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Doing the right thing : a value based economy
"This book is for all those who are seeking a human perspective on economic and organizational processes. It lays the foundations for a value based approach to the economy. The key questions are: “What is important to you or your organization?” “What is this action or that organization good for?” The book is directed at the prevalence of instrumentalist thinking in the current economy a…
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- 9781909188938
- Collation
- 266p
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- 174.4 KLA
The challenges of technology and economic catch-up in emerging economies
This book synthesizes and interprets existing knowledge on technology upgrading failures as well as lessons from successes and failures in order to better understand the challenges of technology upgrading in emerging economies. The objective is to bring together in one volume diverse evidence regarding three major dimensions of technology upgrading: paths of technology upgrading, structural cha…
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- 6
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- 9780192896049
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- ix, 528 p
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- 338.90091724 LEE t
Sustainable enterprise value creation : implementing stakeholder capitalism t…
This Open Access book provides a practical guide to the creation of sustainable enterprise value and implementation of the principles of stakeholder capitalism for corporate boards and management teams. The authors argue that business leadership is on the threshold of a new era driven by major shifts in technology, society, political economy and climate change. They set this transition in inter…
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- 9783030935603
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- xvii, 289p. : ill.
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- 338.927 SAM s
Labour and value : rethinking Marx's theory of exploitation
In this book Ernesto Screpanti provides a rigorous examination of Marx’s theory of exploitation, one of the cornerstones of Marxist thought. With precision and clarity, he identifies the holes in traditional readings of Marx’s theory before advancing his own original interpretation, drawing on contemporary philosophy and economic theory to provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exegesis. …
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- 9781783747818
- Collation
- 144 p. : ill.
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- 179.8 SCR l
Cultural values and human ecology in Southeast Asia
Ecologists have long based their conceptual frameworks in the natural sciences. Recently, however, they have acknowledged that ecosystems cannot be understood without taking into account human interventions that may have taken place for thousands of years. And for their part, social scientists have recognized that human behavior must be understood in the environment in which it is acted out. Re…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472902293
- Collation
- X, 417 p.
- Series Title
- Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia, 27
- Call Number
- 304.20959 CUL c
Value and the humanities the neoliberal university and our victorian inheritance
Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in higher education in England. Value and the Humanities draws upon historical, financial, and critical debates concerning educational and cultural policy. Rather than writing a singular defence of the human…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030378929
- Collation
- 255 p.; 22 cm.
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- 171.2 VAL v
Happiness is the wrong metric : a liberal communitarian response to populism
This timely book addresses the conflict between globalism and nationalism. It provides a liberal communitarian response to the rise of populism occurring in many democracies. The book highlights the role of communities next to that of the state and the market. It spells out the policy implications of liberal communitarianism for privacy, freedom of the press, and much else. In a persuasive arg…
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- 9783319696232
- Collation
- xxi, 304p. : ill.
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- 320.01 ETZ h
Boundary value problems, weyl functions, and differential operators
This open access book presents a comprehensive survey of modern operator techniques for boundary value problems and spectral theory, employing abstract boundary mappings and Weyl functions. It includes self-contained treatments of the extension theory of symmetric operators and relations, spectral characterizations of selfadjoint operators in terms of the analytic properties of Weyl functions, …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030367145
- Collation
- viii, 772p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 515.35 BEH b
Understanding values work : institutional perspectives in organizations and l…
At the core of institutional theories, ‘values’ is a central term and figures in most definitions; however it remains understudied and under-explored. The editors of this open access book identify a resurgence of interest in the values-construct which underpins discussions of identity, ‘ethos’ and the purpose/nature of public and civic welfare provision. Considering the importance of va…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030377489
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- xvii, 296p. : ill.
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- 658.314 UND u
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