1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818226603321

Autore

Maunsell Jerome Boyd

Titolo

Susan Sontag / / Jerome Boyd Maunsell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Reaktion Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78023-329-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Critical Lives

Disciplina

818.54

Soggetti

Women authors, American - 20th century

Authors, American - 20th century

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Susan Sontag; Imprint Page; Contents; 1. Beginnings, 1933-1950; 2. Notes on Marriage, 1951-1958; 3. New York! New York! 1959-1965; 4. Styles of Radical Will, 1966-1968; 5. In Plato's Cave, 1968-1975; 6. The Kingdom of the Sick, 1975-1988; 7. Beginning Again, 1988-2000; 8. The Pain of Others, 2000-2004; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

"My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything.'" This declaration by Susan Sontag (1933-2004) seemed to reflect her own life as an essayist, diarist, filmmaker, playwright, and novelist writing on a startling range of topics-from literature, dance, film, and painting to cancer, AIDS, and the ethics of war reportage. For many critics, her work captures the twentieth-century world better than almost any other. In this new biography, Jerome Boyd Maunsell draws on Sontag's extensive diaries to offer a far more intimate portrait than ever before of her struggles in love, marriage, mo



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910590052103321

Autore

Yang Feifei

Titolo

Managing Multiple Organizational Goals in Turbulent Environments : Organizational Control, Goal Polychronicity and Performance Impact / / by Feifei Yang, Mirjam Goudsmit, George Shinkle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

981-19-5319-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Collana

Business and Management Series

Disciplina

658

Soggetti

Management

Strategic planning

Leadership

Business ethics

Business Strategy and Leadership

Business Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Literature Review -- Chapter 3. Theory and Hypotheses for Model 1-Antecedents of Goal Polychronicity -- Chapter 4. Theory and Hypotheses for Model 2-Performance Impact of Goal Polychronicity -- Chapter 5. Empirical Context, Methods and Data – Interviews -- Chapter 6. Empirical Context, Methods and Data – Survey -- Chapter 7. Analysis and Results for Model 1 -- Chapter 8. Analysis and Results for Model 2 -- Chapter 9. Discussion -- Chapter 10. Limitations and Future Research Directions -- Chapter 11. Summary and Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the management of multiple goals in organizations especially in today's increasingly turbulent business environment. In this book, authors develop a novel concept of goal polychronicity, wherein organizations may attend to multiple goals simultaneously, rather than mono-chronically through sequential attention. This book further investigates the impact of internal organizational control systems and external environmental turbulence on multiple goals management. Empirical evidence is drawn from in-depth interviews of



top executives and large-scale survey of top executives from four countries (US, Australia, China, and Israel). The book enriches the understanding of multiple goals and provides evidence-based recommendations to researchers and practitioners in managing multiple goals.