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This book elaborates a critique of contemporary accounting. The authors encourage those with a close interest in accounting to make the search for a more emancipatory and enabling accounting a core area

This book examines employment structure, working practice and recruitment strategies in Japanese retail in the 1990s through a case-study of one large chain store. Issues focused on include gender in the workplace,

Drawing on economics, organisational theory and politics, Jan-Erik Lane presents new public management from an analytical perspective.

Jurgen Habermas is one of the most important thinkers of this century. His work has been highly influential not only in philosophy, but particularly in the fields of politics, sociology and law.

Organizational theory is vitally relevant to today's student of business. Introduces the student to classic debates and new perspectives on organisations and their role in the modern business world. At a time

This book demonstrates theoretically and empirically how aid practitioners shape the organisational, social and inter-cultural dynamics of development projects and industry.

A complexity perspective on leadership, this book considers factors such as risk and conflict, spontaneity and motivation, bullying and the use/abuse of power to express a new view of business ethics.

A critical look at major perspectives on innovation, suggesting that innovation is not a designed functional activity of a firm or an intentional process through which firms anticipate changes in conditions.

This book applies contemporary macroeconomic theory and econometric modelling to address policy issues relating to the CFA Franc Zone, a group of francophone African Countries sharing a common currency, linked to the

This brand new collection of articles looks at both traditional concerns in economic development such as aid, debt and the role of the IMF, but also at gender, brain drain, military expenditure

This book brings together analyses of public and non-profit organizations based upon some of the best recent empirical studies, and uses a new theoretical framework to highlight the paradoxical nature of governance.

Gives a comprehensive insight into the changes of Chinese Management. A must for Westerners who want to understand the intricacies of the arena. Provides a much-needed, realistic and up to date portrait

This book explores the role of accountants in business and society. It aims to raise awareness of the existence and importance of fundamental issues that are often ignored or by-passed in contemporary

Project managers and professionals in construction real estate, civil engineering and transport planning need to base their decisions on realistic information. For this they require a sound understanding of risk and of

An introductory guide to the major issues of management, organization and knowledge, asking questions of our 'guru' culture and raising debates on so-called expert thinking.

The collected writings of Walter P. Scheutze here probe the most fundamental problems of corporate financial reporting, argue the case for accounting reform and propose well-informed solutions to these problems.

This book presents an HRM scenario in a number of south-east Asian and Pacific Rim countries and highlights the growth of the HR function in these countries, their dominant systems and the

This excellent book, newly available in paperback, addresses the growing dissatisfaction with the neo-liberal post Washington consensus. The concern of the contributors in writing this collection was that this consensus has established

Combines a critical analysis of the organizational and employment context of workplace learning with an understanding of theories of learning. It brings new ideas and an understanding of the social context of

What we do during the day and night is the result of much political struggle. This title allows the reader to track the differences in the cultural importance given to the night,