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Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

This new book explores how firms achieve competitive advantage in a disruptive digital and globalized business landscape. An integrative framework ‘The Four Rs of Competitive Success’ is introduced which covers the four core pillars of global strategy: resources and capabilities technology and innovation (recombination) internationalization and international markets (reach) and physical and virtual location (roots). It then explains how competitive advantage is achieved through an interaction of these four drivers against the backdrop of a globalized and digitized world. It is uniquely practical in its approach combining theoretical understanding with international case studies and real-life examples throughout each chapter including Apple IKEA and Microsoft. Unlocking Strategic Innovation is concise applied reading for postgraduate students studying international business corporate strategy innovation and digital strategy as well as academics in the field. It will also be important reading for practitioners looking to gain further understanding of how firms compete and flourish in a global and technology-driven environment. | Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

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All In The Future of Business Leadership

All In The Future of Business Leadership

Written by three leading thinkers in the field of sustainability 'All In' defines the essential attributes of high-impact corporate sustainability leadership and describes how companies can combine and apply those characteristics for future success. All In draws on research involving thousands of experts globally as collected via the GlobeScan-SustainAbility Leaders Survey over two decades. The book also reveals insights from dozens of interviews with Chairs CEOs and Chief Sustainability Officers of pioneering companies including 3M BASF BP DuPont Google GE Huawei IKEA Interface Marks Spencer Natura Nestle acute; Nike Novo Nordisk Patagonia Shell Tata Toyota Unilever and Walmart explaining how they have gained recognition created value and boosted resiliency based on their sustainability leadership. All In also outlines what the private sector must do to lift sustainability performance protect business's license to operate and help deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This unique book rich with quantitative and qualitative insights offers current and aspiring business leaders a succinct overview of the most important developments and trends in corporate sustainability and responsible leadership. 'All In' will also appeal to others interested in why sustainability has become a critical mainstream business issue. With a foreword by Dan Hendrix Chairman Interface and afterword by Paul Polman CEO Unilever. | All In The Future of Business Leadership

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The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

How do universities tackle wicked sustainability challenges faced by society? The Wicked Learning Workbook is a toolkit for setting up and running an interdisciplinary master-level course in the context of real-world problems such as food waste and loss. The book offers a new pedagogical approach that we call 'wicked' because it is unorthodox ambitious and tackles complex problems that won’t go away. The pedagogy is also international at the course level rather than the conventional exchange semester enabling institutions to embed international approaches to their core teaching. The Wicked Learning Workbook speaks directly to academics who are looking for solutions that provide stimuli for research and teaching while giving students an innovative international learning experience. The approach develops student understanding of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as broad-scale societal issues which are difficult if not impossible to ‘solve’. An important outcome of this approach is the laboratory-style classroom that creates opportunities for faculty students and companies to co-create solutions that are immediately implementable. The resulting methodology is based on industry–university collaboration (such as IKEA and Nestlé). The methodology is of interest to corporate leaders pursuing sustainability goals and business transformation. Achieving sustainability requires cross-boundary cross-disciplinary experimental approaches that allow for scalability. Wicked problems can only be tackled with wicked solution approaches. | The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

GBP 36.99
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All the World’s a Stage The Theater of Political Simulations

All the World’s a Stage The Theater of Political Simulations

Classroom role-playing simulations bring the drama of politics to life and enrich traditional learning by plunging students into the midst of historical or current events. Ben-Yehuda gives students and instructors the resources and confidence to embark on a careful enactment of scenarios that will inspire enthusiasm in participants and stick in the memory long after the curtain falls. The book includes in-depth discussions of three possible theatrical simulations: appeasement in 1938 Munich the regional turmoil following the 1947 UN Palestine Partition decision and the Syrian civil war and ongoing global confrontation with ISIS. It is appropriate for students in global studies courses at all levels. | All the World’s a Stage The Theater of Political Simulations

GBP 36.99
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Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation is an examination of musical interplay and the ways implicit (sub-conscious) and explicit (conscious) knowledge appear during improvisation. The practice-based research inquiry includes: interviews and interplay with five world-class jazz guitarists Lage Lund Jack Wilkins Ben Monder Rez Abbasi and Adam Rogers; a modal matrix for analyzing structure time and form in jazz guitar improvisation and musical analysis based on cognitive theories. By explaining the cognitive and musical foundations for expertise in jazz guitar improvisation this book illuminates how jazz guitarists' strategies are crucially dependent on context style and type of interplay. With accompanying video provided as an e-resource this material will be of interest to anyone fascinated by Jazz and Psychology of Music. | Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

GBP 38.99
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The Monarch of Wit An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

The Monarch of Wit An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

First Published in 1951 The Monarch of Wit presents John Donne’s poetry in its proper context. The chief purpose of the book is to enable the reader to approach Donne’s poetry without preconceptions of what ‘metaphysical’ poetry is or ought to be. Some of the questions which the author constantly has in mind are these: What are the main resemblances and differences on the one hand between Donne’s poetry and Ben Jonson’s and on the other hand between Donne’s poetry and that of poets who are commonly regarded as his disciples? How much of Donne’s poetry may be appropriately described as metaphysical as personal or autobiographical or as the expression of what has been called a unified sensibility? This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of English poetry English literature and European literature. | The Monarch of Wit An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

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Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

In 1944 C. G. Jung experienced a series of visions which he later described as the most tremendous things I have ever experienced. Central to these visions was the mystic marriage as it appears in the Kabbalistic tradition and Jung’s experience of himself as Rabbi Simon ben Jochai the presumed author of the sacred Kabbalistic text the Zohar. Kabbalistic Visions explores Jung’s 1944 Kabbalistic visions the impact of Jewish mysticism on Jungian psychology Jung’s archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism and his claim late in life that a Hasidic rabbi the Maggid of Mezhirech anticipated his entire psychology. This book places Jung’s encounter with the Kabbalah in the context of the earlier visions and meditations of his Red Book his abiding interests in Gnosticism and alchemy and what many regard to be his Anti-Semitism and flirtation with National Socialism. Kabbalistic Visions is the first full-length study of Jung and Jewish mysticism in any language and the first book to present a comprehensive Jungian/archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism. | Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

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Effective Writing for Sociology A Guide for Researchers and Students

Effective Writing for Sociology A Guide for Researchers and Students

Writing well is an essential skill for sociologists but few books help students learn to write well. Designed to help students produce a manuscript that is clear concise and compelling Effective Writing for Sociology demonstrates and deconstructs what makes effective writing and how best to communicate scholarly ideas. The first half of the book addresses the fundamentals of good writing: writing clearly conveying emphasis writing concisely and crafting effective paragraphs. The second half then looks to the three most important sections of a research report: framing an introduction reporting results and discussing findings. Each chapter of the book describes strategies for effective writing illustrated with multiple examples and providing exercises where students can try their hand at implementing these strategies. The Epilogue provides tips on choosing a title as well as writing an abstract and method section; it also includes suggestions on how to master the tips described in the lessons. Ben Lennox Kail and Robert V. Kail’s book is essential reading in courses on research methods qualitative methods quantitative methods sociological writing and social science writing in allied disciplines such as education criminology health and all research fields. | Effective Writing for Sociology A Guide for Researchers and Students

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Literature and Event Twenty-First Century Reformulations

Literature and Event Twenty-First Century Reformulations

If event is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes crises transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works and the work of reading literature. As the event continues to provide a valuable analytical paradigm for work undertaken within the newer subdisciplines of literary and critical theory including close reading bio- politics world literature and eco- criticism this volume makes a concerted effort to update the scholarship in this area and foreground the recent resurgence of interest in the concept. The book provides both a retrospective appraisal of the significance of events to literary studies and the literary humanities as well as contemporary and prospective appraisals of the same and thus would appeal scholars and instructors in the areas of literary theory comparative literature and philosophical aesthetics alike. Along with a specialist focus on thinkers such as Derrida Badiou Deleuze and Malabou the essays in this volume read a wide corpus of literature ranging from Han Kang Homer Renee Gladman Proust and Flaubert to Yoruba ideophones Browning Anne Carson Jenichiro Oyabe and Ben Lerner. | Literature and Event Twenty-First Century Reformulations

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Metaphysical Dualism Subjective Idealism and Existential Loneliness Matter and Mind

Metaphysical Dualism Subjective Idealism and Existential Loneliness Matter and Mind

Since the ages of the Old Testament the Homeric myths the tragedies of Sophocles and the ensuing theological speculations of the Christian millennium the theme of loneliness has dominated and haunted the Western world. In this wide-ranging book philosopher Ben Lazare Mijuskovic returns us to our rich philosophical past on the nature of consciousness lived experience and the pining for a meaningful existence that contemporary social science has displaced in its tendency toward material reduction. Engaging key metaphysical discussions on causality space time subjectivity the mind body problem personal identity freedom religion and transcendence in ancient scholastic modern and contemporary philosophy he highlights the phenomenology of loneliness that lies at the very core of being human. In challenging psychoanalytic and neuroscientific paradigms Mijuskovic argues that isolative existence and self-consciousness is not so much of a problem of unconscious conflict or the need for psychopharmacology as it is the loss of a sense of personal intimacy. The issue of the criteria of personal identity in relation to loneliness has long engaged and consumed the interest of theologians ethicists philosophers novelists and psychologists. This book will be of great interest to academics and students of the humanities and all those with an interest in the philosophy of loneliness. | Metaphysical Dualism Subjective Idealism and Existential Loneliness Matter and Mind

GBP 31.99
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A Language of Contemporary Architecture An Index of Topology and Typology

A Language of Contemporary Architecture An Index of Topology and Typology

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture this book provides an index of ideas theories projects and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as “contemporism” through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements). The contemporary project has been trying to answer the postmodern question of how to move beyond modernism through a thread of architectural styles that tried to respond to deficiencies from the modern promise and contextual changes. Yet the question remains should this ongoing struggle to move beyond modernism be a stylistic battle? Has the present architectural practice ever left the modernist tendencies and is there a structure for a contemporary language in architecture? This book presents a collection of highly illustrated projects that have worked under these parameters to break away from modernism in order to present a holistic integration of topology and typology as a language for “contemporism. ” The index is illustrated with individual spreads which can be read sequentially or independently and encourages the reader to make their own connections. It also includes interviews and contributions from Toyo Ito Anthony Vidler Ben van Berkel Christian Kerez and Greg Lynn. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in architecture. | A Language of Contemporary Architecture An Index of Topology and Typology

GBP 32.99
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A Leader's Guide to Competency-Based Education From Inception to Implementation

A Leader's Guide to Competency-Based Education From Inception to Implementation

As interest in competency-based education (CBE) continues to grow by leaps and bounds the need for a practical resource to guide development of high-quality CBE programs led the authors to write this book. Until now there has been no how-to manual that captures in one place a big picture view of CBE along with the down-to-earth means for building a CBE program. A variety of pressures are driving the growth in CBE including the need for alternatives to the current model of higher education (with its dismal completion rates); the potential to better manage the iron triangle of costs access and quality; the need for graduates to be better prepared for the workforce; and the demands of adult learners for programs with the flexible time and personalized learning that CBE offers. Designed to help institutional leaders become more competent in designing building and scaling high-quality competency-based education (CBE) programs this book provides context guidelines and process. The process is based on ten design elements that emerged from research funded by the Gates Foundation and sponsored by AAC&U ACE EDUCAUSE and the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) with thought partners CAEL and Quality Matters. In short the book will serve administrators higher education leaders faculty staff and others who have an interest in CBE by:• Giving context to enable the audience to discover the importance of each design element and to help frame the CBE program (the “why”);• Providing models checklists and considerations to determine the “what” component for each design element;• Sharing outlines and templates for the design elements to enable institutions to build quality relevant and rigorous CBE programs (the “how”). | A Leader's Guide to Competency-Based Education From Inception to Implementation

GBP 29.99
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Politics of Memory The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

Politics of Memory The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

This book illustrates how a dominant political party the Mapai under the leadership of P. M. David Ben-Gurion chose to ‘hug ’ honor and commemorate ‘Her Fallen’ and ‘Her Bereaved Families ’ whilst simultaneously ignoring the fallen that were identified with the rival political party Herut led by Menachem Begin. Designing legislation and cultural policy designated for Teaching the public that those who sacrificed themselves in the Israeli War of Independence – were Hagana Members one of three Israeli undergrounds movements associated with Mapai specific ideological viewpoint. By that - the Israeli state created political legitimacy and dominance for Mapai – which was framed as the only political party which were involved with the struggle for national independence. Her fighters battles and casualties became part of the collective memory and national ethos. This project was implemented by refusing to acknowledge the Other casualties of the Eztel and Lehi underground movements wich were ideological identified with Herut Party. The state excluded their bereaved families from the wider official military bereavement circle and forced them to experience disenfranchised grief With no access to official commemoration or to rehabilitative support. It was only after the Likud's (ex-Herut) victory in the 1977 elections that enabled P. M. Menachem Begin to correct this exile from national identity and to initiate the inclusion of His fighters and casualties to the military cemeteries to the history books and to the state commemorations as recognizing their families as part of the National Military Bereavement circles entitled to Honors and support. A thought provoking study about the dark side of the Israeli nation building era Politics of Memory explores the politics of historiography bereavement and military commemoration and the confrontation over boundaries of national pantheon examining the effects of these factors on Israel | Politics of Memory The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

GBP 38.99
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