Flexible India

Author : Shameem Black
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231556286

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Flexible India by Shameem Black Pdf

Yoga has offered the Indian state unprecedented opportunities for global, media-savvy political performance. Under Modi, it has promoted yoga tourism and staged mass yoga sessions, and Indian officials have proposed yoga as a national solution to a range of social problems, from reducing rape to curing cancer. But as yoga has gone global, its cultural meanings have spiraled far and wide. In Flexible India, Shameem Black travels into unexpected realms of popular culture in English from India, its diaspora, and the West to explore and critique yoga as an exercise in cultural power. Drawing on her own experience and her readings of political spectacles, yoga murder mysteries, court cases, art installations, and digital media, Black shows how yoga’s imaginative power supports diverse political and cultural ends. Although many cultural practices in today’s India exemplify “culture wars” between liberal and conservative agendas, Flexible India argues that visions of yoga offer a “culture peace” that conceals, without resolving, such tensions. This flexibility allows states, corporations, and individuals to think of themselves as welcoming and tolerant while still, in many cases, supporting practices that make minority populations increasingly vulnerable. However, as Black shows, yoga can also be imagined in ways that offer new tools for critiquing hierarchical structures of power and race, Hindu nationalism, cultural appropriation, and self-help capitalism.

Author : P.K. Suri,Rajan Yadav
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811396403

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Transforming Organizations Through Flexible Systems Management by P.K. Suri,Rajan Yadav Pdf

The book focuses on key emerging areas concerning flexible systems management as an approach for transforming organizations. It is divided into three parts, discussing Enterprise Flexibility and Performance Management; Transformational Strategies and Organizational Competitiveness; and Supply Chain Flexibility. Part I addresses the integration aspects of learning, innovation, and entrepreneurship for organizational success, performance gains through cross-border acquisitions, flexibility measurement, and organizational competitiveness, impact of disinvestment, employability gaps and sustainable growth. Part II then examines risk governance structure, supporting culture, channel collaboration, waste management, IT-based process re-engineering, HR flexibility and adoption of big data as transformational strategies. Lastly, the third part investigates the development of a framework for a green flexible manufacturing system, measuring the effect of supply chain design on firm performance, exploring and ranking logistics service providers’ best practices, and exploring the relationship between optimism and career planning in the context of manufacturing sector, and analyzes customers’ emotional engagement and their inclinations towards the brand. The concept of flexibility is a common thread running through the three parts. The book is supported by both quantitative- and qualitative-based research as well as case applications relating to different areas of government and profit and not for profit organizations. Written by leading academics and practitioners, it is a useful resource for management students, scholars, consultants and practicing managers in both government and corporate sectors.

Author : Sanjay Dhir,Sushil
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811089268

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Flexible Strategies in VUCA Markets by Sanjay Dhir,Sushil Pdf

This book discusses the concepts of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) that are the core of various paradigms used in strategic management to understand competitive advantage as well as flexibility in organizational boundaries. It serves as a valuable reference resource in the area of VUCA markets. An increase in the levels and types of uncertainty has important implications potentially for the durability of a company’s advantages, the way firms learn and adapt, approaches for managing innovation and knowledge, and the attractiveness of different strategies and organizational models. In today’s world, strategic flexibility in VUCA is essential for business leaders to sustain market advantage and attain a clear vision amid the chaos. Business leaders who stay focused and are aware of external volatility as the prevalent characteristic are successful, while those who are not flexible in this VUCA world and lock themselves into fixed positions lose out. The book includes empirical and conceptual research papers along with case studies and models discussing strategies for emerging markets in volatile and uncertain environments. It also covers a variety of issues, including innovation, people and processes, financial management, and leadership and strategies in VUCA markets. Apart from research fraternity and academia, the contents of the book will be useful for practitioners as well as industry watchers.

Author : Sushil,Julia Connell,John Burgess
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132228349

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Flexible Work Organizations by Sushil,Julia Connell,John Burgess Pdf

This book focuses on the challenges of capacity building for flexible work organizations in Asia, and demonstrates how business enterprises practice reactive flexible capacity (in the form of adaptiveness and responsiveness) to cope with changing and uncertain business environments. The book provides examples of how this can be achieved by means of various organizational change initiatives, leadership strategies, re-engineering, innovation in products and processes, the use of information and communication technology, reshaping learning orientations, and more. As these topics are supported by research and case studies situated in different sectors and countries across Asia, the book will provide a useful resource for a broad readership including: management students and researchers, practicing business managers, consultants, and professional institutions.

Author : Tony Killick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134816446

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The Flexible Economy by Tony Killick Pdf

The accelerating pace of global change demands that economies must be adaptable. Economies which are flexible flourish, as in Eastern Asia. Inflexible economies stagnate, as in Eastern Europe and Africa. However even though adaptability governs the long-term progress of economies, economists have had little to say about the nature and determinants of economic flexibility. This book redresses that situation. A prestigious team of contributors address the key theoretical and empirical issues, using a wide range of country studies.

Author : Sushil,Edward A. Stohr
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132215608

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The Flexible Enterprise by Sushil,Edward A. Stohr Pdf

The need for enterprise flexibility in an era of rapidly advancing technology, increasing competition, and globalization, is apparent. Flexibility can be thought of as an ability of the enterprise to quickly and efficiently respond to market changes and to bring new products and services quickly to the market place. Beyond this definition, a truly flexible enterprise should proactively change the market through its ability to create new and innovative products and services. The proposed book is intended to provide a conceptual framework of ‘Flexible Enterprise’ supported by researches/case applications in various types of flexibilities exhibited by a flexible enterprise. The selected papers from a variety of issues concerning the planning and operation of a flexible enterprise are organized into following four parts: I Enterprise and Strategic Flexibility II Organizational Flexibility III Business Process and Information Systems Flexibility IV Operations Flexibility

Author : CA. Ashish K Agrawal and Aditi Agrawal
Publisher : CA. Ashish K Agrawal
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Introduction to the Constitution of India (A Diagrammatic and Tabular Presentation) by CA. Ashish K Agrawal and Aditi Agrawal Pdf

Foreword by CA. (Dr.) Girish Ahuja Pages 359 (Edition 2021) Specially designed for competitive exams and students of B.Com, M.Com, BBA, MBA, LLB, CA/CS/CMA and other specialised courses. The main features of this book which make it better than other books, are :- 1. All the topics have been presented in a tabular form (no paragraphs have been used) which make it easier to read and understand. 2. Diagrams for most of the topics have been given in this book. This makes it very easy for the students to understand and remember the contents. 3. All the concepts have been given pointwise which makes reading very fast and easy. 4. This book gives conceptual clarity of the law. 5. This book not only helps in scoring very good marks in exam, but also in using the law in practical world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057003589058

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Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office for ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : iSmithers Rapra Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Polyurethanes
ISBN : 1859570909

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Utech Asia'97 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anamitra Roychowdhury
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351058858

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Labour Law Reforms in India by Anamitra Roychowdhury Pdf

Labour market flexibility is one of the most closely debated public policy issues in India. This book provides a theoretical framework to understand the subject, and empirically examines to what extent India’s ‘jobless growth’ may be attributed to labour laws. There is a pervasive view that the country’s low manufacturing base and inability to generate jobs is primarily due to rigid labour laws. Therefore, job creation is sought to be boosted by reforming labour laws. However, the book argues that if labour laws are made flexible, then there are adverse consequences for workers: dismantled job security weakens workers’ bargaining power, incapacitates trade union movement, skews class distribution of output, dilutes workers’ rights, and renders them vulnerable. The book: identifies and critically examines the theory underlying the labour market flexibility (LMF) argument employs innovative empirical methods to test the LMF argument offers an overview of the organised labour market in India comprehensively discusses the proposed/instituted labour law reforms in the country contextualises the LMF argument in a macroeconomic setting discusses the political economy of labour law reforms in India. This book will interest scholars and researchers in economics, development studies, and public policy as well as economists, policymakers, and teachers of human resource management.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057002676405

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English Patents of Inventions, Specifications by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Dentistry
ISBN : NWU:35558003801046

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British Journal of Dental Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sunanda Sen,Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351184793

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The Changing Face of Imperialism by Sunanda Sen,Maria Cristina Marcuzzo Pdf

This volume reiterates the relevance of imperialism in the present, as a continuous arrangement, from the early years of empire-colonies to the prevailing pattern of expropriation across the globe. While imperialism as an arrangement of exploitation has sustained over ages, measures deployed to achieve the goals have gone through variations, depending on the network of the prevailing power structure. Providing a historical as well as a conceptual account of imperialism in its ‘classical’ context, this collection brings to the fore an underlying unity which runs across the diverse pattern of imperialist order over time. Dealing with theory, the past and the contemporary, the study concludes by delving into the current conjuncture in Latin America, the United States and Asia. The Changing Face of Imperialism will provide fresh ideas for future research into the shifting patterns of expropriation – spanning the early years of sea-borne plunder and the empire-colonies of nineteenth-century to contemporary capitalism, which is rooted in neoliberalism, globalization and free market ideology. With contributions from major experts in the field, this book will be a significant intervention. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of economics, politics, sociology and history, especially those dealing with imperial history and colonialism.

Author : Anusha Kedhar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190840150

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Flexible Bodies by Anusha Kedhar Pdf

Flexible Bodies honors the lives and labor of British South Asian dancers and celebrates their contributions to a distinct and dynamic sector of British dance. Drawing on expertise gained from over seven years dancing in Britain, author Anusha Kedhar presents a multifaceted picture of British South Asian dance as its own distinctive genre.ÂAnalyzing dance works, dance films, rehearsals, and touring - alongside immigration policy, arts funding initiatives, and global economic conditions - Flexible Bodies traces shifts in British South Asian dance from 1990s "Cool Britannia" multiculturalism to fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis and, more recently, the anti-immigration rhetoric leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016. Kedhar draws on over a decade of interviews and conversations with dancers in Britain as well as in-depth choreographic analysis of major dance works to reveal the creative ways in which British South Asian dancers negotiate neoliberal, multicultural dance markets through an array of flexible bodily practices. Providing a new, critical dance studies lens through which to view the precarious economic, racial, national, and legal positions of South Asians in Britain, Flexible BodiesÂultimately argues for centering dance labor in studies of neoliberalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11550034

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The Journal of Physiology by Anonim Pdf