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Seyed Mohammad Moghimi examines both the everyday and the theoretical insights offered by Islamic sources for managing organizational behavior. He takes a wide-ranging approach to key organizational issues, including organizational communication, organizational leadership, conflict management, and organizational culture and ethics.

"In Rising Powers and Foreign Policy Revisionism, Cameron Thies and Mark Nieman examine the identity and behavior of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) in light of concerns that rising powers may become more aggressive and conflict-prone. The authors develop a theoretical framework that encapsulates pressures for revisionism through the mechanism of competition, and pressures for accommodation and assimilation through the mechanism of socialization. The identity and behavior of BRICS should be a product of these two forces as mediated by their domestic foreign policy processes. State identity is investigated qualitatively by using role theory and identifying national role conceptions, while economic and militarized conflict behavior are examined using Bayesian change-point modeling, which identifies structural breaks in a time series of data revealing potential wholesale revision of foreign policy. Using this innovative approach to show the behavior of rising powers is not simply governed by the structural dynamics of power, but also by the roles these rising powers define for themselves, they assert this process will likely lead to a much more evolutionary approach to foreign policy and will not necessarily generate international conflict"--

This book presents methods for dealing with conflict in family firms. The first part of the book defines conflict in general and then in the context of family businesses. It then identifies several approaches to dealing with conflict. As the author makes clear, conflict can negatively impact the performance of a family firm while unresolved conflict often results in unsuccessful transition to the next generation. Therefore, she presents a model that looks at the causes of conflict and ways of resolving it. The second part of the book presents case studies of conflicts in family business, examining such companies as Gucci and L'Oreal and applying the theory. This book will serves as a foundational text in managing disputes in family enterprises.

'Die Studie befasst sich mit Entwicklungen um Abchasien, Südossetien und Berg-Karabach vor und nach dem russisch-georgischen 'Fünftagekrieg' vom August 2008. Ungelöste Sezessionskonflikte im Südkaukasus blockieren seit zwei Jahrzehnten intraregionale Beziehungen und beeinträchtigen die politische Entwicklung in den drei Staaten dieser neuen Nachbarschaftsregion der EU. Welche Veränderungen hat der Einschnitt vom August 2008 hier gebracht? Die EU hat sich mit der Vermittlung von Waffenstillstandsabkommen zwischen Russland und Georgien und der Entsendung einer Mission zur Beobachtung ihrer Umsetzung stärker als zuvor in der Region positioniert. Russland hat über Abchasien und Südossetien im Südkaukasus Protektoratsherrschaft übernommen. Dabei ist im Jahr 2009 deutlich geworden, dass es seine eigenen Föderationssubjekte im Nordkaukasus kaum im Griff hat. Die Georgienkrise hat neue Impulse in den Streit um Berg-Karabach gebracht und der schon zuvor eingeleiteten diplomatischen Annäherung zwischen der Türkei und Armenien Anschub verliehen. Vorläufig blockieren sich die Karabachfrage und die türkisch-armenische Annäherung aber noch gegenseitig. Georgien und Russland werfen sich weiterhin gegenseitig erneute Angriffsabsichten vor. Ihre Beziehungen bleiben prekär und zeigen hohen Vermittlungsbedarf. Die EU kann hier eher vermitteln als andere Akteure wie USA oder Nato. Dabei warf die Georgienkrise für Berlin und Brüssel auch die Frage auf, wie sich die Beziehungen zu Russland in gemeinsamen Nachbarschaftsräumen mit ungelösten Regionalkonflikten gestalten.' (Autorenreferat)

This book draws on a wide range of practical examples to describe how conflicts within organisations are traditionally managed and the complementary conflict management methods that can be employed. Stephan Proksch clearly explains these innovative methods and their potential applications. The central focus is on mediation as an effective form of conflict resolution. Discussion and questioning techniques as conflict management tools are explained in simple and concise terms.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PROLOGUE. Economics and the Wealth of Nations and People -- PART I. Coordination and Conflict: Generic Social Interactions -- PART II. Competition and Cooperation: The Institutions of Capitalism -- PART III. Change: The Coevolution of Institutions and Preferences -- PART IV. Conclusion -- Problem Sets -- Additional Readings -- Works Cited -- Index

"Until now, the intersection of music and conflict has been under-documented and under-theorized in ethnomusicology. Music and Conflict bravely addresses the 'darker side' of musical behavior, documenting how music sometimes works to incite violence and how it may also be used to rebuild communities torn apart by misunderstandings, conflict, and even war."--Nancy Guy, author of Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Part I: Theoretical Foundations -- 1. Evolutionary Ecologyand the Social Sciences -- 2. Natural Selection and Decision-Making: Some Fundamental Principles -- 3. Cultural Inheritance and Evolutionary Ecology -- Part II: Closest Kin -- 4. Evolutionary Ecology of Primate Socialstructure -- 5. Evolutionary Ecology of Fossil Hominids -- Part III: Resources, Work, and Space -- 6. The Evolutionary Ecologyof Food Acquisition -- 7. Time Allocation -- 8. Spatial Organization and Habitat Use -- Part IV: Reproduction and Social Relations -- 9. Sharing and Collective Action -- 10. Competition, Conflict, and The Development of Social Hierarchies -- 11. Reproductive Decisions -- 12. Resources and Population Dynamics -- References -- Biographical Sketches of the Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index