Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 2000-06
Dewey code: 629
Price: $100.00
Review Rolls-Royce and Bentley: The Crewe Years / Motorbooks International:The names Rolls-Royce and Bentley have long been synonymous with engineering excellence, longevity, luxury and beauty of line. This re-designed and updated third edition includes more than 900 superb photographs and drawings of chassis, coachwork and interiors, including designers’ wash drawings. The book traces the remarkable story of these automotive aristocrats, examining all the post-war models manufactured at Crewe, bringing the story right up to date. More recent developments include the marques’ acquisition by Volkswagen in 1998 leading on to the last Rolls-Royce car built at Crewe, a 2002 Corniche Convertible, and the 2007 Continental GT coupé and Bentley Arnage Diamond Series unveiled to mark 60 years of production at Crewe. A full breakdown of all the chassis and engine numbers, delivery dates and production figures are listed in the book.
Publication date: 2008-07-31
Dewey code: 336
List Price: $150.00
Price: $135.00
Review Taxation of Small Businesses / Spiramus Press:
Publication date: 2008-11-17
List Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00
Review The Business Innovation Audit / CAMBRIDGE STRATEGY PUBLICATIONS:Most managers understand the idea and importance of technological innovation. They observe it every day in new products, services and business processes. But few understand how to give their business the permanent ability to be innovative in everything that it does. Crucial in bringing this about is the way the enterprise manages its people, its internal organisation and networks. *The key to competitive advantage Innovation in this context means: the systemic capacity to successfully exploit new ideas, wherever and whenever they arise, and to whatever they might be applied. It is widely seen as holding one of the most important keys to unlocking competitive advantage in an increasingly challenging business environment. The Business Innovation Audit focuses on your organisation's present way of working and on how it impacts on its innovating HR professionals with responsibility for how well their organisation performs. *Release your organisation's innovating potential Use the Audit to assess the level of understanding about which business structures and practices lead to innovative capability for the whole organisation. Use it to assess, expand and release your organisation's innovating potential. 10 questionnaires examine how well your enterprise fosters innovation in the way that it is run. [+]Each is accompanied by practical guidance and advice. This offers definitions and other useful advice to help you complete your assessment. It then suggests possible changes and improvements.
Authors
- Piet Moerland
- Joseph McCahery
- Theo Raaijmakers
Publication date: 2002-12-05
Dewey code: 658.4
List Price: $350.00
Price: $213.42
Review Corporate Governance Regimes: Convergence and Diversity / Oxford University Press, USA:This volume provides an up-to-the-minute survey of the field of corporate governance, focusing particularly on issues of convergence and diversity. A number of topics are discussed including bankruptcy procedures, initial public offerings, the role of large stakes, comparative corporate governance, and institutional investors.
Creator: Roel Rutt
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 338.9
List Price: $150.00
Price: $149.99
Review Knowledge, Innovation and Economic Growth: The Theory and Practice of Learning Regions / Edward Elgar Publishing:The learning region offers a new perspective on the dynamics of change which shape the economy. This book examines the transformation of the modern economy into one in which knowledge is the most important resource and learning the most important process for economic growth. In the modern economy, successful firms, as well as governments, are those which have control over and access to flows of information and knowledge of technologies, markets, and organizational and managerial practices. In order to examine this, the authors apply innovation, industrial network and institutional theories to the many factors which together constitute learning regions: regional innovation policy, geographical clusters of collaborating firms and the role of research centers in the innovative potential of regions. They find that the learning region paradigm opens new possibilities for research and policy and use case studies in Germany, Holland and Belgium to illustrate these possibilities. The authors also examine European Union and regional government policy on innovation and regional development. Finally, they examine inter-firm and intra-firm collaboration and regional business and innovation systems. This innovative new book will prove invaluable to regional scientists, economic geographers and regional planners.
Creator: Colin H. Kirkpatrick
Edition: 1 Ed
Publication date: 2000-04
Dewey code: 333.714
List Price: $150.00
Price: $149.99
Review Sustainable Development and Integrated Appraisal in a Developing World / Edward Elgar Publishing:This book presents an authoritative collection of the most important papers by leading scholars on the role of scientific and technological innovation in modern industry. Topics covered include the historical roots of the subject, the function of science in technological innovation and economic growth, technological development, the generation of new products and processes, and the climate for innovation in industry.
Creator: David I. Rosenbaum
Publication date: 1998-05-30
Dewey code: 338.80973
Price: $125.00
Review Market Dominance: How Firms Gain, Hold, or Lose It and the Impact on Economic Performance / Praeger Publishers:Economic theorizing suggests that firms can acquire and maintain market dominance in a number of ways. Some economists argue that firms attain dominance only by being relatively more efficient than their rivals and retain leadership only by staying more efficient than their rivals. Others argue that efficiency is not the only source of dominance and that leaders can retain preeminence even if they are inefficient. This book attempts to sort out the relevant points by exploring market dominance experienced by firms in ten different industries. It examines factors that led to acquiring, holding and in some cases losing dominance and asks whether those factors were consistent with economic efficiency. The results suggest that both schools make valid points. Generally, firms that rose to dominance were market pioneers and did so using economically-efficient strategies. In some cases, however, firms rose to dominance using inefficient strategies. Once they reached their ascendance, these firms engaged in a number of strategies, some efficient, others inefficient, to maintain their dominant positions. Most of the firms examined eventually lost their dominance. [+]In some cases, the market evolved too rapidly for any firm to maintain control. In other cases the fall was ushered along by federal antitrust and trade policy. In still other industries, it was due either to poor management or the firm becoming inefficient. However, even when some of these dominant firms became inefficient, the market system worked only very slowly to remove them. The analysis has specific implications for antitrust policies toward dominant firms. Because the sources and consequences of dominance can be varied, neither a laissez faire policy in favor nor a per se injunction against dominance is called for. A reasoned approach, tempered by underlying market conditions, is warranted toward the strategies used to acquire and maintain dominance.
Publication date: 2008-02
Dewey code: 338.64209946
List Price: $160.00
Price: $159.99
Review Narratives of Internationalisation: Legitimacy, Standards and Portfolio Entrepreneurs (New Horizon in International Business) / Edward Elgar Publishing:
Creator: Franco Malerba
Publication date: 1996-04-22
List Price: $152.28
Price: $152.28
Review Organization and Strategy in the Evolution of the Enterprise / Palgrave Macmillan:This work examines the role of comptetence, organization and strategies of firms in industrial dynamics linking eceonomic, management and historical persectives. In the first part of the book, a series of economic and managerial contributions discuss the concepts, dimensions and effects of routines, competence, adaptation, learning, organizational structure and strategies in the evolution of industrial enterprises at the theoretical and empirical levels. In the second part of the book, a series of historical papers examine these issues in a long-term perspective for the United States, Japan and several European countries.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1995-11
Dewey code: 004.36
Price: $310.00
Review Enterprisewide Systems Management / Computer Technology Research Corporation:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2009-07-31
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00
Review Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development / Routledge:The first definitive text on entrepreneurship and innovation management, this book examines both large and small businesses, and other organizations concerned with the creation and development of new products, services and new management strategies. Its distinctiveness stems from its wide, inclusive focus, its use of international case studies and its ability to emphasize the symbiotic relationship between innovation, organizational learning, and entrepreneurship in different types of organizations. The book introduces and explains the value of entrepreneurship and innovation for business and regional economic development and firmly establishes the link between entrepreneurship, innovation and learning in business and economic regeneration, and the contributory factors for their success. In addition it supports postgraduate teaching and research thorough explanation and the provision of empirical evidence and practical examples, and introduces original ideas, empirical concepts and practical examples on the subject.
Authors
- A. Yaroslav Vlasak
- Karen M. Bursic
Edition: Tch
Publication date: 1997-04
Dewey code: 658.404
Price: $29.95
Review Project Management Casebook Instructor's Manual / Project Management Institute:How do project team member get the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to perform effectively? One proven method is through the case study approach. The book offers 50 case studies that represent the breadth and importance of project management and its impact on the everyday management of projects. Each of the cases provides new and unique challenges that have been mastered by the practice of project management. Readers will be able to apply the knowledge learned from this casebook in their work. The cases enable readers to see how and why projects are used in a wide variety of organizational settings in contemporary life. Readers are exposed to both successful and not-so-successful project management practices. The case-study approach encourages reader participation and active learning, and provides the opportunity to learn something of the real world of project management. It is essential in the curricula of project management training for both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for continuing education, consulting, and in-house company training programs. The cases were chosen for their importance in discussing the fundamentals of project management. Most contain descriptions of actual projects, and each is followed by a series of questions to guide readers’ analysis of the article to maximize the learning process.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-08-09
Dewey code: 368.41
Price: $24.95
Review Ultimate Guide to Workers' Compensation Insurance (Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Books) / Entrepreneur Press:A strategic guide that arms business owners with ways to escape the growing cost of workers’ compensation insurance Workers’ compensation insurance adds up to a huge, yet unavoidable, expense for businesses of all sizes. Edward J. Priz has discovered and reclaimed more than $10 million of workers’ compensation overcharges for his clients, and now he offers the same professional advice to his readers. This easy-to-understand guide: Enables readers to spot mistakes and stand up to insurance companies Translates complicated technical concepts and industry jargon into simple English Offers a concise explanation of industry practices that directly affect the costs of insurance, with insight on how to make sure a coverage plan is set up accurately Provides detailed information about each state’s unique rules and regulations, and explains how coverage plans differ Ultimate Guide to Workers’ Compensation Insurance provides a behind-the-scenes look at this complicated issue and puts control back into the hands of business owners. Its countless money-saving tactics could save many small businesses from having to shut their doors.
Authors
- Jane Harrigan
- The University of Manchester, UK Jane Harrigan
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $150.00
Price: $149.99
Review From Dictatorship to Democracy (The Making of Modern Africa) / Ashgate Publishing:Despite three and a half decades of post-independence economic and social reform, during which the government worked in partnership with donors such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations and other organizations, Malawi remains desperately poor, with a highly unequal income distribution. This text presents an analysis of development strategies in Malawi from independence in 1964 to the present day. This analysis is divided into three sub-periods - 1964-1981, 1981-1988 and 1989 to the present - and pays particular attention to economic policies and reform and the political economy context in which they have been developed. Individual chapters focus on economic and political developments in Malawi, the economic reform programme, the adjustment period up to 1988, policy reforms under the three SALs in the agricultural sector, and empirical testing and support for many of the hypotheses and arguements forwarded in the book. The book then takes a closer look at the government's overall record of compliance with policy reform conditions in all sectors under each SAL.
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 636.68
Price: $39.95
Review The Complete Guide to Raising Pet Birds for Profit: The Greatest Backyard Business Ever / Brentwood House Publishing:"The Complete Guide To Raising Pet Birds For Profit, The Greatest Backyard Business Ever" is written as a practical guide for the pet lover who wishes to make an income breeding, raising and selling small pet birds. Author James McDonald made his living for 25 years with exotic birds and animals before retiring in 2000 at the age of 50. He raised tens of thousands of birds himself and built a nationwide distributorship that supplied pet shops with parakeets, cockatiels, lovebirds, finches and other small pet birds. Through the years he has helped many people start their own successful backyard business breeding these small pet birds to help supply the pet industry with the millions that are sold annually. Now, for the first time ever he has put his proven methods of success in the form of a book. The book explains how to make an excellent income, either part-time or full-time breeding the most popular species of pet birds. Many breeders using these methods make from $500 to $2000 monthly on a part-time basis while full timers make much more. You will learn how you can live anywhere and ship your birds to the nationwide market. The book is actually 6 books in one. It completely covers both cage and colony breeding methods of parakeets, cockatiels, lovebirds and finches, as well as marketing and shipping. [+]Additionally, three chapters completely cover how to become a wholesale distributor of pet birds, which can be a very lucrative business. Although the book was written with the pet lover in mind that wishes to make an income breeding birds, there is a tremendous amount of information in the book that the hobbyist will find useful as well. Many management tips and pointers can be used by the beginner as well as the experienced person to increase yearly production, thus increasing profits. As a well known animal lover, author James McDonald sold approximately one million exotic birds before his retirement and he reminds the readers of the moral obligations and responsibilities of animal ownership and encourages the reader to always accept those responsibilities by providing humane and adequate care for their birds at all times. The book is not written in some far out technical jargon or academic terminology, but in an easy to understand style with plain and simple, down to earth language by someone who has actually "been there and done that. " It is a must have book if you enjoy breeding birds and would like to make a profit while doing something that you truly enjoy.
Publication date: 1994
Price: $150.00
Review Entrepreneurship and small business management: Teacher's resource binder / Glencoe Division Macmillan/McGraw-Hill:
Publication date: 1991-05
Review Small Firms in Britain / Stationery Office Books:
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2007-06-19
Dewey code: 031
List Price: $400.00
Price: $189.99
Review Global Development Finance 2007: Analysis and Outlook/Summary and Country Tables (Global Development Finance) (Global Development Finance) / World Bank Publications:Global Development Finance (GDF), is the World Bank's annual review of recent trends in and prospects for financial flows to developing countries. It is an indispensable resource for governments, economists, investors, financial consultants, academics, bankers, and the entire development community. Vol I: Analysis and Outlook 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, with more than 200 historical time series from 1970 to 2005, and country group estimates for 2006. * Vol II. Summary and Country Tables not sold separately.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1984-05-31
Dewey code: 338.06
List Price: $195.50
Price: $195.50
Review The Political Economy of Innovation (Studies in Industrial Organization) / Springer:
Creator: Nanua Singh
Publication date: 2002-01
Dewey code: 621
List Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00
Review Collaborative Engineering for Product Design and Development / American Scientific Publishers:Collaborative Engineering for Product Design and Development provides an in depth analysis of the collaborative technologies, processes and methodologies to support the product design and development process. The materials covered in the textbook attempt to integrate leading edge research concepts in collaborative product development with current practices in the real world. The book is written by renowned experts in the field of collaborative product development and provided total coverage of current technologies and tools and their applications to the product development. Text designed for a one semester graduate course in collaborative product design and manufacturing. The book is an excellent text and a perfect reference for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, engineers and practitioners in the field of collaborative product design, development and engineering, industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering and computer integrated manufacturing.
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