1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910162976303321

Autore

Clark Peter A.

Titolo

Anglo-American innovation / / Peter A. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Walter De Gruyter, , 1987

©1987

ISBN

3-11-085750-2

Edizione

[Reprint 2015]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations

Collana

de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; ; 9

Disciplina

338/.06

Soggetti

Technological innovations - Great Britain - Management

Technological innovations - United States - Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I. Introduction -- 1 The Agenda -- Part II. Evolvement of Innovations: Shape and Uses -- 2 State of Theory -- 3 Innovation Supply: The Marketing and Imitation Models -- 4 Technology as Process: Trajectories and Life Cycles -- 5 The Corporate User: Innovation-Design Capacity -- Part IIΙ. Anglo-American Patterns of Organizing -- 6 Transatlantic Evolvement I: Americans and the Absorption Gap -- 7 Economy, Structuration and Region: A Basic Framework -- 8 British Systems of Organizing: Contexts and Directions into the First Divide -- 9 American Systems of Organizing: The Early Foundations -- 10 The American Market: A Key Base from 1870 to the 1960s -- 11 British Systems of Organizing: A Case of Incomplete Modernization? -- 12 Transatlantic Evolvement II: Britain and the Appropriation Gap -- Part IV. Implications -- 13 Japan and the Pacific Rim: The New Competition -- 14 Summary and Implications -- References -- 16 Author Index -- 17 Subject Index



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996591270103316

Autore

Mrázek Jan

Titolo

Escaping Kakania : Eastern European Travels in Colonial Southeast Asia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest : , : Central European University Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

963-386-666-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 pages)

Soggetti

HISTORY / Europe / Eastern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTORY (DIS)ORIENTATION: A Czech's View from Singapore -- THE DUTCH EAST INDIES IN THE EYES OF A POLE: Teodor Anzelm Dzwonkowski and His Memoirs of Service in the Dutch Navy in the Years 1788-1793 -- CZECH ARMY DOCTOR IN SUMATRA: Native Soil, Miasmatic Mud, Russian Hallucinations, All the Empires -- THE FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF SINGAPORE IN SERBIAN LITERATURE -- JULIAN FAŁAT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Hybridity and Mimicry in the Memoirs of a Polish/Kakanian/European Painter -- COLONIALISM, FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND POLISH AMBIGUITY: How Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski and Bronisław Piłsudski (Almost) Met in Singapore -- THE FATE OF THE BIRDS OF PARADISE: Enrique Stanko Vráz in Southeast Asia -- ETHNIC COMPARISONS IN TRAVELOGUES ABOUT SOUTHEAST ASIA BY POLES AND SERBS OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN BACKGROUND, 1869-1914 -- THE POLISH BOTANIST MARIAN RACIBORSKIAND HIS 1901 WAYANG KULIT PERFORMANCE: Images and Encounters -- THE IDENTITY OF THE STRANGE: The (Post)colonial Perspective in the Texts and Pictures of László Székely -- ISLANDS OF PARADISE? JAVA AND BALI THROUGH A WOMAN'S EYES: The Journey of Ilona Zboray -- INDOCHINA'S DEADLY SUN: The Polish Maritime and Colonial League's Depictions of Southeast Asia -- CZECHOSLOVAKS IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYA BEFORE AND DURING WORLD WAR II -- COLONIALISM MEETS EMPATHY AND INSIGHTFULNESS: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński's Travel Diary to Burma -- DOUBLE VISION: Yugoslav



Travelers and the Conflicting Images of Southeast Asia in the Era of Late Colonialism -- Contributors -- Index -- Back cover.

Sommario/riassunto

Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters—soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters—who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders. The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of colonial southeast Asia. Some essays directly engage with post-colonial studies, contributing to an ongoing critical re-evaluation of eastern European “semi-peripheral” (non-)involvement in colonialism. Other chapters disclose a range of perspectives and narratives that illuminate the plurality of the travelers’ positions while reflecting on the specificity of the eastern European experience. The travellers moved—as do the chapter authors—between two regions that are off-centre, in-between, shiftingly “Eastern,” and disorientingly heterogeneous, thus complicating colonial and postcolonial notions of “Europe,” “East,” and East-West distinctions. Both at home and overseas, they navigated among a multiplicity of peoples, “races,” and empires, Occidents and Orients, fantasies of the Self and the Other, adopting/adapting/mimicking/rejecting colonialist identities and ideologies. They saw both eastern Europe and southeast Asia in a distinctive light, as if through each other—and so will the readers of Escaping Kakania.