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The era of globalisation brought waves of consolidation in business ownership alongside Leviathon-like state actors. Digital disruptiontoo canleave market power in a relatively small number of hands. In organisational and economic terms, global oligopoly is now a fundamental idea for business and society, which this book explores and analyses. This book focuses on global oligopolies, starting with an analysis of global concentration and profits in all sectors, before moving on to illuminate the geographical spread and global strategic orientation choices and performance outcomes of global oligopoly. Contemporary cooperation modes, such as cross-border M&As and strategic alliances, niche and Emerging Market champion strategiesare alsoanalysed in detail to move the reader towards understanding likely future directions for the field. Presenting empirical data on strategies and performance outcomes, the book covers a range of industries to provide practical, research-based guidance for more effective global business strategies and policy perspectives.

"Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Richard Carr reveals the untold story of the transatlantic 'Third Way' by analysing how Tony Blair and Bill Clinton won power and ultimately how they lost it. Using newly unearthed archives and interviews with key players, he investigates the relationship between the administrations and sheds new light on big events such as the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the handover to George W. Bush, and the controversial Iraq War."--

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Golden Years? An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Older Adults in the Contemporary United States: A Snapshot -- Chapter 3. Life-Course Perspectives on Social Inequalities in Later Life: A Brief Overview -- Chapter 4. The Fit and the Frail: Physical Health Among Older Adults -- Chapter 5. The Satisfied and the Sorrowful: The Mental Health of Older Adults -- Chapter 6. The Loved and the Lonely: Social Relationships and Isolation in Later Life -- Chapter 7. The Home Front: Residential and Community Experiences of Older Adults -- Chapter 8. Is Death the Great Equalizer? Disparities in Dying -- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Future Trends and Policy Considerations for the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- References -- Index

Introduction to world trade -- Importance of trade -- Development of trade -- Trade in action -- Mapping world trade -- Issues of trade -- World trade through history -- Working in world trade -- Key trade organizations -- Research a world trade issue -- Test your knowledge

Islamophobia, or anti-Muslim racism, rose to prominence with the publication of the Runnymede Trust (1997) report: "Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All." Since then, a range of studies have been undertaken on this phenomenon. Yet, despite the attention being paid to anti-Muslim racism internationally, up until the research discussed below, the experiences of Muslim communities vis-a-vis this phenomenon in Ireland were largely ignored. The research focused upon here commenced in 2010 in a context wherein Muslim communities were increasingly the focus of international racializing discourses--discourses which persist today. Furthermore, at the same time as this study started and at a national level, the infrastructure of the Irish equality mechanisms and monitoring bodies were being decimated as a result of so-called austerity measures. With that, whatever, albeit limited, insights that were available of lived anti-Muslim racism in Ireland were lost. In this context, the author set out to highlight the realities of anti-Muslim racism in Ireland utilizing differing research methods. However, before this could happen, the author, a non-Muslim White, Irish, formerly Catholic male, would have to gain access to Muslim communities in Ireland to work with them. In what follows, I will discuss how I gained this access and the methods used to address the questions discussed above. From here, I will spend some time discussing some of the less documented research issues that I feel are incredibly important in the context of researching racism with Muslim communities: including those relating to ethics, positionality, and reflexivity.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Virtue, practical wisdom and moral psychology in professional practice -- 1 Why you cannot regulate for virtuous compassion -- 2 Thin 'thank you's': resentment and gratitude in homecoming rituals -- 3 Role duties, role virtues and the practice of business -- 4 Practising professional ethical wisdom: the role of 'ethics work' in the social welfare field -- 5 Attachment, detachment and indifference in clinical practice -- Part II The social, historical and institutional context of virtuous professional practice -- 6 Creating regulatory environments for practical wisdom and role virtues in medical practice -- 7 Progress in nursing ethics: something old, something new. . . -- 8 Organisations, character, virtue and the role of professional practices -- 9 The institutional framework of professional virtue -- 10 Character in the British Army: a precarious professional practice -- Part III Learning professionally virtuous character -- 11 Experienced UK nurses and the missing U-curve of virtue-based reasoning -- 12 Beyond research ethics: how scientific virtue theory reframes and extends responsible conduct of research -- 13 Transformation needs an agent: preparing senior professional practitioners to nurture character, virtue and professionalism in their supervisees -- 14 Practitioner research, practical wisdom and teaching -- 15 Why is there lack of growth in character virtues? An insight into business students across British business schools -- Postscript: towards further professional education in virtuous character -- Index

Introduction : Generosity, refugees and historical perspectives in relation to the Kosovars -- 1. The Howard government, Operation Safe Haven and media spin -- 2. Kosovo and the breakdown of Yugoslavia in the eyes of the "west" -- 3. Natural selection? : the evacuation, bureaucracy and governmental agenda -- 4. Arrival : the Howard government's propaganda machine in action -- 4. The singleton incident : the Kosovars' protest for improved conditions -- 5. At the safe haven -- 6. The end of Operation Safe Haven : repatriation and the high court challenge -- Conclusion : the Kosovars and generosity in context

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Thirty and going nowhere -- Intermezzo -- Cockroaches in the cells -- What a day this has been -- Hello, I must be going -- Of seaweed, scrub and subdivisions -- A lousy education -- Fever in the blood -- Events control me -- Nev: always give 'em hope -- The great man comes to university -- Dry enough to win government? -- The Carr crash -- Opportunistic ferals -- Our royal commission -- A lonely government -- Bob the builder -- The tolls stuff-up -- While the grilled salmon waits … -- Not worth the candle -- Injecting rooms: taking a stand -- Me and sport -- The Olympics -- In love with Europe -- The more the merrier -- Kids? -- Against mandatory sentencing -- Trogs, Terrigals and the smashing of crockery -- Me and 'the lobby' -- The sausage-roll affair -- Oops! -- Just indictment -- The rapist in his cell -- The lock-out -- What about the workers? -- Beating the bastards -- Call me a tree hugger -- Goody, goody -- Better humans than we -- Is it 2050 and I am 102? -- Hymn to our harbour -- What about our rights? -- The world's policeman -- China panic -- To change the country -- Bundeena and the honour of it all -- Index

Most political memoirs are boring. Bob Carr tears up the rules. He plunges in, beginning with the despair of a young man pining for a political career, convinced he's going nowhere, then vaulting to the exhilaration of a premier who, on one day, saves a vast forest and unveils the country's best curriculum. He lashes himself for ignoring a cry from a prisoner in a cell and for a breach of protocol with a US Supreme Court judge. He considers talking to the leader of a notorious rape gang and celebrates winning power against the odds: a leader without kids or any interest in sport. He describes growing up in a fibro house without sewerage and a 'lousy education' that produced a lifetime appetite for self-learning. He is candid about dealing with the media, dining with royals, working for Kerry Packer. He reveals the secrets he learnt from Neville Wran. He is open about his adulation of Gough Whitlam. Floating above all is Bob Carr's idea of public service in a party, he says, that resembles an old, scarred, barnacled whale. In an era of bland politicians, here's one with personality true to his quirky self. Silence the jet skis! Balance the budget! Liberate the dolphins! Roll out the toll roads! Declare a million hectares of eucalypt wilderness! Be a politician of character. All author proceeds from this book are donated to help the children displaced by the Syrian civil war by funding humanitarian aid through the registered charity Australia for UNHCR.

An unapologetic, brutal memoir from notorious 60s career criminal James Carr. BAD covers Carr's life from his first arrest for burning down his school at age 9, through merciless stints in San Quentin, where he shared a cell with famed Soledad Brother George Jackson, through his tragic post-incarceration murder in San Jose in 1972. A savage indictment of the American penal system, this classic release has new significance as part of a growing, urgent demand for criminal justice reform

DISASTER RESILIENCE AFTER HURRICANE SANDY ENHANCEMENT EFFORTS, USE OF FUNDS, AND NATIONAL MITIGATION FRAMEWORK -- DISASTER RESILIENCE AFTER HURRICANE SANDY ENHANCEMENT EFFORTS, USE OF FUNDS, AND NATIONAL MITIGATION FRAMEWORK -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 HURRICANE SANDY: AN INVESTMENT STRATEGY COULD HELP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ENHANCE NATIONAL RESILIENCE FOR FUTURE DISASTERS* -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BACKGROUND -- Resilience, Mitigation, and Related Concepts