Author: Frederique Six
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pu
Keywords: building, interpersonal, dynamics, trouble
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1847206409
ISBN-13: 9781847206404

"The Trouble with Trust" poses the question: if trust is considered to be important for successful cooperation, why don’t high-trust work relationships predominate? Part of the explanation, the author argues, is that it is particularly difficult to build and maintain trust in work relations. This book addresses this problem by providing an in-depth, multi-level empirical analysis of the process by which trust builds up and breaks down in the interaction between people within organizations. The author illustrates how trust works as an interactive and asymmetrical process, how trust is bui

Authors:Frederique Dahan, John Simpson,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: elgar, financial, law, credit, access, transactions, reform, secured
Number of Pages: 283
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1847205984
ISBN-13: 9781847205988

Secured transactions reform, also known as collateral or pledge law reform, is increasingly seen as an important building block for economic development. The commonly held view is that the availability and cost of credit, as well as the efficiency of the market for secured credit, are directly influenced by the laws affecting secured transactions and their implementation. However, there is still a lot of confusion about this relatively obscure and technical area of the law and its role in promoting access to credit and economic growth. This collection of essays gives for the first time a truly

Authors:Chet A. Bowers, Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Frdrique
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: political, historical, studies, education, sociocultural, crisis, freire, globalization, environmental, thinking
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-10-13
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0805851143
ISBN-13: 9780805851144

This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis.One source of the activist-authors’ criticisms of Freire’s pedagogy is rooted in their attempts to combine consciousness raising with literacy programs in such diverse cultural settings as Bolivia, Peru, India, Southern Mexico, and Cambodia, where they discovered that Freire’s pedagogy is based on western assump