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Reference Module Humanities eBook Series

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  • Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics

    Edited by Deborah C Poff, Alex C. Michalos ...
    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    This encyclopedia, edited by the past editors and founder of the Journal of Business Ethics, is the only reference work dedicated entirely to business and professional ethics. Containing over 2000 entries, this multi-volume, major research reference work provides a broad-based disciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to all of the key topics in the field. The encyclopedia draws on three ... Read more

    $1,092.99 CAD

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    by Paul Frijters ...
    Why are people loyal? How do groups form and how do they create incentives for their members to abide by group norms? Until now, economics has only been able to partially answer these questions. In this groundbreaking work, Paul Frijters presents a new unified theory of human behaviour. To do so, he incorporates comprehensive yet tractable definitions of love and power, and the dynamics of groups ... Read more

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  • Policy Problems and Policy Design

    by B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series New Horizons in Public Policy series
    B. Guy Peters presents a critique of conventional policy design methods, placing emphasis on the need to formulate interconnecting designs for issues that cross multiple policy areas. He advocates the use of analytic categories for understanding problems rather than functional categories, such as defence and health, to change the perspective of problems and modernise policy design.Whereas previous ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism

    Edited by Mike Dent, Jean-Louis Denis, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Ellen Kuhlmann ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism is a state-of-the-art reference work which maps out the current developments and debates around the sociology of the professions, and how they relate to management and organizations.Supported by an international contributor team specializing in the disciplines of organizational studies and sociology, the collection provides extensive ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Public Sector Communication

    Closing Gaps Between Citizens and Public Organizations

    by Vilma Luoma-aho, María José Canel ...
    A comprehensive guide to future-proofing public sector communication and increasing citizen satisfactionHow to communicate with the citizens of the future? Why does public sector communication often fail? Public Sector Communication combines practical examples from around the world with the latest theoretical insights to show how communication can help bridge gaps that exist between public sector ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy

    Edited by Tobias Jung, Susan D. Phillips, Jenny Harrow ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    Philanthropy – the use of private resources for public purposes – is undergoing a transformation, both in practice and as an emerging field of study.Expectations of what philanthropy can achieve have risen significantly in recent years, reflecting a substantial, but uneven, increase in global wealth and the rolling back of state services in anticipation that philanthropy will fill the void. In ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Capitalism Beyond Mutuality?

    Perspectives Integrating Philosophy and Social Science

    Edited by Subramanian Rangan ...
    Our quest for prosperity has produced great output but not always great outcomes. The growing list of concerns includes climate and natural capital, abuse of wealth and market power, economic insecurity, gender bias and disparity, competitive and immoderate consumption, and unhealthful lifestyles. Fundamentally, when it comes to well-being, fairness, and the scope of our humanity, the modern ... Read more

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  • Private Management and Public Policy

    The Principle of Public Responsibility

    by James Post, Lee E. Preston ...
    Series series Stanford Business Classics
    Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work at the intersection of business and society. First published in 1975, it focuses on the management processes that companies use to respond to social issues. The text develops the "principle of public responsibility" as an alternative to the notion that firms have unlimited accountability. And, it presents one of the first systems-based ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Designing in Ethics

    Edited by Jeroen van den Hoven, Seumas Miller, Thomas Pogge ...
    Many of our interactions in the twenty-first century - both good and bad - take place by means of institutions, technology, and artefacts. We inhabit a world of implements, instruments, devices, systems, gadgets, and infrastructures. Technology is not only something that we make, but is also something that in many ways makes us. The discipline of ethics must take this constitutive feature of ... Read more

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  • Knowledge and Social Capital

    by Eric Lesser ...
    Social capital - the informal networks, trust and common understanding among individuals in an organization - determines major competitive advantages in today's networked economy. Knowledge and Social Capital explains how social capital can drive collaboration, reconcile an organization's internal and external labor markets, and improve organizational effectiveness. This edited compilation of ... Read more

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  • Taming the Big Green Elephant

    Setting in Motion the Transformation Towards Sustainability

    by Ariel Macaspac Hernández ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In this open access publication it is shown, that sustainable low carbon development is a transformative process that constitutes the shifting from the initially chosen or taken pathway to another pathway as goals have been re-visited and revised to enable the system to adapt to changes. However, shifting entails transition costs that are accrued through the effects of lock-ins that have framed ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics

    Edited by George F. DeMartino, Deirdre N. McCloskey ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    For over a century the economics profession has extended its reach to encompass policy formation and institutional design while largely ignoring the ethical challenges that attend the profession's influence over the lives of others. Economists have proven to be disinterested in ethics. Embracing emotivism, they often treat ethics a matter of mere preference. Moreover, economists tend to be hostile ... Read more

    $143.99 CAD