Modern managers and students of management are inundated with advice on how to change organisations in order to improve their effectiveness. This book makes sense of all this competing advice, considering the best ways for organisations to develop their strategic capabilities in a fast-changing world.The authors map all the major routes to organisational improvement and classify them into a num…

Complexity is a relatively new discipline with immense power to change our way of thinking and seeing the world. This, in turn, can change the way we ?manage?, design and structure organisations and create new ways of working and relating. The book has brought together a set of selected papers by European and American academics from a variety of disciplines, that look at both the development of…

The chapters in this volume are related to the conference, Reassessing the Cognitive Revolution, that was held at the Glendon campus of York University, Toronto, in October of 1993. The original idea for the conference came from a debate on this subject between Jerome Bruner and Stuart Shanker, which appeared in the pages of the journal Language and Communication. As Johnson explains in more de…

The initial idea for this book came to me after a lecture that I gave in 1995 at the University of Newcastle in Australia. The lecture itself dealt with the psychological toxicity of certain patterns of contemporary enculturation, most notably those related to materialism and consumerism. In my usual fashion, I tried to ruffle a few feathers by challenging the audience to question some of the c…

There are few subjects relating to spiritual development so critically important and yet so incompletely understood as Yoga. Although the interest in Yoga that started in the West during the 1960?s has abated to some degree, the teaching of the various forms of the discipline has become well-established. In many cases, those who practise Yoga as it is generally taught in the West do so primaril…

Since the 1960s, Joel Demski has been a potent force in the accounting scholarship and education. Always the rebel, Joel sees any set of received doctrines as more of a target (in the military sense) than as being set in stone. Early in his career, Joel was part of a group of pioneers that broke from tradition and began the amazing expansion of accounting thought into the era of information eco…

This book had its inception in the seminar I taught on ?Psychological Studies of Arab-Muslim Societies? at Harvard?s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and I thank Professors Susan Miller, Robert LeVine, Byron Good, and Mary-Jo Good there for their support. Research for the book was supported by a sabbatical leave from Kalamazoo College in the 2002?2003 academic year. A Visiting Scholar appoint…

The Amerindian practice of taking and displaying various human body parts as trophies has long held the imaginations of both the public and scholars alike. Sensationalized accounts of such practices recorded by various New World explorers frequently shocked OldWorld sensibilities and often served to reinforce Eurocentric notions of superiority over the indigenous ?Other.? Rather than following …

This book had its inception in the seminar I taught on ?Psychological Studies of Arab-Muslim Societies? at Harvard?s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and I thank Professors Susan Miller, Robert LeVine, Byron Good, and Mary-Jo Good there for their support. Research for the book was supported by a sabbatical leave from Kalamazoo College in the 2002?2003 academic year. A Visiting Scholar appoint…

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Edisi

1st ed.

ISBN/ISSN

978-953-51-0642-5

Deskripsi Fisik

x, 240p. ill