Chris Thornhill 
Sociology of Constitutions [EPUB ebook] 
Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective

This title was first published in 2001. Offering a fascinating new perspective on the processes of technical and social change, this book complements contemporary innovation studies by adopting an in …

In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms. Across Europe, there has been a growth in various forms of public-private coope …

The linguistic origin of the term Dalit is Marathi, and pre-dates the militant-intellectual Dalit Panthers movement of the 1970s. It was not in popular use till the last quarter of the 20th century, …

Today”s managers must deal with a wide variety of employee differences in ethnic backgrounds, values, lifestyles, and needs. This book presents a model of employee acculturation, investigating how M …

Social Work Practice with LGBTQIA Populations provides an overview of key issues for social workers working with LGBTQIA clients. Each chapter considers clients” experiences in different social and …

In recent years researchers have asserted that the once-salient distinctions between not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals are quickly eroding. These converging outcomes represent a striking depart …

No challenge is entirely new. In 60, 000 years of human existence, nearly every problem we face in modern business has already been seen…and solved. We just have to figure out how to apply that age-o …

Short food supply chains (SFSCs) rely primarily on local production and processing practices for the provision of food and are, in principle, more sustainable in social, economic and environmental te …

The women’s movement and increasing social consciousness regarding gender disparity and discrimination has helped to make gains over the past several decades to reduce gender disparity for women in t …

Organizations increasingly use temporary designs. Many temporary organizations are assembled by ‘mixing and matching’ building blocks from static, bureaucratic, parent organizations into a temporary …