Authors:Shaul M Gabbay, Roger Th A J Leenders,
Publisher: JAI Press
Keywords: organizations, sociology, research, volume, social, capital
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2001-06-25
List price: $121.00
ISBN-10: 0762307706
ISBN-13: 9780762307708

One of the most influential concepts in the social science literature in the last two decades, the theory of social capital, asserts that social actors gain resources through relationships with other actors. While social capital research has largely focused on individuals as the unit of analysis, this volume looks at social capital of organizations, or Corporate Social Capital (CSC), exploring how and to what extent social networks facilitate or impede the attainment of organizational goals. This collection of papers posits a distinction between social structure and its outcomes, noting th

Authors:Roger Th.A.J. Leenders, Shaul M. Gabbay,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: liability, capital, social, corporate
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1999-07-31
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 0792385012
ISBN-13: 9780792385011

What enables some organizations to routinely perform better than others? Conversely, what makes some firms consistently perform worse than their competitors? Within a single corporation, what enables some teams or individual firm members to outperform their counterparts? Through the concept of social capital, this book addresses these questions by studying the effects of relationship networks on the ability of corporate players (firms and their members) to attain their professional goals. The idea of social capital has become one of the premier approaches to studying networks in the c

Author: Gordon j. h. Leenders
Publisher: Ecw Press
Keywords: volume, continued
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1550227203
ISBN-13: 9781550227208

In this second collection of interconnected short stories, a new cast of characters encounters some memorable folks from the previous volume. Light, charming, and true to human nature, these mini-portraits freeze-frame characters at moments of shock or discovery and return to their predicaments in subsequent tales, creating an ever-expanding world of ordinary and not-so-ordinary people, places, and ideas.

Authors:Michiel Leenders, P. Fraser Johnson, Anna Flynn, Haro
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Keywords: management, supply, purchasing
Number of Pages: 588
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0072873795
ISBN-13: 9780072873795

The Leenders’ text provides a comprehensive introduction to the purchasing and supply chain management field, supported by 50 case studies. Cases cover purchasing and supply chain issues in a variety of settings, from process industries to high tech manufacturing and services as well as public institutions. Supply Management concepts, both strategic and tactical, have been expanded throughout the text, particularly in new chapters on Supply Law and Ethics, Public Supply, and Supplier Relations. While all basic tenets of the purchasing function and cost issues remain, the coverage of the fiel

Authors:Sarah Anne Hughes, Roger Tory Peterson, Roger Conant
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: color, books, guide, field, amphibians, peterson, reptiles
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2003-03-27
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0618307370
ISBN-13: 9780618307371

From the purplish gray of a Barking Frog to the pink and orange blotches of a Gila Monster, coloring your own field guide is the most enjoyable way to learn about reptiles and amphibians. Each drawing is accompanied by a brief description that educates as it entertains. Place the new color stickers next to the drawings for a visual reference while coloring. Coloring the drawings helps reinforce the color, image, and shape of each reptile or amphibian, improving your memory and perception while offering a pleasant and easy way to learn. Fun for adults as well as children, beginning and experien

Authors:Michael Fordham,  Dr Roger Hobdell, Roger Hobd
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: psychoanalysis, analytical, psychology, essays, field, jung, klein, fenceless, freud
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1998-06-18
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415186153
ISBN-13: 9780415186155

Michael Fordham was an international figure in the history of analysis. A friend of Jung and of Winnicott, he was co-editor of the Collected Works of Jung and the first editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. Freud, Jung and Klein draws together some of Fordham’s key writings on psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. Containing a major new work on the recorded cases of Freud, Jung and Klein it discusses them in the context of Fordham’s own model of development and includes recent critical writing on internationally known figures, particularly Bion and Meltzer.

Authors:Roger Caras, Steven Foster, Roger Tory Peterson,
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: north, guide, field, america, peterson, mexico, poisonous, venomous, animals, plants
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1998-09-15
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 039593608X
ISBN-13: 9780395936085

This essential guide to safety in the field features 90 venomous animals and more than 250 poisonous plants and fungi. The 340 line drawings make identification fast and simple; 160 species are also illustrated with color photographs.