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Adopting a 'global value chain' approach, Value Chain Struggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South India. Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea and coffee producersTakes the reader into the lives of growers in Southern India who are struggling with issues of value chain restructuringReveals the ways that the restructuring triggers a series of political and economic struggles across a range of economic, social, and environmental arenasPuts into perspective claims about the im

Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. The conscious treatment of business processes as significant corporate assets has facilitated substantial improvements in organizational performance but is also used to ensure the conformance of corporate activities. This Handbook presents in two volumes the contemporary body of knowledge as articulated by the world's leading BPM thought leaders. This second volume focuses on the managerial and organizational challenges of Business Process Managem.

Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance--how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which companies are run, and for whom they are run. It combines a clear theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America and detailed narratives of country cases. This book differs sharply from most treatment

Changing policy trends in the emergence of Bolivia's Brazil nut sector / Peter Cronkleton and Pablo Pacheco -- In search of regulations to promote the sustainable use of NTFPs in Brazil / Marina Pinheiro Kluppel. [et al.] -- Integrating customary and statutory systems : the struggle to develop a legal and policy framework for NTFPs in Cameroon / Sarah A. Laird. [et al.] -- Policies for Gnetum spp. trade in Cameroon: overcoming constraints that reduce benefits and discourage sustainability / Ousseynou Ndoye and Abdon Awono -- Regulatory issues for bush mango (Irvingia spp.) trade in south-west Cameroon and south-east Nigeria / Terry Sunderland. [et al.] -- NTFPs in India : rhetoric and reality / Sharachchandra Lele, Manoj Pattanaik and Nitin D. Rai -- Policy gaps and invisible elbows : NTFPs in British Columbia / Darcy A. Mitchell. [et al.] -- NTFPs in Scotland: changing attitutes in access rights in a reforesting land / Alison Dyke and Marla Emery -- From barter trade to Brad Pitt's bed : NTFPs and ancestral domains in the Philippines / Yasmin D. Arquiza. [et al.] -- From indigenous customary practices to policy interventions: the ecological and sociocultural underpinnings of the non-timber forest trade on Palawan Island, the Philippines / Dario Novellino -- Overregulation and complex bureaucratic procedure : a disincentive for compliance? The case of a valuable carving wood in Bushbuckridge, South Africa / Sheona Shackleton -- Overcoming barriers in collectively managed NTFPs in Mexico / Catarina Illsley Granich. [et al.] -- Fiji : commerce, carving and customary tenure / Francis Areki and Anthony B. Cunningham -- One eye on the forest, one eye on the market : multi-tiered regulation of matsutake harvesting, conservation and trade in north-western Yunnan Province / Nicholas K. Menzies and Chun Li -- Managing floral greens in a globalized economy : resource tenure, labour relations and immigration policy in the Pacific Northwest, USA / Rebecca J. McLain and Kathryn Lynch -- NTFP policy, access to markets and labour issues in Finland : impacts of regionalization and globalization on the wild berry industry / Rebecca T. Richards and Olli Saastomoinen -- Navigating a way through regulatory frameworks for Hoodia use, conservation, trade and benefit sharing / Rachel P. Wynberg -- Laws and policies impacting trade in NTFPs / Alan Pierce and Markus Burgener -- The state of NTFP policy and law / Sarah A. Laird, Rachel P. Wynberg and Rebecca J. McLain -- Recommendations / Sarah A. Laird, Rachel P. Wynberg and Rebecca J. McLain -- Appendix : NTFP law and policy literature : lie of the land and areas for further research / Alan Pierce.

Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Participation in Global Governance and its Causes -- 3. The Question of Actorness, Exemplary at the European Union -- 4. Global Governance -- 5. The Global Governance of Counterterrorism -- 6. Hegemonic Governance: Power and Hierarchy in Global Governance -- 7. ASEAN Terrorism: Counterterrorism and Causes -- 8. EU Counterterrorism: Participation and Causes -- 9. Conclusion.