Digital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society, reinventing age-old practices of public communication and at times circumventing traditional media and challenging its privileged role as gatekeepers of news and entertainment.
Author of the acclaimed work Iceberg Risk: An Adventure in Portfolio Theory, Kent Osband argues that uncertainty is central rather than marginal to finance.
With the financial crisis and Great Recession, some economists have begun to question the orthodox approach to production and capital/labor relations over the last two to three decades.
Effective corporate governance, or the set of controls and incentives that drive top management, originates both outside and inside the firm and assures investors who hope to commit their capital.
At once a social history and anthropological study of the world s oldest voluntary collective farms, All or None is a story of how landless laborers joined together in Ravenna, Italy to acquire land, sometimes by occupying private land in what they called a strike in reverse, and how they developed sophisticated land use plans, based not only on the goal of profit, but on the human value of providing work where none was available.
Stories of predatory lending practices and the reckless destruction of the environment by greedy corporations dominate the news, suggesting that, in business, ethics and profit are incompatible pursuits.
Adult Education contradicts the theorists and practitioners who claim that empowering organizations can only be created when those at the top decide to share power.
Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.
With a growing prominence ofsophisticated econometric research in a much-expanded field of New Economics ofParticipation (NEP), it is of particular value to learn about real-worldexamples of participatory and labor-managed firms in the advanced market economiesthrough extensive case studies.
With the financial crisis and Great Recession, some economists have begun to question the orthodox approach to production and capital/labor relations over the last two to three decades.
In Zeiten der Globalisierung und vielschichtiger sozio-ökonomischer Veränderungen steigt der Stellenwert richtungweisender Konzepte einer nachhaltigen Standort- und Arbeitsplatzsicherung.
Esta es la mirada diferente, disruptiva, en la que se incorpora la variable del involucramiento de la familia empresaria en los problemas típicosde la gestión de su patrimonio inmobiliario en el contexto de su empresa familiar.
