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1909-2005, Drucker Peter F., ed. The definitive Drucker. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
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The rules of management: A definitive code for managerial success. London: Prentice Hall Business, 2005.
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Cave exploring: The definitive guide to caving technique, safety, gear, and trip leadership. Guilford, Conn: FalconGuide, 2006.
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Lawson, Daniel. PMBOK quick implementation guide: Introduction, tips, FAQ's, mapping, terms and definitions. Australia: Emereo, 2008.
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Fotieva, Irina, Tamara Semilet, Elena Lukashevich, and Vladimir Vitvinchuk. Russian journalism today: social mission and professional skills. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1044192.
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This monograph is the search for answers to the questions that confront contemporary Russian journalism social and cultural situation of modernity. The authors analyze the correlation of proper and existing in the implementation of the social mission of journalism, the journalism education system, the use of media technologies, the field of journalistic ethics, language and communicative practices of the public sphere, the social effects produced by the media.
As the main characteristics of the modern state of Russian journalism finds confrontation and the confrontation of philosophical positions and methodological studies; in the field of journalism education — the confrontation of the instrumental-pragmatic and humanitarian paradigms; in the creation of modern media — focus on creativity or technology; tolerance or ethics in media communication; definition of leadership in the formation of public opinion and the ignition of problem areas.
Attempts a comprehensive comprehension of the actual problems of modern Russian media: axiological foundations and the social role of journalism; the criteria of journalistic skills and professional ethics; perspectives of media education, language problems of modern communication and success factors of verbal interaction in the media.
Designed for teachers of University departments and faculties of journalism and other Humanities, students in related disciplines and all interested in data range of issues.
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The definitive executive assistant and managerial handbook: A professional guide to leadership for all PAs, senior secretaries, office managers and executive assistants. London: Kogan Page, 2013.
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Murashko, Mikhail, Igor Ivanov, and Nadezhda Knyazyuk. THE BASICS OF MEDICAL CARE QUALITY AND SAFETY PROVISION. ru: Advertising and Information Agency "Standards and quality», 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35400/978-5-600-02711-4.
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Current monograph represents and reviews key approaches to creating an effective internal quality and safety control system for an organization, based on patient-oriented approach, process approach, risk management, continuous process improvement and other methods including definition of all applied terms, a number of examples and step by step manuals on executing key measures and events to create and develop a quality control system and local documentation samples.
Target audience for this monograph: hospital leadership, including CMO, deputy CMO on quality, head of quality control committee or designated quality control specialist, other medical workers.
ABOUT «THE BASICS OF MEDICAL CARE QUALITY AND SAFETY PROVISION»
All changes and reforms in healthcare should provide for medical care quality improvement, preservation of life and health of all citizens. Once an abstract word “quality” has its’ own specific meaning today, acquired by means of legislative validation of the term “medical care quality and safety”. Providing healthcare quality and safety is one of the key priorities within the confines of Russian Federation national policy for citizens’ health protection.
Current issue represents actual knowledge and practical experience in terms of medical care quality and safety control, continuous medical organization efficiency improvement. Current issue addresses the matters of theoretical and practical aspects of introducing management and internal quality and safety control system in medical care. It also contains the methodological description of Proposals (practical recommendations) of Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Healthcare, developed based on global experience generalization, adapted to Russian specificity, aimed at quality and safety provision. Current issue represents a large number of samples, examples, templates and check-list tables. Data, accumulated in the monograph, allows the reader create a proper system of measures in a medical organization to comply with the order № 381-н of Ministry of Health of Russian Federation «On approving Requirements towards organizing and executing medical care internal quality and safety control».
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Current issue is intended for a wide range of readers, interested in management: for healthcare organization leaders, CMOs and deputy CMOs, deputy CMOs on quality, quality control committee leaders or designated quality control specialists, physicians, nurses, medical academicians and students, and all specialists, interested in medical organizations’ stable development and improvement.
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Patel, Eboo, and Cassie Meyer. Teaching Interfaith Leadership. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190677565.003.0021.
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As religious diversity increases, there is an opportunity in the religious studies or theology classroom to teach students the knowledge and skills that will allow them to constructively engage that diversity in their professions. In this chapter, we sketch a concrete, interdisciplinary approach to teaching what we call “interfaith leadership” in the college classroom. We begin by offering a working definition of interfaith leadership, and then explore strategies for teaching interfaith leadership, including resources and activities. Surveyed approaches to teaching the knowledge aspect of interfaith leadership include texts exploring the interactions of diverse religious communities, theologies or ethics of interfaith cooperation, and spiritual autobiographies. Approaches to teaching the skills aspect of interfaith engagement include case studies, interfaith events, projects to build interfaith cooperation, and partnerships with interfaith groups and organizations.
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McCammon, Holly J., Allison McGrath, David J. Hess, and Minyoung Moon. Women, Leadership, and the U.S. Environmental Movement. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190265144.003.0014.
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This chapter discusses modes of women’s leadership in the US environmental movement over the past one hundred years, expanding the definition of leadership beyond simply the formal head of large environmental organizations. During the early and mid-twentieth century, women-only organizations contributed to broadening the conservation movement, and a diverse set of women’s groups engaged in creating healthier environments in urban areas. Women’s leadership in contemporary environmentalism helped expand the movement by pushing gender, racial, ethnic, and class boundaries. Women became leaders of mainstream environmental groups, led efforts for environmental justice, developed ecofeminism, and participated in direct-action environmentalism. The chapter concludes that examining women’s environmental leadership reveals similarities and differences in women’s leadership over time, women’s ongoing struggles against traditional gender norms, the broad diversity of women leading in the movement, and women’s significant influence on the environmentalism and the environment itself.
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Scott, Dominic, and R. Edward Freeman. Models of Leadership in Plato and Beyond. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198837350.001.0001.
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This book draws on Plato’s philosophy to throw light on contemporary leadership theory and practice. It combines an account of his thought with applications to modern case studies and approaches, in both politics and business. Rather than attempting to give a single ‘one-size-fits-all’ definition of leadership, his strategy was to break it into its different strands. He presents several ‘models’ of leadership, most of them images or analogies: the leader as doctor, navigator, artist, teacher, shepherd, weaver, or sower. Each model points to features of leadership that we intuitively recognize to be important (e.g. curing a social malaise, charting a new course, or weaving together the social fabric). Some were already in wide circulation in Plato’s time, like the shepherd and the navigator. What he did was to make them much richer and more complex. The book goes through the models individually, setting out the essentials of Plato’s thought and then illustrating each model with modern case studies—eighteen in total, including presidents, CEOs, and Nobel laureates. There is also a chapter comparing Plato’s models with four recent leadership approaches. Highly innovative in its approach, this book presupposes no prior knowledge of Plato, although those familiar with his philosophy will find it a fruitful way of re-reading his work. But the focus is first and foremost on leadership, rather than celebrating Plato’s achievements: the priority is to present a multi-faceted approach, which does justice to the complex phenomenon of leadership.
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Weyland, Kurt. Populism. Edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, and Pierre Ostiguy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803560.013.2.
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This article criticizes economic, discursive, and ideological definitions of populism and advocates and further develops a political-strategic conceptualization. The resulting definition emphasizes personalistic leadership that rests on direct, unmediated, uninstitutionalized support from large masses of mostly unorganized followers. This definition captures the flexibility and opportunism of populism and accounts for the striking volatility of populists’ political fate. The article offers a clear distinction between populism and fascism and introduces a gradated conceptualization of populism to depict leaders’ varying combinations of political strategies more precisely.
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Owen, Jo. How to Lead: The Definitive Guide to Effective Leadership. Pearson Education Australia, 2018.
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Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence. SAGE Publications, Inc, 2016.
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Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence. SAGE Publications, Inc, 2019.
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Kyllonen, Patrick C. Rethinking How We Define and Measure 21st Century Skills. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199373222.003.0005.
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This chapter reviews three chapters concerned with the definition and measurement of 21st skills. Technology and other factors cause jobs to change, and so it is reasonable that the skills required in the workforce also change. Employer surveys suggest that communication, teamwork, leadership, work ethic, and problem solving are sought-after skills for new hires. The three chapters contribute to our understanding of workforce readiness by summarizing existing findings and suggesting new fertile research areas, including improving measurement of 21st century skills and focusing particular attention on the constructs leadership, teamwork, creativity, and cross-cultural competency. The chapters also point to the importance of both teaching these skills in school and the workplace and monitoring their growth and development.
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PhD, James T. Patterson. A Line in the Sand: A Definitive Study of Leadership. BookSurge Publishing, 2005.
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How to Manage: The Definitive Guide to Effective Management. Pearson Education Australia, 2018.
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Gellman, Erik S., and Jarod Roll. Religion Applied. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036309.003.0005.
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This chapter details the efforts of the People's Institute of Applied Religion (PIAR) to apply the ancient definition of religion, “to bind you to something,” in uniting southern laborers into unions through the revolutionary gospel. It shows how PIAR activists would successfully establish a leadership training program in Memphis, which long stood under the shadow of racial discrimination and white supremacy, and how the PIAR activists would later extend their social campaign to Detroit, albeit not without some difficulties, as wartime Detroit proved to be a formidable battleground for PIAR. The chapter concludes with accounts of further successes in Detroit and in other cities and challenges ahead for the applied religion activists.
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Wodziński, Marcin. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190631260.003.0008.
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This Conclusion summarizes the findings of the seven preceding chapters on definition, women, leadership, demography, geography, economy, and the First World War in the history of Hasidism. It looks at Hasidism from egalitarian, rather then elitist, perspective, showing Hasidism as a religious movement similar to religious confraternities rather than to sects, institutionally misogynic, but attractive to some women in its religious and cultural offer. It challenges the prevailing views about early expansion of Hasidism, its geographical limits, or economic inactivity, demonstrating both relatively late developments of the movement and its overrepresentation among economically over-privileged. Most importantly, it demonstrates the possibilities nestling within intuitively obvious sources, concepts, and classical research methods that are still insufficiently used in work on Hasidism.
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Rosenberg, Marc, and Kristen Rampe. Role of the Managing Partner: The Definitive Guide to CPA Firm Leadership. Independently Published, 2020.
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(Foreword), Marshall Goldsmith, and Richard J. Leider (Afterword), eds. Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007.
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Inclusive Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Developing and Executing a Powerful Diversity and Inclusion Strategy. Pearson Education, Limited, 2016.
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Shaner, Katherine A. Epilogue. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190275068.003.0006.
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Power struggles involving the ambiguous status of enslaved persons in leadership roles were endemic to first- and second-century religious practices within Ephesian groups, including early Christian groups. Indeed, these power struggles illustrate a fundamental problem in the study of slavery both ancient and contemporary: stable definitions of slavery are often declared in service to reifying kyriarchal leadership and power. Early Christian communities, like communities today, are not immune to this problem despite declarations of equality within them. Future scholarship as well as the contemporary religious communities need to reckon with the challenge to configure power differently from enslaved, kyriarchal logics.
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Edersheim, Elizabeth Haas. The Definitive Drucker: Challenges for Tomorrow's Executives - Final Advice From the Father of Modern Management. McGraw-Hill, 2006.
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Errington, Wayne, and Peter Van Onselen. John Winston Howard: The Definitive Biography. Melbourne University Publishing, 2008.
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Magalhães, Rodrigo. Designing Organization Design. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867333.001.0001.
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As a topic, organization design is poorly understood. While it is featured in most management textbooks as a chapter dedicated to organizational structures, it is unclear whether organization design is a one-off event or an ongoing process. Thus, it has traditionally been understood to be the same as an organizational configuration, with neat lines of communication and distribution of responsibilities, following pre-set typologies. However, what can be said to constitute organizational structure in this first half of the 21st century? The extraordinary growth of digital communications, the decreasing relevance of hierarchical bureaucracies, and the general demise of command-and-control have all but decimated the traditional notion of organizational structure. In this book it is argued that organization design needs a theoretical revamping. Using a mix of design and social sciences theories and concepts, the new approach is divided into three parts: design logics, design processes, and design leadership. A generic definition of organization design logics is offered, as a set of beliefs shared by managers and entrepreneurs in given sectors of the economy about the way organizations should be designed. Five logics and three types of designing processes are put forward. Logics: (1) the identity logic, (2) the normative logic, (3) the service logic, (4) the logic of effectual reasoning, (5) the logic of interactive structure. Processes: (1) intended design, (2) emergent design, (3) perceived design. For the leadership part, a model of leaderful organization design(ing) is proposed, with the following distinguishing features: (a) practice-based, (b) guided by values of democratic participation, (c) places meaning-making and meaning-taking at the centre of organizational life, (d) driven by design logics, which can be adopted and adapted to suit different internal and external environments.
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Wodzinski, Marcin. Hasidism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190631260.001.0001.
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Innovative and multidisciplinary in approaches, the book discusses the most cardinal features of any social or religious movement: definition, gender, leadership, demographic size, geography, economy, and decline of Hasidism, one of the most important religious movements of modern Eastern Europe. This is the first such attempt to respond to those central questions of Hasidism in one book. Recognizing the major limitations of the existing research on Hasidism, the book offers four important corrections. First, it offers an anti-elitist corrective attempting to investigate Hasidism beyond its leaders into the masses of the rank-and-file followers. Second, it introduces new types of sources, rarely or never used in the research of Hasidism, including archival documents, Jewish memorial books, petitionary notes, folk texts, and quantitative and visual materials. Third, it covers the whole classic period of Hasidism from its institutional maturation at the end of the eighteenth century to its major crisis and decline in wake of the First World War. Fourth, instead of focusing on intellectual history, it offers a multidisciplinary approach with the modern methodologies of the corresponding disciplines: social and cultural history, sociology and anthropology of religion, historical demography of religions, historical geography, gender studies, economic history, and more.
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Peach, Ken. Managing Science. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796077.001.0001.
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Managing science, which includes managing scientific research and, implicitly, managing scientists, has much in common with managing any enterprise, and most of these issues (e.g. annual budget planning and reporting) form the background. Equally, much scientific research is carried in universities ancient and modern, which have their own mores, ranging from professorial autocracy to democratic plurality, as well as national and international with their missions and styles. But science has issues that require a somewhat different approach if it is to prosper and succeed. Society now expects science, whether publicly or privately funded, to deliver benefits, yet the definition of science presumes no such benefit. Managing the expectations of the scientist with those of society is the challenge of the manager of science. The book addresses some issues around science and the organizations that do science. It then deals with leadership, management and communication, team building, recruitment, motivation, managing scientists, assessing performance, cooperation and competition. This is followed by a discussion of proposal writing and reviewing, committees and meetings, project management, risk and health and safety. Finally, there is a discussion on how to deal with disaster, how to cope with the stresses of management and how to deal with difficult problems.
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Kvint, Vladimir. The Concept of Strategizing. Kemerovo State University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/978-5-8353-2562-7.
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Book «The Concept of Strategizing» of Dr. Vladimir Kvint is, in essence, a reflection on the main provision of the General Theory of Strategy, which was developed by the author over his forty years in the field. The definitions, conceptual statements, and methodological and practical recommendations set forth in this book are useful for a wide range of readers, including corporate, state, municipal and military leadership, as well as management, theorists and strategists, teachers, and students.
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1948-, Pealow James B., Humphrey Sandi L. 1955-, and Canadian Society of Association Executives., eds. Canadian association management: The definitive source of information on leadership, latest developments and best practices in the not-for-profit sector. Toronto: Canadian Society of Association Executives, 2005.
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Pappas, Takis S. Populism and Liberal Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198837886.001.0001.
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Based on an original definition of modern populism as “democratic illiberalism” and many years of meticulous research, Takis Pappas marshals extraordinary empirical evidence from Argentina, Greece, Peru, Italy, Venezuela, Ecuador, Hungary, the United States, Spain, and Brazil to develop a comprehensive theory about populism. He addresses all key issues in the debate about populism and answers significant questions of great relevance for today’s liberal democracy, including: • What is modern populism and how can it be differentiated from comparable phenomena like nativism and autocracy? • Where in Latin America has populism become most successful? Where in Europe did it emerge first? Why did its rise to power in the United States come so late? • Is Trump a populist and, if so, could he be compared best with Venezuela’s Chávez, France’s Le Pens, or Turkey’s Erdoğan? • Why has populism thrived in post-authoritarian Greece but not in Spain? And why in Argentina and not in Brazil? • Can populism ever succeed without a charismatic leader? If not, what does leadership tell us about how to challenge populism? • Who are “the people” who vote for populist parties, how are these “made” into a group, and what is in their minds? • Is there a “populist blueprint” that all populists use when in power? And what are the long-term consequences of populist rule? • What does the expansion, and possibly solidification, of populism mean for the very nature and future of contemporary democracy? Populism and Liberal Democracy will change the ways the reader understands populism and imagines the prospects of liberal democracy.
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Jeanes, Emma. A Dictionary of Organizational Behaviour. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780191843273.001.0001.
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Over 300 entries This accessible dictionary provides authoritative definitions of terms in the field of organizational behaviour. Coverage spans ethics, stress and well-being, teamwork, leadership, and management knowledge. Including entries on key terms such as actor-network theory, iron cage, organizational space, and work–life balance, the dictionary encapsulates the different perspectives and concepts that make up organizational behaviour in one easy-to-use resource. With additional features including a guide to further reading and recommended websites, it will be an invaluable resource for students, lecturers, and business professionals, and serve as a useful supplement to the dictionaries of Business and Management, Human Resource Management, Marketing, and Psychology.
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Abi-Hassan, Sahar. Populism and Gender. Edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, and Pierre Ostiguy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803560.013.16.
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Despite the breadth and depth of inquiries into populism, its relationship with gender issues remains a widely understudied topic. On one hand, focus has been almost entirely on male leadership, despite the presence of a significant number of female populist leaders. On the other hand, procedural definitions of populism ignore the substantive and symbolic elements that emerge from a populist gendered discourse. Through a generalized discussion and references to specific examples in Europe and Latin America, this chapter explores three major topics at the intersection of populism and gender: populist supporters, populist gendered representation, and the subordination of personal (gender) identity in populist discourse. Consistent with previous studies, it illustrates the difficulty in finding common patterns in the populist treatment of gender issues, and where they emerge it is an instance of trends in gendered discourse, not populist discourse.
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Quirk, Paul J., ed. The United States and Canada. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190870829.001.0001.
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This edited volume compares the political systems of the United States and Canada, focusing on the effects of political institutions, and their interaction with political values and other factors, in policymaking. It explores the differences between the American presidential (or separation-of-powers) system and the Canadian parliamentary system. It also considers institutional differences such as federalism, bureaucratic leadership, and judicial definitions of citizens’ rights. It deals mainly with the period from the mid-20th century to the present but also discusses recent developments—especially the Trump presidency. The first section addresses political culture and institutions and considers political values, party and electoral systems, executive leadership and the legislative process, bureaucracy and civil service influence, and federalism. The second section addresses policymaking and outcomes, including economic policy, environmental policy, morality issues, social policy, managing diversity, and selected societal outcomes. The conclusion discusses prospects and challenges for both political systems and finds that policy differences between the two countries have diverse causes—from geography and demography, to political values, to institutional structures. The effects of institutions are often crucial, but they depend heavily on interactions with other political circumstances. Even modest, incremental change in the electoral strength or ideological tendencies of the political parties can transform institutional performance. Thus, Canada’s historic center-left moderation may be on the brink of giving way to wider ideological fluctuation and the U.S. political system was increasingly dysfunctional, even before the election of Donald Trump as president led to chaos in policymaking and the threat of severe constitutional crisis.
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Heilbrun, Kirk, H. Jean Wright, II, Christy Giallella, and David DeMatteo, eds. University and Public Behavioral Health Organization Collaboration in Justice Contexts. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190052850.001.0001.
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This book provides detailed information about successful collaborations between universities and public behavioral health organizations in criminal justice contexts. The authors begin by introducing the relevant purpose and definitions and then describe each of the nine contributed chapters to follow. Each of these chapters describes a particular collaboration between a university and a public behavioral health organization. Each chapter is structured around a description of the collaboration’s purposes, beginning, leadership, who is served, services, operations, effectiveness measurement, financial arrangements, and lessons learned. Collaborative projects were selected because they were long-standing and successful. The descriptions provided by each project are then aggregated into a larger model for success. This is detailed in the final chapter with a distillation of “lessons learned” in building, operating, and sustaining a successful collaboration. These lessons are provided in particular areas: planning, working together, training, consultation, financial considerations, personnel, and research. By considering these nine exemplary projects and the final “lessons learned,” this book has implications for comparable collaborations between universities and public behavioral health organizations in a criminal justice context.
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Kozlov, Denis. Athens and Apocalypse: Writing History in Soviet Russia. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199225996.003.0019.
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This chapter traces the early emergence of official Marxist historiography in the USSR under the leadership of M. N. Pokrovskii, and its 1930s’ Stalinization. The late 1930s had a formative impact on the Soviet historical profession. It was then that the official academic culture of research and teaching took shape, definitive scholarly works and textbooks were published, and important subterranean intellectual currents emerged. These years also ineradicably affected historians’ lives, thoughts, and memories. They marked the peak of mass arrests and executions, when history professors and students disappeared overnight without trace. Moreover, in the late 1930s, the Soviet historical profession was going through a conservative shift, under Joseph Stalin’s close supervision. Instead of theorizing, students were to study history in chronological sequence, learning names, dates, and events. The chapter then examines the further development of history-writing in the post-war era, before the Soviet experiment came to an abrupt end in the early 1990s.
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Wright, Douglas Michael, and Andrew Burrows. Entrepreneurship and Management Buy-outs. Edited by Anuradha Basu, Mark Casson, Nigel Wadeson, and Bernard Yeung. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546992.003.0018.
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This article takes a broader perspective that encompasses both traditional agency-based explanations of buy-outs as well as recognizing the buy-out phenomenon as a vehicle for entrepreneurial innovation. Although early studies suggested that buy-outs involved both agency cost reduction and entrepreneurial aspects, they did not formally conceptualize these two approaches. The agency theory approach conceptualizes buy-outs as a tool that facilitates cost efficiencies. The entrepreneurial perspective sees buy-outs as a means for implementing new innovations and strategic change that enable fuller exploitation of firm resources that may have been blocked by prior ownership arrangements, such as being part of a large diversified firm or a privately-owned firm with leadership succession problems. The article first elaborates the definitions and sources of buy-outs. Secondly, it reviews theoretical perspectives relating to buy-outs, notably the agency approach and an entrepreneurial perspective which draws on the theory of entrepreneurial cognition. The third main section reviews a model to explain different types of buy-out drawing on these two perspectives. The fourth section reviews studies of the effects of buy-outs, identifying evidence consistent with agency and entrepreneurial views of buy-outs. The final section provides discussion and conclusions.