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  • 1
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9783658065850 , 9783658065867 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 191 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658065867
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Unternehmen ; Big Data
    Abstract: Stefanie King geht in ihrem Buch der Frage nach, weshalb Big Data, trotz des hohen Wertschopfungspotentials, bis heute nicht in allen Industriezweigen und Unternehmen genutzt wird. Im ersten Teil des Buches behandelt sie die technologischen und kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Grundlagen sowie die Einsatzgebiete von Big Data. Anschließend untersucht sie die Barrieren und entwickelt potentielle Losungsansatze. Die Autorin zeigt, dass die Herausforderungen von Big Data primar die Bereiche Daten, Ethik, Gesellschaft, Organisation, Rechtslage sowie Technologie betreffen, und erklart, wie Unternehm...
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9783658069506 , 9783658069513 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 249 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658069513
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Online-Publikation
    Abstract: ?Brigitte Petendra beschaftigt sich mit der raumlichen Dimension von Arbeit in einer flexibilisierten Arbeitswelt. Als Analysefall zieht sie den spezifischen Ort ?Buro" heran, der im Zuge des Abbaus burokratischer undfordistisch-tayloristischer Arbeitsweisen sowie der Pluralisierung vonArbeitsorten zunehmend reorganisiert wird. Ausgehend von diesen Reorganisationsprozessen wird das moderne Buro als symbolisch-materielles Arrangement der Flexibilisierung von Arbeit betrachtet. Anhand von Interviews, Kognitiven Karten und Ortserkundungen werden vier Falle komparativ analysiert und Wahrnehmungspr...
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9783658006020 , 9783658006037 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 366 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658006037
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    Series Statement: Organisationssoziologie
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Organisationsstruktur ; Standardisierung ; Informelle Organisation ; Organisationsforschung ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Dass Formalitat und Informalitat in Organisationen zusammenspielen, ist fur die Organisationsforschung nicht neu, aber immer wieder aktuell: Organisationen bewaltigen Unsicherheit einerseits durch steigende Regelungsdichte und Standardisierung und andererseits dadurch, dass sie klassische formale Organisationsstrukturen abbauen und auf Flexibilitat, Selbstmotivation und Kooperation setzen. Beide Entwicklungslinien fuhren zu Folgeproblemen. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Entwicklungen thematisiert dieser Band folgende Fragestellungen: Wann findet warum eine Formalisierung des Informellen ? oder umg...
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9783658014360 , 9783658014377 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 165 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658014377
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 305
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    Keywords: Berufslaufbahn ; Diskriminierung ; Qualitatives Interview
    Abstract: Wenn beispielsweise Frauen mit Migrationsgeschichte oder SchwarzafrikanerInnen muslimischen Glaubens Diskriminierung am Arbeitsmarkt erfahren, liegen jeweils mehrere Diskriminierungsmotive vor ? diese Personen werden potentiell mehrfach diskriminiert. In der Untersuchung wird auf der Basis von Interviews mit ExpertInnen, von Mehrfachdiskriminierung Betroffenen und ArbeitgeberInnen den Fragen nachgegangen: 1) wie sich Mehrfachdiskriminierungen im Bildungsbereich und am Arbeitsmarkt außern; 2) welche Personen hiervon besonders betroffen sind; und 3) und welche Auswirkungen diese Erfahrungen auf ...
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9783658038021 , 9783658038038 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 151 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658038038
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftsgeografie ; Wörterbuch
    Abstract: Von der Arrondierung uber Footloose Industry und Isolinien bis zur Zeitdistanzmethode: Die Sprache der Wirtschaftsgeografie ist von zahlreichen Fachtermini und Anglizismen gepragt. Einen ersten schnellen Uberblick verschafft das vorliegende Nachschlagewerk. Anhand von 222 ubersichtlichen Schlusselbegriffen werden die Grundkonzepte und -theorien der Wirtschaftsgeografie erlautert. Die Erklarungen sind kompakt und verstandlich formuliert und bieten somit Basiswissen fur alle, die einen schnellen Einstieg suchen, sich fur die Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsgeografie interessieren oder ihre vorhandenen...
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9783658070847 , 9783658070854 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 235 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658070854
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    Series Statement: Studien der NRW School of Governance
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Nordrhein-Westfalen ; Geschichte 2005-2010 ; Energiepolitik ; Klimaschutz ; Europäisierung ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: ?In der vorliegenden Fallstudie untersucht Simon Wiegand die Positionen, Einflussstrategien und Funktionen von Landesregierung und Landtagsfraktionen in Nordrhein-Westfalen im Politikprozess zum ?Europaischen Energie- und Klimapaket" in der Regierungszeit von CDU/FDP von 2005 bis 2010. Lassen sich die in der politikwissenschaftlichen Diskussion oftmals vertretenen Thesen vom Bedeutungsverlust der deutschen Lander durch die europaische Integration und von der Entparlamentarisierung subnationaler Politik bestatigen Die vorliegende Studie geht diesen und weiterfuhrenden Fragen nach und untersucht...
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9783658052805 , 9783658052812 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 335 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658052812
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Öffentlicher Verkehrsbetrieb ; Schienennahverkehr ; Privatisierung ; Wettbewerb ; Institutionenökonomie ; Governance ; Daseinsvorsorge
    Abstract: Auf Basis der Neuen Institutionenokonomik und des Governance-Ansatzes wertet Florian Krummheuer Beispiele von privatisierten kommunalen Bahnsystemen im europaischen Ausland sowie die Erfahrungen bei der Marktoffnung aus dem Schienen- und Busverkehr in Deutschland aus. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf der Interaktion der Akteure im durch Wettbewerb gepragten Rechtsrahmen. Er verfolgt dazu einen planungswissenschaftlichen Zugang: So werden die Interaktionsformen, Informationsasymmetrien und Interessendivergenzen in der Steuerung, bei der Ubertragung von Verfugungsrechten oder der Wahrnehmung von Fahrga...
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9789400770829
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 280 p. 7 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Advances in Business Ethics Research, A Journal of Business Ethics Book Series 4
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Accounting for the public interest
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Auditing ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Auditing ; Rechnungslegung ; Ethik ; Rechnungslegung ; Ethik
    Abstract: This volume explores the opportunities and challenges facing the accounting profession in an increasingly globalized business and financial reporting environment. It looks back at past experiences of the profession in attempting to meet its public interest obligation. It examines the role and responsibilities of accounting to society including regulatory requirements, increased emphasis on corporate social responsibility, accounting fraud and whistle-blowing implications, internationalization of public interest obligations, and providing the education needed to be successful. The book incorporates an ethical dimension in making these assessments. Its focus is a conceptual, theoretical one drawing on classical philosophy, the sociology of professions, economic theory, and the public interest dimension of accountants as professionals. The authors of papers are long-time contributors to the annual symposium on Research in Accounting Ethics sponsored by the Public Interest Section of the AAA.
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  • 9
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400762688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 190 p. 36 illus)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2013
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Human Geography ; Sustainable Development ; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning ; Human Geography ; Sustainable development ; Regional planning ; Lebensunterhalt ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Nigeria ; Nigeria ; Lebensunterhalt ; Nachhaltigkeit
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9783658023287 , 9783658023294 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 283 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658023294
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    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Organisation ; Kommunikation ; Soziale Software ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Die AutorInnen dieses Sammelbandes analysieren das Einsatzpotenzial und die Anwendungsfelder von Social Media in der Organisationskommunikation verschiedener Branchen (Finanzdienstleister, Tourismusorganisationen etc.) ebenso wie in verschiedenen Kommunikationsbereichen, z. B. Business-to-Business, Markenkommunikation, politische Kommunikation und Non-Profit-Kommunikation. Neben theoretischen Aspekten werden dabei jeweils die Ergebnisse empirischer Studien vorgestellt. Fazit: Die Rolle von Social Media als Haupt- oder Nebendarsteller moderner Organisationskommunikation ist derzeit noch umstrit...
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9783658029777 , 9783658029784 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 172 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658029784
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    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-2013 ; Modernisierung ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; China ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Der vorliegende Band stellt einen neuen Zugang für das Verständnis der Modernisierung Chinas seit den 1990er Jahren vor. Die Umstellung von der Plan- zur Marktwirtschaft verstehen wir nur dann angemessen, wenn wir die sozial-strukturellen Veränderungen der chinesischen Gesellschaft erfassen. Mit diesem Buch erhalten China-Interessierte aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik einen Einblick in die Modernisierung Chinas, ihrer besonderen Eigenart und ihrer zu erwartenden zukünftigen Veränderungen. Die LeserInnen bekommen ein Verständnis des Hintergrunds der chinesischen Gesellschaft, das ...
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9783658040482 , 9783658040499 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 175 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658040499
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    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Familienbetrieb ; Lobbyismus ; Region ; Politische Kommunikation ; Deutschland
    Abstract: In Berlin und Brüssel vertreten ca. 22.000 Lobbyisten die Interessen von Publikumsgesellschaften. Doch rund 90 Prozent der deutschen Wirtschaft, die Familienunternehmen, verzichten bislang auf strategische politische Kommunikation: Sie interagieren auf regionaler Ebene intensiv mit der Politik. Die dort erfolgreiche, persönliche politische Kommunikationskultur ist auf überregionaler Ebene nicht realisierbar: Zu viele Issues und Stakeholder erfordern den Konsens und die Professionalisierung. Lars Schatilow führt erstmals die Differenzierung Familien- vs. „Nicht-Familien“-Unternehmen in ...
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9783658023164 , 9783658023171 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 356 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658023171
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    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Innovation ; Interdisziplinarität
    Abstract: ?Innovationen sind Ursache und Folge des sozialen Wandels, politischer Umbrüche und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklungen. Renommierte Vertreter aus Wissenschaft und Praxis stellen in diesem Handbuch verschiedene Aspekte von Innovationen dar und reflektieren sie kritisch.
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9783658043490 , 9783658043506 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 415 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658043506
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    Series Statement: Organisationskommunikation
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Gesundheitswesen ; Vertrauen ; Erwartung
    Abstract: Patricia Grünberg leistet eine Bestandsaufnahme der sozialwissenschaftlichen Vertrauensforschung und überträgt diese Erkenntnisse, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Theorie öffentlichen Vertrauens, auf das deutsche Gesundheitssystem. Im empirischen Teil wird mittels 17 qualitativer Leitfadeninterviews mit Patienten untersucht, wie unterschiedliche Erfahrungen die vertrauensrelevanten Erwartungen an das Gesundheitssystem und seine Akteure beeinflussen.
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9400755732 , 9789400755734
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 202 Seiten
    Series Statement: Advances in group decision and negotiation volume 6
    Series Statement: Advances in group decision and negotiation
    DDC: 303.4820113
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  • 16
    ISBN: 9789400754737 , 128393616X , 9781283936163
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 183 p. 6 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 38
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The heart of the good institution
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    Keywords: Ethik ; Management ; Verantwortung ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Operations research ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Operations research ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Organisationskultur ; Führungsstil ; Tugendethik
    Abstract: This book addresses the question: how can institutions develop and maintain a good purpose? And how can managers contribute to this endeavour? Twelve contributions explore this question, using MacIntyrean inquiry as a basis for exploring four main themes: Can management be considered a practice in the MacIntyrean sense? What is the role of specific virtues in the development of a virtuous institution? What are management vices and what are the conditions in which they flourish? And, can we use MacIntyrean ideas to consider the management of all forms of institutions? The volume is an international and multidisciplinary collection, with contributions from well-known writers in the field of management ethics, and innovative contributions that use MacIntyrean inquiry as a lens to examine fields such as hospitality, user generated music content and social sustainability. The papers are unified by their concern for the achievement of organizational excellence and integrity through ethical management.Unlike single author texts this edited volume brings together multiple perspectives on the topic of virtue ethics in management. In doing so, it explores the topic both more deeply and more widely than a single author can do. Because of its breadth, this book has the potential to become a turn-to research tool for those interested in virtue theory’s relevance to other academic interests such as organizational behavior (including motivation theory and social psychology), literature, contemporary social issue criticism, and business management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Section 1 intro: Can management be a practice? -- 1 Re-imagining the morality of management: A modern virtue ethics approach; Geoff Moore -- 2 Management as a practice; Tony O’Malley -- 3 Judgment, virtue and social practice; Chris Provis -- 4 Courage as a management virtue; Howard Harris -- Section 2 Intro Leadership, Vice and Virtue -- 5 Virtue ethics in leadership operations: A pathway for leadership development; Erich C. Fein -- 6 The process of conscious corporate growth: A utopian interpretation or a possible virtuous practice?; Mario Carrassi -- 7 Organisational narcissism: A case of failed corporate governance?; Patricia Grant and Peter McGhee -- 8 YouTube as a nascent practice: A MacIntyrean analysis of user-generated content; Helen Rusak and Stephen McKenzie -- Section 3 Intro Case Studies -- 9 Embedded moral agency: A MacIntyrean perspective on the HR professional’s dilemma; Tracey Wilcox -- 10 The contribution of virtue ethics to the pedagogy and Sustainable Practice Of Hospitality Work; Gayathri Wijesinghe -- 11The problem of the empty circle: Thoughts on a virtue approach to social sustainability; Stephen McKenzie -- Conclusion:  A Concluding Reflection: Narratives of Virtue in Responsible Management -- 12 Murdoch, Trollope and Drucker: Virtue ethics as conveyed by stories; Michael Schwartz -- Contributors..
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  • 17
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400762237
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 235 p. 2 illus, digital)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Silver, David Business Ethics in the 21st Century, by Norman E. Bowie. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013. 235 pp. ISBN: 978-9400762220 2015
    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 39
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Economics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Economics ; Wirtschaftsethik
    Abstract: This work provides a critical look at business practice in the early 21st century and suggests changes that are both practical and normatively superior. Several chapters present a reflection on business ethics from a societal or macro-organizational point of view. It makes a case for the economic and moral superiority of the sustainability capitalism of the European Union over the finance-based model of the United States. Most major themes in business ethics are covered and some new ones are introduced, including the topic of the right way to teach business ethics. The general approach adopted in this volume is Kantian. Alternative approaches are critically evaluated
    Description / Table of Contents: Business Ethics in the 21st Century; Introduction by the Series Editors; Preface; Editorial Board Issues in Business Ethics; Editorial Board Eminent Voices in Business Ethics; Contents; Part I: Economic Issues in Business Ethics; Chapter 1: Fair Markets Revisited; Morality as a Ground of Legal Decisions; A Rejoinder and Reply; Advice for Managers; Characteristics of Fairness; Objections and Replies; Conclusion; Chapter 2: What's Wrong with Efficiency and Always Low Prices; Introduction; The Problem; Some Observations from Home and Abroad; What Some Others Are Saying; The Issue or Issues
    Description / Table of Contents: What's to Be DoneObjections and Replies; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Economics, Friend or Foe of Ethics; Economics as Foe; Foe: Adherence to Psychological Egoism; Foe: Assumptions of Agency Theory; Dropping the "No Transaction Costs" Assumption: Transaction Cost Economics; Turning Economics from Foe to Friend; Codes of Ethics; The Importance of a Good "Ethical Climate"; Multinationals and Universal Standards; The Argument for Universal Ethical Values; An Argument for Truly Universal Standards of Business Ethics; A Complication; Fairness as an Explanatory Variable in Economics and Management Theory
    Description / Table of Contents: ConclusionPart II: Philosophical Issues in Business; Chapter 4: Kantian Themes; Why Kant; Organization of This Chapter; Rethinking and Defending Business Ethics : A Kantian Perspective; Chapter 1 Immoral Business Practices; Chapter 2 Treating the Humanity of Stakeholders as Ends Rather than as Means Merely; Chapter 3 The Firm as a Moral Community; Chapter 4 Acting from Duty: How Pure a Motive?; Chapter 5 The Cosmopolitan Perspective; The New Generation of Scholars Applying Kant to Business Ethics; Aristotle-Not Kant; Kantian Accounts of Corporate Social Responsibility; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Limitations of the Pragmatist Approach to Business EthicsBackground; Rorty's Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity; Why Literature Misleads; Rorty's Address Before the Society for Business Ethics; The Pragmatism of Ed Freeman and Some of His Students; Should Stakeholder Theorists Adopt a Pragmatist Methodology?; Concluding Thought; Part III: International Issues in Business Ethics; Chapter 6: Varieties of Corporate Social Responsibility; The Maximization of Shareholder Wealth Capitalism-American Finance Based Capitalism; Corporate Social Responsibility as Charity
    Description / Table of Contents: An Addendum to the Classical American View: Stakeholder CapitalismSocial Responsibility Under the Stakeholder Model; The European Sustainability Version of Capitalism; Philanthropy, the Safety Net, and Human Rights; The Business Case for Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia; Japan; India; China; Evidence That China Seems to Lack a Sense of Corporate Social Responsibility; Which Version of Corporate Social Responsibility Should a Country Adopt?; The Moral Argument for Sustainability; Why Philanthropy Is Not Enough
    Description / Table of Contents: Does China Need Corporate Social Responsibility to Survive
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400762749
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 269 p. 14 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 20
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Farm economics ; Social sciences ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Farm economics ; Social sciences
    Abstract: This edited volume presents ethical and economic analyses of agrifood competition. By systematically examining fairness and openness in agricultural markets, it seeks to answer the question of whether there is adequate competition in the agrifood industry and whether the system is fair to all participants. It outlines ethical and economic principles important for understanding agrifood competition, presents arguments for and against consolidation, globalization and the integration of agrifood industries, and looks at the implications of globalization on the nature of competition in specific agricultural contexts
    Abstract: This edited volume presents ethical and economic analyses of agrifood competition. By systematically examining fairness and openness in agricultural markets, it seeks to answer the question of whether there is adequate competition in the agrifood industry and whether the system is fair to all participants. It outlines ethical and economic principles important for understanding agrifood competition, presents arguments for and against consolidation, globalization and the integration of agrifood industries, and looks at the implications of globalization on the nature of competition in specific agricultural contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction to the Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition: Connotations, Complications and Commentary; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Meaning of Adequacy; 1.3 The Meaning of Fairness; 1.4 Analyses of Agrifood Competition; 1.5 The Lesson; References; Part I Conceptualizing Agrifood Competition; Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Fairness in the Context of Competition: Philosophical Sources; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Fair Treatment and Fair Play; 2.3 Fairness and the Social Contract
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 Fairness and Efficient Competition2.5 Fairness and Outcomes; 2.6 Fairness and Rules; 2.7 Assessing Fair Competition; 2.8 Fair Agrifood Competition; References; Chapter 3: Are Ethics and Efficiency Locked in Antithesis?; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 What Is Ethics?; 3.3 What Is Efficiency?; 3.4 The Relation Between Ethics and Efficiency; 3.4.1 Ethical Duties as a Constraint on Production; 3.4.2 Ethical Consumption and Ethical Production; 3.4.3 Institutionalizing Ethical Considerations in the Sector; 3.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: The Fallacy of "Competition" in Agriculture
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.1 Introduction4.2 The True Central Question of Competition: What Is It?; 4.2.1 The Nature of Competition; 4.2.2 `Free and Fair' Competition; 4.2.2.1 Free Competition; 4.2.2.2 Fair Competition; 4.3 The Problem of Perfect Competition; 4.4 Competition in Agriculture; 4.4.1 The Demise of Competition in Agriculture?; 4.4.2 The Shortcoming of Government Intervention; 4.4.3 Competition in Agriculture Today; 4.4.4 So Whence Concerns About Competition in Agriculture Today?; 4.4.5 What Does This Tell Us About Competition in Agriculture?; 4.4.6 Ethics and the Fallacy of Competition; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Efficiency, Power and Freedom5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Overview; 5.3 Aggregate Economic Efficiency; 5.3.1 The Free Market; 5.4 Morals of Monopoly and Competition; 5.5 Antitrust and Competition Policy; 5.5.1 Collusion in Fixing the Rules of the Marketplace; 5.5.2 Knightian Welfare Economics; 5.5.3 Economic Freedom for Farmers and Ranchers; 5.5.4 Serfdom; 5.5.5 Economic Freedom for Consumers; 5.5.6 Innovation and Democracy; 5.6 Concluding Remarks: Back to the Agrifood System; References; Chapter 6: Networks, Power and Dependency in the Agrifood Industry; 6.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2 Previous Research on Agrifood Industry Structure6.3 Networks, Dependency and Power; 6.4 Differential Dependencies in Stylized Agrifood Networks; 6.4.1 Broilers; 6.4.2 Beef; 6.4.3 Corn and Soybeans; 6.5 Ethics of Dependency; 6.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: Reaping and Sowing for a Sustainable Future: The Import of Roman Catholic Social Teaching for Agrifood Competition; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Roman Catholic Social Teaching; 7.3 Agrifood Competition in Roman Catholic Social Teaching; 7.3.1 Rerum Novarum (1891); 7.3.2 Quadragesimo Anno (1931); 7.3.3 Excursus: César Chávez
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.3.4 Mater et Magistra (1961)
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    ISBN: 9789400747593 , 1283634082 , 9781283634083
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 221 p, digital)
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    Keywords: Education ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Arbeit ; Lebenslanges Lernen
    Abstract: This book's original contribution to a crowded literature on work and learning will attract strong international interest. Its focus on the philosophy of learning at work brings a fresh perspective on a topic normally viewed through psychological, anthropological and sociological eyes. It assembles a host of internationally recognized scholars who reflect on the various philosophies of work-based learning. Full of distinctive and original contributions that provide perceptive insights into the subject, the work will be a practical support to teachers, trainers and researchers at the same time
    Abstract: This books original contribution to a crowded literature on work and learning will attract strong international interest. Its focus on the philosophy of learning at work brings a fresh perspective on a topic normally viewed through psychological, anthropological and sociological eyes. It assembles a host of internationally recognized scholars who reflect on the various philosophies of work-based learning. Full of distinctive and original contributions that provide perceptive insights into the subject, the work will be a practical support to teachers, trainers and researchers at the same time as it gives readers a clear philosophical grounding in learning at work. It is, however, not simply a book about philosophy, but a gazetteer of approaches to education in work that will sustain and inspire those who provide, engage in, and support the learning of new knowledge and skills in the workplace. With adaptability to new employment opportunities so vital to existing workers, the authors stand behind continued provision of work-based learning in the face of tightening economic constraints.
    Description / Table of Contents: Learning, Work and Practice: New Understandings; Foreword; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Thinking About Work in Work Based Learning; References; Part I; Chapter 2: The Workplace as a Site of Learning: Reflections on the Conceptual Relationship Between Workplace and Learning; Introduction: The Concept of a Workplace; The Concept of Work; Constraints on the Workplace as a Learning Environment; Why Some Learning Has to Take Place in the Workplace; Operational Conditions and the Workplace; Collective Knowledge in the Workplace; IVET and CVET
    Description / Table of Contents: Towards the Development of Professional Agency Through the Workplace as a Site of LearningReferences; Chapter 3: The Role of On-the-Job and Off-the-Job Provision in Vocational Education and Training; The Disappearing Knowledge Trick; A Different Approach; References; Chapter 4: Tacit Knowledge and the Labour Process; Introduction; Knowledge and Wealth: Retreat from Human Capital?; Braverman's Labour Process Theory; Importance of Knowledge at Work; The Knowledge Worker; Is Knowledge Work Rampant?; Knowledge Management and the Labour Process; Knowledge Sharing
    Description / Table of Contents: Commodification of Knowledge: A Global/Local QuestionEspoused Reasons for Knowledge Management; Resisting Standardization at Work; Rise of Tacit Knowledge; Knowledge Ownership at Work; Conclusion; Implications; References; Chapter 5: Workplace Identity, Transition and the Role of Learning; The Concept of Workplace Identity; Research into Graduate Identity; Constructing Graduate Identity; Values; Intellect; Performance; Engagement; From Graduate Identity to Workplace Identity; Developing Workplace Identity; References; Part II
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Ontological Distinctiveness and the Emergence of PurposesIntroduction: Beyond 'Mere Castles in the Air'; Ontologically Distinctive Properties; Unpredictability; Irreducibility; Inexplicability; The Significance of Purpose; Pushing on with Purpose; Projective Practices; Building Capacities; Identity and Agency; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Practice as a Key Idea in Understanding Work-Based Learning; Introduction; The Scope of the Term 'Work-Based Learning'; Changing Understandings of Work-Based Learning; Early Theories Influenced by Psychology; Sociocultural Theories
    Description / Table of Contents: Postmodern TheoriesDiverse Understandings of Practice; MacIntyre's Account; Green's Analysis of Less Attenuated Theories; Implications of More Recent Learning Theories and the Practice Turn for Understanding Work-Based Learning; Conclusion; References; Part III; Chapter 8: Aristotelian Gnoseology and Work-Based Learning; Introduction; Work-Based Learning and the Critique of Aristotle; Other Knowledge Is Valuable: For Aristotle Too; The Phronimoi , Their Leisure (Skholi) and Their Occupation (Askholia); References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 9: Working Our Way Through Murky Coordinates: Philosophy in Support of Truth Processes
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    ISBN: 9789400751316
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 175 p. 4 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 37
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Education Philosophy ; Industrial management ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Education Philosophy ; Industrial management ; Unternehmensethik ; Unternehmen ; Komplexes System ; Metareflexion
    Abstract: Corporations, and the environments in which they operate, are complex, with changing multiple dimensions, and an inherent capacity to evolve qualitatively. A central premise of this study is that a postmodern reading of ethics represents an expression of, and an engagement with, the ethical complexities that define the business landscape. In particular, the deconstructive philosophy of Jacques Derrida offers a non-trivial reading of a complex notion of ethics, and thereby helps us to develop the skills necessary to critique and intervene in our practices, and to develop robust strategies for living in the absence of prescriptive ethical frameworks. Although a central premise of this study is that substantive ethical claims can only be generated within a given context, the study nevertheless presents readers with a meta-position that illustrates the type of considerations that should inform ethical reflection from a complexity perspective. In order to illustrate the value that this meta-position holds for business ethics, these considerations are explored in terms of the implications that they hold for our understanding of corporate social responsibility, for the practice of responsible management and leadership practices, and for teaching business ethics.
    Description / Table of Contents: On the (Im) Possibility of Business Ethics; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I: Theoretical Foundation; Chapter 1: Towards a Postmodern Understanding of Business Ethics; Introduction; Characterising Postmodernism; Analytic Distinctions; (Anti)Ideological Distinctions; The Crisis of Representation; The Provisionality of Meaning; Reflexivity; The Decentring of the Subject; Assessing the Viability of a Postmodern Business Ethics; Walton´s Scepticism; Gustafson´s Defence of Postmodernism; Postmodern Insights: Redefining the Agenda for Business Ethics
    Description / Table of Contents: The Status of Contesting Knowledge ClaimsThe Ethical Task: Learning to Reflect on, and Engage with, Ethical Problems; Performative Reflexivity and Moral Judgement; The Ethical Task: Broadening Perspectives on Available Choices; The Contextually-Defined Nature of Ethical Practices; The Ethical Task: Nurturing a Critical Disposition; Critical Challenges: Problematising the Fact-Value Distinction; The Fields of Business Ethics; The Normative Field; The Descriptive Field; The Postmodern Challenge; Problematising Descriptive Ethics; Problematising Normative Ethics; Implications
    Description / Table of Contents: Postmodern Ethics as an Ethics of PracticeReferences; Chapter 2: The Ethics of Complexity and the Complexity of Ethics; Introduction; Characterising Critical Complexity; Two Understandings of Complexity Theory; Restricted Complexity; General Complexity; Features of Complex Systems; Complex Systems Are Not Complicated Systems; Complex Systems Are Characterised by Richly Interconnected Components; The Component Parts of Complex Systems Have a Double-Identity; Upward and Downward Causation Give Rise to Complex Structures; Complex Systems Are Non-additive
    Description / Table of Contents: Complex Systems Exhibit Self-Organising and Emergent BehaviourComplex Systems Are Structured; Complex Systems Are Open and Bounded Systems; Ethical Implications; The Ethics of Complexity and the Limits of Knowledge; The Status of Our Models; Reductionism in the Social Sciences; Modelling and the Importance of a Double-Consciousness; The Embeddedness of Ethical Practices: Positioning the Moral Agent; Static Versus Fluid Conceptions of Identity; Moral Agency in a Complex World; The Complexity of Ethics and Responsible Action; Towards a Meta-Ethical Position; The Provisional Imperative
    Description / Table of Contents: Postmodernism, Complexity, and Theories of the OrganisationReferences; Chapter 3: Introducing a Deconstructive Ethics; Introduction; Derrida´s Central Concepts; Beyond Logocentricism; Hierarchy and Authority; (Con)text; The Example of Speech and Writing; On Deconstructing; The First and Second Movements of Deconstruction; Revisiting the Example of Speech and Writing; Beyond a Binary Logic; Supplementary Complications; Play, Différance, and the Trace; Deconstructing Plato´s Pharmacy; Deconstruction Is Hymeneal; Complexity, Deconstruction, and Ethics; The Ethics of Deconstruction
    Description / Table of Contents: Ethical Testimony
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    ISBN: 9789400762442
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 95 p. 28 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Akbari, Syed A. Immigrants in regional labour markets of host nations
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    Keywords: Arbeitsmigranten ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Studierende ; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt ; Kanada (Atlantikprovinzen) ; Emigration and immigration ; Economics ; Labor economics ; Population ; Demography ; Migration ; Labor economics ; Population ; Economics ; Demography ; Maritime Provinzen ; Einwanderer
    Abstract: List of charts -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Some Demographic Trends in Atlantic Canada: Potential Consequences and Policy Response -- Chapter 3: Immigration Trends in Atlantic Canada -- Chapter 4: Immigrants in the Labour Force of Atlantic Canada -- Chapter 5: International Students in Atlantic Canada -- Chapter 6: Summary and Policy Recommendations -- List of References
    Abstract: This book is the first to present a detailed analysis of economic integration of immigrants in smaller areas of their host nations. It uses Atlantic Canada as a case in point and uses unpublished data based on several databases of Statistics Canada and Citizenship and Immigration, Canada. It identifies best policy practices that can also be used in other countries to address demographic challenges similar to those facing Canada, for example population ageing and youth out-migration from smaller regions to larger regions, through immigration. Economic integration of immigrants in Atlantic Canada is faster and better than it is nationally. An overarching result is that an analysis of regional data can lead to very different policy conclusions than the analysis of national data, which means that it can be risky to devise immigration policy based only on national data. A clear message is that economic benefits from immigration can be enhanced by facilitating a broader geographic distribution of immigrants, rather than maintaining their concentration in a few larger urban regions. A must read for immigration and population policy makers, immigrant settlement agencies and academic researchers
    Description / Table of Contents: Immigrants in Regional Labour Markets of Host Nations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; Some Immigration Policy Initiatives Towards Regionalization in Australia, Canada, Germany and New Zealand; Australia; Canada; Germany; New Zealand; The Impact of Immigrant Regionalization on the Geographic Distribution of Immigrants in Canada; About This Book; References; 2 Some Demographic Trends in Atlantic Canada: Potential Consquences and Policy Response; Potential Consequences of Population Decline and Aging; Some Economic Consequences; Some Political Consequences
    Description / Table of Contents: 1…Nova Scotia's Aging WorkforcePublic Policy and Community Responses to Population Decline and Aging; 2…Employment Assistance to New Immigrants in Newfoundland and Labrador; 3…An Example of Cooperation Between Stakeholders in the Integration of Professional Immigrants in Nova Scotia; References; 3 Immigration Trends in Atlantic Canada; 1…The Rise and Fall of Immigration in Nova Scotia in the 1990s; The Rural--Urban Settlement Pattern of the Immigrant Population; Age Distribution Among New Immigrants; Composition of Immigrant Classes; Immigrant Source Countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Immigrant Retention in Atlantic CanadaEducation Levels Among Recent Immigrants; References; 4 Immigrants in the Labour Force of Atlantic Canada; Labour Market Performance of Immigrants; Labour Force Participation Rates; Unemployment Rates; Labour Market Earnings; Immigrants' Home Country Educational Credentials and Labour Force Activity; Skilled and Business Immigrants in the Atlantic Economy; Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to Atlantic Canada; Provincial Distribution of Highly Skilled Immigrants; Business Immigration; 1…Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada
    Description / Table of Contents: 2…The Immigrant Investor ProgramRural--Urban Labour Force Division; Immigrants' Use of Government Transfer Payments; References; 5 International Students in Atlantic Canada; 1…International Students Contribute Significantly to the Atlantic Economy; Annual Inflows of International Students; International Students by Level of Study; Source Countries of International Students; 2…Majority of International Students Want to Live in Atlantic Canada After Finishing Their Education (Results of Another Survey); References; 6 Summary and Policy Recommendations; Abstract
    Description / Table of Contents: Immigration Trends in Atlantic CanadaImmigrants in the Labour Market; International Students; Some Policy Implications that Emerge from Statistical Findings of Present Study; References; Epilogue; Appendix; References
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    ISBN: 9789400755642 , 1283909006 , 9781283909006
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 109 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
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    Keywords: Epistemology ; Economics ; Ethics ; Economic history ; Social sciences ; Genetic epistemology ; Economics ; Ethics ; Economics Methodology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Praktische Vernunft ; Theoretische Vernunft ; Wirtschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: Table of contents -- Summary -- Preface -- Chapter I: Introduction -- Chapter II: Nancy Cartwright, Capacities and Nomological Machines: The Role of Theoretical Reason in Science -- Chapter III: Sen’s Capability Approach: The Role of Practical Reason in Social Science -- Chapter IV: The Contributions of Aristotle’s Thought to the Capability Approach -- Chapter V: Socio-Economic Machines and Practical Models of Development: The Role of the Human Development Index -- Chapter VI: Conclusion: Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics
    Abstract: The aim of the book is to argue for the restoration of theoretical and practical reason to economics. It presents Nancy Cartwright and Amartya Sen’s ideas as cases of this restoration and sees Aristotle as an influence on their thought. It looks at how we can use these ideas to develop a valuable understanding of practical reason for solving concrete problems in science and society. Cartwright’s capacities are real causes of events. Sen’s capabilities are the human person’s freedoms or possibilities. They relate these concepts to Aristotelian concepts. This suggests that these concepts can be combined. Sen’s capabilities are Cartwright’s capacities in the human realm; capabilities are real causes of events in economic life. Institutions allow us to deliberate on and guide our decisions about capabilities, through the use of practical reason. Institutions thus embody practical reason and infuse certain predictability into economic action. The book presents a case study: the UNDP’s HDI
    Description / Table of Contents: Theoreticaland PracticalReason in Economics; Preface; Contents; Summary; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Nancy Cartwright, Capacities and Nomological Machines: The Role of Theoretical Reason in Science; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Cartwright-Aristotle Connection; 2.2.1 The Connection; 2.2.2 The Ontology of Capacities; 2.2.3 The Epistemology of Capacities; 2.3 Cartwright's Skepticism About Capacities in the Social Realm; 2.3.1 Cartwright's Skepticism; 2.3.2 Julian Reiss's Interpretation and Proposal; 2.4 Socio-Economic Machines; 2.5 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 Sen's Capability Approach: The Role of Practical Reason in Social Science3.1 Introducing the Capability Approach; 3.2 Some Problems in Sen's CA; 3.2.1 Identification of Valuable Capabilities: The Debate Over Lists of Capabilities; 3.2.2 Heterogeneity and Incommensurability; References; 4 The Contributions of Aristotle's Thought to the Capability Approach; 4.1 Aristotle on Lists; 4.1.1 The Supposedly Aristotelian List; 4.1.2 The True Aristotelian List; 4.1.3 Back to Sen; 4.2 "Practical Comparability" as a Way of Overcoming Incommensurability14; 4.2.1 The Aristotelian Conception
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.1.1 Commensuration4.2.1.2 Comparison by Intensity or Degree of Quality; 4.2.1.3 Comparison by Priority; 4.2.2 Back to Sen; 4.3 Some Conclusions Regarding the Aristotelian Contribution to the CA; 4.4 Capabilities and Capacities; 4.5 Conclusion; References; 5 Chapter Socio: -Economic Machines and Practical Models of Development: The Role of the HDI; 5.1 Socio-Economic Machines; 5.2 The HDI4; 5.3 Some Problems with Index Numbers and the HDI; 5.4 Theoretical and Practical Reason in the HDI
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.5 Conclusion: The Role of the HDI for the Construction of a Normative Socio-Economic Machine of Human DevelopmentReferences; 6 Conclusion: Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics; Reference
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    ISBN: 9789400751071 , 1283698145 , 9781283698146
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 232 p. 14 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 17
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Tchibozo, Guy Cultural and social diversity and the transition from education to work
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    Keywords: Labor economics ; Education ; Education ; Labor economics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Schule ; Berufsbildung ; Übergang
    Abstract: This edited volume provides multidisciplinary and international insights into the policy, managerial and educational aspects of diverse students transitions from education to employment. As employers require increasing global competence on the part of those leaving education, this research asks whether increasing multiculturalism in developed societies, often seen as a challenge to their cohesion, is in fact a potential advantage in an evolving employment sector. This is a vital and under-researched field, and this new publication in Springers Technical and Vocational Education and Training series provides analysis both of theory and empirical data, submitted by researchers from nine nations including the USA, Oman, Malaysia, and countries in the European Union. The papers trace the origins of business demand for diversity in their workforces skill set, including national, local and institutional contexts. They also consider how social, demographic, cultural, religious and linguistic diversity inform the attitudes of those seeking workand those seeking workers. With clear suggestions for future research, this work on a topic of rising profile will be read with interest by educators, policy makers, employers and careers advisors.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cultural and Social Diversity and the Transition from Education to Work; Preface; Springer: Technical and Vocational Education and Training Series; Contents; About the Contributors; About the Editor; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Leveraging Diversity to Promote Successful Transition from Education to Work; 1 Problem Statement; 2 Theoretical Approach and Research Procedure; 3 Concepts; 3.1 Concept of School-to-Work Transition System; 3.1.1 School-to-Work Transition Process; 3.1.2 School-to-Work Transition System; 3.2 Concept of Organisations' Demand for Diversity; 3.2.1 Diversity
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.2 Reasons for the Demand for Diversity3.2.3 Organisations' Demand for Diversity; 4 How Can the School-to-Work Transition System Address the Demand for Diversity?; 4.1 Role of the Education Subsystem; 4.2 Role of the Employment Subsystem; 5 Conclusion; References; Part II: The Demand for Cultural and Social Diversity; Chapter 2: Cultural and Social Diversity in the United States: A Compelling National Interest; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Demand for Cultural and Social Diversity; 1.1.1 Cultural Competency; 1.1.2 Representative Bureaucracy; 2 Confrontations Over Educational Access; 3 Summary
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 Future ResearchReferences; Chapter 3: Perceptions of the Demand for Cultural Diversity in the Omani Workplace and Its Availability Among Secondary School Students; 1 Cultural Diversity in the Workplace; 2 Role of Education in Shaping Cultural Diversity Orientations and Skills; 3 Cultural Diversity in Oman; 4 Demand for Cultural Diversity in the Omani Workplace; 5 Theoretical Framework; 6 Importance of the Study; 7 Research Questions; 8 Study Instrument; 8.1 Awareness of Local and Global Factors; 8.2 Awareness of Cultural Types; 8.3 Attributes; 8.4 Skills/Competencies; 9 Study Samples
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Data Analysis11 Attributes and Skills; 12 Discussion and Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Cultural Diversity and the School-To-Work Transition: A Relational Perspective; 1 Introduction; 2 The Concept of Cultural Diversity; 2.1 Background to Cultural Diversity in Europe; 2.2 Workforce Diversity; 3 Approaches to Managing Diversity; 4 The European Tourism Sector; 4.1 Human Resources in Tourism; 5 Workplace Diversity in European Tourism; 6 Theoretical Framework; 6.1 Capital; 6.2 Habitus; 6.3 Field; 7 Methods; 7.1 Limitations; 8 Findings and Discussion; 8.1 The Macro Socio-Economic Context
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.2 Student Reflections8.3 Human Capital/Cultural Capital; 8.4 International Experience; 8.5 Physical/Cultural Characteristics; 9 Survey of Jobseekers; 10 Survey of Employers; 11 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Workforce Diversity in Malaysia: Current and Future Demand of Persons with Disabilities; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Demand of PWDs as Workforce; 1.2 Challenges and Strategies in Employing PWDs; 1.3 Future Trends; 2 Research Objectives; 2.1 To Compare the Profiles of Organizations That Hired and Did Not Hire PWDs as Workforce
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 To Examine Organizations' Views About Demands on PWDs as Workforce
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    ISBN: 9781299702011 , 9789400762688
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 190 S. 36) , Ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development ; Human Geography
    Abstract: We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some practical answers, explaining the precepts of the ‘sustainable livelihood approach’ (SLA) through the case study of a microfinance scheme in Africa. The case study, centered around the work of the Catholic Church’s Diocesan Development Services organization, involved an SLA implemented over two years designed in part to help enhance its existing microfinance operation through closer links between local communities and international donors. The book’s central conclusion is that we must move beyond the concept of sustainable livelihood itself, with its in-built polarities between developed and developing nations, and embrace a more global notion of ‘sustainable lifestyle’; a more nuanced and inclusive approach that encompasses not just how we make a sustainable living, but how we can live sustainable lives
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Livelihood Approach; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Sustainability and Sustainable Livelihoods; 1.1 The Future of Sustainability; 1.2 The Multiverse of Sustainability; 1.3 Practicing Sustainability; 1.4 Structure of the Book; 2 The Theory Behind the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The SLA Framework; 2.3 Definitions of SLA; 2.4 Origins of SLA; 2.5 Capital in SLA; 2.6 Vulnerability and Institutional Context; 2.7 Representation Within SLA; 2.8 The Attractions and Popularity of SLA; 2.9 Critiques of SLA
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.10 SLA for Evidence-Based Intervention2.11 Conclusion; 3 Context of the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Governing an African Giant; 3.3 Economic Development in Nigeria; 3.4 A Kingdom Discovered; 3.5 Igala Livelihoods; An Overview; 3.6 The Diocesan Development Services in Igalaland; 3.7 New Pastures; 3.8 Choice of Villages for the SLA; 3.9 Conclusions; 4 The Sustainable Livelihood Approach in Practice; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Sample Households; 4.3 Human Capital: The Households; 4.3.1 Household M1 (Headed by the Village Chief)
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.2 Household M2 (Headed by a Senior Igbo)4.3.3 Household M3(Igbo Community Leader); 4.3.4 Household M4 (farmer and business man); 4.3.5 Household E1 (Farmer and Vigilante); 4.3.6 Household E2(Madaki of Edeke); 4.3.7 Household E3 (Farmer and Fisherman); 4.3.8 Household E4 (Madaki in Edeke); 4.4 Natural Capital: Land and Farming; 4.5 Natural Capital: Trees; 4.6 Social Capital: Networks; 4.7 Physical Capital: Assets for Income Generation; 4.8 Financial Capital: Household Budgets; 4.9 Vulnerability and Institutional Contexts; 4.10 Did SLA Succeed?; 4.11 Conclusions; 5 Livelihood into Lifestyle
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1 Introduction5.2 How SLA?; 5.3 Where SLA?; 5.4 Transferability of SLA; 5.5 Livelihood into Lifestyle; 5.6 Conclusions; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9789400714946
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 1582 p. eReference, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Lütge, Christoph, 1969 - Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics
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    Keywords: Economics ; Philosophy (General) ; Law—Philosophy. ; Law—History. ; Philosophy (General) ; Economics ; Ethics ; Ethics ; Philosophy ; Business ; Management science. ; Law ; Law ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Unternehmensethik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Aristotelian Foundations of Business Ethics -- Scholastic Thought and Business Ethics -- Morality and Self-Interest I: Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment -- Morality and Self-Interest II: Contemporary Perspectives -- Kantian and Hegelian Thoughts on Business Ethics -- Marxist Thoughts on Business Ethics -- Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Business Ethics -- Christian Foundations of Business Ethics -- Jewish Foundations of Business Ethics -- Islamic Foundations of Business Ethics -- Eastern Cultural, Philosophical and Religious Foundations of Business Ethics -- Discourse Ethics and Business -- Contractarianism -- Sen’s “Capabilities”, Poverty and Economic Welfare -- Human Rights, Globalization and Business Ethics -- Gender Issues and Business Ethics -- Justice and Business Ethics -- Philosophical Issues of Sustainability and the Environment -- Free Markets, Morality and Business Ethics -- Property Rights: Material and Intellectual -- Philosophical Issues of Management and Corporations -- Methodology and Business Ethics
    Abstract: The Handbook of Business Ethics: Philosophical Foundations is a standard interdisciplinary reference handbook in the field of business ethics. Articles by notable philosophers and economists examine fundamental concepts, theories and questions of business ethics: Are morality and self-interest compatible? What is meant by a just price? What did the Scholastic philosophers think about business? The handbook will cover the entire philosophical basis of business ethics. Articles range from historical positions such as Aristotelianism, Kantianism and Marxism to systematic issues like justice, religious issues, rights and globalisation or gender. The book is intended as a reference work for academics, students (esp. graduate), and professionals
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    ISBN: 9789400753518 , 1283936070 , 9781283936071
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 315 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 298
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Agassi, Joseph, 1927 - 2023 The very idea of modern science
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science ; Europe ; History ; 16th century ; Science ; Europe ; History ; 17th century ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Citizen Science ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Citizen Science
    Abstract: This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a magnificent institution. It also shows what was missing in the scientific organization of science and why it gave way to professional science in stages. In particular the book studies the contributions of Sir Francis Bacon and of the Hon. Robert Boyle to the rise of modern science. The philosophy of induction is notoriously problematic, yet its great asset is that it expressed the view of the Enlightenment Movement about science. This explains the ambivalence that we still exhibit towards Sir Francis Bacon whose radicalism and vision of pure and applied science still a major aspect of the fabric of society. Finally, the book discusses Boyle’s philosophy, his agreement with and dissent from Bacon and the way he single-handedly trained a crowd of poorly educated English aristocrats and rendered them into an army of able amateur researchers.​
    Description / Table of Contents: The Very Idea of ModernScience; Abstract; Preface; Acknowledgement; Contents; Part I: Bacons Doctrine of Prejudice (A Study in a Renaissance Religion); Introductory Note; Chapter 1: The Riddle of Bacon; 1.1 The Problem of Methodology; 1.2 The Criticism of Bacon's Writings; 1.3 The Past Suggested Solutions; Chapter 2: Bacon's Philosophy of Discovery; 2.1 Bacon's Utopianism; 2.2 Bacon's Metaphysics; 2.3 Bacon's Induction; 2.4 Bacon's Inductive Machine; Chapter 3: Ellis' Major Difficulty; Chapter 4: The Function of the Doctrine of Prejudice; 4.1 Radicalism; 4.2 Radicalism Invented
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3 Radical MethodologyChapter 5: Bacon on the Origin of Error and Prejudice; Chapter 6: Prejudices of the Senses; 6.1 The Problem of Observation; 6.2 Prejudices of the Senses; 6.3 Bacon's Theory of Discovery; 6.4 Whewell's Theory of Discovery; 6.5 Popper's Theory of Discovery; 6.6 Bacon's "Mark" of Science; Chapter 7: Prejudices of Opinions; 7.1 Suspension of Judgment; 7.2 What Is a Prejudice?; 7.3 Bacon and the Logical Empiricists; 7.4 Bacon's Double Game; 7.5 The Origin of Scientific Theories; 7.6 Science and Imagination; Chapter 8: Bacon's Influence; 8.1 Influence on Immediate Posterity
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.2 Permission to Propose a Hypothesis and to Assert Metaphysics8.3 Permission De Jure and de Facto; 8.4 Legitimation Versus Criticism; 8.5 Bacon's Influence; Chapter 9: Conclusion : The Rise of the Riddle of Bacon; Part II: The Religion of Inductivism as a Living Force; Quasi-Terminological Notes; "The Inductive Style"; "Speculation" and "Hypothesis"; "Hypothesis" and "Fact"; On the Recent Literature; Homage to Robert Boyle; Chapter 10: Philosophical Background; 10.1 Inductivism Classical and Modern; 10.2 Metaphysical Views, Classical and Modern; 10.3 The Doctrine of Prejudice
    Description / Table of Contents: 10.4 The Moral Code of the Fraternity10.5 Conclusion; Chapter 11: The Social Background of Classical Science; 11.1 Researchers as Amateurs; 11.2 Researchers as Experts; 11.3 Researchers as Inventors; 11.4 Researchers as Dilettantes; Chapter 12: The Missing Link Between Bacon and the Royal Society; 12.1 The Rise of the Royal Society; 12.2 Boyle's Spirit; 12.3 Boyle's Views on the Spread of Science; Chapter 13: Boyle in the Eyes of Posterity; 13.1 The Eighteenth Century; 13.2 Herschel's Unfair Comment; 13.3 Who Discovered Boyle's Law?; 13.4 Modern Views on Boyle; 13.5 Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 14: The Inductive Style14.1 The Discussion of Style; 14.2 The Inductive Style Versus the Argumentative Style; 14.3 Reporting on Experiments and Writing Systems; 14.4 Boyle on some Systems; 14.5 Thinking and Experimenting; 14.6 The Inductive Style; 14.7 Encyclopedia of Facts or a Just History of Nature; 14.8 Boyle's Promiscuous Experiments; 14.9 Boyle on Attempts to Create some Theories; 14.10 Methodological Tolerance; 14.11 The Usefulness of Hypotheses; 14.12 Civilized Argument; 14.13 Boyle on the Method of Quoting; 14.14 Circumstantial Descriptions A: The Problem
    Description / Table of Contents: 14.15 Circumstantial Descriptions B: Recent Solutions
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgement -- PART I: BACONS DOCTRINE OF PREJUDICE -- (A study in a Renaissance Religion) Introductory Note -- I The Riddle of Bacon -- (1)  The Problem of Methodology -- (2)    II Bacon’s Philosophy of Discovery -- III Ellis’ Major Difficulty -- IV The Function of the Doctrine of Prejudice -- V Bacon on the origin of error and prejudice -- VI Prejudices of the Senses -- VII Prejudices of Opinions -- VIII Bacon’s Influence -- IX Conclusion: The rise of the commonwealth of learning -- PART II: A RELIGION OF INDUCTIVISM AS A LIVING FORCE -- A Quasi-Terminological Note -- On the recent literature -- Homage to Robert Boyle -- I Background Material -- II The social background of classical science -- III The Missing Link between Bacon and the Royal Society of London -- IV Boyle in the Eyes of Posterity -- V The Inductive Style -- VI Mechanism -- VII The new doctrine of prejudice -- Appendices. ​.
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  • 27
    ISBN: 9789400762688
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 190 p. 36 illus) , digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development ; Human Geography
    Abstract:  We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some practical answers, explaining the precepts of the ‘sustainable livelihood approach’ (SLA) through the case study of a microfinance scheme in Africa. The case study, centered around the work of the Catholic Church’s Diocesan Development Services organization, involved an SLA implemented over two years designed in part to help enhance its existing microfinance operation through closer links between local communities and international donors. The book’s central conclusion is that we must move beyond the concept of sustainable livelihood itself, with its in-built polarities between developed and developing nations, and embrace a more global notion of ‘sustainable lifestyle’; a more nuanced and inclusive approach that encompasses not just how we make a sustainable living, but how we can live sustainable lives
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Livelihood Approach; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Sustainability and Sustainable Livelihoods; 1.1 The Future of Sustainability; 1.2 The Multiverse of Sustainability; 1.3 Practicing Sustainability; 1.4 Structure of the Book; 2 The Theory Behind the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The SLA Framework; 2.3 Definitions of SLA; 2.4 Origins of SLA; 2.5 Capital in SLA; 2.6 Vulnerability and Institutional Context; 2.7 Representation Within SLA; 2.8 The Attractions and Popularity of SLA; 2.9 Critiques of SLA
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.10 SLA for Evidence-Based Intervention2.11 Conclusion; 3 Context of the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Governing an African Giant; 3.3 Economic Development in Nigeria; 3.4 A Kingdom Discovered; 3.5 Igala Livelihoods; An Overview; 3.6 The Diocesan Development Services in Igalaland; 3.7 New Pastures; 3.8 Choice of Villages for the SLA; 3.9 Conclusions; 4 The Sustainable Livelihood Approach in Practice; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Sample Households; 4.3 Human Capital: The Households; 4.3.1 Household M1 (Headed by the Village Chief)
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.2 Household M2 (Headed by a Senior Igbo)4.3.3 Household M3(Igbo Community Leader); 4.3.4 Household M4 (farmer and business man); 4.3.5 Household E1 (Farmer and Vigilante); 4.3.6 Household E2(Madaki of Edeke); 4.3.7 Household E3 (Farmer and Fisherman); 4.3.8 Household E4 (Madaki in Edeke); 4.4 Natural Capital: Land and Farming; 4.5 Natural Capital: Trees; 4.6 Social Capital: Networks; 4.7 Physical Capital: Assets for Income Generation; 4.8 Financial Capital: Household Budgets; 4.9 Vulnerability and Institutional Contexts; 4.10 Did SLA Succeed?; 4.11 Conclusions; 5 Livelihood into Lifestyle
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1 Introduction5.2 How SLA?; 5.3 Where SLA?; 5.4 Transferability of SLA; 5.5 Livelihood into Lifestyle; 5.6 Conclusions; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9783658012953
    Language: German
    Pages: Online-Ressource (208 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Zwischen Reformeifer und Ernüchterung : Ãœbergänge in beruflichen Lebensläufen
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: School-to-work transition ; Vocational education ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 2012
    Abstract: Bei der Frage der Reformierung des Übergangssystems können wir auf eine über drei Jahrzehnte dauernde Geschichte zurückblicken. Als temporäres Unterstützungsangebot gedacht, zeugen Begriffe wie 'Maßnahmedschungel' und 'Warteschleife' von einer Ernüchterung hinsichtlich der Realisierung von Reformansprüchen beim Übergang von der Schule in die Ausbildung. Dennoch ist der Reformeifer nach wie vor ungebrochen. Die Vielzahl an Programmen und Initiativen signalisieren nicht nur ein wachsendes Problembewusstsein, sondern auch, dass nicht zuletzt durch die Reformen der Reformbedarf steigt. A
    Description / Table of Contents: Inhalt; Zwischen Reformeifer und Ernüchterung: Übergänge in beruflichen Lebensläufen; Abstract; 1. Das Übergangssystem als Maßnahmen- und Reformdscbungel; 2. Neue Qualität in der Debatte um Reformen des Übergangssystems; Literatur; Zur Bedeutung und künftigen Entwicklung des Übergangsbereiches - Welche Informationen liefert die integrierte Ausbildungsberichterstattung (iABE)?; Abstract; 1. Ausgangslage; 2. Ausbildungsmarkt und Übergangsprobleme; 3. Datenlage zum Übergangsbereich:Die integrierte Ausbildungsbericbterstattung (iADE)
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. Der Übergangsbereich im Vergleich der anderen Bildungssektoren5. Künftige Entwicklung des Übergangsbereiches; 6. Fazit; Literatur; Ausdifferenzierung von Übergangswegen von der Schule in dieAusbildung. Ergebnisse aus Längsschnittstudien des DJI; Abstract; 1. Ausgangssituation; 2. FragesteUungen; 3. Datengrundlage; 4. Ergebnisse; 4.1 Pläne und Wege nach Beendigung der Schule; 4.2 Verlaufstypen von Bildungs- und Ausbildungswegen in den ersten fünf Übergangsjahren3; 4.3 Determinanten der Verlaufstypen; 4.4 Ergebnisse der qualitativen Interviews; 5. Fazit; Literatur
    Description / Table of Contents: Biographische Risiken und schulpädagogische MaßnahmenAbstract; 1. Einleitung; 2. Gesellschaftliche Anforderungen, Kompetenz und Lernen; 3. Das Forschungsprojekt; 3.1 Empirische Befunde: Jugendleben in pädagogischen Maßnahmen; 3.2 Jugendphase und Gesellschaftlichkeit; Literatur; Werkschulen in Bremen - Ergebnisse des ESF-Pilotvorhabens""Entwicklung und Implementation eines Konzeptszur Förderung lernbenachteiligter Jugendlicher durchpraxisorientiertes Lernen""; Ahstract; 1. Einleitung; 2. Konzept der Werkschule; 2.1 Vorläufer der Werkschule und gesetzlicher Rahmen
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 Gestaltungsprinzipien des Werkschulkonzepts3. Ergebnisse der Befragung; 3.1 Befragungsergebnisse - Werkschulteam; 3.2 Befragungsergebnisse - Schülerinnen und Schüler; 4. Zusammenfassung und Empfehlungen; Literatur; ""Und Sie bewegt sich doch"" - Das HamburgerAusbildungsmodell und die Veränderungen im Übergangssystem; Abstract; 1. Der ""pädagogische Zwischenraum"" - Chancenlosigkeit durch Bildung; 2. Quantitative Veränderungen: Kehrtwende?; 3. Das ""Hamburger Ausbildungsmodell""; 3.1 Politische Entwicklungslinien der Reform der beruflichen Bildung in Hamburg
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2 Erste Konturierung des ""Hamburger Ausbildungsmodells""3.2.1 Neue Übergangsstrukturen; 4. Zwischenstand; 5. Fazit; Literatur; Zielkonßikte beruflicher Qualifizierung zwischen Bildungs-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik; Abstract; 1. Vorbemerkungen; 2. Die These vom Übergangssystem als Kollateralschaden der dualenBerufsaushildung; 3. Das strukturelle Dilemma eines weltweit anerkannten Qualifizierungskonzeptes; 4. Fazit; Literatur; Das Übergangsgeschehen - ein neues ""Dispositiv der Macht""?Bericht über eine Verblüffung; Abstract; 1. Einleitung; 2. Eine merkwürdige Gemengelage
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Wahrnehmungen und Diskurse
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400754409
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 693 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color, digital)
    Series Statement: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 21
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    Parallel Title: Buch-Ausgabe Climate change and the law
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    Keywords: Renewable energy sources ; Climatic changes ; Economics ; Law ; Law ; Renewable energy sources ; Climatic changes ; Economics ; Climatic changes ; Law and legislation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Klimaänderung ; Internationales Umweltrecht
    Abstract: Climate Change and the Law is the first scholarly effort to systematically address doctrinal issues related to climate law as an emergent legal discipline. It assembles some of the most recognized experts in the field to identify relevant trends and common themes from a variety of geographic and professional perspectives.In a remarkably short time span, climate change has become deeply embedded in important areas of the law. As a global challenge calling for collective action, climate change has elicited substantial rulemaking at the international plane, percolating through the broader legal system to the regional, national and local levels. More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade law.Climate Change and the Law explores the rich diversity of international, regional, national, sub-national and transnational legal responses to climate change. Is climate law emerging as a new legal discipline? If so, what shared objectives and concepts define it? How does climate law relate to other areas of law? Such questions lie at the heart of this new book, whose thirty chapters cover doctrinal questions as well as a range of thematic and regional case studies. As Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), states in her preface, these chapters collectively provide a “review of the emergence of a new discipline, its core principles and legal techniques, and its relationship and potential interaction with other disciplines.”
    Description / Table of Contents: Climate Change and the Law; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction: Climate Change and the Law; 1.1 Exploring the Relationship Between Climate Change and the Law; 1.2 Structure and Organization; Part I: Climate Law as an Emerging Discipline; Chapter 2: Implementing Climate Governance: Instrument Choice and Interaction; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Exploring the Boundaries of Domestic Climate Law; 2.2.1 Instrument Choice at the Domestic Level; 2.2.2 Instrument Interactions at the Domestic Level
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.2.1 Internal and External Conflicts - An Analytical Framework2.2.3 Coherence by Design: Envisioning a Domestic Climate Management Regime; 2.2.3.1 The Legal Context - Identifying a Mandate; 2.2.3.2 Integrated Greenhouse Gas Management - Clinching the Objective; 2.3 Instrument Choice at the International Level; Chapter 3: Exploring the Landscape of Climate Law and Scholarship: Two Emerging Trends; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Mapping the Landscape of Climate Change Law; 3.2.1 Role of the UNFCCC; 3.2.2 Regulation of the CDM: Multiple Layers, Diverse Actors and Deformalization
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 Climate Law: Interactions Between Sources of Legal Authority3.3.1 Background: Globalization and Law; 3.3.2 Climate Law and Interaction Between Different Sources of Legal Authority; 3.3.2.1 Vertical Interaction: International and National Law; 3.3.2.2 Vertical Interaction: Sub-national Initiatives; 3.3.2.3 Interaction Between National Jurisdictions; 3.4 Climate Law: Non-state Actors and Deformalization; 3.4.1 Public-Private Partnerships and Other Hybrid Initiatives; 3.4.2 Private Sector Engagement and Voluntary Regulatory Initiatives; 3.4.3 Non-state Actors and Climate Law Research
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5 ConclusionsChapter 4: Climate Change and Justice: Perspectives of Legal Theory; 4.1 Theoretical Background: Ethical and Legal Considerations; 4.2 Human Rights: Only Subordinate and Vague "Duties of Protection" with Regard to Sustainability? The Traditional Legal Point of View in Europe and Germany; 4.3 Intergenerational and Global Scope of Human Rights, Protecting the Conditions of Freedom, and Multipolarity of Freedom; 4.4 The Case of Climate Change; 4.5 The Problem of Historical Emissions; 4.6 On the Path to a Justice-Based Framework for Global Climate Governance
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: International Climate Law - Architecture and InstitutionsChapter 5: Foundations of International Climate Law: Objectives, Principles and Methods; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Objective of the Climate Change Regime; 5.2.1 Mitigation Objectives; 5.2.2 Adaptation Objectives; 5.3 Principles of the Climate Change Regime; 5.3.1 State Sovereignty and Responsibility; 5.3.2 Principle of Preventative Action; 5.3.3 Principle of Cooperation; 5.3.4 The Concept of Sustainable Development; 5.3.5 The Precautionary Principle; 5.3.6 The Polluter Pays Principle
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3.7 The Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibility
    Description / Table of Contents: Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Climate Change and the Law; Erkki J. Hollo, Kati Kulovesi and Michael Mehling -- Part I: Climate Law as an Emerging Discipline -- 2. Implementing Climate Law: Instrument Choice and Interaction; Michael Mehling -- 3. Exploring the Landscape of Climate Law and Scholarship: Two Emerging Trends; Kati Kulovesi -- 4. Climate Change and Justice: Perspectives of Legal Theory; Felix Ekardt -- Part II: International Climate Law -- Section I: Architecture and Institutions -- 5. Foundations of International Climate Law: Objectives, Principles and Methods; Rowena Maguire -- 6. Alternative Venues of Climate Cooperation: An Institutional Perspective; Camilla Bausch and Michael Mehling -- 7. Analyzing Soft Law and Hard Law in Climate Change; Antto Vihma -- 8. Compliance and Enforcement in the Climate Change Regime; Meinhard Doelle -- Section II: Cross-Cutting Issues -- 9. The New Framework for Climate Finance under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: A Breakthrough or an Empty Promise?; Yulia Yamineva and Kati Kulovesi -- 10. Climate Justice: The Clean Development Mechanism as a Case Study; Tomilola Eni-ibukun -- 11. Legal Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation; Jonathan Verschuuren -- 12. Climate Change and Human Rights; Timo Koivurova, Sébastien Duyck and Leena Heinämäki -- Section III: Sectoral Issues -- 13.  Managing the Fragmentation of International Climate Law; Harro van Asselt -- 14. No Need to Reinvent the Wheel for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Tackling Climate Change: The Contribution of International Biodiversity Law; Elisa Morgera -- 15. The Role of REDD in the Harmonization of Overlapping International Obligations; Annalisa Savaresi -- 16. Climate Change and Trade: At the Intersection of Two International Legal Regimes; Kati Kulovesi -- 17. Climate Law and Geoengineering; Ralph Bodle -- Part III: Comparative Climate Law -- 18. Climate Law in the United States: Facing Structural and Procedural Barriers; Michael Mehling and David Frenkil -- 19. Canada and the Kyoto Protocol: An Aesop Fable; Jane Matthews Glenn and Jose Otero -- 20. Climate Law in the European Union: Accidental Success or Deliberate Leadership?; Michael Mehling and Kati Kulovesi -- 21. Climate Law in Germany; Felix Ekardt -- 22. Climate Law in the United Kingdom; Colin T. Reid -- 23. Climate Law and Policy in Russia: A Peasant Needs Thunder to Cross Himself and Wonder; Yulia Yamineva -- 24. Australia: From ‘No Regrets’ to A Clean Energy Future?; Sharon Mascher and David Hodgkinson -- 25. Climate Law and Policy in Japan; Hitomi Kimura -- 26. Sustainable Development and Climate Policy and Law in China; Christopher Tung -- 27. India’s Evolving Climate Change Strategy; Namrata Patodia Rastogi -- 28. Climate Change Responses in South Africa; Ed Couzens and Michael Kidd -- 29. Climate Change Policy and Legislation in Brazil; Haroldo Machado Filho -- 30. Climate Law in Latin American Countries; Soledad Aguilar and Eugenia Recio..
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    ISBN: 9783658005467 , 9783658005474 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 354 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658005474
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 304.6
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    Keywords: Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Bevölkerungspolitik ; Gemeinde ; Handlungsspielraum ; Deutschland ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: ?Das „Gespenst" des Demographischen Wandels geht um in Europa. Geburtenrückgang und die prognostizierte Alterung und Schrumpfung der Gesellschaft wird im öffentlichen Diskurs häufig mit einer Überlastung des Sozialstaates oder katastrophalen ökonomischen Zukunftsszenarien gleichgesetzt. Christian Rademacher prüft die finanz- und arbeitsmarktpolitische Leistungsfähigkeit lokaler Daseinsfürsorge durch praktische externe Evaluationen von familien- und seniorenpolitischen Maßnahmen auf lokaler Ebene. Er zeigt, dass entgegen weit verbreiteter populationistischer Krisenannahmen deutsche Kommunen übe...
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  • 31
    ISBN: 9400744315 , 9789400744318 , 9789400796522
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiv, 300 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Demographic research monographs 10
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Max-Planck Institut for Demographic Research (MPIDR) 2010
    DDC: 304.640943
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    Keywords: Sterbeziffer ; Regionale Disparität ; Deutschland ; Hochschulschrift
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789048189533
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 411 S. , graph. Darst. , 235 mm x 155 mm
    Series Statement: The Springer series on demographic methods and population analysis 31
    Series Statement: The Springer series on demographic methods and population analysis
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Swanson, David A. Subnational Population Estimates
    DDC: 304.620112
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    Keywords: Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Demographie ; Statistische Methode ; Population forecasting Methodology ; Population forecasting ; Methodology ; Glossar enthalten ; Glossar enthalten ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Prognoseverfahren
    Note: Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Online Resource
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400739956
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 134 p, digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Responsible Leadership
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Industrial management ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Industrial management
    Abstract: These chapters on ‘Responsible Leadership’ represent the latest thinking on a topic of increasing relevance in a connected world. There are many challenges that still remain when it comes to establishing responsible leadership both in theory and practice. Whilst offering conceptualisations for the improvement of leadership is a first and perhaps easier response, what is more difficult is to facilitate the actual change to happen. These chapters will not only generate interest in the emerging domain of studies on responsible leadership, but also will pave the way for future research in this area in the years to come. Previously Published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 98 Supplement 2, 2011​
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Foreword to Special Issue on 'Responsible Leadership'; Responsible Leadership: Pathways to the Future; Abstract; Why Responsible Leadership?; What is Responsible Leadership?; How Does Responsible Leadership Differ from Related Theories?; Stakeholder Theory and Responsible Leadership; Ethical Leadership; Servant Leadership; Authentic Leadership; Transformational Leadership; Perspectives on Responsible Leadership: Special Issue Overview; Values, Authenticity, and Responsible Leadership; Responsible Leadership as Virtuous Leadership
    Description / Table of Contents: Responsible Leadership Outcomes Via Stakeholder CSR ValuesMeasuring Responsible Leadership; Moving Forward with the Concept of Responsible Leadership; Responsible Leadership Helps Retain Talent; Exploring the Interface Between Strategy-Making and Responsible Leadership; The Human Resources Contribution to Responsible Leadership; Conclusion: Pathways for Further Research; References; Values, Authenticity, and Responsible Leadership; Abstract; Introduction; The Essential Self and the Problem of Authenticity; The Poetic Self: Enlargement, Connection, and Aspiration
    Description / Table of Contents: The Poetic Self and Responsible Leadership: Creating Self and CommunityReferences; Responsible Leadership as Virtuous Leadership; Abstract; The Meaning of Virtuousness in Leadership; Virtue Versus Virtuousness; Examples; Attributes of Virtuousness; The Eudaemonic Assumption; Inherent Value Assumption; Amplification Assumption; Benefits of Virtuous Leadership; Virtuousness as a Fixed Point; Virtuousness and Positive Organizational Outcomes; Conclusion; Open Access; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Responsible Leadership Outcomes Via Stakeholder CSR Values: Testing a Values-Centered Model of Transformational LeadershipAbstract; Introduction; Theoretical Background; Theories of Responsible and Transformational Leadership; Values-Centered Model and Hypotheses; Values-Centered Model of Transformational Leadership; Leader Values; Follower Values Congruence; Responsible Leadership Outcomes; Method; Participants, Sample Organizations, and Procedures; Participants; Sample Organizations; Procedures; Measures; Leader Values; Leadership Style; Values Congruence
    Description / Table of Contents: Follower Corporate Social Responsibility BeliefsOrganizational Citizenship Behaviors; Control Variables; Analyses; Level of Analysis; Control for Same-Source Bias; Results; Preliminary Analyses; Hypothesis Testing; Hypotheses 1--2; Hypotheses 3--4; Hypotheses 5--6; Comparing Alternative Models; Discussion; Implications for Organizations; Limitations and Future Research; Conclusion; References; Development of a Scale Measuring Discursive Responsible Leadership; Abstract; The Responsible Leadership Concept; Responsible Leadership in Relation to Transformational and Ethical Leadership
    Description / Table of Contents: Transformational Leadership
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword to Special Issue on ‘Responsible Leadership’; Nicola M. Pless, Thomas Maak, Derick de Jongh.-  Responsible Leadership: Pathways to the Future;  Nicola M. Pless  and Thomas Maak -- Values, Authenticity, and Responsible Leadership; R. Edward Freeman  and Ellen R. Auster -- Responsible Leadership as Virtuous Leadership; Kim Cameron -- Responsible Leadership Outcomes Via Stakeholder CSR Values: Testing a Values-Centered Model of Transformational Leadership; Kevin S. Groves and Michael A. LaRocca -- Development of a Scale Measuring Discursive Responsible Leadership; Christian Voegtlin -- Moving Forward with the Concept of Responsible Leadership: Three Caveats to Guide Theory and Research; David A. Waldman -- Responsible Leadership Helps Retain Talent in India; Jonathan P. Doh, Stephen A. Stumpf, Walter G. Tymon Jr. -- Exploring the Interface Between Strategy-Making and Responsible Leadership; Rachel Maritz, Marius Pretorius, Kato Plant -- The Human Resources Contribution to Responsible Leadership: An Exploration of the CSR-HR Interface; Jean-Pascal Gond, Jacques Igalens, Vale´rie Swaen, Assaâd El Akremi. ​.
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    ISBN: 9783540775683
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Environmental protection in the European Union
    DDC: 307.14160940905
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    Keywords: Umweltschutz ; Natürliche Ressourcen ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Umweltpolitik ; Ressourcenpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book represents the collected works of Environmental and Resource Management (ERM) Alumni as well as young professionals and researches who are involved in the field of ERM. The connecting theme of these works is the successful implementation of ERM in a wide range of issues including: energy innovation and management, climate change response and sustainable development aspects of resource management in developing countries. This book aims to expose some of the research outputs of ERM Alumni and present perspectives and critical questions of ERM application. ...
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    ISBN: 9781402095023 , 9781402055591 , 9781402055607
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 235 S. , graph. Darst. , 235 mm x 155 mm, 540 gr.
    Series Statement: Higher education dynamics 18
    Series Statement: Higher education dynamics
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Herbst, Marcel Financing Public Universities
    DDC: 378.44
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    Keywords: Hochschulfinanzierung ; Nonprofit-Management ; Hochschulreform ; Hochschulpolitik ; Public universities and colleges Finance ; Public universities and colleges Finance ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschulfinanzierung ; Internationaler Vergleich
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    ISBN: 9781402099489
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 234 S. , Ill. , 235 mm x 155 mm
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 98
    Series Statement: Geojournal / Library
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kong, Lily; O'Connor, Justin Creative economies, creative cities
    Parallel Title: Online-Ressource u.d.T. Kong, Lily, 1965 - Creative Economies, Creative Cities
    DDC: 338.90091732
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    Keywords: Kultursektor ; Regionales Cluster ; Soziale Schicht ; Standortpolitik ; Stadtentwicklung ; Europa ; Asien ; Cultural industries ; Cultural industries ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Kulturindustrie ; Cluster ; Stadtentwicklung ; Asien ; Europa ; Kulturindustrie ; Cluster ; Stadtentwicklung ; Asien
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    ISBN: 9781402048470 , 9781402048463
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 442 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: International Studies in Population 4
    Series Statement: International studies in population
    DDC: 304.645
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    Keywords: Sterblichkeit ; Ältere Menschen ; Alternde Bevölkerung ; Altersstruktur ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Life expectancy ; Longevity ; Mortality Tables ; Old age ; Longevity Statistics ; Aged, 80 and over statistics & numerical data ; Life Expectancy Statistics trends ; Mortality Statistics ; Kongressschrift ; Buch ; Sammelwerk ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Langlebigkeit ; Alter ; Lebensdauer
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    ISBN: 9781402059513
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    Series Statement: United Nations University Series on Regionalism 1
    DDC: 337.1
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    Keywords: Internationale Handelspolitik ; Regionale Wirtschaftsintegration ; Wirtschaftsintegration ; Welt ; Development Economics ; Human Geography ; International economics ; Political science ; Social sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Handel ; Regionalismus ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Integration ; Finanzinvestition
    Abstract: In 2001, the United Nations University launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. This is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. The report represents a unique collaboration between all regional UN Economic Commissions. It focuses on one of the central issues in the debate on global governance.
    Abstract: Global governance is a concern of not only global organisations but also of all individual states and of regional co-operation agreements among sovereign states. In 2001, the United Nations University has launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. The present first volume of the World Report on Regional Integration is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. This new series of World Reports will certainly contribute to the discussion on the interaction between regional and global governance. And by bringing together insights from different parts of the UN system, in particular the five UN regional economic commissions and UNCTAD, this report will also contribute to a better understanding of the role of regions in the UN. (Hans van Ginkel, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Rector of UNU) The World Report on Regional Integration brings together a well-balanced mix of economic analysis, facts and political perspectives on the topic of regional integration. The most valuable and unique contribution of this volume is the enhanced clarity it brings to the complex picture of trade and investment integration, the entanglement of which points to the need for more effective regional governance as a building block of multilateral governance in this area. As the world's most dynamic trading region, Asia and the Pacific is a key player in this process, and the UNESCAP secretariat, in its service to the region, will continue to accord high priority to this policy objective. (Kim Hak-Su, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of UNESCAP)
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Developing Countries' Participation in Regional Integration: Trends, Prospects and Policy Implications; Preferential Trading Arrangements for Developing Countries; Making Multi-Level Rules Work: Trade and Investment Rules in Regional and Bilateral Agreements; Reconciling Regionalism and Multilateralism: Towards Multilevel Trade Governance; Asia-Pacific Regionalism Quo Vadis? Charting the Territory for New Integration Routes; Regional Integration in the Western Hemisphere: An Overview; Regional Economic Integration in Africa
    Description / Table of Contents: Developments in Regional Integration in Western Asia and Arab RegionTrade and Integration in (South) East Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia; Regional Integration in the European Union: Enlargement Without Constitution; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 1281066672 , 9781402062209 , 9781281066671
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Political science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Neoliberalismus ; Global Governance
    Abstract: This book explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance, exploring national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing economies. Among the strengths of this volume are its detailed global scope, its range of case studies in diverse policy areas, its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and practice, and its impact upon state power and global governance.
    Abstract: The volume explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance. It seeks to show how neo-liberalism has failed to deliver a framework for state power and global governance capable of delivering stability and enduring prosperity. It also contends that the role of politics in general, and the state and global governance in particular, should be defined more broadly than the simple neo-liberal construction of institutions for the market. Part One explores the pattern of national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing economies, despite the pressure to converge towards the dominant neo-liberal paradigm. Part Two analyses a variety of trans-national policy prescriptions for neo-liberalism and state power. Part Three explores whether the governance of labour markets is a special case in the global economy. Part Four sets out the need for institutional reform of the neo-liberal order in trade and finance. The volume concludes that there is the prospect of a more plural approach to state power and global governance, and one that recognizes the importance of the public domain of citizenship for delivering the global public goods of security, prosperity and environmental sustainability in the twenty-first century. The distinctive features of this book are: Its range of case studies of the impact of neo-liberalism upon state power in both industrialized (i.e. Germany, Canada, England) and emergent market economies (i.e. Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua), Its range of case studies in different policy areas (i.e. education, labour markets, competitiveness policy, competition policy, financial markets' governance, monetary policy), Its range of case studies of different institutions of global governance (i.e. OECD, WTO), and Its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and practice, and its impact upon state power and global governance.
    Description / Table of Contents: Lee-FM.pdf; Lee-Ch01.pdf; Lee-Ch02.pdf; Lee-Ch03.pdf; Lee-Ch04.pdf; Lee-Ch05.pdf; Lee-Ch06.pdf; Lee-Ch07.pdf; Lee-Ch08.pdf; Lee-Ch09.pdf; Lee-Ch10.pdf; Lee-Ch11.pdf; Lee-Ch12.pdf; Lee-Ch13.pdf; Lee-Ch14.pdf; Lee-Ch15.pdf; Lee-Ch16.pdf; Lee-Index.pdf
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    ISBN: 9781402059735
    Language: English
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    DDC: 361.65
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    Keywords: Alternde Bevölkerung ; Sozialstaat ; Generationengerechtigkeit ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Social sciences ; Population ; Social policy ; Aging Research ; Demography ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lebenserwartung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Wohlstandsgesellschaft ; Altern ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Familienbeziehung
    Abstract: In this important and timely book, researchers from different countries compare their experiences and offer contrasting views on the future of social protection. They consider the theoretical aspects of the intergenerational debate, relations between generations within the family, the living standards of elderly people, and the question of social time. For the first time in history, three and sometimes four generations are living at the same time; this book examines the new interactions between family change, labour force participation and population ageing.
    Abstract: Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and collective solidarity adapting in this context of longer life spans, low fertility, and work that is simultaneously scarce and abundant? The welfare states are currently facing three main challenges: ensure satisfactory living conditions for the elderly without increasing the cost burden on the active population, reduce social inequality, and maintain equity between successive generations. In this book, researchers from different countries compare their experiences and offer contrasting views on the future of social protection. They consider the theoretical aspects of the intergenerational debate, relations between generations within the family, the living standards of elderly people, and the question of social time.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Demographic Change, Welfare, and Intergenerational Transfers: A Global Overview; Demographic Context of the Social Contract in Developed Countries: Unity and Diversity; Economics of the Intergenerational Debate: Normative, Accounting and Political Viewpoints; Reorganizing the Activity Cycle: The Stakes in a New Social Contract; Social Contract and Age at Retirement: Some Elements of a Franco-American Comparison; Longevity and Work; Changes to the Legal Relationship Between Grandparents and Grandchildren in Quebec: A Disconcerting Evolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Demographic Change and the Social Contract of Informal Support Within the FamilyChange and Reciprocity in Intergenerational Relationships: The Discourse Of Spanish Working Mothers; Intergenerational Exchanges in Older Populations; Family Solidarities at the Beginning of Retirement in France; Pensions and Income Redistribution in a Comparative Perspective: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study; Social Spending: Recent Changes and Conditions for its Long-Term Viability; Pensions, Privilege and Poverty: Another "Take" on Intergenerational Equity
    Description / Table of Contents: Toward a 24-Hour Economy: Implications for the Temporal Structure and Functioning of Family LifeWorking Schedules: In Search of a Balance Between Family Time and Economic Wellbeing; Determinants of Paths of Transition to Total-Work Retirement: A Preliminary Empirical Analysis; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402055607
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    Series Statement: HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS 18
    DDC: 378.44
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    Keywords: Hochschulfinanzierung ; Nonprofit-Management ; Hochschulreform ; Hochschulpolitik ; Education ; Education, Higher ; Finance ; Social policy ; Political science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschulfinanzierung
    Abstract: This crucial book addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie university funding to indicators of performance. It covers the evolvement of mass higher education and the associated curtailment of funding, the public management reform debate within which performance-based budgeting or funding evolved, and sketches alternative governance and management modes which can be used instead. Four appendices cover more technical matters.
    Abstract: "Financing Public Universities addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie funding to indicators of performance. The gist of these efforts is to raise the quality of institutional systems. Performance-based budgeting and funding of public universities is part of broader efforts to reform public management, and it is being promoted and implemented by various government agencies around the globe. In particular, European universities with their normally strong governmental ties, or higher education systems molded on European universities, are prime targets of such reforms. Performance funding has made its inroads in attempts to grant university systems managerial autonomy: autonomy was to be granted in exchange for funding modes which are tied to the measurement of performance indicators. Unfortunately, performance-based budgeting or funding measures cannot meet the various expectations: they do not raise the quality of teaching or learning, they do not raise research performance, they take back a great deal of managerial autonomy which is commonly judged to be essential for the well being of higher education institutions, in particular research universities, and they act as automata in place of proper governance and management. ""Financing Public Universities"" addresses policy makers, higher education administrators, scholars and students of higher education management. After an introduction to the theme and to the book (Chapter 1), ""Financing Public Universities"" covers the evolvement of mass higher education and the associated curtailment of funding (Chapter 2), the public management reform debate (Chapter 3) within which performance-based budgeting or funding evolved (Chapter 4), sketches alternative governance and management modes which can be used instead (Chapter 5), and epitomizes inertia or challenges (Chapter 6). Four appendices cover more technical matters, such as a comparative exposition of the research performance of universities by nation (Appendix C) and examples of funding systems in the UK and in the USA (Appendix D)."
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Mass Higher Education and Funding Bases; Public Management Reform Debate; Performance-Based Budgeting or Funding; Alternative Governance and Management Modes; Inertia and Challenges; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402061318
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 12
    DDC: 338.19
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethik ; Hunger ; Globalisierung ; Religion ; Hunger ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Ethics, Hunger and Globalization adds an ethics dimension to the debate and research about poverty, hunger, and globalization. Outstanding scholars and practitioners from several disciplines discuss what action is needed for ethics to play a bigger role in action by governments, civil society, and the private sector to reduce poverty and hunger within the context of globalization. The book concludes that much of the rhetoric by policy makers is not followed up with appropriate action, and discusses the role of ethics in attempts to match action with rhetoric. The book also concludes that a better understanding of the values underlying both public and private sector action towards the alleviation of poverty and hunger would lead to more enlightened policies and greater success in attempts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The interaction between ethical, economic, and policy aspects is discussed and scholars and experienced practitioners from several disciplines suggest how such integration may be promoted.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction and Summary; Eliminating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: A Moral Imperative or Enlightened Self-Interest?; Ethics, Globalization, and Hunger: an Ethicist's Perspective; The Ethics of Hunger: Development Institutions and the World of Religion; What Hunger-Related Ethics Lessons can we Learn from Religion? Globalization and the World's Religions; Freedom from Hunger as a Basic Human Right: Principles and Implementation; Millennium Development Goals and Other Good Intentions
    Description / Table of Contents: What We Know About Poverty and What We Must Do: Ethical and Political Aspects of EmpowermentEthics and Hunger: A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Perspective; Economic Development, Equality, Income Distribution, and Ethics; On The Ethics and Economics of Changing Behavior; Agricultural and Food Ethics in the Western World: A Case of Ethical Imperialism?; Ethics, Hunger, and The Case for Genetically Modified (GM) Crops; Reforming Agricultural Trade: Not Just for the Wealthy Countries; Agricultural Subsidy and Trade Policies; Food Safety Standards in Rich and Poor Countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Concluding Reflections on the Role of EthicsBack Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402057564
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    DDC: 658.4/07124
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    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Education, Higher ; Economics ; Führungskraft ; Ausbildung ; Problemorientiertes Lernen
    Abstract: This book describes the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in management education. The authors draw upon their experience in using PBL in a broad array of management education programs at the Bachelor, Master, Doctoral and Executive levels, in North American and in Asia. The book explores how PBL can make knowledge about management locally relevant, and clarifies how PBL can enable students to apply their knowledge to real problems.
    Abstract: The past two decades have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of management education around the world. At the same time, however, influential scholars - Mintzberg, Bennis, Pfeffer and others - have levelled pointed critiques at these programs questioning their quality and relevance, as well as their approaches to teaching and learning. 'Preparing Managers for Action' is a timely contribution for management schools as well as other higher education institutions seeking the means to increase the relevance and quality of their professional education programs. The book describes the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in management education. PBL is an active learning approach first pioneered in medical education, but whose use has grown steadily in a variety of professional fields over the past two decades. The authors draw upon their experience in using PBL in a broad array of management education programs at the Bachelor, Master, Doctoral and Executive levels, in North American and in Asia. This book is designed to provide both novice and experienced users of PBL with resources for designing and implementing problem-based management education. The book provides the novice with useful theoretical and practical background on how design a PBL curriculum, use PBL in a classroom, and develop PBL materials. At the same time, the book will challenge experienced users of PBL and case teaching to extend their applications through the use of learning technologies and more systematic approaches to assessment and curriculum design.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; About the Authors; Foreword; Preface; PART I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Preparing 'Managers for Action'; Chapter 2 PBL: A Promising Approach to Education in the Professions; Chapter 3 Developing Problem-based Learning Materials; Chapter 4 Implementing Problem-based Learning in the Classroom; Chapter 5 Integrating Technology and Problem-Based Learning; Chapter 6 Student Assessment in a PBL Environment; Chapter 7 Problem-Based Learning as a Curriculum Approach; Chapter 8 Implementing Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education Programs; PART II: INTRODUCTION
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 9 Leading Organizational Change PHILIP HALLINGERChapter 10 Data to Intelligence KAMONTIP SNIDVONGS; Chapter 11 New Product Positioning RANDALL SHANNON; Chapter 12 Retail to e-Tail VICHITA VATHANOPHAS; Chapter 13 Reorganizing for Competitiveness SOOKSAN KANTABUTRA; Chapter 14 Employee Selection PHILIP HALLINGER & EDWIN M. BRIDGES; Chapter 15 PHILIP HALLINGER & BRIAN HUNT; Index
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    ISBN: 9781402049897
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    Series Statement: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 5
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    Keywords: Education ; Humanities ; Personnel management ; Social sciences ; Industriesoziologie ; Identität ; Selbst ; Arbeitsplatz ; Psychologie
    Abstract: This book examines continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labor market flexibility. By bringing together perspectives from sociology, psychology, organizational management, and vocational education and training, it connects the debates of skills formation, human resources development, and careers with individual's work commitment and professional orientations.
    Abstract: This edited volume on Identities at Work brings together international theory and empirical research that deals with continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labour market flexibility. By bringing together perspectives from sociology, psychology, organisational management and vocational education and training the contributions in this volume connect the debates of skills formation, human resources development and careers with individual s work commitment and professional orientations in various ways. With this focus the volume presents a new research perspective based on an interdisciplinary and international approach. We argue that in times of globalisation and rapidly changing work realities such an approach is needed to better understand and analyse what is required to equip and prepare the workforce to meet international labour market demands. In this sense the publication shall serve as a useful resource to researchers and policy makers working in the fields of skills formation, human resources development and organisational management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Series Scope; Introduction by the Series Editors; CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Contributors; Introduction and Overview; Part One: Vocational Identity in Theory and Empirical Research; 1 Decomposing and Recomposing Occupational Identities-A Survey of Theoretical Concepts; 2 Tensions in the Vocational Identity of Danish Bankers; 3 The Role of Developing a Vocational Identity for Women- The Example of Young Single German Mothers; 4 The 'Double' Vocational Identity of the Working Population in the Greek Tourist Industry; 5 Vocational Education and Training-A European Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Part Two: Work and Personal Identity6 Career Changes and Identity Continuities-A Contradiction?; 7 Exercising Self Through Working Life: Learning, Work and Identity; 8 The Much Vaunted 'Flexible Employee'-What Does it Take?; Part Three: Work and Commitment; 9 The Dynamics Between Organisational Commitment and Professional Identity Formation at Work; 10 Apprentices' Experiences of Occupational and Organisational Commitment: An Empirical Investigation in a German Automobile Company; 11 The Individualisation of Identification with Work in a European Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 Work Identity in the Japanese Context: Stereotype and RealityPart Four: Modern Work and the Creation of New Professional Identities; 13 The Construction of a New Professional Self: A Critical Reading of the Curricula for Nurses and Computer Engineers in Norway; 14 US Efforts to Create a New Professional Identity for the Bioscience Industry; Concluding Chapter; Index
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    ISBN: 1402051344 , 9781402051340
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 395 S. , graph. Darst., Kt.
    Series Statement: International studies in population 5
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    Keywords: War and society ; Demography ; War casualties ; Guerre et société Congrès ; Guerre Congrès Aspect démographique ; Démographie Congrès ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Bewaffneter Konflikt ; Demographie
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  • 46
    ISBN: 1402048467 , 9781402048463 , 1402048483 , 9781402048487
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 442 S.
    Series Statement: International Studies in Population 4
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    Keywords: Lebensdauer ; Langlebigkeit ; Alter ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Kongressschrift ; Buch ; Sammelwerk
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    ISBN: 9781402038280
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 3
    DDC: 331.2525920967
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    Keywords: Education ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Kleinstbetrieb ; Berufsbildung ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Berufsbildung
    Abstract: In Sub-Sahara Africa, the sector of informal micro-enterprises (IMEs) is already employing a large share of the labour force in both urban and rural areas. There are even indications that in the past decade it has been a source of employment and incomes for nine out of every 10 new entrants to the labour market. This study reviews the ways in which the owners and workers of IMEs have acquired the vocational and management skills that they are using in the operation of these ventures. It reviews the contributions of all the different training providers, including public sector training institutes, private sector training providers, and training centres run by NGOs and other non-profit organizations. Its findings confirm the notion that the training efforts of these formal training providers are only to a limited extent relevant for the IME operators, and that many of the poor and other vulnerable groups do not have ready access to these programmes. The study finds that informal apprenticeship training is by far the most common source of various skills - in some countries it is likely to be responsible for 80-90% of all ongoing training efforts. Informal apprenticeship training presents a number of important advantages: it is practical, hands-on training at an appropriate level of technology, takes place in the real world of work, offers good prospects for post-training employment and is essentially self-financing. At the same time it has a number of limitations: the training quality is often modest, there is a risk of 'incomplete' transfer of skills and knowledge, limited infusion of technological progress, and uncertainties with regard to the duration of the apprenticeship period, the training programme and the skills acquired at the end of the training. The study concludes that there is a major challenge to improve the transfer of relevant skills to IME operators, through both pre-employment training and skills upgrading. In view of the scope of the challenge to provide hundreds of thousands IME owners and workers, as well as large numbers of out of school youths, with relevant practical and management skills, it suggests to build upon the strengths of the existing practices of informal apprenticeship training and to remedy its weaknesses by involving professional training providers in upgrading its training organization and delivery, quality and efficiency, and final training outcomes. It reviews the results of a number of innovative interventions in different African countries that are working in this direction. Finally, the study suggests that there is an interesting potential in'business-embedded training' provided by private companies as part of their regular business operations.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Informal Micro-enterprises in Sub-Sahara Africa; Brief Overview of Education and Training in Sub-Sahara Africa; Public Training Providers and the IME Sector; Private Training Providers and the IME Sector; NGOs and ISAs and Training for the IME Sector; Informal Apprenticeship Training; Summary and Conclusions
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, And the New Medicine 27
    DDC: 174.957
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    Keywords: Law ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Public health laws ; Internationality ; Jurisprudence ; Public Health ; Bioethics ; Biotechnology ; Bioethik
    Abstract: As a result of globalization, issues in health law and bioethics can no longer be understood solely within political boundaries that define traditional notions of individuals and communities. This book explores ethical and legal dilemmas in healthcare arising from globalization
    Description / Table of Contents: Travel in a small world; Globalization and health; Globalization and clinical trials; Ethics, disease and obligation; Regulating the bio-economy; The global context for risk governance; Global intellectual property protection of "innovative" pharmaceuticals; Directing consumption; Globalization and biotechnology policy; The rights of donor-conceived children to know the identity of their donor; Globalization and English medical law; Health practitioner regulation;
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 22
    DDC: 362.10973
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Economics ; Health Services Administration ; Health Services Administration ethics
    Abstract: This book traces the growth of managed care as a mechanism for curbing excessive growth in health costs, and the controversies that have risen around for-profit health care. Also examined are decentralization in US health care, and the absence of comprehensive health care planning, access rules, and minimum health care benefit standards. Finally, the author proposes a framework for improving access to quality, affordable health care in a competitive market environment.
    Abstract: The effective management of appropriate health care should be able to contain medical care costs and improve accessibility while addressing rationing concerns. However, managed care in the United States has not lived up to the expectations set for it.Managed care quickly gained popularity among employers and public policy makers as a mechanism for curbing the excessive growth of health care insurance costs. Nonetheless, since its introduction, the system of largely for-profit managed care has been the subject of much public and political debate. The change from a fee-for-service system toward a system in which the health care insurance component is combined with the delivery of a broad range of integrated health care services for populations of plan enrollees that are financed prospectively from a limited budget has been widely criticized and has even been called repugnant. Instead of placing the blame on managed care organizations, however, we need to keep in mind that such organizations operate without societal agreement on critical issues such as a workable definition of health, an authoritative standard for defining the scope of entitlements, and on the distribution of labor between public and private sector entities. The health care system in the United States is also characterized by decentralization as well as the absence of a comprehensive health care planning or budgeting system, substantive access rules, and agreed-upon minimum health care benefit package. Therefore, managed care organizations only have limited responsibilities. The nonexistence of a shared, unifying paradigm of responsibility has been called the leading cause of the inability to manage health care appropriately. The stakeholders in health care operate on a set of widely varying interpretations of the notion of responsibility. The concept of genuine responsibility, recognizing the complexity of health care and the need for stakeholder-specific interpretations of responsibility, proposes as the underlying premise of responsibility (at least in regard to health care) the social agreement that distributive choices should be made on the basis of the premise of deliberate reciprocity. When all parties share the same foundation on which the notion of responsibility is built the resulting trust and cooperation among stakeholders enables them to find morally appropriate solutions in reforming health care.
    Description / Table of Contents: HEALTH CARE COSTS AND SCARCITY OF HEALTH CARE RESOURCES; THE CONCEPT OF MANAGED CARE AND ITS PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS; IDEOLOGY: THE SILENT PARTNER; THE CONCEPT OF GENUINE RESPONSIBILITY; REVISING THE TEMPLATE FOR MODELING HEALTH CARE; THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS; IMPLEMENTATION IN THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
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    ISBN: 9781402049842
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 23
    DDC: 174.4
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Unternehmensethik ; Wirtschaftsethik
    Abstract: Includes a selection of the articles on ethics, business ethics, teaching ethics, agency theory, postmodernism, employee rights, and ethics in accounting and the financial services industry. These articles reflect the author's underlying philosophical concerns and their application to the real-world challenges of practitioners
    Description / Table of Contents: What is Ethics?; The Why's of Business Revisited; Business Ethics: Oxymoron or Good Business?; Aristotle: A Pre-Modern Post-Modern? Implications for Business Ethics; The Religious Roots of Business Ethics; Life Boat Ethics: A Problem in Economic Justice; What's the Point of a Business Ethics Course?; Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty; Why Be A Loyal Agent? A Systemic Ethical Analysis; Employee Rights; Ethical Issues in Financial Services; The Corruption of Financial Markets: Systemic Inevitability or Aberration?; Should Mutual Fund Managers Be Banned From Personal Trading?
    Description / Table of Contents: The Responsibilities of AccountantsFinancial Planning-The New Century Ethics;
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    ISBN: 9781402047633
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Advances in global change research v. 25
    DDC: 363.7
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Internationale Umweltpolitik ; Umweltschutz ; Umweltorganisation ; Nichtregierungsorganisation ; Klimawandel ; Grenzüberschreitende Umweltbelastung ; Artenvielfalt ; Entwaldung ; Umweltabkommen ; Environmental Law ; Political Science ; Environmental sciences ; Social sciences ; Umweltpolitik ; Nationalstaat ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: This book assesses and compares the political response of nations to the environment. The book explores five major topics: state-society relations; environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs); Green parties and environmental movements; institutions of government and policy-making; variations in the capacities of states to protect the environment; and national responses to global problems. It compares and contrasts rich and poor nations, large and small countries, liberal democracies and authoritarian states.
    Abstract: Looks at the way countries vary politically and assesses the impact this may have on response to global environmental issues, such as climate warming, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and trans-boundary air pollution. This book concludes that understanding the global environmental future depends on an understanding of the domestic circumstances
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; State-society relations; Political processes and organizations; Political institutions and the environment; National capacity to protect the environment; National responses to global environmental problems; Summary and conclusions
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    ISBN: 9781402048487
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
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    Series Statement: International Studies in Population 4
    DDC: 304.645
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    Keywords: Sterblichkeit ; Ältere Menschen ; Alternde Bevölkerung ; Altersstruktur ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Geriatrics ; Aging Research ; Demography ; Longevity Statistics ; Aged, 80 and over statistics & numerical data ; Life Expectancy Statistics trends ; Mortality Statistics ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Langlebigkeit ; Alter ; Lebensdauer
    Abstract: Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Why has such a substantial extension of human lifespan occurred? How long can we live? In this book, these fundamental questions are explored by experts from diverse fields. They report on recent cutting-edge studies about essential issues of human longevity and social factors of long survival in old age.
    Abstract: Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Life expectancy in wealthy countries has increased, on average, from 65 years in 1950 to 76 years in 2005. The rise was more spectacular in some countries: the life expectancy for Japanese women rose from 62 years to 86 years during the same period. Driven by this longevity extension, the population aged 80 and over in those countries has grown fivefold from 8.5 million in 1950 to 44.5 million in 2005. Why has such a substantial extension of human lifespan occurred? How long can we live? In this book, these fundamental questions are explored by experts from such diverse fields as biology, medicine, epidemiology, demography, sociology, and mathematics: they report on recent cutting-edge studies about essential issues of human longevity such as evolution of lifespan of species, genetics of human longevity, reasons for the recent improvement in survival of the elderly, medical and behavioral causes of deaths among very old people, and social factors of long survival in old age.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Research Issues On Human Longevity; Patterns In Mammalian Ageing: Demography And Evolution; Life Span Extension In Humans Is Self-Reinforcing: A General Theory Of Longevity; Oldest-Old Mortality In China; Central and Disperson Indicators Of Individual Life Durations: New Methods; Recent Trends In Life Expectancy And Rectangularisation Of The Survival Curve At Advanced Ages In The Netherlands; The Validation Of Exceptional Male Longevity In Sardinia; Mortality at Extreme Ages and Data Quality: The Canadian Experience
    Description / Table of Contents: Causes of Death Among the Oldest-Old: Validity and ComparabilityCauses of Death Among the Oldest-Old: Age-Related Changes in the Cause-of-Death Distribution; Genetic Factors Associated with Individual Life Duration: Heritability; Mortality among the Least Frail: Lessons from Research On The Apoe Gene; Social Determinants of Mortality in the Oldest-Old: Social Class and Individual Way-Of-Life; Social Differences in Older Adult Mortality in the United States: Questions, Data, Methods, and Results; Mortality Differences by Sex Among the Oldest-Old
    Description / Table of Contents: Explanation of the Decline in Mortality among the Oldest-Old: The Impact of Circulatory DiseasesExplanation of the Decline in Mortality among the Oldest-Old: A Demographic Point of View; Marital Status and Family Support for the Oldest-Old in Great Britain; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 1402030630
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 243 S. , graph. Darst., Tab.
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Beck, Stefan Surviving Globalization?
    DDC: 303.482
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Deutschland ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Strukturkrise ; Deutschland ; Wirtschaftssystem ; Deutschland ; Volkswirtschaft
    Description / Table of Contents: Literaturangaben
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    ISBN: 1402026870 , 9781402026874
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 884 S , graph. Darst , 25 cm
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Handbook of New Institutional Economics
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Neue Institutionenökonomik ; Transaktionskosten ; Institutionelle Infrastruktur ; Institutionenökonomik ; Institutional economics ; Economic development ; Institutionenökonomie ; Global Institution ; Neue Institutionenökonomik ; Innere Organisation von Institutionen/Organisationen ; Management (funktional) ; Wirtschaftstheoretischer Ansatz ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Politische Institution Wirtschaftliche Institution ; Bedeutung/Rolle ; Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Produktionsfaktoren ; Handbuch ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Institutionenökonomie ; Institutionenökonomie
    Abstract: New Institutional Economics (NIE) has skyrocketed in scope and influence over the last three decades. This first Handbook of NIE provides a unique and timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations. Contributions analyse the domain and perspectives of NIE; sections on legal institutions, political institutions, transaction cost economics, governance, contracting, institutional change, and more capture NIE's interdisciplinary nature. This Handbook will be of interest to economists, political scientists, legal scholars, management specialists, sociologists, and others wishing to learn more about this important subject and gain insight into progress made by institutionalists from other disciplines. This compendium of analyses by some of the foremost NIE specialists, including Ronald Coase, Douglass North, Elinor Ostrom, and Oliver Williamson, gives students and new researchers an introduction to the topic and offers established scholars a reference book for their research.
    Description / Table of Contents: Literaturangaben
    Note: Literaturangaben , Enth. 30 Beitr
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    ISBN: 9781402040948
    Language: English
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    DDC: 121.3
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    Keywords: Logic ; Philosophy (General) ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Economics, Mathematical ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Wirtschaftsethik
    Abstract: Contemporary epistemological and cognitive studies, as well as recent trends in computer science and game theory have revealed an increasingly important and intimate relationship between Information, Interaction, and Agency. Agents perform actions based on the available information and in the presence of other interacting agents. From this perspective Information, Interaction, and Agency neatly ties together classical themes like rationality, decision-making and belief revision with games, strategies and learning in a multi-agent setting. Unified by the central notions Information, Interaction, and Agency, the essays in this volume provide refreshing methodological perspectives on belief revision, dynamic epistemic logic, von Neumann games, and evolutionary game theory, all of which in turn are central approaches to understanding our own rationality and that of other agents.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminary; Logics for Epistemic Programs; A Counterexample to Six Fundamental Principles of Belief Formation; Comparing Semantics of Logics for Multi-Agent Systems; A Characterization of Von Neumann Games in Terms of Memory; An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Perspective on Learning in Mult-Agent Systems; Evolution of Conventional Meaning and Conversational Principles; Nonmonotonic Inferences and Neural Networks; A Model of Jury Decisions Where All Jurors Have the Same Evidence; A Sat-Based Approach to Unbounded Model Checking for Alternating-Time Temporal Epistemic Logic
    Description / Table of Contents: Update Semantics of Security ProtocolsBack matter
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