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51. Building Network Capabilities in Turbulent Competitive Environments

    Practices of Global Firms from Korea and Japan

    By Young Won Park, Paul Hong

    Series: Resource Management

    Since the start of the recent financial crisis, as most global firms struggle to remain competitive, an increasing number of Korean and Japanese firms have experienced an amazing rate of growth and expansion. Although academic researchers and business leaders in the United States, China, Brazil,...

    Published December 18th 2011 by CRC Press
52. The Business of Criminal Justice

    A Guide for Theory and Practice

    By Daniel Adrian Doss, Chengqi Guo, Joo Young Lee

    Regardless of the type, size, or mission of a criminal justice or law enforcement organization, optimum decision making can be achieved by examining activities and functions from the perspective of traditional business administration. Using profit and nonprofit business models, The Business of...

    Published December 18th 2011 by CRC Press
53. Nationalism in a Global Era

    The Persistence of Nations

    Edited by Mitchell Young, Eric Zuelow, Andreas Sturm

    Series: Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity

    This volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on nations and nationalism by examining why nations remain a vibrant and strong social cohesive despite the threat of globalization. Regardless of predictions forecasting the demise of the nation-state in the global era, the nation persists...

    Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
54. Sport, Violence and Society

    By Kevin Young

    Is violence an intrinsic component of contemporary sport? How does violence within sport reflect upon the attitudes of wider society? In this landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers the first comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central...

    Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
55. Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society

    Edited by Graeme Gill, James Young

    There is an ever-burgeoning number of books analyzing the Russian experience, or aspects of it. This Handbook is the first single volume which gives both a broad survey of the literature as well as highlighting the cutting edge research in the area. Through both empirical data and theoretical...

    Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
56. New Generation of Europium- and Terbium-Activated Phosphors

    From Syntheses to Applications

    By Mihail Nazarov, Do Young Noh

    This book concentrates on the luminescence and structural properties of the new generation of europium and terbium activated phosphors, associated phenomena, and related topics, from basic principles to the most recent discoveries. It summarizes the present state of the art in this rapidly growing...

    Published September 1st 2011 by Pan Stanford Publishing
57. Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective

    Edited by Brigitte Young, Isabella Bakker, Diane Elson

    Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

    Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to analyze the ‘strategic silence’ about gender in fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation....

    Published July 31st 2011 by Routledge
58. Institutional Economics and National Competitiveness

    Edited by Young Back Choi

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This book offers a strong contribution to the growing field of institutional economics, going beyond the question of why institutions matter and examines the ways in which different types of institutions are conducive to the enhancement of competitiveness and economic development. Adopting a...

    Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
59. Family and Kinship in East London

    By Michael Young, Peter Wilmott

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1957 ,and reprinted with a new introduction in 1986, Michael Young and Peter Willmott’s book on family and kinship in Bethnal Green in the 1950s is a classic in urban studies. A standard text in planning, housing, family studies and sociology, it predicted the...

    Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge
60. Introduction to Polymers, Third Edition

    By Robert J. Young, Peter A. Lovell

    Thoroughly updated, Introduction to Polymers, Third Edition presents the science underpinning the synthesis, characterization and properties of polymers. The material has been completely reorganized and expanded to include important new topics and provide a coherent platform for teaching and...

    Published June 26th 2011 by CRC Press