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  • Cooperatives at Work

    by George Cheney, Matt Noyes, Emi Do, Marcelo Vieta, Joseba Azkarraga, Charlie Michel ...
    Series series The Future of Work
    For too long, cooperatives have been considered marginal players in the global economy, and as unrealistic venues for the aspirations of new and experienced members of the labour force. This marginalization shows in business, municipal and legal discussions, and curricula, where cooperative structures are rarely mentioned, let alone presented as viable options.Cooperatives at Work presents a range ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Transforming Conflict and Building Peace

    Community Engagement Strategies for Communication Scholarship and Practice

    Edited by Peter M. Kellett, Stacey L. Connaughton, George Cheney ...
    Series Book 1 - Conflict and Peace
    This inaugural volume in the Peter Lang Conflict and Peace series brings together works that richly depict the tensions between the promise and reality of applying communication principles and theories to conflict transformation and peacebuilding around the world and in the United States. Each chapter provides concrete examples of the doing of engaged scholarship in this context. Chapter ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Debate over Corporate Social Responsibility

    Edited by Steven K. May, George Cheney, Juliet Roper ...
    Should business strive to be socially responsible, and if so, how? The Debate over Corporate Social Responsibility updates and broadens the discussion of these questions by bringing together in one volume a variety of practical and theoretical perspectives on corporate social responsibility. It is perhaps the single most comprehensive volume available on the question of just how "social" business ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Corporate Communications

    Convention, Complexity and Critique

    by George Cheney, Mette Morsing, Lars Thøger Christensen ...
    The field of corporate communications describes the practices organizations use to communicate as coherent corporate `bodies′. Drawing on the metaphor of the body and on a variety of theories and disciplines the text challenges the idealized notion that organizations can and should communicate as unified wholes.The authors pose important questions such as:- Where does the central idea of corporate ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • Just a Job?

    Communication, Ethics, and Professional Life

    by George Cheney, Daniel J. Lair, Dean Ritz, Brenden E. Kendall ...
    From cartoons to boardrooms comes the statement, "It's not personal. It's just business." Just a Job? Communication, Ethics, and Professional Life offers a provocative perspective on ethics at work. The book questions the notions that doing ethics at work has to be work, and that work is somehow a sphere where a different set of rules applies. This problematic line between work and life runs ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement

    by Peter M. Kellett, Thomas G. Matyók, Ali Askerov, Benjamin J. Broome, Luke Brenneman, Stacey L. Connaughton, Heather Curry, Stanley Deetz, David Derezotes0, Leonard C. Hawes1, Yvan Yenda Ilunga2, Hannah Karolak3, Jieyoung Kong4, Natalia Kovalyova5, Kai Kuang6, Marc Eric Lane7, Susan Mancino8, Ifat Maoz9, Sally Planalp0, Laura E. Reimer1, Yiftach Ron2, Sarah E. Ryan3, Andrew R. Smith4, Susan Szmania5, Liliya Yakova6, Jeremy A. Rinker7, Donald G. Ellis8, Eddah Mbula Mutua9, Ellen W. Gorsevski0, George Cheney1 ...
    Series series Peace and Conflict Studies
    Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine transformation at the level of particular conflicts. Central, also, to this book is the idea that ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization

    Edited by Martin Parker, George Cheney, Valérie Fournier, Chris Land ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    Despite the Great Recession, slightly different forms of global capitalism are still portrayed as the only game in town by the vast majority of people in power in the world today. Unbridled growth, trade liberalisation, and competition are advocated as the only or best ways of organizing the contemporary world. Unemployment, yawning gaps between rich and poor, political disengagement, and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Case for Degrowth

    by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria ...
    The relentless pursuit of economic growth is the defining characteristic of contemporary societies. Yet it benefits few and demands monstrous social and ecological sacrifice. Is there a viable alternative? How can we halt the endless quest to grow global production and consumption and instead secure socio-ecological conditions that support lives worth living for all?In this compelling book, ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Public Policy in Action

    Perspectives on the Policy Process

    by Victor Bekkers, Menno Fenger, Peter Scholten ...
    This comprehensive textbook explores the policy process from a multitude of perspectives, including rationalism, culturalism, institutionalism and from a political point of view. This allows students to discover key concepts from the policy science literature and gain a deeper understanding of how public policy is discussed academically and shaped empirically.Public Policy in Action gives a ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • A New Synthesis of Public Administration

    by Jocelyne Bourgon ...
    In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being reshaped by the rise of social networking and modern information and communication technologies. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Politics of Crisis Management

    Public Leadership under Pressure

    by Arjen Boin, Paul ‘t Hart, Eric Stern, Bengt Sundelius ...
    Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact, while critics and bureaucratic competitors make use of social media to blame incumbent rulers and their policies. In this extreme environment, policymakers must somehow establish a sense of normality, and foster ... Read more

    $30.39 USD