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Routledge Revivals: The Romance of the Rubáiyát (1959)

Routledge Revivals: The Romance of the Rubáiyát (1959)

First published in 1959 this reprint of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát is accompanied by an introduction and notes by A J Arberry one of Britain’s most distinguished Orientalist scholars. The Rubáiyát is a selection of poems written in Persian attributed to Omar Khayyám. The work will be of interest to those studying Middle Eastern Literature. | Routledge Revivals: The Romance of the Rubáiyát (1959)

GBP 31.99
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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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Role Theory and Mexico's Foreign Policy Making Sense of Mexico’s Place in World Politics

Role Theory and Mexico's Foreign Policy Making Sense of Mexico’s Place in World Politics

Role Theory and Mexico’s Foreign Policy examines why Mexico has an unusual foreign policy for a middle-power country. Using a series of case studies to show how role conflict has operated in Mexico’s foreign policy Omar Loera-González studies three specific settings where Mexico could have displayed middle-power behaviour. First he analyses Mexico’s controversial membership and performance in the Iraq crisis within the Security Council of the United Nations from 2002 to 2003. The second case study examines Mexico’s ambition to display a regional leadership role in regional multilateral bodies like the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Pacific Alliance (PA). In the third and final case study Loera-González focuses on Mexico’s engagement in human rights and democracy promotion. Conflicting expectations from several actors – domestic and external – have led to a foreign policy contradictory to what is expected for a country with Mexico's material capabilities and its foreign policy objectives. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers who work on and with foreign policy analysis and role theory or to those with a research interest on Mexico. | Role Theory and Mexico's Foreign Policy Making Sense of Mexico’s Place in World Politics

GBP 130.00
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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 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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Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects of Collins’ thought and of microsociology more generally. The introductory essay by Elliot B. Weininger and Omar Lizardo provides a lucid overview of the key premises this perspective. Ethnographic papers by Randol Contreras using data from New York and Philippe Bourgois and Laurie Kain Hart using data from Philadelphia examine the social logic of violence in street-level narcotics markets. Both draw on heavily on Collins’ microsociological account of the features of social situations that tend to engender violence. In the second section of the book a study by Paul DiMaggio Clark Bernier Charles Heckscher and David Mimno tackles the question of whether electronically mediated interaction exhibits the ritualization which according to Collins is a common feature of face-to-face encounters. Their results suggest that at least under certain circumstances digitally mediated interaction may foster social solidarity in a manner similar to face-to-face interaction. A chapter by Simone Polillo picks up from Collins’ work in the sociology of knowledge examining multiple ways in which social network structures can engender intellectual creativity. The third section of the book contains papers that critically but sympathetically assess key tenets of microsociology. Jonathan H. Turner argues that the radically microsociological perspective developed by Collins will better serve the social scientific project if it is embedded in a more comprehensive paradigm one that acknowledges the macro- and meso-levels of social and cultural life. A chapter by David Gibson presents empirical analyses of decisions by state leaders concerning whether or not to use force to deal with internal or external foes suggesting that Collins’ model of interaction ritual can only partially illuminate the dynamics of these highly consequential political moments. Work by Erika Summers-Effler and Justin Van Ness seeks to systematize and broaden the scope of Collins’ theory of interaction by including in it encounters that depart from the ritual model in important ways. In a final reflective chapter Randall Collins himself highlights the promise and future of microsociology. Clearly written these pieces offer cutting-edge thinking on some of the crucial theoretical and empirical issues in sociology today. | Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

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