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The Handbook bridges hitherto separate disciplines engaged in research in mergers        and acquisitions (M&A) to integrate strategic, financial,        socio-cultural, and sectoral approaches to the field. It examines the management        processes involved, as well as valuations and post-acquisition performance, and        considers...

A pioneering attempt to relate the theory of literary fiction to a more general theory of fiction, using fictions of apocalypse as a model. This pioneering exploration of the relationship of fiction to age-old conceptions of chaos and crisis offers many new insights into some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Examining the...

The Future of the MBA provides a sorely needed detailed and systematic review of the major contemporary debates on management education. At the same time, it makes a striking new proposal that will certainly have an impact in business schools: that managers need to develop a series of qualitative tacit skills, which could be appropriately developed...

This book examines conflict in a corporation that has embraced an increasingly popular style of management, one that rejects rigid bureaucratic authority. The main finding is surprising and enlightening. People most often handle conflict with therapy, a behaviour usually thought to be confined to the offices of psychiatrists and the wards of mental...

An Integrated ApproachThis book provides a normative framework for making decisions concerning mineral resource exploration under conditions of uncertainty....

The evocation of narrative as a way to understand the content of consciousness, including memory, autobiography, self, and imagination, has sparked truly interdisciplinary work among psychologists, philosophers, and literary critics. Even neuroscientists have taken an interest in the stories people create to understand themselves, their past, and...