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Developing the Competitive Advantage of Indigenous Construction Firms

Developing the Competitive Advantage of Indigenous Construction Firms

This book takes a pragmatic approach to develop the competitive advantage of indigenous construction firms in the Global South using Ghana as a case study. It provides readers with two major practical insights. The first focuses on the theoretical underpinning of firms’ competitive advantage and develops a competitive advantage model for indigenous construction firms. This competitive advantage conceptual framework aids in explaining the main and sub-attributes underpinning the competitive advantage of indigenous construction firms as well as providing the basis for assessing a firm’s competitiveness. Secondly it highlights and addresses theoretical gaps in existing competitive advantage studies deemed essential for indigenous construction firms. Finally a detailed two-stage Delphi study in the Ghanaian construction industry is presented as a case study. The book is therefore of interest to researchers in construction management strategic management civil engineering business administration marketing entrepreneurial and economic studies. It is an essential manual for owners and managers of construction businesses. It is also useful for government departments and non-governmental agencies seeking innovative ways to develop the capacity of indigenous firms and/or contractors to make them more responsive to competitive bidding scenarios delivery of projects and satisfying the needs of the industry’s stakeholders. | Developing the Competitive Advantage of Indigenous Construction Firms

GBP 150.00
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Cultural Competence The Intrinsic Strategic Advantage

Cultural Competence The Intrinsic Strategic Advantage

Taking a strategic imperative perspective this book introduces business leaders to a key differentiator that contributes to competitive advantage and financial sustainability: cultural competence. In a fast-changing and globalized world where organizations are being forced to rethink their strategies understanding present and future environmental social and economic challenges is fundamental to creating a resilient and value-creating business. Combining experience and reflection this book addresses concepts of organizational cultural competence as an internal differentiator and source of competitive advantage. Most organizations approach differentiation as an external feature of product and/or service delivery. Whereas these are open to imitation cultural competence as the internal DNA of an organization is much more difficult if not impossible to imitate. The authors bring to bear their years of experience in corporate roles and as entrepreneurs and academics sharing views and experiences based on research but also on primary examples meta-insights and real-world case studies. Senior leaders and consultants across industries as well as students of strategy and leadership development will value this serious and comprehensive guide that explains the importance of cultural competence as a strategic advantage in a global market. | Cultural Competence The Intrinsic Strategic Advantage

GBP 32.99
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Organizational Behavior Securing Competitive Advantage

Organizational Behavior Securing Competitive Advantage

The management of organizational behavior is a critically important source of competitive advantage in today’s organizations. Managers must be able to capitalize on employees’ individual differences as jobs are designed teams are formed work is structured and change is facilitated. This textbook now in its third edition provides its readers with the knowledge required to succeed as managers under these circumstances. In this book John Wagner and John Hollenbeck make the key connection between theory and practice to help students excel as managers charged with the task of securing competitive advantage. They present students with a variety of helpful learning tools including: • Coverage of the full spectrum of organizational behavior topics • Managerial models that are based in many instances on hundreds of research studies and decades of management practice – not the latest fad • Completely new introductory mini-cases and updated examples throughout the text to help students contextualize organizational behavior theory and understand its application in today’s business world This ideal book for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of organizational behavior is written to motivate exceptional student performance and contribute to their lasting managerial success. Online resources including PowerPoint slides and test banks round out this essential resource for instructors and students of organizational behavior. | Organizational Behavior Securing Competitive Advantage

GBP 145.00
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The Medium Format Advantage

The Medium Format Advantage

Learn the advantages and capabilities of medium-format cameras and examine all aspects of medium-format operations including SLR twin lens panoramic rangefinder wide angle press and view cameras. Also explained and illustrated are lenses and their accessories motor drives films flashes filters slides and slide projectors and more. Includes black and white and color photographs and drawings to illustrate proper use of equipment and various techniques effects and possibilities that produce successful photographs with the best possible image quality. The medium format is truly the format in the middle. It combines many of the benefits of 35 mm photography with those of the large format making a medium format system an excellent choice for almost all types of photography from candid action with a hand-held camera to critical studio work from a tripod. Special chapters are devoted to these different applications and the type of equipment that most likely meets your photography needs. This book explains clearly the medium format's benefits advantages and disadvantages and provides a comparison of the medium format to other formats so you can decide whether it is right for you and your photography. | The Medium Format Advantage

GBP 175.00
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Strategic Fashion Management Concepts Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Fashion Management Concepts Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Fashion Management: Concepts Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage is a highly accessible book providing a unique look into the strategic drivers of the dynamic and ever-growing fashion industry. Derived from the knowledge gap in quality strategic fashion management literature this book blends theory with a variety of examples and uses 18 case studies to help bring to life contemporary topics faced by senior executives. The analysis is highly global in nature and aims to accelerate the strategic skills required to navigate the industry and contribute to a firm’s growth. Using copious examples from across the world this book provides in-depth discourse and progressive theoretical concepts and strategies which readers will be able to apply immediately to their studies or practices. The book is particularly suitable for final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students studying fashion management or marketing as well as those on MBA and international business courses who wish to understand more about the fashion ecosystem. It is also designed to serve as an important reference for executives who are interested in conceptualising strategic issues that are pertinent to the industry. | Strategic Fashion Management Concepts Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage

GBP 42.99
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Revival: Gaining Advantage from Open Borders (2001) An Active Space Approach to Regional Development

Revival: Gaining Advantage from Open Borders (2001) An Active Space Approach to Regional Development

This title was first published in 2001. The contributors to this book examine how changing political borders and disappearing obstacles in transport have led to diverging patterns of interaction between European regions with different outcomes. trajectories are identified and analyzed. | Revival: Gaining Advantage from Open Borders (2001) An Active Space Approach to Regional Development

GBP 4.99
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Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

This is the first book exploring the concept of home advantage (HA) the well-known beneficial effect that players and teams derive from performing at home in all sports throughout the world. Despite the fact that the existence of HA dates back to the origins of organized sport in the late 19th century its root causes and how they operate and interact with each other are still unclear and remain the topic of intense research involving many disciplines all with the potential objective of improving team and individual performance. This book covers a broad review of HA divided into three different sections: (i) Section 1 focuses on the theory of HA in sport (the concept of this phenomenon its quantification and factors supposedly associated with the HA are explored; (ii) Section 2 analyses the effects of HA in sports related to both male and female athletes in relation to tactics and strategies fans referees travel situational variables and the home disadvantage; and (iii) Section 3 studies the HA as it applies to specific sports worldwide such as outdoor sports (football rugby cricket and Australian Football) indoor sports (basketball futsal handball water polo and volleyball) US professional sports individual sports racket sports combat sports minor sports disabled sports and the Olympic Games. This book has been written in cooperation with top leading experts in this field worldwide. The book offers a better understanding of the HA effect for MSc and PhD students athletes coaches performance analysts sport psychologists sociologists sport scientists and sport journalists. | Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

GBP 36.99
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What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-year Perspective

What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-year Perspective

One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff. Published in 1984 the book proved to be a landmark because it provided the most comprehensive and statistically sophisticated empirical portrait of the economic and socio-political effects of unions and a provocative conclusion that unions are on balance beneficial for the economy and society. The present volume represents a twentieth-anniversary retrospective and evaluation of What Do Unions Do? The objectives are threefold: to evaluate and critique the theory evidence and conclusions of Freeman and Medoff; to provide a comprehensive update of the theoretical and empirical literature on unions since the publication of their book; and to offer a balanced assessment and critique of the effects of unions on the economy and society. Toward this end internationally recognized representatives of labor and management cover the gamut of subjects related to unions. Topics covered include the economic theory of unions; the history of economic thought on unions; the effect of unions on wages benefits capital investment productivity income inequality dispute resolution and job satisfaction; the performance of unions in an international perspective; the reasons for the decline of unions; and the future of unions. The volume concludes with a chapter by Richard Freeman in which he assesses the arguments and evidence presented in the other chapters and presents his evaluation of how What Do Unions Do? stands up in the light of twenty years of additional experience and research. This highly readable volume is a state-of-the-art survey by internationally recognized experts on the effects and future of labor unions. It will be the benchmark for years to come. | What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-year Perspective

GBP 130.00
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Congress and the Politics of Sports Homefield Advantage

Congress and the Politics of Sports Homefield Advantage

This volume covers an aspect of Congress mostly untouched in literature examining Congress through the lens of sports. Across a set of broad and probing chapters this book offers insights into some of the historic and contemporary challenges that sports have presented to Congress along with highlighting the ways in which Congress has impacted the sports industry. The authors utilize a wide range of case studies to provide readers with a contemporary view of the interplay between Congress and sports at both amateur and professional levels. Perspectives are drawn from an interdisciplinary and cross-organizational roster of authors uniquely positioned to discuss various subjects. With real attention now being given to issues associated with sports and an increasing number of lawmakers using sports to push policy agendas and create legislative opportunities this book will be a vital resource for understanding the dynamic relationship between the two entities. Grounded in relevant literature and written in an accessible and engaging manner Congress and the Politics of Sports will be of great interest to both academic researchers and practitioners involved with US politics Congress and congressional studies public policy sports studies and sport history. | Congress and the Politics of Sports Homefield Advantage

GBP 130.00
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Strategic Human Resource Management Formulating and Implementing HR Strategies for a Competitive Advantage

Strategic Human Resource Management Formulating and Implementing HR Strategies for a Competitive Advantage

The concept of strategic human resource management has developed widely in the last couple of years especially because of the impact of human resources on the competitiveness of organizations. The development of human resource strategies involves taking into account their multiple mutual dependencies and the fact that they must be vertically integrated with the business strategy. These strategies define the intentions and plans related to the overall organizational considerations such as organizational competitiveness effectiveness or image and to more specific aspects of human resources management such as resourcing motivating valuating learning and development reward and employee relations. Strategic management of human resources provides a large perspective on the way critical issues or success factors related to people can be addressed and how different concepts of strategic decisions are made with long-term impacts on the behavior and success of the organization. The fundamental objective of human resource strategic management is to generate strategic capabilities by ensuring that the organization has the high-qualified committed and well-motivated employees it needs to achieve and sustain the competitive advantage. The emergence of strategic human resource management (SHRM) is influenced by global competition and the corresponding search for sources of a sustainable competitive advantage. SHRM has achieved its prominence because it provides a means by which business firms can enhance the competitiveness and promote managerial efficiency. It facilitates the development of human capital that meets the requirements of a competitive business strategy so that organizational goals and the mission of the organization will be achieved. The HRM system is defined as a set of distinct but interrelated activities functions and processes that are directed at attracting developing and maintaining (or disposing of) a firm’s human resources. Many agree that HRM is the most effective tool which contributes to the creation of human capital and in turn contributes to organizational performance and the competitive advantage. This book puts emphasis on understanding the role of HRM between organizations and people and provides an analytical approach toward encompassing HRM employment relations and organizational behavior. As a management discipline HRM draws insights models and theories from cognate disciplines and applies them to real-world settings. Further this book discusses how current theoretical perspectives and frameworks (e. g. those related to strategic competitiveness knowledge management learning organization communities of practice etc. ) can be applied by reflective practitioners to create an eco-friendly organizational culture. | Strategic Human Resource Management Formulating and Implementing HR Strategies for a Competitive Advantage

GBP 26.99
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World Yearbook of Education 2015 Elites Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage

World Yearbook of Education 2015 Elites Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality focusing particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups located at the top of the social hierarchy and power structure reproduce establish or redefine their position. The volume is organized around three main issues: analyzing the way in which parents students and graduates in positions of social advantage use their assets and capitals in relation to educational strategies and how these are different for old and new and cultural and economic elites; studying how elite institutions have adapted their strategies to take into account changes in the social structure in policy and in their institutional environment and exploring the impact of these strategies on educational systems at the national and global levels; mapping the new global dynamics in elite education and how new forms of 'international education' and 'transnational cultural capital' as well as new global educational elite pathways shape elite students’ identities status and trajectories. Making use of a social and an institutional approach as well as a focus on practices and policies the volume draws on research conducted on secondary schools and on higher education. In addition the global contributions within the book allow for a comparison and contrast of situations in different countries. This results in a comprehensive picture of common processes and national differences concerning advantage and excellence and a thorough examination of the impact of globalization on the strategies identities and trajectories of elite groups and individuals alongside more general cultural and economic processes. | World Yearbook of Education 2015 Elites Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage

GBP 51.99
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Strategic Luxury Management Value Creation and Creativity for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Luxury Management Value Creation and Creativity for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Luxury Management is a case-rich and practical overview of how luxury creates value and why some firms are more successful than others. The focus of luxury study has traditionally centered on the clients’ drivers of consumption their perception of the brand and the way to effectively engage with them. Luxury is rarely however discussed from a strategic perspective: how luxury managers make complex decisions relative to their competitive environment. The book provides insight into the luxury industry and how companies face market complexity across three key areas. First the company itself determining what defines a luxury firm. Second the book offers a specific framework to assess creativity across management and not simply as an individual talent. Third the book considers the competitive landscape and the principles that allow companies to compete consistently and meaningfully. Each chapter includes pedagogical features to ensure comprehension including chapter objectives and self-study questions. With examples and case studies from international firms illustrating each chapter Strategic Luxury Management is essential reading for postgraduate MBA and executive education students studying luxury management luxury brand management luxury creativity and innovation and strategic management as well as reflective practitioners within the luxury industry. Online resources include chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides. | Strategic Luxury Management Value Creation and Creativity for Competitive Advantage

GBP 36.99
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Making a Difference in Marketing The Foundation of Competitive Advantage

Making a Difference in Marketing The Foundation of Competitive Advantage

Establishing a difference is the lynchpin of marketing. It can be achieved in many ways. The results can be magical and powerful: such as increasing with little expense the price of a little regarded fish from £0. 15 a kilo to £1. 00. As with many other disciplines which have great value this potency has often resulted in the discussion of marketing being prey to increasing complexity. This frequently intimidates those marketing could help. Often it is due to the touting of supposedly new paradigms given plausibility by conveniently invented metrics and an emphasis on the rational and conscious over the emotional and unconscious despite the latter aspects appearing to be the basis for much choice. This imbalance has been highlighted by recent insights from psychology neurology and behavioural economics. Rather than simply embracing these advances the focus of marketing has been on additional layers of intricacy and a weighting of emphasis towards means of communication further distancing marketing from its base. This book aims to cut through to the pivotal role of differentiation illustrated by case histories and the advances in the related fields referred to particularly the work of psychologists such as Daniel Kahneman. Unlike much writing on marketing it has tried to follow Einstein’s advice to be as simple as possible but no simpler. | Making a Difference in Marketing The Foundation of Competitive Advantage

GBP 56.99
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17 Things Resilient Teachers Do (And 4 Things They Hardly Ever Do)

17 Things Resilient Teachers Do (And 4 Things They Hardly Ever Do)

This book will help you learn practical ways to manage the stress of teaching and avoid burnout. Bestselling author and educational consultant Bryan Harris presents strategies for building resilience including reframing understanding the power of no focusing on what you can control building positive relationships advocating for yourself and more. Each chapter clearly presents concise and practical applications that you can implement right away. With this guidebook you’ll feel ready to bounce back from challenges and stay focused on the joys of the profession. | 17 Things Resilient Teachers Do (And 4 Things They Hardly Ever Do)

GBP 19.99
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Women Do Genre in Film and Television

Women Do Genre in Film and Television

Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily to ‘undo’ or ‘subvert’ popular formats but also to draw on their generative force. Recent examples of filmmakers and creative practitioners within and outside Hollywood as well as women working in non-directing authorial roles remind us that women are in various ways authoring commercially and culturally impactful texts across a range of genres. Put simply this volume asks: what do women who are creatively engaged with audio-visual industries do with genre and what does genre do with them? The contributors to the collection respond to this question from diverse perspectives and with different answers spanning issues of direction screenwriting performance and audience address/reception. | Women Do Genre in Film and Television

GBP 39.99
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International Strategy of Emerging Market Firms Absorbing Global Knowledge and Building Competitive Advantage

International Strategy of Emerging Market Firms Absorbing Global Knowledge and Building Competitive Advantage

Emerging economies are expected to be in the driver's seat of the global economy in the medium and long term. Large multinational corporations will account for much of this activity. In this textbook Andrei Panibratov explains how emerging market firms accumulate and exploit market knowledge to develop competitive advantages whilst operating globally. Chapters dedicated to the key emerging economies - Brazil Russia India and China (BRIC) - are enhanced by detailed case studies of large firms’ activities. The book is divided into four parts focusing on the following: An outline of the relevant terminology and the context of the international strategy of emerging market firms providing an introductory foundation for the whole book. A guide to the evolution of perspectives regarding international strategy designed to illustrate the changes and trends in the recent academic research on internationalization. A country-by-country illustration of the internationalization of BRIC economies and firms providing an overall picture of each country’s global integration outward investments and strategies. The concepts and practices behind the strategies employed by different firms. Written by an established international business scholar this book is essential reading for students of international strategy who wish to understand the importance of the emerging economies. | International Strategy of Emerging Market Firms Absorbing Global Knowledge and Building Competitive Advantage

GBP 160.00
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Pedagogical Tact Knowing What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Pedagogical Tact Knowing What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Pedagogical Tact describes how teacher-student relations possess an improvisational and ethical character. The daily realities of educators parents and childcare specialists are pedagogically conditioned by sensitive insights active thoughtfulness and the creative ability to act caringly and appropriately in the immediacy of the moment. Internationally known educator Max van Manen shows through recognizable examples and evocative stories how good teaching is driven by the phenomenology of pedagogy. His book-refocuses educators and others away from an emphasis on instrumental skills and technocratic programs toward the need for pedagogical tact;-describes how pedagogical actions have latent effects that will influence children throughout their lives;-shows how our actions with young people have pedagogically ethical and moral significance;-gives educators back their original vocational motivation and inspiration. | Pedagogical Tact Knowing What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

GBP 31.99
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Infonomics How to Monetize Manage and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

Infonomics How to Monetize Manage and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

Many senior executives talk about information as one of their most important assets but few behave as if it is. They report to the board on the health of their workforce their financials their customers and their partnerships but rarely the health of their information assets. Corporations typically exhibit greater discipline in tracking and accounting for their office furniture than their data. Infonomics is the theory study and discipline of asserting economic significance to information. It strives to apply both economic and asset management principles and practices to the valuation handling and deployment of information assets. This book specifically shows: CEOs and business leaders how to more fully wield information as a corporate asset CIOs how to improve the flow and accessibility of information CFOs how to help their organizations measure the actual and latent value in their information assets. More directly this book is for the burgeoning force of chief data officers (CDOs) and other information and analytics leaders in their valiant struggle to help their organizations become more infosavvy. Author Douglas Laney has spent years researching and developing Infonomics and advising organizations on the infinite opportunities to monetize manage and measure information. This book delivers a set of new ideas frameworks evidence and even approaches adapted from other disciplines on how to administer wield and understand the value of information. Infonomics can help organizations not only to better develop sell and market their offerings but to transform their organizations altogether. Doug Laney masterfully weaves together a collection of great examples with a solid framework to guide readers on how to gain competitive advantage through what he labels the unruly asset – data. The framework is comprehensive the advice practical and the success stories global and across industries and applications. Liz Rowe Chief Data Officer State of New Jersey A must read for anybody who wants to survive in a data centric world. Shaun Adams Head of Data Science Betterbathrooms. com Phenomenal! An absolute must read for data practitioners business leaders and technology strategists. Doug's lucid style has a set a new standard in providing intelligible material in the field of information economics. His passion and knowledge on the subject exudes thru his literature and inspires individuals like me. Ruchi Rajasekhar Principal Data Architect MISO Energy I highly recommend Infonomics to all aspiring analytics leaders. Doug Laney’s work gives readers a deeper understanding of how and why information should be monetized and managed as an enterprise asset. Laney’s assertion that accounting should recognize information as a capital asset is quite convincing and one I agree with. Infonomics enjoyably echoes that sentiment! Matt Green independent business analytics consultant Atlanta area If you care about the digital economy and you should read this book. Tanya Shuckhart Analyst Relations Lead IRI Worldwide | Infonomics How to Monetize Manage and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

GBP 22.99
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Strategic Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industry Developing a Competitive Advantage

Strategic Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industry Developing a Competitive Advantage

This vital volume clearly explains cutting-edge theories and views on strategic management in applied management fundamentals in the hospitality and tourism industry. The author discusses the latest in strategic thinking and provides information on implementing models within specific contexts such as culture and profit and nonprofit organizations. He also looks at the political economic social and technological changes that significantly affect tourism and hospitality. The volume is distinguished by its thoughtful analysis and review of related hospitality case studies and the management approaches employed and sheds light on ever-the emerging management and operation issues in the tourism and hospitality sector. The book employs an abundance of case studies that illustrate the concepts and models discussed with examples from such heavyweights in the industry as Disney and Euro Disney Aer Lingus British Airways Four Seasons Holiday Inn Marriot Sofitel Starwood Hotels and more. Key features of the book include: Cutting-edge approach: Applies advanced and recent strategic management views to the tourism and hospitality field. Critical treatment: Provides critical discussions about whether and how strategic models/theories can be applied in the hospitality and tourism field. Sensitive to specific contexts: As the tourism and hospitality industry has become one of the largest industries worldwide discusses how strategic management concepts can be applied in different cultures and profit and nonprofit tourism organizations. Extensive case studies: Provides supporting case studies related to the strategy content context and process from international industries such as Aer Lingus Accor Marriott and Ryanair. Organization of the book: Each of the chapters within the case study sections employs a thorough pedagogic structure consisting of a concise introduction examples and case analysis discussion points exercises and further reading. This book is designed to provoke thought and debate about strategic management and myriad other issues. It will be valuable for students academics universities offering hospitality and tourism and hospitality and tourism professionals. | Strategic Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industry Developing a Competitive Advantage

GBP 124.00
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Business Modeling for Life Science and Biotech Companies Creating Value and Competitive Advantage with the Milestone Bridge

Business Modeling for Life Science and Biotech Companies Creating Value and Competitive Advantage with the Milestone Bridge

Most books on the biotechnology industry focus on scientific and technological challenges ignoring the entrepreneurial and managerial complexities faced bio-entrepreneurs. The Business Models for Life Science Firms aims to fill this gap by offering managers in this rapid growth industry the tools needed to design and implement an effective business model customized for the unique needs of research intensive organizations. Onetti and Zucchella begin by unpacking the often-used ‘business model’ term examining key elements of business model conceptualization and offering a three tier approach with a clear separation between the business model and strategy: focus exploring the different activities carried out by the organization; locus evaluating where organizational activities are centered; and modus testing the execution of the organization’s activities. The business model thus defines the unique way in which a company delivers on its promise to its customers. The theory and applications adopt a global approach offering business cases from a variety of biotech companies around the world. | Business Modeling for Life Science and Biotech Companies Creating Value and Competitive Advantage with the Milestone Bridge

GBP 42.99
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Place Policy and Politics Do Localities Matter?

Place Policy and Politics Do Localities Matter?

The past ten years have seen local government in the UK facing two major challenges: to survive in the face of Thatcher government hostility and to adapt to enormously powerful forces of economic restructuring which have also been encouraged by government policies. The key aspects of these changing fortunes of British towns explored in this important new book is the ability of individual localities to exercise any control over their own growth and decline. Place Policy and Politics examines local political initiatives seeking to influence economic and social development in seven sharply contrasting localities ranging from the outer council estates of Merseyside to the boom towns of Cheltenham and Swindon. Throughout their analysis the contributors drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines address the vital questions in the debate over local policy initiatives including: To what extent are localities able to harness trends in the national and international economy to provide jobs and a better standard of living for their inhabitants? Why do local authorities vary in their capacity to initiate economic policy? To what extent do national urban and other policies inhibit or encourage their efforts? How might central government modify its policies to facilitate the prospering of localities? | Place Policy and Politics Do Localities Matter?

GBP 175.00
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What Do We Owe Other Animals? A Debate

What Do We Owe Other Animals? A Debate

Philosophers Bob Fischer and Anja Jauernig agree that human society often treats animals in indefensible ways and that all animals morally matter; they disagree on whether humans and animals morally matter equally. In What Do We Owe Other Animals?: A Debate Fischer and Jauernig square off over this central question in animal ethics. Jauernig defends the view that all living beings morally matter equally and are owed compassion on account of which we are also obligated to adopt a vegan diet. Fischer denies that we have an obligation to become vegans and argues for the position that humans morally matter more than all other living creatures. The two authors each offer a clear well-developed opening statement a direct response to the other’s statement and then a response to the other’s response. Along the way they explore central questions like: What kind of beings matter morally? What kind of obligations do we have towards other animals? How demanding can we reasonably expect these obligations to be? Do our individual consumer choices such as the choice to purchase factory-farmed animal products make a difference to the wellbeing of animals? The debate is helpfully framed by introductions and conclusions to each of the major parts and by smaller introductions to each of the sub-sections. A Foreword by Dustin Crummett sets the context for the debate within a larger discussion of sentience moral standing reason-guided compassion and the larger field of animal ethics. Key Features Showcases the presentation and defense of two points of view on the moral worth of non-human animals Provides frequent summaries of previously covered material Includes a topically-organized list of Further Readings and a Glossary of all specialized vocabulary | What Do We Owe Other Animals? A Debate

GBP 26.99
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How Do We Tell The Workers? The Socioeconomic Foundations Of Work And Vocational Education

How Do We Tell The Workers? The Socioeconomic Foundations Of Work And Vocational Education

This book analyzes the ways that workers are ?educated ? via a variety of institutions to fit into the contemporary labor-unfriendly economic system. As he examines the history and purposes of vocational education Kincheloe illustrates the manner in which this education shapes the politics of the era. How Do We Tell the Workers? is important read | How Do We Tell The Workers? The Socioeconomic Foundations Of Work And Vocational Education

GBP 130.00
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