"The internet and social media make managing a company's reputation significantly more challenging. While consumers and stakeholders wield new powers to champion and damage brands, many organizations continue to manage their online reputations in a piecemeal and reactive manner.…
In this scathing book, the author produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and waste that link invidious business tactics and barbaric social behavior. Veblen's analysis of the evolutionary process…
The very nature of elites makes them difficult for social researchers to study. This volume provides valuable insights into how researchers can successfully gain access to elite settings. Using their actual experiences, the contributors provide constructive advice as well as cau…
Few social researchers study elites because elites, by their nature, are difficult to access. The contributors to this volume provide valuable insights on how researchers can successfully penetrate elite settings. As the authors reflect on their experiences, they provide constru…
Few social researchers study elites because elites, by their nature, are difficult to access. The contributors to this volume provide valuable insights on how researchers can successfully penetrate elite settings. As the authors reflect on their experiences, they provide constru…
"The current financial crisis has deep macroeconomic roots, but the dominant view of the firm has made the crisis deeper and more devastating. Over the past few decades, maximizing shareholder value has become the main objective of the firm. Chief executives have been keen on th…
The United Nations's groundbreaking Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which went into effect in 2014, sets legally binding standards to regulate global arms exports and reflects the growing concerns toward the significant role that small and major conventional arms play in perpetuating h…
Die Sozialstruktur der Hallstattkultur wurde viel diskutiert, wobei vor allem die Frage nach Big-Man-Systemen, Häuptlingstümern oder Erbaristokratien im Mittelpunkt stand, während Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Identifikation von Statussymbolen und Prestigegütern vernachlässigt w…
