The Representation of Business in English Literature
Title | The Representation of Business in English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Pollard |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
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The Representation of Business in English Literature
Title | The Representation of Business in English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Pollard |
Publisher | Amagi Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780865977587 |
In The Representation of Business in English Literature, five scholars of different periods of English literature produce original essays on how business and businesspeople have been portrayed by novelists, starting in the eighteenth century and continuing to the end of the twentieth century. The contributors to Representation help readers understand the partiality of the various writers and, in so doing, explore the issue of what determines public opinion about business. Arthur Pollard (1922-2001) was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Hull in Hull, East Yorkshire, England. John Blundell is General Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, London. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.
The Political Power of the Business Corporation
Title | The Political Power of the Business Corporation PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Wilks |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1849807329 |
The large business corporation has become a governing institution in national and global politics. This study offers a critical account of its political dominance and lack of democratic legitimacy.
The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew D. Brown |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1065 |
Release | 2020-01-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0192561952 |
Conceived as the meanings that individuals attach to their selves, a substantial stockpile of theory related to identities accumulated across the arts, social sciences, and humanities over many decades continues to nourish contemporary research on self-identities in organizations. In times which are more reflexive, narcissistic, and fluid, the identities of participants in organizations are increasingly less fixed and less certain, making identity issues both more salient and more interesting. Particular attention has been given to processes of identity construction, often styled 'identity work'. Research has focused on how, why, and when such processes occur, and their implications for organizing and individual, group, and organizational outcomes. This has resulted in a burgeoning stream of research from discursive, dramaturgical, symbolic, socio-cognitive, and psychodynamic perspectives that most often casts individuals' efforts to fabricate identities as intentional, relational, and consequential. Seemingly intractable debates centred on the nature of identities - their relative stability or fluidity, whether they are best regarded as coherent or fractured, positive (or not), and how they are fabricated within relations of power - combined with other conceptual issues continue to invigorate the field. However, these debates have also led to some scepticism regarding the future potential of identities research. Yet as the chapters in this Handbook demonstrate, there are considerable grounds for optimism that identity, as root metaphor, nexus concept, and means to bridge levels of analysis has significant potential to generate multiple compelling streams of theorizing in organization and management studies.
Managing Britannia
Title | Managing Britannia PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Protherough |
Publisher | Andrews UK Limited |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2016-07-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1845404807 |
For more than thirty years the solution to all Britain's problems has been better management. As a result management schools dominate higher education and managers are at work everywhere developing ‘strategies' and ‘systems’ and quantifying ‘outcomes’. There are now more managers on the rail network than train drivers, yet the benefits of modern management of railways, schools, hospitals and universities are elusive. This is because ‘management’ does not exist—the academic study of ‘management science’ and the assumption that there are universal management skills are bogus. This book shows how modern management practices have all but destroyed politics, education, culture and religion—modern management is the cause of our national malaise.
English Studies
Title | English Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Mehmet Ali Çelikel |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2015-09-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1443883182 |
This volume offers a selection of revised versions of the papers presented at the 7th International IDEA Conference held at Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey, organised by the Association of English Language and Literary Studies in Turkey. The contributions to this book offer a wide range of research from scholars on a variety of topics in English literature, including Shakespearean studies, Victorian, colonial, and postcolonial literature, poetry, and drama studies. The volume also includes a number of informative research articles on comparative and translation studies which will offer assistance to young scholars in their academic studies. In addition to acting as a guide to young academics, the book will also function as a fruitful reference book in a wide range of English literary studies.
Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir'
Title | Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir' PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Breashears |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 2017-02-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319486551 |
This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women’s life writings, particularly those labeled “scandalous memoirs.” It examines how the evolution of this subgenre was shaped partially by several innovative memoirs that have received only modest critical attention. Breashears argues that Madame de La Touche’s Apologie and her friend Lady Vane’s Memoirs contributed to the crystallization of this sub-genre at mid-century, and that Lady Vane’s collaboration with Tobias Smollett in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle resulted in a brilliant experiment in the relationship between gender and genre. It demonstrates that the Memoirs of Catherine Jemmat incorporated influential new strategies for self-justification in response to changing kinship priorities, and that Margaret Coghlan’s Memoirs introduced revolutionary themes that created a hybrid: the political scandalous memoir. This book will therefore appeal to scholars interested in life writing, women’s history, genre theory, and eighteenth-century British literature.