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Dirty gold :how activism transformed the jewelry industry
The response from the jewelry industry to a campaign for ethically sourced gold as a case study in the power of business in global environmental politics. Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed without community consent, and working conditions for miners can be poor. Income from gold has fund…
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- 9780262337960
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- 1 online resource (272 pages).
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Winning the reputation game :Creating stakeholder value and competitive advan…
Subtitle on dust jacket cover: Creating stakeholder value and competitive advantage.Core strategies for creating a corporate reputation that will provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace: a back-to-basics approach.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262335089
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- 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) :illustrations
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Future Intelligence
The first quarter of the 21st century introduced the world to rapid uncertainty, be it the social-political and financial crises, or pandemics, or the shaking up of well-established democracies with an increasing rise in populism. At the same time, the technological promise has taken off with automation, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnologies increasingly becoming an economic reality. Th…
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- 978-3-031-36381-8
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Transformative Governance for the Future
This open access book helps actors who are committed to change unlock true innovative potential for the common good in their organizations. Innovation and change processes are not linear. Hence, this book presents a novel way to manage complexity. The author introduces readers to a comprehensive change management framework, the Eoh-for-Good blueprint methodology. It presents the method and disc…
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- 978-3-031-43131-9
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Tourismus in der Krise: COVID-19 als Auslöser für neue Geschäftsmodelle un…
Dieses Open-Access Buch befasst sich mit der krisenbedingten Transformation touristischer KMU infolge von COVID-19. Fokussiert auf eine Flusskreuzfahrtdestination gelingt es, aus einer multidisziplinären Perspektive von Tourismus und Entrepreneurship heraus, neue Erkenntnisse über die COVID-Krise als Auslöser für Digitalisierung und Geschäftsmodellinnovation zu gewinnen. Business Model Inn…
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'Deficient in Commercial Morality'?
This enlightening text analyses the origins of Western complaints, prevalent in the late nineteenth century, that Japan was characterised at the time by exceptionally low standards of 'commercial morality', despite a major political and economic transformation. As Britain industrialised during the nineteenth century the issue of 'commercial morality' was increasingly debated. Concerns about sta…
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- 978-1-137-58681-0
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- IX, 116
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- Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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- 174.4 HUN d
Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World
"A Bradford book."How understanding the signaling within social networks can change the way we make decisions, work with others, and manage organizations.How can you know when someone is bluffing? Paying attention? Genuinely interested? The answer, writes Alex Pentland in Honest Signals, is that subtle patterns in how we interact with other people reveal our attitudes toward them. These unconsc…
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 184 pages)
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Global E-Commerce Strategies for Small Businesses
Small companies account for a surprising one-third of U.S. exports, and their market share is growing. The Internet has played a major role in helping these companies develop an increasingly powerful international presence. Global E-Commerce Strategies for Small Businesses describes the export opportunities e-commerce holds for small-to-medium size enterprises (SMEs) all over the world. The boo…
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Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance
Here, experts examine the ways transnational corporations exercise power over governance of the global food system and the implications this has for sustainability.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255509
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- 1 online resource (xix, 308 pages) :illustrations.
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Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses …
A comprehensive analysis of racial disparities and the determinants of entrepreneurial performance--in particular, why Asian-owned businesses on average perform relatively well and why black-owned businesses typically do not.Thirteen million people in the United States--roughly one in ten workers--own a business. And yet rates of business ownership among African Americans are much lower and hav…
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