Umwelterziehung ; Humanökologie ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Interdisziplinarität
    Abstract: In an era where humans affect virtually all of the earth's processes, questions arise about whether we have sufficient knowledge of human-environment interactions. How can we sustain the Earth's ecosystems to prevent collapses and what roles should practitioners and scientists play in this process? These are the issues central to the concept of environmental literacy. This unique book provides a comprehensive review and analysis of environmental literacy within the context of environmental science and sustainable development. Approaching the topic from multiple perspectives, it explores the development of human understanding of the environment and human-environment interactions in the fields of biology, psychology, sociology, economics and industrial ecology. The discussion emphasises the importance of knowledge integration and transdisciplinary processes as key strategies for understanding complex human-environment systems (HES). In addition, the author defines the HES framework as a template for investigating sustainably coupled human-environment systems in the 21st century
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: List of boxes; Overview; Roadmap to environmental literacy; Part I. Invention of the Environment: Origins, Transdisciplinarity, and Theory of Science Perspectives: 1. What knowledge about what environment?; 2. From environmental literacy to transdisciplinarity; 3. Basic epistemological assumptions; Part II. History of Biological Knowledge: 4. Emerging knowledge on morphology, ecology, and evolution; 5. From molecular structures to ecosystems; Part III. Contributions of Psychology: 6. Psychological approaches to human-environment interactions; 7. Drivers of individual behavior and action; Part IV. Contributions of Sociology: 8. Traditional sociological approaches to human-environment interactions; 9. Modern sociological approaches to human-environment interactions; Part V. Contributions of Economics: 10. Origins of economic thinking and the environment; 11. Contemporary economic theories dealing with the environment; Part VI. Contributions of Industrial Ecology: 12. The emergence of industrial ecology; 13. Industrial agents and global biogeochemical dynamics; Part VII. Beyond Disciplines and Sciences: 14. Integrated systems modeling of complex human-environment systems Roland W. Scholz, Justus Gallati, Quang Bao Le and Roman Seidl; 15. Transdisciplinarity -- a tool for environmental literacy; Part VIII. A Framework for Investigating Human-Environment Systems (HES): 16. The HES postulates; 17. The HES framework Roland W. Scholz, Claudia R. Binder and Daniel J. Lang; 18. Applying the HES framework Roland W. Scholz, Claudia R. Binder, Daniel J. Lang, Timo Smieszek and Michael Stauffacher; 19. Comparing the HES framework with alternative approaches Roland W. Scholz and Fridolin Brand; Part IX. Perspectives for Environmental Literacy: 20. New horizons: environmental and sustainability sciences; Glossary; References; Index
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  • 37
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521896511 , 9781139137454 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 262 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139137454
    Edition: ISBN (falsch) 9781139141475
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
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    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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  • 38
    ISBN: 9780521717762 , 0521717760 , 9780521889063
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 256 Seiten
    DDC: 300.9
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    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaft ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Psychologie ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Politikwissenschaft ; Soziologie ; Ethnologie ; Humangeographie ; Social sciences History 20th century ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Geschichte 1945-2010 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Social sciences ; History ; 20th century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Geschichte 1945-2010 ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Geschichte 1945-2010
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine; 2. Psychology Mitchell G. Ash; 3. Economics Roger E. Backhouse; 4. Political science Robert Adcock and Mark Bevir; 5. Sociology Jennifer Platt; 6. Social anthropology Adam Kuper; 7. Human geography Ron Johnston; 8. Towards a history of the social sciences Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine.
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine; 2. Psychology Mitchell G. Ash; 3. Economics Roger E. Backhouse; 4. Political science Robert Adcock and Mark Bevir; 5. Sociology Jennifer Platt; 6. Social anthropology Adam Kuper; 7. Human geography Ron Johnston; 8. Towards a history of the social sciences Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine.
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  • 39
    ISBN: 9780521193009
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xx, 388 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Culture in Economics : History, Methodological Reflections and Contemporary Applications
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Economics Sociological aspects ; Culture Economic aspects
    Abstract: Shows how economists address values and norms in theory and empirical research, highlighting opportunities and challenges for the future
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Prologue; Why a book on culture in economics?; Overall structure; Chapter overview; The book's message; Acknowledgments; Final remark; PART I History and methodological reflections; 1 Defining culture; 2 How culture disappeared from economics; 3 Explaining the rise of culture in modern economics; 4 Culture in economics: contemporary theoretical perspectives; 5 A methodological perspective on culture in economics; Part II Contemporary applications; Introduction to Part II; 6 Entrepreneurial culture; 7 Trust
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 International business9 Comparative corporate governance; PART III Evaluation; 10 Discussion; References; Index
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  • 40
    ISBN: 9780511779886
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (400 p.)) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Rice, Ronald E. Organizations and unusual routines
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Organizational change ; Organizational learning ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational change ; Organizational learning ; Organisation ; Routinearbeit ; Organisationswandel ; Systemanalyse
    Abstract: Everyone working in and with organizations will, from time to time, experience frustrations and problems when trying to accomplish tasks that are a required part of their role. This is an unusual routine - a recurrent interaction pattern in which someone encounters a problem when trying to accomplish normal activities by following standard organizational procedures and then becomes enmeshed in wasteful and even harmful subroutines while trying to resolve the initial problem. They are unusual because they are not intended or beneficial, and because they are generally pervasive but individually infrequent. They are routines because they become systematic as well as embedded in ordinary functions. Using a wide range of case studies and interdisciplinary research, this book provides researchers and practitioners with a new vocabulary for identifying, understanding, and dealing with this pervasive organizational phenomenon, in order to improve worker and customer satisfaction as well as organizational performance
    Abstract: Crazy systems, Kafka circuits and unusual routines -- Causes, symptoms, and subroutines of unusual routines in six computer information/communication systems -- Getting personal: unusual routines at the customer service interface -- A multi-theoretical foundation for understanding unusual routines -- A detailed case study of unusual routines -- Summary and discussion of the case study results -- Individual and organizational challenges to feedback -- A multi-level and cross-disciplinary summary of concepts related to unusual routines -- Recommendations for resolving and mitigating unusual routines and related phenomena -- Summary and a tentative integrated model of unusual routines
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  • 41
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511803871
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 255 pages)
    DDC: 302.3
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    Keywords: Gruppenentscheidung ; Mathematisches Modell ; Entscheidungstheorie
    Abstract: Collective decision-making is a familiar feature of our social, political, and economic lives. It ranges from the relatively trivial (e.g. the choice of the next family car) to the globally significant (e.g. whether or not a country should go to war). Yet, whether trivial or globally significant, such decisions involve a number of challenging problems. These problems arise in the standard social choice setting, where individuals differ in their preferences. They also arise in the standard decision-making setting, where individuals share the same preferences, but differ in their decisional capabilities. The distinctive feature of Collective Preference and Choice is that it looks at classical aggregation problems that arise in three closely related areas: social choice theory, voting theory, and group decision-making under uncertainty. Using a series of exercises and examples, the book explains these problems with reference to a number of important contributions to the study of collective decision-making.
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  • 42
    ISBN: 9780521195331
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 727 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karte , 27 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Easley, David Networks, crowds, and markets
    DDC: 303.48/33
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    Keywords: Telecommunication Social aspects ; Information society ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: "Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread with surprising speed and intensity. These are phenomena that involve networks, incentives, and the aggregate behavior of groups of people; they are based on the links that connect us and the ways in which our decisions can have subtle consequences for others. This introductory undergraduate textbook takes an interdisciplinary look at economics, sociology, computing and information science, and applied mathematics to understand networks and behavior. It describes the emerging field of study that is growing at the interface of these areas, addressing fundamental questions about how the social, economic, and technological worlds are connected"--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Overview; Part I. Graph Theory and Social Networks: 2. Graphs; 3. Strong and weak ties; 4. Networks in their surrounding contexts; 5. Positive and negative relationships; Part II. Game Theory: 6. Games; 7. Evolutionary game theory; 8. Modeling network traffic using game theory; 9. Auctions; Part III. Markets and Strategic Interaction in Networks: 10. Matching markets; 11. Network models of markets with intermediaries; 12. Bargaining and power in networks; Part IV. Information Networks and the World Wide Web: 13. The structure of the Web; 14. Link analysis and Web search; 15. Sponsored search markets; Part V. Network Dynamics: Population Models: 16. Information cascades; 17. Network effects; 18. Power laws and rich-get-richer phenomena; Part VI. Network Dynamics: Structural Models: 19. Cascading behavior in networks.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511664458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Perspectives on public choice
    DDC: 302.13
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    Keywords: Neue politische Ökonomie ; Theorie ; Political science Economic aspects ; Social choice ; Social choice ; Political science ; Economic aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kollektiventscheidung ; Public-Choice-Theorie
    Abstract: Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behavior in that it builds on models in which rational individuals seek to advance their own interests. This five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions of the field. It contains twenty-five essays written by thirty scholars, both economists and political scientists, from North America and Europe. Part I discusses the nature and justification for the existence of government and various forms it can take, including mixed, private, and public institutions, international organizations, federalisms, and constitutional governments. Part II examines the properties of different voting rules and preference aggregation procedures. Part III explores multiparty systems, interest groups, logrolling and political business cycles. The individual decisionmaker is the focus of Part IV, with surveys of the experimental literature on individual behavior, and why people vote as they do. The final section applies public-choice reasoning to bureaucracy, taxation, and the size of government.
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  • 44
    ISBN: 9781282943605 , 128294360X , 9780511859687
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xv, 383 p.)) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Rice, Ronald E. Organizations and unusual routines
    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Organizational learning Electronic books ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational change ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational change ; Organizational learning ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational change ; Organizational learning ; Electronic books ; Organisation ; Routinearbeit ; Organisationswandel ; Systemanalyse
    Abstract: This book examines the way that people deal with dysfunctional feedback and unusual routines in organizational contexts.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Crazy systems, Kafka circuits, and unusual routines -- Two stories of mundane complexity and dysfunctional feedback -- Sweeping it under the rug -- A poetic license to steal -- Just stories? -- Crazy systems -- Causes -- Conflicting goals -- Poor feedback -- Symbolic uses and manipulation -- Barriers to perception -- Kafka circuits -- Symptoms -- Unusual routines -- The rest of the book -- 2 Causes, symptoms, and subroutines of unusual routines in six computer information/communication systems -- Causes of unusual routines in three ICTs -- Labor cost system -- Conflicting goals -- Poor feedback -- Symbolic uses and manipulation -- Barriers to perception -- Conflicts in more sophisticated construction systems -- Home Sale Automation system -- Conflicting goals -- Poor feedback -- Symbolic uses and manipulation -- Barriers to perception -- Voicemail system -- Poor feedback -- Symbolic uses and manipulation -- Causes, symptoms, and subroutines of unusual routines in three ICTs -- Technical issue help request system -- Cause: conflicting goals -- Cause: poor feedback -- Cause: symbolic uses and manipulation -- Symptom: secrecy -- Symptom: manipulation -- Symptom: rigidity -- Online database query system -- Symptom: non-responsiveness -- Symptom: secrecy -- Symptom: manipulation -- Symptom: denial -- Symptom: rigidity -- Subroutine: work -- Subroutine: delay -- Subroutine: error -- An employee time reporting system -- Symptom: denial -- Subroutine: error -- Subroutine: blame -- Conclusion -- Invisibility, embeddedness, and routinization of unusual routines -- Unusual and unintended consequences of unusual routines -- 3 Getting personal: unusual routines at the customer service interface.
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  • 45
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511840357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 530 pages)
    DDC: 599.93/8
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    Keywords: Humanökologie ; Hominisation
    Abstract: We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains the ecological predicament of humankind by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of our species' development, taking over where Darwin left off. The theory presented is applied in detail to the whole of our seven-million-year history. Due to its comprehensiveness, and in part thanks to its extensive glossary and index, this book can function as a compact encyclopædia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit a variety of courses in the life and social sciences. Most importantly, Too Smart for our Own Good makes evident the very core of the paradigm to which our species must shift if it is to survive. Anyone concerned about the future of humankind should read this groundbreaking work.
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  • 46
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511762475
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages)
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    DDC: 304.2/3
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Klimaänderung ; Menschenrecht ; Human beings / Effect of climate on ; Human security ; Human rights ; Climatic changes / Social aspects ; Klimaänderung ; Umweltethik ; Menschliche Sicherheit ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Klimaänderung ; Menschliche Sicherheit ; Umweltethik ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: Presenting human security perspectives on climate change, this volume raises issues of equity, ethics and environmental justice, as well as our capacity to respond to what is increasingly considered to be the greatest societal challenge for humankind. Written by international experts, it argues that climate change must be viewed as an issue of human security, and not an environmental problem that can be managed in isolation from larger questions concerning development trajectories, and ethical obligations towards the poor and to future generations. The concept of human security offers a new approach to the challenges of climate change, and the responses that could lead to a more equitable and sustainable future. Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security will be of interest to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners concerned with the human dimensions of climate change, as well as to upper-level students in the social sciences and humanities interested in climate change
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511844867
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 331 pages)
    Series Statement: The World since 1980
    DDC: 306.094/09045
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    Abstract: This book tells the dramatic story of the economic, social, political, and cultural transformation of Europe during the transition from the Cold War to the European Union. Ivan Berend charts, in particular, the overwhelming impact of the collapse of communism on every aspect of European life. Europe became safer and more united, and Central and Eastern Europe started on the difficult road to economic modernization. However, the western half of Europe also changed. European integration gained momentum. The single market and the common currency were introduced, and the Union enlarged from nine to twenty-seven countries. This period also saw a revolution in information and communication technology, the increasing impact of globalization and the radical restructuring of the political system. The book explores the impact of all of these changes as well as the new challenges posed by the economic crisis of 2008–9 and asks which way now for Europe?...
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  • 48
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521517447
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 541 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to management
    Parallel Title: Print version Organizational Control
    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Organization ; Management ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book sheds light on the long-neglected phenomenon of organizational control and provides important directions for future research
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures ; Contributors; Foreword; Part I: Introduction and history; Chapter 1: Control is fundamental; Chapter 2: A historical perspective on organizational control; Part II: Conceptions of organizational control; Chapter 3: A configurational theory of control; Chapter 4: Critical perspectives on organizational control: reflections and prospects; Part III: Identity, attention, and motivation in organizational control; Chapter 5: Identity work and control in occupational communities
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Organizational identity and control: can the two go together?Chapter 7: Attention and control; Chapter 8: The role of motivational orientations in formal and informal control; Part IV: Relational control; Chapter 9: Relational networks, strategic advantage: collaborative control is fundamental; Chapter 10: Toward a theory of relational control: how relationship structure influences the choice of controls; Chapter 11: Peer control in organizations; Part V: Managerial and strategic control
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 12: Control to cooperation: examining the role of managerial authority in portfolios of managerial actionsChapter 13: Consequences and antecedents of managerial and employee legitimacy interpretations of control: a natural open system approach; Chapter 14: Managerial objectives of formal control: high motivation control mechanisms; Chapter 15: Control configurations and strategic initiatives; Index of terms ; Author index
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  • 49
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511622328
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 361 pages)
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    DDC: 305.5/62/09430904
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    Keywords: Mason, Timothy W. ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1943 ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Faschismus ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Working class / Germany / History / 20th century ; Labor policy / Germany / History ; National socialism ; Fascism / Germany / History / 20th century ; Arbeiterklasse ; Sozialpolitik ; Streik ; Nationalismus ; Bibliografie ; Arbeiter ; Arbeitspolitik ; Nationalsozialismus ; Drittes Reich ; Deutschland ; Germany / Social conditions / 1933-1945 ; Germany / Politics and government / 1933-1945 ; Deutschland ; Turin ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Arbeiterklasse ; Nationalsozialismus ; Drittes Reich ; Arbeiterklasse ; Deutschland ; Arbeiterklasse ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Deutschland ; Arbeiterklasse ; Arbeitspolitik ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Drittes Reich ; Arbeiterklasse ; Arbeitspolitik ; Nationalismus ; Sozialpolitik ; Mason, Timothy W. 1940-1990 ; Bibliografie ; Deutschland ; Arbeiter ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Deutschland ; Arbeitspolitik ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Turin ; Streik ; Geschichte 1943
    Abstract: This collection of essays, four of which are published in English for the first time, represents the life's work of the historian Tim Mason, one of the most original and perceptive scholars of National Socialism, who pioneered its social and labour history. His provocative articles and essays, written between 1964 and 1990, exhibit a combination of empirical rigour and theoretical astuteness which made them landmarks in the definition and elaboration of major debates in the historiography of National Socialism. These ten essays collect together Mason's most significant writings, including discussions of the domestic origins of the Second World War, the role of Hitler, and the character of working-class resistance, as well as his pathbreaking study of women under National Socialism, and examples of comparative work on fascism and Nazism. A complete bibliography of his publications is also appended
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511750656
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 406 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 304.6/408832095
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    Keywords: Infants Mortality ; Infants Mortality ; Infants ; Mortality ; East Asia ; Infants ; Mortality ; Latin America ; East Asia ; Social policy ; East Asia ; Economic policy ; Latin America ; Social policy ; Latin America ; Economic policy ; East Asia Social policy ; East Asia Economic policy ; Latin America Social policy ; Latin America Economic policy ; Ostasien ; Sozialpolitik ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death? Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapidly even in tough economic circumstances, and that political democracy has contributed to the provision and utilization of such social services, in a wider range of ways than is sometimes recognized. These conclusions are based on case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, as well as on cross-national comparisons involving these cases and others
    Abstract: Incomes, capabilities, and mortality decline -- Democracy, spending, services, and survival -- Costa Rica : a healthy democracy -- Chile : the Pinochet paradox -- Argentina : big welfare state, slow infant mortality decline -- Brazil : from laggard to leader in basic health service provision -- Taiwan : from poor but healthy to wealthy and healthy -- South Korea : small welfare state, fast infant mortality decline -- Thailand : democratization speeds infant mortality decline -- Indonesia : authoritarianism slows infant mortality decline -- Wealth, health, democracy, and mortality
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521515467 , 0521515467
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 406 S.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource Cambridge books online
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. McGuire, James W., 1957 - Wealth, health, and democracy in East Asia and Latin America
    DDC: 304.6/408832095
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    Keywords: Gesundheitsversorgung ; Kindersterblichkeit ; Sozialwirtschaft ; Demokratie ; Ostasien ; Lateinamerika ; Infants Mortality ; East Asia ; Infants Mortality ; Latin America ; Ostasien ; Lateinamerika ; Sozialpolitik ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Demokratie ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Ostasien Lateinamerika ; Kindersterblichkeit ; Bruttoinlandsprodukt ; Demokratie ; Zusammenhang ; Ostasien ; Sozialpolitik ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Lateinamerika ; Sozialpolitik ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Note: Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011). - Available through Cambridge books online SHEDL trial from 9th January 2012 to June 2012
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511798931
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 541 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe Palo Alto, Calif. ebrary605 L
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to management
    Parallel Title: Reproduktion von Organizational control
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Organization ; Management ; Unternehmen ; Kontrolle ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unternehmen ; Kontrolle
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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