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Publication date: 1 March 1984

Warren E. Clarke

Today's “long‐range planning” efforts most often take three to five years as the nominal long‐range horizon. Unfortunately, most plans in reality look no further than one to three…

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Today's “long‐range planning” efforts most often take three to five years as the nominal long‐range horizon. Unfortunately, most plans in reality look no further than one to three years, and the financial projections which constitute the major portions of many plans have no validity after more than one or two years. Plans emphasize current products and strategic business units (SBUs) and sort them into three categories: “grow,” “hold,” and “harvest.” The firm attempts to gain market share in the “grow” products or SBUs, and attempts to maintain market share for those labeled “hold.” Yet, for the products or SBUs under the harvest category, the firm gives up market share to gain cash to finance the “grow” businesses. A company's long‐range future, however, does not necessarily correlate with the three‐to‐five‐year outlook of such products and SBUs.

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Journal of Business Strategy, vol. 5 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0275-6668

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Publication date: 4 November 2021

John Buschman

This is a troubled age for democracy, but the nature of that trouble and why it is a problem for democracy is an open question, not easy to answer. Widespread wishing for…

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This is a troubled age for democracy, but the nature of that trouble and why it is a problem for democracy is an open question, not easy to answer. Widespread wishing for responsible leaders who respect democratic norms and pursue policies to benefit people and protect the vulnerable don’t help much. The issue goes well beyond library contexts, but it is important that those in libraries think through our role in democracy as well. Micro-targeting library-centric problems won’t be effective and don’t address the key issue of this volume. The author can only address the future if we recover an understanding of the present by building up an understanding of actually-existing democracy: (1) the scope must be narrowed to accomplish the task; (2) the characteristics of the retreat from democracy should be established; (3) core working assumptions and values – what libraries are about in this context – must be established; (4) actually-existing democracy should then be characterized; (5) the role of libraries in actually-existing democracy is then explored; (6) the source and character of the threat that is driving the retreat from democracy and cutting away at the core of library assumptions and values is analyzed; (7) the chapter concludes by forming a basis of supporting libraries by unpacking their contribution to building and rebuilding democratic culture: libraries are simultaneously less and more important than is understood.

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Libraries and the Global Retreat of Democracy: Confronting Polarization, Misinformation, and Suppression
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ISBN: 978-1-83982-597-2

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Publication date: 16 July 2024

Oswald A. J. Mascarenhas, Munish Thakur and Payal Kumar

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A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics
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ISBN: 978-1-83753-346-6

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Publication date: 16 July 2024

Oswald A. J. Mascarenhas, Munish Thakur and Payal Kumar

This chapter focuses on ecofeminism that primarily refers to feminist theory and activism informed by ecology. Ecofeminism is concerned with real connections between humans and…

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This chapter focuses on ecofeminism that primarily refers to feminist theory and activism informed by ecology. Ecofeminism is concerned with real connections between humans and Nature, as also by the domination of Nature by man and, specifically, by women's subservience to men. The foundational ecofeminist assumption is that environmental issues are basically feminist issues, and vice versa. It believes that ecofeminism, best understood and operationalized, can restore Mother Nature (endangered by industrial extraction and exploitation) and reassure rights to animals (deanimalized and threatened by factory farming). Although ecofeminism is a diverse movement, ecofeminist theorists share the presupposition that social transformation is necessary for ecological survival, that intellectual transformation of dominant modes of thought must accompany social transformation, that Nature teaches and reveals nondualistic, nonhierarchical systems of relations that are models for social transformation of values, and that human and cultural diversity are values in social transformation; some of these values and movements even influenced the world via the UN. Accordingly, this chapter highlights major positive contributions of ecofeminism.

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A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics
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ISBN: 978-1-83753-346-6

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Publication date: 12 May 2022

Robin S. Codding, Melissa Collier-Meek and Emily DeFouw

Evaluation of any given student's responsiveness to intervention depends not only on how effective the intervention is, but also whether the intervention was delivered as intended…

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Evaluation of any given student's responsiveness to intervention depends not only on how effective the intervention is, but also whether the intervention was delivered as intended as well as in the appropriate format and according to the most useful schedule. These latter elements are referred to as treatment integrity and treatment intensity, respectively. The purpose of this chapter is to define and describe how treatment integrity and intensity can be incorporated in the evaluation of outcomes associated with individualized intervention delivery.

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Delivering Intensive, Individualized Interventions to Children and Youth with Learning and Behavioral Disabilities
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ISBN: 978-1-80262-738-1

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Publication date: 30 November 2017

Felippe de Medeiros Oliveira, Gazi Islam and Maria Laura Toraldo

Recent interest in the multimodal accomplishment of organization has focused on the material and symbolic aspects of materiality. We argue that current literature invokes diverse…

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Recent interest in the multimodal accomplishment of organization has focused on the material and symbolic aspects of materiality. We argue that current literature invokes diverse “multimodal imaginaries,” that is, ways of conceiving the relation between the material and the conceptual, and that the different imaginaries support a plurality of perspectives on materiality. Using the empirical case of a large urban renewal project in São Paulo, Brazil, we illustrate three different multimodal imaginaries – the concrete, the semiotic, and the mimetic – and indicate how each imaginary determines the way in which the site in question is discursively constructed. After outlining the different approaches, we discuss their theoretical implications, advantages, and constraints, setting an agenda for future studies of materiality in organizational and institutional contexts.

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Multimodality, Meaning, and Institutions
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-330-4

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Publication date: 5 December 2014

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Inquiry-Based Learning for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators
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ISBN: 978-1-78441-236-4

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Publication date: 5 February 2024

Samantha Evans and Madeleine Wyatt

This chapter challenges middle-class bias in work-life literature by examining work-life balance dynamics through a social class perspective. It reveals class-based disparities in…

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This chapter challenges middle-class bias in work-life literature by examining work-life balance dynamics through a social class perspective. It reveals class-based disparities in physical, temporal, and psychological outcomes, including the role of economic capital in work-life balance and the challenges encountered by the socially mobile in achieving psychological balance. It emphasizes the need to acknowledge social class implications for work-life balance and urges organizations to address class-based inconsistencies and inequalities in their practices.

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Work-Life Inclusion: Broadening Perspectives Across the Life-Course
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ISBN: 978-1-80382-219-8

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Publication date: 1 June 2002

Barrie O. Pettman and Richard Dobbins

This issue is a selected bibliography covering the subject of leadership.

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This issue is a selected bibliography covering the subject of leadership.

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Equal Opportunities International, vol. 21 no. 4/5/6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0261-0159

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Publication date: 1 January 2014

Stephen Hynes and Cathal O’Donoghue

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Handbook of Microsimulation Modelling
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ISBN: 978-1-78350-570-8

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