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This book offers a groundbreaking collection of chapters in the
emerging field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Communication. After outlining a theoretical framework, the themed
sections cover: (1) Communication in CSR: The Communicative Role,
Strategy and Evaluation; (2) CSR Discourses and Corporate
Reporting; (3) CSR Online Communication and Social Media; (4) The
Role of Stakeholders in CSR Communication: Managers, Employees and
Consumers. The 18 chapters explore the theory, practice and issues
involved in communicating CSR and make for fascinating reading. An
international approach is taken with leading academics and
consultants from Australia, Germany, UK, the Netherlands, Poland,
Singapore, USA, Sweden, Switzerland and France. The anonymously
peerreviewed chapters are theoretically informed and supported with
practicebased realworld insights. Rich and detailed they describe,
explain and analyse the "why", "what", "when" and "how" of
communicating about CSR. As well as furthering theory and academic
debate the book will help inform policy and practice. Leading edge,
topical and current this book will be essential reading for
corporate communicators, business practitioners, academics,
students and all those interested in the subjects of CSR and
Communication.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an increasingly
heated topic since the 1980s. But there are severe limitations with
the concept of CSR and the effectiveness of CSR practices.
Addressing such limitations, this volume proposes that the concept
of Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI) offers a better
theoretical platform to avoid the vagueness, ambiguity,
arbitrariness and mysticism of CSR. It challenges conventional
modes of thinking, unveils the CSR mask of business practices and
redirects public attention to the core issues of CSR. This
collective work sets up an initial theoretical framework for the
subject of CSI and examines the fundamental reasons for
irresponsibility in and beyond a corporate context. Rooted in
theory and practice it seeks to understand how boundaries of CSR
and CSI have been constructed in society, and explores some
systemic and structural issues of CSI in practice.
European approaches to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are
supposed to be largely different from those in other continents
like America, Asia, and Africa. Yet, European approaches to CSR are
not a single and static one, but vary across and within national
states and shift over time. This edited volume aims at exploring
the uniqueness and complexity of European CSR approaches,
perspectives, and practices through a critical lens. It contributes
to existing understanding of European CSR by addressing the
frontier CSR issues in the current state at the EU, national and
institutional levels. Specifically, the volume critically examines
the macro-level CSR frameworks, policies, and trends and their
impact on CSR practices at the micro-level, including the roles of
EU and national governments in shaping the CSR landscape in similar
and different ways. It also analyses how various stakeholder groups
and business sectors and firms across major European countries
perceive, interpret and approach CSR in a dynamic way. Contributors
of this book are experts mainly from Western and Eastern European
countries and thus provide rich experiences, fresh insights, and
deep understanding of the critical state of CSR in Europe.
Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of
Astronomy 2021 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes
and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard
astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the
year's eclipses, comets, meteor showers and minor planets as well
as detailing the phases of the Moon and visibility and locations of
the planets throughout the year. To supplement all this is a
variety of entertaining and informative articles, a feature for
which the Yearbook of Astronomy is known. In the 2021 edition the
reader is presented with articles covering a wide range of topics
including Male Family Mentors for Women in Astronomy; Henrietta
Swan Leavitt and Her Work; Solar Observing; Obsolete
Constellations; Lunar Volcanism; Pages From the Past: Collecting
Vintage Astronomy Books; M?ori Astronomy in Aotearoa-New Zealand
and others. In addition to the above is the first in a series of
articles entitled Mission to Mars: Countdown to Building a Brave
New World scheduled to appear in the Yearbook of Astronomy
throughout the 2020s. These articles will keep the reader fully up
to date with the ongoing investigations, research and preparations
that are already underway, as well as those in the planning phase,
all of which are geared towards sending a manned mission to Mars at
or around the end of the decade. We are at the start of what
promises to be an exciting journey. The Yearbook of Astronomy made
its first appearance way back in 1962, shortly after the dawning of
the Space Age. Now well into its sixth decade of production, the
Yearbook is rapidly heading for its Diamond Jubilee edition in
2022\. It continues to be essential reading for anyone lured and
fascinated by the magic of astronomy and who has a desire to extend
their knowledge of the Universe and the wonders it plays host to.
The Yearbook of Astronomy is indeed an inspiration to amateur and
professional astronomers alike, and warrants a place on the
bookshelves of all stargazers and watchers of the Universe.
Domitian, Emperor of Rome AD 81-96, has traditionally been
portrayed as a tyrant, and his later years on the throne as a
"reign of terror"; his death bringing a restoration of liberty and
inaugurating the glorious rule of the "five good emperors". It is
less well known that he was an able, meticulous administrator, a
reformer of the economy, with a building programme designed to
ensure that Rome not only was the capital of the world but looked
like it as well. Brian Jones's biography of the emperor, aims to
provide a balanced interpretation of the life of Domitian. In
taking into account recent scholarship and new epigraphic and
archaeological discoveries, "The Emperor Domitian" proposes that
Domitian was a ruthless but efficient autocrat with a sound foreign
policy, and rejects the traditional view that dismisses him as a
vicious tyrant. His harshness was felt by a comparatively minute,
but highly vocal section of the population, who included those who
wrote the history of his reign. Brian Jones argues that his
relationship with the court rather than with the senate is central
to understanding his policies.
BCALA 2023 Nonfiction Award Winner The untold story of a dynamic
student movement on one of the nation’s most important
historically Black campuses The Tuskegee Institute, one of the
nation’s most important historically Black colleges, is primarily
known for its World War II pilot training program, a fateful
syphilis experiment, and the work of its founder, Booker T.
Washington. In The Tuskegee Student Uprising, Brian Jones explores
an important yet understudied aspect of the campus’s history: its
radical student activism. Drawing upon years of archival research
and interviews with former students, professors, and
administrators, Brian Jones provides an in-depth account of one of
the most dynamic student movements in United States history. The
book takes the reader through Tuskegee students’ process of
transformation and intellectual awakening as they stepped off
campus to make unique contributions to southern movements for
democracy and civil rights in the 1960s. In 1966, when one of their
classmates was murdered by a white man in an off-campus incident,
Tuskegee students began organizing under the banner of Black Power
and fought for sweeping curricular and administrative reforms on
campus. In 1968, hundreds of students took the Board of Trustees
hostage and presented them with demands to transform Tuskegee
Institute into a “Black University.” This explosive movement
was thwarted by the arrival of the Alabama National Guard and the
school’s temporary closure, but the students nevertheless claimed
an impressive array of victories. Jones retells these and other
events in relation to the broader landscape of social movements in
those pivotal years, as well as in connection to the long pattern
of dissent and protest within the Tuskegee Institute community,
stretching back to the 19th century. A compelling work of
scholarship, The Tuskegee Student Uprising is a must-read for
anyone interested in student activism and the Black freedom
movement.
Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of
Astronomy 2023 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes
and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard
astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the
year's eclipses, comets, meteor showers and minor planets as well
as detailing the phases of the Moon and visibility and locations of
the planets throughout the year. To supplement all this is a
variety of entertaining and informative articles, a feature for
which the Yearbook of Astronomy is known. Presenting the reader
with information on a wide range of topics, the articles for the
2023 edition include, among others, The Incomparable Sir Patrick
Moore; Shining a Light on Jupiter's Atmosphere; A Brief History of
the End of the Universe; The Closing of Historic Observatories; The
Ability to Believe: Bizarre Worlds of Astronomical Antireality;
Optical SETI at Harvard; The Future of Spaceflight; and Male Family
Mentors for Women in Astronomy: Caroline and William Herschel. This
iconic publication made its first appearance way back in 1962,
shortly after the dawning of the Space Age. Now into its seventh
decade of production, the Yearbook continues to be essential
reading for anyone lured and fascinated by the magic of astronomy
and who has a desire to extend their knowledge of the Universe and
the wonders it plays host to. The Yearbook of Astronomy is indeed
an inspiration to amateur and professional astronomers alike, and
warrants a place on the bookshelf of all stargazers and watchers of
the Universe.
Rarely do acts of civil disobedience come in such grand fashion as
Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement. The
two protests came in regions and jurisdictions that many have
underestimated as regards furthering notions of political speech,
democratisation, and testing the limits of authority. This book
breaks down these two movements and explores their complex legal
and political significance. The collection brings together some of
Asia's, and especially Taiwan and Hong Kong's, most prolific
writers, many of whom are internationally recognised experts in
their respective fields, to address the legal and political
significance of both movements, including the complex questions
they posed as regards democracy, rule of law, authority, and
freedom of speech. Given that occupational type protests have
become a prominent method for protesters to make their cases to
both citizens and governments, exploring the legalities of these
significant protests and establishing best practices will be
important to future movements, wherever they may transpire. With
this in mind, the book does not stop at implications for Taiwan and
Hong Kong, but talks about its subject matter from a comparative,
international perspective.
The solutions manuals contain detailed solutions to more than half
of the odd-numbered end-of-chapter problems from the textbook.
Following the problem-solving strategy presented in the text,
thorough solutions are provided to carefully illustrate both the
qualitative and quantitative steps in the problem-solving process.
The study and teaching of marketing as a university subject is
generally understood to have originated in America during the early
20th century emerging as an applied branch of economics. This book
tells a different story describing the influence of the German
Historical School on institutional economists and economic
historians who pioneered the study of marketing in America and
Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing from
archival materials at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard Business
School, and the University of Birmingham, this book documents the
early intellectual genealogy of marketing science and traces the
ideas that early American and British economists borrowed from
German scholars to study and teach marketing. Early marketing
scholars both in America and Britain openly credited the German
School, and its ideology based on social welfare and distributive
justice was a strong motivation for many institutional economists
who studied marketing in America, predating the modern
macro-marketing school by many decades. Challenging many
traditional beliefs, this book provides an authoritative new
narrative of the origins of marketing thought. It will be of great
interest to educators, scholars and advanced students with an
interest in marketing theory and history, and in the history of
economic thought.
These popular and proven workbooks help students build confidence
before attempting end-of-chapter problems. They provide short
problems and exercises that focus on developing a particular skill,
often requiring students to draw or interpret sketches and graphs,
or reason with math relationships. Jeopardy questions ask students
to work backwards from equations to physical situations, enhancing
their understanding and critical-thinking skills.
Rarely do acts of civil disobedience come in such grand fashion as
Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement. The
two protests came in regions and jurisdictions that many have
underestimated as regards furthering notions of political speech,
democratisation, and testing the limits of authority. This book
breaks down these two movements and explores their complex legal
and political significance. The collection brings together some of
Asia's, and especially Taiwan and Hong Kong's, most prolific
writers, many of whom are internationally recognised experts in
their respective fields, to address the legal and political
significance of both movements, including the complex questions
they posed as regards democracy, rule of law, authority, and
freedom of speech. Given that occupational type protests have
become a prominent method for protesters to make their cases to
both citizens and governments, exploring the legalities of these
significant protests and establishing best practices will be
important to future movements, wherever they may transpire. With
this in mind, the book does not stop at implications for Taiwan and
Hong Kong, but talks about its subject matter from a comparative,
international perspective.
This book will be essential reading for anyone involved in the
management of blocks of flats, or considering acquiring the
management of their block. Written by a lawyer well versed in
leasehold law, the book's aim is to give a practical guide to a
wide variety of management issues, concentrating especially on the
pitfalls presented by the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002
and how they may be avoided or overcome.
This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction
and nonfiction with a focus on the environment (broadly defined as
humanity's natural surroundings), from the discovery of America
through the present. The work includes biographical and literary
entries on material from early explorers and colonists such as
Columbus, Bartolome de Las Casas and Thomas Harriot; through Native
American creation myths; canonical 18th- and 19th-century works of
Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Twain, Dickinson,
et al.; to more recent figures such as Jack London, Ernest
Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Stanley Cavell, Rachel Carson, Jon
Krakauer and Al Gore. It is meant to provide a synoptic
appreciation of how the very concept of the environment has changed
over the past five centuries, offering both a general introduction
to the topic and a valuable resource for high school and university
courses focused on environmental issues.
Pioneers in Marketing presents a collection of eight biographical
essays about seminal marketing scholars of the twentieth century,
focusing on the careers and contributions of those who contributed
most to the development of the marketing discipline. Five of the
eight biographies rely extensively on archival materials which
allow for a much more detailed examination of the subject's life
and career than earlier published sketches, and two of the
biographies in this collection are drawn from from extensive
interviews with the subject. The careers of most of the scholars
included in this volume were centered on the first half of the
twentieth century, during which time marketing emerged as a
university discipline. Introduced with a chapter that discusses
biography as a form of historical writing in marketing, author Ian
Dennis offers a rationale for biography as an approach to studying
marketing history, outlines methodology for doing biographical
research, and explores sources of biographical material. The final
chapter delves into common themes of the biographies, lessons that
can be learned from this collection, and offers suggestions for
further biographical research.
Enforcing Covenants focuses on the measures which managers of
residential leasehold property can deploy to encourage leaseholders
and other parties to abide by their contractual obligations with a
view to achieving the most effective management of their estates
and developments. In particular, the book concentrates on the
changes to the law introduced by the Commonhold and Leasehold
Reform Act 2002. Enforcing obligations in leases has never been
easy, and the 2002 Act has made it even more onerous for the hard
pressed property manager. Very few will be able to avoid having to
take enforcement action, especially when bringing in the funds to
make management feasible. Subjects examined in this book include:
the new rules on forfeiture the new rules on ground rents service
charge recovery enforcing county court judgments the new procedures
and jurisdictions of the Leasehold Valuation Tribunals enforcing
repairs neighbour disputes and nuisance cases injunctions and
specific performance costs and administration charges alternative
dispute resolution. Enforcing Covenants is essential reading for
anyone involved in the management of property, whether they be
professionals or lay directors of residents management companies.
As well as examining the relevant law and decisions of the
Leasehold Valuation Tribunals, the book provides much practical
guidance on rules and procedures, illustrated by precedent forms
and notices and backed up by some light-hearted case studies.
This book will be essential reading for anyone involved in the
management of blocks of flats, or considering acquiring the
management of their block. Written by a lawyer well versed in
leasehold law, the book's aim is to give a practical guide to a
wide variety of management issues, concentrating especially on the
pitfalls presented by the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002
and how they may be avoided or overcome.
Domitian, Emperor of Rome AD 81-96, has traditionally been portrayed as a tyrant, and his later years on the throne as a `reign of terror'. Brian Jones' biography of the emperor, the first ever in English, offers a more balanced view of the life of Domitian, arguing that his foreign policy was realistic, his economic programme rigorously efficient and his supposed persecution of the early Christians non-existent. Central to an understanding of the emperor's policies is his relationship with his court. Brian Jones shows that the real intentions of Domitian's cultural, economic, religious and political programme have often not been fully appreciated.
Enforcing Covenants focuses on the measures which managers of
residential leasehold property can deploy to encourage leaseholders
and other parties to abide by their contractual obligations with a
view to achieving the most effective management of their estates
and developments. In particular, the book concentrates on the
changes to the law introduced by the Commonhold and Leasehold
Reform Act 2002. Enforcing obligations in leases has never been
easy, and the 2002 Act has made it even more onerous for the hard
pressed property manager. Very few will be able to avoid having to
take enforcement action, especially when bringing in the funds to
make management feasible. Subjects examined in this book include:
the new rules on forfeiture the new rules on ground rents service
charge recovery enforcing county court judgments the new procedures
and jurisdictions of the Leasehold Valuation Tribunals enforcing
repairs neighbour disputes and nuisance cases injunctions and
specific performance costs and administration charges alternative
dispute resolution. Enforcing Covenants is essential reading for
anyone involved in the management of property, whether they be
professionals or lay directors of residents management companies.
As well as examining the relevant law and decisions of the
Leasehold Valuation Tribunals, the book provides much practical
guidance on rules and procedures, illustrated by precedent forms
and notices and backed up by some light-hearted case studies.
The Routledge Companion to Marketing History is the first
collection of readings that surveys the broader field of marketing
history, including the key activities and practices in the
marketing process. With contributors from leading international
scholars working in marketing history, this companion provides nine
country-specific histories of marketing practice as well as a broad
analysis of the field, including: the histories of advertising,
retailing, channels of distribution, product design and branding,
pricing strategies, and consumption behavior. While other
collections have provided an overview of the history of marketing
thought, this is the first of its kind to do so from the
perspective of companies, industries, and even whole economies. The
Routledge Companion to Marketing History ranges across many
countries and industries, engaging in substantive detail with
marketing practices as they were performed in a variety of
historical periods extending back to ancient times. It is not to be
missed by any historian or student of business.
Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of
Astronomy 2024 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes
and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard
astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the
year's eclipses, comets, meteor showers and minor planets as well
as detailing the phases of the Moon and visibility and locations of
the planets throughout the year. To supplement all this is a
variety of entertaining and informative articles, a feature for
which the Yearbook of Astronomy is known. Presenting the reader
with information on a wide range of topics, the articles for the
2024 edition include, among others, Recent Advances in Astronomy;
Recent Advances in Solar System Exploration; Riccardo Giacconi:
X-ray Astronomy Pioneer; Things Fall Apart - Chaos in the Solar
System; Communicating From the Edge of the Solar System; Astronomy
in Antarctica; Tracking Older Artificial Satellites; Inner Lives of
Dead Stars; and A Triumvirate of Telescope Makers - Thomas Cooke,
Howard Grubb and Alvan Clark. This iconic publication made its
first appearance way back in 1962, shortly after the dawning of the
Space Age. Now into its seventh decade of production, the Yearbook
continues to be essential reading for anyone lured and fascinated
by the magic of astronomy and who has a desire to extend their
knowledge of the Universe and the wonders to which it plays host.
The Yearbook of Astronomy is indeed an inspiration to amateur and
professional astronomers alike, and warrants a place on the
bookshelf of all stargazers and watchers of the skies.
These popular and proven workbooks help students build confidence
before attempting end-of-chapter problems. They provide short
problems and exercises that focus on developing a particular skill,
often requiring students to draw or interpret sketches and graphs,
or reason with math relationships. New to the Second Edition are
exercises that provide guided practice for the textbook's
Problem-Solving Strategies, focusing in particular on working
symbolically.
These popular and proven workbooks help students build confidence
before attempting end-of-chapter problems. They provide short
problems and exercises that focus on developing a particular skill,
often requiring students to draw or interpret sketches and graphs,
or reason with math relationships. New to the Second Edition are
exercises that provide guided practice for the textbook's
Problem-Solving Strategies, focusing in particular on working
symbolically.
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