1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465488903321

Autore

Whittaker D. H (D. Hugh)

Titolo

Comparative entrepreneurship [[electronic resource] ] : the UK, Japan, and the shadow of Silicon Valley / / D. Hugh Whittaker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612235115

1-282-23511-7

0-19-156978-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

338.0409

Soggetti

Entrepreneurship - Great Britain

Entrepreneurship - Japan

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 (p. 186-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Comparative Entrepreneurship; 2 Opportunity and Business Creation; 3 Ties and Teams in Start-up; 4 Entrepreneurial Orientations and Business Objectives; 5 Competitive Orientations and Growth Limitations; 6 HRM, Leadership, and Culture; 7 Interfirm Collaboration; 8 Entrepreneurship and Markets; 9 Entrepreneurship, Rationality, and Time; Appendix 1 Design, Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation: An Act of Sensemaking; Appendix 2 Factor Analysis Tables; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q

RS; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Are entrepreneurs essentially the same everywhere? Are the processes of entrepreneurship similar? Or are they shaped by their environments? If so, how? This study brings insights from entrepreneurship to comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism, and vice versa, and draws on two surveys and 25 case interviews in both the UK and Japan. - ;Are entrepreneurs essentially the same everywhere? Are the processes of entrepreneurship similar? Or are they shaped by their environments? If so, how? We know a lot about national differences in management practices, corporate governance, and even



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911087397403321

Titolo

The behaviourist in the classroom / / edited by Kevin Wheldall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012, c1987

ISBN

1-136-66184-0

1-280-66462-2

9786613641557

0-203-80737-5

1-136-66185-9

9780203807378

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Education ; ; v. 68

Altri autori (Persone)

WheldallKevin

Disciplina

370.1528

371.1/024

371.1024

Soggetti

Behavior modification - Great Britain

School discipline - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: London : Allen & Unwin, in association with Positive Products, 1987.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; The Behaviourist in the Classroom; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. The Behaviourist in the Classroom: Revisited: Kevin Wheldall; 2. British Teachers and the Behavioural Approach to Teaching: Frank Merrett and Kevin Wheldall; 3. Behavioural Approaches in the Secondary School: Eddie Mcnamara; 4. More Power to the Parents: Behavioural Approaches to Remedial Tutoring at Home: Ted Glynn; 5. The Teacher-Child Interaction Project (TCIP): Implementing Behavioural Programmes with Troublesome Individual Children in the Primary School: Michael Berger, William Yule and Veronica Wigley

6. The Behavioural Approach at Chelfham Mill School for Emotionally Disturbed Boys: Roger Burland7. Training Teachers to Use the Behavioural Approach to Classroom Management: The Development of Batpack: Kevin Wheldall and Frank Merrett; 8. Behaviour Modification: Towards an Ethical Appraisal: Robert Dearden; 9. Explanations and the Behavioural Approach in Teaching: Nigel Hastings and Joshua Schwieso;



Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the decade preceeding the original publication of this book the discipline of behaviour analysis was becoming increasingly influential in educational circles, but many of the practices we now take for granted were still being pioneered. This book considers the place of behaviour analysis in education and describes work on behavioural classroom management in British schools. Four further chapters consider the behavioural approach to teaching in both primary and secondary schools in terms of tutoring at home and for use with emotionally disturbed children. The book concludes with chapters