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Managing in Uncertainty: Complexity and the Paradoxes of

The reality of everyday organizational life is that it is filled with uncertainty,contradictions and paradoxes,yet managers are expected to bring about the impossible: to transform themselves and their colleagues,to design different cultures,to choose the values for their organization,to be innovative,to control conflict and to have inspiring visions. Whilst managers will have had lots of experiences of being in charge,they may not always be in control. So how might we frame a much more realisticacc

Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

Americans have long cherished sport for its display of superb skills,heroic efforts,selfless teamwork,uncanny strategies,exuberance,spontaneity,and loyalty. This book moves beyond the myths and media hype to take a closer look at America's love of sport and how it so often comes in conflict with our most basic values. With reverence yet a sharp eye for the influence of big business,corruption,price gouging,political maneuvering,and media grandstanding,Eitzen portrays famous and lesser known even

The Business of Projects: Managing Innovation in Complex

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Davies, Andrew / Hobday, Michael, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This volume breaks new ground by showing how leading businesses create and implement projects to drive strategy and innovation. Projects are used to coordinate activities with customers and suppliers and ensure that organizations become more dynamic and adaptable. The book extends the resource-based view of the firm to focus on the business lessons learned from the design and production of high-value complex products and systems (CoPS), which have always been project-based. As well as new frameworks and management tools, it provides case studies of high-technology industries--such as telecommunications, flight simulation and medical devices.

Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe

Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe: &apos Peace&apos is often simplistically assumed to be war&apos s opposite, and as such is not examined closely or critically idealized in the literature of peace studies, its crucial role in the justification of war is often overlooked. Starting from a critical view that the value of &apos restoring peace&apos or &apos keeping peace&apos is, and has been, regularly used as a pretext for military intervention, this book traces the conceptual history of peace in nineteenth century legal andpolitical practice. It explores the role of the value of peace in shaping the public rhetoric and legitimizing action in general international relations, international law, international trade, colonialism, and armed conflict. Departing from the assumption that there is no peace as such, nor can there be, itexamines the contradictory visions of peace that arise from conflict. These conflicting and antagonistic visions of peace are each linked to a set of motivations and interests as well as to a certain vision of legitimacy within the international realm. Each of them inevitably conveys the image of a specific enemy that has to be crushed in order to peace being installed. This book highlights the contradictions and paradoxes in nineteenth century discourses and practices of peace, particularly in Europe.

Uncertainty in Economics and Other Reflections

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: G L S Shackle, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, NA

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Russia A State of Uncertainty

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Managing the Entrepreneurial University: Legal Issues and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Toma, J. Douglas, PUBLISHER: Routledge, An appropriate text for administrators and future higher education professionals who are studying Higher Education law, Managing the Entrepreneurial University considers the range of legal issues relevant to managing the contemporary American university, college, and community college. It explores the trends, issues and legal difficulties that face entrepreneurial institutions and provides thoughtful strategies toward preventing or mitigating legal challenges. Readers will find that it explains, in clear, non-technical language, the basic concepts of higher education law, grounding them in contemporary challenges in higher education management, particularly those associated across institution types with increased interaction with external markets.a The main goal of this text is to help the reader develop their expertise in recognizing legal issues when they emerge. It provides future administrators with the background necessary to ask thoughtful questions to counsel and engage in sophisticated discussions about possible responses to legal-related problems that may arise.

Complexity in Chemistry and Beyond: Interplay Theory and

Complexity occurs in biological and synthetic systems alike. This general phenomenon has been addressed in recent publications by investigators in disciplines ranging from chemistry and biology to psychology and philosophy. Studies of complexity for molecular scientists have focussed on breaking symmetry,dissipative processes,and emergence. Investigators in the social and medical sciences have focused on neurophenomenology,cognitive approaches and self-consciousness. Complexity in both structure a

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The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Heinberg, Richard / Lerch, Daniel, PUBLISHER: University of California Press, In the 20th century, cheap and abundant energy brought previously unimaginable advances in health, wealth, and technology, and fed an explosion in population and consumption. But this growth came at an incredible cost. Climate change, peak oil, freshwater depletion, species extinction, and a host of economic and social problems now challenge us as never before. "The Post Carbon Reader" features articles by some of the world's most provocative thinkers on the key drivers shaping this new century, from renewable energy and urban agriculture to social justice and systems resilience. This unprecedented collection takes a hard-nosed look at the interconnected threats of our global sustainability quandary--as well as the most promising responses. "The Post Carbon Reader" is a valuable resource for policymakers, college classrooms, and concerned citizens.

Encyclopaedia of Managing Operations in Supply Chain

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Structural Information and Communication Complexity

Structural Information and Communication Complexity: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO , held in Piran, Slovenia, in May . The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The volume also contains two invited papers. SIROCCO addresses topics such as distributed computing, parallel computing, game theory, social networks, networking, mobile computing, peer to peer systems, communication complexity, combinatorial optimization special focus is put to compact data structures, information dissemination, informative labeling schemes, distributed scheduling, wireless networks and scheduling of transmissions, routing, broadcasting, and localization.

Managing Change with Business Process Simulation in City of

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Managing the Windows Registry

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Robichaux, Paul, PUBLISHER: O'Reilly Media, The Windows Registry is the repository for all hardware, software, and application configuration settings, and "Managing the Windows Registry" is the system administrator's guide to maintaining, monitoring, and updating the Registry database. The book, which is an update of "Managing the Windows NT Registry," addresses four main areas: What is the Registry? Where does it live on disk? How do system services access and use it? What do you do if it's damaged or corrupted? Every administrator faces questions like this, often in a desperate attempt to fix something that's broken. What tools are available? Detailed descriptions of Regedit, RegEdt32, the System Policy Editor, Group Policy Editor and selected Resource Kit utilities explain how to edit and secure the Registry both on local and on remote computers. How can I access the Registry from a program? Regularly monitoring the Registry's contents is one way to preclude unpleasant surprises. Using examples in C++, Visual Basic, and Perl, "Managing the Windows Registry" demonstrates how to create Registry-aware tools and scripts. What's in the Registry? Not all Registry keys are adequately documented by Microsoft or by the other vendors who store configuration data in the Registry. "Managing the Windows Registry" offers a guided tour of some of these undocumented keys. This book is a "must have" for every system manager or administrator.

Social Fuzziology: Study of Fuzziness of Social Complexity

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dimitrov, Vladimir / Hodge, Bob, PUBLISHER: Physica-Verlag, The book applies the principles and insights of Fuzzy Logic to the complexity of social life. It draws on the full range of the social sciences, including some of the most up-to-date work on the escalating complexities of post modern life, e.g. new information technologies in a global world, new forms of consciousness and identity, new relationships between humans, machines, nature and environment. The volume is interdisciplinary, combining expertise from Fuzzy Logic and the Postmodern Social Sciences, synthesising and applying concepts and methods of Fuzzy Logic in innovative ways to the world of social life. It gives readers from the social sciences a comprehensive, exciting and practical guide for applying Fuzzy Logic, while bringing a rich body of social problems and concepts on to the agenda for researchers in Fuzzy Logic and related fields.

The Idea Of God And The Moral Sense In The Light Of Language

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Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution

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Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small

Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small or Medium-sized Enterprises: Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small- or Medium-sized Enterprises outlines different approaches to the analysis of the organisation of small- or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Owing to the increased competition in the worldwide market, several SMEs operating in the same industrial sectors have agreed collaborative market strategies, both for raw material procurement and for final product delivery. The resulting networks, however, have a tendency to suffer from a lack of organization, which minimizes their impact on the product and labour markets, and causes a weak negotiation capacity within their supply chain.Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small- or Medium-sized Enterprises aims to give managers of SMEs a simple methodology that helps them to understand when and why becoming a partner in an SME network can be profitable for their enterprise. It discusses the most critical organizational problems and identifies which procedures must be known to become a collaborative member of the network. Policy-makers, as well as managers and executives, will be able to appreciate the key issues in creating and managing healthy networks that serve global market requirements in the major industrial sectors. Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small- or Medium-sized Enterprises enables them to evaluate the efficiency of their organization, and to estimate both the network performance and the opportunity for further development.

Complexity and Public Policy: A New Approach to 21st Century

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Geyer, Robert / Rihani, Samir, PUBLISHER: Routledge, This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields of politics, health, the international realm, development, planning and terrorism. The authors argue that the foundation for many of the current crises in these areas can be traced to the attempt by social scientists and policy-makers to treat these systems and processes as fundamentally orderly, predictable and controllable. By providing an overview of complex systems, a practical introduction to basic concepts and tools of these systems, and examples for understanding and managing them in real life policy situations they provide an exciting new perspective for rethinking our basic approaches to the social sciences and for understanding and managing the increasingly interdependent world of public policy. The book is vital reading for students and scholars of the social sciences and public policy, and also policymakers and the policy actor audience.

Managing Artists in Pop Music: What Every Artist and Manager

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weiss, Mitch / Gaffney, Perri, PUBLISHER: Allworth Press, Music managers and artists will learn the secrets of successful management with scenarios from a manager s work life along with the legal and business skills to master them. Through stories of real-life famous artist-manager teams, the authors analyze, criticize, and detail what a manager ought to learn to be an effective advisor and representative. The book teaches future music managers and artists how to acquire clients, negotiate contracts, develop image, administer taxes and finances, and deal with promoters, media, attorneys, and unions. A special chapter addresses artists, advising them on what to look for in a manager, how to sign fair management contracts, and how to avoid career manipulation. Packed with industry guidelines, sample contracts, and sure-fire career tips from industry icons, this book is a professional springboard for music managers, recording artists, singers, and rock bands alike.

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