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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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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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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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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

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

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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?

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The Decadence of Delphi The Oracle in the Second Century AD and Beyond

The Decadence of Delphi The Oracle in the Second Century AD and Beyond

Examining the final years of Delphic consultation this monograph argues that the sanctuary operated on two connected yet distinct levels: the oracle which was in decline and the remaining religious political and social elements at the site which continued to thrive. In contrast to Delphi other oracular counterparts in Asia Minor such as Claros and Didyma rose in prestige as they engaged with new theological issues. Issues such as these were not presented to Apollo at Delphi and this lack of expertise could help to explain why Delphi began to decline in importance. The second and third centuries AD witnessed the development of new ways of access to divine wisdom. Particularly widespread were the practices of astrology and the Neoplatonic divinatory system theurgy. This monograph examines the correlation between the rise of such practices and the decline of oracular consultation at Delphi analyzing several examples from the Chaldean Oracles to demonstrate the new interest in a personal soteriological religion. These cases reveal the transfer of Delphi’s sacred space which further impacted the status of the oracle. Delphi’s interaction with Christianity in the final years of oracular operation is also discussed. Oracular utterances with Christian overtones are examined along with archaeological remains which demonstrate a shift in the use of space at Delphi from a pagan Panhellenic center to one in which Christianity is accepted and promoted. | The Decadence of Delphi The Oracle in the Second Century AD and Beyond

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Deindustrialization and Casinos A Winning Hand?

Deindustrialization and Casinos A Winning Hand?

As governments increasingly legalize and expand the availability of casinos hoping to offset the impacts of manufacturing decline through the advancement of gambling commerce this book examines what casinos do—and do not do—for host communities in terms of economic growth. Examining the case generally made by those seeking to establish casino developments—that they offer benefits for the public good—the author draws on a case study of Canada’s automotive capital (Windsor Ontario) which was a pilot site for potential further casino development in the region. The author asks whether casinos do in fact offer good jobs revenue generation and economic diversification. A study of the benefits of casino developments that considers the question of whether they constitute a ready answer to the problems of industrial and economic decline this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology and urban studies with interests in the gambling industry economic sociology the sociology of work and urban regeneration. | Deindustrialization and Casinos A Winning Hand?

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New Perspectives on the History of Islamic Science Volume 3

New Perspectives on the History of Islamic Science Volume 3

Recent studies in the history of Islamic science based on the discovery and study of new primary texts and instruments have substantially revised the views of nineteenth-century historians of science. This volume presents some of these ground-breaking studies as well as articles which shed new light on the ongoing academic debate surrounding the question of the decline of Islamic scientific tradition. | New Perspectives on the History of Islamic Science Volume 3

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Power Legitimacy and World Order Changing Contours of Preconditions and Perspectives

Power Legitimacy and World Order Changing Contours of Preconditions and Perspectives

This book reflects on the reasons for the decline of international cooperation in world politics and studies ways to restore legitimacy in the international order. It engages with the concept of legitimacy in international relations theories and practices to examine the discussions around power shifts the decline of liberalism demands for inclusive international architectures and challenges to multilateralism as well as established norms by leaders and nationalisms. It studies the impact of the post-COVID-19 world order on the nature of power in the international system and changes in normative concerns of security. The volume also interrogates political legitimacy through an area studies lens by examining the concept of legitimacy separately in the USA Europe South Asia Southeast Asia Latin America and Africa. An important and timely text featuring contributions from eminent scholars this book will be of use to students and researchers of modern history political science and international relations. It will also be of interest to think tanks and policy-making bodies concerned with international affairs and foreign policy. | Power Legitimacy and World Order Changing Contours of Preconditions and Perspectives

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Expressionism

Expressionism

First published in 1973 this book provides a helpful introduction to expressionism in literature. After providing a helpful introduction to the origins and defining characteristics of expressionism the book traces the movement in Germany from 1900 through to the 1920s and its dissemination across Europe and North America. It concludes with a summary of the decline of expressionism from the mid-twenties onwards. This book will be of interest to those studying German and European literature in the early twentieth-century.

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The Mugwe A Failing Prophet

The Mugwe A Failing Prophet

Originally published in 1959 this volume studies the ritual office of the Mugwe which was of great social significance among the Meru of the Central Province of Kenya and analyses the social changes and decline of the Mugwe which came about in the second half of the twentieth century. Until this book was published there was no published literature on the Mugwe - one of the most basic and firmly established elements of the old structure of Meru social life. | The Mugwe A Failing Prophet

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Women Workers in Seven Professions A Survey of their Economic Conditions and Prospects

Women Workers in Seven Professions A Survey of their Economic Conditions and Prospects

This book first published in 1914 examines the economic position of women at the turn of the twentieth century. Women’s economic position had been undermined by the helpless dependence engendered among the better-off by nineteenth century luxury and among manual workers by the loss of their hold upon land and by the decline of home industries. The essays collected here examine the changing state of affairs with a new force at work: the revolt of the modern woman against economic dependence in all forms. | Women Workers in Seven Professions A Survey of their Economic Conditions and Prospects

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Welfare Economics An Interpretive History

Welfare Economics An Interpretive History

Although it was an important specialization in economics in the mid-twentieth century welfare economics has received less attention in the twenty-first century. This book explores the history of welfare economics with a view to explaining its rise and subsequent decline. Drawing on both philosophy and economics this book offers a new and original perspective on the history of welfare economics starting with Pigou and charting the trajectory of applied and theoretical welfare economics throughout the twentieth century. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of philosophy economics and history of economic thought. | Welfare Economics An Interpretive History

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Political Economy of Contemporary Italy The Economic Crisis and State Intervention

Political Economy of Contemporary Italy The Economic Crisis and State Intervention

Drawing on Kaleckian and Kaldorian approaches Political Economy of Contemporary Italy: The Economic Crisis and State Intervention explores the reasons behind the stagnation of the Italian economy from the 1970s and suggests policy solutions to ease the crisis. The central thesis of the book is that from the early 1990s Italy experienced a constant reduction of both private and public investment which combined with increasing labour precariousness and wage moderation contributed to the decline of both labour productivity and economic growth. It is argued that lack of industrial policies amplified the problem of the poor macroeconomic performance since Italian firms – small-sized and non-innovating – were incapable of staying competitive on the global scene. Net exports did not compensate for the decline of public spending private investment and consumption. It is also shown that in these respects Italy presents an interesting case study with wider ramifications for it was involved in the global process of intensifying the neoliberal agenda but at a faster rate than other OECD countries. The book concludes with a call for an alternative economic policy in order to promote innovation reduce unemployment and stimulate economic growth. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the recent history of the European economy Italian studies and the history of economic thought. | Political Economy of Contemporary Italy The Economic Crisis and State Intervention

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Contemporary Issues in the Worldwide Anglican Communion Powers and Pieties

Contemporary Issues in the Worldwide Anglican Communion Powers and Pieties

Contemporary Issues in the Worldwide Anglican Communion offers unique perspectives on an organisation undergoing significant and rapid change with important religious and wider sociological consequences. The book explores what the academic research community Anglican clergy and laypeople are suggesting are critical issues facing the Anglican communion as power and authority relations shift including: gender roles changing families challenges of an aging population demands and opportunities generated by young people mobility and mutations of worship communities; contested conformities to policies surrounding sexual orientation impact of social class and income differences variable patterns of congregational growth and decline and global power and growth shifts from north to south. | Contemporary Issues in the Worldwide Anglican Communion Powers and Pieties

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