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  • Rural Areas in Transition

    Meeting Challenges & Making Opportunities

    Edited by Norman Walzer, Christopher Merrett ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    This volume explores new opportunities to reshape local economies in rural areas during the next decade by exploring successful efforts already underway.While reported population declines can paint a bleak picture for rural areas, a different story can be told in looking at the numbers of households, employment, and housing markets. In fact, many rural areas have had steady employment and healthy ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Creating Vibrant Communities

    How Individuals and Organizations from Diverse Sectors of Society Are Coming Together to Reduce Poverty in Canada

    Edited by Paul Born ...
    *Equal parts inspiration, perspiration, and information -- a book that is sure to take the Vibrant Communities story to new heights as it begins its next exciting phase.*In Canada, "poverty reduction" is no longer a "wouldn't it be nice" dream discussed after yet another failure to make a dent in an age-old problem. It's a living, breathing, exhilarating reality.Why?Because all across the country ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Re-Imagining Capitalism

    Edited by Dominic Barton, Matthias Kipping, Dezsö Horváth ...
    Capitalism has been an unprecedented engine of wealth creation for many centuries, leading to sustained productivity gains and long-term growth and lifting an increasing proportion of humanity out of poverty. But its effects, and hence its future, have come increasingly under question: Is capitalism still improving wealth and well-being for the many? Or, is long-term value creation being ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The New Global Road Map

    Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times

    by Pankaj Ghemawat ...
    What Globalization Now Means for Your BusinessExecutives can no longer base their strategies on the assumption that globalization will continue to advance steadily. But how should they respond to the growing pressures against globalization? And what can businesses do to control their destinies in these times of uncertainty?In The New Global Road Map, Pankaj Ghemawat separates fact from fiction by ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Change for Good

    An Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World's Most Urgent Social Problems

    by Paul Klein ...
    “I wish we had this book forty years ago!” — Ben Cohen, co-founder, Ben & Jerry’sAn action-oriented approach for businesses to solve the world’s most urgent social problems — and benefit from doing so.More than a year into a global pandemic, profit and shareholder value are no longer the primary metric of business success. Customers, shareholders, and communities are demanding that companies do ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Dictionary of Human Resource Management

    by Edmund Heery, Mike Noon ...
    A Dictionary of Human Resource Management contains more than 2,000 precise and easy-to-understand definitions that are used in the fields of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations. The dictionary covers all areas of HRM, including recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, reward, industrial relations, and the design of work and organizations. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The World that Changes the World

    How Philanthropy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship are Transforming the Social Ecosystem

    Edited by Willie Cheng, Sharifah Mohamed ...
    If there is an X PRIZE for collaborative thought leadership of the social ecosystem, this book would get it.Dr. Peter H. DiamandisChairman and CEO, X PRIZE FoundationThe World that Changes the World is thought leadership at its best—envisioning the future through reflection and analysis of past trends and contemporary challenges.Senator the Hon. Ursula StephensAustralian Parliamentary Secretary ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • International Business

    by Gabriele Suder ...
    Series series SAGE Course Companions series
    The Sage Course Companion on International Business is an easy-to-navigate support guide to the International Business curriculum. It will allow readers to extend their understanding of key concepts and enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements. This book also provides guidance on essential study skills and advice on developing critical thinking about international business ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Understanding the Social Economy

    A Canadian Perspective, Second Edition

    by Jack Quarter, Laurie Mook, Ann Armstrong ...
    Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors’ ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission – social enterprises, non-profits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development organizations ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Innovation in Construction

    An International Review of Public Policies

    Edited by Andre Manseau, George Seaden ...
    Series series CIB
    How can innovation in the construction industry be strengthened? What instruments and approaches are being used by governments to promote it? What works and under what circumstances? These key questions have profound implications. This book presents a framework for the analysis of innovation models and systems in construction and an international comparison of these systems, with a focus on their ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Dynamic Governance: Embedding Culture, Capabilities And Change In Singapore (English Version)

    by Boon Siong Neo, Geraldine Chen ...
    In a world of uncertainty and change, current achievements are no guarantee for future survival. Even if the initial chosen set of principles, policies and practices are good, static efficiency and governance would eventually lead to stagnation and decay. No amount of careful planning can assure a government of continual relevance and effectiveness if there is no capacity for learning, innovation ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Global Public Procurement Theories and Practices

    Edited by Khi V. Thai ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses current theories and practices in the field of public procurement. Over the past few decades, public procurement has had to evolve conceptually and organizationally in the face of unrelenting budget constraints, government downsizing, public demand for increased transparency in public procurement, as well as greater concerns about efficiency, fairness and equity. Procurement ... Read more

    $170.09 USD