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Critics have argued that organization theories which "work" are obvious to practitioners; that is, the theories simply confirm relationships that are already well understood by experienced managers. In our study, four types of respondents—Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) with business school education, CEOs without such education, graduating MBA students, and liberal arts graduate students—were presented with theory-based performance-rating tasks. These tasks identified respondents' beliefs regarding high-performance alignments of businesslevel strategy, structure, and environment for manufacturing firms. The respondents' cause maps were then compared to one another and to the alignment-performance relationships prescribed by business-level contingency theory. The graduating MBAs' cause maps reflected contingency theory most closely. The MBAs' cause maps were much closer to prescriptions of the theory, however, than were those of either the liberal arts graduate students or the experienced CEOs. This suggests that business-level contingency theory is not obvious to educated laypersons, or to highly experienced practitioners; both groups would find that the theory disconfirms aspects of their causal expectations. Further, each of the four respondent types in our study emphasized different contingency factors during the decision-making exercise. We discuss these results and their implications.

Maps -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One -- 1 Anarchism, Anti-Colonialism and the New Left -- 2 The Religious Wave -- Part Two -- 3 The Islamic State -- 4 Foreign Fighters -- 5 Supporters -- 6 The American Exception? -- 7 Al-Qaeda -- 8 Counterterrorism -- Appendix A Fighters from Western Europe (January 2015) -- Appendix B Relationship with the Islamic State (as of 1 May 2016) -- Names and Organizations -- Notes -- Further Reading

Daesh is worse than the Taliban, which is now trying to bring a new ideology as Daesh-ism which is anti - Islam. This book brings out the alarming situation of the presence of Daesh in Pakistan and its expanding activities. It serves the international community as a reminder of the role they need to play in crushing this monster.

Intro -- State of Terror: The War Against ISIS -- Copyright -- Introduction -- LIFE IN THE 'ISLAMIC STATE' - Spoils for the rulers, terror for the ruled -- LIFE IN THE 'ISLAMIC STATE': JUSTICE - A climate of fear and violence -- LIFE IN THE 'ISLAMIC STATE': WOMEN - 'Till martyrdom do us part' -- LIFE IN THE 'ISLAMIC STATE': ECONOMY - Where the poor starve and the tax man carries a whip -- LIFE IN THE 'ISLAMIC STATE': EDUCATION - For boys, God and guns -- for girls, God and cooking -- From hip-hop to jihad, how the Islamic State became a magnet for converts -- In a propaganda war against ISIS, the U.S. tried to play by the enemy's rules -- Why the Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and security -- Islamic State appears to be fraying from within -- 'Jihadi John': Islamic State killer is identified as Londoner Mohammed Emwazi -- French Muslims caught between Islamophobia and extremism -- The hidden hand behind the Islamic State militants? Saddam Hussein's. -- In campaign against terrorism, U.S. enters period of pessimism and gloom -- U.S. launches secret drone campaign to hunt Islamic State leaders in Syria -- An American family saved their son from joining the Islamic State. Now he might go to prison. -- Islamic State has increasingly hit soft targets outside of 'caliphate' borders -- A father's futile struggle to save his son from what he would become: A Paris suicide bomber -- For the Islamic State, paroxysms of violence portend apocalypse -- Is it too late to solve the mess in the Middle East? -- Is the United States safe from a Paris-style Islamic State attack? -- More from The Washington Post… -- Connect with Diversion Books.

Airpower in the War against ISIS chronicles the planning and conduct of Operation Inherent Resolve by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) from August 2014 to mid-2018, with a principal focus on the contributions of U.S. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT).

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Theory of non-democratic regimes -- 2 The origins of Daesh -- 3 Political system -- 4 Ideology -- 5 Ideology enforcement -- 6 Violence -- 7 Economy of Daesh -- 8 Opposition -- 9 Conclusion -- Afterword -- Index.

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Chapter ONE -- Chapter TWO -- Chapter THREE -- Chapter FOUR -- Chapter FIVE -- Chapter SIX -- Chapter SEVEN -- Chapter EIGHT -- Chapter NINE -- Chapter TEN -- Chapter ELEVEN -- Chapter TWELVE -- Chapter THIRTEEN -- Chapter FOURTEEN -- Chapter FIFTEEN -- Chapter Chapter SIXTEEN -- Chapter SEVENTEEN -- Chapter EIGHTEEN -- Chapter NINETEEN -- Chapter TWENTY -- Epilogue