Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-06-26
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $210.00
Price: $174.72
Review Management Development through Cultural Diversity / Routledge:This stimulating, clearly written and well-structured text is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of management and organizational behavior, as well as a corrective to the Eurocentric bias of most management texts. This book focuses on four domains of management-primal, rational, developmental and metaphysical. It develops a transcultural perspective drawing on insights from across the world to examine different management styles, cultures and stages of business development. Each section examines core management theory and literature, cultural orientation and related prominent theories. The numerous case studies are drawn from America, Scandinavia, Japan, the Far East, Southern Africa and elsewhere. This is a substantially revised and updated version of Ronnie Lessem's acclaimed book Global Management Principles (1989), using three-quarters new material.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-09-24
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $220.00
Price: $169.68
Review Development Planning (Routledge Library Editions-Economics, 5) / Routledge:First published in 1966 This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www. ebookstore. tandf. co. uk.
Authors
- Norman M. Scarborough
- Thomas W. Zimmerer
Publication date: 2005-11-30
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $160.00
Price: $160.00
Review Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management / Not Avail:This fourth edition of the popular book introduces you to the processes of new venture creation and the critical knowledge needed to manage your business once it is formed. With the help of this book, readers can follow their dreams of becoming successful entrepreneurs. Topics include: the challenges of entrepreneurship, building a business plan, marketing considerations, e-commerce and the entrepreneur, advertising and pricing for profit, financial considerations and managing cash flow, building a competitive edge, and debt/equity and site and location considerations. For any person interested in owning, operating, and managing a small business. Also a handy reference for entrepreneurs and managers of small businesses.
Authors
- Tim Bayliss-Smith
- Edvard Hviding
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $160.00
Price: $159.99
Review Islands of Rainforest (Studies in Development Geography (SOAS)) / Ashgate Pub Ltd:This text presents a thought-provoking analysis of modern initiatives in the tropical rainforest. While issues such as logging, eco-timber and eco-tourism have been widely analyzed from an outsider's perspective, this book considers them from the local people's viewpoint, in terms of a long history of the rainforest uses. The authors show that the relationship of indigenous people to the tropical forest is not essentially timeless, nor is it primarily spiritual or mystical. It is, in fact, connected to modern realities, while still being rooted in historical beliefs and practices. Standing at the intersection of anthropology, historical geography and rainforest ecology, and also at the interface of the local and the global, this ethnographically-grounded study dispels a number of commonly held assumptions. It reveals how processes of "impact" are actually two-way interactions, as local communities in Melanesia incorporate industries like logging into rapidly evolving post-colonial society and economy.
Creator: Bongani J. Nsibande
Edition: 0
Publication date: 2000-02
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $160.00
Price: $159.99
Review Swaziland: Contemporary Social and Economic Issues / Ashgate Publishing:Up-to-date information on socio-economic issues in contemporary Swaziland is not always readily accessible. This work aims to fill that gap, especially by including contributions by Swazi scholars, based on recent research. Swaziland is of particular interest in respect of, for example: a) issues of culture and development (especially gender and fertility), b) the special characteristics of small states and, c) regional development in Southern Africa. Swaziland faces some problems found generally in developing areas but others are distinctive. The cultural dimension to development is given particularly close attention throughout. Contents: List of tables and figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: National Security and Stability: Swaziland's security concerns in a changed South Africa; Swazi civil religion; Part II: Family, Gender and Household: Women, law and development in Swaziland: an oveview of the impact of de jure discrimination against women; Meeting the needs of youth in national development policy and its legal implications in Swaziland; Social stability through domestic relations: a critique of Swaziland's Marriage Act 1964; Women's empowerment and income generation: the case of Swaziland; Gender disparities in agriculture in Swaziland; Part III: Development: Urban and Rural: Community participation in urban planning and development; The evolution of the urban informal dector in Swaziland; Agrarian structure, productivity and environmental proptection in Swaziland; Agricultural extension in Swaziland: prospects and pitfalls; Environmental issues in the sustainable development of Swaziland; Part IV: Development in Health and Education: Unemployment in Swaziland: focus upon school-leavers; Education for development in the twenty-first century; Deyterminants of childhood mortality: variation in Swaziland; Women and health: the case of Swaziland; Index of personal names; Index of place names; Subject index.
Publication date: 2003-01-02
Price: $158.32
Review Running a Country Motel / Hospitality Press:A description of all aspects of motel management. It should give those contemplating life as motel managers an insight into what would lie in store, and should help existing managers make their business more efficient and profitable. The author lightens the serious business advice with amusing anecdotes based on his own experiences and those of his fellow moteliers.
Creator: Heinz Klandt
Publication date: 1993-02
Dewey code: 338.04
List Price: $150.00
Price: $158.76
Review Entrepreneurship and Business Development (Fgf Entrepreneurship Research Monographien ; Bd. 3) / Avebury:This is a collection of empirical studies about business start-ups, early development, entrepreneurial behaviour, small business, family business and private enterprise.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-06-06
Dewey code: 658.406
List Price: $200.00
Price: $166.40
Review Reshaping Change: A Processual Perspective (Understanding Organizational Change, 2) / Routledge:This book sets out to examine and explore change as a process and not as a one-off event. It analyses change in context, and features case studies based on in-depth data research, interviews and extensive fieldwork by the author. There are chapters on such luminaries as Pirelli Cables, General Motors, as well as Shell Expro and Britax Industries. This study also includes chapters on processual research, both from a conceptual, practical and analytical perspective, and offers examples of processual case study write-ups both for company use and teaching purposes. Aiming to further our understanding of change in a processual context, this book gives a sophisticated and in-depth treatment of the many facets of reshaping change.
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 658.4012
List Price: $70.95
Price: $159.74
Review Strategic Thinking for Smaller Businesses and Divisions / Blackwell Publishers:Strategic Thinking for Smaller Businesses and Divisions effectively packages - for the first time - real-world business strategy for small- to medium-sized firms and divisions within larger companies. The book applies the principles of strategy to smaller businesses with systematic strategic analysis and shows how to bring order to the chaos of a small company. In offering guidance on developing and implementing a workable business plan, the book demonstrates how to maximize performance in the long run. Entrepreneurs and executives - as well as undergraduates and MBAs in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management courses - will benefit from the author's clear, direct explanations of strategic thinking. Theory coupled with applications provides a thorough, step-by-step grounding in the practical aspects of strategic management.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-05-20
Dewey code: 658.4063
List Price: $180.00
Price: $158.74
Review Innovation as Strategic Reflexivity (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies) / Routledge:This book presents a new view of innovation, seeking to disclose how strategic reflexivity is embodied in specific innovation practices and management roles. From an evolutionary point of view, the contributors argue that firms and organizations are increasingly forced to take into account the growing complexity of the environment. To do this, they must create strategies that interpret external expectations, but also deal with the internal reflexivity processes caused by innovation. The way to bridge between strategy and innovation, they suggest, is through strategic reflexivity.
Publication date: 1995-02
Dewey code: 338.9
List Price: $160.00
Price: $159.99
Review Reflections on Economic Development: The Selected Essays of Michael P. Todaro (Economists of the Twentieth Century) / Edward Elgar Pub:
Edition: 7th
Publication date: 2004-03
Dewey code: 346.7940668
Price: $59.99
Review How to Form a California Professional Corporation / NOLO:The best way California professionals can limit their personal liability is by forming a professional corporation. How to Form a California Professional Corporation helps you get the job done without a lawyer. If you're a professional in California - that is, a professional as defined by California law - you have good reasons to form a professional corporation. You can: *avoid personal liability for the malpractice of other professionals in your practice *arrange personal protection from business and general liability claims against the corporation *provide yourself with tax-deductible fringe benefits, such as life insurance and a medical reimbursement plan How to Form a California Professional Corporation includes: *step-by-step instructions on how to incorporate *special rules and regulations for each profession *complete information on S Corporation tax status *comprehensive tax, retirement plan and corporate law chapters *all the forms you need as tear-outs and on CD-ROM Now in its 7th edition, this book provides the very latest laws, plus the special regulations each profession must follow.
Publication date: 2005-02-17
Dewey code: 658.4028
List Price: $240.00
Price: $159.12
Review Complex Knowledge: Studies in Organizational Epistemology / Oxford University Press, USA:In this book, Haridimos Tsoukas, one of the most imaginative organization theorists of our time, examines the nature of knowledge in organizations, and how individuals and scholars approach the concept of knowledge. Tsoukas firstly looks at organizational knowledge and its embessedness in social contexts and forms of life. He shows that knowledge is not just a collection of free floating representations of the world to be used at will, but an activity constitute of the world. On the one hand, the organization as an institutionalized system does produce regularities that can be captured via propositional forms of knowledge. On the other, the organization as practice as a lifeworld, or as an open-ended system produce stories, values, and shared traditions which can only be captured by narrative forms of knowledge. Secondly, Tsoukas looks at the issue of how individuals deal with the notion of complexity in organizations: Our inability to reduce the behavior of complex organizations to their constituent parts. Drawing on concepts such as discourse, narrativity, and reflexivity, he adopts a hermeneutical approach to the issue. Finally, Tsoukas examines the concept of meta-knowledge, and how we know what we know. Arguing that the underlying representationalist epistemology of much of mainstream management causes many problems, he advocates adopting a more discursive approach. He describes what such an epistemology might be, and illustrates it with examples from organization studies and strategic management. [+]An ideal introduction to the thinking of a leading organizational theorist, this book will be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students of Knowledge Management, Organization Studies, Management Studies, Business Strategy and Applied Epistemology.
Publication date: 2006-06-01
Price: $163.23
Review Sold Dispatch Now / Canonbury Publishing Ltd:
Authors
- Borje Johansson
- Charlie Karlsson
- Roger Stough
Dewey code: 338.04
List Price: $160.00
Price: $160.00
Review Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions / Edward Elgar Publishing:In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy, in which functional regions increasingly play a role as independent, dynamic market places, which are integrated with other functional regions by means of flows of information, knowledge, and commodities. This contemporary and invaluable book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on innovation and entrepreneurship in functional regions.
Publication date: 2007-11-13
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $159.95
Price: $159.95
Review Secrets Of Super Successful Entrepreneurs / Amer Inst of Small Business:6CD program: 6 world famous EntrepreneursBill Gates, Estee Lauder, Michael Dell, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson & Sam Walton. Learn how they made it in the Business world.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-10-19
Dewey code: 659.2
List Price: $155.00
Price: $175.75
Review Rethinking Public Relations: The Spin and the Substance (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies) / Routledge:PR is a huge UK industry with up to 50,000 jobs, a poor reputation yet a pervasive influence on politics and markets. Historically, it has been mostly weak propaganda and market boosterism, yet it escapes sustained academic scrutiny. PR needs reform because it will not go away, and because it continues to grow. It must become reasoned persuasion. Until that happens via voicing more competitive group intermediation and internal reform, it stands convicted as charged: contributing to communicative inequality in liberal, democratic, market democracies.
Creator: Uday S. Karmarkar
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-02-28
Dewey code: 658.562
List Price: $199.00
Price: $177.56
Review Practice of Quality Management / Springer:The Practice of Quality Management presents the results of eleven ground-breaking research projects in quality management. It is the first collection of research papers by academics in this area. The projects are empirical studies on total quality management that suggest new ways to think about quality. The objective of the research found in this book is to develop theory and to assist practice. Thus, this volume is of interest to both academic researchers and practising managers. The chapters fall into four categories: `Performance', `Understanding TQM', `Organizations', and `Using TQM'. All of the chapters show that there are many different applications and research issues associated with quality. The chapters on `Understanding TQM' suggest that it is possible to develop and test theories of quality. The chapters on `Performance' demonstrate that studies of the operational and financial effect of quality can yield positive results. Many thinkers on quality consider that organizational impacts of quality are the most important drivers of the quality process. [+]The chapters on `Organizations' present evidence on how quality programs affect human resource management, and organizational structure. Finally, the chapters on `Using TQM' present several studies of applications of quality management.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-06-08
Dewey code: 031
List Price: $400.00
Price: $160.00
Review Global Development Finance 2006 (Global Development Finance) (Global Development Finance) / World Bank Publications:International private capital flows to developing countries reached a record net level of $491 billion in 2005. This surge in private capital flows offers national and international policy makers a major opportunity to bolster development efforts if they can successfully meet three challenges. The first is to ensure that more countries, especially poorer ones, enhance their access to developmentally beneficial international capital through improvements in their macroeconomic performance, investment climate, and use of aid. The second is to avoid sudden capital flow reversals by redressing global imbalances through policies that recognize the growing interdependencies between developed and developing countries' financial and exchange rate relations in the determination of global financial liquidity and asset price movements. And the third is to ensure that development finance, both official and private, is managed judiciously to meet the development goals of recipient countries while promoting greater engagement with global financial markets. These are the themes and concerns of this year's edition of Global Development Finance. Vol I. Anlaysis and Statistical Appendix reviews recent trends in financial flows to developing countries. Vol II. Summary and Country Tables* includes comprehensive data for 138 countries, as well as summary data for regions and income groups. [+]Also Available on CD-ROM and Online, with more than 200 historical time series from 1970 to 2004, and country group estimates for 2005.
Creator: Hugo Kijne
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-09-30
Dewey code: 670.42
List Price: $189.00
Price: $163.05
Review Scientific Management: Frederick Winslow Taylor's Gift to the World? / Springer:There is a renewed interest in scientific management and the works of F. W. Taylor. This book adds to our understanding of scientific management, which is under radical review because of the changes sweeping the world's industrial activities. It shows that the disciplined engineering approach to manufacturing which underpins scientific management was not uniquely American. Scientific management, as developed by Taylor, spread from America to the rest of the world. Sometimes it was taken up eagerly, sometimes it converged with local initiatives, but in no industrial nation was it ignored. Scientific Management comprises three parts. The opening chapter focuses on the insights and flaws in Taylor's theory of industrial organization. The nature of Taylor's contributions to engineering and to factory management and some of their effects are explored in the next three chapters. [+]The third part of the book deals with the spread of scientific management throughout the world. The industrial world is in the midst of profound socio-economic changes which have severely shaken our intellectual grasp of its nature and behavior. Today's managers and management educators cannot move on to the creation of a new post-industrial society without a better appreciation of the influence of scientific management, and of the person who was its principal architect.
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