Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-05-12
Dewey code: 338.642
List Price: $200.00
Price: $164.75
Review Small Enterprises and Economic Development: The Dynamics of Micro and Small Enterprises (Routledge Series in Development Economics, 15) / Routledge:Drawing on a unique set of surveys conducted in twelve countries in Africa and Latin America, the author maps the patterns of change in micro and small enterprises in the developing world.
Creator: Susan Mayson
Publication date: 2008-07-08
Dewey code: 658.303
List Price: $235.00
Price: $164.50
Review International Handbook of Entrepreneurship and HRM (Elgar Original Reference) / Edward Elgar Publishing:This highly original reference tool has been designed in response to the growing recognition that too little is known about the inter-section between entrepreneurship and human resource management. Paying particular attention to the 'people' side of venture emergence and development, it offers unique insights into the role that HRM plays in small and entrepreneurial firms. A diverse, international group of both new and established scholars from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Europe contribute original theoretical and empirical chapters. Foundational issues of theory and methodology in research on entrepreneurial firms as well as specific HRM issues in the context of entrepreneurial and smaller firms are then addressed. "The Handbook" offers a unique insights into understanding the role of HRM in developing sustainable entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ventures as well as how HRM practices and procedures can be used to help navigate or indeed drive the changing landscape in smaller and entrepreneurial firms. Exploring the functional aspects and nature of managing HRM in new, small, growing, emerging and entrepreneurial firms, this fascinating Handbook will be not only be warmly welcomed by HRM students, researchers and academics, but also by HR practitioners and managers.
Creator: Ann Dupuis
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 338.04
List Price: $130.00
Price: $160.99
Review Entrepreneurship: New Perspectives in a Global Age / Ashgate Publishing:This text provides a fresh approach to entrepreneurship. It puts forward a flexible, expansive conceptualization of the continuum of entrepreneurial behaviour and integrates context, culture, social networks and entrepreneurship as an embedded activity. Motivated by a desire to bridge traditional academic boundaries, the editors craft a heterodox perspective which interweaves strands from feminist and new institutional economics, sociology, management, finance, marketing and social policy. Contemporary themes of major significance highlighted include the importance of new technology, ethics, culture and identity and entrepreneurship for indigenous, younger and older people as distinct groups.
Publication date: 1999-05
Dewey code: 337
List Price: $175.00
Price: $163.53
Review Joint Ventures With Asia Inc: Processes, Problems and Prescriptions for Survival / Business & Professional Publishing:
Publication date: 2001
Review The entrepreneurial vocation / Acton Institute:
Publication date: 1993-01
Dewey code: 338.88
List Price: $160.00
Price: $160.00
Review The Growth and Evolution of Multinational Enterprise: Patterns of Geographical and Industrial Diversification (New Horizons in International Business) / Edward Elgar Publishing:
Creator: L. K. Ainsworth
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-09-09
Dewey code: 003
List Price: $169.95
Price: $161.27
Review A Guide To Task Analysis: The Task Analysis Working Group / CRC:A practical user guide, this contains real case studies demonstrating the impact TA has in industrial applications. Task analysis (TA) is the term applied to any process that identifies and examines tasks performed by humans as they interact with systems. This book documents the application of task analytical techniques and organizes them into a practical user guide. It enables organizations to select the most appropriate and cost-effective technique to meet their particular needs and uses real case studies to demonstrate the impact task analysis has in industrial applications. "A Guide to Task Analysis" shows how to target TA resources optimally over the life cycle of a project, from conceptual design through to systems operation, noting the role of TA in safety and quality assurance; minimizing operator error; enhancing productivity; maximizing staff potential; implementing new technologies; and translating similar tasks across different task environments. It is aimed at design engineers, safety assessors, trainers, protocol/procedure writers, and project managers, with or without previous TA experience.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-10-28
Dewey code: 338.542
List Price: $220.00
Price: $181.04
Review The Dynamics of Business Cycles: A Study in Economic Fluctuations / Routledge:Originally published in 1942, this landmark volume makes available the entire business-cycle analysis of the Dutch economist, Jan Tinbergen, whose work in economic dynamics stimulated a new school of econometric research.
Publication date: 2005-12
Review Selbys the Science People: A History of H.B. Selby Australia Limited / Australian Scholarly Publishing:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-11-05
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $210.00
Price: $174.72
Review Restructuring the Professional Organization: Accounting, Health Care, and Law / Routledge:In recent years the professions have undergone radical transformation. With the advent of rapidly changing markets, more sophisticated and demanding clients, deregulation and increased competition, the generalist professional partnerships have given way to larger, more corporate forms of organization, comprising increasingly autonomous specialist business units. This volume critically examines these changes through an examination of the archetypes which characterize accounting, health care and law practitioners. With examples drawn from Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA, Restructuring the Professional Organization will be of interest to all students of organization studies seeking to understand the issues and problems confronting the professions as they move to the new millennium. Topics covered include: * a review of the models of professional organization * drivers of change in professional organizations * internal dynamics of changes in these organizations * new organizational forms and archetypes.
Creator: C. Pietrobelli
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-10-15
Dewey code: 338.642
List Price: $180.00
Price: $160.12
Review Linking Local and Global Economies: The Ties That Bind (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy) / Routledge:Firms everywhere are increasingly embedded in multidimensional relations, often crucially related to knowledge and technology transfers, and that occur at a local and global level. They may take the form of clusters, networks, inter-firm partnerships of value and production chains. The book examines the thesis that global ties do not exclude but need and complement local ties. Presenting a series of case studies using original research, the books evidence ranges geographically from China, Taiwan and Thailand, through Italy and the UK to Mexico and the Latin American countries. The impressive range of contributors raise issues such as:*does globalization hinder the developments of small and medium sized enterprises in the third world? *Can local clusters of small business benefit from linking up with global firms and orgnaizations?*Can local markets offer an alternative to global markets? The critical and rigorous approach that this book offers will make it a important read for graduate students and researchers in industrial organization, development economics and small business economics. Policy-makers and practioners should also take heed of the lessons to be learnt from this impressive book.
Publication date: 1999-07
List Price: $28.00
Price: $160.14
Review Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology (Sloan Technology) / Topeka Bindery:We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. The invention of the printing press initiated the Reformation. The development of the compass ushered in the Age of Exploration and the discovery of the New World. The cotton gin created the conditions that led to the Civil War. Now, in Beyond Engineering, science writer Robert Pool turns the question around to examine how society shapes technology. Drawing on such disparate fields as history, economics, risk analysis, management science, sociology, and psychology, Pool illuminates the complex, often fascinating interplay between machines and society, in a book that will revolutionize how we think about technology. We tend to think that reason guides technological development, that engineering expertise alone determines the final form an invention takes. But if you look closely enough at the history of any invention, says Pool, you will find that factors unrelated to engineering seem to have an almost equal impact. In his wide-ranging volume, he traces developments in nuclear energy, automobiles, light bulbs, commercial electricity, and personal computers, to reveal that the ultimate shape of a technology often has as much to do with outside and unforeseen forces. For instance, Pool explores the reasons why steam-powered cars lost out to internal combustion engines. [+]He shows that the Stanley Steamer was in many ways superior to the Model T-it set a land speed record in 1906 of more than 127 miles per hour, it had no transmission (and no transmission headaches), and it was simpler (one Stanley engine had only twenty-two moving parts) and quieter than a gas engine-but the steamers were killed off by factors that had little or nothing to do with their engineering merits, including the Stanley twins' lack of business acumen and an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease. Pool illuminates other aspects of technology as well. He traces how seemingly minor decisions made early along the path of development can have profound consequences further down the road, and perhaps most important, he argues that with the increasing complexity of our technological advances-from nuclear reactors to genetic engineering-the number of things that can go wrong multiplies, making it increasingly difficult to engineer risk out of the equation. Citing such catastrophes as Bhopal, Three Mile Island, the Exxon Valdez, the Challenger, and Chernobyl, he argues that is it time to rethink our approach to technology. The days are gone when machines were solely a product of larger-than-life inventors and hard-working engineers. Increasingly, technology will be a joint effort, with its design shaped not only by engineers and executives but also psychologists, political scientists, management theorists, risk specialists, regulators and courts, and the general public. Whether discussing bovine growth hormone, molten-salt reactors, or baboon-to-human transplants, Beyond Engineering is an engaging look at modern technology and an illuminating account of how technology and the modern world shape each other.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2009-03-27
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $180.00
Price: $162.57
Review Comparative Economic Systems III / Routledge:
Publication date: 2006-04-30
Dewey code: 346
List Price: $199.95
Price: $162.46
Review Executive Reports: Strategies for Defending and Prosecuting Corporate Litigation Cases--The Over-Arching Issues You Need to Know (Executive Reports) / Aspatore Books:This 19-page research report written for attorneys and litigation clients alike, examines the intricacies of the ever-evolving, business-related legal landscape across the country. From selecting an attorney to strategies for clients; from the intersection of litigation and large businesses to discovery and trial, this report takes readers across the entire litigation landscape, covering the important, while highlighting the essentials. Some areas explored include: key questions for the defense, assessing reasonable damages, the importance of witness testimony, bringing a case to a jury, when to settle, and case studies as examples. This report outlines the important strategies and best mindset for approaching litigation, and how to do it effectively. This report is written by: 1. Norman C. Ankers, Partner; Chair, Litigation Department, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP - "Approaching Litigation" 2. David Foster, Partner, Bullivant Houser Bailey - "The Mindset, the Questions and other Litigation Essentials" 3. David L. Harris, Member of the Firm, Lowenstein Sandler PC - "Learning with Examples" 4. [+]Mark R. Beebe, Litigation Practice Group Leader, Adams and Reese LLP - "Keeping the Focus on the Client" About Executive Reports: Executive Reports offer focused, hard-hitting advice from the leaders of some of America's top companies, packaged in a concise, readable format. Each research report provides readers with 3 to 5 strategies that will have a direct financial impact on their business. While not meant as a comprehensive guide, each report includes quick-hit items that can immediately impact specific business strategies. Executive authors drill down to the central issues surrounding each topic area and dispense expert advice in concise, direct language. Executive Reports feature leading professionals selected by the Aspatore Editorial Board based on their experience, research, and standing within the professional community.
Authors
- Richard M. Hodgetts
- Donald F. Kuratko
Publication date: 1994-12
Dewey code: 338
Price: $37.95
Review Entrepreneurship (The Dryden Press Series in Entrepreneurship) / Harcourt School:This market leader was the first of its kind to cover entrepreneurship in one entire text. Its practical step-by-step approach helps develop entrepreneurial skills. The revision of this successful text features the Internet and a chapter on "Quality and the Human Factor," as well as current management themes that will keep the text at the forefront of the market.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-08-02
Dewey code: 338.04
List Price: $190.00
Price: $162.33
Review MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science (Studies in Global Competition, V. 12.) / Routledge:MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science is a timely and authoritative book that analyses the transformation of the university's role in society as an expanded one involving economic and social development as well as teaching and research. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented the format for university-industry relations that has been copied all over America and latterly the rest of the world. This excellent book shows that the ground-breaking university-industry-government interactions have become one of the foundations of modern successful economies.
Creator: Gideon Nieman
Publication date: 2003-01
Review Entrepreneurship: A South African Perspective / J. L. Van Schaik:
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 338.04
List Price: $170.00
Price: $163.13
Review Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy: Prelude to a Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship / Edward Elgar Publishing:This book synthesizes Zoltan Acs' key contributions to the field of entrepreneurship. This invaluable selection of papers represents three decades of research that has resulted in an integrated and important contribution to understanding the evolution from managerial capitalism to an entrepreneurial society. The author explores how socio-economic transformation is placed within a larger context spanning two centuries of economic growth and development in a capitalist society. Zoltan Acs has introduced a radically different view of small firms and argues that entrepreneurs start new companies to deviate innovatively as agents of change creating entrepreneurial rents. Working at the intersection of geography, innovation and growth, these papers pave the way for the remodelling of economic society in the 21st century. One of the unique outcomes of this reconstruction of economic society is the need to focus attention on the links between entrepreneurship and philanthropy as the foundation of opportunity. This book spans close to 25 years of research, presenting collaborations with over a dozen leading international scholars across four disciplines. It represents a major contribution to the literature and to our understanding of the global economy and will be invaluable to those interested in entrepreneurship, political science and regional science and as well academics, graduate students and economists.
Creator: Michael J. Wozny
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1998-09-30
Dewey code: 670.285
List Price: $249.00
Price: $161.88
Review Globlization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing) / Springer:This state-of-the-art text aims to expand design and manufacturing issues to include teams and virtual enterprises which come together across space and time to develop new products and bring them to global markets. Manufacturing issues and information models have long been part of concurrent engineering and this book addresses the importance of new product innovation and the development of manufacturing plans and processes which span multiple countries and reach businesses on an international level. The fields covered in the book include: telecommunication use in industry for agility and innovation; human and machine communications; telecommunication and agility impact on software technology for discrete manufacturing; and software engineering. This valuable new book will be essential reading for researchers, engineers and technical managers involved in the development of advanced applications for engineering and manufacturing.
Creator: Hoover
Edition: 16
Publication date: 2009-04
Dewey code: 025
List Price: $165.00
Price: $165.00
Review Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies 2009 (Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies) / Hoover's:
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Small Enterprises and Economic Development: The Dynamics of Micro and Small Enterprises (Routledge Series in Development Economics, 15), International Handbook of Entrepreneurship and HRM (Elgar Original Reference), Entrepreneurship: New Perspectives in a Global Age, Joint Ventures With Asia Inc: Processes, Problems and Prescriptions for Survival, The entrepreneurial vocation, The Growth and Evolution of Multinational Enterprise: Patterns of Geographical and Industrial Diversification (New Horizons in International Business), A Guide To Task Analysis: The Task Analysis Working Group, The Dynamics of Business Cycles: A Study in Economic Fluctuations, Selbys the Science People: A History of H.B. Selby Australia Limited, Restructuring the Professional Organization: Accounting, Health Care, and Law, Linking Local and Global Economies: The Ties That Bind (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy), Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology (Sloan Technology), Comparative Economic Systems III, Executive Reports: Strategies for Defending and Prosecuting Corporate Litigation Cases--The Over-Arching Issues You Need to Know (Executive Reports), Entrepreneurship (The Dryden Press Series in Entrepreneurship), MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science (Studies in Global Competition, V. 12.), Entrepreneurship: A South African Perspective, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy: Prelude to a Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, Globlization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing), Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies 2009 (Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies)Top headlines: Obama taps Clinton, Gates: President-elect Barack Obama announced former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as his choice for secretary of state Monday and also said he would keep Robert Gates as defense minister. ›17:34 Moviegoers gobble up Four Christmases: Thanksgiving weekend moviegoers gobbled up the Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn holiday comedy "Four Christmases," which debuted at No. 1 with $31.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. ›14:24 New hope on AIDS in Africa: In a sign of hope on a continent ravaged by AIDS, a South African fertility clinic has started a service allowing couples infected with the virus to have a healthy baby. ›12:20 Pilgrim's Pride files for bankruptcy protection: Pilgrims Pride Corp., the nations largest chicken producer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, hobbled by its debt load and volatile feed prices. ›19:12 Col. 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