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Martin Parker
This is a book about knowledge and how it is organized.
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Colin Belcher, landscape gardener extraordinaire is ecstatically happy, or rather he would be were it not for Lillian his obnoxious wife. After years of attrition he decides to take action…
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This volume addresses the debates about equal opportunities, environmental responsibility, marketing and manipulation, and corporate governance. In their essays, the contributors highlight the importance of ethics in contemporary management and…
In Alternative Business Martin Parker examines the strange absence of cultural studies from the world of management and offers a fresh and illuminating perspective on our understanding of organizations.
An examination of culture in organizations, its influence on individuals, and its use as a management tool. It discusses the deficiencies of the earlier literature of culture in organizations and…
This text argues that management is increasingly being seen as a problem, and not a solution. Martin Parker argues that managing is not the only way to organize and that…
'New' poems mostly from much-revered old poets revisited, rewritten, retouched, redirected and re-imagined.
Humour, parody, pastiche, satire, comedy and inventive wit.
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Presenting a rich overview of the increasingly important issue of ethics for management and organizations, this book addresses the current debates from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book will be of…
Martin Parker,Colin Martin,Geoffrey Parker
A reassessment of the 1588 battles between Philip II’s Armada against England. Within a month they were condemned to defeat. This material has been dramatically augmented by underwater discoveries from…
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Martin Parker (School of Management, University of Leicester)
A clarion call to shut down the business school!
First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silverman’s The Theory of Organizations, and how…
Addresses the implications of postmodernist/poststructuralist ideas for organizational analysis. It aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to postmodernist thinking in the context of organization studies, and examines a range of…
Robert Cooper, who died in 2013, was the leading theorist of organization working in England over the past few decades. Describing himself as a ‘social philosopher,’ he was one of…
Valerie Hamilton,Martin Parker
Why is a novel like a corporation? How is Daniel Defoe connected to the Bank of England?
Martin G. Parker
In France in 1917, a young British infantry soldier is sentenced to death by firing squad for desertion. Nearly fifty years later in the small English market town of Broxton…
While at a conference in Warsaw in 1991, Polish professor of History, Karol Baranowski, becomes embroiled in a series of events that force him to question everything he has ever…
William Parker
Ben is learning to keep secrets. No one must know about his mother and her addiction to sherry. No one must know about the bedwetting that so bewilders him. And…
Henry Martin
Now in paperback! This volume sums up features of Parker’s style and discusses his contribution in the context of Western music history. Paperback edition available 2001.
Henry Martin (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Rutgers University)
Charlie Parker, Composer reexamines the renowned jazz improviser as a composer in his own right, assessing 84 of his original works with a focus on their aesthetic qualities and historical…
Mark Fishbein,Julie Maurer
A wide variety of voices and poetry styles!iNK BLOTS, Vol. 1 is the first compilation of poems from the DC Poetry Collective, a group that meets weekly to workshop poems…
The book shows how anarchist ideas can turn management on its head, challenging business school assumptions about the theory and practice of organizing.
The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education retraces the many external crises that have increasingly confronted business schools in recent years. With greater emphasis being placed on ranking and research…
Mikhail Lermontov
Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this edition includes Princess Ligovskaya
Doctor Martin Parker,Valerie Fournier,Patrick Reedy
Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides an understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and politics provide different ways of thinking about how…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
A chronicle of Lister’s life and times and his contribution to arachnology is followed by a translation of the Tractatus itself. The original engraved plate of a number of species…
This international collection explores how science fiction can enrich studies of organization. The papers assembled draw upon perspectives from across the arts and social sciences.
This international collection explores how science fiction can enrich studies of organization. The papers assembled in this book draw upon perspectives from across the arts and social sciences, encompassing innovative…
This comprehensive companion with an international cast of contributors gives voice to forms of organizing which remain unrepresented or marginalised in organizational studies and conventional politics, yet which offer more…
Introduces students to the language, ideas, and concepts that are used frequently in Critical Management Studies and that they will be expected to discuss in seminar debates and to draw…
Martin Belmont
40th anniversary edition. All the lyrics, chords, bars, tablature and notation of lead guitar, including solos plus extracts from the rhythm guitar. Some songs with both guitar tabs in their…
Claudia Martin,Philip Parker
The History Detective Investigates series helps you to discover all about history. See how people lived in different times and the characteristics that shaped each period in history.
Stephen Martin,David Parker
Are resources allocated more efficiently through private ownership than through the public sector? The experiences of eleven newly privatised companies are examined to evaluate this hypothesis.
Geoffrey Parker,Colin Martin
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised
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Volume 32 of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual features six theoretical and empirical studies of important issues in contemporary macroeconomics, and a keynote address by former IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard…
This volume contains six studies on current topics in macroeconomics. The first shows that while assuming rational expectations is unrealistic, a finite-horizon forward planning model can yield results similar to…
George Parker
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
