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In order to survive in increasing environmental turbulence and uncertainty in the business context, organizations have to reconsider and revise their strategies frequently. But not all of them manage to detect and interpret environmental changes and, if necessary, react adequately. Based on 50 interviews with top managers, Daniel Kauer studies the effects of managerial experiences on the strategic sensemaking of top management teams. He show...

In order to survive in a competitive environment, top and middle managers need to make sense of strategic issues. Information from the internal and external environment helps managers to relate the firm's strengths and weaknesses to specific opportunities and threats embedded in these issues. Marcus Heidmann explores the role of management accounting systems (MAS) in strategic sensemaking. Based on cognitive theories, the author defines stra...

Skippyjon has an overactive imagination. And he is pretty active himself. Here he shapes up with shapes: he runs in a circle, tap-dances on a square, orbits an oval. And then the great sword fighter shows his muscles.

Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese kitty boy who thinks he is a Chihuahua, stars in two new board books, in which he counts and gets in shape using shapes. Full color.

Designed for bothMuslims and Western nonMuslim studentsthis introductionexamines the Qur'an in Western scholarship and provides an overview ofits rich interpretive traditions.

This book details how to customize the look and feel of Flex applications. It takes you through how to customize style and layouts using CSS, how to bring design assets into Flex from applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, and Flash, how to spice up your design work with some handy ActionScript 3.0 techniques, and even a look forward to designing hybrid desktop/web applications with Flex and AIR. It culminates with several des...

Many scholars have turned to the groundbreaking critical research methodology, Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), as a way to address both the political challenges and inherent power imbalances of conducting research with young people. Revolutionizing Education makes an extraordinarily unique contribution to the literature on adolescents by offering a broad framework for understanding this research methodology. With an informative...

Constitutional scholar Kermit Roosevelt uses plain language and compelling examples to explain how the Constitution can be both a constant and an organic document, and takes a balanced look at controversial decisions through a compelling new lens of constitutional interpretation.

This is a book of psychiatry at its most practical level. It aims to answer the sorts of questions psychiatrists ask on a daily basis. What treatments are available for the condition that I think this patient has? What is the relative value of each of these treatments? Are there any other treatments that I should be considering if a first approach has failed? Is there any value in combinations of treatment? And, can I be sure that the evidence...

The first critical edition of two musical treatises by an Italian music theorist, mathematician, and physician

>Computing Reality is a rare and challenging research output in the area of cybernetic and system theory explaining the meaning behind the understanding, interpretation and application of scientific methodology for knowing scientific truth. The fundamental goal of Computing Reality is to explain how knowledge in scientific investigation can be derived, organized and deciphered in the light of unity of knowledge as the episteme. The book uses t...

This monograph is a revised version of Malte Helmert's doctoral thesis, Solving Planning Tasks in Theory and Practice, written under the supervision of Professor Bernhard Nebel at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, in 2006. The book contains an exhaustive analysis of the computational complexity of the benchmark problems that have been used in the past decade. Not only that, but it also provides an in-depth analysis of so-called rou...

This book analyzes the conduct of the Israel Defence Forces¿ (IDF) counter-insurgency operations during the two major Palestinian uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2005) in the territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

With its combination of stimulating, informational content and systematic skills work, Language Leader is the ideal course to develop students' analytical and communicative skills.

ThisvolumecontainstheproceedingsofEWSN2008, the?fthEuropeanConf- ence on Wireless Sensor Networks, held in Bologna, Italy, during January 30-31 and February 1, 2008. Its scope was the creation of a forum where researchers with di?erent ex- rience and background could discuss cross-layer approaches, novel solutions for speci?c problems and envisage the future development of wireless sensor n- works (WSNs). Out of the 110 papers that were submit...

Are you confused by food labels, diet myths, and nutritional supplements? Real People Need Real Food is an easy-to-digest guide to avoiding food fads, intensive diets, or fast-food meals and eating wholesome, great-tasting food with joy and gusto. The old saying, "You are what you eat, " rings true for Laura Einbinder and Kate Scarlata, both registered dietitians who utilize their professional experience and personal journeys to teach you how ...

La vida en los Estados Unidos de hoy en día está llena de matices que van del claro-oscuro más lógico, hasta lo absurdamente cómico y trillado. En medio de todo aquello un escritor peruano llamado Manuel Páucar González se auto-denominó exiliado en su propia ley. Escribió y publicó una serie de artículos que se convirtieron en la columna mejor conocida como Crónicas del exilio en los estados del Northwest. Para quienes deseen conocer un poco d...

Dieser Band befasst sich mit den bundesstaatlichen Merkmalen der irakischen Verfassung vom 15. Oktober 2005 aus staatsrechtlicher Perspektive. Durch einen Vergleich mit dem bundesstaatlichen Charakter des deutschen Grundgesetzes und der Verfassung der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate sowie mit dem spanischen Regionalismus werden diese Merkmale analysiert und auf ihre Lösungs- sowie Konsensfähigkeit im Hinblick auf die sehr heterogenen Verhältnis...

Das sudetendeutsche Organisationswesen in den westlichen Besatzungszonen bzw. der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zwischen 1945 und 1955 wird in diesem Buch multiperspektivisch behandelt. Es bezweckt eine Neubewertung der deutsch-tschechischen Beziehungen jenseits von überkommenen «Volksgruppen»-Vorstellungen. Zentral steht in der Arbeit die Frage der Kontinuität: Das sudetendeutsche Verbandsspektrum der Nachkriegszeit war kein Produkt von «Flucht ...

Today's students have sensibilities and needs that are very different from those of even ten years ago. Visual and auditory media have changed dramatically in recent years, most textbooks have not kept pace with these changes. Student purchasing habits have also changed dramatically. Portafolio addresses these changes by offering students a visually and aurally innovative and exciting introductory Spanish program, one that also offers new purc...