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Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China Power Politics Participation and Education

Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China Power Politics Participation and Education

The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China. Emerging from this growth is a population of floating and left-behind children which is estimated to be approaching 100 million. Due to their increasing risks of undesirable educational and social as well as health and psychological outcomes there is a great urgency to help floating children and left-behind children beat the odds. This book offers an analysis of how oscillations of government discourse have come to shape central and local educational policies regarding the schooling of these children. It also delves into child and youth resilience in this unique migration context examining what can be done to build up resilience of floating and left-behind children. In this vein the book will complement current knowledge and advance context- and culture-specific understandings of child and youth resilience through both school-based and community-based approaches. The book aims to answer a fundamental question: How to help floating children and left-behind children become responsive and resilient to structural deficiencies and dynamics in the migration context of China? This is important reading for scholars school professionals community workers and policy makers to better address the social and educational resilience and wellbeing of floating and left-behind children. | Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China Power Politics Participation and Education

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Small Business in Indonesia

Small Business in Indonesia

First published in 1997 this volume examines why small-scale enterprises have performed so well in Indonesia given that the country’s labour force is expected to expand and urbanise rapidly between 1995 and 2025. It also considers what future contribution small-scale enterprises could make. Peter van Diermen explores the industrial organisation of family businesses local development in a global context and family businesses in Jakarta in considering the unexpected success of small-scale enterprises and the future contributions they could make. | Small Business in Indonesia

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Small Farms Persistence With Legitimation

Small Farms Persistence With Legitimation

Why do small farms continue to coexist with ever-larger farming operations in advanced Western societies? Through a thorough case study of Italy and a comparative analysis of small farms in the United States Dr. Bonanno seeks to answer this question exploring the complex relationships among farm family members’ ideology and behavior the small farm economic sector and the interaction of small farms within the relevant spheres of society. He finds that at the structural level a lack of occupational alternatives and contradictions within both labor and land markets often force farmers to retain marginal farms despite personal dissatisfaction. At the ideological level many farm families display deep attachment to the agrarian way of life and cite this as a fundamental reason for not leaving the farm for other work. Dr. Bonanno also analyzes the role of small farms within the social system and concludes that they serve a legitimative function. This legitimative role fosters contradictions within the social and economic systems that the state is unable to resolve thus contributing to the continuation of a dual structure in agricultural development-Ö¾large and very large farms at one end of the scale and marginal but persistent small farms at the other. | Small Farms Persistence With Legitimation

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The Rotating European Union Council Presidency and Small Member States Small States Big Challenge

The Rotating European Union Council Presidency and Small Member States Small States Big Challenge

The Rotating European Union Council Presidency and Small Member States explores the opportunities and burdens for small states of holding the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. While the functions and the achievements of the Council presidencies have been widely studied on the EU level this book adopts the inverse and underresearched perspective of looking at the “domestic” impact of the Council presidency on the Member State specifically small Member States. Combining new institutionalist theoretical approaches under the concept of Europeanisation and employing both qualitative and quantitative methods this book explores whether the Council presidency leads to the Europeanisation of national polities and politics. More specifically the book looks at the impact of the Council presidency on national administrations ministers and public opinion. It suggests that the Council presidency presents a unique opportunity to (re) engage with EU affairs and institutions for small Member States especially those holding the position for the first time. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students researchers and academics of International Relations and European Integration specifically those interested in small states in the European Union or the rotating European Union Council presidency. | The Rotating European Union Council Presidency and Small Member States Small States Big Challenge

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Small African Towns Between Rural Networks and Urban Hierarchies

Small African Towns Between Rural Networks and Urban Hierarchies

First published in 1997 this study sees the small enterprise as performing specific tasks within the larger societal system of production and distribution and as being shaped and adapted to the specific social and economic locally specific environment of which it is a part. Research was focused on fieldwork in Kenya Tanzania Uganda Zimbabwe and Bangladesh examining rural small towns serving rural hinterlands. Areas explored include the building sector in Zimbabwean district service centres the building sector in small Tanzanian towns small enterprises and the public sector in Kenya and Bangladesh and the structure of small-scale grain-marketing in a small Ugandan town. | Small African Towns Between Rural Networks and Urban Hierarchies

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Managerial Labour Markets in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Managerial Labour Markets in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Focussing on the relatively few small firms which grew rapidly this book originally published in 1993 uses face-to-face interviews as well as published records to identify and analyse the managerial factors most closely associated with successful small firms. The volume concentrates on the following key managerial issues: In what respects do the managerial backgrounds and aspirations of the founders of fast-growth small firms differ from those of non-fast-growth small firms? How is the process of growth managed? What incentives remuneration packages and communication systems are instituted? How do these characteristics and experiences differ in fast-growth small firms from both the traditional small firm and large-firm sector? To what extent is it possible to explain the relative economic performance of small firms in terms of differences in their ownership organizational and management structures. | Managerial Labour Markets in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

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Entrepreneurship in Small Island States and Territories

Entrepreneurship in Small Island States and Territories

Entrepreneurship in Small Island States and Territories is the first publication to consider the ‘creative’ side of enterprise in small island states and territories. Rather than playing out as remote vulnerable and dependent backwaters of neo-colonialism the world’s small island states and territories (with resident populations of less than 1 million) show considerable resourcefulness in facing up to the very real challenges of their predicament. The creative endeavours of their residents facilitated by adroit public policy has created economic and investment opportunities that translate into some private sector employment and decent livelihoods for many. Their ingenuity coupled with strategic investments and the support of the diaspora has led to a suite of (sometimes unlikely) products and services: from citizenship and higher-level internet domain names to place-branded foods and beverages; from electronic gaming to niche manufacturing. There is much more to small island survival than subsistence farming aid remittances and public sector workfare. Entrepreneurship in Small Island States and Territories helps to dispel this myth showcasing an aspect of life in small island states and territories that is rarely documented or critically reviewed.

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Small Group Teaching Tutorials Seminars and Workshops

Small Group Teaching Tutorials Seminars and Workshops

This comprehensive guide for new university teachers brings together straightforward and practical advice on small group teaching alongside examples of practice across disciplines. Written in a highly accessible style it covers topics such as the foundations of small group teaching; methods and techniques; and advice on inclusive and non-discriminatory practice. Now fully updated this new edition also takes into account changes in technology and the expectation of students includes examples of practice from a variety of institutions and offers learning resources and reading suggestions throughout. | Small Group Teaching Tutorials Seminars and Workshops

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Small Business Exposed The Tribes That Drive Economies

Small Business Exposed The Tribes That Drive Economies

This book is a look into the world of the small business owner through their eyes – how the five different tribes of business perceive the world around them how they run their businesses their motivations and goals. It’s not another how to book or an academic treatise. Everyone’s needs and hopes are different; however by using cutting-edge social scientific research techniques we break the business community into five groups (or tribes): The Seekers Whatnows Drifters Satisficers and Digitals. Each tribe has its own set of issues. And there are also some things which cut across all the tribes – the consistent elements in small business owners’ DNA. Understanding which tribe you belong to could make the difference in growing your business – or help you better advise businesses to achieve their goals. Small Business Exposed will bridge the gap between the frontiers of small business research and the popular business book market. As such it will become an essential text not only for the small businessperson but also enter the libraries of advisors accountants bankers and anyone else with a vested interest in the business economy. | Small Business Exposed The Tribes That Drive Economies

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A New Approach to Global Studies from the Perspective of Small Nations

A New Approach to Global Studies from the Perspective of Small Nations

With emphasis on East Asian and North American examples – notably Japan and Quebec – Date Laniel and their contributors take a new approach to the understanding of small nations and their role in the international system. Small nations by their very nature raise significant questions about what a nation is. Some small nations are sovereign states with relatively small populations and limited territory others are nations within larger sovereign states with distinctive cultures governance structures or other features that differentiate them from their “parent” state. By focussing on non-European nations in particular the contributors to this volume challenge our conceptions of what a small nation is and how it operates within the international system. They focus in particular on the nation-within-a-nation-state of Quebec and on Japan supplemented by further examples from East Asia. By interrogating what these examples have to show us about the typology and character of small nations they offer a critique of superpower and draw out the potential of small nation studies. A valuable resource for students and scholars of international relations and theories of the nation and nation state. | A New Approach to Global Studies from the Perspective of Small Nations

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Small States and Security in Europe Between National and International Policymaking

Small States and Security in Europe Between National and International Policymaking

This book studies how domestic contestation influences the security policy of small states within the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A multinational group of expert contributors consider how domestic contestation is translated into small states’ foreign policies how membership of international organisations alters attitudes to security policy in small states and how patterns of small states’ behaviour across domestic traditions security cultures and geographical location can be identified. Anchored in new institutionalism the book explores the influence of international organisations on security policies and the tensions created by connecting four strands of literature on Europeanisation on the impact of and on institutions on the way foreign and security policy is made and the security/strategic culture of small states. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of international relations security studies EU studies area studies and politics. | Small States and Security in Europe Between National and International Policymaking

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The State of the Art in Small Business and Entrepreneurship

The State of the Art in Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Published in 1998. This text is designed as not only a summary of a number of years of reflections by many different researchers but also a guide for future research and for continuing development of a theory of small business and its environment; a theory that will apply to small businesses everywhere and that will help them become what they hope to be in the 21st century. | The State of the Art in Small Business and Entrepreneurship

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Agency Security and Governance of Small States A Global Perspective

Agency Security and Governance of Small States A Global Perspective

Agency Security and Governance of Small States examines what seems to be a defining paradox of Small-State Studies: the simultaneous coexistence (and possible co-dependence) of vulnerability and opportunity related to small-state size. This book analyses small states within the framework of this apparent paradox. Traditionally Small-State Studies has focused on three guiding questions: what constitutes a ‘small state’? What explains small-state influence in global affairs? Are small states truly vulnerable to security threats given the expansion of multilateralism and regionalism throughout the world? This book contends that new questions should be asked which recognise the important shifts in twenty-first century security paradigms to better understand how some states deploy their smallness as a resource for agency in supranational contexts. By varying historical geographical security and governance contexts the book embraces a most-different-cases approach. The historical perspective is often neglected in Small-State Studies but contributes to understanding how small states have often over time transformed perceived insecurity into agency. By focusing on different world regions the authors enable the comparative analysis of collective actions and the creation and implementation of institutions for ‘common sense purposes’ within a geographical region. Of particular contemporary importance the book includes contributions which contend with hard-security issues alongside other soft-security challenges. The comparison of case studies confirms that hard-security vulnerability and soft-security opportunities seem to be two sides of the same coin which reinforces the book’s focus on small-state paradoxes and raises the question of whether smallness can be considered the defining characteristic of governance in these countries. This book will have a broad appeal because of the different world regions it analyses. It will be of interest to postgraduate students scholars and researchers of international relations security sustainability governance development and political economy as well as Small-State Studies. The Chapters 4 8 and 11 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. The publication of Chapter 4 as Open Access has been made possible by the Institute of History at the University of Luxembourg. The publication of Chapter 8 as Open Access has been made possible by Western Sydney University. The publication of Chapter 11 as Open Access has been made possible by the University of Hamburg. | Agency Security and Governance of Small States A Global Perspective

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COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship Challenges and Opportunities for Small Business

COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship Challenges and Opportunities for Small Business

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic small businesses are especially vulnerable. This is one of the first books that explicitly examines the linkage between crisis and entrepreneurship with a specific focus on small businesses. The book adopts a holistic approach and outlines strategies that small business owners can utilize as well as business opportunities that are available in these new market conditions. It also provides a comparative analysis of the current and future market conditions to enable a better understanding of how institutional structures can facilitate or hinder growth. The book also goes on to explain why and how creativity and innovation can help to mitigate the impact of such a crisis on business and highlights why business continuity is especially crucial to family-owned businesses. This timely publication will help to guide small business owners and entrepreneurs to maintain business continuity and build up their resilience in a challenging business climate. | COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship Challenges and Opportunities for Small Business

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Small Businesses and Effective ICT Stories and Practical Insights

Small Businesses and Effective ICT Stories and Practical Insights

Small businesses make up some 90-95 percent of all global firms. Many undervalue the importance of information and communication technology (ICT). Within the small business segment there can be significant differences amongst the avid early adopters of ICT and the laggards. Research on early adopters tends be more prevalent as they are perceived to have a more interesting and positive story. However late adopters and ‘laggards’ also have their own interesting stories that are under-reported. Small Business and Effective ICT draws on research undertaken over several years and documents the adoption/use of ICT across ‘better’ users of ICT (Leaders) typical ICT users (Operationals) and late adopters (Laggards). The findings are presented using a re-formulation of the LIASE framework which addresses a number of areas that include ICT literacy (L) information content/communication (I) Access (A) Infrastructure (I) Support (S) and Evaluation (E). Some 60 businesses were investigated in Australia and the UK with each business presented as a concise vignette. The vignettes serve to show that small businesses are not as conservative in their use of ICT as the literature suggests with examples of innovative uses of ICT in small businesses provided. Lessons for the effective use of ICT by small businesses are presented. The research design methods adopted presentation of findings through the vignettes and ‘take away’ lessons have been written in manner to appeal to a broad range of readers including academics researchers students and policy makers in the discipline. | Small Businesses and Effective ICT Stories and Practical Insights

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Local Government Administration in Small Town America

Local Government Administration in Small Town America

In government administration and leadership rural community leaders face unique challenges in delivering public services including (but not limited to) education health care and public safety. Meanwhile residents who live in smaller and more isolated rural settings often face greater difficulties accessing provisions and services or commuting to work among other economic development challenges. These factors may affect a community’s resiliency to and recovery from shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Local Government Administration in Small Town America devotes some overdue scholarly attention to the governance and administration of public programs in small towns and rural communities in the United States. The chapter contributors to this volume analyze some of the unique challenges rural communities face as well as the policy tools that their governments employ to address them. The book explores ways that small town governments collaborate with one another the state and the federal government and examines how local government officials use knowledge of people and place to improve policy performance. The chapters are designed to provide cases and strategies for students and practitioners in public administration to use in a small town environment while also considering a community’s distinctive social and political culture which determines how local political leaders and government practitioners might respond to demands and challenges they face. Local Government Administration in Small Town America is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students studying local government as well as for rural practitioners navigating evolving challenges unique to their communities.

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Small Wars and Insurgencies in Theory and Practice 1500-1850

Small Wars and Insurgencies in Theory and Practice 1500-1850

In early modern times warfare in Europe took on many diverse and overlapping forms. Our modern notions of ‘regular’ and ‘irregular’ warfare of ‘major war’ and ‘small war’ have their roots in much greater diversity than such binary notions allow for. While insurgencies go back to time immemorial they have become conceptually fused with ‘small wars’. This is a term first used to denote special operations often carried out by military companies formed from special ethnic groups and then recruited into larger armies. In its Spanish form guerrilla the term ‘small war’ came to stand for an ideologically-motivated insurgency against the state authorities or occupying forces of another power. There is much overlap between the phenomena of irregular warfare in the sense of special operations alongside regular operations and irregular warfare of insurgents against the regular forces of a state. This book demonstrates how long the two phenomena were in flux and fed on each other from the raiding operations of the 16th century to the ‘small wars’ or special operations conducted by special units in the 19th century which existed alongside and could merge with a popular insurgency. This book is based on a special issue of the journal Small Wars & Insurgencies. | Small Wars and Insurgencies in Theory and Practice 1500-1850

GBP 46.99
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Economic Development and Governance in Small Town America Paths to Growth

Economic Development and Governance in Small Town America Paths to Growth

Who governs? And why? How do they govern? These remain vital questions in the politics of our small cities and towns. In this new book author Daniel Bliss takes issue with those who believe that small towns and cities are fatally vulnerable to the pressures of a global economy. Based on in-depth analyses of small town America this book demonstrates how political agency can address and solve real problems affecting US towns including capital flight industrial closures and job losses. Bliss illustrates how small localities exercise choices – such as nurturing local businesses and developing infrastructure rather than engaging in a race to the bottom heavily mortgaging tax revenues to attract large box retailers and small box call centers while passively watching more productive firms and better-paying jobs slip away. Taking careful account of comparative literature as well as variations in city governments their planning agencies and their relations with state authorities this book explores the ways in which local politicians and public planning bodies can mobilize local constituencies to weather global challenges and common structural problems such as unfavorable demographics skill shortages and out-migration. Economic Development and Governance in Small Town America holds out the promise of meaningful democratic change even in unfavorable political and economic circumstances. | Economic Development and Governance in Small Town America Paths to Growth

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Gender and Successful Human Resource Decisions in Small Businesses

Gender and Successful Human Resource Decisions in Small Businesses

This book first published in 1998 is an attempt to better understand the human resource programs utilized by small firms and the basis for their choice. Much of the study is designed to provide a working framework from which to begin to understand the myriad of human resource decisions made in these companies on a daily basis. In this way the research seeks to make some contribution to the development of a theoretical grounding for human resources in the small business area. This title will be of interest to students of business studies and human resource management. | Gender and Successful Human Resource Decisions in Small Businesses

GBP 34.99
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Impact of e-Commerce on Consumers and Small Firms

Impact of e-Commerce on Consumers and Small Firms

The change from old to new technologies has fundamentally changed the relationship between the consumer and the firm. This book is at the frontier of behavioural research into how these new commercial realities are borne out in practice examining the adoption of e-commerce by small firms and the transactional phenomenon that entails access to the Internet. In analyzing the process of e-commerce adoption and why e-commerce actors behave as they do its coverage includes the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) by small firms; the use of ICT applications to support marketing and sales transactions; and the factors that influence consumers' online purchasing decisions. | Impact of e-Commerce on Consumers and Small Firms

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Globalization and Entrepreneurship in Small Countries

Globalization and Entrepreneurship in Small Countries

The changeable business environment requires a new business framework and an understanding of the global market trends and the culture that will impact on business. Globalization and Entrepreneurship in Small Countries considers important business principles and makes them accessible for entrepreneurs and small business owners. It addresses the role of managers and leaders and management techniques in the context of global strategy of companies as well as the culture diversity that comes with globalization of organizations. To meet the constantly changing conditions and demands business must transcend boundaries to get what it needs regardless of where it exists – geographically organizationally and functionally. This book draws together earlier literature on SME development and internationalization from disparate sources into a cohesive body of work which traces the evolution of our understanding of the topic. It explores just how globalization affects the demand for business and entrepreneurship and will therefore be of interest to researchers academics policymakers and students in the fields of entrepreneurship globalisation organisational studies and SMEs development in small countries.

GBP 18.99
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The Small German Courts in the Eighteenth Century

The Small German Courts in the Eighteenth Century

First published in English in 1958 this book charts the history of the small states which emerged in Germany from the chaos of the Thirty Years War. A period which has been neglected by English historians this book covers both the German principalities generally and specifically a study of The Duchy of Württemberg and the County of Montbéliard. It builds up a world of eccentricity documenting little-known facts about palaces and princes. | The Small German Courts in the Eighteenth Century

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Planning for Small Town Change

Planning for Small Town Change

Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and decline. Planning is a means by which we have sought to manage this change. It has not always succeeded in providing the types of settlements and environments which many residents and others want either because it is operating with the wrong policies or because it is failing to ensure that the right policies are effectively implemented. These failings have opened planning to criticism by a dominant neoliberal orthodoxy which shapes an increasingly difficult environment in which planning has to operate. Planning for Small Town Change builds on an underexploited selection of international research and the authors’ English case studies to consider the efficacy of planning for change. Drawing on insightful small town experiences three themes emerge: understanding and conceptualising change; appreciating the potential within place; and the mechanisms for planning and delivery. The research draws on many examples of how key actors have made a significant difference to specific places and provides important insights into how the planning process can be better matched to the long-term and complex challenges faced. Whilst small town experiences are often neglected they are found to be particularly insightful in understanding the potential roles of local communities and the importance of place quality when planning for change.

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Small Firms and Economic Development in Developed and Transition Economies A Reader

Small Firms and Economic Development in Developed and Transition Economies A Reader

This title was first published in 2003. Since the late 1970s there has been considerable interest in the role of small firms in economic development in general and employment generation in particular. Throughout the developed world governments have introduced a range of measures to encourage small firm growth and development in an attempt to stimulate economic growth generate employment and foster innovation. Though not all measures have been successful many policies have transferred to the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe where since 1989 small firm growth and development has achieved considerable importance in economic restructuring. Accordingly this volume presents the leading research on the role of small firms in economic development and employment generation in both transition and developed countries. Setting itself in a wider theoretical context the book also considers the implications for both policy and theory and suggests directions for future research. | Small Firms and Economic Development in Developed and Transition Economies A Reader

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