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Theory and Research on Executives, Top Management Teams, and BoardsThis book integrates and assesses the vast and rapidly growing literature on strategic leadership, which is the study of top executives and their effects on organizations. The authors synthesize what is known about strategic leadership and indicate new research directions. The book...

Over the last decade, significant changes in corporate governance in Continental Europe have been increasingly evident. This book argues that firms in some of these countries have eschewed the traditional stakeholder-orientation for a strategy based on the maximization of shareholder value, despite a period of social democratic politics in Europe....

Tacitus'    Annals is the central historical source for first-century C.E. Rome, but it has also become a central text in the western literary, political, and even philosophical traditions - from the Renaissance to the French and American revolutions, and beyond. This volume attempts to enhance the general reader's understanding of why Tacitus'...

This book provides a comprehensive and unified account of the structure and properties of crystalline binary adducts. Such crystals are perhaps better known as molecular compounds and complexes and are currently estimated to make up one quarter of the world's crystals. More than 600 figures, 200 tables and 3500 references are included in the book....

Arguments about distributive justice often take place around two ideas. One is        that good should be distributed equally. The other is that how people fare in life        should depend on what they are responsible for. The author asks what draws us to        these two ideas and examines recent attempts by egalitarian thinkers to bring...

Neville Wylie examines Britain's diplomatic efforts to safeguard its prisoners of war in Germany between 1939 and 1945....