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This book offers an ethnographic analysis of how corporate culture
has been transformed in the age of globalization and promotes the
importance of a national ideology's role in corporate culture
studies. Based on fifteen months of participant observation as a
shop-floor salesperson, this book explores the gap between
management-created corporate ideology and employees'
interpretations of and responses to this ideology. The book
approaches the issue by examining the formation, dissemination, and
interpretation of corporate ideology at a global Japanese fashion
retailer in Hong Kong. It does so by charting the history of the
company's corporate policy: from centralized attempts at corporate
employee management, through the creation of store manager
"missionaries" intended to disseminate their ideology, to the
ultimately unexpected outcomes as corporate ideology collided with
its interpretations by store employees. The interdisciplinary
nature of this book will appeal to scholars and upper level
students in the fields of management, marketing, anthropology, and
cultural studies as well as those interested in globalization,
cross-cultural management and retail management.
In this DIY guide, you will learn how to use Arduino - the
open-source hardware board for makers, hobbyists, and inventors.
You will learn how to develop your own projects, create prototypes,
and produce professional-quality embedded systems. A simple
step-by-step demonstration system accompanies you from vision to
reality - and just like riding a bike, you'll get better at it, the
more you do it. Featuring a wealth of detailed diagrams and more
than 50 fully functional examples, this book will help you get the
most out of this versatile tool and bring your electronic
inventions to life.
In this DIY guide, you will learn how to use Arduino - the
open-source hardware board for makers, hobbyists, and inventors.
You will learn how to develop your own projects, create prototypes,
and produce professional-quality embedded systems. A simple
step-by-step demonstration system accompanies you from vision to
reality - and just like riding a bike, you'll get better at it, the
more you do it. Featuring a wealth of detailed diagrams and more
than 50 fully functional examples, this book will help you get the
most out of this versatile tool and bring your electronic
inventions to life.
An ideal text for the natural product scientist looking for new
techniques in research, this volume comprises the latest
information on natural/plant resources.The comprehensive chapters
cover the chemistry and pharmacology of a range of natural products
- from Chinese herbal medicine to tea extracts, microbes to marine
sponges, and the latest technologies to enhance the synthesis,
isolation and purification of bioactive herbal compounds from these
products. Adding additional value to the book are chapters on new
tools in information technology that can greatly facilitate the
research of natural product scientists, and the technologies
available for evaluating medicinal herbal products for purity.
This book examines the far-reaching changes made to the
constitution in the United Kingdom in recent decades. It considers
the way these reforms have fragmented power, once held centrally
through the Crown-in-Parliament, by means of devolution,
referendums, and judicial reform. It examines the reshaping of the
balance of power between the executive, legislature, and the way
that prerogative powers have been curtailed by statute and judicial
ruling. It focuses on the Human Rights Act and the creation of the
UK Supreme Court, which emboldened the judiciary to limit executive
action and even to challenge Parliament, and argues that many of
these symbolised an attempt to shift the 'political' constitution
to a 'legal' one. Many virtues have been ascribed to these reforms.
To the extent that criticism exists, it is often to argue that
these reforms do not go far enough. An elected upper chamber,
regional English parliaments, further electoral reform, and a
codified constitution are common tonics prescribed by commentators
from this point of view. This volume adopts a different approach.
It provides a critical evaluation of these far-reaching reforms,
drawing from the expertise of highly respected academics and
experienced political figures from both the left and right. The
book is an invaluable source of academic expertise and practical
insights for the interested public, students, policymakers, and
journalists, who too often are only exposed to the 'further reform'
position.
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