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Evolving Values For A Capitalist World eBook Series

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  • Helping People Help Themselves

    From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance

    by David Ellerman ...
    Series series Evolving Values For A Capitalist World
    David Ellerman relates a deep theoretical groundwork for a philosophy of development, while offering a descriptive, practical suggestion of how goals of development can be better set and met. Beginning with the assertion that development assistance agencies are inherently structured to provide help that is ultimately unhelpful by overriding or undercutting the capacity of people to help themselves ... Read more

    $18.71 CAD

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  • Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Third Edition

    by Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, Michael Minkov ...
    The revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act-- with new dimensions and perspectivesBased on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span, Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart—when cooperation is so clearly in everyone’s interest. With major new contributions from Michael Minkov’s analysis of ... Read more

    $36.53 CAD

  • Cultures and Organizations: Software for the Mind

    by Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede ...
    The landmark study of cultural differences across 70 nations, Cultures and Organizations helps readers look at how they think—and how they fail to think—as members of groups. Based on decades of painstaking field research, this new edition features the latest scientific results published in Geert Hofstede’s scholarly work Culture’s Consequences, Second Edition. Original in thought and profoundly ... Read more

    $26.63 CAD

  • Politics in Time

    History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

    by Paul Pierson ...
    This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing ... Read more

    $49.31 CAD

  • Professionalism

    The Third Logic

    by Eliot Freidson ...
    Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Humanism in Business

    Edited by Heiko Spitzeck, Michael Pirson, Wolfgang Amann, Shiban Khan, Ernst von Kimakowitz ...
    What is the purpose of our economic system? What would a more life-serving economy look like? There are many books about business and society, yet very few of them question the primacy of GDP growth, profit maximization and individual utility maximization. Even developments with a humanistic touch like stakeholder participation, corporate social responsibility or corporate philanthropy serve the ... Read more

    $44.63 CAD

  • The Moral Economy

    Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens

    by Samuel Bowles ...
    Series series Castle Lectures Series
    Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out” ethical and generous motives and thus backfire.   But incentives per se are not really the culprit. Bowles ... Read more

    $24.38 CAD

  • Leadership in Administration: A Sociological Interpretation

    by Philip Selznick ...
    Philip Selznick's renowned book Leadership in Administration -- it practically invented the genre of executive leadership studies and is the lively response to the "rationalist" approach to organizations -- has been re-released in ebook formats, adding a new introduction by Robert E. Rosen.Foundational study of how institutions work and how leadership promotes them, often cited in many fields and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Leader's Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages

    by J. Thomas Wren ...
    This book serves as a guided introduction to the richly diverse perspectives on leadership throughout the ages and throughout the world.This book serves as a guided introduction to the richly diverse perspectives on leadership throughout the ages and throughout the world. Each of the selections, introduced by the editor, presents enlightening thoughts on a different aspect of leadership. Writings ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Distant Strangers

    Ethics, Psychology, and Global Poverty

    by Judith Lichtenberg ...
    What must affluent people do to alleviate global poverty? This question has occupied moral and political philosophers for forty years. But the controversy has reached an impasse: approaches like utilitarianism and libertarianism either demand too much of ordinary mortals or else let them off the hook. In Distant Strangers, Judith Lichtenberg shows how a preoccupation with standard moral theories ... Read more

    $30.95 CAD

  • Exchanging Autonomy

    Inner Motivations as Resources for Tackling the Crises of Our Times

    by Marco Senatore ...
    This book has already been published in Italy by the university press Aracne (http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788854857957). Its twofold purpose is to define some dimensions of individual autonomy (in particular, existential, functional and relational autonomy) and promote their dissemination within society, mainly through the introduction of some legal ... Read more

    $4.85 CAD

  • Creating Better Futures

    Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow

    by James A. Ogilvy ...
    As a founder and managing director of Global Business Network, James Ogilvy helped develop the technique of scenario planning, which has become an integral part of strategic thinking in both business and government. Now Ogilvy shows how we can use this cutting-edge method for social change in our own neighborhoods. In Creating Better Futures, Ogilvy presents a profound new vision of how the world ... Read more

    $51.11 CAD