Search Results - "Competition"

The Greater Middle East in global politics social science perspectives on the changing geography of the world politics /

Table of Contents: “…Radtke -- Indian power projection in the Greater Middle East : tools and objectives / Prithvi Ram Mudiam -- The changing face of the Russian Far East : cooperation and resource competition between Japan, Korea, and China in Northeast Asia / Roger Kangas -- India-Pakistan engagement with the Greater Middle East : implications and options / B.M. …”
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Managing expatriates a return on investment approach / by McNulty, Yvonne

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Sweat equity : inside the new economy of mind and body / by Kelly, Jason, 1973-

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While Waiting for Rain : Community, Economy, and Law in a Time of Change / by Schlegel, John Henry

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Dreams for Dead Bodies : Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction / by Robinson, Michelle, 1979-

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Diaspora and Trust : Cuba, Mexico, and the Rise of China / by Hearn, Adrian H., 1975-

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Human insecurity in East Asia

Table of Contents: “…Landlessness and development : policy purposes and policy outcomes in Southeast Asia / Lynn Thiesmeyer -- Policy coordination beyond borders : Japan-China environmental policy practices in Shenyang and Chengdu, China / Wang Xue-ping and Yoshika Sekine -- ASEAN migrant workers : from poverty to human-security-based competitiveness / Patcharawalai Wongboonsin -- Pesticide dependence in agriculture : policy for productivity and policy for security in Viet Nam / Tran Duc Vien and Pham Van Hoi -- Creating a community : ageing in urban Japan / Daisike Watanabe -- Human security practices in a highland minority project / Lynn Theismeyer and Seewigaa Kittiyoungkun -- Epilogue : research in human insecurity / Michio Umegaki.…”
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Human insecurity in East Asia

Table of Contents: “…Landlessness and development : policy purposes and policy outcomes in Southeast Asia / Lynn Thiesmeyer -- Policy coordination beyond borders : Japan-China environmental policy practices in Shenyang and Chengdu, China / Wang Xue-ping and Yoshika Sekine -- ASEAN migrant workers : from poverty to human-security-based competitiveness / Patcharawalai Wongboonsin -- Pesticide dependence in agriculture : policy for productivity and policy for security in Viet Nam / Tran Duc Vien and Pham Van Hoi -- Creating a community : ageing in urban Japan / Daisike Watanabe -- Human security practices in a highland minority project / Lynn Theismeyer and Seewigaa Kittiyoungkun -- Epilogue : research in human insecurity / Michio Umegaki.…”
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The trust crisis in healthcare causes, consequences, and cures /

Table of Contents: “…McCormick -- Trust in the trenches: developing the patient-physician dyad in medical genetics / Susan P. Pauker -- Gaining competitive advantage in the healthcare marketplace by building trust / David A. …”
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Supply chain excellence a handbook for dramatic improvement using the SCOR model / by Bolstorff, Peter

Table of Contents: “…About the supply chain operations reference model -- Building organizational support for supply chain improvement -- Week one : planning and organizing -- Week two : project kickoff and SCOR metrics -- Week three : benchmarks, competitive requirements, and steering team review number one -- Week four : scorecards -- Week five : initiating AS IS material flow and steering team review number two -- Week six : the planning process matrix, thread diagram, and metric defect analysis -- Week seven : material flow disconnect analysis and steering team review number three -- Week eight : the project portfolio -- Week nine : opportunity analysis and steering team review number four -- Week ten : TO BE material flow -- Week eleven : quick-hit plans, steering team review number five, and initiating the work and information flow analysis -- Week twelve : the staple yourself interview -- Week thirteen : the AS IS process, understanding functional responsibility, and steering team review number six -- Week fourteen : the process performance summary -- Week fifteen : the TO BE work and information flow blueprint and steering team review number seven -- Week sixteen : level four process development -- Week seventeen : implementation planning, program management and steering team review number eight -- Extending excellence beyond the supply chain.…”
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Supply chain excellence a handbook for dramatic improvement using the SCOR model / by Bolstorff, Peter

Table of Contents: “…About the supply chain operations reference model -- Building organizational support for supply chain improvement -- Week one : planning and organizing -- Week two : project kickoff and SCOR metrics -- Week three : benchmarks, competitive requirements, and steering team review number one -- Week four : scorecards -- Week five : initiating AS IS material flow and steering team review number two -- Week six : the planning process matrix, thread diagram, and metric defect analysis -- Week seven : material flow disconnect analysis and steering team review number three -- Week eight : the project portfolio -- Week nine : opportunity analysis and steering team review number four -- Week ten : TO BE material flow -- Week eleven : quick-hit plans, steering team review number five, and initiating the work and information flow analysis -- Week twelve : the staple yourself interview -- Week thirteen : the AS IS process, understanding functional responsibility, and steering team review number six -- Week fourteen : the process performance summary -- Week fifteen : the TO BE work and information flow blueprint and steering team review number seven -- Week sixteen : level four process development -- Week seventeen : implementation planning, program management and steering team review number eight -- Extending excellence beyond the supply chain.…”
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Chinese Heritage in the Making : Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations /

Table of Contents: “…Mapping the Chinese heritage regime: ruptures, governmentality, and agency / Marina Svensson and Christina Maags -- Section I: Re-imagining the past: contested memories and contemporary issues -- Telling stories in a borderland: the evolving life of Ma Bufang's official residence / Susette Cooke -- From a symbol of imperialistic penetration to a site of cultural heritage: the 'Italian-style exotic district' in Tianjin / Hong Zhang -- Historic urban landscape in Beijing: the Gulou project and its contested memories / Florence Graezer Bideau and Haiming Yan -- Section II: Celebrating and experiencing the cultural heritage: top-down and bottom-up processes and negotiations -- Creating a race to the top: hierarchies and competition within the Chinese ICH transmitters system / Christina Maags -- Heritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong / Selina Chan -- Recognition and misrecognition: the politics of intangible cultural heritage in Southwest China / Tami Blumenfield -- Holy heritage: identity and authenticity in a Tibetan village / Sonja Laukkanen -- Section III: Public debates in heritage work: possibilities and limitations for plural voices and new forms of engagements -- Heritage visions of Mayor Geng Yanbo: re-creating the city of Datong / Jinze Cui -- The revitalization of Zhizhu Temple: policies, actors, and debates / Lui Tam -- Heritage 2.0: maintaining affective engagements with the local heritage in Taishun / Marina Svensson.…”
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The trust crisis in healthcare causes, consequences, and cures /

Table of Contents: “…McCormick -- Trust in the trenches: developing the patient-physician dyad in medical genetics / Susan P. Pauker -- Gaining competitive advantage in the healthcare marketplace by building trust / David A. …”
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Chinese Heritage in the Making : Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations /

Table of Contents: “…Mapping the Chinese heritage regime: ruptures, governmentality, and agency / Marina Svensson and Christina Maags -- Section I: Re-imagining the past: contested memories and contemporary issues -- Telling stories in a borderland: the evolving life of Ma Bufang's official residence / Susette Cooke -- From a symbol of imperialistic penetration to a site of cultural heritage: the 'Italian-style exotic district' in Tianjin / Hong Zhang -- Historic urban landscape in Beijing: the Gulou project and its contested memories / Florence Graezer Bideau and Haiming Yan -- Section II: Celebrating and experiencing the cultural heritage: top-down and bottom-up processes and negotiations -- Creating a race to the top: hierarchies and competition within the Chinese ICH transmitters system / Christina Maags -- Heritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong / Selina Chan -- Recognition and misrecognition: the politics of intangible cultural heritage in Southwest China / Tami Blumenfield -- Holy heritage: identity and authenticity in a Tibetan village / Sonja Laukkanen -- Section III: Public debates in heritage work: possibilities and limitations for plural voices and new forms of engagements -- Heritage visions of Mayor Geng Yanbo: re-creating the city of Datong / Jinze Cui -- The revitalization of Zhizhu Temple: policies, actors, and debates / Lui Tam -- Heritage 2.0: maintaining affective engagements with the local heritage in Taishun / Marina Svensson.…”
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A history of East European Jews by Haumann, Heiko, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…THE CRISIS OF THE JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE A NEW IDENTITY -- Transformation of the Traditional Intermediary Function -- 'Expulsion' and 'Restructuring' -- Luftmenshn -- Transformation of the Occupational Structure and New -- Intermediary Activities -- Competition to Oust Rivals from the Market and Anti- -- Semitism -- Haskala: The Jewish Enlightenment -- Assimilation and Acculturation -- 'Necktied' and 'Kaftaned' Jews -- By Way of an Example: Jews in Warsaw and L6di -- The Jewish Family -- Men and Women in Jewish Society -- Jewish Upbringing -- Everyday Religious Customs -- Synagogue and Community Organizations -- Increasing Conflicts with the Non-Jewish World -- Socialism, Zionism, New Jewish Identity -- Immigration as an Attempt to Find a New Homeland -- A Center of East European Jewry: Galicia and Bukovina -- A Positive Model with Contradictions: Hungary -- Different Attitudes to the Emancipation of the Jews in -- Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria -- A 'Ritual Murder': The Case of Bohemia and Moravia -- PART IV. …”
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Aboriginal music in contemporary Canada echoes and exchanges /

Table of Contents: “…Continuity and innovation in the Dane-z̲aa dreamers' song and dance tradition : a forty-year perspective / Amber Ridington ; From tea dance to iTunes : recomposing Dane-z̲aa dreamers' songs / interview, Garry Oker with Amber Ridington ; Localizing intertribal traditions : the powwow as Mi'kmaw cultural expression / Janice Esther Tulk ; Contemporary Northern Plains powwow music : the twin influences of recording and competition / interview, Gabriel Desrosiers and Christopher Scales ; Aboriginal women and the powwow drum : restrictions, teachings, and challenges / Anna Hoefnagels -- Part two : teaching and transmission. …”
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The new politics of strategic resources : energy and food security challenges in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University -- Materials, markets, multilateralism : a strategic approach to India's resource challenges / David Steven and Arunabha Ghosh, CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water -- Brazil's principled pragmatism : a viable response to the new geopolitics of resource competition? / Antonio Ramalho, Professor, University of Brasília -- The big squeeze : Nigeria on the brink / Mark Weston, Policy Consultant, Riverpath Associates -- Facets of resource security -- Routes to energy security : the geopolitics of gas pipelines between the EU and its southeastern neighbors / Angel Saz-Carranza and Marie Vandendriessche -- Energy rivalry between India and China : less than meets the eye? …”
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Aboriginal music in contemporary Canada echoes and exchanges /

Table of Contents: “…Continuity and innovation in the Dane-z̲aa dreamers' song and dance tradition : a forty-year perspective / Amber Ridington ; From tea dance to iTunes : recomposing Dane-z̲aa dreamers' songs / interview, Garry Oker with Amber Ridington ; Localizing intertribal traditions : the powwow as Mi'kmaw cultural expression / Janice Esther Tulk ; Contemporary Northern Plains powwow music : the twin influences of recording and competition / interview, Gabriel Desrosiers and Christopher Scales ; Aboriginal women and the powwow drum : restrictions, teachings, and challenges / Anna Hoefnagels -- Part two : teaching and transmission. …”
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The new politics of strategic resources : energy and food security challenges in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University -- Materials, markets, multilateralism : a strategic approach to India's resource challenges / David Steven and Arunabha Ghosh, CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water -- Brazil's principled pragmatism : a viable response to the new geopolitics of resource competition? / Antonio Ramalho, Professor, University of Brasília -- The big squeeze : Nigeria on the brink / Mark Weston, Policy Consultant, Riverpath Associates -- Facets of resource security -- Routes to energy security : the geopolitics of gas pipelines between the EU and its southeastern neighbors / Angel Saz-Carranza and Marie Vandendriessche -- Energy rivalry between India and China : less than meets the eye? …”
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