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  • Community Economic Development

    Edited by Terry Besser, Rhonda Phillips ...
    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    The role of economic development in communities is multi-faceted, having an array of antecedents, impacts, and implications. This volume explores the relationships between economic development and community development, focusing on the aspects that impact communities such as social capital, participation, and business development. It discusses the need for aligning the goals of community ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • Understanding the Social Economy

    A Canadian Perspective, Second Edition

    by Jack Quarter, Laurie Mook, Ann Armstrong ...
    Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors’ ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission – social enterprises, non-profits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development organizations ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Changing Contours of Work

    Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy

    by Stephen A. Sweet, Peter F. Meiksins ...
    Series series Sociology for a New Century Series
    The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.Changing Contours of Work is an exploration of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Presented with engaging vignettes and rich data, this Fourth ... Read more

    $87.19 CAD

  • How Universities Work

    by John V. Lombardi ...
    Series series Higher Ed Leadership Essentials
    The single best description of the inside workings of contemporary universities.Witty and insightful, How Universities Work is destined to be an essential handbook for anyone wanting to understand universities in the United States. John V. Lombardi gives readers an insider’s view of the academy, describing the structure, logic, dynamics, and operational styles of both public and private ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • Women Who Opt Out

    The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance

    Edited by Bernie D. Jones ...
    In a much-publicized and much-maligned 2003 New York Times article, “The Opt-Out Revolution,” the journalist Lisa Belkin made the controversial argument that highly educated women who enter the workplace tend to leave upon marrying and having children. Women Who Opt Out is a collection of original essays by the leading scholars in the field of work and family research, which takes a multi ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Private Management and Public Policy

    The Principle of Public Responsibility

    by James Post, Lee E. Preston ...
    Series series Stanford Business Classics
    Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work at the intersection of business and society. First published in 1975, it focuses on the management processes that companies use to respond to social issues. The text develops the "principle of public responsibility" as an alternative to the notion that firms have unlimited accountability. And, it presents one of the first systems-based ... Read more

    $41.79 CAD

  • The States and Public Higher Education Policy

    Affordability, Access, and Accountability

    Edited by Donald E. Heller ...
    Affordability, access, and accountability have long been among the central challenges facing higher education—and they remain so today. Here, Donald E. Heller and other higher education scholars and practitioners explore the current debates surrounding these key issues.As students and their families struggle to meet rising tuition prices, and as state funding for higher education dwindles, ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • Higher Education Accountability

    by Robert Kelchen ...
    The first comprehensive overview charting the accountability of higher education.As the price tag of higher education continues to rise, colleges and universities across the country are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their value. Graded on numerous metrics, including cost and ability to prepare students for the job market, colleges must satisfy requirements from multiple stakeholders. ... Read more

    $47.29 CAD

  • Environmental Marketing

    Strategies, Practice, Theory, and Research

    by William Winston, Alma T Mintu-Wimsatt ...
    Environmental Marketing: Strategies, Practice, Theory, and Research is a timely resource for the 1990s. It examines a broad range of issues that affect environmental behavior while providing materials and guidance to marketing decisionmakers. It will guide your organization toward a decidedly “green” marketing movement, toward marketing concepts and tools that not only serve your organization's ... Read more

    $148.40 CAD

  • Responsible Mining

    Key Principles for Industry Integrity

    by Sara Bice ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible. However corporations have little impetus to act responsibly without being held to account by an informed and active public, and by strong institutions and governments which not only create but also enforce legislation. Yet what does such practice look like?This book shows how the concept of responsible mining ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Checklist for Change

    Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise

    by Robert Zemsky ...
    Almost every day American higher education is making news with a list of problems that includes the incoherent nature of the curriculum, the resistance of the faculty to change, and the influential role of the federal government both through major investments in student aid and intrusive policies. Checklist for Change not only diagnoses these problems, but also provides constructive ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Governance and Public Management

    Strategic Foundations for Volatile Times

    Edited by Charles Conteh, Thomas J. Greitens, David K. Jesuit, Ian Roberge ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    The key difference between success and failure for most governance systems is adaptation, specifically the ability to resolve the existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges that constrain adaptation. Local, regional and national systems differ in how they are designed to organize effective participation and create innovative ideas for missions, goals, strategies and actions. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD