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  • Pretoria Leadership Conference

    A special theme issue of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship (Issue 60)

    Edited by Derick De Jongh ...
    The Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership invited papers related to responsible leadership from a trans-disciplinary perspective involving the social and natural sciences. Subsequent to a lengthy review process, fifteen authors were invited to present at the the 3rd International Conference on Responsible Leadership; from these, five papers were finally selected to appear in this ... Read more

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  • The Relational View of Economics

    A New Research Agenda for the Study of Relational Transactions

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book contributes to the development of a relational view of economics. Bringing together experts from various disciplines, it offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the study of relational transactions. In contrast to discrete market transactions as a traditional subject of economic discourse, the book analyses the role of relational transactions in the study of economic phenomena. The ... Read more

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  • Transforming the Future

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    People are using the future to search for better ways to achieve sustainability, inclusiveness, prosperity, well-being and peace. In addition, the way the future is understood and used is changing in almost all domains, from social science to daily life.This book presents the results of significant research undertaken by UNESCO with a number of partners to detect and define the theory and practice ... Read more

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  • Doing Economics

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last 50 years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic ... Read more

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  • Risk Governance

    Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World

    by Ortwin Renn ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
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  • Brokerage and Closure

    An Introduction to Social Capital

    Series series Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
    Social Capital, the advantage created by location in social structure, is a critical element in business strategy. Who has it, how it works, and how to develop it have become key questions as markets, organizations, and careers become more and more dependent on informal, discretionary relationships. The formal organization deals with accountability; Everything else flows through the informal: ... Read more

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  • The Sense of Dissonance

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  • The Relational Economy

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  • Getting a Job

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    This classic study of how 282 men in the United States found their jobs not only proves "it's not what you know but who you know," but also demonstrates how social activity influences labor markets. Examining the link between job contacts and social structure, Granovetter recognizes networking as the crucial link between economists studies of labor mobility and more focused studies of an ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    It is over 40 years since we began to reflect upon risk in a more social than technological and economic fashion, firstly making sense of the gap between expert and public assessment of risks, such as to our health and environment. With fixed certainties of the past eroded and the technological leaps of ‘big data’, ours is truly an age of risk, uncertainty and probability - from Google’s ... Read more

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