Ausgehend von einer Kritik der anthropologischen Annahmen der ökonomischen Theorie und der entsprechend mechanistischen Deutung von Unternehmensorganisationen entfaltet das Buch eine alternative Deutung und Theorie korporativen Handelns auf der Basis des Personbegriffs. Anhand der Frage, ob und wie Korporationen wie Unternehmen zum Subjekt moralischer Verantwortung werden können, wird gezeigt, daß Unternehmensethik ohne eine personale Deutung ...
A comprehensive historical survey of the Jewish presence in Central Europe from the seventeenth century to the Holocaust, German-Jewish History in Modern Times is a four-volume collective project by a team of leading scholars, offering a vivid portrait of Jewish History. The series is sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the purpose of advancing scholarship on the Jews in German-speak...
The Anthropology of Welfare" explores how theoretical concepts of anthropology can be applied and used in issues of welfare and community care. It examines the relationship between the cared for, their carers and the social, cultural and political-economic milieu in which their interactions take place. The international contributors, whose work is based in both rural and urban areas, question definitions of "community" and the institutional in...
Betrayal of Due Process is a landmark study of the criminal justice systems of two common-law nations, the United States and Canada. By focusing on plea bargaining, which is one of the most dominant practices in the criminal justice system of both countries, Nasheri makes a historical comparison of guilty plea practices and ideologies. She draws on historical, criminological, sociological, and political perspectives to construct her argument. ...
This classic story is a favorite with toddlers, who will cheer on the three clever billy goats who outsmart a mean troll. With plenty of repetition, this adventure is perfect for reading aloud and for joining in, and a satisfying ending provides a reassuring touch.
The seductive and extraordinary tale of a geisha girl, told from the Waldorf Astoria in New York as she remembers her experiences in the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s. "Exceptional and erotic" "Literary Review". "Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose, it is a novel whose pyschological empathy and historical truths are outstanding" "Mail On Sunday".
Young people do not on the whole speak for themselves: they are spoken for by adults. Most research and policy agendas relating to young people are dominated by adult concerns about young people's health - rarely are the issues looked at from young people's perspective. This gap in our knowledge may be a critical factor in explaining some of the problems that health educators face in getting young people to transform health knowledge into acti...
There's Amy and there's Ash. There's ice and there's fire. There's England and there's Scotland. Ali Smith evokes the twin spirits of time and place in an extraordinarily powerful first novel. Subtle and complex, seductive and exhilarating, here is a story about what it means to be alive: this is what it's like. 'Ingenious, shimmering fiction, written with a poetic grace that subtly illuminates the tensions between hope and desire, between pas...
Dieses Buch wendet sich explizit der zentralen Frage zu, die Wissenschaftler und Politiker sowie jedermann, der um die Probleme von Umweltverschmutzung und Schädigung der Natur Sorge trägt, beschäftigt: Wie kann eine Entwicklung unseres sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Systems gewährleistet werden, die dem Schutz von Umwelt und Natur nachhaltig Rechnung trägt? Auf dem Weg zur Beantwortung dieser Frage wird die Bewertung von Natur als Kernproblem ...
This new edition of the Macrothesaurus for Information Processing in the field of Economic and Social Development represents a continuation of the combined efforts of many organisations over a period of almost 30 years to create a common vocabulary to
The story is of one of the most famous investigations ever conducted by science into the mysteries of the world - and its disastrous ending in the even stranger mysteries of the world within.
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Die Diskussion um die Einführung von Lohnsubventionen zur Herstellung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ostdeutscher Unternehmen steht im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit. Dazu werden drei alternative Modellvorschläge diskutiert, die alle im Jahr 1991 entwickelt wurden. Das erste Lohnsubventionsmodell stammte von einer Gruppe amerikanischer Ökonomen der Universität Berkeley unter Leitung von George Akerlof. Sie forder...
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Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Potential an vor- bzw. nachteiligen Auswirkungen von Telearbeit aus theoretischer Sicht, die am Beispiel der Stadtverwaltung Aachen (Dezernat V) konkretisiert werden.
Zunächst wird das theoretische Fundament von Telearbeit anhand fünf Dimensionen vorgestellt. Die "organisatorische Dimension" erläutert die möglichen Formen von Telarbeit und deckt die No...
The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores* the origins and historical development of the games* who the victims were and why they were chosen* how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses* the co...
The main findings of these case studies include: * growing international competition and rising labour costs have reduced the time that new entrants into a market have for enjoying wage and cost advantages * there are no fixed formulas or sequences in technology capability formation for firms to become successful exporters of manufactured goods * but continuous innovation in product design, prodcution processes, management routines, marketing ...
Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the Navy in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his own name and more than twenty bestselling historical novels featuring Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.
Bringing together the classic statements on social stratification, this collection offers the most significant contributions to ongoing debates on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality.
