Por uma Europa democrática

Por uma Europa democrática

Economista Thomas Piketty se reúne com importantes acadêmicos para propor projeto de democratização da EuropaDurante a recente crise econômica e financeira europeia, foi criado um novo centro de poder: o “governo” da zona do euro. Caracterizado pela informalidade e pela falta de transparência, esse poder se desenvolveu no ponto cego dos controles políticos, numa espécie de buraco negro democrático. Como consequência, há uma indiferença generalizada a vozes dissonantes e a alertas emitidos por processos eleitorais que, de modo persistente, destacam a ascensão de um populismo de extrema direita.Diante desse cenário, surge a necessidade urgente de aprimorar valores democráticos. Stéphanie Hennette, Thomas Piketty, Guillaume Sacriste e Antoine Vauchez propõem neste livro um tratado pela democratização da Europa, tendo como objetivo descartar a opacidade do atual governo em favor de uma instituição democraticamente eleita. Desenvolvido por uma equipe multidisciplinar de advogados, cientistas políticos e economistas, o projeto recomenda, sobretudo, a instauração de uma Assembleia Parlamentar: uma estrutura autônoma capaz de modificar o atual equilíbrio de poder e garantir, por fim, uma lógica de debate pública, plural e democrática que se sobreponha ao culto das diplomacias pouco transparentes.Imperativo e informativo, Por uma Europa democrática é um apelo aos cidadãos para que assumam o controle do debate sobre a atual situação da União Europeia, um debate que, em última instância, influencia decisivamente as economias de todo o mundo.Outros livros de Thomas Piketty:O capital no século XXI, A economia da desigualdade, É possível salvar a Europa? e Às urnas, cidadãos!

Patient Capital

Patient Capital

Sustainable businesses create economic and social value while simultaneously protecting the natural environment for future generations. This examination of environmental sustainability through the lens of the family business identifies factors that help family and non-family organizations address the dilemma of balancing short-term productivity, efficiency and profitability objectives, with innovating for long-term sustainable value creation. Exploring the case of the wine industry - an industry characterized by a variety of governance systems - Sanjay and Pramodita Sharma develop fresh insights into influences and drivers for proactive environmental strategies to address major global sustainability challenges. By doing so, the authors are able to demonstrate that family firms with a focus on trans-generational continuity of business, long temporal orientation, shared vision, faster decision-making processes, and the goal of preserving socio-emotional wealth are more likely to make patient long-term investments for innovations in products, services, processes and business models to address environmental sustainability challenges.

Theory and Practice of Corporate Social Responsibility

Theory and Practice of Corporate Social Responsibility

Modern businesses and organizations understand that corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an important factor for sustainable success. At the same time CSR has established itself as a widely accepted element of courses in managerial training and education. This book, designed to support CSR teaching, collects 14 essays that clearly illustrate and explain the benefits and challenges of socially responsible corporate policies.Aligning theory and practice, the book focuses on four central themes: management, environment and sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and accounting and financial reporting.  Business students and experienced managers alike will find this book a valuable resource that helps them to discover the strong forces that link successful management with corporate social responsibility.

Working Through Conflict

Working Through Conflict

Encompassing theory, research, and practice, this tenth edition provides an introduction to conflict communication and conflict management. This text features real-life case studies across a range of theoretical perspectives and conflict settings, including interpersonal, group, and organizational. Approachably written for students and with an eye to application, the book teaches conflict theory in the context of practical skills. This edition features new sections and references on recognizing intractable conflict and managing online conflict, a new exhibit on conflict escalation, and a new section on interpersonal goals, as well as an updated list of powerful ways to resolve and manage conflict.This textbook is ideally suited to undergraduate or graduate courses on conflict communication within communication studies, business and management, political science, and counseling programs. An Instructor’s Manual, including a sample syllabus, written and oral assignments, cases, exercises, video and online resources, sections from previous editions, and test questions is available at www.routledge.com/9781032489186.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Smart Cities

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Smart Cities

There has been increased emphasis on smart cities due to the economic, environmental and technological shifts that have impacted on society. This book focuses on how cities are becoming smarter, more innovative and entrepreneurial due to the increased pressures placed on them from societal changes in the global business environment. The book defines a smart city as an urban or rural development that integrates technology to enhance a city’s assets, which may include community services, parkland, education, transportation and energy sources. The book aims to examine the role that innovation has in creating smart cities by focusing on issues such as public transport, use of energy efficiency and sustainability practices. It helps to shed understanding on how cities have become smarter in the way they handle increased migration to urban and rural areas and decrease the strain on public finances.

Projektmanagement für Faulenzer

Projektmanagement für Faulenzer

Projektmanagement aus der Vogelperspektive Taylors Plädoyer für "ganz gemütliches" Projektmanagement möchte niemanden dazu verleiten Kaffee zu trinken und zu plaudern, während kostbare Projektzeit ungenutzt verstreicht. Das wäre dumm. Was er sagen will ist: statt hektische Betriebsamkeit an den Tag zu legen, fokussiert vorzugehen. Jeder wünscht sich, die Aufgaben auf seiner To-do-Liste schneller abhaken zu können, ohne sich dabei krumm und bucklig schuften zu müssen. Die intelligente Alternative zu unzähligen Überstunden besteht darin, die Energien in genau die Aufgaben zu investieren, auf die es wirklich ankommt. Clevere Arbeitsplanung ist das Geheimnis aller produktiven Faulenzer. Peter Taylor vermittelt den Gedanken des "produktiven Faulenzens" anhand aller wesentlichen Projektmanagementthemen. Der Leser erfährt, wie er die Faulenzer-Techniken und -Methoden ganz einfach in sein eigenes Projektgeschäft übertragen kann.

Time, Space, and the Market

Time, Space, and the Market

A study of retroscapes, commercial environments that evoke past times and places, a ubiquitous manifestation of modern marketing. It covers an array of retailing milieux, in a number of different countries, at a variety of spatial scales, and from various evaluative perspectives, both pro and con.

The Accumulation of Capital

The Accumulation of Capital

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what was undoubtedly her finest

Competing on Analytics

Competing on Analytics

En un mundo donde las bases tradicionales de la ventaja competitiva se han evaporado en gran medida, ¿cómo destacar la actuación de su empresa de la del resto? Utilice la inteligencia analítica para tomar mejores decisiones y sacar el máximo valor de sus procesos empresariales. En Competing on Analytics: Inteligencia competitiva para ganar, Thomas H. Davenport y Jeanne G. Harris sostienen que la frontera hasta donde se utilizan los datos ha cambiado de forma espectacular. Las compañías líderes están haciendo algo más que simplemente recoger y almacenar información en grandes cantidades. Están construyendo sus estrategias competitivas alrededor de nuevos conocimientos basados en datos que a su vez están generando unos resultados de negocio impresionantes. ¿Su arma secreta? La inteligencia analítica: análisis cuantitativos y cualitativos sofisticados y modelos de predicción respaldados por expertos en el manejo de los datos y una potente tecnología de la información. ¿Por qué la competitividad basada en la inteligencia analítica? En una época en que las empresas de muchos sectores de actividad ofrecen productos similares y emplean tecnologías parecidas, los procesos de gestión de negocio distintivos se cuentan entre los últimos aspectos diferenciales que aún siguen vigentes. Muchas bases previas de competitividad ?como la ventaja geográfica o una normativa protectora? han sido erosionados por la globalización. Las tecnologías propias y exclusivas se copian con rapidez, y las innovaciones importantes en productos o servicios son cada vez más difíciles de lograr.

Big Data

Big Data

Convert the promise of big data into real world results There is so much buzz around big data. We all need to know what it is and how it works - that much is obvious. But is a basic understanding of the theory enough to hold your own in strategy meetings? Probably. But what will set you apart from the rest is actually knowing how to USE big data to get solid, real-world business results - and putting that in place to improve performance. Big Data will give you a clear understanding, blueprint, and step-by-step approach to building your own big data strategy. This is a well-needed practical introduction to actually putting the topic into practice. Illustrated with numerous real-world examples from a cross section of companies and organisations, Big Data will take you through the five steps of the SMART model: Start with Strategy, Measure Metrics and Data, Apply Analytics, Report Results, Transform. Discusses how companies need to clearly define what it is they need to know Outlines how companies can collect relevant data and measure the metrics that will help them answer their most important business questions Addresses how the results of big data analytics can be visualised and communicated to ensure key decisions-makers understand them Includes many high-profile case studies from the author's work with some of the world's best known brands

Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia

Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia

This book presents a rich collection of research studies on the theory and practice of CSR in Asia. It includes valuable contributions of practice-oriented researchers from various Asian countries such as Brunei, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore, and from several non-Asian countries, such as Australia, Canada and the USA. The book presents a comprehensive overview of the practice of CSR in Asia. Normally CSR is seen in the Western angles, but here, in this book, Asian philosophies and thoughts are also examined. Touted as the first of its kind, the book also compares Western and Asian perspectives on CSR and presents them in the light of Asian philosophies and thoughts, such as Confucian, Islamic (Koranic), Indian (Vedantic) and other Asian ways of looking at CSR in their own rights and perspectives.

Difficult Conversations Don't Have to Be Difficult

Difficult Conversations Don't Have to Be Difficult

NATIONAL BESTSELLERHelp your team maximize their full potential by mastering tough conversationsIn Difficult Conversations Don’t Have to be Difficult: A Simple, Smart Way to Make Your Relationships and Team Better, bestselling author Jon Gordon and veteran human resources professional and executive coach Amy P. Kelly deliver an engaging and inspiring new take on how to make tough workplace conversations an asset in building a stronger team and organization.The book, written as a business fable, follows Ruth, the CEO of a successful multinational company who has been instructed by her board to prepare her company for sale. Along the way, she must lead an underperforming and dysfunctional team to set aside their differences and work together toward a common goal. This includes growing herself while elevating her team’s performance. As Ruth discovers the secret to unlocking extraordinary growth and productivity, you’ll learn about: The critically important conversations you need to have with your team to realize outstanding results Structuring, planning, and having the tough conversations your team members really need Ensuring your team walks away from difficult conversations more united, motivated, inspired, and positioned for optimal growth and performance Perfect for managers, executives, directors, and business leaders and their teams, Difficult Conversations Don’t Have to be Difficult is also a must-read for coaches, trainers, teachers, consultants, and other professionals doing their best to help others realize their full potential. Teams who read the book together will be equipped with a proven strategy and process to enhance communication performance and unity.

Competitiveness and Sustainability in the Digitization Era

Competitiveness and Sustainability in the Digitization Era

This book analyzes digital transformation in organizations through digital strategy, digital capability, and digital culture. Featuring contributions presented at the 16th International Conference on Competitiveness and Stability in the Knowledge Base Society (iCOnEc), the book explores the influence of digital transformation which has on companies’ sustainability and competitiveness, particularly in times of economic uncertainty.Megatrends like digitalization are reshaping society and the economy. In an ever-evolving world, businesses play a crucial role in enabling society to carry out digital transformation and engage in competitive and sustainable growth to improve performance as well as socioeconomic and environmental sustainability. The enclosed chapters examine the relationship and mechanisms connecting digital transformation to ongoing business growth.Presenting both conceptual and operational perspectives on emerging issues, this book is useful for researchers, scholars, students, and policymakers in digital transformation and organizational sustainability and competitiveness.

Soft Spaces in Europe

Soft Spaces in Europe

The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces, new geographies with blurred boundaries that eschew existing political-territorial boundaries of elected tiers of government. The emergence of new, non-statutory or informal spaces can be found at multiple levels across Europe, in a variety of circumstances, and with diverse aims and rationales. This book moves beyond theory to examine the practice of soft spaces. It employs an empirical approach to better understand the various practices and rationalities of soft spaces and how they manifest themselves in different planning contexts. By looking at the effects of new forms of spatial governance and the role of spatial planning in North-western Europe, this book analyses discursive changes in planning policies in selected metropolitan areas and cross-border regions. The result is an exploration of how these processes influence the emergence of soft spaces, governance arrangements and the role of statutory planning in different contexts.This book provides a deeper understanding of space and place, territorial governance and network governance.

How to Speak In Public, The Art of Public Speaking & The Manual of Public Speaking

How to Speak In Public, The Art of Public Speaking & The Manual of Public Speaking

Do you have an upcoming presentation at your workplace or school? Do you have stage fright and you are looking for some great tips and advices on public speaking? This edition is your answer on honing your conversational skills, confidence and ability to persuade people in everyday life. Millions of people have benefitted from these greatest motivational works on public speaking and we have combined them into one single edition for you. Now it's your turn to get inspired! Contents: Public Speaking: The Manual How To Speak In Public - Wit and Methods of Great Orators and Lecturers Self-Improvement Through Public Speaking The Art of Public Speaking - Acquiring Confidence Before An Audience & Methods in Achieving Efficiency and Speech Fluency Dale Carnegie was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Henry Dickson was founder and principal of Dickson School of Memory. He was also the instructor in public speaking at Chicago University of Notre Dame. Dr. Orison Swett Marden was an American inspirational author who wrote about achieving success in life and founded SUCCESS magazine in 1897. He is often considered as the father of the modern-day inspirational talks and writings and his words make sense even to this day.

Unsustainable Inequalities

Unsustainable Inequalities

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA hardheaded book that confronts and outlines possible solutions to a seemingly intractable problem: that helping the poor often hurts the environment, and vice versa.Can we fight poverty and inequality while protecting the environment? The challenges are obvious. To rise out of poverty is to consume more resources, almost by definition. And many measures to combat pollution lead to job losses and higher prices that mainly hurt the poor. In Unsustainable Inequalities, economist Lucas Chancel confronts these difficulties head-on, arguing that the goals of social justice and a greener world can be compatible, but that progress requires substantial changes in public policy.Chancel begins by reviewing the problems. Human actions have put the natural world under unprecedented pressure. The poor are least to blame but suffer the most—forced to live with pollutants that the polluters themselves pay to avoid. But Chancel shows that policy pioneers worldwide are charting a way forward. Building on their success, governments and other large-scale organizations must start by doing much more simply to measure and map environmental inequalities. We need to break down the walls between traditional social policy and environmental protection—making sure, for example, that the poor benefit most from carbon taxes. And we need much better coordination between the center, where policies are set, and local authorities on the front lines of deprivation and contamination.A rare work that combines the quantitative skills of an economist with the argumentative rigor of a philosopher, Unsustainable Inequalities shows that there is still hope for solving even seemingly intractable social problems.

Perspectives in Business Informatics Research

Perspectives in Business Informatics Research

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2020. The conference was initially planned to be held in Vienna, Austria, during September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was postponed to be held together with BIR 2021.The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Digital Transformation and Technology Acceptance; Multi-perspective Enterprise Models and Frameworks; Supporting Information Systems Development; Literature and Conceptual Analysis; and Value Creation and Value Management.