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Learning Factories: The Nordic Model of Manufacturing
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines how the norms, culture, and practices of the socio-economic Nordic model give them a competitive edge in globalized production chains. Using the Norwegian automotive industry – one of the most globalized ... -
Modernization and urban water governance : organizational change and sustainability in Europe
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book describes the impact of modernization on the organization and sustainability of Urban Water Systems in Europe (UWSEs). Bolognesi explains that the modernization of UWSEs was a regulatory shock that began in the ... -
Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a ‘micro-spatial’ approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus ... -
Humans and Machines at Work: Monitoring, Surveillance and Automation in Contemporary Capitalism
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers’ local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work’s digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive taxis in China and Britain, call ... -
The World Bank and Transferring Development: Policy Movement through Technical Assistance
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book analyses the World Bank’s provision of technical assistance from 1946 to the present day. It argues that the relational dynamics between technical assistance provider and recipient affects the legitimacy of policy ... -
HRM in Mission Driven Organizations: Managing People in the Not for Profit Sector
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited collection examines human resource management in organizations other than those that are set up to make a profit. Covering human resource management in a number of different kinds of mission-driven organizations, ... -
Knowledge Creation in Community Development: Institutional Change in Southeast Asia and Japan
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores how public organizations and not-for-profit organizations (NPO) can be more collaborative, innovative and effective in solving social issues in both developing and developed countries. “Social innovation,” ... -
Knowledge Creation in Public Administrations: Innovative Government in Southeast Asia and Japan
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book presents a new paradigm of innovative governments in Asia, at the municipal, regional and national levels, based on the knowledge creation theory in management, and leading to organizational transformation and ... -
Student Development and Social Justice : Critical Learning, Radical Healing, and Community Engagement
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book weaves together critical components of student development and community building for social justice to prepare students to engage effectively in community-campus partnerships for social change. The author combines ... -
The Leadership Hubris Epidemic: Biological Roots and Strategies for Prevention
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited collection surveys and analyses the multidimensional problem of Hubris syndrome, and its deleterious effect on leadership within organisations. The study develops an extended metaphor of the social and political ... -
Intercultural Knowledge Sharing in MNCs: A Glocal and Inclusive Approach in the Digital Age
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides a systematic view of current and future research perspectives on intercultural knowledge sharing and offers a model for the growth of organizational knowledge in the digital age. The author puts forward ... -
Education for Sustainable Peace and Conflict Resilient Communities
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book articulates a practice and theory of education that aims to facilitate the emergence of sustainable peace and conflict-resilient communities in societies plagued by conflict. It does so by examining the agency ... -
Educational Journeys, Struggles and Ethnic Identity: The Impact of State Schooling on Muslim Hui in Rural China
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines how state schooling in China has economically, culturally, and ideologically had an impact on and gradually transformed a traditional Muslim Hui village in rural Northwestern China. By discussing the ... -
Lexical Facility : Size, Recognition Speed and Consistency as Dimensions of Second Language Vocabulary Knowledge
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines the simultaneous contribution of learner vocabulary size and speed to second language performance differences across learner levels and settings. Harrington considers vocabulary size and speed, as reflected ... -
Green Inside Activism for Sustainable Development: Political Agency and Institutional Change
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book considers how public sector institutions can be transformed to better support sustainable development by exploring the concept of green inside activism and its importance for institutional change. The phenomenon ... -
The 21st Century Fight for the Amazon : Environmental Enforcement in the World’s Biggest Rainforest
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book is the most updated and comprehensive look at efforts to protect the Amazon, home to half of the world’s remaining tropical forests. In the past five years, the Basin’s countries have become the cutting edge of ... -
Value Creation through Engineering Excellence: Building Global Network Capabilities
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides a systematic framework for effectively creating value through engineering in global business networks, and contributes to an increasingly important branch of engineering operations. By updating the ... -
Widening the Scope of Environmental Policies in North America : Towards Blue Approaches
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited volume provides a variety of insights into the context in which ocean and wetlands policy is placed at the sub-continental level. The governments of Mexico, Canada, and United States of America have recognized ... -
Antiracism Education In and Out of Schools
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores how antiracism theories can be translated into practice within formal education, as well as in other educational programs outside schools, as very often racism occurs outside the school environment. ... -
Avoiding War, Making Peace
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book recapitulates and extends Ned Lebow’s decades’ long research on conflict management and resolution. It updates his critique of conventional and nuclear deterrence, analysis of reassurance, and the conditions in ...
