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Drawing on the unique academic and professional experience of its author, Strategic Management in the Third Sector provides a comprehensive introduction to the strategic development of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. Roger Courtney introduces students to the different ways of thinking about a third sector organisation and its external environment, including strategic thinking and analysis, and strategy formulation and implementation. Key Features: - Comprehensive case study coverage, focusing on a wide variety of non-profit organisations - Provides genuine insight into the practical implications of managing in the third sector - Identifies a wide range of strategic models and tools that are of value to the development of third sector organisations - Considers the latest developments in social enterprise - Written by a leading expert in the field Strategic Management in the Third Sector is an essential text for all students of voluntary and third sector management, charity and social enterprise management, voluntary sector studies, charity management and public service management

"The War Industry infests the American economy like a cancer, sapping its strength and distorting its creativity while devouring its treasure. Stunning in the depth of its research, Understanding the War Industry documents how the war industry commands the other two sides of the military-industrial-congressional triangle. It lays bare the multiple levers enabling the vast and proliferating war industry to wield undue influence, exploiting financial and legal structures, while co-opting Congress, academia and the media. Spiked with insights into how corporate boardrooms view the troops, overseas bases, and warzones, it assiduously delineates how corporations reap enormous profits by providing a myriad of goods and services devoted to making war, which must be rationalized and used if the game is to go on: advanced weaponry, drones and nukes; invasive information technology; space-based weapons; and special operations—with contracts stuffed with ongoing and proliferating developmental, tertiary and maintenance products for all of it."--

"The War Industry infests the American economy like a cancer, sapping its strength and distorting its creativity while devouring its treasure. Stunning in the depth of its research, Understanding the War Industry documents how the war industry commands the other two sides of the military-industrial-congressional triangle. It lays bare the multiple levers enabling the vast and proliferating war industry to wield undue influence, exploiting financial and legal structures, while co-opting Congress, academia and the media. Spiked with insights into how corporate boardrooms view the troops, overseas bases, and warzones, it assiduously delineates how corporations reap enormous profits by providing a myriad of goods and services devoted to making war, which must be rationalized and used if the game is to go on: advanced weaponry, drones and nukes; invasive information technology; space-based weapons; and special operations--with contracts stuffed with ongoing and proliferating developmental, tertiary and maintenance products for all of it."--

Introduction : sport and the citizens of a disenchanted Europe / Nicola Rinaldo Porro, Stefano Martellli, Alberto Testa -- Migrants' social integration through movement practices? / Stefano Martelli -- Sport and the 'question' of Islam in Europe / Mahfoud Amara -- European sport systems and the voluntary sector : non-profit organisations race for sport development / Nico Bortoletto and Alessandro Porrovecchio -- Sport in jail : a sociological comparative perspective / Maurizio Esposito -- The Europeanisation of sport : sociology of a new European public action / William Gasparini -- The organisation of sport and sports policies in Germany / Michel Koebel -- Sports organisations and policies in France / William Gasparini -- Sport and welfare in Britain / Ivan Waddington -- Welfare and sports policies in contemporary Italy / Nicola Rinaldo Porro -- Physical activity and sport in Spain / Juan Antonio Simón Sanjurjo -- Sport and welfare in central and eastern European countries / Simona Kustec and SimonLičen -- In the homeland of sport for all : the Scandinavian countries / Irene Masoni -- Conclusion : established models of European sport revisited from a socio-politological approach / Jeroen Scheerder.

Free enterprise system, financial markets and corporate culture -- The role and responsibility of business in society -- Introduction to business sustainability, corporate governance and organizational ethics -- Business sustainability -- Sustainability principles, theories, research and education -- Drivers and sources of business sustainability initiatives -- Financial economic dimension of sustainability -- Non-financial dimensions of sustainability -- Business sustainability performance reporting, assurance -- Emerging issues in sustainability performance, reporting and assurance -- An introduction to corporate governance -- Fundamentals of corporate governance -- Oversight function -- Board committees -- Managerial function -- Compliance function -- External auditing function -- Internal auditing function -- Legal and advisory function -- Monitory function -- Corporate governance of private and not-for-profit organizations -- Corporate governance, performance, information technology, research, education and reporting -- Transformation of corporate governance, contemporary issues and global perspectives -- Overview of business ethics -- Where ethics comes from : gazing at the human conditions -- How people make ethical decisions -- Ethics as corporate culture -- The institutionalization of the ethical corporation -- Emerging business ethics issues -- Ethical leadership.

This book explores the impact of Chinese growth on Latin America since the early 2000s. Roughly twenty years ago, Chinese entrepreneurs headed to the Western Hemisphere in search of profits and commodities, specifically those that China lacked and that some Latin American countries held in abundance -- copper, iron ore, crude oil, soybeans, and fish meal. Focusing largely on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru, Carol Wise traces the evolution of political and economic ties between China and these countries and analyzes how success has varied by sector, project, and country. She also assesses the costs and benefits of Latin America's recent pivot toward Asia. Wise argues that while opportunities for closer economic integration with China are seemingly infinite, so are the risks, and contends that the best outcomes have stemmed from endeavors where the rule of law, regulatory oversight, and a clear strategy exist on the Latin American side.

Intro -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1 Einleitung -- 1.1 Öffentliche Finanzen: Antike und moderne Konzepte -- 1.2 Max Webers Honoratioren und die athenische Demokratie: Analyserahmen und Vorgehensweise -- 1.3 Das Quellencorpus: Dokumentation, literarische Reflexion und materielle Belege -- 1.4 Forschungskontext: Öffentliche Finanzen und die Genese der Honoratiorenschaft -- 2 Verwirklichte Wahlmöglichkeiten: Die öffentlichen Finanzen als Spiegelbild athenischen Selbstverständnisses -- 2.1 Die Polis als Gemeinschaft gleichberechtigter Bürger -- 2.1.1 Ein Recht ist nur so viel wert, wie es auch wahrgenommen werden kann: Die misthophoria -- 2.1.2 Das System finanziert sich selbst: Geldbußen, Konfiskationen, Gerichtsgebühren -- 2.1.3 Die "natürlichen" Ressourcen nutzen: Einnahmen aus Handel, Bergbau und Metoikie -- 2.2 Die Polis als Schicksalsgemeinschaft -- 2.2.1 Invalidenrente, Waisenversorgung, Schaugelder: Die Unterstützung Bedürftiger -- 2.2.2 Eine Kultur der Abhängigkeit: Die Sicherung der Getreideversorgung -- 2.3 Die Polis als Kultgemeinschaft -- 2.3.1 Nicht nur eine Frage des Glaubens: Die kultischen Ausgaben -- 2.3.2 Zwischen demosion und hieron: Die Einnahmen aus sakralem Eigentum -- 2.4 Die Polis als Wehrgemeinschaft -- 2.4.1 Das Heer: Bürgerhopliten, Söldner und eine nicht ganz so elitäre Reiterei -- 2.4.2 Athens ganzer Stolz: Die Flotte -- 2.4.3 Auswärtige Quellen erschließen: Krieg kostet, generiert aber auch Profite -- 2.4.4 Die diplomatischen Ausgaben -- 2.5 Ergebnisse -- 3 Das Gegenbeispiel: Sparta -- 3.1 Das thukydideische Vermächtnis: Die Quellenlage -- 3.2 Die Komplexität der Einnahmen- und Ausgabenstruktur -- 3.3 Der alles dominierende Diskurs: Die Gleichheitsideologie -- 3.4 Die unsichtbaren Akteure: Die Rolle der Periöken -- 3.5 Ergebnisse -- 4 Die Verbindung von ökonomischer und sozialer Elite.

Definition of and rationales for tax-exempt organizations -- Overview of nonprofit sector and tax-exempt organizations -- Tax exemption: source and recognition -- Organizational, operational, and related tests and doctrines -- Nonprofit governance -- Concept of charitable -- Charitable organizations -- Educational organizations -- Scientific organizations -- Religious organizations -- Other types of charitable organizations -- Public charities and private foundations -- Social welfare organizations -- Business leagues and similar organizations -- Social clubs -- Labor, agricultural, and horticultural organizations -- Political organizations -- Employee benefit funds -- Other categories of tax-exempt organizations -- Private inurement and private benefit doctrines -- Intermediate sanctions -- Legislative activities by tax-exempt organizations -- Political campaign activities by tax-exempt organizations -- Unrelated business: basic rules -- Unrelated business: modifications, exceptions, special rules, and taxation -- Exemption recognition and notice processes -- Administrative and litigation procedures -- Operational requirements -- Tax-exempt organizations and exempt subsidiaries -- Tax-exempt organizations and for-profit subsidiaries -- Tax-exempt organizations and joint ventures -- Tax-exempt organizations: other operations and restructuring

National governments are increasingly sharing the stage with many other forms of empowered social actors and authoritative players. Worldwide, alongside governmental bureaucracies, we witness the proliferation of non-for-profit and voluntary associations, business organizations and corporations, civic action committees and political parties, as well as celebrities and cultural icons. Importantly, whether they are individual- and collective social actors, these various actors are bestowed with the legitimate authority to speak their mind, act on their agenda, and influence the course of social progress. How might we conceptualize the role of such empowered social actors?This compilation of research and commentary gathers a range of institutional perspectives investigating what the devolution of state power and the so-called democratization of social action means for the nature of authority and how the multiplicity and variety of social actors impacts societies worldwide, extending from focus on agents to actors to actorhood.

Information, never before available, on levels of affluence and the quality of life in every Zip code area in which Americans reside is contained in this book. The Council On Economic Priorities (CEP), a non-profit research agency committed to the exploration of issues of corporate social responsibility, has been engaged in a study of the relationship between the generation and disposal of toxic waste and the regional variation in cancer mortality rates for some time. A CEP study, Toxic Waste and Cancer: The Link ls Getting Stronger (published in September, 1984), established a small but statistically significant association between cancer and toxic waste at the county level. For small counties with petrochemical concentrations, the association appeared to be particularly high. CEP chose therefore to continue its studies at the 5 digit Zip code level, because the average 5 digit Zip code area is one-tenth the size of the typical county.

Intro -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1 Moderne Vergesellschaftungen und ihre Herstellung von Differenz -- 1.1 Kritische Vorbemerkungen zur Epistemologie von Vielfalt -- 1.1.1 Zwei Diskursstränge? -- 1.1.2 Eine Grundlage: Epistemologische Synthese -- 1.2 Moderne Vergesellschaftung -- 1.2.1 Moderne als Differenz -- 1.2.2 Differenzen der Differenzierten -- 1.2.3 Formate der Vergesellschaftung -- 1.2.4 Krisen des Sozialstaates -- 1.3 Der Neoliberalismus in der späten Moderne -- 1.3.1 Entsicherung des Neoliberalismus -- 1.3.2 Sicherung des Lebens? -- 1.3.3 Ästhetik eines nicht-essentialistischen Agonismus -- 1.4 Transformation vergeschlechtlichter Subjektivierungen -- 1.4.1 Soziale Räume struktureller Sorglosigkeit -- 1.4.2 Soziale Räume struktureller Fremde -- 1.4.3 Die Profession Sozialer Arbeit -- 1.5 Familienbezogene Subjektivierung in der Konfiguration von Erwerbsarbeit und Geschlecht -- 1.6 Zum Kategorisieren der Kategorien -- 1.7 Perspektiven der Vielfalt -- 1.8 Die Neuerfindung der Sozialwirtschaft -- Literatur -- 2 Management in der Sozialwirtschaft -- 2.1 Zum Begriff des Managements -- 2.1.1 Management von Organisationen -- 2.1.2 Management als Gestalten von Lösungen -- 2.2 Die Sozialwirtschaft -- 2.2.1 Zum Begriff der Sozialwirtschaft -- 2.2.1.1 Sozialwirtschaft und Non-profit-Organisationen -- 2.2.1.2 Sozialwirtschaftliche Dienstleistungsproduktion -- 2.2.1.2.1 Dienstleistungen -- 2.2.1.2.2 Produktivität des externen Faktors? -- 2.2.1.2.3 Strukturelemente sozialwirtschaftlicher Dienstleistungsproduktion -- 2.2.1.3 Ökonomisierung der Sozialen Arbeit -- 2.2.2 Träger und ihre Formationen in der Sozialwirtschaft -- 2.2.3 Strukturen der Sozialwirtschaft -- 2.2.3.1 Logiken sozialwirtschaftlicher Praxis -- 2.2.3.2 Sektoren und Prozesse: Governance -- 2.2.4 Prozesse sozialwirtschaftlichen Personalmanagements -- 2.2.5 Unternehmensumwelt?.

A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld. Based on interviews, archival research, judicial records, underground videos, and prison memoirs, Crack explains why, in a de-industrializing America in which market forces ruled and entrepreneurial risk-taking was celebrated, the crack industry was a lucrative enterprise for the 'Horatio Alger boys' of their place and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of economic globalization. Hip Hop artists often celebrated their exploits but overwhelmingly, Americans - across racial lines -did not. Crack takes a hard look at the dark side of late twentieth-century capitalism.

Product information is excessively commercial and technical. There is no single best product for all, and the price/quality ratio can be deceptive. Word of mouth is growing with opinions shared on the internet. This book calls for the reinvention of a new economy based on real requirements, not only for profit or "technology" but for qualities of use and the environment. A product's use is its purpose. An innovation must always be an improvement to qualities of use. The emergence of new technologies, such as connected objects and the autonomous car, form a new trap for innovation, and progress has been limited to the perfection of technique. Marketing must no longer confuse the consumer (the customer) and the user. Complete with methodology for the reader to follow, this book describes how the ecology of use can become the main wealth of an economy based on quality of life and well-being.

Management Control: Concept, Methods and Practices' conceptualises management control concepts, methods and practices used by C-level executives and controllers in managing financial and strategic performance. The authors show how financial and strategic performance control processes can be integrated in order to create and improve internal strategic alignment. Alongside traditional controls, such as managing cost centres, profit centres, investment centres, budgeting and variance reporting, the use of advanced costing systems, such as activity-based costing and time-driven activity-based costing, and the balanced scorecard in planning and executing improvements of financial and strategic performance is discussed. The authors illustrate how controllers can run a control process in which intended strategies, performance measures, performance targets, actions and budgets are all aligned with each other across all organisational levels (vertical alignment) and between business units and functions (horizontal alignment), and in which financial performance is controlled in relation to strategic performance

"Logistics and marketing stand out as two disciplines which are connected, and both are critical to the provision of customer value. Marketing and Logistics Led Organizations looks at marketing-led logistics and logistics-led marketing. In the current business world, the idea of a single supply chain has been replaced by an integrated multi-channel approach. The authors therefore examine how to optimise profit and control costs through the coordination of these two functions. Marketing and Logistics Led Organizations takes an in-depth look at physical supply chains where manufacturing of a product occurs from groceries to pharmaceuticals, and from automotive to construction. The authors examine omni-channel, how this affects the customer experience and the need for a joined-up strategy which is operationalised across all channels. They also look at the challenges of digitalisation and the customer interface with the growth of the internet as well as the intensification of competition across all sectors