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Human Rights in Business : Removal of Barriers to Access to Justice in the Eu…
The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human, labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social and economic power that multinational companies wield in the global economy. At the same time, it appears that it is difficult to regulate the activities of multinational companies in such a way that they conform to international human, labour and environmental…
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- 9781315269467
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Managing Modern Healthcare : Knowledge, Networks and Practice
Until now, research has given us only a limited understanding of how managers actually make sense of and apply management knowledge; how networks of interaction amongst managers help or hinder processes of knowledge diffusion and the sharing of best practice; and how these processes are all influenced both by the organisations in which managers act and by the professional communities of practic…
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- 9781315658506
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Techniques of Social Influence : The psychology of gaining compliance
Every day we are asked to fulfil others’ requests, and we make regular requests of others too, seeking compliance with our desires, commands and suggestions. This accessible text provides a uniquely in-depth overview of the different social influence techniques people use in order to improve the chances of their requests being fulfilled. It both describes each of the techniques in question an…
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- 9781315746876
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Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Sp…
Environmental management; marine; freshwater sciences
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781493934560
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- 891
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- 333.71 HER h
Poor Poverty : The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies
This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. It is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty r…
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- 9781849664523
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Youth and the Politics of the Present : Coping with Complexity and Ambivalence
Youth and the Politics of the Present presents a range of topical sociological investigations into various aspects of the everyday practices of young adults in different European contexts. Indeed, this volume provides an original and provocative investigation of various current central issues surrounding the effects of globalization and the directions in which Western societies are steering the…
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- 9780429198267
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Digital Transformation and Public Services : Societal Impacts in Sweden and B…
Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process affects various welfare services provided by the public sector, and the ensuing implications thereof. Ultimately, this book seeks to understand if it is conceivable for digital advancement to result in the creation of private/non-governmental alternatives …
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- 9780429319297
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Nuclear Back-end and Transmutation Technology for Waste Disposal: Beyond the …
Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection; Nuclear Engineering; Particle and Nuclear Physics; Waste Management/Waste Technology; Industrial Pollution Prevention; Nuclear fuel cycle; Environmental radiation; Nuclear transmutation; Accelerator-driven systems (ADS); Nuclear reactor; Radioactive wastes
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- 9783319191683
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- 341
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- 333.71 NAK n
Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory
As the breadth and empirical diversity of entrepreneurship research have increased rapidly during the last decade, the quest to find a "one-size-fits-all" general theory of entrepreneurship has given way to a growing appreciation for the importance of contexts. This promises to improve both the practical relevance and the theoretical rigor of research in this field. Entrepreneurship means diffe…
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Inequality, Polarization and Conflict An Analytical Study
This monograph initially offers a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of alternative notions of income polarization and related issues. It then goes on to analyze social polarization, ordinal polarization, and the relations between inequality polarization, fractionalization and likelihood of conflicts. Axiomatic approaches to the measurement of polarization from different perspec…
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- 978-981-10-0007-2
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- XI, 137
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- 330 MIT i
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