Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-10
Price: $65.00
Review In & Out of Business. . .Happily / Parker-Nelson Publishing:The previously unwritten rules for valuing, buying, or selling a small to mid-size business. Real world information based upon experience gained in over 2,000 business sales and/or valuations. Case studies explain by example and simplify the interplay of financial and personal concerns surrounding the emotionally charged atmosphere that engulfs every business sale.
Publication date: 1997-06-01
Price: $7.95
Review How To Evaluate Business Opportunities / Gardner Publications:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2004-08-06
Dewey code: 650.1
List Price: $200.00
Price: $166.41
Review Influencing Within Organizations: Getting in Rising up Moving on / Routledge:There are many 'how-to' books on influencing, but few of these are based on any rigorous research. There are also many empirically supported academic studies, but these remain either difficult to find or provide little in the way of practical advice. Influencing Within Organizations, 2nd edition is different. It provides readers with vital information on probably the most important organizational, survival-success skill of the twenty-first century - influencing. By tracking down the most trustworthy, academic studies, and translating their conclusions into specific, behavioral steps on effective influencing, it gives readers a practical guide, grounded in the relevant theory. Considering the different facets of influencing such as verbal and non-verbal influencing, and the effect of personality, motivation, decision-making and impression management on influencing, this is a comprehensive and highly practical guide to influencing in organizations.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2001-12-15
Dewey code: 658.514
List Price: $180.00
Price: $166.94
Review Complexity & Innovation in Organizations / Routledge:The experiences of innovation studied in this book suggest that innovations do not start with a match between a need to be satisfied and a set of competencies and tools purposefully brought together to meet the need. On the contrary, identification of need is a consequence of success, rather than a pre-condition.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-01-11
Dewey code: 174.4
List Price: $200.00
Price: $165.96
Review The Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-Organization and Ethics (Complexity and Emergence in Organisations) / Routledge:A complexity perspective on leadership, this book considers factors such as risk and conflict, spontaneity and motivation, bullying and the use/abuse of power to express a new view of business ethics.
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $166.00
Price: $165.16
Review How to Turn Your HR Strategy into Reality (Thorogood Special Briefing) / Thorogood:In this Report, Tony Grundy takes you through a number of phases towards developing and implementing an HR strategy. From a diagnosis of HR issues-identifying and assessing the critical areas where Human Resources can enable or frustrate business strategy and operational performance-to an analysis of the external and internal future environment of your company and the effect on your Human Resources-this is practical information aimed at HR and senior line managers. Using a Future Organizational Model, you will see how to flesh-out future organisational structures, skills, behaviours and attitudes, and be able to define, develop and prioritize Human Resource 'breakthroughs'-in other words, a small number of concentrated programs or projects which move you towards that future. This Report includes:Diagrams and charts to bring the process of developing an HR strategy aliveCase studies (including Champneys Health Farm and Nycomed Amersham)-learn from the experiences of fellow HR professionalsDetailed checklists of what to do - don't leave anything to chance!.
Authors
- Craig E. Aronoff, John L. Ward Francois M. de Visscher
Publication date: 1995-10
List Price: $21.95
Price: $180.00
Review Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in the Family Business / Business Owner Resources:If a family-owned company is to endure and provide the maximum potential opportunity for future generations, it must plan for provision of both adequate shareholder liquidity and sufficient business capital. Many believe their options are limited: restrict money available to the family; sell the business; or go public. Rather than allowing financial pressures to destroy the family business, careful planning and sophisticated use of the growing collection of financial techniques can help the family retain business control and make wise choices among many available alternatives. Francois deVisscher, one of the nation's leading authorities on family business finance, joins Drs. Aronoff and Ward in producing this volume. Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in The Family Business is a guide to: * anticipating and managing capital and liquidity needs; * understanding how the "Family Effect" can be a family business' greatest asset-or its greatest threat; * evaluating two dozen up-to-date, sophisticated financial solutions for providing liquidity and capital for the family business; * recognizing how predictable family business transitions can erupt into family crises; * avoiding the downward liquidity spiral; * keeping patient capital from becoming impatient; * controlling the family business's cost of capital; and much more. Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in the Family Business gives business owners the financial insight and understanding needed to provide future generations with the fullest possible opportunity to enjoy the unique benefits of business ownership.
Authors
- Neville Lake
- Kristen Hickey
Dewey code: 658.812
Price: $29.95
Review Customer Service Workbook (Sunday Times Business Enterprise Guide) / Kogan Page:* A practical guide to developing a customer service strategy
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-06-05
Dewey code: 331.137042
List Price: $180.00
Price: $168.39
Review Employment Impact of Innovation: Evidence and Policy (Routledge Research in Modern World Economy, 23) / Routledge:The diffusion of information and communication technologies is rapidly changing the structure of advanced economies and the fear of mass technological unemployment has emerged. This book addresses this controversy.
Creator: Bob Galliers
Publication date: 1999-06-10
Dewey code: 658.4038011
List Price: $255.00
Price: $180.70
Review Rethinking Management Information Systems: An Interdisciplinary Perspective / Oxford University Press, USA:This book examines influential ideas within Management Information Systems (MIS). Leading international contributors summarize key topics and explore a variety of issues currently being discussed in the field. They re-visit influential ideas such as socio-technical theory, systems thinking, and structuration theory and demonstrate their relevance to newer ideas such as re-engineering, hybrid management, knowledge workers, and outsourcing. In locating MIS within an interdisciplinary context, particularly in the light of rapid technological changes, this book will form the link between past and future approaches to MIS.
Creator: Gary D. Libecap
Publication date: 1996-12
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $82.50
Price: $165.47
Review Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth: The Innovative Middle : Political and Economic Factors Affecting Mid-Size Business ... Innovation and Economic Growth) / JAI Press:This work seeks to address the issue of mid-size business and demonstrate the vital financial, political and economic importance of this area of business. Papers included cover many different aspects. In the second chapter John Macey argues that mid-size businesses are at a significant competitive disadvantage concerning litigation when compared with both large and small firms. The next chapter focuses on how businesses will be affected by fiscal policy changes. The final paper provides suggestions on how financial data might be used by managers in planning. In summary, the papers in this volume hope to provide important information for owners and managers of the entrepreneurial middle-mid-size business. The policy reforms under discussion have far-reaching implications for how this vital segment competes in both the national and international economies.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-12-26
Dewey code: 658.15224
List Price: $170.00
Price: $167.06
Review Thoughtful Fundraising / Routledge:Fundraising is a maturing profession, but one that is increasingly controversial. Media reports of poor practice have contributed to concerns about the integrity of fundraisers and the uses which have been made of the resources they raise. As a result, a consensus now exists among senior figures in the industry about the changes that are required. Technique is no longer enough. Many more of the next generation of practitioners must be capable of considered reflection, organizational and inter-organizational strategic thinking, and value-based leadership. A global drive to raise standards in the profession and to benchmark these through the establishment of accredited qualifications is underway. The Institute of Fundraising in the UK, is in the vanguard of these developments. This book, which provides a set of key readings, is part of this development and seeks to move the thinking in the profession beyond the search for simple templates, techniques and recipes to opening up critical debate about the nature and contribution of fundraising in its various forms and contexts. Many of the readings have been newly commissioned for this book by experts in the field, others have been edited for this volume. All will be essential reading for anyone studying or currently engaged in fundraising.
Publication date: 1981-05
Price: $45.00
Review The State and the Emergence of the British Oil Industry (Studies in Business History) / Palgrave Macmillan:
Creator: Albert N. Link
Publication date: 2006-08-06
Dewey code: 338.064
List Price: $210.00
Price: $185.83
Review Entrepreneurship And Technology Policy (The International Library of Entrepreneurship Series) / Edward Elgar Publishing:‘Too many policymakers have underestimated the fecundity of new and small enterprises in pushing outward the frontiers of technology. This volume collects a rich harvest of studies on small firms’ technical contributions and how they are amplified through the support of university researchers and government. ’ – F. M. Scherer, Harvard University and Princeton University, US The terms entrepreneur and entrepreneurship take on a very specific and somewhat narrow meaning with regard to the connection between entrepreneurship and technology policy. In the context of this volume, entrepreneurship is defined to refer to the innovative and risk taking activities that are specific to small firms. This authoritative volume is divided into four parts: Government’s Direct Support of R&D, Government’s Leveraging of R&D, Government’s Infrastructure Policies, and Knowledge Flows from Universities and Laboratories. Most of the journal articles are relatively new, being published since the mid- to late-1990s, but these key articles represent what could become the cornerstone for all future research related to entrepreneurship and technology policy.
Creator: Vito Tanzi
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-09-13
Dewey code: 336.3
List Price: $210.00
Price: $167.78
Review Managing Fiscal Decentralization (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy, 36) / Routledge:The growth of interest in fiscal decentralization has meant that there has been something of a rush to enshrine this in policy - The World Bank has reported that about 70 countries see this as a major part of their development strategy. This book critically examines the case for decentralization. This collection of contributions comes from a worldwide team of experts, including Albert Breton, Piero Giarda and Anwar Shah. After analyzing fiscal decentralization in general, the book goes on to look at intriguing case studies of various regions around the world.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-11
Dewey code: 658.402
List Price: $186.00
Price: $186.00
Review Work Teams: Past, Present and Future (Social Indicators Research Series Volume 6) (Social Indicators Research Series) / Springer:This book places current and future work team practices in historical context. Researchers from 10 countries have contributed chapters that represent developments specific to their regions and that illustrate the way ideas spread around the world. Some principles of effective teaming were independently discovered in different countries, and some principles emerged from the work of researchers like Trist, Emery, and Lewin and spread around the world. But all of the practices were driven by the dynamic tension between the psychology of the employee and business necessities. Theories and cases describe autonomous work groups, self-managed work teams, cell teams, and other collaborative work structures. Contributions to the design of such structures came from psychology, management, sociology, industrial engineering, and manufacturing. Because of the challenges inherent in reorganising work around teams instead of individuals, organizations are at different stages in evolving into 21st century work systems.
Authors
- Izzet Sahin
- Hakan Polatoglu
Publication date: 1998-09-30
Dewey code: 658.562
List Price: $193.00
Price: $183.91
Review Quality, Warranty and Preventive Maintenance (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) / Springer:Quality, Warranty and Preventive Maintenance examines the impact of product quality on warranty and maintenance costs and strategies, from the perspectives of both manufacturers and users. In addition, the theories of warranty and preventive maintenance are introduced and discussed. Common wisdom supports the notion that better product quality means lower warranty costs for the manufacturer, and lower maintenance costs for the users of a manufactured product. This proposition is examined in some detail on the basis of failure time models. The authors investigate what exactly better quality means in warranty and maintenance management, and how it impacts warranty policies and costs for the manufacturer, and replacement and maintenance strategies and costs for the users. In measuring quality improvement, the main concepts and tools used are those of stochastic ordering and mixture models. The theoretical base of the work is a time-varying failure-rectification process. This process includes, as special cases, replacement, minimal repair, and imperfect repair, as alternative rectification modes that may be available to the manufacturer or the user in warranty-servicing or maintaining a product. In addition to serving as a unifying base for the entire monograph, the use of this process enables one to investigate jointly optimal repair-effort/warranty-policy and repair-effort/maintenance-strategy configurations for repairable units. This book should be of interest to researchers in industry and academia, and to quality, warranty and maintenance professionals, specialists, and managers with a technical background. [+]It is suitable as a textbook to support graduate-level seminar courses in OR/MS, IE and business administration curricula.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-12-23
Dewey code: 338.04095
List Price: $170.00
Price: $167.06
Review Rural Capitalists in Asia: A Comparative Analysis on India, Indonesia and Malaysia (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) / RoutledgeCurzon:This comparative study of small capitalists and rural industrialists in three Asian countries points to striking similarities between Indian, overseas Chinese and Muslim businessmen in Asia.
Creator: Paul T. Kidd
Publication date: 2000-01-01
Dewey code: 658.054678
List Price: $230.00
Price: $166.14
Review E-business: Key Issues, Applications and Technologies (Stand Alone) / Ios Pr Inc:How can the Internet and world wide web improve my long-term competitive advantage? This book helps answer this question by providing a better understanding of the technologies, their potential applications and the ways they can be used to add value for customers, support new strategies, and improve existing operations. It is not just about e-commerce but the broader theme of e-business which affects products, business processes, strategies, and relationships with customers, suppliers, distributors and competitors. To cover future trends, the editors have collected papers from authors operating at the frontiers of the developments so the reader can more appreciate the directions in which these technologies are heading. The resulting 165 essays have been collated into ten sections, which have been grouped in three parts: key issues, applications areas and applications, tools and technologies. A business rarely makes radical changes but is constantly making adjustments to circumstances. Businesses must now adapt to the global implications of the Internet and world wide web. This book hopes to aid awareness of the implications so that the changes are managed wisely.
Publication date: 1999-12
Dewey code: 337
Price: $36.95
Review Business Guide to Thailand (Business Guide to Asia) / Butterworth-Heinemann:Doing business in Thailand is very different from doing business anywhere else in Asia. There are a variety of cultural, religious and historical reasons for this. In addition, Thai law has developed over the centuries with many unique features. Knowing your products or services, and being a good manager, just isn't enough to be successful in Thailand. It is equally important to accept the fact that business operates at much slower pace and to understand that Thai people tend to mix their professional and private lifedoing business only when friendship and trust have developed between the parties. The Business Guide to Thailand gives you the inside story on doing business in Thailand. The Business Guides are aimed at business people requiring an accurate and up-to-date guide to how business is organised and regulated in Asia. All contributors are experts and specialists in their fields, providing you with an unparalleled wealth of insider knowledge. Each chapter is packed with the kind of information and advice usually available only to elite clients with large budgets for outside consultants. Business Guides aim to cover:· negotiation preparation· marketing and distribution· foreign trade· taxation· customs· intellectual property· business law· foreign investment· financing· economic conditions and trendsDetailed technical information normally only available from consultantsPart of the Business Guide series.
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