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An in-depth discussion of the teaching of English as home language
in grades 1, 2 and 3, as described by the Curriculum and Assessment
Policy Statement (CAPS) of 2011. Focuses on the practical side,
with a strong research foundation that will enhance knowledge of
literacy and how to teach it. Includes assessment of each language
skill and a wealth of examples. Aimed at educators in search of
basic and new ideas for the teaching of English as home language or
as first additional language in the foundation phase; parents doing
home schooling, and lecturers and students of the foundation phase
at tertiary level.
Die title behandel die onderrig van Afrikaans as huistaal in Graad
1, 2 en 3 soos beskryf in die Hersiene Nasionale
Kurrikulumverklaring (HNKV) binne die raamwerk van uitkomsgerigte
onderwys (UGO). Die title bevat ook inligting vir die onderrig van
Graad R. Die onderrig van luister, praat, lees en kyk, skryf, dink
en redeneer asook taalstruktuur en -gebruik word breedvoerig
bespreek en praktiese idees word gegee.
Institutional theory has become one of the dominant organizational
approaches in recent decades. Its roots can be traced to Europe and
an important intellectual objective of this book is to examine
North American theory strands and to reconnect them with European
research traditions in order to explore new perspectives. For that
purpose, this book focuses on how organizations and individuals
handle heterogeneous and challenging social conditions which are
subsequently reflected in various forms of change. In particular,
the book: sheds light on neo-institutionalism from a European
perspective examines neo-institutionalism in North American
sociological and organizational theories and (re-)connects them
with European research traditions explores novel and innovative
methodologies to analyse institutions analyzes institutional and
organizational change links micro- and macro-approaches to
institutions reconnects organizational institutionalism with
sociological theories. Finally, the book includes an afterword by
John Meyer which is intended to stimulate further discussion. New
Themes in Institutional Analysis will appeal to students and
academics in organization, management and institutionalism.
Contributors include: J.L. Alvarez, N. Arnold, C. Berg Johansen, S.
Boch Waldorff, S. Bohn, M. Bottura, R. Corrado, G. Delmestri, G.S.
Drori, B. Forgues, R.O. Friedland, M.A. Hoellerer, T. Klatetzki, K.
Kloos, V.P. Korff, G. Krucken, M. Lounsbury, C. Mazza, J.W. Meyer,
R.E. Meyer, A. Mica, A. Oberg, V. Odorici, C.R. Oelberger, M.
Pawlak, W.W. Powell, B. Soppe, J. Strandgaard Pedersen, S.
Svejenova, P. Walgenbach, E. Weik, A. Westenholz
Foreign investment has surged across emerging markets. This unique
comparative study presents the first systematic evidence on the
entry mode, business environment and their interrelationships in
emerging markets. It integrates strategic management and economic
policy analysis, and provides new insights for both business
managers and government policymakers. The book investigates foreign
direct investment (FDI) strategies in four important emerging
economies: Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam. These countries
liberalized their economies in the 1990s with the intention of
attracting greater FDI inflows. This book assesses whether they
have been successful in achieving this goal. The authors adopt a
comparative perspective, and use a large enterprise survey plus
three individual case studies in each country. They investigate the
strategies of foreign direct investors, focusing on the
relationship between the investment climate, the mode of entry
(acquisition, greenfield or joint venture), company performance,
and spillovers to the host economy. The book outlines how the
interactions between international businesses and the local policy
environment influence the entry strategies of firms. Academics and
researchers with an interest in international business, emerging
markets, economic development and strategic management will find
this book informative and insightful.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) invest in a variety of host
economies, and closely interact with local businesses and society
at large. This role has become the focus of policy debates of all
sorts, as MNEs are seen as a primary conduit of globalization, thus
spreading both its benefits and its negative side effects.This
selection offers an interdisciplinary perspective on MNEs and host
economies. Theoretical models are provided by economics research,
yet some of the more subtle and complex forms of impact are hard to
analyse using economics methodologies. A range of other disciplines
such as management, sociology and ethics thus contribute to the
discussion of these wider issues. The articles in this collection
cover theoretical and empirical studies on the horizontal and
vertical impact on local firms, to issues of labour standards and
the natural environment, and normative issues.
Guided by the overarching question ''how and why does the emerging
economy context matter for business?'', this collection brings
together key contributions of Klaus Meyer on multinational
enterprises (MNEs) competing in, and originating from, emerging
economies. From theoretical to process perspectives, the book also
explores how outward investment strategies contribute to building
internationally competitive MNEs. It looks at the process by which
foreign MNEs pursue distinct opportunities in each emerging economy
by adapting their strategies to the specific business ecosystem.
This includes, inter alia, the location of production, choice of
entry mode, forms of equity and non-equity partnerships and market
positioning. Conversely, when local firms set their ambitions
beyond national boundaries, their own resources and capabilities
are shaped by the business ecosystem of their home country. The
author's theoretically grounded empirical research in Multinational
Enterprises and Emerging Economies gives MSc students, PhD students
and junior scholars the opportunity to dig deeper into the study of
MNE growth. Keywords: Business in emerging economies book /
emerging markets book Multinational enterprises Foreign entry in
emerging economies Emerging economy multinationals Institutional
theory Context of business
Policing in South Africa has gained notoriety through its extensive history of oppressive law enforcement. In 1994, as the country’s apartheid system was replaced with a democratic order, the new government faced the significant challenge of transforming the South African police force into a democratic police agency―the South African Police Service (SAPS)―that would provide unbiased policing to all the country’s people. More than two decades since the initiation of the reforms, it appears that the SAPS has rapidly developed a reputation as a police agency beset by challenges to its integrity.
This book offers a unique perspective by providing in-depth analyses of police integrity in South Africa. It is a case study that systematically and empirically explores the contours of police integrity in a young democracy. Using the organizational theory of police integrity, the book analyzes the complex set of historical, legal, political, social, and economic circumstances shaping police integrity. A discussion of the theoretical framework is accompanied by the results of a nationwide survey of nearly 900 SAPS officers, probing their familiarity with official rules, their expectations of discipline within the SAPS, and their willingness to report misconduct. The book also examines the influence of the respondents’ race, gender, and supervisory status on police integrity.
Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, policing, sociology, political science, as well as to police administrators interested in expanding their knowledge about police integrity and enhancing it in their organizations.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This Element reviews the first 120 years of organization theory,
examining its development from the sociology of organizations and
management theory. It is initially organized around two streams of
thought. The first is found in political economy and the sociology
of organizations, with an emphasis on understanding the new
organizations that arose in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. The second derives from practitioner-scholars, whose aim
was to provide theories and approaches to managing these new
organizations. The Element then shows how each of the streams of
understanding and managing came together to produce organization
theory. In doing this, it also describes how the institutional
frameworks in academic associations, academic centres and journals
came out of these approaches and how they strengthened the
development of organization theory.
For more than a century, the corporation has shaped our thinking of
organizations. This deeply institutionalized form is still regarded
as both the iconic business organization and the core structural
unit of our economic order. Today, however, it stands at a
crossroads. Economic, social, and environmental failures of the
recent past as well as misconduct and scandals are widely
associated with deficits of the corporate form and its governance.
The Corporation engages with current issues of the corporation as
an institutionalized organizational form, approaching the concept
from the backgrounds of organization theory, law, and economics,
combining different theoretical views and empirical approaches.
This volume addresses the corporation's entanglement with
capitalism, examines a spectrum of constitutive features and
purposes of the corporate form, offers historical perspectives on
its emergence, and provides reflections on its future development.
Encouraging you to rethink the corporation, each contribution also
adds to the conceptual development of the corporate form as the
iconic business organization.
Arthur L. Guptill's classic Rendering in Pen and Ink has long been
regarded as the most comprehensive book ever published on the
subject of ink drawing. This is a book designed to delight and
instruct anyone who draws with pen and ink, from the professional
artist to the amateur and hobbyist. It is of particular interest to
architects, interior designers, landscape architects, industrial
designers, illustrators, and renderers. Contents include a review
of materials and tools of rendering; handling the pen and building
tones; value studies; kinds of outline and their uses; drawing
objects in light and shade; handling groups of objects; basic
principles of composition; using photographs, study of the work of
well-known artists; on-the-spot sketching; representing trees and
other landscape features; drawing architectural details; methods of
architectural rendering; examination of outstanding examples of
architectural rendering; solving perspective and other rendering
problems; handling interiors and their accessories; and finally,
special methods of working with pen including its use in
combination with other media. The book is profusely illustrated
with over 300 drawings that include the work of famous illustrators
and renderers of architectural subjects such as Rockwell Kent,
Charles Dana Gibson, James Montgomery Flagg, Willy Pogany, Reginald
Birch, Harry Clarke, Edward Penfield, Joseph Clement Coll, F.L.
Griggs, Samuel V. Chamberlain, Louis C. Rosenberg, John Floyd
Yewell, Chester B. Price, Robert Lockwood, Ernest C. Peixotto,
Harry C. Wilkinson, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, and Birch Burdette
Long. Best of all, Arthur Guptill enriches the text with drawings
of his own.
This in-depth analysis of direct investment in transition economies
provides not only original insights for economic policy in Central
and Eastern Europe, but challenges some of the theoretical
foundations of the multinational firm. Foreign investment is
important in promoting economic growth and development, and this
book examines the determinants of foreign direct investment under
the unique conditions of the transition from central planning to
market economies. It begins by reviewing the business environment
and the conditions facing foreign investors, and assessing the
existing statistical and qualitative evidence. Dr Meyer then
analyses the theoretical literature and extends this in an
empirical analysis investigating the investment decision of firms
entering Central and Eastern Europe. The book also critically
examines transaction cost theory and the theory of the
multinational firm under the special conditions of economic
transition. It points to a reorientation of international business
research which will need to focus on firms as organizations rather
than firms as substitutes for imperfect markets. Direct Investment
in Economies in Transition will be essential reading for students
and scholars of international business and transition economics. It
will provide valuable insights for policymakers within the region
about the forces driving foreign investment.
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Institutions and Ideology (Hardcover)
Peter Walgenbach; Edited by Renate E. Meyer, Kerstin Sahlin, Marc J. Ventresca, Peter Walgenbach; Series edited by …
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This volume contributes to the literature on the sociology of
organizations and management, especially to sociological
institutionalism, by attempting to fill an important gap in
institutional research. Our starting point is the conviction that
organizational institutionalims is the conceptual and empirical
venue to study ideology, both in its symbolic and material
dimension and this volume represents an effort to refocus and
revitalize these issues. The ten chapters of this volume engage
directly and critical with several North American and European
institutional traditions. Apart from organizational
institutionalism's own classic and current research, they draw on a
wide variety of theoretical legacies to make sense of the
relationship between institutions and ideology: Weber, Foucault,
Heidegger, Bourdieu, Archer, Wuthnow, critical discourse analysis,
or Kuhn's discussion of paradigm shifts as ideological changes.
Empirical areas covered range from technology and software
development, the brewing industry, custodial facilities to the
organization of birthing.
Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came
to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who
shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell);
others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some
forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel s godfather, and A. T. Wilson,
the territorial creator of Iraq). All helped enthrone rulers in a
region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention. The aim of
this engrossing character-driven narrative is to restore to life
the colorful figures who gave us the Middle East in which Americans
are enmeshed today."
Policing in South Africa has gained notoriety through its extensive
history of oppressive law enforcement. In 1994, as the country's
apartheid system was replaced with a democratic order, the new
government faced the significant challenge of transforming the
South African police force into a democratic police agency-the
South African Police Service (SAPS)-that would provide unbiased
policing to all the country's people. More than two decades since
the initiation of the reforms, it appears that the SAPS has rapidly
developed a reputation as a police agency beset by challenges to
its integrity. This book offers a unique perspective by providing
in-depth analyses of police integrity in South Africa. It is a case
study that systematically and empirically explores the contours of
police integrity in a young democracy. Using the organizational
theory of police integrity, the book analyzes the complex set of
historical, legal, political, social, and economic circumstances
shaping police integrity. A discussion of the theoretical framework
is accompanied by the results of a nationwide survey of nearly 900
SAPS officers, probing their familiarity with official rules, their
expectations of discipline within the SAPS, and their willingness
to report misconduct. The book also examines the influence of the
respondents' race, gender, and supervisory status on police
integrity. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will
appeal to students and scholars of criminology, policing,
sociology, political science, as well as to police administrators
interested in expanding their knowledge about police integrity and
enhancing it in their organizations.
A groundbreaking book detailing the unique issues experienced by
adult children who grew up with a sexually addicted parent and
offering a path to unburden their shameful legacy and embrace
sexuality and intimacy without the intrusion or constraints from
the past. Adult children who grew up with a parent who had a sexual
addiction are left confused, ashamed, and mistrustful regarding the
feelings and boundaries surrounding sex, love, and intimacy. Due to
the inappropriate sexual behavior of one parent, and the subsequent
impact of betrayal on the other parent, these adults carry sexual
secrets, have divided loyalties, and are often caught in the middle
of their parents' struggles. Having witnessed (or known of)
affairs, walked in on a parent masturbating or viewing pornography,
received extreme or shameful messages regarding sexuality or
gender, experienced sexualized remarks about their bodies, been
neglected as a result of the addiction, or were modeled extreme
moral values (either too permissive or shaming), these adult
children of sex addicts (ACSAs) struggle with their sexuality and
longings for love. ACSAs have not had their stories told in any
significant way in the recovery literature. Intergenerational
trauma is transmitted through the legacy of carried sexual
shame-the burden of which is not theirs. Their shame and struggle
has often been wedged under various umbrellas of identification:
adult children of alcoholics, love avoidant, codependent, sex
addict, love addict, and others. A Light in the Dark offers hope
for unburdening ACSAs by sharing the experiences of others, as well
as examining the characteristics, roles and recovery that point
toward the freedom and joy they rightfully deserve.
Ob man zu Hause arbeitet oder im Ausland, GeschAftserfolg in
unserer immer mehr globalisierten und virtuellen Welt erfordert die
FAhigkeit, durch kulturelle Unterschiede zu navigieren und fremde
Kulturen zu entschlA1/4sseln. Die renommierte Expertin Erin Meyer
ist Ihr Guide durch dieses schwierige, manchmal trA1/4gerische
GelAnde, in dem von Menschen mit gAnzlich unterschiedlichem
Background erwartet wird, harmonisch zusammenzuarbeiten. Selbst mit
Englisch als globaler Sprache ist es leicht in kulturelle Fallen zu
tappen, die die Karriere gefAhrden oder AbschlA1/4sse
zunichtemachen kAnnen. Zum Beispiel wenn ein brasilianischer
Manager versucht, zu ergrA1/4nden, wie sein chinesischer Lieferant
Dinge erledigt; oder ein amerikanischer Chef versucht, mit den
Dynamiken innerhalb seines Teams zwischen russischen und indischen
Teammitgliedern umzugehen. In der "Culture Map" liefert Erin Meyer
nun ein praxiserprobtes Modell, einen Kompass, um zu dekodieren,
wie kulturelle Unterschiede internationalen Erfolg beeinflussen.
Sie kombiniert ein kluges analytisches Framework mit praktischen
Tipps fA1/4r mehr Erfolg in einer globalen Welt. Im Modell der
"Culture Map" werden 8 Dimensionen (unter anderem Kommunizieren,
FA1/4hren, Vertrauen, Entscheiden) betrachtet. Diese Dimensionen
steigern die EffektivitAt der Arbeit - egal, ob man seine
Mitarbeiter motivieren, Kunden erfreuen will oder einfach nur einen
Conference-Call plant, an dem Mitglieder unterschiedlicher Kulturen
teilnehmen. Die Leser werden in die Lage versetzt, sich und ihre
Position gegenA1/4ber den anderen einzuordnen und zu
entschlA1/4sseln, wie die Kultur die eigene internationale
Zusammenarbeit (Kollaboration) beeinflusst, um unangenehme
Situationen oder Fiaskos zu vermeiden. Die deutsche Ausgabe des
Buches wird von der Autorin aktualisiert. Drei neue LAnder
(TA1/4rkei, Marokko, Irak) werden zusAtzlich in die Betrachtung
aufgenommen.
The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism brings
together extensive coverage of aspects of Institutional Theory and
an array of top academic contributors. Now in its Second Edition,
the book has been thoroughly revised and reorganised, with all
chapters updated to maintain a mix of theory, how to conduct
institutional organizational analysis, and contemporary empirical
work. New chapters on Translation, Networks and Institutional
Pluralism are included to reflect new directions in the field. The
Second Edition has also been reorganized into six parts: Part One:
Beginnings (Foundations) Part Two: Organizations and their Contexts
Part Three: Institutional Processes Part Four: Conversations Part
Five: Consequences Part Six: Reflections
The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism brings
together extensive coverage of aspects of Institutional Theory and
an array of top academic contributors. Now in its Second Edition,
the book has been thoroughly revised and reorganised, with all
chapters updated to maintain a mix of theory, how to conduct
institutional organizational analysis, and contemporary empirical
work. New chapters on Translation, Networks and Institutional
Pluralism are included to reflect new directions in the field. The
Second Edition has also been reorganized into six parts: Part One:
Beginnings (Foundations) Part Two: Organizations and their Contexts
Part Three: Institutional Processes Part Four: Conversations Part
Five: Consequences Part Six: Reflections
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