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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.

Offers a pair of detailed case studies - of the Egyptian groups al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya and al-Jihad and Lebanon's Hizbullah - to identify typical forms of support relationships, development patterns, and dynamics of both radicalization and restraint.

Our conception of cultures and cultural change has altered dramatically in recent decades. Built around examples of controversial representations of cultural transfer from Asia, the Arab world, and Europe, this title presents a critical self-reflection on the scholarly practices that underpin our attempts to study and describe other cultures.

As urban areas have grown and sprawl has spread in recent decades, metropolitan governments have begun to look beyond city borders, establishing regional partnerships to help them deal with issues of transit, resource use, and more. This title examines this trend through a close comparative study of seven metropolitan areas in Israel and Germany.

Shows how recurrent references to a "crisis" of masculinity or the decline of masculinity serve largely to demonstrate and support positions of male privilege.

Presenting case studies from Tashkent, Yerevan, Gumri, St Petersburg, Tbilisi, Baku, and Osh, this book examines the way that different groups, from Christians and Muslims to ardent reformers and Soviet apologists, assign meaning to public spaces and deploy them in attempts to construct the way the history of their cities is understood.

From its very beginning, the specialty chemicals group Clariant has been in a continual process of transformation. This book-length study of the company, gives an insightful account of its historical foundations, starting with the successful merger between the two major corporations that would become Clariant: Sandoz and Hoechst.

Delineating the psychological, management, and economic errors business leaders tend to make, this title explains how these errors can be avoided through conscientious attention to the use of clear language.

Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-67) was a key leader of American science in the nineteenth century. This biography explains and explores Bache's efforts to build and shape public institutions as aids to his goal of creating a national foundation for a shared culture.

American studies has changed drastically over the years, as a new wave of scholars - armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research - flocked to the relatively young field. This title resists the traditional academic split between scholarship and classroom practice.

Uses a close study of the district of Ituri in the Congo, a major battlefield and a laboratory for international intervention, to explore the micropolitics of warfare and statebuilding. This title shows the effect that humanitarian interventions have on state-society relations.

The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society - they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. This title shows, the Soviet leadership used sports as one of the primary arenas in which to deploy.

Offers an overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This title considers the origins of CSR during the 1970s, highlighting various approaches and explaining its early shortcomings. It then turns to the United Nations Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative to investigate why, since the mid-1990s, CSR has been on the rise.

In years many Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have settled in Germany and Israel. This title conducts an interdisciplinary investigation into the ways in which such immigrants manage their multiple, overlapping identities - as Jews, Russians, and citizens of their newly adopted nations.

Wars, revolutions, and financial disasters do not have to happen. There are ways to transform governmental policies so as to avoid such catastrophes. This book brings management theory to government, suggesting a series of methods and instruments for successful governance.

Since the mid-1980s, Fritz W Scharpf has been investigating the evolution of the multilevel European polity and its impact on the effectiveness and legitimacy of democratic government in Europe. This title collects Scharpf's nearly two decades of research on government in Europe.

Antiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. This title offers a comparative assessment of the multiple perceptions of antiquity that have shaped modern European cultures and national identities.

Presents findings on the role of emotions in various facets of society, from the laboratory to the office to the media. This title discusses topics that include: the tensions between feelings and feeling rules, the conscious and unconscious emotions of scientists, emotions and social disorder, and romantic love in US and Israeli codes of conduct.

Comparing various European and American historiographies from the past two hundred years, this book provides insights into the establishment and cultivation of gendered power relations in different societies and outlines the devastating effects that exclusionary practices can have on each national canon.

Includes articles that address the notion that political space is no longer fully congruent with national borders. Organized into three sections - transnational actors, transnational spaces, and critical encounters - this title explains how transnational political spaces are formed and defined and how they can be traced and conceptualized.

Deals with the two central components of work in history: archiving and narrating. This title argues that archival resources, despite their air of impartiality, are the product of established interests and subject to various practices of selection, cataloguing, and preservation.

Draws on eight case studies, ranging from the early modern period through the twentieth century, to explore the interconnectedness of exile, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism as concepts, ideals, attitudes, and strategies among diasporic groups.

Why do some groups succeed in violently seizing and holding power while others fail? Arguing that success rests on the ability of these groups to transform the power of violence into legitimate domination, this title explores the techniques and strategies they employ - and the long shadow of violence they must overcome along the way.

Looks at the origin and function of internal ethics committees in German hospitals. Using a mix of archival research, participant observation, and interviews, this book explores the debates that surrounded their formation and the functions they have taken on since their creation.