Understanding Global Complexity In A Turbulent World

Author : John Cochran
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1982069759

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Understanding Global Complexity in a Turbulent World by John Cochran Pdf

As the world shifts to a less stable geopolitical structure, only firms that can acquire a better capability to foresee and prepare for change will prevail over the long term.Strategy and Geopolitics provides a strategic framework that can help senior business executives address the challenges of globalization in this evolving geopolitical landscape. This book underlines the need to go beyond a simplistic understanding of different countries and territories: it discusses the geopolitical issues that can be the cause of success or failure in different markets; and it explores strategies for dealing with global and local complexity, as well as introducing innovative ideas on recruitment and organization.

Author : Mike Rosenberg
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787149786

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Strategy and Geopolitics by Mike Rosenberg Pdf

The world is shifting to a less stable geopolitical structure, and only firms that can acquire a better capability to foresee and prepare for change will succeed. Strategy and Geopolitics provides a strategic framework that can help senior business executives address the challenges of globalization in this evolving geopolitical landscape.

Author : Mike Rosenberg
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787145689

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Strategy and Geopolitics by Mike Rosenberg Pdf

The world is shifting to a less stable geopolitical structure, and only firms that can acquire a better capability to foresee and prepare for change will succeed. Strategy and Geopolitics provides a strategic framework that can help senior business executives address the challenges of globalization in this evolving geopolitical landscape.

Author : Vincent Petit
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786349118

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Future Of The Global Order, The: The Six Paradigm Changes That Will Define 2050 by Vincent Petit Pdf

Where is the world heading? What choices need to be made to help humanity to thrive? These questions are more acute than ever in a context of growing inequalities, populism, social disorder, environmental challenges, and global health threats.The Future of the Global Order explores the six fundamental transformations ahead that will define the future of the world in the next three decades. Each chapter provides a unique and fact-based analysis of the situation at hand, reviews underlying uncertainties, and studies their inter-dependencies. As a tool to trigger debate, the book provides possible evolutions in global activity with four baseline scenarios, grasping the key issues which will shape the global order to 2050.Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the massive forces of global change at play and the key decisions facing the future of humanity and the world.

Author : Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780525495

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Action Research for Sustainable Development in a Turbulent World by Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt Pdf

Presents and celebrates Action Learning and Action Research (ALAR) through stories, experiences, reflections and specific works of key proponents and participants in ALAR World Congresses. This title argues for the benefits of action research for sustainable development and problem solving in a turbulent world in the 21st century.

Author : Richard W. Mansbach,Kirsten L. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315301815

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Introduction to Global Politics by Richard W. Mansbach,Kirsten L. Taylor Pdf

The fully updated third edition of Introduction to Global Politics continues to provide a vital resource for students looking to explain global politics using an historical approach, firmly linking history with the events of today. By integrating theory and political practice at individual, state, and global levels, students are introduced to key developments in global politics, helping them make sense of major trends that are shaping our world. Retaining the successful format of previous editions, this is a highly illustrated textbook with informative and interactive boxed material throughout. Chapter opening timelines contextualize the material that follows, and definitions of key terms are provided in a glossary at the end of the book. Every chapter ends with student activities, cultural materials, and annotated suggestions for further reading. Key updates for this edition: New material on key topical issues such as Islam’s relationship with the West, Islamic State, BRICS and other emerging economies, the continuing effects of the Arab Spring, and R2P. Coverage of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and North Korea’s continued development of its nuclear weapons and missile programs. Analysis of new technologies for warfighting – such as drones, IEDs and cyber technologies – as well as technologies for countering terrorism and conducting unconventional wars. Updated examples from around the globe in every chapter. Stimulating and provocative both for students and for instructors, Introduction to Global Politics, 3rd Edition, is essential reading for students of political science, global politics, and international relations.

Author : Gert de Roo,Claudia Yamu,Christian Zuidema
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786439185

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Handbook on Planning and Complexity by Gert de Roo,Claudia Yamu,Christian Zuidema Pdf

This Handbook shows the enormous impetus given to the scientific debate by linking planning as a science of purposeful interventions and complexity as a science of spontaneous change and non-linear development. Emphasising the importance of merging planning and complexity, this comprehensive Handbook also clarifies key concepts and theories, presents examples on planning and complexity and proposes new ideas and methods which emerge from synthesising the discipline of spatial planning with complexity sciences.

Author : Emilian Kavalski
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438456096

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World Politics at the Edge of Chaos by Emilian Kavalski Pdf

Comprehensive overview of the inroads made by Complexity Thinking approaches and ideas in the study and practice of world politics. Why are policymakers, scholars, and the general public so surprised when the world turns out to be unpredictable? World Politics at the Edge of Chaos suggests that the study of international politics needs new forms of knowledge to respond to emerging challenges such as the interconnectedness between local and transnational realities; between markets, migration, and social movements; and between pandemics, a looming energy crisis, and climate change. Asserting that Complexity Thinking (CT) provides a much-needed lens for interpreting these challenges, the contributors offer a parallel assessment of the impact of CT to anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric (post-human) International Relations. Using this perspective, the result should be less surprise when confronting the dynamism of a fragile and unpredictable global life. Emilian Kavalski is Associate Professor of Global Studies at the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University, North Sydney. He is the author and editor of several books, including Central Asia and the Rise of Normative Powers: Contextualizing the Security Governance of the European Union, China, and India.

Author : Rob Elkington,Madeleine van der Steege,Judith Glick-Smith,Jennifer Moss Breen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787149144

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Visionary Leadership in a Turbulent World by Rob Elkington,Madeleine van der Steege,Judith Glick-Smith,Jennifer Moss Breen Pdf

Visionary Leadership in a Turbulent World: Thriving in the New VUCA Context, is the thoughtful analysis of nine expert authors from around the globe who put VUCA under the microscope and take the reader on a journey that looks at VUCA from a number of different leadership perspectives.

Author : John Urry
Publisher : Polity
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745628184

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Global Complexity by John Urry Pdf

Global Complexity is a path-breaking book, which examines how the ideas of chaos and complexity can help us to analyse global processes. Urry argues that there are major advantages in thinking about global processes in this way. The idea of complexity emphasizes that systems are balanced between order and chaos, that a system does not necessarily move towards equilibrium and that events are both unpredictable and irreversible in their effects. Hence specific events can have unexpected effects, often distant in time and space from where they occurred. This book combines new theory with many illustrations of how global processes operate. Urry distinguishes between 'global networks' and 'global fluids', and shows how forms of global emergence develop from the complex relationships between these networks and fluids. He draws out the implications of global complexity for our understanding of social order and argues that complexity requires us to reformulate the main categories of sociology and to reject any globalization thesis that is over-unified, dominant and unambiguous in its effects. Global systems are always 'on the edge of chaos'. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology, politics, geography and economics and to and to all those concerned with rethinking the nature of globalization.

Author : Jon Pierre
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191583315

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Debating Governance by Jon Pierre Pdf

Leading scholars in the field of governance examine the effectiveness of the different non-institutional strategies at the disposal of modern governments in tackling issues of urban decline, public administrations, governmental regionalization, budget deficits and global economics. The governance approach to political science yields a new perspective on the role of the state, domestically as well as in the international arena. Globalization, internationalization, and the growing influence of networks in domestic politics means that the notions of state strength and the role of the state in society must re-examined.

Author : James N. Rosenau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134172030

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The Study of World Politics by James N. Rosenau Pdf

James Rosenau’s work is known for its originality and clarity and the sixteen articles in this new volume are no exception. Tackling the specific challenges posed by globalization and governance, this book covers four key areas: the challenge – tensions, contradictions, outcomes and global affairs the profession – community, globalized space and international relations globalization – complexities, contradictions and theory governance – understanding and future The Study of World Politics presents the thinking of one of the most innovative scholars in the last half century. The subjects addressed provide the big picture, whilst also being meticulous in detail. This new book gives the reader an unparalleled understanding of globalization and governance and is an invaluable tool to students and scholars of politics and world affairs alike.

Author : Donald Sull,Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780544409903

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Simple Rules by Donald Sull,Kathleen M. Eisenhardt Pdf

Outlines an approach to high-performance problem-solving and decision-making that draws on insights from survival guides, pop culture and other sources. Co-written by the award-winning author of The Upside of Turbulence. 75,000 first printing.

Author : Graham Room
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857932648

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Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy by Graham Room Pdf

I think this is a very important book. Very few people in the social sciences write books on this topic and really do justice to complexity theory. Professor Room gives a very detailed, accurate and accessible review of complexity theory as it applies to social policy. His link with institutional theory is very appropriate and his discussion on the need for regulation (a link with complexity theory that many people would never reach) is really important and well grounded. It would be of interest to academics who really want to understand the implications of complexity theory for policy making in complex and fast-changing situations and to those undertaking advanced courses in politics, economics and sociology. - Jean Boulton, University of Cranfield, UK Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualisation and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result, researchers are ill-equipped to offer policy advice. This book offers a new analytical approach, combining complexity science and institutionalism. It also provides tools for policy makers in turbulent times. Part 1 is concerned with the conceptualisation of socio-economic change. It integrates complexity science and institutionalism into a coherent ontology of social and policy dynamics. Part 2 is concerned with models and measurement. It combines some of the principal approaches developed in complexity analysis with models and methods drawn from mainstream social and political science. Part 3 offers empirical applications to public policy: the dynamics of social exclusion; the social dimension of knowledge economies; the current financial and economic crisis. These are supplemented by a toolkit for the practice of agile policy making.

Author : Yannis A. Stivachtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 9606672298

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Global Affairs in a Turbulent World by Yannis A. Stivachtis Pdf