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Theories of Organization
Includes excerpts from seminal works and summaries of key theoretical models that form the basis of the field of organization theory.
Liquidated
Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an in-depth investigation into the everyday experiences and ideologies of Wall Street investment bankers, Ho describes how a financially dominant but highly unstable market system is understood, justified, and produced through the restructuring of corporations and the larger economy. Ho, who worked at an investment bank...
The Fundamentals of Organizational Behavior
This primer offers MBA and other advanced students exposure to the basic theories and concepts of organizational behavior and management. Delivers the basic theories and concepts of organizational behavior and management in a concise format. Includes ‘Guides for Managers' which show how managers can apply these theories. Supplemental materials include exercises and cases. Covers topical issues such as diversity, technology and e-business. Executive edition of Tosi and Mero's successful textbook, Managing Organizational Behavior (Blackwell Publishing, Fourth Edition, 2000
Henry James's Europe
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequentlywrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. Theplight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophisticationbecame a regular theme in his fiction.This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world's leadingJames scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author's crossculturalaesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James's perception ofEurope - of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists andthinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics - which ultimately lead to a profoundreevaluation of his writing.With in-depth analysis of his works of fiction, his autobiographical andpersonal writings, and his critical works, the collection is a major contribution to current thinking about James, transtextuality and cultural appropriation.
Language and the Grand Tour
Language is still a relatively under-researched aspect of the Grand Tour. This book offers a comprehensive introduction enriched by the amusing stories and vivid quotations collected from travellers' writings, providing crucial insights into the rise of modern vernaculars and the standardisation of European languages.
