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Wise Family Business: Family Identity Steering Brand Success

by Joachim Schwass Anne-Catrin Glemser

Wise Family Business aims to help families in business to identify new and better ways of achieving longevity, sustainability and performance. The book presents ground-breaking new insights and practical examples from a range of growing family businesses in which the owning families are visible and, in most cases, have branded the business with their family name. This comprehensive and important study explores how family identity has the power to tie together families in business and leverage their values when developing and sharing the owner’s vision with their stakeholder communities. Developing a family business identity is key when building and managing an authentic, recognizable and trusted brand. It argues that family businesses that have successfully translated strong identities into strong brands are not only perceived as attractive employers but also add meaningful value to the business over generations.

Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life

by David Shoemaker

A philosopher’s case for the importance of good—if ethically questionable—humor. A good sense of humor is key to the good life, but a joke taken too far can get anyone into trouble. Where to draw the line is not as simple as it may seem. After all, even the most innocent quips between friends rely on deception, sarcasm, and stereotypes and often run the risk of disrespect, meanness, and harm. How do we face this dilemma without taking ourselves too seriously? In Wisecracks, philosopher David Shoemaker examines this interplay between humor and morality and ultimately argues that even morally suspect humor is an essential part of ethical life. Shoemaker shows how improvised “wisecracks” between family and friends—unlike scripted stand-up, sketches, or serials—help us develop a critical human skill: the ability to carry on and find the funny in tragedy. In developing a new ethics of humor in defense of questionable gibes, Wisecracks offers a powerful case for humor as a healing presence in human life.

Wissen als Handlungsoption: Zum Zusammenspiel von menschlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz in der Rechtsindustrie (essentials)

by Roger Strathausen

Wissen ist ein zentrales Element unternehmerischen Handelns. Nur, wer den Markt kennt und weiß, welche Probleme Kunden haben und wie diese sich mit neuen Produkten und Services lösen lassen, kann erfolgreich agieren. Dieses Buch untersucht die Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf die Rolle des Wissens in der Rechtsbranche. In Rechtsabteilungen und Kanzleien wandelt sich Wissen zunehmend von einem statischen Vorrats-Wissen zu einem dynamischen Ad-Hoc-Wissen, das durch den Einsatz von Software-Anwendungen bedarfsgerecht erzeugt wird und dem Erreichen eines bestimmten Zwecks dient. Dabei ist immer der jeweilige Geschäftskontext entscheidend für die Einsicht, was wie zu tun ist. Für Anwälte und alle, die an juristischen Transaktionen in Unternehmen beteiligt sind, bedeutet dies nicht nur, dass sie die allgemeinen Chancen und Risiken der digitalen Transformation kennen müssen. Sie müssen auch verstehen, wie sie neue Technologien dafür nutzen können, ihre eigene Kreativität zu stärken, informierte Entscheidungen zu treffen und im Team kooperativ zu einem gemeinsamen Ziel zu gelangen.

Wissen - Prinzip und Ressource

by Hans Mohr

In seinem neuen Buch stellt der bekannte Biologe und Erkenntnistheoretiker Prof. Dr. Hans Mohr die Bedeutung des Wissens für die moderne Welt in den Brennpunkt seiner Betrachtungen. Von den Formen des Wissens - das handlungsrelevante und das Verfügungs-Wissen - geht er über auf den Sonderstatus des wissenschaftlichen Wissens und dessen Eigenschaft als Kulturgut und Produktionsfaktor, die Verwandlung von Information in Wissen und Innovation bis hin zu den ethischen, technischen und politischen Dimensionen.

Wissenschaft muss wirken: Forschung, Transfer und Bildung für eine zukunftsfähige Gesellschaft

by Ulrich Holzbaur

Dieses Fachbuch ist ein mitreißender Appell und Leitfaden für mehr Wissenschaftlichkeit in der Gesellschaft und mehr gesellschaftliche Verantwortung in der Wissenschaft. Es zeigt auf, warum und wie die Gesellschaft wissenschaftsorientierter und die Forschung nachhaltiger werden müssen. Dabei geht es um Vertrauen und Transparenz, Verstehen und Verständlichkeit, Nachhaltigkeit und Zukunftsfähigkeit.Ulrich Holzbaur hat in fünfzig Jahren wissenschaftsbasiertes Arbeiten in unterschiedlichen Facetten kennengelernt – als Betreuer von Projekt- und Abschlussarbeiten, in der Software-Systementwicklung, in Forschungsprojekten und in seiner Beratungstätigkeit im Steinbeis-Transferzentrum, um nur einige Stationen zu nennen. All diese Erfahrungen haben in ihm die Auffassung wachsen lassen, dass Wissen ein ganz entscheidender Faktor für die Gestaltung unserer Zukunft und das Überleben der Menschheit ist. Sehr praxisnah und mit vielen Beispielen fordert Ulrich Holzbaur den Leser auf, sich selbst einzubringen – sei es als Wissenschaftler oder als Rezipient und Nutzer von wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen.

Wissenschaft und Medizin: Über die Grundlagen der Wissenschaft

by Bartholomäus Böhm

In einer Welt, die von Rationalität, Wissenschaft und Technik beherrscht wird, werden medizinische Behandlungen im allgemeinen nur danach bewertet, inwieweit sie wissenschaftlich überprüft wurden. Die Relativität der Grundlagen der Wissenschaft zu erkennen und sie als Herausforderung zu begreifen, ist das Anliegen des Autors. Wenn der Mensch versteht, daß er mit seiner wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit Tatsachen schafft, dann ist der Weg offen für mehr Weitsicht, mehr Umsicht und mehr Toleranz.

Wissenschaftsfreiheit im Konflikt: Grundlagen, Herausforderungen und Grenzen

by Elif Özmen

Demokratie gründet auf dem Recht des Einzelnen, anderer Meinung sein und diese frei äußern und verbreiten zu dürfen. Analog verhält es sich innerhalb der Institutionen der freien Wissenschaft und der kritischen Universität: Sie dienen der Selbstkontrolle wissenschaftlicher Tätigkeit, ebenso dem Schutz einer kritischen Öffentlichkeit. Aber unter welchen Voraussetzungen entwickelt Wissenschaftsfreiheit dieses epistemische, ethische und demokratische Potential? Darf man im universitären Raum alles sagen und diskutieren? Oder gibt es eine Grenze zwischen Freiheit und Zügellosigkeit? Wer sollte nach welchen Maßstäben Grenzen ziehen zwischen dem legitimen Wettbewerb um Meinungen einerseits und der Provokation, Diskriminierung und der Verachtung des Gegners andererseits? Gibt es normative Grundlagen für den Gebrauch der akademischen Freiheiten, die ihre Grenzen zu bestimmen erlauben?

Wissenschaftsmarketing: Grundlagen und Möglichkeiten am Beispiel der Ressortforschung

by Frank Wernitz

Frank Wernitz entwickelt auf der Grundlage des Stakeholderansatzes ein holistisches Marketingkonzept, das die Berücksichtigung und Priorisierung der Stakeholderansprüche in einem konsistenten Managementansatz vereinigt. Am Beispiel der Ressortforschung zeigt der Autor, wie Wissenschaftsmarketing in einem wenig marketingaffinen Kontext zur Erhöhung der Effektivität und Effizienz beiträgt und welche Voraussetzungen dafür erfüllt werden müssen. Die theoretischen Grundlagen des Wissenschaftsmarketing als Konzeption des Wissenschaftsmanagements werden dargelegt; dabei führt der Autor Ansätze u.a. aus der Kommunikations- und Organisationstheorie und der Theorie des strategischen Managements zusammen. Im Ergebnis entsteht ein Modell des stakeholderorientierten Marketing, das sowohl im Kontext des Wissenschaftssystems als auch für Organisationen im öffentlichen Sektor und im Nonprofit-Bereich anwendbar ist.

Wissenschaftsrecht (Springer-Lehrbuch)

by Guido Speiser

Das Lehrbuch bietet einen raschen und fundierten Überblick über zentrale Teilbereiche des Wissenschaftsrechts. Die Themen werden in systematisch angelegten und verständlich aufbereiteten Kapiteln erschlossen. Dazu zählen Wissenschaftsfreiheit, Hochschulorganisation, Hochschulfinanzierung, Rechtsfragen des Studiums, Arbeitsrecht sowie Urheber-, Marken- und Patentrecht. Um zusätzliche Orientierung zu bieten, enthalten die Kapitel überdies Grafiken, Tabellen und Fallbeispiele. Der Band richtet sich an Mitarbeiter*innen in Wissenschafts- und Hochschulverwaltungen, Studierende und weitere professionelle Leser*innen, die sich ohne rechtswissenschaftliches Vorwissen in ein höchst dynamisches Rechtsgebiet einarbeiten möchten.

Wissensmanagement für Schutzrechte und ihre Bewertung: Wissen entlang der Wertschöpfungskette praktisch nutzbar machen (VDI-Buch)

by Hermann Mohnkopf Ulrich Moser

Unternehmen benötigen das Wissen der Mitarbeiter, um Prozesse entlang der Produktentstehungs- und Wertschöpfungskette, in der Projektarbeit und Vereinbarungen mit Partnern, Zulieferern und Kunden konstruktiv nutzen zu können. Kundenbedürfnisse gilt es strukturiert festzuhalten und frühzeitig in den Prozess zu integrieren. Durch ein organisiertes Wissensmanagement können nicht nur langfristig kürzere Produktlebenszyklen, die Wissensintensität und die Aktualität des Wissens gesteigert und zielsicher und schnell verfügbar gemacht werden, sondern dadurch erfährt auch der Unternehmenswert eine Steigerung. Eine verkürzte Wertschöpfungskette im Unternehmen und ein schlankerer Produktprozess führen zur Erhöhung des Unternehmenswerts. Wie dieses Wissen in der Praxis erfasst, strukturiert, ständig auf dem Laufenden gehalten und jederzeit gut zugänglich gemacht wird, darüber berichten die Autoren.

Wissensmanagement in Nonprofit-Organisationen: Gestaltung von Verbänden als lernende Netzwerke (NPO-Management)

by Karin Roßkopf

Karin Roßkopf untersucht, in welcher Weise gesellschaftliche Veränderungen, aber auch Triebkräfte innerhalb von Verbänden die Bedeutung der Ressource Wissen in Verbänden steigen lassen, und zeigt, dass die durch Mitarbeiterstruktur, Zielsetzung und Leistungen geprägten Eigenarten von Verbänden ein speziell abgestimmtes Wissensmanagement erfordern.

The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children

by Ross E. Cheit

In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States. The most famous case was the 1984 McMartin preschool case, but there were a number of others as well. By the latter part of the decade, the assumption was widespread that child sex abuse had become a serious problem in America. Yet within a few years, the concern about it died down considerably. The failure to convict anyone in the McMartin case and a widely publicized appellate decision in New Jersey that freed an accused molester had turned the dominant narrative on its head. In the early 1990s, a new narrative with remarkable staying power emerged: the child sex abuse cases were symptomatic of a 'moral panic' that had produced a witch hunt. A central claim in this new witch hunt narrative was that the children who testified were not reliable and easily swayed by prosecutorial suggestion. In time, the notion that child sex abuse was a product of sensationalized over-reporting and far less endemic than originally thought became the new common sense. But did the new witch hunt narrative accurately represent reality? As Ross Cheit demonstrates in his exhaustive account of child sex abuse cases in the past two and a half decades, purveyors of the witch hunt narrative never did the hard work of examining court records in the many cases that reached the courts throughout the nation. Instead, they treated a couple of cases as representative and concluded that the issue was blown far out of proportion. Drawing on years of research into cases in a number of states, Cheit shows that the issue had not been blown out of proportion at all. In fact, child sex abuse convictions were regular occurrences, and the crime occurred far more frequently than conventional wisdom would have us believe. Cheit's aim is not to simply prove the narrative wrong, however. He also shows how a narrative based on empirically thin evidence became a theory with real social force, and how that theory stood at odds with a far more grim reality. The belief that the charge of child sex abuse was typically a hoax also left us unprepared to deal with the far greater scandal of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, which, incidentally, has served to substantiate Cheit's thesis about the pervasiveness of the problem. In sum, The Witch-Hunt Narrative is a magisterial and empirically powerful account of the social dynamics that led to the denial of widespread human tragedy.

Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900: A Sourcebook (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)


This sourcebook provides the first systematic overview of witchcraft laws and trials in Russia and Ukraine from medieval times to the late nineteenth century. Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 weaves scholarly commentary with never-before-published primary source materials translated from Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. These sources include the earliest references to witchcraft and sorcery, secular and religious laws regarding witchcraft and possession, full trial transcripts, and a wealth of magical spells. The documents present a rich panorama of daily life and reveal the extraordinary power of magical words.Editors Valerie A. Kivelson and Christine D. Worobec present new analyses of the workings and evolution of legal systems, the interplay and tensions between church and state, and the prosaic concerns of the women and men involved in witchcraft proceedings. The extended documentary commentaries also explore the shifting boundaries and fraught political relations between Russia and Ukraine.

Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America

by Elaine Forman Crane

The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americans clashed with or conformed to the social norms established by the law. As trials throughout the country reveal, alleged malefactors such as witches, wife beaters, and whores, as well as debtors, rapists, and fornicators, were as much a part of the social landscape as farmers, merchants, and ministers. Ordinary people "made" law by establishing and enforcing informal rules of conduct. Codified by a handshake or over a mug of ale, such agreements became custom and custom became "law." Furthermore, by submitting to formal laws initiated from above, common folk legitimized a government that depended on popular consent to rule with authority. In this book we meet Marretie Joris, a New Amsterdam entrepreneur who sues Gabriel de Haes for calling her a whore; peer cautiously at Christian Stevenson, a Bermudian witch as bad "as any in the world;" and learn that Hannah Dyre feared to be alone with her husband—and subsequently died after a beating. We travel with Comfort Taylor as she crosses Narragansett Bay with Cuff, an enslaved ferry captain, whom she accuses of attempted rape, and watch as Samuel Banister pulls the trigger of a gun that kills the sheriff’s deputy who tried to evict Banister from his home. And finally, we consider the promiscuous Marylanders Thomas Harris and Ann Goldsborough, who parented four illegitimate children, ran afoul of inheritance laws, and resolved matters only with the assistance of a ghost. Through the six trials she skillfully reconstructs here, Crane offers a surprising new look at how early American society defined and punished aberrant behavior, even as it defined itself through its legal system.

With All Deliberate Speed: The Life of Philip Elman

by Norman I. Silber

"With All Deliberate Speed is just wonderful. It gives the reader fascinating insights into the Roosevelt era, the Supreme Court, the Justice Department. It is funny, and endearingly human. Three cheers!" -Anthony Lewis, New York Times columnist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gideon's Trumpet "The fascinating, eloquent, and skillfully edited oral memoir of a distinguished public servant, who was at the epicenter of major legal controversies that his memoir illuminates. A major contribution to modern American legal history." -Richard A. Posner "With All Deliberate Speed provides an insider's rich account, spanning over thirty years, of the inner workings of the Supreme Court, the Solicitor General's Office and the Federal Trade Commission that anyone seriously interested in a frank behind-the-scenes view of the federal government should find exceptionally provocative and intriguing" -Drew Days III, Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law, Yale University, and former Solicitor General of the United States, 1993-96 From a modest childhood in Patterson, N. J., Philip Elman rose to become clerk for the great Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, and then to a position in the U.S. Solicitor General's Office. As a member of that office, Philip Elman had an exceptional vantage point on one of the most momentous cases in U.S. Supreme Court history: Brown v. Board of Education. In this oral history memoir of Elman's life, With All Deliberate Speed, author Norman I. Silber reveals the maneuvering that led to the Court's overturning the doctrine of "separate but equal." Working behind the scenes, it was Justice Department attorney Elman who came up with the concept of gradual integration-an idea that worked its way into the final decision as the famous phrase "with all deliberate speed." Though this expression angered those pressing for immediate desegregation, Elman claims that it unified a divided Court, thus enabling them to stand together against the evil of segregation. With All Deliberate Speed records a decisive moment in Supreme Court history, but it is also Philip Elman's unforgettable oral memoir-the story of his entire career in government service, including his work with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy as commissioner of the FTC, and his role in founding the modern consumer protection movement, which includes the antismoking campaign that put the Surgeon General's warning on cigarette packs. At once rich historical testimony and a gripping read, With All Deliberate Speed offers a rarely glimpsed insider's understanding of the politics of the American legal system.

With Liberty and Justice for All?: The Constitution in the Classroom

by Steven A. Steinbach, Maeva Marcus, Robert Cohen

A valuable resource for students, teachers, and citizens looking to better understand US Constitutional history With Liberty and Justice for All?: The Constitution in the Classroom is designed to help teachers and students generate analysis and debate in our nation's classrooms about an aspect of US history that has produced intense disagreements about rights and wrongs: constitutional history. For more than two centuries, Americans have argued about what the US Constitution permits or requires (or not), and what values and ideals it enshrines (or not)--indeed, who is to be included (or not) in the very definition of "We the People." This book provides abundant resources to explore key moments of debate about the Constitution and its meaning, focusing on fundamental questions of citizenship and rights. It analyzes American history through the use and misuse of the Constitution over time, from early disputes about liberty and slavery to more recent quarrels over equality and dignity. With a foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this book's succinct and probing essays by prize-winning historians--including Linda Greenhouse, Mary Sarah Bilder, Annette Gordon-Reed, Eric Foner, Sam Erman, Julie Suk, Laura Kalman, and Melissa Murray--provide the core of the book. Their topics encompass woman suffrage, school desegregation, Japanese internment, McCarthyism, all dramatic turning points in American history. Carefully selected and annotated primary sources and focused discussion questions provide teachers with the tools to bring constitutional history into the classroom with ease. As this book amply demonstrates, United States history is constitutional history. A companion website provides additional resources for teachers.

With Liberty and Justice for All?: The Constitution in the Classroom


A valuable resource for students, teachers, and citizens looking to better understand US Constitutional history With Liberty and Justice for All?: The Constitution in the Classroom is designed to help teachers and students generate analysis and debate in our nation's classrooms about an aspect of US history that has produced intense disagreements about rights and wrongs: constitutional history. For more than two centuries, Americans have argued about what the US Constitution permits or requires (or not), and what values and ideals it enshrines (or not)--indeed, who is to be included (or not) in the very definition of "We the People." This book provides abundant resources to explore key moments of debate about the Constitution and its meaning, focusing on fundamental questions of citizenship and rights. It analyzes American history through the use and misuse of the Constitution over time, from early disputes about liberty and slavery to more recent quarrels over equality and dignity. With a foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this book's succinct and probing essays by prize-winning historians--including Linda Greenhouse, Mary Sarah Bilder, Annette Gordon-Reed, Eric Foner, Sam Erman, Julie Suk, Laura Kalman, and Melissa Murray--provide the core of the book. Their topics encompass woman suffrage, school desegregation, Japanese internment, McCarthyism, all dramatic turning points in American history. Carefully selected and annotated primary sources and focused discussion questions provide teachers with the tools to bring constitutional history into the classroom with ease. As this book amply demonstrates, United States history is constitutional history. A companion website provides additional resources for teachers.

With Malice Aforethought: A Study of the Crime and Punishment for Homicide

by Louis Blom-Cooper Terence Morris

For more than three centuries the criminal law has given rise to a divergent set of approaches to the crime of homicide. Whereas the law of murder has not conceptually changed,the crime of manslaughter has resulted in some forms of homicide being visited with relatively minor penalties. These various categories of unlawful killing present considerable problems relating to intention, or lack of it, and the culpability of those whose behaviour, while lacking in evident malice, is characterised by the grossest recklessness. The reaction of the relatives of victims is generally simpler. They frequently find it impossible to understand how those who kill by dangerous or drunken driving may receive comparatively lenient sentences, while those convicted of manslaughter following a drunken brawl may be dealt with more severely, and yet others, convicted of so-called 'mercy killings', are subject to the mandatory penalty of life imprisonment.This book addresses the powerful and controversial arguments for the current distinctions between murder, manslaughter and other specific categories of crime to be abolished and subsumed within a single crime of culpable homicide. In the course of this analysis the authors consider a number of issues of great contemporary importance, including the presentation of expert evidence in cases involving unexplained infant death, corporate killing, and the question of the defences available to the accused, including self-defence and provocation, where popular notions of what is reasonable or justifiable may be at variance with legal precedent.While this book aims to consider criminal homicide in its social, historical and legal setting, it also goes far beyond in setting out the case for radical reform.

With Prejudice

by Robin Peguero

The "exciting" and "clever" debut thriller (New York Times Book Review): No one knows what happened that night. Seven strangers must decide. Earl Thomas, a straight-laced taxman with his fair share of police encounters, is the begrudging foreperson in a high-stakes trial in Miami. Laura Hurtado-Perez is a physician whose unassuming manner conceals a private pain. Joseph Cole is the founder of his local neighborhood watch, unduly obsessed with the families around him. Along with four others, these jurors of varying ages and walks of life whose paths would likely never have otherwise crossed must come together to make one of the most important decisions of their lives. On the night Melina Mora, a free-spirited woman both proud and kind, was murdered, she was seen with a young man of Gabriel Soto&’s description. Two strands of her hair were found in his bedroom. Sandy Grunwald, a young prosecutor whose political ambitions depend on securing a conviction, finds herself pitted against Jordan Whipple, a preening public defender armed with a freshly discovered, dynamite piece of evidence on the eve of the trial—if the Honorable Darla Tackett will admit it. What Sandy, Jordan, and Judge Tackett all know, however, is that the criminal justice system is complicated, and everyone has a story—especially the jury. And it&’s their experiences, biases, and beliefs that will ultimately shape the verdict. With striking originality and expert storytelling, Robin Peguero&’s debut novel explores the prejudice that hangs over every trial in America. You&’ve never read a legal thriller quite like this. There&’s never been a thriller writer quite like Peguero. And you will not be able to predict how it all ends.

With the Passage of Time

by Peter Murphy

1985, Cambridgeshire. An MPs wife is involved in a fatal car crash, and may be over the alcohol limit. Ben Schroeder QC returns to defend her but nothing is straightforward as he gets tangled in a web of political ambition and intrigue. A compulsive mix of crime fiction and legal thriller, exploring highly topical themes.

The Withdrawal of Rights: Rights from a Different Perspective (Synthese Library #314)

by O. Ezra

Like most discussions within the tradition of rights-talk, this study is motivated by the desire to promote the idea that rights are moral assets that people should acquire in the course of their membership within social and political frameworks. However, while most participants in rights-talk concentrate on the safety and protection constraints required for a successful exercising of rights, the present study inquires into the circumstances under which people's rights lose their validity. The author believes that if we want to prevent the erosion of the role of rights within society and to encourage their obligatory status, we should prevent their misuse, or their unjustified or excessive use. Those who have interests in rights, and are concerned about their withdrawal or denial, will find a unique and inventive way of dealing both with the use, as well as the abuse of rights.

Withholding and Withdrawing Life-prolonging Medical Treatment: Guidance for Decision Making

by British Medical Association

An authoritative book on one of the most fundamental and contentious issues for health care professionals Fully updated to include provisions of the Mental Capacity Act (April 2007); the latest policy on advance directives and the impact of the Human Rights Act on such decisions Provides guidance on the appointment of welfare attorneys to make health care decisions once capacity is lost Discusses recent cases, including Burke, baby MB, and Wyatt Written by medical ethics professionals in consultation with the appropriate medical and legal experts and in agreement with the General Medical Council's guidelines

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