Rooms for Manoeuvre

Rooms for Manoeuvre
Author: Jerzy Kochanowski
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2021-09-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 384701336X

The volume focuses on emerging "rooms for manoeuvre" in the socialist societies of Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War. Unlike in other works, these areas of activity are not viewed as isolated spheres where citizens could act independently from political and societal constraints. They are rather conceptualized here as geographical, social or institutional spaces whose existence was either outside of political control or more or less intentionally allowed by authorities and other decision-makers. The contributions investigate how East Germans, Poles, Romanians, Slovaks and Czechs coped with the limitations of socialist reality. How did they adopt and successfully adapt given norms to their own specific interests? To what extent were the resulting "rooms for manoeuvre" not only essential aspects of the state socialist system, but even necessary to stabilize it?

In the Name of the Poor

In the Name of the Poor
Author: Neil Webster
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2002-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781856499590

Current discourse on poverty reduction emphasises the roles of the state and the market. This text stresses the importance of exploring and understanding the poor's own actions.

Understanding Street-Level Bureaucracy

Understanding Street-Level Bureaucracy
Author: Hupe, Peter
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2016-07-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1447313275

This book draws together internationally acclaimed scholars from across the world to address the roles of public officials whose jobs involve dealing directly with the public. Covering a broad range of jobs, including the delivery of benefits and services, the regulation of social and economic behavior, and the expression and maintenance of public values, the book presents in-depth discussions of different approaches, the possibilities for discretionary autonomy, and directions for further research in the field.

A Chance for the World Bank

A Chance for the World Bank
Author: J. M. M. Ritzen
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2005-03-15
Genre: Economic development
ISBN: 1843313529

This book is an authoritative and radical manifesto for urgently needed changes in development cooperation. 'A Chance for the World Bank' provides an overview of the challenges faced by the World Bank, and explores how it has organized itself to deal with its mission. It proposes that, unless radical steps are taken by the World Bank, the first decade of the century will witness a ever-widening gulf between the poor and rich countries.

Public Relations and the Power of Creativity

Public Relations and the Power of Creativity
Author: Sarah Bowman
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1787692914

This volume demonstrates a range of possibilities for creative thinking about public relations management and collaboration in different settings and with different purposes. The chapters hint at opportunities, point towards innovation, and challenge our thinking about the power of creativity.

Convergence in Shareholder Law

Convergence in Shareholder Law
Author: Mathias M. Siems
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2007-12-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139468405

On the one hand, it can be argued that the increasing economic and political interdependence of countries has led to the convergence of national legal systems. On the other hand, advocates of the counterhypothesis maintain that this development is both unrealistic and unnecessary. Mathias M. Siems examines the company law of the UK, the USA, Germany, France, Japan and China to see how this issue affects shareholder law. The author subsequently analyses economic and political factors which may or may not lead to convergence, and assesses the extent of this development. Convergence of Shareholder Law not only provides a thorough comparative legal analysis but also shows how company law interconnects with political forces and economic development and helps in evaluating whether harmonisation and shareholder protection should be enhanced.

The City in Urban Poverty

The City in Urban Poverty
Author: C. Lemanski
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2015-05-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137367431

The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban poverty.

How Change Happens in the Private Sector

How Change Happens in the Private Sector
Author: Kate Raworth
Publisher: Oxfam
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN:

Oxfam believes that private sector actors can change their strategies, policies and behaviour to have a more positive impact on poverty reduction, and to do less harm to poor people. There are clear cases where companies have changed in these ways. How and why did those changes happen?In order to answer this question, we chose two examples of major companies that changed for the better. We got as close as possible to the source of that change to understand the factors that led to it.At the end of each case study, we summarise the five main factors that we think brought about change, and consider the implications of these for civil society organisations that want to generate more pro-poor change of this kind in the private sector.

Police Leadership as Practice

Police Leadership as Practice
Author: Cathrine Filstad
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2022-02-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000538354

Police Leadership as Practice applies a leadership-as-practice approach (emphasising leader-employee relationships) to law enforcement. This book provides a progressive and collaborative leadership text for students of law enforcement, as well as insights into leadership dynamics in all organisations for students and researchers of business and management. The police leadership-as-practice perspective provides a holistic understanding of leadership in the police, identifying factors that inhibit and promote learning. It refers to four main components as dynamic and continuously evolving processes: Strategies: social mission and organisation, along with strategies as practice Community: organisational and police culture, identity and belonging, community of practice and competencies Participation: sense-making and discretion; power and politics Activities: learning as practice, change and change management as practice Practical and enriched with case studies, examples and best practice, the textbook is also rigorously research based. Authored by a professor of business and management with specialist knowledge in police leadership, it brings the cutting edge of leadership thinking to the practicalities of policing. It is essential reading for those engaged with policing, leadership roles, and management.

Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe

Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe
Author: Laurien Crump
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2019-11-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429758464

The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers – East–West, neutral and non-aligned – and argues that their position vis-à-vis the superpowers often provided them with an opportunity rather than merely representing a constraint. Analysing the margins for manoeuvre of these smaller powers, the volume covers a wide array of themes, ranging from cultural to economic issues, energy to diplomacy and Bulgaria to Belgium. Given its holistic and nuanced intervention in studies of the Cold War, this book will be instrumental for students of history, international relations and political science.