Balancing Strategy

Author : Anna Brinkman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009425579
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balancing Strategy written by Anna Brinkman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between seapower, law, and strategy? Anna Brinkman uses in-depth analysis of cases brought before the Court of Prize Appeal during the Seven Years' War to explore how Britain worked to shape maritime international law to its strategic advantage. Within the court, government officials and naval and legal minds came together to shape legal decisions from the perspectives of both legal philosophy and maritime strategic aims. As a result, neutrality and the negotiation of rights became critical to maritime warfare. Balancing Strategy unpicks a complex web of competing priorities: deals struck with the Dutch Republic and Spain; imperial rivalry; mercantilism; colonial trade; and the relationships between metropoles and colonies, trade, and the navy. Ultimately, influencing and shaping international law of the sea allows a nation to create the norms and rules that constrain or enable the use of seapower during war.

Author : Yossi Sheffi
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262345765
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balancing Green written by Yossi Sheffi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability. The demands and stresses on companies only grow as executives face a multitude of competing business goals. Their stakeholders are interested in corporate profits, jobs, business growth, and environmental sustainability. In this book, business strategy expert Yossi Sheffi offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes—from Coca Cola and Siemens to Dr. Bronner's Magical Soaps and Patagonia—navigate these competing goals. Drawing on extensive interviews with more than 250 executives, Sheffi examines the challenges, solutions, and implications of balancing traditional business goals with sustainability. Sheffi, author of the widely read The Resilient Enterprise, argues that business executives' personal opinions on environmental sustainability are irrelevant. The business merits of environmental sustainability are based on the fact that even the most ardent climate change skeptics in the C-suite face natural resource costs, public relations problems, regulatory burdens, and a green consumer segment. Sheffi presents three basic business rationales for corporate sustainability efforts: cutting costs, reducing risk, and achieving growth. For companies, sustainability is not a simple case of “profits versus planet” but is instead a more subtle issue of (some) people versus (other) people—those looking for jobs and inexpensive goods versus others who seek a pristine environment. This book aims to help companies satisfy these conflicting motivations for both economic growth and environmental sustainability.

Author : Barry W. Boehm
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780321186126
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balancing Agility and Discipline written by Barry W. Boehm and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Balancing Agility and Discipline" begins by defining the terms, sweeping aside the rhetoric and drilling down to core concepts. The authors describe a day in the life of developers who live on one side or the other. Their analysis is both objective and grounded, leading to clear and practical guidance for all software professionals.

Author : Kai He
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 041546952X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific written by Kai He and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the strategic interactions among China, the United States, Japan, and Southeast Asian States in the context of China’s rise and globalization after the cold war. Engaging the mainstream theoretical debates in international relations, the author introduces a new theoretical framework—institutional realism—to explain the institutionalization of world politics in the Asia-Pacific after the cold war. Institutional realism suggests that deepening economic interdependence creates a condition under which states are more likely to conduct a new balancing strategy—institutional balancing, i.e., countering pressures or threats through initiating, utilizing, and dominating multilateral institutions—to pursue security under anarchy. To test the validity of institutional realism, Kai He examines the foreign policies of the U.S., Japan, the ASEAN states, and China toward four major multilateral institutions, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF), ASEAN Plus Three (APT), and East Asian Summit (EAS). Challenging the popular pessimistic view regarding China’s rise, the book concludes that economic interdependence and structural constraints may well soften the "dragon’s teeth." China’s rise does not mean a dark future for the region. Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacificwill be of great interest to policy makers and scholars of Asian security, international relations, Chinese foreign policy, and U.S. foreign policy.

Author : Xin Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811970912
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principle, Design and Optimization of Air Balancing Methods for the Multi-zone Ventilation Systems in Low Carbon Green Buildings written by Xin Zhang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a systematic study on the air balancing technologies in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Several modern air balancing methods, including advanced control-based air balancing, data-driven-based air balancing, and energy-saving-oriented air balancing, are introduced in this book to balance the air duct system. Furthermore, this book provides clear instructions for both HVAC designers and engineers, as well as researchers, on how to design and balance duct systems for improved performance and energy efficiency.

Author : Ku Ruhana Ku Mahamud
Publisher : UUM Press
ISBN 13 : 9670474094
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Load Balancing in Grid Computing (UUM Press) written by Ku Ruhana Ku Mahamud and published by UUM Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing resources in grid computing system is complicated due to the distributed and heterogeneous nature of the resources. This research proposes an enhancement of the ant colony optimization algorithm that caters for dynamic scheduling and load balancing in the grid computing system. The proposed algorithm is known as the enhance Ant Colony Optimization (EACO). The algorithm consists of three new mechanisms that organize the work of an ant colony i.e. initial pheromone value mechanism, resource selection mechanism and pheromone update mechanism. The resource allocation problem is modelled as a graph that can be used by the ant to deliver its pheromone. This graph consists of four types of vertices which are job, requirement, resource and capacity that are used in constructing the grid resource management element. The proposed EACO algorithm takes into consideration the capacity of resources and the characteristics of jobs in determining the best resource to process a job. EACO selects the resources based on the pheromone value on each resource which is recorded in a matrix form. The initial pheromone value of each resource for each job is calculated based on the estimated transmission time and execution time of a given job. Resources with high pheromone value are selected to process the submitted jobs. Global pheromone update is performed after the completion of processing the jobs in order to reduce the pheromone value of resources. A simulation environment was developed using Java programming to test the performance of the proposed EACO algorithm against other ant based algorithm, in terms of resource utilization. Experimental results show that EACO produced better grid resource management solution.

Author : David E. Bowen
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Service Management Effectiveness written by David E. Bowen and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1990-05-02 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive model for managing a service business. Shows how to achieve the level of coordination required in an organization where employees from many departments have direct customer contact.

Author : Tatjana-Xenia Puhan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3834997552
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balancing Exploration and Exploitation by Creating Organizational Think Tanks written by Tatjana-Xenia Puhan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tatjana-Xenia Puhan demonstrates that ambidexterity need not necessarily be implemented in one single organization but can also be realised in a network of associated organizations. She develops the concept of think tanks as organizations which concentrate on radical innovations while their network associates exploit this newly generated knowledge commercially.

Author : T. V. Paul
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804750173
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balance of Power written by T. V. Paul and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union, many scholars have argued that the balance of power theory is losing its relevance. This text examines this viewpoint, as well as looking at systematic factors that may hinder or favour the return of balance of power politics.

Author : Huey-Tsyh Chen
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803958999
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory-Driven Evaluations written by Huey-Tsyh Chen and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, comprehensive framework for programme evaluation designed to bridge the gap between the method- and theory-oriented perspectives, is presented in this book, newly available in paper. Chen provides an intensive discussion of the nature and functions of programme theory, approaches to constructing programme theories, and the integration of programme theory with evaluation processes. Specific types of theory-driven evaluations, as well as principles and guidelines for application, are developed for meeting different policy purposes. Application of systematic strategies is illustrated by concrete examples from a variety of evaluation studies in different fields.