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Managing Decline A Research Overview

Managing Decline A Research Overview

A growing body of literature in the area of business administration has focused on the phenomenon of decline. These studies span multiple levels of analysis and draws on a range of disciplines including strategic management economics and economic geography. Managing Decline: A Research Overview provides a summary of this research by focusing on three key levels of analysis: industries clusters and organizations. The targeted reviews in this book map each individual level of analysis separately and the discussion section outlines overarching themes regarding decline and its management. The three levels are analyzed by identifying different forms causes processes and management options regarding decline. This is accompanied by the identification of key academic discourses that have been used to analyze decline. The discussion section highlights broader themes regarding the nature and management of decline that span across the different levels of analysis. This book provides an easy-to-access summary on the nature and management of decline for academic scholars and business practitioners and is essential reading for getting an overview of this broad field of research. | Managing Decline A Research Overview

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British Cotton Textiles: Maturity and Decline

British Cotton Textiles: Maturity and Decline

This book examines the decline of the cotton textiles industry which defined Britain as an industrial nation from its peak in the late nineteenth century to the state of the industry at the end of the twentieth century. Focusing on the owners and managers of cotton businesses the authors examine how they mobilised financial resources; their attitudes to industry structure and technology; and their responses to the challenges posed by global markets. The origins of the problems which forced the industry into decline are not found in any apparent loss of competitiveness during the long nineteenth century but rather in the disastrous reflotation after the First World War. As a consequence of these speculations rationalisation and restructuring became more difficult at the time when they were most needed and government intervention led to a series of partial solutions to what became a process of protracted decline. In the post-1945 period the authors show how government policy encouraged capital withdrawal rather than encouraging the investment needed for restructuring. The examples of corporate success since the Second World War – such as David Alliance and his Viyella Group – exploited government policy access to capital markets and closer relationships with retailers but were ultimately unable to respond effectively to international competition and the challenges of globalisation. A new introduction and epilogue provide an updated framework for the chapters in this book which were originally published in Business History and Accounting Business and Financial History | British Cotton Textiles: Maturity and Decline

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Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York

Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York

Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient adaptive and endlessly inspiring place. Drawing on mainstream independent documentary and experimental films the book offers a multifaceted account of the power of film to imagine the city’s decline and reimagine its potential. The book analyzes how filmmakers mobilized derelict space and various articulations of “nature” as settings and signifiers that decenter traditional understandings of the city to represent New York alternately as a desolate wasteland a hostile wilderness a refuge and playground for outcasts a home to resilient and resourceful communities a studio for artistic experimentation an arcadia conducive to alternative social arrangements and a complex ecosystem. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies media studies urban cinema urban studies and eco-cinema.

GBP 130.00
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The Decline of Established Christianity in the Western World Interpretations and Responses

The Decline of Established Christianity in the Western World Interpretations and Responses

While Church attendance in the West is often cited as being in decline it is argued that this applies primarily to the older established forms of Christianity. Other expressions of the faith are in fact stable or even growing. This volume provides multidisciplinary interpretations of and responses to one of the most complicated and controversial issues regarding the global transformation of Christianity today: the decline of established Christianity in the Western world. It also addresses the future of Christianity in the West after the decline. Drawing upon historical research sociology religious studies philosophy and theology an international panel of contributors provide new theoretical frameworks for understanding this decline and offer creative suggestions for responding to it. Established Christianity is conceptualized as historically culturally socially and politically embedded religion (with or without official established status). This is a dynamic volume that gives fresh perspective on one of the great social changes taking place in the West today. As such it will be of great interest to scholars of religious sociology history and anthropology as well as theologians. | The Decline of Established Christianity in the Western World Interpretations and Responses

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America's Allies and the Decline of US Hegemony

America's Allies and the Decline of US Hegemony

How do America’s democratic allies perceive and respond to a relative decline in US power and influence and the simultaneous rise of China? Using the case-studies of Europe the UK Australia Canada Japan and South East Asian countries this book offers a broad assessment of the perceptions of threat and the strategies used by these allies to cope with the relative decline of America’s hegemonic power the rise of China and the transforming world order. In answering these central questions contributors focus on two complementary analytical approaches. The first examines the perceptions of systemic changes by America’s allies: how are US allies framing this issue and what kind of political discourse is emerging with regards to it? The second approach focuses on the concrete foreign policy and defence strategies put forward by these allies. The book explores the extent to which US allies are willing to support US hegemony and considers the democratic allies’ understanding of the international structure their relations to the United States and their own aspirations in this changing world order. This book will be of interest to general readers as well as scholars and students of US foreign policy foreign policy analysis and International Relations. | America's Allies and the Decline of US Hegemony

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The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy

The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy

The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy assesses the rise of subsequent political challenges to and decline of contemporary liberal democratic processes in particular since the ‘third wave’ of democratization from the 1990s. Democracy is in global decline. Fewer countries are democratic and fewer people globally live in substantive democracies. Autocracy is now the dominant political form and the future looks at best challenging for the retention of such democracies that remain. As they did a century ago nationalism and populism have again reared their ugly heads and more people are claiming that democracy no longer addresses their most compelling needs or interests. This book examines what democracy is and the circumstances that allowed – even encouraged – it to arise. Democracy has been a product of a need to find a political model that mediates between competing interests building on conducive conditions. However there have since been fundamental changes to those conditions imbalances within democratic countries and between countries that have diminished the strength of the democratic proposition. The question now arises as to whether democracy can continue as a matter of political will. Challengers to democracy from the radical Right in developed countries to populist autocracy and state-centred authoritarianism in developing countries have increasingly shown this may not be the case. Democracy may survive as this book concludes but is likely to do so only with more substantial and conscious commitment to the democratic project with recognition of the need to replenish the fertility of the political soil in which democracy grows. This wide-ranging and empirically and theoretically rich book will be of interest to students scholars and researchers of political science international relations history and democracy.

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The Jamaican Economy In The 1980s Economic Decline And Structural Adjustment

The Jamaican Economy In The 1980s Economic Decline And Structural Adjustment

This book analyzes the main causes of deterioration in the Jamaican economy since 1972 and assesses the prospects for returning to a period of stable growth under an International Monetary Fund Stabilization program. Considering both the role of international economic conditions and domestic policies on Jamaica's economic decline Dr. Looney compares the viability of the socialist model of development implemented between 1972 and 1980 with that of the U. S. sponsored supply side model. He raises important questions about the ability of small open economies to sustain acceptable rates of growth in the existing world economic environment the effectiveness of IMF Stabilization programs on these economies the possible impact of supply side development strategies and the significance of Caribbean Basin Initiative policies for growth and stability in the area. | The Jamaican Economy In The 1980s Economic Decline And Structural Adjustment

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The Wald Report The Decline Of Israeli National Security Since 1967

The Wald Report The Decline Of Israeli National Security Since 1967

It took only fifteen years for an army once known for its agility and operational brilliance to turn into a clumsy bureaucratic labyrinth according to Colonel Emanuel Wald's report to Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Levi. Not surprisingly Wald's conclusions greatly embarrassed Israeli political and military leaders as news of the report circulated t | The Wald Report The Decline Of Israeli National Security Since 1967

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The Russian Orthodox Church 1917-1948 From Decline to Resurrection

The Russian Orthodox Church 1917-1948 From Decline to Resurrection

This book tells the remarkable story of the decline and revival of the Russian Orthodox Church in the first half of the twentieth century and the astonishing U-turn in the attitude of the Soviet Union’s leaders towards the church. In the years after 1917 the Bolsheviks’ anti-religious policies the loss of the former western territories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union’s isolation from the rest of the world and the consequent separation of Russian emigrés from the church were disastrous for the church which declined very significantly in the 1920s and 1930s. However when Poland was partitioned in 1939 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union Stalin allowed the Patriarch of Moscow Sergei jurisdiction over orthodox congregations in the conquered territories and went on later to encourage the church to promote patriotic activities as part of the resistance to the Nazi invasion. He agreed a Concordat with the church in 1943 and continued to encourage the church especially its claims to jurisdiction over émigré Russian orthodox churches in the immediate postwar period. Based on extensive original research the book puts forward a great deal of new information and overturns established thinking on many key points. | The Russian Orthodox Church 1917-1948 From Decline to Resurrection

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Hyperlocal Journalism The decline of local newspapers and the rise of online community news

Hyperlocal Journalism The decline of local newspapers and the rise of online community news

In the wake of the withdrawal of commercial journalism from local communities at the beginning of the 21st century Hyperlocal Journalism critically explores the development of citizen-led community news operations. The book draws together a wide range of original research by way of case studies interviews and industry and policy analysis to give a complete view of what is happening to communities as their local newspapers close or go into decline to be replaced by emerging forms of digital news provision. This study takes the United Kingdom as its focus but its findings speak to common issues found in local media systems in other Western democracies. The authors investigate who is producing hyperlocal news and why as well as production practices models of community and participatory journalism and the economics of hyperlocal operations. Looking holistically at hyperlocal news Hyperlocal Journalism paints a vivid picture of citizens creating their own news services via social media and on free blogging platforms to hold power to account redress negative reputational geographies and to tell everyday stories of community life. The book also raises key questions about the sustainability of such endeavours in the face of optimism from commentators and policy-makers. | Hyperlocal Journalism The decline of local newspapers and the rise of online community news

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Swords Into Dow Shares Governing The Decline Of The Military- Industrial Complex

Swords Into Dow Shares Governing The Decline Of The Military- Industrial Complex

Contemporary legal doctrine holds that corporate managers have obligations first and foremost to maximize profits for their shareholders. This doctrine is based on the assumption that shareholders alone bear the financial risks and contribute the equity necessary for production. But what if other groups contribute assets and also risk losing their investments? What if other groups actually shelter shareholders from financial risks? Such is the case with the nation's prime defense contractors. By examining the case of defense contracting where the federal government and indirectly the taxpayers assume most of the risks and costs of producing weaponry Rachel Weber critiques the assumptions underlying our system of corporate governance. The Department of Defense provides contracts for billions of dollars specialized components and facilities interest subsidies tax breaks and regulatory relief. These public contributions make the record shareholder returns and executive compensation packages of the early 1990s all the more problematic. This book follows the case of General Dynamics the nation's largest military shipbuilder and considered a trendsetter in the industry for its explicit shareholder orientation. The behavior of contractors like General Dynamics in the post-Cold War period raises serious concerns about the private stewardship of public funds. How can the government make contractors accountable to other public interests? In Swords into Dow Shares Rachel Weber offers some original suggestions for redirecting defense resources to foster innovation decrease the tax burden of military spending and help to retain and create high-wage jobs in a civilian-industrial economy. | Swords Into Dow Shares Governing The Decline Of The Military- Industrial Complex

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Decline Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles

Decline Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles

How is popular music culture connected with the life image and identity of a city? How for example did the Beatles emerge in Liverpool how did they come to be categorized as part of Liverpool culture and identity and used to develop and promote the city and how have connections between the Beatles and Liverpool been forged and contested? This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. Firstly it examines the impact of social and economic change within that city on its popular music culture focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring during the 1980s and 1990s. Secondly and in turn it considers the specificity of popular music culture and the many diverse ways in which it influences city life and informs the way that the city is thought about valued and experienced. Cohen highlights popular music's unique role and significance in the making of cities and illustrates how de-industrialization encouraged efforts to connect popular music to the city to categorize claim and promote it as local culture and harness and mobilize it as a local resource. In doing so she adopts an approach that recognizes music as a social and symbolic practice encompassing a diversity of roles and characteristics: music as a culture or way of life distinguished by social and ideological conventions; music as sound; speech and discourse about music; and music as a commodity and industry. | Decline Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles

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Testing Fresh Expressions Identity and Transformation

Testing Fresh Expressions Identity and Transformation

Testing Fresh Expressions investigates whether fresh expressions of church really do what is claimed for them by the fresh expressions movement and in particular whether their unique approach helps to reverse trends of decline experienced by traditional churches. Part 1 examines those claims and untangles their sociological and theological assumptions. From a careful study of factors underlying attendance decline and growth Part 2 argues that long-term decline can be resisted only if churches are better able to attract children the non-churched or both. Part 3 tests the comparative ability of a group of growing parish churches and a group of fresh expressions to resist trends of decline and discovers some intriguing social dynamics common to both groups. Part 4 argues that fresh expressions do not fulfil the unique role often claimed for them but that they do have the capacity to help reinvigorate the whole church. | Testing Fresh Expressions Identity and Transformation

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The 'Empty' Church Revisited

The 'Empty' Church Revisited

When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The 'Empty' Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred years uncovering the factors and the statistics behind the considerable process of decline in church attendence. Dispelling as myth the commonly held views that the process of secularization in British culture has led to the decline in churchgoing and resulted in the predominantly empty churches of today Gill points to physical factors economics and issues of social space to shed new light on the origins of empty churches. This thoroughly updated edition of Robin Gill's earlier work The Myth of the Empty Church presents new data throughout to explore afresh the paradox of church building activity in a context of decline the patterns of urbanisation followed by sub-urbanisation affecting churches changes in patterns of worship and changes within the sociology of religion in the last decade.

GBP 175.00
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The 'Empty' Church Revisited

The 'Empty' Church Revisited

This title was first published in 2003. When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The Empty Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred years uncovering the factors and the statistics behind the considerable process of decline in church attendence. Dispelling as myth the commonly held views that the process of secularization in British culture has led to the decline in churchgoing and resulted in the predominantly empty churches of today Gill points to physical factors economics and issues of social space to shed new light on the origins of empty churches. This thoroughly updated edition of Robin Gill's earlier work The Myth of the Empty Church presents new data throughout to explore afresh the paradox of church building activity in a context of decline the patterns of urbanisation followed by sub-urbanisation affecting churches changes in patterns of worship and changes within the sociology of religion in the last decade. | The 'Empty' Church Revisited

GBP 100.00
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The 'Empty' Church Revisited

The 'Empty' Church Revisited

This title was first published in 2003. When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The Empty Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred years uncovering the factors and the statistics behind the considerable process of decline in church attendence. Dispelling as myth the commonly held views that the process of secularization in British culture has led to the decline in churchgoing and resulted in the predominantly empty churches of today Gill points to physical factors economics and issues of social space to shed new light on the origins of empty churches. This thoroughly updated edition of Robin Gill's earlier work The Myth of the Empty Church presents new data throughout to explore afresh the paradox of church building activity in a context of decline the patterns of urbanisation followed by sub-urbanisation affecting churches changes in patterns of worship and changes within the sociology of religion in the last decade. | The 'Empty' Church Revisited

GBP 21.99
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Mobilizing U.S. Industry A Vanishing Option For National Security?

Mobilizing U.S. Industry A Vanishing Option For National Security?

Originally published in 1988 this volume outlines the need for a series of organisational reforms new studies and committees to focus attention on mobilization issues and to provide an administrative framework for enhancing the mobilization base. The authors point out that mobilization is becoming a more viable US national security option. Case studies are used around raw materials of petroleum ferroalloys machine tools and semi-conductors which highlight common problems of diminishing domestic market share and growing reliance on foreign sector capacity declining profits research and development expense a decline of skilled labour and economic decline in subsector industries. | Mobilizing U. S. Industry A Vanishing Option For National Security?

GBP 36.99
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Living in an Age of Mistrust An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back

Living in an Age of Mistrust An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back

Trust is a concept familiar to most. Whether we are cognizant of it or not we experience it on a daily basis. Yet trust is quickly eroding in civic and political life. Americans’ trust in their government has reached all-time lows. The political and social consequences of this decline in trust are profound. What are the foundations of trust? What explains its apparent decline in society? Is there a way forward for rebuilding trust in our leaders and institutions? How should we study the role of trust across a diverse range of policy issues and problems? Given its complexity trust as an object of study cannot be claimed by any single discipline. Rather than vouch for an overarching theory of trust Living in an Age of Mistrust synthesizes existing perspectives across multiple disciplines to offer a truly comprehensive examination of this concept and a topic of research. Using an analytical framework that encompasses rational and cultural (or sociological) dimensions of trust the contributions found therein provide a wide range of policy issues both domestic and international to explore the apparent decline in trust its impact on social and political life and efforts to rebuild trust. | Living in an Age of Mistrust An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back

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