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Management Tools
No organization is immune from the influence of management tools. Such tools as norms, indicators, ranking, evaluation grids and management control systems have moved outside the managerial and consultancy realm within which they were first developed to reach public administrations and policy-makers, as well as a range of other governmental and non-governmental organizations. Taking management tools out of the practical and utilitarian contexts to which they are often consigned and approaching them from a social analytical perspective, this book gives primacy to these everyday objects that constitute the background of organizational life and remain too often unquestioned. Bringing together developing streams of research from anthropology, political science, social psychology, sociology, accounting, organisation theory and management, ve Chiapello and Patrick Gilbert offer an unprecedented theoretical synthesis that will help managers, scholars and policy-makers to unpack the functional and dysfunctional roles and effects of management tools within and across organizations.
Importance of the traditional land-use and land-tenure systems of Waraka, Seram Island, Maluku
In Indonesia, natural resources are under pressure from both urban development and commercial exploitation. In Seram Island, Maluku, oil palm plantations are expanding in the north. In the south of the island, a State-owned cocoa company and a private logging enterprise are exploiting the vast territory of Waraka, an ancestral village established on the coast. The set of customary laws and principles of this village, locally called adat, is still powerful and is the basis of the traditional land tenure and land-use systems. In order to promote the socioeconomical development of his community, the king or raja of Waraka interacts with both companies within a dual and uncertain legal framework...
Les Temporalités de la recherche critique en management. Enjeux et alternatives
La perspective productiviste, instrumentale et court-termiste qui structure aujourd’hui la production des connaissances scientifiques n’est ni souhaitable ni tenable. Elle n’est pas souhaitable car elle appauvrit le champ des connaissances en standardisant les formats de la recherche ; elle n’est pas tenable car elle transforme en profondeur l’ethos de la recherche, malmène les identités et néglige les conditions de travail de ceux qui la produisent. Les contributeurs de cet ouvrage, enseignants et chercheurs en sciences de gestion, partagent ce constat et proposent d’examiner « la possibilité d’une île », c’est-à-dire des possibilités d’existence d’une recherche...
Age of Legends
THE DEFENDERS OF THE LAND! As Britain struggles under a burgeoning fascist government, Prime Minister Derek Drake plays the man of the people, while simultaneously purging the country of “undesirables.” When bike courier and subversive graffiti artist Ajia Snell runs into trouble with the authorities, she finds herself recruited by living incarnations of Britain’s ancient legends, from Oberon, King of the Faeries to Robin Hood. As Drake tightens his grip on the country’s soul, only Ajia and her new allies can stop him…
Moody
Good behavior makes life pleasant for everyone. The six titles in the Good Bad series show examples of good and bad behavior in a variety of situations, illustrating the difference between the right and wrong way to behave and the consequences it can have on other people and their feelings. Each title consists of three stories, through which all children will be able to identify with the characters, as well as adults welcoming the sound moral and psychological sense that each story provides. Each story concludes with a summary section, focusing on the main points of good and bad behavior. Moody tells the stories of Maya, Jason, and Beth, as each child experiences what it is like to feel moody.
The Carbon Fix
Given the growing urgency to develop global responses to a changing climate, The Carbon Fix examines the social and equity dimensions of putting the world’s forests—and, necessarily, the rural people who manage and depend on them—at the center of climate policy efforts such as REDD+, intended to slow global warming. The book assesses the implications of international policy approaches that focus on forests as carbon and especially, forest carbon offsets, for rights, justice, and climate governance. Contributions from leading anthropologists and geographers analyze a growing trend towards market principles and financialization of nature in environmental governance, placing it into conce...
Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya
Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya summarizes archaeological researchers’ current views on the adoption and first use of pottery across the Maya lowlands. Covering the early Middle Preclassic period, when communities began using and producing pottery for the first time (roughly 1000–600 BC), through to the establishment of a recognizably Maya tradition, termed the Mamom ceramic sphere (about 600–300 BC), the book demonstrates that the adoption was broadly contemporary, with variation in how the new technology was adapted locally. Analyzing ceramics found at sites in Belize, Petén (Guatemala), and Mexico, the contributors provide evidence that th...
