Institutioner & lärda sällskap

Den 7 mars 1921 bildades Svenska Orientsällskapet. Under 1920-talet stod Orienten för något nytt, något annorlunda som intresserade allt fler i Sverige. Tidningarna fylldes av annonser för orientaliskt mode, österländsk läkekonst sålde på apoteken...

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Over the past three decades, Meyer, Jepperson, and colleagues have contributed to the development of one of the leading approaches in social theory, by analyzing the cultural frameworks that have shaped modern organizations, states, and identities...

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Utsikt från stol 12 är hyllning till Svenska Akademien som skapelse, fri institution och kulturfrämjande gemenskap - och ett panorama över hennes växlingsrika historia. Det är också en lovsång till läsandet och biblioteken. Personligt och intränga...

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In the current era, the ongoing challenge of race and ethnic relations and growing white supremacy reminds us that the centrality of racism needs considerable attention and has us profoundly questioning the structure and functioning of institution...

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More students study management and organization studies than ever, the number of business schools worldwide continues to rise, and more management research is being published in a greater number of journals than could have been imagined twenty yea...

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This important new text provides a broad-ranging introduction to the 'new' institutional theories which have become increasingly influential in recent years and gives an assessment of their application and utility in political analysis.

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Att Svenska Akademien har Franska akademien som förebild är ett känt faktum, liksom att dess stadgar till stor del bygger på Franska akademiens statuter. Men på vad sätt och i vilken utsträckning Svenska Akademiens stadgar av år 1786 har utnyttjat...

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I sin senaste bok skriver Valentin Sevéus om den speciella ödesfråga för mänskligheten som kärnvapenhotet utgör. På senare tid har frågan särskilt uppmärksammats i medier och politisk debatt på grund av två farhågor: att Iran och Nordkorea utveckl...

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Beslutet att tilldela Bob Dylan Nobelpriset 2016 blev ett av de mest uppseendeväckande i Svenska Akademiens historia. I denna behändiga volym ger Sara Danius en unik inblick i turerna kring priset och dess mediala efterspel. Samtidigt berättar hon...

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The institutional arrangements governing skill formation are widely seen as a key element in the institutional constellations defining 'varieties of capitalism' across the developed democracies. This book explores the origins and evolution of such...

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När Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien bildades 1771 hade den ingen motsvarighet norr om Alperna. I denna vackra och rikt illustrerade bok berättas dess 250-åriga historia. Nya frågor ställs till en gammal institution. Vad är dess syfte? Vilka var de st...

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Här har samlats arton inträdestal som tillsammans sträcker sig över nästan etthundraåttio år. Talen ger en bild av hur nyinvalda ledamöter genom tiderna har valt att förhålla sig till sina företrädare och hur inträdestalets retorik har utvecklats ...

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Den bondekooperativa rörelsen är ett vittförgrenat träd med sina rötter djupt ned i den svenska myllan den fackliga grenen som med tiden blev en maktfaktor i svensk politik och den ekonomiska som har blivit en viktig del i svenskt näringsliv. Denn...

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Explores all aspects of the most talked about secret society in the world, from its most famous members to its infamous history.For centuries the Freemasonry has been the subject of rumour and intrigue. From its obscure origins to the suspicion th...

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Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book te...

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'Highly readable, subtle and thought-provoking scientific history' ScotsmanIn this penetrating work, Pyenson and Pyenson identify that major advances in science stem from changes in three distinct areas of society: the social institutions that pro...

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For more than 45 years, Research Centers Directory has reported on the programs, facilities, publications, educational efforts and services of North America's leading university and nonprofit research institutes. The current edition of this indisp...

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The Southern Key explains the reasons for the failure of the US South to unionize-especially during the 1930s and 1940s-and why this is the crucial to understanding the evolution of American politics since that era. It is argued, primarily, that t...

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A sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New Deal era.The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, lies in the contests between la...

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A sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New Deal era.The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, lies in the contests between la...

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The overseas Indian population has formed a range of migrant organizations, whose activities include mobilizing resources and connections and engaging with numerous development initiatives in India. This book looks into Indian local and transnatio...

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No One Was Turned Away is a book about the importance of public hospitals to New York City. At a time when less and less value seems to be placed on public institutions, argues author Sandra Opdycke, it is both useful and prudent to consider what ...

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Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early twentieth century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not...

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The Indian diaspora is increasingly engaging with the homeland by forming a range of migrant organizations-organizations constituting a growing sector of non-State actors who engage with the host country and the country of origin in a sustained an...

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Innovation is central to the dynamics and success of organizations and society in the modern world, the process famously referred to by Schumpeter as 'gales of creative destruction'. This ambitious and wide ranging book makes the case for a new ap...

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Bruce Kogut's writing has sketched a theory of human motivation that sees managers as social, often altruistic, sometimes as selfish, who care about their colleagues and their status among them. For the first time this book collects together key p...

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Is the performance of western democracies in decline? Which countries show the best performance? Do institutions matter for political performance? This book offers a comprehensive analysis of twenty-one OECD countries by systematically examining a...

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The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making comprehensively surveys theory and research on organizational decision-making, broadly conceived. Emphasizing psychological perspectives, while encompassing the insights of economics, political...

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For more than a century, New York City's public hospitals have played a major role in ensuring that people of every class had a place to turn for care. A comparison of the history of Bellevue Hospital with that of the private New York Hospital ill...

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For more than a century, New York City's public hospitals have played a major role in ensuring that people of every class have had a place to turn for care. This comparison of the history of Bellevue Hospital with that of the private New York Hosp...

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