Here is the first comprehensive survey of the growing practice of 'embedded librarianship' a strategic model for placing information professionals into partnerships with the individuals and working groups that depend upon their knowledge and expertise. David Shumaker looks at im…
Analyzing emerging practices of collaboration in planning and public policy to overcome the challenges complexity, fragmentation and uncertainty, the authors present a new theory of collaborative rationality, to help make sense of the new practices. They enquire in detail into h…
"Planning, public policy, and administration are increasingly challenged by complexity, fragmentation, uncertainty, and global processes. Traditional approaches do not provide solutions to wicked problems. These challenges are stimulating alternative theory and practices around …
Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group b…
This book will build an understanding of the revolution that is going on in the business landscape; it will discuss the changes that are required in leadership, organisational culture and structure and provide the key principles for commercial collaboration - the evolution that …
Frameshifting : lateral thinking for collaborative public management / Lisa Blomgren Bingham, Rosemary O'Leary, and Chris Carlson -- The paradoxical nature of collaboration / David R. Connelly, Jing Zhang, and Sue Faerman -- Intersectoral collaboration and the motivation to coll…
Frameshifting : lateral thinking for collaborative public management / Lisa Blomgren Bingham, Rosemary O'Leary, and Chris Carlson -- The paradoxical nature of collaboration / David R. Connelly, Jing Zhang, and Sue Faerman -- Intersectoral collaboration and the motivation to coll…
This volume offers a synthesis of what is known about very large and very small common-pool resources. Individuals using commons at the global or local level may find themselves in a similar situation. At an international level, states cannot appeal to authoritative hierarchies …
This volume offers a synthesis of what is known about very large and very small common-pool resources. Individuals using commons at the global or local level may find themselves in a similar situation. At an international level, states cannot appeal to authoritative hierarchies …
Discusses why people tend to avoid social engagement with those unlike themselves, why increased cooperation is necessary to make society prosper, and the skills necessary for strengthening cooperation.
This book explains why multistakeholder partnerships are needed to solve societal problems in the 21st century. It identifies global problems and contexts where multistakeholder partnerships are currently in use and offers numerous case examples of such partnerships to help read…
"The scientific study of networks--computer, social, and biological--has received an enormous amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the field of animal behaviour relatively late compared to many other biological disciplines. Unders…
Competition may be as American as apple pie, but social scientist Alfie Kohn argues that our struggle to defeat one another--at work, at school, at play, and at home--turns all of us into losers. Contrary to the myths with which we have been raised, Kohn shows that competition i…
A critique on the American obsession with competition and it destructive influence on individuals and society.
Competition may be as American as apple pie, but social scientist Alfie Kohn argues that our struggle to defeat one another--at work, at school, at play, and at home--turns all of us into losers. Contrary to the myths with which we have been raised, Kohn shows that competition i…
