Successfully combining cross-cultural management and business research methods, this team of international authors provide much needed coverage of the implications that should be considered when undertaking research across different cultures.

This textbook explores the reasons for intercultural differences and their effects on the behavior of individuals and organizations within the context of management.

A book that will change how you think and transform how you live Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H.

Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world. Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new...

Remorseless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Relentless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system is broken. But can it be fixed?In Doughnut Economics, Oxford academic Kate Raworth identifies the seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray - from selling us the myth of 'rational economic man' to obsessing over growth at all costs - and offers instead an alternative roadmap for bringing humanity into a sweet spot that meets th...

Pavel Krasheninnikov (born 1964) is a prominent Russian politician, state official, and professor of law.

He studied at Sverdlovsk School of Law and then did graduate work there. He subsequently taught at the Ural State Law University. In the 1990s he served as an expert on legislation for the Supreme Soviet and worked in senior posts in various state authorities, including as head of Russia's Ministry of Justice under Boris Yeltsin. He spent a decade as rector of the Russian School of Private...

Zwart-wit denken verhindert dat we elkaar begrijpen. Want in een wij/zij-discours is er geen plaats voor ‘ons’. Polarisering slaat een diepe kloof tussen mensen en groepen. Hoe kunnen we in zo’n klimaat samenleven? Hoe bouwen we aan een gemeenschappelijke toekomst? Hoe maken we van die verdeelde wereld een gedeelde wereld? Met welke woorden kunnen we ons echt verstaanbaar maken? Hoe definiëren we gezamenlijk de fundamentele waarden die onze samenleving moeten sturen? Het is moeilijk, m...

Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Ma...

Voor de meesten van ons is geestelijk en lichamelijk zo gezond mogelijk leven het hoogste doel. Wie wil er nou niet gelukkig en gezond zijn? Als we ziek zijn, hopen we vurig dat we snel weer beter worden. Of het althans nog lang vol te houden, met zoveel mogelijk kwaliteit van leven. Hoop doet leven. En hoop biedt weerstand bij tegenslag.

Hoe kunnen we de kans op een gezond en gelukkig leven vergroten? In hoop, optimisme en humor schuilt een enorm vermogen om dat doel te bereiken. Dit boe...

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