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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Shifting the Balance How Top Organizations Beat the Competition by Combining Intuition with Data ECW Press	Digital transformation expert Mark Schrutt reveals how the world’s top companies are using vast amounts of data to inform their decisions, disrupt industries, and get closer to their …	Mark Schrutt	253	2021	View
From NEW! Shifting Winds From: Shifting the Balance View ECW Press	Readings in part 1 of this text explore how companies combine intuition with data and analytics to drive competitive wedges in their markets. This chapter discusses the shift to data driven …	Mark Schrutt	11	2021	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Shopify Gathers Speed From: The Shopify Story View ECW Press	This chapter follows the ways Shopify executives were constantly learning and developing in their roles over the years.	Larry MacDonald	14	2024	$1.40 Add
From Shopping Without Borders From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do! View James Lorimer and Company	Chapter 4 delves into electronic commerce. Traditional taxation principles that were devised more than half a century ago were based on a physical world, with tangible goods, and defined places …	Brigitte Alepin	11	2012	$1.10 Add
From Shrimp Farms or Shrimps Harm? From: Changing Tides View Fernwood Publishing		Jasper Goss	3	2005	$0.30 Add
From Silicon Valley North From: BlackBerry Town View James Lorimer and Company	Howitt examines the growth of Kitchener-Waterloo’s growing reputation as a tech leader from the perspective of several staff and executives of other tech companies in the area.	Chuck Howitt	26	2019	$2.60 Add
From Silver Lining From: BlackBerry Town View James Lorimer and Company	Howitt outlines the years following BlackBerry’s collapse, noting how many of the talented and educated tech workers BlackBerry was forced to lay off stayed in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, …	Chuck Howitt	16	2019	$1.60 Add
From Size Matters: Can Buildings Be Too Tall? From: The New Carbon Architecture View New Society Publishers	In this chapter, the author seeks to answer the question: are there limits to how much increases in urban density — especially via vertical growth — will contribute to rather than …	Ann Edminster	11	2017	$1.10 Add
From Slogging towards Tomorrow From: Shift Change View Between The Lines	This chapter examines the activities of the Hamilton Roundtable and other similar institutions, which sought to bridge the gaps between government, the non-profit sector, business, churches, and …	Stephen Dale	48	2021	$4.80 Add
From NEW! SNC-Lavalin Captured or Complicit? SNC-Lavalin and the Normalization of Corruption in Canada From: Corporate Rules View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, Steven Bittle and Jennifer Quaid examine the SNC-Lavalin scandal and the normalization of corruption in Canada. Bittle and Quaid use three key moments in the evolution of the …	Jennifer Quaid; Steven Bittle	22	2022	$2.20 Add
From So What’s Stopping You? From: Curing Affluenza View Between The Lines	Chapter 9 concludes with a call to action, discussing topics including democratic reform and citizen influence, Neoliberalism, communal goals and future cultural changes.	Richard Denniss	18	2018	$1.80 Add
From Social Co-ops and Social Care From: Humanizing the Economy View New Society Publishers	On Civil Society and the Social Economy On Reciprocity Social Co-operatives The Case for Co-op Approach to Social Care Beyond Defensiveness Creating a Social Marker	John Restakis	32	2010	$3.20 Add
From NEW! Social Democracy and Labour From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	In this chapter, the author discusses the conditions and circumstances that labour movements faced during his career. Topics include the rise of student activism, the culture wars of the 1970s, …	Andrew Jackson	7	2021	$0.70 Add
From Social Dividend as a Citizen Right From: From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization View Fernwood Publishing		Kari Polanyi Levitt	4	2013	$0.40 Add
From NEW! Social Exclusion From: About Canada: Health and Illness View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter Five unpacks the concept of social exclusion and its relationship to health outcomes in Canada, highlighting the experiences of marginalized groups such as Indigenous Peoples, people of …	Dennis Raphael	30	2024	$3.00 Add
From Social Marketing From: Five Good Ideas View Coach House Books	This chapter by Mark Sarner focuses on knowing your market and your brand inside and out, and how to invest your money into it.	Mark Sarner	5	2011	$0.50 Add