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The King reader is a collection of articles on international economics by leading economists drawn from various scholarly sources (e.g., Foreign Affairs, The Brookings Institution, Finance & Development, Federal Reserve Publications, the Journal of Economic Perspectives). Written by the top economists in the field, all the articles are written at a level appropriate for undergraduates or masters students. The Reader makes an inexpensive supplement when packaged with any McGraw-Hill/Irwin text, or at a reasonable price when sold by itself.
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From Modernization to Globalization: Perspectives on Development and Social Change (Blackwell Readers in Sociology)
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The Globalization Reader
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Why are some countries poor? What can they do to turn their situations around? What happens to countries and individuals when they move towards being "modern"? What does it mean to "develop" and be "modern" anyway? What are the social effects of the processes of worldwide economic, cultural, and political integration called globalization? From Modernization to Globalization is a reference for scholars, students and development practitioners on the issues of processes of social change and development in the 'Third World'. It provides carefully excerpted samples from both classic and up-to-date writings in the development literature, as well as, a general introduction. Part One reviews formative ideas on the transition to modern society with brief readings from classical theorists. The second part addresses the modernizationists' discussion of how development changes people. The response from dependency and world-system theorists is reviewed in Part Three. The final section includes eight of the most influential writings on the social effects of globalization. Together, this represents an unprecedented compilation important of writings on international development.
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Wonderful resource for a birdseye view of significant observations of the world changes for 2000plus. Stimulates individual thought and also excellent for a group discussion launching pad. Scholars and students will find it engaging and meaningful.
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The Economic Geography Reader: Producing and Consuming Global Capitalism
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Provides students as well as lecturers with an international Reader focusing on the evolving economic geography of the advanced capitalist economies of Europe, North America, and the Pacific Rim within the framework of economic globalisation. It gives readers an easily accessible collection of some of the most important papers published in this dynamic discipline.
The book spans the economic geographies of globalisation, new spaces of production and consumption, new landscapes of work and the restucturing of welfare, and includes a specially written introductory chapter, section overviews, and suggested further reading. An important statement on economic geography today, this book provides an indispensable resource for undergraduates in economic geography, regional economics and other related social sciences.
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This is the second of two anthologies on international political economy drawn from articles published in the journal
International Organization. The book is organized into four sections: Trade, Multinational Firms and Globalization, Money and Finance, and Emerging Issues.
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A Reader in International Corporate Finance, Volume 2
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A Reader in International Corporate Finance offers an overview of current thinking on six topics: law and finance, corporate governance, banking, capital markets, capital structure and financing constraints, and the political economy of finance. This collection of 23 of the most influential articles published in the period 2000-2006 reflects two new trends:
interest in international aspects of corporate finance, particularly specific to emerging markets, awareness of the importance of institutions in explaining global differences in corporate finance.
"In the last decade, financial economists have increasingly focused on the role of laws and institutions in explaining differences in financial development across countries. This collection will be of great use to readers interested in the emerging new paradigm in corporate governance." -- Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University
"Anybody seeking to understand corporate finance and corporate governance must read the papers in this book and the literature they have spawned. The financing of firms is based on contracts and the enforcement of those contracts. Without comparing firms under different contractual systems, therefore, it is impossible to grasp fully the key factors shaping the financing and behavior of firms." -- Ross Levine, Brown University
"This reader describes how law, property rights, and corporate governance contribute to financial development, as well as how private interest groups can block or support financial reform, and thereby shape the financial development of countries. It is a must read for any student of finance." -- Raghuram Rajan, International Monetary Fund
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This two volume set reprints 23 of the most influential articles on international corporate finance published during the period 2000-2006. Volume one covers law and finance, corporate governance, and banking. Volume 2 contains articles on capital markets, capital structure and financial constraints, and political economy.This valuable collection offers a comprehensive overview of the present thinking on topics in international corporate finance and is ideally suited as an accompaniment to existing textbooks for courses on corporate finance and emerging market finance at the graduate economics, law, and MBA level.
"In the last decade, financial economists have increasingly focused on the role of laws and institutions in explaining differences in financial development across countries. This collection includes many of the essential papers in this research agenda. It will be of great use to readers interested in the emerging new paradigm in corporate governance." -Andrei Shleifer, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
"Anybody seeking to understand corporate finance and corporate governance must read the papers in this book and the literature they have spawned. The financing of firms is based on contracts and the enforcement of those contracts. Without comparing firms under different contractual systems, therefore, it is impossible to grasp fully the key factors shaping the financing and behavior of firms." -Ross Levine, Professor of Economics, Brown University
"The development of a country's financial markets and institutions is critical to the process of economic growth. This reader contains a collection of the seminal papers describing how factors like law, property rights, and corporate governance contribute to financial development, as well as papers discussing how private interest groups can block or support financial reform, and thereby shape the financial development of countries. It is a must read for any students of finance as well as anyone interested in how finance develops." -Raghuram Rajan, Economic Counselor and Director of Research, International Monetary Fund
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The future of East Asian security has become a critically important topic in the post-Cold War world. Virtually all of the Asia-Pacific countries are enjoying rapid economic growth, but many remain wary of their neighbors. Unlike every other region of the world, East Asia's military spending continues to accelerate. East Asian Security addresses some of the most important strategic questions about the future of the region.
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Policy Issues in the European Union: A Reader in the Political Economy of European Integration (Greenwich Readers, 4)
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International Organization and Global Governance presents a variety of seminal studies that address the organization of international politics, how international affairs are governed, and how variations in international forms influence international relations. International Organization and Global Governance also features some of the most important contemporary scholarship in the field.
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Theories of New Regionalism represents the first systematic attempt to bring together leading theories of new regionalism. Major theorists from around the world develop their own distinctive theoretical perspectives, spanning new regionalism and world order approaches along with regional governance, liberal institutionalism & neoclassical development regionalism, to regional security complex theory (RSCT) and the region-building approach.
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Imagine if every employee does what it takes to help his or her organization reach its goals, a place where everyone is a leader.
If chaos and confusion come to mind, think again! Spreading leadership and decision-making responsibilities liberates, inspires, and motivates everyone to achieve more and contribute the maximum-making a positive impact on both productivity and business results.
Step in, CLIMB(TM) up.
Based on a landmark study that involved 2,000 people across 450 organizations, Everyone A Leader explores the critical moments when employees at all levels step forward into leadership roles. The findings are summarized in five key strategies the authors call the CLIMB model of leadership effectiveness:
* Create a compelling future.
* Let the customer drive the organization.
* Involve every mind.
* Manage work horizontally.
* Build personal credibility.
Each chapter in this breakthrough book brings the CLIMB strategies to life with powerful first person stories and anecdotes that effectively highlight the small, often-overlooked turning points in an organization's daily life. Turning points made possible by grassroots leaders.
The CLIMB model's step-by-step tools for grassroots leaders build competencies such as presenting thoughts and ideas, listening proactively, giving recognition, managing priorities, turning conflict into collaboration, identifying and meeting unspoken customer needs, and many, many more.
No other book offers such compelling proof that-equipped with proper tools and support-everyone has the potential to be a leader and to make a difference. To remain agile and responsive in today's dynamic global marketplace, successful organizations recognize the critical need for greater flexibility, knowledge, and adaptability across the entire organization. To do so means everyone must learn to be a leader.
"Everyone A Leader explodes the myth that only people with official titles, big salaries, and high profiles mobilize others to get extraordinary things done. It makes the compelling case-backed by research and inviting anecdotes-that leaders emerge from all levels in all types of organizations. . . . You will learn how to make more of a difference once you've read and applied Everyone A Leader. This stellar book is not only a significant contribution to the field, it's also a rallying cry for all of us to leave a more lasting legacy." -Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge and Chairman, Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems.
"This work skillfully distills hundreds of observed experiences into a five-part strategic model, highlighting those behaviors most likely to produce successful leadership results. Both emerging and experienced leaders . . . can learn from Everyone A Leader. It offers a pragmatic roadmap for success!" -Major General Garry L. Parks, U.S. Marine Corps.
"Everyone A Leader is cause for rejoicing. The authors understand the key reality shaping today's organizations: leaders can emerge from anywhere. Their book is an invaluable tool . . . full of wise observations and practical advice." -Sally Helgesen, author, The Web of Inclusion.
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"If you want co-workers who are productive, satisfied, and willing to shoulder the responsibility of making your organization stronger, this timely and inspiring nuts-and-bolts account of democratic leadership is for you." -Meena Surie Wilson, PhD, Global Initiatives Group, Center for Creative Leadership.
"Finally, a leadership book for today's flat, dynamic, team-based organizations . . . This is the model." -Todd W. Arnold, Vice President, Customer Services, Cinergy Corp.
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A Sound Exposition of the Latest Models of Leadership.......2000-08-01
This book catches the crest of the post-empowerment, post-New-Leadership wave and is highly recommneded reading for anyone who wants to know about modern management ideas and practices. It has perhaps the best available description of the role of leadership in new, team-based, flat-org-chart work environments.
Among its virtues are terseness, practical aids, and reference to empircially based research. While its use of acronym-style models may not appeal to everyone, the authors mercifully do not push this aspect excessively. Page for page, its ideas are sound, clear and made relevant and applicable.
The book thus quite lives up to its intention of providing a mental model and practical support for "grassroots leadership". Even so, one can expect further advances in such thought, as well as even more popularization capable of absorption by actually "everyone".
A good mix of research and practical improvement steps.......1999-06-12
Everyone a Leader explores the value of grassroots leadership. The authors contend that today's workplace presents the opportunity-and the need-for every employee to demonstrate leadership. Their premise: Organizations today cannot survive if leadership is limited to the CEOs, executives and managers.
This book offers compelling proof that, equipped with proper tools and support, everyone has the potential to be a leader and make a difference. Everyone a Leader is based on a recent study in which 2,000 managers and non-managers from 450 organizations were asked to recall stories and anecdotes about small, often-overlooked turning points in an organization's daily life. These "critical incidents" illustrate the limitless opportunities for any person in an organization to demonstrate good leadership-or poor leadership.
Sixty-eight percent of the incidents described the actions of a manager or supervisor; the rest described non-managers and non-supervisors. The incidents were examined and found to encompass 17 common attributes of leadership. These competencies then were related to five key strategies the authors call the CLIMB model of leader effectiveness:
Create a compelling future. Let the customer drive the organization. Involve every mind. Manage work horizontally. Build personal credibility.
More than a research report A surprisingly large number of the critical incidents described poor leadership. These seemed to indicate that many formal leaders either don't have the needed skills, or aren't aware of the opportunities to "seize the moment." On the other hand, many incidents of "good leadership behavior" came from what the authors call Grassroots Leaders-people in the frontline or in support positions who emerge during critical moments to act as leaders.
Everyone a Leader goes beyond merely reporting the research findings. The book is chock-full of practical how-to's and personal strategies for achieving each of the CLIMB components. Powerful examples from the research underscore each point.
Half the critical incidents were related to the Involve Every Mind strategy described in Chapter Four. And half of these incidents were negative-leaders who minimized individual and team effort, withheld information or missed opportunities to share it, and either sidestepped decisions that could have solved problems or arrived at decisions in a way that made things worse. Most disturbingly, the negative behaviors made a strong and even indelible impression on the respondents but were quickly forgotten by the people who performed them. These leaders were unconsciously poisoning the organization they were supposed to maintain and improve.
Vivid examples of poor leadership described behaviors ranging from thoughtless to rude and even vulgar. The authors show how easily these situations could be turned around using basic people skills: listen, share information, coach, praise, have patience and be persistent. Stressing the importance of gaining active commitment of the entire workforce, this chapter provides in-depth advice on how to win that all-important commitment from peers, subordinates and supervisors.
Even more detail is provided in a "tools" section at the end of the book. The "tools" are step-by-step learning modules that walk the reader through self-improvement activities in the areas addressed in each chapter.
The explore the "emotional labor" required every time someone must make an effort to call up a smile or positive response, or resist the temptation to step in and tell somebody what to do.
The authors provide practical insights into how this works, as well as guidelines for maximizing areas of greatest strength and preparing to assume greater leadership responsibilities.
Grassroots Leadership: tying it all together
Everyone a Leader explores what it means to be a leader in today's organizations-where more and more decisions are getting "pushed down;" where executives, managers, and supervisors are doing more "coaching" and less "directing;" and where employees at every level are taking on broader responsibilities. This book provides theoretical discussion of new directions for leadership; however its most significant contribution rests in the practical how-to tools and leadership "stories" or "critical incidents" that tie the theory to practice.
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