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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 252 Seiten) , ill

ISBN: 9781783475506

Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive

Content: 1. The owner/manager, leadership and business growth -- 2. Why is leadership learning problematic for small business? -- 3. Leadership learning -- 4. Coaching for growth -- 5. Becoming a LEAD delegate and identity development -- 6. Observational learning -- 7. Single, double and triple-loop learning -- 8. Human, social and institutional capitals -- 9. Self-efficacy of leading : theoretical importance of exchanges -- 10. Bird's nest and marbles -- 11. Reflection and reflexivity -- 12. The learning and the changes -- 13. Ambitious implications

Content: This is one of the first books to fully value and realise the connection between leadership and learning in SMEs. It provides a real-life narrative, encapsulating the development of business people on a leadership programme for SME managers, whilst explaining the key theories, models and techniques that underpin the leadership methods and approaches deployed at each stage of the delegate's journey. The book follows three owner/managers over a ten-month period. Each chapter splits into two - an aesthetic narrative on the learning journey and a 'theory sandwich', which draws the reader's attention to the theories, models and debates underpinning the learning at each stage of the delegate's journey. Academics as well as students will benefit from the research-based examination of leadership learning in the SME context, as it will allow them to stand in the shoes of owners or managers. Policy makers and practitioners will also find the narrative both revealing and informative

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

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DOI: 10.4337/9781783475506

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Format: 1 online resource (236 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780415823111 , 9781135930219

Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations Series

Content: This summary of theory and practice is inspired by the belief that cut and dried solutions to management problems are inappropriate and that every set of circumstances requires a unique synthesis of experience and relevant theories. In this book the authors have reviewed the main texts and theories of organization and have added the lessons learned from an unrivalled volume of practical experience, garnered from some 900 consultants working in more than twenty countries

Note: Cover -- Half-title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1 An Introduction -- Part A - History -- 2 Approaches to Organization -- The Classical Approach -- The Human Relations Approach -- The Systems Approach -- Summary -- 3 Writers on Organization: Pre-1939 -- F. W. Taylor -- H. Fayol -- M. Weber -- M. P. Follett -- E. Mayo -- 4 Writers on Organization: Post-1939 -- L. F. Urwick -- E. F. L. Brech -- P. F. Drucker -- H. A. Simon -- D. McGregor -- R. Likert -- C. Argyris -- Part B - Theory -- 5 The Purpose and Objectives of Organizations -- Why have Objectives? -- Primary Objectives - Survival, Profit and Growth -- Secondary Objectives -- Objectives and Organization Structure -- Departmental Objectives -- Precision versus Vagueness -- Summary -- 6 Grouping Activities -- Bases for Division -- Region or Location -- The Market -- Products -- Functions -- Process or Equipment -- Decisions -- Span of Control -- Co-ordination -- Economies of Scale -- Size and Accountability -- Objectives -- Summary -- 7 Delegation -- The Nature of Authority -- The Nature of Responsibility -- What is to be gained from Delegation? -- The Extent of Delegation -- Centralization and Decentralization -- 'Divisionalization' and 'Departmentalization' -- Summary -- 8 Roles -- Role-Function -- Role-Relationships -- Role-conduct -- Summary -- Part C - People -- 9 People and Their Needs -- Motives -- Motivators' and 'Hygienic Factors' -- What are the Real Motivators? -- The Hierarchy of Needs -- The Impact of Maturity -- Recognition and Measurement of Motives -- Summary -- 10 The Behaviour of Groups -- The Self-Formed Group and its Leader -- Types of Group -- The Strength of Informal Groups -- Summary -- 11 Leadership and Management -- The Relationship between Leadership and Management , Leadership Traits -- Training in Leadership -- Leadership in Practice -- Summary -- 12 People, Organizations, and Change -- The Characteristics of Human Systems -- The Organization -- The Primary Group -- The Individual -- Leadership -- The Problems of Change -- Summary -- Part D - Practice -- 13 Diagnosing Structural Faults -- The Diagnostician -- The Changes -- An Analytical Framework -- Methods of Collecting Information -- Objectives - The Criteria -- Drucker's Tripartite Analysis -- Analysis of other Structural Variations -- Analysis of the People -- 14 Charts and Diagrams -- Limitations of Organization Charts -- Drawing Organization Charts -- Other Charts -- 15 Designing and Installing a Better Structure -- The Effects of Production Technology -- Span of Control -- Levels of Authority -- Other Technology-Related Characteristics -- Bureaucracy -- Job Descriptions -- Divisionalization -- Product Innovation -- General Managers -- Working Parameters -- Testing Solutions (Examination, Costing, Simulation) -- Installing the New Structure -- The Proof -- 16 Case Studies -- Reorganization of an Electricity Board -- Marketing and Product Innovation -- Decentralization in a Public Body -- Growth and Diversification in Confectionery -- Reorganization of Committees in a Local Authority -- Newspaper Office -- 17 Principles and Maxims -- Principles of Organization Structure -- Maxims -- 18 Conclusion -- Appendix I The Literature -- Appendix II Glossary -- Index

Additional Edition: Print version Barnes, M. . Company Organization (RLE: Organizations) Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415823111

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Format: 1 online resource (228 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780415297660 , 9780203644256

Series Statement: Routledge Indian Ocean Series

Content: This is the first dedicated book to concentrate on textiles as a major commodity, and primary indicator of status, wealth and identity in Indian Ocean regions

Note: Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Rome and India: early Indian cotton textiles from Berenike, Red Sea coast of Egypt -- 2 Far-flung fabrics - Indian textiles in ancient maritime trade -- 3 'Portuguese' carpets from Khorasan, Persia -- 4 Textile as commodity, dress as text: Swahili kanga and women's statements -- 5 The kofia tradition of Zanzibar: the implicit and explicit discourses of men's head-dress in an Indian Ocean society -- 6 Ze mañeva aze: looking for patterns in Malagasy cloth -- 7 Cosmopolitan tastes and indigenous designs - virtual cloth in a Javanese candi -- 8 Textiles of Jambi (Sumatra) and the Indian Ocean trade -- 9 Moving between cultures: textiles as a source of innovation in Kedang, eastern Indonesia -- Bibliography -- Index

Additional Edition: Print version Barnes, Ruth Textiles in Indian Ocean Societies Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2004 ISBN 9780415297660

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Format: 1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781412907866 , 9781848607576

Content: This is the first sustained discussion of methodological issues in economic geography in the last twenty years. It comprises an extended discussion of qualitative and ethnographic methods; an assessment of quantitative and numerical methods; an examination of post-structuralist and feminist methodologies; an overview of case-study approaches; and an inquiry into the relation between economic geography and other disciplines. With short, accessible, and engaging chapters, this is a critical assessment of qualitative and quantitative methods in economic geography

Note: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Methods Matter:Transformations in Economic Geography -- Section 1: Position and Method: Producing Economic Geographies -- 1 Politics and Practice: Becoming a Geographer -- 2 Smoke and Mirrors: An Ethnography of the State -- 3 Nature Talks Back: Studying the Economic Life of Things -- 4 Sexing the Economy, Theorizing Bodies -- 5 Putting Play to Work -- 6 Of Pufferfish and Ethnography: Plumbing New Depths in Economic Geography -- Section 2: Politicizing Method: Activating Economic Geographies -- 7 Method and Politics: Avoiding Determinism and Embracing Normativity -- 8 Cultivating Subjects for a Community Economy -- 9 A Public Language for Analyzing the Corporation -- 10 The Place of Personal Politics -- 11 Locating the Thai State -- 12 Post-socialism and the Politics of Knowledge Production -- Section 3: Quantity and Quality: Beyond Dualist Economic Geographies -- 13 Hybrid GIS and Cultural Economic Geography -- 14 Evolution in Economic Geography? -- 15 Beyond Close Dialogue: Economic Geography as if it Matters -- 16 Economic Geography, by the Numbers? -- 17 Methodologies, Epistemologies, Audiences -- Section 4: Boundary Crossings: Mobilizing Economic Geographies -- 18 Out of Africa: History, Nature, Empire -- 19 'I Offer You This, Commodity' -- 20 'El Otro Lado' and Transnational Ethnographies -- 21 Researching Transnational Networks -- 22 Reflexivity and Positionality in Feminist Fieldwork Revisited -- 23 Researching Hybridity through 'Chinese' Business Networks -- References -- Index

Additional Edition: Print version Tickell, Adam Politics and Practice in Economic Geography London : SAGE Publications, Limited,c2007 ISBN 9781412907866

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Format: 1 online resource (348 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780415218023 , 9780203021866

Series Statement: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy Series

Content: The New Industrial Geography focuses on the most important industrial-geographical changes that have taken place in Europe and North America over the last twenty years. It brings together some of the leading scholars in the field

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Additional Edition: Print version Barnes, Trevor The New Industrial Geography Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1999 ISBN 9780415218023

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Format: 1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780750656238 , 9780080473413

Content: MBusiness: The Strategic Implications of Mobile Communications presents recent theory and evidence on wireless information technologies and their application in business. Such information is useful in both the classroom and for interested practitioners contemplating new technological developments. MBusiness is a very fast moving area and consequently there is a need to provide relevant material for those who wish to understand the subject. This text provides recent teachings, moving beyond existing wireless technology publications, and differentiates itself strongly via its emphasis on the strategic business application of mobile communications. It stands apart by virtue of the degree of academic rigour with which it tackles the material and is an excellent resource for teaching and learning in the classroom

Note: Cover -- m-Business: The strategic implications of wireless technologies -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- Section One: Overview of wireless markets -- Chapter 1 The mobile commerce value chain in consumer markets -- Chapter 2 Wireless applications in the firm's value chain -- Section Two: Strategic wireless technologies -- Chapter 3 Experiences with Japan's iMode service -- Chapter 4 The Wireless Application Protocol as a platform for mobile services -- Chapter 5 Under the skin: short-range embedded wireless technology -- Chapter 6 Location positioning technologies and services -- Section Three: Emerging wireless applications -- Chapter 7 Enterprise mobility: concept and cases -- Chapter 8 Wireless digital advertising -- Chapter 9 Banking on wireless devices -- Chapter 10 Assessing the quality of WAP news sites - the WebQual/m approach -- Index

Additional Edition: Print version Barnes, Stuart Mbusiness: the Strategic Implications of Mobile Communications Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780750656238

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Format: 1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780415630078 , 9781135035945

Series Statement: Routledge Advances in European Politics Series

Content: This book analyses the evolution of the sustainability discourse in the European Union, exploring the conditions necessary for sustainable development to move from a conceptual model into a model for action for strategic decision makers at all levels of governance

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Contributors -- Editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: establishing the research questions and methodological framework -- Research themes and questions -- Discourse theory as a methodological framework -- Structure of the book -- Part I Reflections on complex and contested concepts -- 1 Linking the discourse on sustainability and governance -- 2 Governance for sustainability in the European Union: a post-political project -- 3 The impact of de-growth (la décroissance) on the discourse of sustainability -- 4 Sustainable development: a floating signifier in the EU's energy policy discourse? -- Part II The sustainability discourse at European level -- 5 A Common Market and sustainable energy for Europe -- 6 European energy policy and its 'green dimension': discursive hegemony and policy variations in the greening of energy policy -- 7 The changing fortunes of nuclear energy in the discourse on sustainability -- 8 The role of EURATOM in a European sustainable energy strategy -- 9 EU sustainable mobility - between economic and environmental discourses -- 10 The European Union's emissions trading scheme - a post-political tool for strengthening integration and wide-reaching sustainability? -- Part III The sustainability discourse at national and sub-national level -- 11 The sustainable development discourse in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe -- 12 The UK's devolved authorities and the European sustainability discourse: between identity and actor hierarchy -- 13 The evolution of carbon capitalism in the English regions: sustainable mitigation, carbon modernization, and selective carbon economies , 14 Achieving sustainability through deliberation - reflections from Hampshire's municipal waste-management strategy -- Conclusions: not one discourse but many? -- Bibliography -- Part I: Reflections on complex and contested concepts -- 1. Linking the discourse on sustainability and governance -- Sustainability and sustainable development -- Unpacking the contested concepts of sustainable development and governance in Europe -- Definition of governance -- Bibliography -- 2. Governance for sustainability in the European Union - a post-political project -- Introduction -- Governing for sustainability in Europe -- The tensions and contradictions -- New governance, but old politics? -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3. The impact of de-growth (la décroissance) on the discourse of sustainability -- Introduction -- Theoretical foundations of de-growth -- Implications of the discourse of de-growth -- Limits and impact of de-growth -- A simplistic view of de-growth regimes -- A naive view of systemic transitions -- Misinterpretation of the law of entropy -- Impact upon the discourse of sustainable development -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4. Sustainable development: a floating signifier in the EU's energy policy discourse? -- Introduction -- Post-structuralist discourse analysis -- The sustainable development signifier -- Sustainable development and the EU energy policy discourse -- Sustainable development and the new Energy policy for Europe -- 1.1 Sustainability -- Conclusions -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part II: The sustainability discourse at European level -- 5. A Common Market and sustainable energy for Europe -- Introduction -- A short history of the European energy policy -- The Common Market for energy -- The nexus between sustainability and market integration -- Conclusion -- Bibliography , 2001-2006: decoupling transport growth from economic growth -- 2006-2011: efficiency and co-modality -- Conclusion: efficiency and economy as dominant ideas -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10. The European Union's emissions trading scheme - a post-political tool for strengthening integration and wide-reaching sustainability -- Introduction -- Consensus on the necessity for urgent and large-scale action to tackle climate change -- The proactive position of the EU -- Towards a post-political climate governance in the EU -- ETS as a post-political tool for weak sustainable development? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part III: The sustainability discourse at national and sub-national level -- 11. The sustainable development discourse in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe: the case of Romania -- Introduction -- The evolution of the discourse on sustainable development -- Sustainable development and the limits to good governance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 12. The UK's devolved authorities and the European sustainability discourse: between identity and actor hierarchy -- Introduction -- Devolution and the European sustainability discourse -- Capacity-building in the devolveds and the territorial diversification of the UK's EU environmental policy networks -- The devolveds as autonomous policy actors -- Antagonism versus deference in devolved approaches to European sustainability policy -- UK devolution and implications for sustainability -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 13. The evolution of carbon capitalism in the English regions: sustainable mitigation, carbon modernization, and selective carbon economies -- Introduction -- Substituting and subsuming sustainability -- Sustainable development in the English regions -- Sustainable mitigation: morality and holism -- Carbon modernization: efficiency and instrumentalism -- Selective low carbon economies , 6. The European energy policy and its 'green dimension' - discursive hegemony and policy variations in the greening of energy policy -- Introduction -- The 'green' dimension of the European energy policy and its policy paradigms -- Environmental policy integration (EPI) and the hegemony of sustainable development -- Embedding sustainability to energy -- The institutionalization of sustainability in energy -- Climate change hegemony -- Climate change discourse structuring energy policy -- The institutionalization of climate change in energy policy -- Outlining the discursive footprint of the European energy policy's green dimension -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 7. The changing fortunes of nuclear energy in the sustainability discourse -- Introduction -- 1950s - the foundations of the discourse -- 1960s and 1970s - nuclear safety becomes a nodal point inthe discourse -- Post 2000 - competing discourses or one unified discourse? -- Conclusions - why does the change in the discourse matter? -- 8. The role of Euratom in a sustainable energy future -- Introduction -- National interests drive the Euratom Treaty -- Euratom as support for nuclear fission -- Euratom for fusion - research -- Similarities between renewables and nuclear power -- Nuclear power as a green energy resource -- Conclusion - lessons and potential for the future -- National interests driving nuclear power -- Re-establishing a supranational priority -- Euratom for nuclear safety and decommissioning -- Euratom for new technology funding -- Bibliography -- 9. EU sustainable mobility - between economic and environmental discourses -- Introduction -- Discourse analysis and EU sustainable mobility -- EU sustainable mobility discourse 1992-2011 -- The origin of EU sustainable mobility policy -- The 1990s: combatting transport generated pollution , Conclusions -- Note -- Bibliography -- 14. Governance, sustainability and deliberation: reflections from a UK case study of sustainable waste management -- Introduction -- What is good governance? -- Deliberation, learning and behaviour change -- Case background: deliberation in sustainable waste management -- A relational framework for learning style -- Introducing the framework and the actors style -- A definition of learning style -- Partnership -- Engagement -- The effects of new modes of governance on learning -- Final reflections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Conclusion - not one discourse, but many? -- The sustainability story line - the 'original sin' -- Theoretical reflections -- Research questions -- Methodological framework -- The sustainable development story line - 'competing visions' of sustainable development -- Discourse on sustainability at the national and sub-nationallevels -- Narrowing in the discourse -- Bibliography -- Index

Additional Edition: Print version Barnes, Pamela M. Sustainable Development and Governance in Europe Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415630078

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