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Knowledge and Space eBook Series

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  • Knowledge and Institutions

    Edited by Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby, Regina Lenz ...
    Series Book 13 - Knowledge and Space
    This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, ... Read more

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Knowledge for Governance

    Edited by Johannes Glückler, Gary Herrigel, Michael Handke ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well as a driver of governance efficacy, and conversely, how governance affects the creation and use of knowledge and innovation in geographical context. Scholars from the fields of ... Read more

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  • Co-Production and Co-Creation

    Engaging Citizens in Public Services

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere, Trui Steen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more ... Read more

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism

    Edited by Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Renate E. Meyer, Thomas B. Lawrence ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism brings together extensive coverage of aspects of Institutional Theory and an array of top academic contributors.Now in its Second Edition, the book has been thoroughly revised and reorganised, with all chapters updated to maintain a mix of theory, how to conduct institutional organizational analysis, and contemporary empirical work. New chapters ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Network Society

    A New Context for Planning

    Edited by Louis Albrechts, Seymour Mandelbaum ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and Regional Planning. Chapters grouped into five themes discuss theoretical and practical perspectives on the contemporary organization of social, economic, cultural, political and physical spaces. These sections are:models of the Network Societythe ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Relational Economy

    Geographies of Knowing and Learning

    by Harald Bathelt, Johannes Glückler ...
    How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? What are the new geographies emerging from the need to create, access, and share knowledge, and sustain competitiveness? In what ways are local clusters and global exchange relations intertwined and co-constituted? What are the impacts of global changes in technology, demand, ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change

    by Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Thomas Tufte, Rafael Obregon ...
    Series series Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
    This valuable resource offers a wealth of practical and conceptual guidance to all those engaged in struggles for social justice around the world. It explains in accessible language and painstaking detail how to deploy and to understand the tools of media and communication in advancing the goals of social, cultural, and political change.A stand-out reference on a vital topic of primary ... Read more

    $187.00 USD

  • Cities in Globalization

    Practices, Policies and Theories

    Edited by Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, Frank Witlox ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their place alongside ‘internal relations’ within cities to constitute the full nature of cities.This ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Fair Shared Cities

    The Impact of Gender Planning in Europe

    by Marion Roberts ...
    Bringing together a diverse team of leading scholars and professionals, this book offers a variety of insights into ongoing gender mainstreaming policies in Europe with a focus on urban/spatial planning. Gender mainstreaming was first legislated for in the European Union with the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999 and, although many interesting developments have occurred throughout the decade that ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Knowledge and Social Capital

    by Eric Lesser ...
    Social capital - the informal networks, trust and common understanding among individuals in an organization - determines major competitive advantages in today's networked economy. Knowledge and Social Capital explains how social capital can drive collaboration, reconcile an organization's internal and external labor markets, and improve organizational effectiveness. This edited compilation of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD