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Exploring the technological innovations that have revolutionized business, the author outlines the problems confronting companies in this novel era. He discusses the many effective cybernetic systems for strategic navigation and the patterns of transformations to come, along with the economic dynamics that can accompany them.

The rapidly increasing complexity of societal systems increases the need for professionalism in management - one must be able to function reliably regardless of increasing management complexity in the twenty-first century. This book is written for practitioners who bear responsibility for overall governance of their organizations.

Features essays that examine both real and fictional renditions of North American imposture, placing these narratives in historical context even as they shed light on larger currents such as identity as performance and the cultural value attributed to authenticity in Western societies.

Technology, media, and journalism are closely related, both in the present time and from a historical perspective. Covering more than one hundred and fifty years of media in Europe and the United States, this book reveals a continuum of technological, social, and cultural developments across journalistic history.

How do affected families, clinics, and regulators deal with information about gamete donors and the donation itself? Addressing these questions in Germany and Britain, this ethnography makes a comparative contribution to the empirical and theoretical analysis of kin-formation and social change.

Do unemployment, religiosity, or morality play a role in people's perception of happiness and well-being? Using large-scale survey data from more than seventy countries, the author shows that to a large extent happiness depends on a match between individuals' attributes and the sociocultural characteristics of the environment in which they live.

Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. This book includes essays on commodities as diverse as coffee, cotton, rubber, oranges, and tobacco, to offer an overview of plantation systems from Latin America to New Zealand that exposes the many dimensions of environmental history incorporated in these institutions.

Can Western modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? This book assembles contributions from renowned scholars that offer timely and critical perspectives from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, political science, gender studies, cultural and literary studies, and philosophy.

Reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden that laid out by Leo Marx years ago. Extending the relevance of Marx's theory from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, this title examines the filmic and literary representations of industrial, bureaucratic, and digital gardens; explore its role in the aftermath of the Civil War and more.

Investigates the transformation of the garment and LED lighting industries in the Pearl River Delta, China's largest industrial hub. This book reveals that industrial upgrading rarely supports improvements in working conditions and the basic employment pattern and more.

Engaging with the period of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union, this book offers a perspectives not just on Scalinism, but also on questions of change and continuity in Soviet politics, modernization, and society more generally, moving broad-scale processes such as urbanization into the center of interpreting Soviet history.