This book innovatively explores how universities might be engines of reform and be directed towards social change. Using rich case studies drawn from South African research, the book comprehensively provides a myriad of new perspectives on what constitutes a set of appropriate public-good professional capabilities that will translate successfully into contributions to human development. It challenges universities to produce professionals who have the knowledge, skills and values to improve the lives of people living in poverty in urban and rural settings. It covers issues such as:
Conceptualising Public-Good Professionalism
Global Issues and Professional Education
South African Debates about Higher Education
Institutional conditions and professional education arrangements
Social Constraints on educating ethically aware public professionals
By drawing on an approach that focuses on differing public-good professional capabilities in five professions, this book produces a crucial new framework for the preparation of professionals relevant to the global study of higher education policy. It expands higher education's contribution to global social justice beyond a concern with human capital, administering a challenge to higher education internationally to address human development in the 21st century.
This book will be of great interest to all scholars of higher education involved in higher education studies, comparative education, and development studies. It will also prove valuable to policy makers, higher education leaders and lecturers and graduate professionals in diverse organizations.
This book explores factors which impact the viability and growth of business enterprises. In particular, the role of entrepreneurship, organizational learning, and business strategy -- including licensing strategy -- are considered in some detail. It presents fundamental thinking about business organization and provides the conceptual framework that scholars need to understand complex business organization, managerial processes, and competitive strategy.
Автор: Reijo Miettinen Название: Innovation, Human Capabilities, and Democracy ISBN: 0199692610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199692613 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11246.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book explores different policy and research frameworks on innovation, analyzing the foundation, emergence, and development of the National Innovation Systems model. It proposes the concept of an enabling welfare state to answer the challenges facing the Nordic model of welfare in a globalizing knowledge-driven economy.
Описание: During the past few years, the global environment has been increasingly causing revolutionary, disruptive innovation changes in traditional industries, corporations and business models. Traditional approaches to strategy are proving to be inadequate to deal with these changes, and those who want to survive and succeed in the highly competitive global economy urgently need more dynamic, innovative and holistic approaches to strategy and strategic management. The major focus of this book is to provide new strategic management approaches and tools to enable capabilities for rapid, discontinuous organizational innovation and change. For both advanced students and business managers, it presents a well-balanced combination of leading-edge theory supported by published articles of prominent scholars, and case studies & examples, all designed to substantiate a new strategic mindset, innovative tools, and practical applications for significantly increased innovative capabilities. Among the topics covered in the book are innovative business models, open-sourcing, mobile enterprise, industry-inflection, systemic strategy approaches, R&D structures outside the organization, innovation effectiveness tools, networked incubation, customer knowledge cooption, communities of new value creation, and innovative strategy leadership.
Название: Economic Organization, Capabilities and Coordination ISBN: 0415862663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415862660 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7961.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of essays has been put together to honour G.B. Richardson, often thought of as the `founding father` of the theory of the firm and market. The book traces the development of his ideas and how they relate to current debates.
Автор: Comim Название: Capabilities, Gender, Equality ISBN: 1107015693 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107015692 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A multidisciplinary group of experts provide unique reflections on the capabilities or `human development` approach to understanding well-being and basic political entitlements. With a special focus on Martha C. Nussbaum`s contributions to political philosophy, this thought-provoking book will interest a wide range of readers and policymakers interested in human development policies.
In 2002 the International Labour Organization issued a report titled 'Decent work and the informal economy' in which it stressed the need to ensure appropriate employment and income, rights at work, and effective social protection in informal economic activities. Such a call by the ILO is urgent in the context of countries such as India, where the majority of workers are engaged in informal economic activities, and where expansion of informal economic activities is coupled with deteriorating working conditions and living standards.
This book explores the informal economic activity of India as a case study to examine typical requirements in the work-lives of informal workers, and to develop a means to institutionalise the promotion of these requirements through labour law. Drawing upon Amartya Sen's theoretical outlook, the book considers whether a capability approach to human development may be able to promote recognition and work-life conditions of a specific category of informal workers in India by integrating specific informal workers within a social dialogue framework along with a range of other social partners including state and non-state institutions. While examining the viability of a human development based labour law in an Indian context, the book also indicates how the proposals put forth in the book may be relevant for informal workers in other developing countries.
This research monograph will be of great interest to scholars of labour law, informal work and workers, law and development, social justice, and labour studies.
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