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Focusing on organization theory, the aim of this volume is to hold up for examination its assumptions and knowledge claims, the chief explanatory strategies used, its relationship with the world, and its direction. The sections include: Organization Theory as Science; The Construction of Organization Theory; and The Future of Organization Theory.

Covering twenty-eight topics, this is a guide to the thought about ethical issues in areas of human activity. It gives a map of the ethical terrain, explaining how the debate has developed, engaging critically with the notable work in the area, and pointing out the directions. It is meant for academics and students across a range of disciplines.

The Oxford Handbook of Plato offers 20 chapters, newly commissioned and written by leading scholars, on Plato's dialogues and the basic philosophical issues of interest to Plato which remain central in philosophy to this day.

Explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. This book examines how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal about the operations of language within the mind, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication.

Features a review of the research, policy-related tools, methods and techniques, and major theoretical frameworks and principles of pension and retirement income. This handbook reflects on the implications for provision of pension and retirement income of demographic ageing, the financial circumstances of nation states, and globalization.

Aims to bring together, present, and discuss what is known about work and organizations and their connection to broader economic change in Europe and America. This volume contains a range of theoretically informed essays, which give comprehensive coverage of changes in work, occupations, and organizations.

Presents a survey of research in this technical and diverse field that is useful for scholars and students who need to command linguistic, historical, literary, and philosophical skills. This title includes forty-five contributions that review and analyse thinking and work, and examines the progress and direction of the debates.

Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 55 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Public Policy provides the key point of reference for anyone working in public policy and beyond.

Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political science and beyond.

A comprehensive review of state-of-the-art research in Entrepreneurship, written by an international team of leading scholars. Entrepreneurship has been a dynamic and expanding area of research over the last twenty years, but there has been no standard reference work for both established scholars and new researchers. This book fills that gap.

Includes essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. It is aimed at those working in philosophy, linguists, semantics, and pragmatics, and psychologists and cognitive scientists.

The production and consumption of ICTs have an impact at a macro level, in the way our societies operate, and in our everyday lives. This handbook is about the challenges presented by ICTs. It sets out an intellectual agenda that examines the implications for individuals, organizations, democracy, and the economy.

Bonnie Steinbock presents the authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics, covering 30 topics in original essays by some of the world's leading figures in the field, as well as by some newer 'up-and-comers'. Anyone who wants to know how the central debates in bioethics have developed in recent years, and where the debates are going, will want to consult this book.

This authoritative survey of original research in Biblical Studies will be invaluable to scholars and students, who need to command linguistic, historical, literary, and philosophical skills. Forty-five original contributions by leading figures in the discipline review and analyse current thinking and examine the progress and direction of debates.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of chapters written by 47 top scholars in the discipline of comparative politics.

Eschatology is the study of the 'last things': death, judgment, the afterlife, and the end of the world. The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology will provide an important critical survey of this diverse body of thought and practice.

This book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law. It outlines the range of legal areas in which linguistics plays an increasing role and describes the tools and approaches used by linguists and lawyers in this vibrant new field.

This handbook offers both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship in the subject, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period.

The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe is the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of subnational democracy in Europe. It is the only book to analyse subnational democracy in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland.

This Handbook brings together leading international scholars to comment on key current issues in Public Management. The individual chapters include a mix of broad overviews, in depth exploration of particular thematic areas, and analyses of different theoretical perspectives such as political science, management, sociology, and economics.

The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory is a major new reference work in ethical theory consisting of commissioned essays by leading moral philosophers. Ethical theories have always been of central importance to philosophy, and remain so; ethical theory is one of the most active areas of philosophical research and teaching today. Courses in ethics are taught in colleges and universities at all levels, and ethical theory is the organizing principle for all ofthem. The Handbook is divided into two parts, mirroring the field. The first part treats meta-ethical theory, which deals with theoretical questions about morality and moral judgment, including questions about moral language, the epistemology of moral belief, the truth aptness of moral claims, and so forth. The second part addresses normative theory, which deals with general moral issues, including the plausibility of various ethical theories and abstract principles of behavior. Examples of suchtheories are consequentialism and virtue theory. As with other Oxford Handbooks, the twenty-five contributors cover the field in a comprehensive and highly accessible way, while achieving three goals: exposition of central ideas, criticism of other approaches, and putting forth a distinctviewpoint.

Philosophy of mathematics and logic remain central disciplines in contemporary philosophy. This volume covers these disciplines, giving the reader an overview of the major problems, positions, and battle lines. It is aimed at those wishing to learn about the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of logic.

Cognitive linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics. With 49 chapters wiritten by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers the entire domain of cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts to practical applications. No other comprehensive overview of this burgeoning field currently exists.

Human Resource Management is central to management teaching and research, and has emerged in the last decade as a significant field from its earlier roots in Personnel Management, Industrial Relations, and Industrial Psychology. The editors have gathered leading international academics from a range of fields to consider the state of the discipline.

This is the definitive guide to the major themes of the continental European tradition in philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries. It offers newly written pieces on such topics as German Idealism, existentialism, phenomenology, Marxism, postmodernism, and critical theory, and thinkers like Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, and Foucault.

A set of original and authoritative accounts, by an distinguished international team of authors, of all the major areas of current research in Christian systematic theology, offering a thorough survey of the state of the discipline and of its prospects for those undertaking research and teaching in the field.

Written by an international group of thirty scholars, the Handbook's unrivalled breadth and depth make it the definitive reference work for all students and academics who want to explore more fully essential topics in Christian ethics.

The field of `science and religion' is exploding in popularity among both academics and the reading public. This is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the debate, written by the leading experts yet accessible to the general reader.

The Handbook gives a structured overview of the field of Inter-Organizational Relations (IOR): The study of strategic alliances, joint ventures, partnerships, networks and other forms of relationship between organizations. With contributions from leading international experts, it is an authoritative overview of current thinking and research on IOR.

A defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology. Essays are thematically arranged and include both literary ways of reading the bible and theological ways of reading literature.