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  • Knowledge for Sale

    The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education

    par Lawrence Busch ...
    Collections series Infrastructures
    How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less ... En savoir plus

    $27.19 CAD

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  • Governance

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Mark Bevir ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    The word 'governance' is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on 'good governance'. Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of 'global governance'. The European Union issues a White Paper on 'Governance'. The U.S. Forest Service calls for 'collaborative governance'. What accounts for the pervasive use of the term 'governance' and to what does ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Jeremy Moon ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Corporate social responsibility has been defined as 'the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society'. Is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) just window dressing or is it a contradiction in terms? In this Very Short Introduction, Jeremy Moon shows that CSR holds much more value than it first appears, and shows how it has come of age in recent years. Illustrating the sorts of CSR ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Cult of Efficiency

    par Janice Gross Stein ...
    Collections series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Public Administration

    Key Issues Challenging Practitioners

    par Michael Anthony Tarallo ...
    How public affairs are run depends upon the degree of authority and control central government decides to relinquish to regional and local governments, and the extent to which it favors citizen involvement in the governing process. Public administrators do not operate in a vacuum. The context within which decision-making takes place greatly influences public administrators approach to public ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • Readings in Planning Theory

    Modifié par Susan S. Fainstein, James DeFilippis ...
    Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive resource for the latest theoretical and practical debates within the field of planning theory.Represents the newest edition of the leading text in planning theory that brings together the essential classic and cutting-edge readingsFeatures 20 completely ... En savoir plus

    $58.99 CAD

  • Academia, Inc.

    How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

    par Jamie Brownlee ...
    Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s higher education system.Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Crisis on Campus

    A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

    par Mark C. Taylor ...
    A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future.In Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor—chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College—expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Governing through Goals

    Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation

    Modifié par Norichika Kanie, Frank Biermann ...
    Collections series Earth System Governance
    A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier Millennium Development Goals, but they also signaled a larger ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • Business and Society

    A Critical Introduction

    par Kean Birch, Mark Peacock, Richard Wellen, Caroline Hossein, Sonya Scott, Alberto Salazar ...
    Corporations dominate our societies. They employ us, sell to us and influence how we think and who we vote for, while their economic interests dictate local, national and global agendas.Written in clear and accessible terms, this much-needed textbook provides critical perspectives on all aspects of the relationship between business and society: from an historical analysis of the spread of ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Community

    A Contemporary Analysis of Policies, Programs, and Practices

    par Katharine Kelly, Tullio Caputo ...
    Community is an elusive yet frequently invoked concept. Terms like community health, community living, community schools, community policing, community development, and community renewal have become part of the contemporary lexicon.What has led organizations, and particularly Western governments, to take such an interest in community, and why this interest now? What has caused the increasing ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • The End of Corporate Social Responsibility

    Crisis and Critique

    par Peter Fleming, Marc V. Jones ...
    Providing a much-needed critique of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice and scholarship, this book seeks to redress CSR advocacy, from a political and critical perspective.A strident approach backed up by extensive use of case studies presents the argument that most CSR-related activity aims to gain legitimacy from consumers and employees, and therefore furthers the exploitative and ... En savoir plus

    $100.99 CAD