Perspectivas metateóricas da cultura e da comunicação, terceiro volume da coleção Faces da cultura e da comunicação organizacional, reúne uma diversidade de especialistas notáveis com o intuito de examinar as maneiras multifacetadas de interação entre organizações, comunicação e cultura. Sob perspectivas distintas, os autores analisam a constituição da cultura organizacional e sua condição em um mundo no qual as organizações estão em constante evolução e, nesse exercício, oferecem novas di...

This Element maintains that increasing strategic effectiveness involves paying greater attention to the idiosyncratic capabilities and know-how already accumulated in an organization's shared practices and the modus operandi contained therein. An organization's modus operandi describes the practiced patterned regularities that enables it to achieve a consistency of response in strategic circumstances even in the absence of any clear, formalized strategic plan. This patterned regularity kno...

Taiwan has become a new flashpoint in Sino-U.S. relations in recent years. The nation just concluded its presidential and legislative elections in January 2024. The incumbent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won a pyrrhic victory—with DPP keeping the presidential seat but losing the majority in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (Congress). The political status of Taiwan is one of the few, if not the only, issues that have won bipartisan support. New Developments in the Trilateral Relationshi...

Strategy exhibits a pervasive commitment to the belief that the best approach to adopt in dealing with affairs of the world is to confront, overcome and subjugate things to conform to our will, control and eventual mastery. Performance is about sustaining distinctiveness. This direct and deliberate approach draws inspiration from ancient Greek roots and has become orthodoxy. Yet there are downsides. This book shows why. Using examples from the world of business, economics, military strateg...

A Queer Game of Disco & Cosmic Horror!Head west on Rose Island and you get to the pricey summertime communities like Saltwinne, Destiny Bay, or Dunewood. Head east and you'll find exclusive resort towns like Pinewood Harbor, Charmington, and Sunken Oak. But those city kids and artists looking to get away for a long weekend, they're heading right out to the middle of the island for that old gaycation getaway: Roseville Beach.You play the amateur sleuths prot...

Em comemoração aos 60 anos deste querido devocional, Ministérios Pão Diário no Brasil tem a satisfação de lançar esta edição na qual, pela primeira vez, um excelente grupo de líderes cristãos nacionais, um autor espanhol e um de origem africana vêm somar forças ao nosso time de renomados autores internacionais. Nosso desejo é que essas meditações, que têm abençoado os nossos leitores por seis décadas, inspirem e orientem a sua caminhada diária com Deus. Desde 1956, o nome Pão Diário reflet...

The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet while heritage and place are at risk from disasters, in time,sites of suffering are sometimes re...

This book breaks new ground, departing from an emphasis on 'organisations' as social objects and moving towards a position of analysis which situates itself in the wider context of the late modernity. The contributors of this book acknowledge the impact of Robert Cooper on their own work and develop further his insistence that organisational analysis must be understood in terms of the rationalization of society as a whole.

Organized Worlds locates the study of organization within the wider area of social theory. It explores in detail the intricate relationships that exist between technology, representation and organization. The collection includes a chapter from the leading expert in the field, Robert Cooper, as well as an interview with him. Other contributors build upon and extend the findings of Cooper.This is a companion volume to In the Realm of Organization.