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Contract Law Cases and Materials
Kenneth Yin | Edith Cowan University, Western Australia Contract Law: Cases and Materials presents a selection of well-chosen cases and illuminating commentary ideal for introducing students to the study of contract law in Australia. This casebook maintains the accessibility of the principles text while providing the depth and analysis of topics required to learn contract law. • A chapter on international contract law with additional end-of-chapter
‘international context’ sections for each topic • Pedagogical features include flow charts, overview tables explaining key concepts and links to the principles text, review questions and endof-chapter problems • Accompanies Stewart, Swain and Fairweather’s Contract Law:
Principles and Context Contents: Part I: Introduction; 1. Some basic questions; 2. Themes and perspectives; 3. Resolving contractual disputes; Part II: Making a contract; 4. Preparing to make a contract; 5. Formation; 6. Preliminary agreements; 7. Protecting reliance: the doctrine of estoppel; 8. The parties to a contract; Part III: Contractual obligations; 9. Terms and obligations; 10. Interpreting contracts; 11. Limiting or extending liability; 12. Performance of contractual obligations; Part IV: Adjusting a contract; 13. Varying terms; 14. Transferring rights and obligation; 15. Impossibility and change of circumstances; Part V: Ending a contract; 16. Termination of contracts; 17. Consequences of termination; Part VI: Vitiating factors and unfair conduct; 18. Misinformation; 19. Undue pressure; 20. Unconscionability and unfairness; 21. Illegality and public policy; Part VII: Remedies; 22. Enforcing a contract; 23. Damages for breach of contract; 24. Restitutionary remedies; Part VIII: International aspects of contract law; 25. Contract law in the international context. December 2020 255 x 190 mm c.1000pp 63 b/w illus. 86 tables 978-1-108-43527-7 Paperback £79.99 / US$105.00 X
A Liberal Theory of Property
Hanoch Dagan | Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law Property law can and should expand people’s opportunities for individual and collective self-determination while restricting options of interpersonal domination. This book is for scholars and students across disciplines from philosophy and economics to political science, as well as anyone interested in the cutting edge of private law theory. • Shows why the justification and legal architecture of property must be examined in tandem • Develops a theory of property that accommodates seemingly conflicting normative commitments • Offers coherent liberal proposals relevant to ongoing legal reform debates October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.250pp 978-1-108-41854-6 Hardback c. £60.00 / c. US$115.00 P 978-1-108-40753-3 Paperback c. £24.99 / c. US$29.99 P
Learning Law
Second edition
Anthony Marinac
Learning Law is an accessible and engaging introduction to Australian law for students considering a career in the legal profession. This text is an essential resource that law students will refer to throughout their studies and in the early stages of their career. • Written in an engaging style designed to demystify the law and get students excited about their law studies and careers • Includes a fully integrated interactive ebook, replete with useful links and videos as well as extension and revision questions that allow students to test their own knowledge as they go • Encourages students to think critically about the future of the law profession by including an ‘Critical Perspectives’ boxes and ‘Living
Law’ case studies that highlight the diversity of career opportunities available to law graduates Contents: Part I. Law, Lawyers and Justice: 1. Welcome to the Law; 2. History and justice; 3. First Peoples and the Law; Part II. Legal Institutions: 4. Parliamentary Institutions; 5. The Courts; Part III. Learning the Laws: 6. Categories of Law; 7. Statute Law; 8. The Common Law; 9. Understanding Statutes; Part IV. Research and Persuasion: 10. Frameworks for Legal Thinking; 11. Equality, Difference and Law 12. Analysing and Persuading; 13. Finding the Law; 14. Grappling with Facts; Part V. Profession and Community: 15. The Ethical Lawyer; 16. Lawyers and Clients; 17. Becoming a Lawyer. December 2020 255 x 190 mm c.400pp 978-1-108-90819-1 Print/online bundle £75.00 / US$99.99 X
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Organizational Design A Step-by-Step Approach
Fourth edition Richard M. Burton | Duke University, North Carolina Now in its fourth edition, this comprehensive textbook uses a multi-contingency model to communicate the fundamentals of traditional and new organizational forms. Written for MBA and executive MBA students, as well as executive managers and consultants, it provides a framework for the practical implementation of organizational design changes. • Develops an integrated holistic model of the organization using a multi-contingency model derived from decades of theoretical and empirical research • Promotes a simple, step by step approach, from diagnosis to design and implementation, developing an integrated model of design rather than a piecemeal approach • Supplemented by cases and spreadsheet tools Contents: Step 1. Getting Started: 1. Assessing the scope and goals of the organization; Step 2. Assessing the Strategy: 2. Strategy; 3. Environment; Step 3. Analyzing the Structure: 4. Traditional configurations of the firm; 5. New organizational forms?; Step 4. Assessing Process and People: 6. Work, task design and agents; 7. Leadership and organizational climate; Step 5. Analyzing Coordination, Control, and Incentives: 8. Coordination and control; 9. Incentives; 10. Designing the structure and coordination; Step 6. Designing the Architecture: 11. Designing the architecture and the sequence of change; Step 7. Implementing the Architecture: 12. Implementing the change: who should do what when? July 2020 244 x 170 mm 284pp 10 b/w illus. 26 colour illus. 17 tables 978-1-108-49328-4 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 X 978-1-108-71756-4 Paperback £34.99 / US$44.99 X
Tools for Strategy A Starter Kit for Academics and Practitioners
Henri Hakala | Lappeenranta University of Technology This Element discusses the concept and applications of strategy tools. These are frameworks, techniques, and methods that help individuals and organizations to create their strategies. The authors elaborate on the promise and perils of both commonly used and less well-known strategy tools to implement strategic management.
Elements in Business Strategy
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-79319-3 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
High Velocity Business Operations
Yemmanur Jayachandra | Wireless Wearables This Element deals with the know-how and show-how to accomplish high velocity business operations, providing theories and methods for configuring, formulating and implementing them. Ever increasing mobility of technology enables these operations to take advantage of world-wide resources and expertise with mobile platforms and their data.
Elements in Business Strategy
August 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-81167-5 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Strategy Consulting
Jeroen Kraaijenbrink | University of Amsterdam Business School Strategy consulting is one of the most highly respected and at the same time deeply detested jobs on this planet. This Element provides an overview of this fascinating and emerging profession. Relying on existing research and the author’s practical experience, it describes what strategy consulting is, its origins, how to practice it and its future.
Elements in Business Strategy
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-81195-8 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Gender Imbalance in Public Sector Leadership
Leisha DeHart-Davis | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Women are still underrepresented as publicsector organizational leaders, despite comprising half of the United States’ workforce. Using a problem-driven approach, inductive and deductive research, the authors explore the complex puzzle of gendered experiences and career paths that provide insights into gender imbalanced leadership in this domain.
Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration
July 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-70808-1 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Behavioral Public Performance How People Make Sense of Government Metrics
Oliver James | University of Exeter This Element introduces a new approach in the measurement and reporting of government performance – behavioral public performance. Drawing especially on evidence from experiments, this approach examines the influence of characteristics of numbers, subtle framing of information, choice of benchmarks or comparisons, and information sources.
Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration
June 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 29 b/w illus. 978-1-108-70807-4 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Redefining Development Resolving Complex Challenges in Developing Countries
Jessica Kritz | Georgetown University, Washington DC Focuses on the concept phase of the project to resolve complex challenges faced by the communities in the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana. The results are consolidated into a PAR intervention that incorporates results from the process as well as the stakeholders’ first strategy, sanitation, and project, latrine and bathhouse installation.
Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration
August 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-81169-9 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Edited by Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra | Northeastern University, Boston Firms in emerging markets are becoming leading global players despite operating in challenging home country environments, but little is known about how they build their capabilities. The authors provide actionable solutions for upgrading competitiveness to international levels and achieving multinational status. • Provide actionable solutions to upgrading capabilities, sustaining competitive advantage, and achieving multinational status • Analyses fourteen emerging markets (across Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe) in a cross- emerging market study of multiple companies from each country • Extends the current literature on emerging market firms from multinationals to all firms, paving the way for future studies • Features a global spread of expert contributors October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-47437-5 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 P 978-1-108-46425-3 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 P
