This book studies King Charles II's decision to stop all payments from his royal exchequer, a sordid but little-known event in English history with eerie similarities to the cause of the Great Recession of 2008. As with any modern banking crisis, the financial system in 1672 almost collapsed,...

Contributors address aspects of presidential leadership in essays on how presidential values are determined or constructed, how they are condoned and criticized, how they are packaged and conveyed, and how they are interpreted and acted upon. Includes scholars from communication, history, law,...

This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries. Economists’ ideas about power are examined from political, theoretical and policy-making points of view, with additional discussion of the active...

Mainstream economics almost completely ignores the role power plays in determining economic outcomes, which means it can only provide partial explanations of the distribution of wealth and income, and of the problems associated with inequality and poverty. For many, this is a fundamental failing...

'Lee takes the oft cited belief that entrepreneurial endeavour lives and dies by the quality of the networks set in play, and subjects it to a rigorous and sustained analysis. In this he not only provides the reader with an authoritative theoretical and empirical foray into how entrepreneurs can...

Katharina Gläsener betrachtet in diesem Buch Sprache als eigenständige Diversitätsdimension und präsentiert Macht in multilingualen Teams als dynamischen Prozess. Auf Basis von zwei qualitativen Studien wird verdeutlicht, dass sich Macht in multilingualen Teams in interessengeleiteten...

The developments over a thirty-year time span in the study of power, especially voting power, are traced in this book, which provides an up-to-date overview of applications of n-person game theory to the study of power in multimember bodies. Other theories that shed light on power distribution...

Wissenschaftslehre -- Kognitionstheorien -- Entwicklungs- und Persönlichkeitspsychologie -- Von der Wahrnehmung über das Lernen zum Gedächtnis -- Motivations- und Emotionstheorien -- Theorien zu Macht, Kontrolle und Austausch -- Theorie der Laienepistemologie.

In der Auseinandersetzung mit der Generierung und Implementierung von Verfahrensinnovationen wurden die kognitiv-emotionalen Bedingungen der Innovativität bisher vernachlässigt; Konzeptionen des Führungsverhaltens bieten keine zufriedenstellenden Lösungen. Diana E. Krause entwickelt ein...

Gerhard Raab, Alexander und Fritz Unger geben einen umfassenden Überblick über die Kernfragen der Marktpsychologie. Jedes Kapitel stellt eine Theorie vor, die dann anhand typischer Problemfelder aus dem Marktgeschehen illustriert wird. Die Anwendungsbeispiele stammen überwiegend aus dem...