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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- 1 Introduction: corruption scandals and global governance -- 2 The management or mismanagement of corruption in Trinidad and Tobago -- 3 Examining the potential impact of whistleblowing on corruption in the Caribbean's financial sector -- 4 A fish rots from the head: corruption scandals in post-Communist Russia -- 5 Toa kitu kidogo: when "chai" is not tea - and Kenya's corruption scandals -- 6 Campaign donation and extradition of the connected in Jamaica -- 7 Big, bigger, biggest: grand corruption scandals in the oil sector in Nigeria -- 8 A spoonful of laws doesn't help the bribery go down: persistent contributing factors of corruption in the US pharmaceutical and medical device industry -- 9 The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the US and extra-territorial enforcement of an international anti-bribery regime -- 10 The dynamics of corruption in Brazil: from trivial bribes to a corruption scandal -- 11 "The theory of the world in-between": corporatism and mafia-ness in the new type of corruption in Italy -- 12 Belarus: do stones thrown into a marsh make rings? -- 13 Conclusion: lessons learned -- Index

Intro; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Note; Introduction; Insights through exile: queer critiques of marriage; Overview of the volume; Toward a queer research agenda on relationships after marriage; Notes; References; PART I The material impacts of same-sex marriage; 1 Living lesbian relationships in Madrid; Introduction: homo/transphobia as a form of slow violence; Sample and methodology; Lesbian coupledom and the Spanish social and legal context; Lesbian identities and/or relationships and slow violence.

Editor's introduction / Sara James -- What is metaphysical sociology? / John Carroll -- The existential Jesus : transcript of an interview with Stephen Crittenden and John Carroll -- John Carroll's Jesus / Roger Scruton -- John Carroll : towards a definition of culture / John Dickson -- The passion in port Talbot / Michael Sheen -- A neo-Calvinist sociology : John Carroll's metaphysical modernity / Peter Murphy -- The eclipse of metaphysics / Keith Tester -- Digital western dreaming / Marcus Maloney -- The benefit of an anarcho-psychological perspective of terrorism / Wayne Bradshaw -- Mortality, time and embodied finitude / Margaret Gibson -- Modern metaphysical romance / Sara James -- Response / John Carroll -- Index

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: 'lost in perfection' - ideals and performances -- PART I Optimisation in economy and working life -- 1 Optimisation in a context of financialisation -- 2 The subject in the marketplace, the subject as a marketplace -- 3 The missing link: how organisations bridge the gap between dynamic stabilisation and individual optimisation -- PART II Changes in intersubjectivity - pathologies of the social -- 4 'Fitter, happier, more productive' : optimising time with technology -- 5 Optimising patterns of life conduct: transformations in relations to the self and to others, especially in generational care -- 6 The two meanings of the notion of social pathology: toward an anthropology of adversity in individualistic society -- PART III The optimised self -- 7 The authoritarian dimension in digital self-tracking: containment, commodification, subjugation -- 8 The truth of fear -- 9 Perfection, sublimation and idealisation -- 10 A pathological organization based on a longing for perfection -- PART IV Optimisation of the body -- 11 Optimisation by knife: on types of biographical appropriation of aesthetic surgery in late modernity -- 12 Fighting death with aesthetic medicine: the rise of minimally invasive procedures in times of self-optimisation -- 13 Rationalising life by means of self-optimisation: the obsessive-compulsive excess of Gustav Großmann. A striking example for the rationalistic bookkeeper-personality -- Conclusions -- Index.

Economics and Performativity- Front Cover -- Economics and Performativity -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Economics and economy: what is performativity? -- Theorising both the failure and the success of performativity -- Method of analysis -- PART I: The performativist approach -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter 1: From language to device: how economics shapes the world -- From philosophy of language to social sciences -- Bruno Latour on science in action -- From science to social -- From the social to the performative: an approach through the device -- Conclusion: two types of performativity -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The theory of performativity: a double remoteness -- First remoteness: economic sociology and social embeddedness -- Economic sociology: the market as a social structure and the enrichment of Homo economicus -- Second remoteness: from the standard approaches to the social influence of economic theories -- Two examples of double fractures -- Polanyi and The Great Transformation -- Conclusion: macro-social entities versus devices -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Criticisms of the sociological approach to performativity -- Recurring criticism of the notion of performativity -- The heart of the problem: relativism -- Conclusion: the problem of counterperformativity -- Notes -- Conclusion to Part I -- PART II: A conventionalist approach to performativity -- Introduction to Part II -- Chapter 4: Changing perspective: performativity, institutional fact and convention -- Social reality according to John Searle -- Assignment of function and performativity -- Assignment of function and limits of performativity -- Beyond Searle: performativity as a conventional process -- Homomorphism between convention and a definition of theory -- Conclusion: a conventionalist approach -- Notes.

Introduction : rediscovering discourse and identity in French security and defense policy -- General characteristics of French foreign policy discourse : agents and parties -- Chirac's failed NATO reintegration : European identity confirmed -- Sarkozy's successful NATO reintegration and the end of ambivalence : identity change starting -- The normalization of French CSDP policies during the Libyan War : identity reconstructed -- Epilogue : continuity or change with Hollande and Macron?

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Categorising learning in development: Towards organisational institutionalism -- chapter 3 Learning as a search for a shared meaning for empowerment -- chapter 4 Learning as a change in organisational epistemology -- chapter 5 Unlearning, forgetting and ignorance -- chapter 6 Learning as legitimation and synchronisation -- chapter 7 Conclusions.

Introduction -- The cooperative legislative framework : enabling growth and promoting cooperative principles -- Central associations : leadership and economic development -- Financing cooperatives : members, markets and networks -- Consortia network : economies of scale and national expansion -- From large cooperatives to cooperative groups : a new cooperative model? -- Entrepreneurship : start-ups, worker-buyouts and social cooperatives -- Cooperative resilience : managing the global financial crisis -- Cooperative principles and social responsibility : people and communities -- Before profits -- Cooperative identity : in search of a new vision -- Conclusion: toward a more pluralist and democratic market economy -- Index

This book takes a unique approach to post-mortem analysis to provide project managers with invaluable insight. For the first time, individual PM characteristics are quantitatively linked to project outcomes through a major study investigating the role of project leadership in the success and failure of complex industrial projects; hard data on the backgrounds, education, and personality characteristics of over 100 directors of complex projects is analyzed against the backdrop of project performance to provide insight into controllable determinants of outcomes. By placing these analyses alongside their own data, PMs will gain greater insight into areas of weakness and strength, locate recurring obstacles, and identify project components in need of greater planning, oversight, or control.

Introduction / Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Peter Hitchcock, and Sophia A. McClennen -- Theory and history -- The rights to debt? / Sophia A. McClennen -- Kant at the Federal Reserve : on the aesthetics of quantitative easing / Peter Hitchcock -- Materialism : debt and sensuality / Christopher Breu -- The indebted man's cognitive mapping : boundaries and biohorror in the neoliberal debt economy / Liane Tanguay -- Living in the debt age -- The debt experience / Jeffrey J. Williams -- Paying your debt to society : the neoliberal state and the logic of quid pro quo / Esther Peeren -- Indebted youth and neoliberalism / Tyler J. Pollard -- Austerity politics and the neoliberal target austerity politics and the neoliberal targeting of the body in public education / Kenneth J. Saltman -- Resisting the debt age -- On debt resistance / Jeffrey R. Di Leo -- Debt and financial literacy education : an ethics for capital or the other / Chris Arthur -- Student debt and the social functions of consolidation college / Christopher Newfield -- Confronting the creditor class / Andrew Ross -- Index