1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450049803321

Titolo

Measuring national power in the postindustrial age [[electronic resource] ] : analyst's handbook / / Ashley J. Tellis ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, Calif., : RAND, 2000

ISBN

0-8330-4362-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (57 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TellisAshley J

Disciplina

355/.0332

Soggetti

Military readiness

Industrial capacity

Industrial mobilization

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"MR-1110/1-A".

"Prepared for the United States Army."

Nota di contenuto

""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""FIGURES""; ""MEASURING NATIONAL POWER IN THE POSTINDUSTRIAL AGE: ANALYSTÃŒS HANDBOOK""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460931403321

Titolo

Advances in the economic analysis of participatory & labor-managed firms / / edited by Antti Kauhanen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78560-378-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms, , 0885-3339 ; ; Volume 16

Disciplina

658.3152

Soggetti

Management - Employee participation

Employee empowerment

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Editor's Introduction; Alternative Organizational Forms; Participatory Human Resource Practices; On the Entry of Employee-Owned Firms: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1870-1960; Introduction; Formation and Choice of Organizational Form; Assumptions Underlying the Model; Decision-Making of Potential Cooperators; Costs of Information and Association and the Possibility of Market Failure; Institutions and the Data on PCs

Empirical Analysis and Results Discussion of Empirical Results; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix; How to Start an Employee-owned Industrial Company and Survive for 35 Years; Introduction; The Impossibility of Employee Ownership; Degeneration Tendencies toward Traditional Ownership; Employee Ownership as a Historical Parenthesis; The Employee Takeover of Ljuders Nickelsilfverfabrik; The Effects of the Employee Takeover; The Legitimizing Leadership; The Possibility of Employee Ownership; Changes Take Time; Pride in the Collective

A Recipe for a Successful Employee Takeover and Ownership Acknowledgments; References; Motivations for Establishing



Cooperative Companies in the Performing Arts: A European Perspective; Introduction; The Economic Context of Performing Arts in Europe; Why Must Collective Firms be Established? Insights from the Literature; Methodology of the Research; Sampling; Data Collection; Collection Protocol; Semi-Directive Interviews; Data Structure; Analysis and Validity of Data; Results and Discussion; Influence of the Instrumental Motive; A Dominant Economics Logic; Complementary Non-Economics Logics

Discussion Influence of the Ideological Motive; Shared Artistic and Ideological Values; Image and Militancy; Discussion; Contextual Influence; Complementary Results and Comments; Does the Dominant Type of Motivation Influence the Success of Collective Projects?; Dominant Motivation Type and Type of Organization; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Organizational Structure and Performance in European Banks: A Reassessment; Introduction; Conceptual Framework; Existing Empirical Evidence; The Data; Empirical Approach and Summary Statistics; Regression Results

Baseline Results Robustness Checks; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix: Data Changes; Formal Organizational Power and Innovation: From a Principal-Agent to an Institutionalist View; Introduction; Formal Organizational Power: Ownership and Governance; Innovation Efforts as a Key Feature of Innovation; Extant Views on Formal Power and Innovation: Micro-Level Views; An Institutionalist View of Formal Power and Innovation; MONDRAGON and Cases with the extreme Case; Background and Institutional Environment; Cases of Capital-Intensive Innovation

Company A: A Success Case of Capital-Intensive Innovation

Sommario/riassunto

The articles in this volume offer stimulating research on the relationship among business cycles, participatory and labor-managed organizations, and employee voice. These contributions take various theoretical and empirical approaches and investigate many industries and countries, thus offering a balanced view on these current topics.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787675103321

Autore

Swedenborg Emanuel <1688-1772.>

Titolo

Afterlife [[electronic resource] ] : a guided tour of heaven and its wonders / / Emanuel Swedenborg ; abridged and rearranged, Donald L. Rose, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Chester, Pa., : Chrysalis Books/Swedenborg Foundation Publishers, c2008

ISBN

0-87785-655-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RoseDonald L

Disciplina

236/.24

Soggetti

Future life - Christianity

Heaven - Christianity

Hell - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Abridged and rearranged edition of Heaven and hell.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The world of spirits and our state after death -- pt. 2. Heaven -- pt. 3. Hell.