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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.