Public Relations is increasingly recognized as a well-established communication and management science. Indeed, the discipline has now generated an abundance of serious scholarly research which is very wide-ranging and which continues to flourish as never before. But much of the relevant literature…
Hardback – 2013-06-28
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Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies
Can we better predict or mitigate the consequences of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and hurricanes? Can we reduce the number of oil spills? And what should be done to clean up the mess when something does goes wrong? Why are people concerned about nuclear plants, but so reckless when they…
Hardback – 2013-06-25
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Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences
Business and government are two of the most important actors in shaping our lives. This new four volume collection from Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Perspectives on Business and Management, will explore four key areas of the relationship: First, what is the balance of power between…
Hardback – 2013-06-17
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Critical Perspectives on Business and Management
The expansion of outsourcing and offshoring activities, and the emergence of new sourcing models, have profoundly challenged existing management concepts and practices. Consequently, it has become increasingly important to understand the phenomenon and its implications for business and management.…
Hardback – 2013-05-28
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Critical Perspectives on Business and Management
In the memorable words of Ragnar Frisch, econometrics is ‘a unification of the theoretical–quantitative and the empirical–quantitative approach to economic problems’. Beginning to take shape in the 1930s and 1940s, econometrics is now recognized as a vital subdiscipline supported by a vast—and…
Hardback – 2013-01-10
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Critical Concepts in Economics
The volumes in this collection are organized thematically and examine the history of key financial institutions before and after the establishment of the Federal Reserve.…
Hardback – 2013-01-01
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The volumes in this collection are organized thematically and examine the history of key financial institutions before and after the establishment of the Federal Reserve.…
Hardback – 2013-01-01
Routledge
The volumes in this collection are organized thematically and examine the history of key financial institutions before and after the establishment of the Federal Reserve.…
Hardback – 2013-01-01
Routledge
Law and politics are deeply intertwined. Law is an essential tool of government action, an instrument with which government tries to influence society. Law is also the means by which government itself is structured, regulated, and controlled. It is no surprise, then, that law is an important prize…
Hardback – 2012-11-30
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Critical Concepts in Political Science
How China continues its integration with the global economy is one of today’s crucial questions, both for China’s own growth prospects and for the rest of the world contending with the still numerous developmental challenges of the world’s second-largest economy. In the first thirty years after it…
Hardback – 2012-11-30
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Critical Concepts in Economics
Over the past four decades, the concept of corporate environmentalism has passed through multiple iterations. Prompted by landmark environmental events such the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), the Santa Barbara oil spill, the Cuyahoga River fire, Love Canal, Bhopal, the Exxon…
Hardback – 2012-11-21
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Critical Perspectives on Business and Management
Hailed as the ‘über guru’ by The Economist¸ Tom Peters (b. 1942) is one of the most influential business thinkers of our age. He is the subject of this new collection from Routledge’s acclaimed Critical Evaluations in Business and Management series. It brings together the best critical assessments…
Hardback – 2012-11-19
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Critical Evaluations in Business and Management