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“antonio stecher”

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  • Walmart in the Global South

    Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains

    Edited by Carolina Bank Muñoz, Antonio Stecher, Bridget Kenny ...
    As the largest private employer in the world, Walmart dominates media and academic debate about the global expansion of transnational retail corporations and the working conditions in retail operations and across the supply chain. Yet far from being a monolithic force conquering the world, Walmart must confront and adapt to diverse policies and practices pertaining to regulation, economy, history, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • International Development

    A Casebook for Effective Management

    by Frederick Keenan, Christine Gilmore ...
    INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT uses the highly successful case method of the Harvard Business School and the Richard Ivey Business School to help you to become a much more effective manager of international development projects. Using real case studies of different types of situations in a wide range of countries, Keenan and Gilmore examine projects, identifying what to do and how to do it.Sharpen your ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Brazilian Multinationals

    Competences for Internationalization

    by Afonso Fleury, Maria Tereza Leme Fleury ...
    Since the 1950s, subsidiaries of the most prestigious foreign multinationals have played a key role in Brazilian economic development, thus creating a very competitive domestic market. On top of this, government interventions in the last few decades have been inconsistent and contradictory, resulting in a series of economic crises. Only the most resilient Brazilian firms have been able to survive ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Competitiveness And Growth In Brazilian Cities: Local Policies And Actions For Innovation

    by Zhang Ming ...
    The book contributes to answering the questions raised by mayors, governors, and federal government officials in Brazil: "What can cities do to improve economic performance and create jobs?" The question is approached through a review of theories and policy options for city competitiveness, preliminary benchmarking of Brazilian cities.The book concludes that to become and stay competitive, cities ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Building Commitment To Reform Through Strategic Communication: The Five Key Decisions

    by Verzosa Cecilia Cabanero ; Garcia Helen R. ...
    Strategic communication refers to the design of programs aimed at promoting voluntary change in behavior among stakeholders critical to the success of reforms, with communication being an instrument of policy and program reform, not merely a means of disseminating information. This Sourcebook provides a management decision-making tool for developing a communication strategy for reforms. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fair Trade

    The Challenges of Transforming Globalization

    Edited by Laura T. Raynolds, Douglas Murray, John Wilkinson ...
    This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world’s most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change.Fair Trade links food consumers and agricultural producers across the Global North/ South divide and lies at the heart of key efforts to reshape the global economy. This book reveals the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Labor Relations in a Globalizing World

    by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin ...
    Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a Globalizing World they draw lessons from the United States and other advanced industrial countries to ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Focusing Partnerships

    A Sourcebook for Municipal Capacity Building in Public-private Partnerships

    by Janelle Plummer ...
    Series series Municipal Capacity Building Series
    Despite the increasing occurrence of policies aimed at mobilising the financial and human resources of the private sector, most urban local governments responsible for urban basic services in the South do not have the capacity to initiate and sustain partnerships. Nor do they understand how they can create partnerships that target the poor. This sourcebook provides practical information and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Transnational Tortillas

    Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States

    by Carolina Bank Muñoz ...
    This book looks at the flip side of globalization: How does a company from the Global South behave differently when it also produces in the Global North? A Mexican tortilla company, "Tortimundo," has two production facilities within a hundred miles of each other, but on different sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The workers at the two factories produce the same product with the same technology, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • New Labor in New York

    Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement

    Edited by Ruth Milkman, Edward Ott ...
    New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city—roughly double the national average—but the city's unions have suffered steady and relentless decline, especially in the private sector. With higher levels of income inequality than any other large city in the nation, New York today is home to a large and growing precariat—workers with little or no employment ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations

    Knowledge and Power in Latin America

    Edited by Mercedes Botto ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
    The international trade negotiations that were launched throughout Latin America in the 1990s created significant challenges for developing countries because of their complexity. In order to make informed decisions and successfully legitimize negotiating positions, governments and stakeholders required research, evidence and data from knowledgeable sources such as local technicians and academics ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Root-Cause Regulation

    Protecting Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century

    by Michael J. Piore, Andrew Schrank ...
    Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system, has one of the highest rates of occupational fatality in the developed world, and deteriorating working conditions more generally. Why, after a century of reform, are U.S. workers growing less safe and secure? Comparing U.S. regulatory practices to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD