Headed by an international editorial advisory board of acclaimed scholars spanning the breadth of religious studies, theology and biblical studies, this open-ended monograph series presents cutting- edge research from both established and new authors in the field.
The authors explain the seemingly contradictory outcomes of Korean employment relations and HRM based upon a theoretical framework that incorporates the logics of environmental constraints and the strategies of the participants in the labour market.
Deliberation and Decision" explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutional economics on the one hand and deliberative democracy on the other.
Written by the former chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan, this book sheds new light on key topics in the history of U.S.-Taiwan relations. It fills an important gap in our understanding of how the U.S. government addressed Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait issue from the early 1940s to the present.
Widely interdisciplinary in appeal, this book reports on the successes of innovative training opportunities for non-college women who end up in low-paying, low-mobility, pink-collar jobs. The author examines the relative effectiveness of various programs in helping these women gain access to high-wage, high-mobility employment opportunities. The analysis includes case studies of grant-funded projects, as well as in-depth statistical analysis u...
Selected Contents: 1. Competitive Strategy2. Managing by Competitive Theme3. Strategy-Specific Decision Making4. Performance-Based Measurement Systems5. Implementing the Strategy6. Strategy-Specific Decisions and Management Control Systems7. From Value Proposition to Outcomes8. Performance Measurements and the Multiple Products Firm9. Leadership and Strategy-Specific Decision Making
This work includes sections on combating recessions and the free market, as well as updated material on the pros and cons of establishing new individual accounts under Social Security. It also includes a discussion of the tax-credit approach to encourage the purchase of health insurance.
Offers full coverage of Native American athletes and athletics from historical, cultual and indigenous perspectives, from before European intervention to the 21st century. There are entries devoted to broader cultural themes, and how these affect and are affected by the sport.
Analysis I is part one of the undergraduate series in analysis. This book is based on the courses given by the author at Heidelberg. It consists of materials for one and a half semesters, and can be used as a textbook. The contents range from elementary calculus to advanced topics in functional analysis, measure theory and differential geometry.
Examines the performed poetry of Charlotte Mew, Anna Wickham, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, and Jackie Kay as an alternative radical tradition of British poetry, developed to convey women's experience. Traces how these six women used a performative poetry to deal with difficulties regarding women's representation.
The notion of a life in which little is fixed, all is malleable and identity can be a neutral phenomenon is becoming normal according to the editors. These papers focus upon the modern problems that emerge out of the confusion of what constitutes identity and the role that religion plays in this.
Jewish Workers and the Labour Movement explores the relationship between Jewish workers and the general labour movement in the years between 1870 and 1914. Taking a comparative approach, it looks at the different approaches and fortunes of Jewish workers in three of the world's major industrial cities, Amsterdam, London and Paris.
Karl Barth is widely considered the greatest theologian of the Twentieth Century, exerting a major influence in almost every area of theological thought in both Reformation and Roman Catholic traditions. Ecclesial Mediation in Karl Barth deals with one of the most important and controversial themes in Barth's theology, the relation between divine and human action. John Yocum argues that Barth's late rejection of the concept of sacrament, expli...