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Peter McManners author of Green Outcomes in the Real World published by Gower.
Watch this conversation between Gower Commissioning Editor Jonathan Norman and author of Green Outcomes in the Real World - Peter McManners. In this first three minute extract they discuss the aspects of Challenges of Economic Globalization and Sustainability, the limits to resources and the effect on the environment, along with engaging your people to buy-in to sustainability and localism.Carry on and watch part two (4 mins) where Peter discusses the diminishing power of traditional Nation States and the growth of huge multinationals - is that a threat to sustainability? He also discusses cradle to cradle production systems and how it is being driven by sustainability. In part three (3 mins) Peter looks at other forms of payment apart from money – swapping work – is this a black economy or does it energise communities?
Gordon Pearson’s interview with Bob Garlick on Business Book Talk is a revelation. Gordon’s one of those academic authors who can talk about issues at a level of global economic theory in a way that gives you a real sense of what the driving forces are in the background behind operational businesses. His ideas on cooperation-based businesses really deserve to be picked up at a policymaker level but in the meantime, it’s open for you and I to explore and aspire to a post-crisis world that is robust and sustainable, rather than lurching from one mess to another. Gordon Pearson is author of The Road to Co-operation and The Rise and Fall of Management.
Gower Author Kit Oung has been commissioned by Camfil UK Energy to write a Whitepaper on Efficiency Performance in Buildings.
He will also be speaking on 23 Jan 2013 at a joint Energy Institute and British Standard organised seminar ”Energy Efficiency: What do we need to scale it up?” His presentation is titled ”Energy Management and ISO 50001″.
Kit Ong is author of Energy Management in Business published in January 2013 by Gower.
Other books on sustainability in business can be found in our new Sustainability & Green Economics catalogue.
Sometimes we can overlook the simplest of questions because we become mesmerised by the scale or complexity of a particular issue; the energy industry is a case in point. Steven Fawkes’ article ‘Electricity Market Reform and the Demand Side’ offers a perspective on the dangers of a government focusing on one side of the equation (supply or demand) that is easy to grasp and hugely important, whether you are in the industry, an investor or just a UK citizen. Stephen Fawkes is author of Outsourcing Energy Management(2007) and Energy Efficiency: A Definitive Guide to the Fastest, Cheapest, Cleanest Forms of Energy (2013)
It’s not a huge leap to realise that the competition for sources of foreign direct investment has become extraordinarily fierce. What is interesting is to see how places are adopting and adapting the techniques of branding as part of their strategy for attracting investors. Check out Daniel Nicholls’ article on this topic which you can download from the OCO website. Daniel Nicholls is author of Gower Publishing’s Foreign Direct Investment: Smart Approaches to Differentiation and Engagement.
AOM , Boston, Massachusetts, August 3-7.
The 2012 programme theme is The Informal Economy and you will find us at stand number 125 in the Publisher exhibition hall. Commissioning Editor Martin West will be in attendance, he will be happy to chat about our books, your proposals, and your ideas for new subjects…
Eric Bolland, one of the editors of Solutions and others of his author team from Midway College will sign copies of their book; Jonathan Smith (author of Misleadership) is having a paper he co-wrote presented; and Guler Aras, the editor of our CSR series will be there if you wish to discuss a proposal for the series.
We are as usual sponsoring the PTC Awards ceremony.
Gerald Bradley author of Gower’s Benefit Realisation Management recently conducted a webinar for The International Institute of Business Analysis titled – Benefit Realisation Management: A Practical Guide to Achieving Benefits Through Change. You can take a look at this webinar and other expert offerings from the IIBA at their website.
Thought-provoking if somewhat alarming piece on Gordon Pearson’s blog: Anglo-American Post-Industrial Waste. He is not describing waste in terms that might immediately occur to you or I, but rather waste in human terms; the loss of employment associated with the economic decline of the West. Sobering stuff! Gordon is author of The Road to Cooperation: Escaping the Bottom Line and The Rise and Fall of Management: A Brief History of Practice, Theory and Context.
Karen E. Klein is a Los Angeles-based writer who covers entrepreneurship and small-business issues. She features advice from experts in her twice-weekly ’Smart Answers’ columns in Businessweek. In December she featured Gower author Daphne Halkias on her book Father-Daughter Succession in Family Business: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.
In the Column, Klein points out that family-owned companies account for 80 percent of all businesses worldwide, and about one-third of them are owned by women. Although recent research and census data shows that daughters and wives are increasingly taking over family businesses, few studies have been done on the process.Daphne Halkias is a social science researcher at Cornell University and senior research fellow at the Center for Young & Family Enterprise at the University of Bergamo in Italy, and is seeking to address this in her new book.
With more women taking over family-owned companies, the handover isn’t always smooth, Halkias seeks to illuminate the process of father-daughter succession around the globe and find ways to encourage it. Edited excerpts of their conversation are featured in Klein’s Column.
Daphne Halkias is also editor of Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs, and has a number of forthcoming titles at Gower.
