For more than 120 years (1714–1837) Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This made Britain a continental European state in many respects, and diluted her sense of insular apartness. The geopolitical focus of Britain was now as much on Germany, on the Elbe and the Weser as it was on the Channel or overseas. At the same time, the Hanoverian connection was a major and highly controversial factor in British high politics and popular political debate. This volume was the first systematically to explore the subject by a team of experts drawn from the UK, US and Germany. They integrate the burgeoning specialist literature on aspects of the Personal Union into the broader history of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Never before had the impact of the Hanoverian connection on British politics, monarchy and the public sphere, been so thoroughly investigated.
List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Perceptions of Entrepreneurship: 1. Entrepreneurship as a social and economic phenomenon 2. Entrepreneurship as a field of research 3. Entrepreneurship as an academic subject Part II. Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial System: 4. A new perspective to understand entrepreneurship 5. Individual dimension in the I-NVC dialogic 6. New Value Creation dimension in the I-NVC dialogic Part III. Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Processes: 7. Introduction to the concept of entrepreneurial process 8. The dynamic dimension of the entrepreneurial process 9. A generic model of the entrepreneurial process Part IV. Entrepreneurial Process Dynamics: 10. Entrepreneurial Process Trigger Phase 11. Entrepreneurial process commitment phase 12. Entrepreneurial process survival/development phase Conclusion Bibliography Index.
Meaning in the Media addresses the issue of how we should respond to competing claims about meaning put forward in confrontations between people or organisations in highly charged circumstances such as bitter public controversies and expensive legal disputes. Alan Durant draws attention to the pervasiveness and significance of such meaning-related disputes in the media, investigating how their 'meaning' dimension is best described and explained. Through his analysis of deception, distortion, bias, false advertising, offensiveness and other kinds of communicative behaviour that trigger interpretive disputes, Durant shows that we can understand both meaning and media better if we focus in new ways on moments in discourse when the apparently continuous flow of understanding and agreement breaks down. This lively and contemporary volume will be invaluable to students and teachers of linguistics, media studies, journalism and law.
Draws on Christian heritage and psychological research to deepen and enrich the pastoral dimension of Sunday worship. This book presents various ideas on worship as pastoral care.
List of IllustrationsForeword by Tom Miller List of Abbreviations Introduction: Titling America 1 Title Insurance as a For-Pro?t Business 2 Alternative Title Guarantee Models 3 Title Insurance as a Government Service 4 Title Insurance: The Legal Dimension 5 Title: The Administrative Dimension 6 Title Interest Groups 7 Title Income and Losses 8 Title Reform Is a De?nite Maybe 9 The Future of Title Insurance Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors
Drucker was timely and inopportune at the same time. It is clear that from his extensive, solid and continual formation there has been born a singular, and at the same time multi-faceted, philosophy, which is deliberately difficult to summarize. Drucker was one of the first, if not the first, to discover the imminence of this far-reaching change. Precisely because he is not a specialist, he was able to perceive details and nuances that had been missed by the great gurus of management. This is why Drucker is considered to be the forerunner of modern management, as well as other concepts. This book shows the lesser-known side of Peter Drucker as far as his views on his own ideas are concerned. Drucker is most commonly thought of as a management theoretician; undoubtedly this is the most well known dimension of his work. What could be considered new and useful is that Drucker's aim was to write about man in his (man's own) social context. Drucker poured and concentrated his knowledge on man and organizations, drawing from what he learned from his European background and after expanded and practically texted in his American years.
The EU faces a serious crisis of democratic legitimacy. Citizens believe that the EU is run by distant and non-responsive political elites. The EU's perceived lack of responsiveness to ordinary citizens poses a threat to its very survival. This timely book presents a comprehensive account of how EU governments signal responsiveness to the interests of their citizens over European policies. Schneider develops and tests a theoretical framework of the intergovernmental dimension of responsive governance in the European Union, using evidence amassed over nearly ten years of multi-method research. The findings show that European cooperation in the Council of the European Union takes place in the shadow of national elections. Governments signal responsiveness to their publics by taking positions that are in the interests of politically relevant voters at the national level, defending these positions throughout negotiations in the Council, and seeking appropriate policy outcomes at the EU level.
In geography, a region is one of the most obscure and controversial scientific research objects. However, the tourism sector frequently uses the term, both in the communication of tourism destinations and in daily-life vocabulary, to characterize spatial practices that overtake the scale of a place. That said, a geographic concentration of place, equipment and accommodation does not equate to a tourist region. In order to define the tourist region, this book presents the common thoughts and interpretations of it, which have been advanced by geographers since the beginning of the 20th Century. The Tourist Region also examines stakeholdersâ logics that are identified in the practices of a tourist destination in a regional dimension, and explores the tourist region as a territorial co-construction. Finally, this book analyzes multi-level regional networks of tourist places, built according to tourist mobilities. By presenting several measurement methods of the tourist region, this book explains the spatial practices of tourists and anticipates the actions for tourism professionals.
The regulation of business in the global economy poses one of the main challenges for governance, as illustrated by the dynamic scholarly and policy debates about the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and a possible international treaty on the matter. This book takes on the conceptual and legal underpinnings of global governance approaches to business and human rights, with an emphasis on the Guiding Principles (GPs) and attention to the current treaty process. Analyses of the GPs have tended to focus on their static dimension, such as the standards they include, rather than on their capacity to change, to push the development of new norms, and practices that might go beyond the initial content of the GPs and improve corporate compliance with human rights. This book engages both the static and dynamic dimensions of the GPs, and considers the issue through the eyes of scholars and practitioners from different parts of the world.
Part I. Background Concepts and Issues: 1. Introduction: textual dimensions and relations 2. Situations and functions 3. Previous linguistic research on speech and writing Part II. Methodology: 4. Methodological overview of the study 5. Statistical analysis Part III. Dimensions and Relations in English: 6. Textual dimensions in speech and writing 7. Textual relations in speech and writing 8. Extending the description: variations within genres 9. Afterword: applying the model Appendices.
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