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Taylor & Francis The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking
Book SynopsisBuddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking explores a radical new conception of business and management. It is grounded on the reconnection of humans with nature as the new competitive advantage for living organizations and entrepreneurs that aspire to regenerate the economy and drive a positive impact on the planet, in the context of the Anthropocene. Organizations today struggle in finding a balance between maximizing profits and generating value for their stakeholders, the environment and the society at large. This happens in a paradigm shift characterized by unprecedented levels of exponential change and the emergence of disruptive technologies. Adaptability, thus, is becoming the new business imperative. How can, then, entrepreneurs and organizations constantly adapt and, at the same time, design the sustainable futures they'd like?This book uniquely explores the benefits of applying Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking to sustainable management. Grounded in TaTrade Review"Addressing the core challenges of our time means to create pathways for transformation. Creating these pathways means to deepen our capacity for systems thinking. And to do that we can return to some of the earliest sources of holistic systems thinking: Taoism and Buddhism. In this fascinating book, Josep M. Coll takes us on a journey from the frontline of transformation for sustainability to the origins of Buddhist and Taoist thought. Highly recommended!"Otto Scharmer, Senior Lecturer, MIT; Founding Chair, Presencing Institute; author, Theory U"Transformation: what it is, why it matters, how to achieve it, and meaningfully evaluate it. That's the territory of this book. Systems understandings can propel transformation, but to do so must cut through the cacophonous demands for more rigorous methods to pursue the challenge of engaging in more rigorous thinking. Drawing on ancient and enduring wisdom, this book illuminates the pathway to sustainability where what is at stake is nothing less than the future of humanity on Earth." Michael Q. Patton, founder of Utilization-Focused Evaluation, author of Blue Marble Evaluation and former president of the American Evaluation Association "Professor Coll is an intriguing and reflective author who incites a quiet yet formidable revolution in his articulation of the complex challenges facing the global economy. The book is not only insightful on the destruction greed and unchecked interests that have wreaked on our planet but hopeful in the need for spiritual reconciliation as the path to healing the most perplexing challenges of poverty, climate change and inequality. The author is exceptionally thoughtful in his articulation of bringing together Buddhist-Taoist thinking with more traditional theories of economic development that can truly lead to the equitable growth and prosperity needed to revolutionize our approach and engaging with our Universe more harmoniously. A must read for any economist, development professional, politician or humanist."Laila Baker, Regional Director of the United Nations Development Coordination Office, Arab States"Coll’s groundbreaking book builds a solid bridge for you to connect the inexplicable and impenetrable world of Eastern philosophies with the wicked and vexatious challenges of sustainable management. From Chapter Five, you can ride on his Zen Business Wheel to roam back inside the mysterious domain of Taoism and Buddhism and forward to apply its wisdoms to your triple business bottom lines, principles, and practices. With this new book, you no longer will feel that sustainable management is akin to teenage sex: everyone talks about doing it; everyone thinks everyone else is doing it; but no one is doing it well." Yuwei Shi, Academic Director, Blue Pioneers Program at University of California, Santa Cruz"This book argues that emerging economies contribute to global economic growth, bringing a wealth of wisdom that is essential to fix capitalism. From a business and holistic management perspective, Coll’s new book explores a novel interpretation and enlightening application of Eastern systemic philosophies to build a more conscious, harmonious, regenerative and inclusive economy in turbulent times."Lourdes Casanova, Director of Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University, S.C. Johnson School of Management"This book takes a fascinating journey by building a new approach to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western management disciplines. This journey brilliantly explores the application of Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking into sustainable business management, and it does so in very practical ways. We are experiencing how our business system is vulnerable and unable to effectively respond to unforeseeable events like the COVID-19 crisis. In this book, Prof. Coll’s new systematical approach brings not only new management principles but a set of indispensable and essential management tools to guide and transform organizations through more sustainable daily business practices in both the private and public sectors."Jung-Hoon Lee, Chair of Smart City Committee of Seoul Metropolitan Government and Professor of Technology and Innovation at Yonsei University "As an Asian business academic trained in the West, I found "Buddhist & Taoist Systems Thinking" to be an eye-opening and original book that explains why Asian companies have succeeded in global markets while retaining their cultural characteristics. Succinctly exposed, the many tenets that many Asian cultures have adhered to for thousands of years can be learned and applied effectively to business practice. In the Oscar-winning Korean film Parasite, the main character asks "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan." If you read this book, you can understand why that dictum is important especially in the turbulent times that we live in today." Dae-Ryun Chang, Professor of Marketing, Yonsei School of Business, author of Mastering Noon Nopi: The Art & Science of Marketing in Asia, former president of the Korean Marketing Association"What if the deepest guidance for leaders set on business systemic change toward sustainability does not come from Western-based management theories? What if, instead of looking outside for inspiration, we look inside ourselves? Could the ancient teachings from Taoism and Zen Buddhism be applied to squaring the circle of creating a harmonious, value-driven, purposeful, equitable and sustainable society? With this book, you are about to find out. Drawing from perennial wisdom, Coll proposes a brand-new set of sustainable management principles and methods that allow us to reconnect with our nature and thereby to regenerate our business and society."Carles Navarro, Managing Director and Country Cluster Head Iberia BASFTable of ContentsIntroduction: the consciousness gap 1. The emergence of the new business paradigm: from the ego-system to the eco-system 2. TAO 4.0: adaptive thinking amidst exponential change and complexity 3. The quest for balance and harmony: the Yin–Yang and the Five Elements 4. T-Qualia, a bio-logic of learning for transformation: the Eastern systems approach to the process of knowing 5. The Zen Business model: from metaphysics to sustainable management 6. Building the Gaia organization: principles and practices 7. Designing the Gaia startup: practical guidelines 8. Managing abundance beyond the triple bottom line 9. Business mindfulness: evaluation for systems transformation
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Taylor & Francis Hegemony and World Order
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Living in the Margins in Mainland China Hong Kong and India
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Deconstructing Human Development From the Washington Consensus to the 2030 Agenda Routledge Critical Development Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Global Poverty
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Global Poverty
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Multilateralism in Foreign Aid
Book SynopsisThis edited book provides a contemporary, critical and thought-provoking analysis of the internal and external threats to Western multilateral development finance in the twenty-first century. It draws on the expertise of scholars with a range of backgrounds providing a critical exploration of the neoliberal multilateral development aid.The contributions focus on how Western institutions have historically dominated development aid, and juxtapose this hegemony with the recent challenges from right-wing populist and the Beijing Consensus ideologies and practices. This book argues that the rise of right-wing populism has brought internal challenges to traditional powers within the multilateral development system. External challenges arise from the influence of China and regional development banks by providing alternatives to established Western dominated aid sources and architecture. From this vantagepoint, Rethinking Multilateralism in Foreign Aid puts forward new ideas Trade Review"This is an excellent book. It is thoroughly discussing current challenges to the multilateral aid system and its international financial institutions. The rising multipolarity of the global order and the dawn of right wing populism in western liberal democracies have brought the long-established architecture of multilateral development financing into jeopardy. The contention between ‘Washington Consensus’ and ‘Beijing Consensus’ - and their respective institutions and narratives - is analysed by a number of knowledgeable authors." – Professor. Dr. Matthias Rompel, Honorary Professor at Giessen University and Director at the German International Cooperation Agency GIZ"A strong analytical and a timely case study in an important, but clearly under-researched IR theory field. The authors were bold enough to question many deeply rooted perceptions about how multilateralism is related to neoliberalism. The book is a major contribution to our understanding of what an efficient multilateral international assistance should mean in the XXI century." – Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council, and President, New Eurasia Foundation "Neoliberalism has been the archetype of development finance for the past four decades, a trajectory that is now increasingly overshadowed by the long reach of China’s economic ascendancy. Jakupec, Kelly, and Makuwira have assembled a timely and vital contribution that encourages us to reconsider the multilateral foreign aid paradigm as global hegemony shifts to the Far East." - Professor Simon Springer, Head of Discipline for Geography and Environmental Studies and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Newcastle, AustraliaTable of Contents1. Multilateralism and Development Aid: Concepts and Practices Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly and Jonathan Makuwira 2. Multilateralism, global development: unpacking the megatrends Max Kelly and Jonathan Makuwira 3. Populism and the New World Order Michel de Percy 4. Revisiting Truman Version of Development and Eurafrica Project of Underdeveloping Africa Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni & Busani Mpofu 5. Seventy-Five Years of Financing and Advising Development: Perspectives on Work of the Bretton Woods Institutions and Chequered Africa’s Development Charles H.B. Mphande 6.The Washington Consensus and Global Civil Society: The Road Traversed Jonathan Makuwira 7. Shifts in international development aid and its impact on economic growth Maneka Jayasinghe, Saroja Selvanathan, and Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan 8. Development Banks: Washington Consensus, Beijing Consensus or Banking Consensus? Adrian Robert Bazbauers and Susan Engel 9. Rethinking Global Financial Architecture: The Case Of Brics New Development Bank Tafadzwa Chitenderu and Ronney Ncwadi 10. The ADB and AIIB: Cooperation, Competition and Contestation Kearrin Sims 11. The World Bank’s Resilience Discourse: Reactive Environmental Norm Diffusion and the Crisis of Global Climate Governance Peter Ferguson 12. Challenging the hegemony of the Washington Consensus: The development potential of BRICS ‘from below’ Janet Cherry 13. Multilateral Foreign Aid and the shadow of Cold War II Viktor Jakupec 14. A new 'New' multilateralism, in a contemporary development context Max Kelly and John McKay 15. Competing Multilateralisms and Development Aid under Scrutiny Jonathan Makuwira, Max Kelly and Viktor Jakupec
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Resources Financial Risk and the Dynamics of Growth
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Exporting Urban Korea
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge International Handbook of Indigenous Resilience
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Syrian Refugees in Turkey A Demographic Profile and Linked Social Challenges International Population Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender Poverty and Access to Justice
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