Transforming the Public Sphere or Accounting for Decision Making and Control

Transforming the Public Sphere: The Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor in 1898

Author: Maria Grever

A comprehensive social history, Transforming the Public Sphere describes the planning and construction of the Exhibition of Women's Labor and the event itself -- the sights, the sounds, and the smells -- as well as the role of exhibitions in late-nineteenth-century public culture. The authors discuss how the 1898 exhibition displayed the range and variety of women's economic, intellectual, and artistic roles in Dutch culture, including their participation in such traditionally male professions as engineering, printing and publishing, and pharmacy. They examine how people and goods from the Dutch colonies were represented, most notably in an extensive open-air replica of a "Javanese village." Grever and Waaldijk reveal the tensions the exhibition highlighted: between women of different economic classes; between the goal of equal rights for women and the display of imperial subjects and spoils; and between socialists and feminists, who competed fiercely with one another for working women's support. Transforming the Public Sphere explores an event that served as the dress rehearsal for advances in women's public participation during the twentieth century.

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Accounting for Decision Making and Control

Author: Jerold L Zimmerman

Accounting for Decision Making and Control by Jerry Zimmerman continues to grow in popularity with instructors due to its emphasis on teaching students to critically evaluate and solve actual business problems. Zimmerman is able to achieve this through: 1) Strong conceptual framework; 2) Business orientation focusing on how organizations work; 3) Balance between concepts & practice; 4) Strongest problem material available.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	The Nature of Costs	25
3	Opportunity Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting	91
4	Organizational Architecture	143
5	Responsibility Accounting and Transfer Pricing	181
6	Budgeting	237
7	Cost Allocation: Theory	311
8	Cost Allocation: Practices	375
9	Absorption Cost Systems	425
10	Criticisms of Absorption Cost Systems: Incentive to Overproduce	493
11	Criticisms of Absorption Cost Systems: Inaccurate Product Costs	521
12	Standard Costs: Direct Labor and Materials	571
13	Overhead and Marketing Variances	609
14	Management Accounting in a Changing Environment	649
	Solutions to Concept Questions	703
	Glossary	713
	Index	723

Competitive Strategy Dynamics or Managing Diversity in the Global Organization

Competitive Strategy Dynamics

Author: Kim Warren

This book offers a practical, fact-based approach to explain how enterprises deliver performance over time. Rigorous methods explain how to quantify the growth, decline and interdependence within the organisation's resources and capabilities as well as the continuous interactions with competitors and other external factors. These methods create clear and practical pictures of the strategic architecture driving earnings and other performance outcomes, not just for commercial firms, but for non-profit cases too. Management is then well-equipped to answer three crucial questions in their strategy development : why has the business performed as it has to date? where is performance headed in the future if we carry on as now? and how can we alter this future for the better? The book provides the basis for an entire course on the time-based perspective on competitive strategy, connecting strongly to established static frameworks. Alternatively it offers a vital missing component for existing courses in strategy and general management, as well as a key reference text for professionals in corporate development, consulting and business analysis.

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Managing Diversity in the Global Organization: Creating New Business Values

Author: Celia de Anca

Global diversity is a key issue facing all companies and organisations. This book embraces diversity and shows how this is a strength that can provide the tools needed to attain the values and characteristics increasing demanded by business corporations and environments. Diversity has enormous benefits and opportunities, but these need to be carefully understood and developed. This book provides a practical framework and approach

Table of Contents:

PART I: UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY
Dominant and Emerging Values
A Comparative Analysis of the Parameters of a Traditional Firm and a Modern Firm
Women in Management
Cross-Cultural Management
Personality in Diversity Management
PART II: MANAGING DIVERSITY
Diversity Management in Today's Firm
Practical Case Studies
Epilogue: 10 Questions for a Global Age

Capitalism Socialism Ecology or Restructuring the Philadelphia Region

Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology

Author: Andre Gors

Taking into account changing cultural attitudes to work, he re-examines socialism's historical project--which, he contends, has always properly been to lay down the rules and limits within which economic rationality may be permitted to function, not to create some statist, productivist countersystem. Above all, he offers a vital fresh perspective for the left, whose objective, in his view, must be to extend the sphere of autonomous human activity, and increase the possibilities for individual self-fulfilment.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Disorientations, Orientations: In Defence of Modernity	1
2	A Left in Need of Redefinition	15
3	Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology	27
4	Redefining Socialism	38
5	The New Servants	44
6	The Crisis of "Work" and the Post-Industrial Left	53
7	Old and New Actors in the Central Conflict	67
8	Which Way is Left? Social Change in the Post-Industrial Age	78
9	Shorter Hours, Same Pay	102
	Afterword: Will There Be a European Left? Theoretical and Political Queries	118
	Index	143

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Restructuring the Philadelphia Region: Metropolitan Divisions and Inequality

Author: Carolyn Teich Adams

About the Author:
Carolyn Adams is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University

About the Author:
David Bartelt is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University

About the Author:
David Elesh is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Science Data Library at Temple University

About the Author:
Ira Goldstein is Director of Policy and Information Services for The Reinvestment Fund