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  • Mobilizing Data for Justice

    A Guide to Activism in the Digital Age

    by Chris Hurl, Elena Rowan, Marius Senneville, Kevin Walby ...
    Knowledge is power and the information behind it must be liberated. Today, more than ever, data has become an important stake in social struggles and the tightening of control over it has not gone without resistance. Social activists around the world are engaging with data in novel ways, whether through investigating tax havens, tracking police misconduct, confronting employers with evidence of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Consulting Trap

    How Professional Service Firms Hook Governments and Undermine Democracy

    by Chris Hurl, Leah B. Werner ...
    The Consulting Trap does a deep dive into how governments have become hooked on private consultancy firms with dire consequences for democratic decision-making, public accountability and accessible public services. Hurl and Werner contend that firms like McKinsey, Accenture, KPMG and Deloitte increasingly take responsibility for core public services, trapping governments in cycles of dependency. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era

    Public Policy, Private Expertise

    Edited by Chris Hurl, Anne Vogelpohl ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume explores the influence of professional service firms on public policy-making from a global perspective. Drawing on cases studies from around the world, researchers from different disciplines—including sociology, political science, geography, anthropology, history, and management studies—examine how professional service firms have generated power in the policy-making process. The ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Corporatizing Canada

    Making Business Out of Public Service

    by Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl, Kevin Walby ...
    From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming public programs into corporate revenue streams.Senior managers use corporate methodology to set priorities in social services and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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  • Business and Government in Canada

    by Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    Boundaries between business and government are increasingly fluid and often transcended. Yet it remains important to acknowledge and make appropriate use of the fundamental differences between these sectors.Five areas that offer the most critical challenges to business and government in Canada today are corporate governance, lobbying and influence, security and privacy, public-private partnerships ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development

    Is Business the Solution?

    by Michael Hopkins ...
    The business of business is business. So why should corporations be involved in development? This groundbreaking new book makes the case that governments and their international agencies, grouped under the umbrella of the United Nations, have failed in their attempts to rid the planet of underdevelopment and poverty. If development is the objective then it seems that the solution and the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Global Auction

    The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes

    by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, David Ashton ...
    For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars. Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Global Auction forces us to reconsider our deeply held and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Business and Human Rights

    From Principles to Practice

    by Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, Justine Nolan ...
    In a global economy, multinational companies often operate in jurisdictions where governments are either unable or unwilling to uphold even the basic human rights of their citizens. The expectation that companies respect human rights in their own operations and in their business relationships is now a business reality that corporations need to respond to. Business and Human Rights: From Principles ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility

    Strategy, Communication, Governance

    Edited by Andreas Rasche, Mette Morsing, Jeremy Moon ...
    This upper-level textbook offers an original and up-to-date introduction to issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR) from a global perspective. Written by an international team of experts, it guides students through key themes in CSR including strategy, communication, regulation and governance. Balancing critiques of CSR with a discussion of the opportunities it creates, it includes ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Philanthropic Response to Disasters

    Gifts, Givers and Consequences

    by Myles McGregor-Lowndes, Wendy Scaife, Michael Moran, Krystian Seibert, Graham Dwyer, Jeff Schlegelmilch, Greg Witkowski, Megan Conway, Kristen Pue ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Philanthropy and Public Good
    When disaster strikes, our instinctive response is to make things better, not only as individuals but also as groups, organisations, communities and major institutions within society.With increasing climate-related disasters and the potential for future global pandemics, philanthropy will continue to play an essential role. Yet our knowledge of how philanthropic responses to disasters are ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • The Resilient Sector Revisited

    The New Challenge to Nonprofit America

    by Lester M Salamon ...
    Nonprofit America is one of the least understood segments of national life, yet also one of the most crucial.Author Lester Salamon, who pioneered the empirical study of the nonprofit sector in the United States, provides a wealth of new data to paint a compelling picture of a set of institutions being buffeted by a withering set of challenges, yet still finding ways to survive and prosper. These ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Land Access and Resettlement

    A Guide to Best Practice

    by Gerry Reddy, Eddie Smyth, Michael Steyn ...
    This book is an up-to-date, accessible and practical guide on how to optimally plan for, implement and review land access and resettlement. It provides step-by-step information on how to avoid pitfalls, ensure that best practice is being employed and the correct standards are being applied. With useful real-life examples of when projects have gone well and when they haven't, the book is based on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD