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  • Collaboration

    Using Networks and Partnerships

    by Mark A. Abramson, Robert Agranoff, Xavier de Souza Briggs, Samuel M. DeMarie, Elaine C. Kamarck, Robert Klitgaard, John W. Scanlon, William M. Snyder, Gregory F. Treverton, William L. Waugh Jr. ...
    Series series IBM Center for the Business of Government
    As government faces more complex problems, and citizens expect more, the way government delivers services and results is changing rapidly. The traditional model of government agencies administering hundreds of programs by themselves is giving way to one-stop services and cross-agency results. This translation implies collaboration-within agencies; among agencies; among levels of governments; and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Soldier of Misfortune: George W. Bush's War in Iraq

    by Steven Greffenius ...
    Analysis of the war in Iraq as it entered its middle stages in 2004 and 2005. Investigates the war's mistakes, poor reasoning, and catastrophic consequences. Analyzes why the Iraq war was misdirected from the start. Important reading for people interested in the United States' misdirected foreign policy: why the war occurred, how to correct the mistake, what to do as we look ahead. ... Read more

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  • Auditing and GRC Automation in SAP

    by Maxim Chuprunov ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Over the last few years, financial statement scandals, cases of fraud and corruption, data protection violations, and other legal violations have led to numerous liability cases, damages claims, and losses of reputation. As a reaction to these developments, several regulations have been issued: Corporate Governance, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, IFRS, Basel II and III, Solvency II and BilMoG, to name ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Public Management

    Organizations, Governance, and Performance

    by Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr, Kenneth J. Meier ...
    How effective are public managers as they seek to influence how public organizations deliver policy results? How, and how much, is management related to the performance of public programs? What aspects of management can be distinguished? Can their separable contributions to performance be estimated? The fate of public policies in today's world lies in the hands of public organizations, which in ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • The Architecture of Russian Markets

    Organizational Responses to Institutional Change

    by B. Grancelli ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This study analyses enterprise development and entrepreneurship and their relationship with the state and market building in Russia. It focuses on continuities and changes in the factory regime, drawing on existing literature and the author's own research and evaluation. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Bureaucratic Phenomenon

    by Michel Crozier, Wesley Mitchell ...
    In The Bureaucratic Phenomenon Michel Crozier demonstrates that bureaucratic institutions need to be understood in terms of the cultural context in which they operate. The originality of the study lies in its association of two widely different approaches: the theory of decision-making in large organizations and the cultural analysis of social patterns of action.The book opens with a detailed ... Read more

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  • First Amendment Institutions

    by Paul Horwitz ...
    Addressing a host of hot-button issues, from the barring of Christian student groups and military recruiters from law schools and universities to churches’ immunity from civil rights legislation in hiring and firing ministers, Paul Horwitz proposes a radical reformation of First Amendment law. Arguing that rigidly doctrinal approaches can’t account for messy, real-world situations, he suggests ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Beyond the Welfare State

    Postwar Social Settlement and Public Pension Policy in Canada and Australia

    by Sirvan Karimi ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    Neoliberal calls for welfare state reforms, especially cuts to public pensions, are a contentious issue for employees, employers, and national governments across the western world. But what are the underlying factors that have shaped the response to these pressures in Canada and Australia?In Beyond the Welfare State, Sirvan Karimi utilizes a synthesis of Marxian class analysis and the power ... Read more

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  • In Stalin's Shadow

    Career of Sergo Ordzhonikidze

    by Oleg V. Khlevniuk, David J. Nordlander, Donald J. Raleigh ...
    In the voluminous secret history of the 1930s, one episode that still puzzles researchers is the death in 1937 of one of Stalin's key allies - his fellow Georgian, G.K. Ordzhonikidze. Whether he took his own life or, like Kirov, was murdered, the case of Ordzhonikidze intersects several long-debated problems in Soviet political history. What role did Politburo members play in decision making ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Enabling Flexibility in Process-Aware Information Systems

    Challenges, Methods, Technologies

    by Manfred Reichert, Barbara Weber ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    In today’s dynamic business world, the success of a company increasingly depends on its ability to react to changes in its environment in a quick and flexible way. Companies have therefore identified process agility as a competitive advantage to address business trends like increasing product and service variability or faster time to market, and to ensure business IT alignment. Along this trend, a ... Read more

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  • Child Trafficking, Youth Labour Mobility and the Politics of Protection

    by Neil Howard ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact of politics. It examines (once) hegemonic anti-child trafficking discourse, policy and practice, and does so by placing secondary literature from around the world in conversation the author’s paradigmatic case study of the situation in southern Benin. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Business Information Systems

    18th International Conference, BIS 2015, Poznań, Poland, June 24-26, 2015, Proceedings

    Edited by Witold Abramowicz ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2015, held in Poznań, Poland, in June 2015. The BIS conference series follows trends in academic and business research; thus, the theme of the BIS 2015 conference was “Making Big Data Smarter.” Big data is now a fairly mature concept, recognized and widely used by professionals in ... Read more

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