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This book examines an emerging organizational form called the
multi-team system (MTS). This type of aggregation is being
increasingly adopted by organizations and agencies that need to
respond to complex strategic problems. There has been increasing
interest in MTSs over the last decade to the point where there is
now a need to (a) describe these organizational forms more fully,
(b) build conceptual frames that can guide research, and (c) begin
developing tools to improve the study of MTSs. The purpose of this
book is to respond to these needs. The book contains a series of
chapters that expand prior conceptual frames of MTSs, defining in
more detail the compositional and linkage attributes that
characterize such units. The book also explores how such systems
emerge and develop, as well as the methods for studying MTSs. The
intent of the book is to establish and nurture a strong conceptual
and methodological foundation that can guide research and practice
with MTSs. Because the notion of MTSs cuts across multiple domains,
this book will interest scholars in industrial/organizational
psychology, organizational science, management and organizational
theory, human factors, sociology, organization communications, and
public administration.
This book examines an emerging organizational form called
multi-team systems (MTS). This type of aggregation is being
increasingly adopted by organizations and agencies that need to
respond to complex strategic problems. There has been increasing
interest in MTSs over the last decade to the point where there is
now a need to (a) describe these organizational forms more fully,
(b) build conceptual frames that can guide research, and (c) begin
developing tools to improve the study of MTSs. The purpose of this
proposed book is to respond to these needs. The book will contain a
series of chapters that expand prior conceptual frames of MTSs,
defining in more detail the compositional and linkage attributes
that characterize such units. The book will also explore how such
systems emerge and develop, as well as the methods for studying
MTSs. The intent of the book, therefore, is to establish and
nurture a strong conceptual and methodological foundation that can
guide research and practice with MTSs. Because the notion of MTSs
cuts across multiple domains, we expect that this book will
interest scholars in industrial/organizational psychology,
organizational science, management and organizational theory, human
factors, sociology, organization communications, and public
administration.
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Carmilla (Paperback)
Joseph Sheridan Lefanu; Edited by Savannah Stuttgen; Foreword by Mark Leslie Lefebvre
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A supernatural tour of bookstores and libraries around the world,
focusing on the ghost stories from haunted locations. Throughout
history, books have inspired, informed, entertained, and enriched
us. They have also kept us up through the night, thrilled us, and
lured into their endless depths. Tomes of Terror is a celebration
and an eerie look at the siren call of literature and the
unexplained and fascinating stories associated with bookish
locations around the world. Mark Leslie’s latest paranormal
page-turner is a compendium of true stories of the supernatural in
literary locales, complete with hair-raising first-person accounts.
You may even recognize a spectre of your local library lurking in
these true stories and photographs. If you have ever felt an
indescribable presence hanging about a quiet bookshop, then
you’ll enjoy these fascinating and haunting tales.
2013 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award — Shortlisted,
Nonfiction Hamilton, Ontario, may seem just like any other city,
but a haunted past is hidden beneath it. From the Hermitage ruins
to Dundurn Castle, from the Customs House to Stoney Creek
Battlefield Park, the city of Hamilton, Ontario, is steeped in a
rich history and culture. But beneath the surface of the Steel City
there dwells a darker heart — from the shadows of yesteryear
arise the unexplainable, the bizarre, and the chilling. Lock the
doors and turn on all the lights before you settle down with this
book, because once you begin to read about the supernatural
elements that lurk within this seemingly normal city in Southern
Ontario, strange bumps in the night will take on new, more sinister
meanings. Prepare to be thrilled and chilled with this collection
of tales compiled from historical documents, first-person accounts,
and the files of the paranormal group Haunted Hamilton, which has
been investigating and celebrating Hamilton’s historic haunted
past since 1999.
A collection of ghost stories, eerie encounters, and gruesome tales
from one of Canada’s most interesting cities. Montreal is a city
steeped in history and culture, but just beneath the pristine
surface of this world-class city lie unsettling tales of uncanny
phenomena, dark deeds, haunted buildings, and forgotten graveyards.
The dark of night reveals buried secrets, alleyways that echo with
the footsteps of ghostly spectres, and memories of ghastly murders
and unspeakable acts that will make your blood run cold. Read, if
you dare, about the ghost that wanders Griffintown in search of her
missing head, top-secret experiments conducted on unwitting
subjects at McGill University, and the mysterious gunshot deaths of
a mother and son in their mansion, among other terrifying stories.
A look inside the hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums in which
formal spectral residents refuse to move on. Hospitals are supposed
to be places of healing, places of birth, and places of hope. But
with all of the varying highs and lows that are experienced in
these buildings, is it any wonder when echoes linger indefinitely?
How about asylums, which house some of society’s worst offenders
and troubled inmates, or sanatoriums, places where the mentally and
physically ill find themselves trapped, even after death? Journey
inside the history of these macabre settings and learn about the
horrors from the past that live on in these frighteningly eerie
tales from Canada, the United States, and around the world.
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The Rebel Diaries (Paperback)
Sacha Black, Mark Leslie, Scott Williamson
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Exploring the social dimensions of state formation and European
integration, a respected interdisciplinary group of European and
North American scholars takes a novel approach to the historical
processes of integration. Rather than being led by EU institutions
and intergovernmental policy, the contributors argue that
integration is primarily influenced by non-state actors: unions,
businesspeople, elites, and immigrants. Exploring the historical
roots of integration, they trace contemporary integration efforts
back to nineteenth-century social action in response to capitalist
development. As today, it was a time when internationalism_both
that of workers and of capitalists_sustained international
cooperation and attempts to define universal standards for welfare
and a social dimension to economic development. The reemergence of
an integrated Europe as an alternative to the system of states
produced by the settlements of 1918 and 1945 has provided a new
opening for internationalism. The contributors view this as a
positive trend, especially as a counterbalance to intensifying
conflicts over growth, the distribution of wealth, welfare, and
global access to markets and jobs.
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Carmilla (Hardcover)
Joseph Sheridan Lefanu; Edited by Savannah Stuttgen; Foreword by Mark Leslie Lefebvre
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R773
R632
Discovery Miles 6 320
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