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Offers perspectives on historical European knowledge concerning the "New World" and also on trade and commerce with it. This book enhances our understanding of how, when, and why early modern Europeans made sense of the Atlantic world, and how they tried to connect with Atlantic trade and commerce.

Focuses on one exemplary manager: Helmut Maucher, the former Nestle CEO who turned his company into a powerful global enterprise without being distracted by passing fads. This book - a combination of interviews, essays, and other works by Maucher - offers a unique exchange of ideas between three of the world's corporate management pioneers.

Contemplating the aesthetic and narrative forms of material life in American fiction as well as theoretical concepts of materiality, this book looks at renewed attention to the physical world within the humanities and social sciences, variously designated as new materialism or the material turn.

The 1960s launched an unprecedented public debate over the meaning of "America," dividing US society in deep and troubling ways. By examining crucial events, trends, and individuals, this volume offers a nuanced and pluralist account of the longest decade in America.

In the five years since the outbreak of one of the worst global financial crises, systemic risk has become a buzzword and developed into an acute threat. This volume draws upon political economy as an approach to analyze the concept of systemic risk as well as corresponding dilemmas of political order, legitimacy, and expertise.

World politics and a global economy only became possible with the creation of global communication electric. This book examines the emergence of this global media system between 1860 and 1930 in four sections - "Inter|Nationalisms," "Agents|Actors," "Use|News," and "Space|Time" - that aim to broaden and challenge popular conceptions of telegraphy.

Explores the interface between religion and politics in African societies by examining recent and ongoing research in a variety of regional settings.

Outlines the principles that underlie a successful international venture: development of a custom-fit internationalization strategy; selection of foreign markets and structured market entry processes; design of market growth strategies; intercultural management and international corporate management; and the carrying out of market exits.

Arguing against the hypothesis that assumes consumers optimize their consumption intertemporally based on their permanent or lifetime income, this title proposes a rule of thumb according to which consumers can save if their income exceeds basic expenditure, while they can demand credit when income can no longer meet basic needs.

Bringing together essays from experts who analyze how the landscapes, images, and economies of the industrial city have changed through boom and bust, this title covers a range of subjects, from car cities to steel towns, from visualization of industrial cities in avant-garde art to the role of industrial heritage in urban regeneration.

Covers the processes of commodification of emotion about now reach into all areas of labor processes, extending even to private life and intimate relationships. This title takes concepts to study the diversity of this economic intrusion into family, education, and nursing in the service sector as well as into corporate management.

Investigates the governance structures and mechanisms of knowledge and technology transfer in the context of innovation and production systems in six regions of Europe. With analyses of strengths and weaknesses, barriers, and shortcomings, this book identifies best practice models and policy recommendations for the investigated regions.

Investigates the political economy of civil war and democratic peace, arguing that the civil wars did not represent state decay, but exhibited dynamics characteristic of state formation.

Analyzing the regimes of production and their segmentations in the context of global and national production networks, this title discusses Chinese and international industrial relations theory and labor sociology and explore the perspectives of collective bargaining, trade union reform, and democratic workplace representation in China.

The former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan in the heart of Central Asia is home to the city of Osh, which is commonly discussed as an epicenter of radical Islamism and political instability, yet also fully globalized. The author explores what this means for the everyday lives of the city's young people.

Juxtaposes classic literature of the American Renaissance with twentieth-century culture-pairing, for instance, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Finding Nemo, Walt Whitman with Spider-man, and Hester Prynne with Madonna - to investigate how the "Americanness" of American culture constitutes itself in the interplay of cultural imaginary and performance.

A study that examines the relationship between the media and the government in authoritarian regimes and Western democracies, focusing on how political structures affect the level of trust between the public and the news media.

Focuses on politics and the political as contested concepts; boundary disputes between the political and other spheres; the question of whether violence is a means, an object, or the end of political communication; and on a future agenda for writing political history.

In response to the international financial crisis of 2007, a network of social scientists from seven countries analyzed the various changes in the regulation of financial markets. This book presents their results. Suitable for political scientists, it contributes significantly to the theory of institutional change.

Focuses on how the far right's views of Islam have been increasingly co-opted by both liberal and conservative parties and woven into the policies of Western governments over the past two decades. This book explores how Islamophobia has moved to the mainstream of Western policymaking, and the role that the media has played.

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to the overarching processes of social change of that period.

Natural disasters appear to be on the rise worldwide and their increasing frequency and far-reaching devastation demand the attention of society. This book argues that the key to finding a more effective response to natural disasters is to understand their many preventable causes.

Features articles that investigate the topic of ethnic, national, and transnational identities. Using a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, this volume offers a multifaceted discussion and insights concerning the challenging social and political issues of changing collective identities.

Investigates habits, practices, and meanings of water through case studies from around the world. With its wide range and diversity, this volume explores water practices in different cultures and shows that water is much more than a commodity, a resource, or a substance - it is a focal point that reflects local culture.

Argues that businesses and other societal institutions can function autodynamically - in much the same fashion that modern technology steers, controls, and regulates itself - by adopting general systems policies. This title explains the way that organizations must be structured so that they can organize themselves.

Examines the consequences of the arrival of social media and the increasing dominance of big Internet players, such as Google, for science and research, particularly in the realms of organization and communication.

As Europe becomes increasingly diverse, understanding the effects of differences within European democracy is crucial. This title provides an interdisciplinary approach to this important dimension of social interaction, drawing on political science, sociology, communications studies, legal studies, and art history.

Analyzes representations of corpses on TV through cultural, sociological, and historical lenses, providing pictorial and film analysis using interviews with producers, make-up artists, and coroners.

Dictatorships throughout the twentieth century - including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany - held elections. This title investigates the remarkable, paradoxical phenomenon of dictatorial elections, revealing the many ways they transcended mere propaganda.

Despite the fact that mergers and acquisitions are a crucial part of the modern business landscape, the factors that can make the difference between success and failure remain little understood - as evidenced by the disappointing outcomes of the majority of acquisitions. This title focuses on the role of corporate boards in mergers.