Nous exposerons dans un premier temps sa conception de l’innovation puis le rôle essentiel joué par l’expérimentation dans ses travaux. Nous développerons ensuite ce qui, pour March, constituent les déterminants organisationnels de l’innovation et de la créativité. Nous compléterons enfin ce tour d’horizon des dynamiques du changement par l’opposition si souvent reprise entre exploitation et exploration. Dans une partie finale nous tenterons de dresser l’inventaire de ce que March nous lèg...

March sait que les modèles, les concepts, les théories sont tous faits pour être un jour remplacés. Dès lors, il ne leurs accorde pas plus d’importance qu’ils n’en ont. Pour lui, tout scientifique doit se tenir prêt à les remplacer, tout en les produisant le plus sérieusement du monde. Les théories sont fausses mais elles sont utiles car elles magnifient les individus en donnant un sens à leurs actions. Décidemment March n’est pas politiquement correcte, et l’érudit ne se laisse pas facile...

BÊTISE EN POLITIQUE : NOTRE PALMARÈS« Deux choses sont infinies, l’univers et la bêtise humaine. Et s’agissant de l’univers, je n’en suis pas certain ». Ce bon mot que l’on attribue à Einstein trouve dans le monde politique l’une de ses plus belles illustrations. L’intense actualité électorale que nous traversons l’enrichit quotidiennement. Le regretté Desproges se régalerait. Cet anticonformiste notoire, dynamiteur de tous les tabous, plantait ses banderilles les plus acérées dans...

Gregg Lambert demonstrates that since the publication of Proust and Signs in 1964 Gilles Deleuze’s search for a new means of philosophical expression became a central theme of all of his oeuvre, including those written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. Lambert, like Deleuze, calls this “the image of thought.”Lambert’s exploration begins with Deleuze’s earliest exposition of the Proustian image of thought and then follows the “tangled history” of the image that runs throug...

Trade and investment policies face a changing geopolitical environment. They also face challengesfrom the interactions and limits of Canada’s multiple trade agreements with other countries.These challenges take on varied forms in different sectors that involve the bordering of energy trade, food safety, and related environmental and public health issues. Similarly, bordering dynamics differ significantly for cross border flows of tourism, skilled labour, and irregular migra...

Case studies and perspectives from around the globe illustrate examples of effective collaborations between clinical creative arts therapists and arts in health practitioners. Reaching beyond silos, these professionals can collaborate to deliver inspirational practice in a variety of settings. Leading experts explain how they have pioneered arts-based practice, developed successful partnerships and overcome difficulties in fostering relationships to offer better support and increase access...

Alice’s adventures, funny, inventive and disturbing, have fascinated children and adults alike since their publication. This is a new unabridged recording using many voices to take the parts of The White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat and, of course, Alice herself. It makes for a roller-coaster ride of delightful fantasy.

This comprehensive international study provides a cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes, as well as lessons to avoid and how to handle them in child protection practice, using research and knowledge from 11 countries in Europe and North America.Divided into country-specific chapters, each examines the pathways that lead to mistakes happening, the scale of their impact, how responsibilities and responses are decided and how practice and policy su...

A practical guide to the basic structure of STM information, describing in simple terms, with examples, how to locate what you need. Coverage includes: * How information is communicated * Beginning a search * Using bibliographic databases * Using the web for information * Obtaining and organising information * Keeping up to date * Future developments in scientific, technological and medical information Each chapter ends with a summary of the key points.

A BBC Radio 4 play about the marriage of George, Prince of Wales, originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 11 December 2008 (and repeated on 9 December 2010). Facing financial ruin, George was obliged by his father, George III, to marry his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick. But if he had been expecting a docile partner with whom he could maintain appearances, George had seriously underestimated his wife-to-be... Starring Alex Jennings as George and Rebecca Saire as Carol...

When we hear stories of spontaneous healing, assistance from angels and loved ones whove passed, the laws of physics bending or even breaking to save someone, and people using their divine creative power to claim what they desire despite appearances, our beliefs change about what is possible for us. We Are So Loved is about such miracles and more. Many of these stories may seem too fantastic to be true, but they are. As you read them, maybe youll remember some of your own miracles that you...

Completely updated and revised, Cruise Ship Tourism, 2nd Edition covers the economic, social and environmental impacts of cruising, combining the latest knowledge and research to provide a comprehensive account of the subject. Despite the industry growing rapidly, there is a substantial gap in the related literature, and this book addresses the key issues for researchers, students and industry professionals. This second edition: - Reviews the fundamental principles of the industry, the cru...