Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 2004-04-30
Dewey code: 658.787
List Price: $149.00
Price: $133.35
Review Optimal Inventory Modeling of Systems: Multi-Echelon Techniques (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) / Springer:Most books on inventory theory use the item approach to determine stock levels, ignoring the impact of unit cost, echelon location, and hardware indenture. Optimal Inventory Modeling of Systems is the first book to take the system approach to inventory modeling. The result has been dramatic reductions in the resources to operate many systems - fleets of aircraft, ships, telecommunications networks, electric utilities, and the space station. Although only four chapters and appendices are totally new in this edition, extensive revisions have been made in all chapters, adding numerous worked-out examples. Many new applications have been added including commercial airlines, experience gained during Desert Storm, and adoption of the Windows interface as a standard for personal computer models.
Authors
- Anne K. Briggs
- Dennis P. Curtin
- Jeffrey R. Alves
Review Planning and Budgeting for Higher Profits (Business User's Guides) / Random House Business Books:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1999-07-31
Dewey code: 658.4012
List Price: $138.00
Price: $132.75
Review Claim, Intent, and Persuasion: Organizational Legitimacy and the Rhetoric of Corporate Mission Statements / Springer:The issue of organizational legitimacy is increasingly gaining the attention of researchers and managers. While legitimacy can be described in a number of ways, defined by the harder social sciences it has usually been considered a static, one-dimensional characteristic. As a result, previous studies have often failed to explore organization's operational strategies for gaining wide social legitimacy. The goal of Claim, Intent, and Persuasion: Organizational Legitimacy and the Rhetoric of Corporate Mission Statements is to explore how organizations enact strategies to gain legitimacy. The book employs a pluralistic definition of legitimacy that draw its concepts from the fields of organizational theory, sociology, political science and law. The dynamics of the legitimation process are explored through a study of corporate mission statements analyzed from a semiotic perspective. The book argues that various interpretations of the legitimation process can coexist through differing narrative strategies that offer corporations alternate ways to present themselves internally and externally. By setting up a multi-facted theory of organizational legitimacy, supported by an empirical study of corporation mission statements, this book offers a new, more integrated interpretation of the legitimation process that seeks to advance the dialogue regarding the political and instition views of organizations.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-10-25
Dewey code: 658.514
List Price: $170.00
Price: $141.42
Review Managing Technological Development (Routledge Advances in Management and Businessstudies, 25) / Routledge:In this book, the story of how IKEA and its paper producers struggled to solve the problem of creating environmentally friendly paper constitutes the foundation of a discussion of technological development. Through a detailed analysis of the case-study, the authors demonstrate the necessity of including social, technological and economical factors when dealing with such issues. Focusing on the interactive aspects of commercial and technological development, they examine how new solutions are developed and shaped in relation to the different companies and organizations involved. They investigate resources in terms of how they are related and built into other resources through historical and contemporary interaction processes. Their overall emphasis is on dealing with the issue of how different, closely and distantly related companies and organizations are affected when resources are developed.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-09-01
Dewey code: 338.04
List Price: $160.00
Price: $133.10
Review Entrepreneurial Teams as Determinants of of New Venture Performance (Studies in Entrepreneurship) / Routledge:Using a multi-dimensional model of the author's own design, this study explores the effect of entrepreneurial team behavior on both organizational strategy and new venture performance. In line with recent research arguing that the entrepreneur may well be a group and not simply an individual, and to provide a much richer and more widely applicable model, this book examines the entrepreneurial team.
Creator: Gary G. Hamilton
Publication date: 1996-04
Dewey code: 658.0440959
List Price: $134.00
Price: $134.00
Review Asian Business Networks (De Gruyter Studies in Organization) / Walter de Gruyter:
Creator: Jude L. Fernando
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-12-16
Dewey code: 332.091724
List Price: $170.00
Price: $149.99
Review Microfinance Perils and Prospects (Routledge Studies in Development Economics) / Routledge:This book provides a much-needed historical, political and economic dimension to the current knowledge on microfinance. Collectively, the contributors chart the relationship between the prevailing popularity of microfinance and the consolidation of neo-liberal economic ideology worldwide. Examining current macro-economic trends this volume analyses the historical confluence of microfinance with feminist notions of empowerment. This book explores the processes and the extent to which gender hierarchies are institutionalized in development, and examines the ensuing implications. Microfinance offers programmatic and procedural guidelines for designing microfinance programs-and practicing a kind of development more generally-that could engage women's solidarity to challenge existing patterns of subordination. Microfinance will prove essential reading for students, academics and practitioners in development economics, gender studies and social and cultural anthropology.
Publication date: 1995-11
Dewey code: 302.35
List Price: $150.00
Price: $227.03
Review Entrepreneurship and Business Culture (Studies in the Economics of Trust/Mark Casson, Vol 1) / Edward Elgar Publishing:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-12-16
Dewey code: 338.9003
List Price: $290.00
Price: $138.88
Review Encyclopedia of International Development / Routledge:International Development is now a major global activity and the focus of the rapidly growing academic discipline of development studies. The Encyclopedia of International Development provides definitions and discussions of the key concepts, controversies and actors associated with international development for a readership of development workers, teachers and students. With 600 entries, ranging in length from shorter factual studies to more in-depth essays, a comprehensive system of cross references and a full index, it is the most definitive guide to international development yet published. Development is more than a simple increase in a country's wealth and living conditions. It also implies increasing people's choices and freedoms; it is change that is inclusive and empowering. Development theory and practice has important applications to questions of economic growth, trade, governance, education, healthcare, gender rights and environmental protection, and it involves issues such as international aid, peacekeeping, famine relief, and strategies against HIV/AIDS. The Encyclopedia treats these topics and many more, and provides critical analyses of important actors within development such as the United Nations and World Bank, non-governmental organizations and corporations. Contributors to this volume reflect the multidisciplinary and international nature of the subject. They come from social science disciplines such as economics, international studies, political science and anthropology, and from specialties such as medicine. This Encyclopedia provides crucial information for universities, students and professional organizations involved with international development, and those interested in related topics such as international studies or other studies of social and economic change today.
Edition: 2nd Rev
Publication date: 1998-08
Dewey code: 681.1130288
Price: $24.95
Review Clock Repair: Part-Time Hours, Full-Time Pay / Clockworks Press:The How-To-Get-Started in the Clock Repair business guide. This one of a kind book takes you step by step through the set-up and operation of a home-based clock repair business. Subtitled: "How to Start a Successful Clock Repair Business and Make Profits Immediatly. " This book includes chapters on what books to read, How to learn clock repair wuickly, how to set up an efficient work shop, what tools and equipment to buy, where to get parts and supplies. Includes a sample price list for how much to charge for various common and uncommon repairs; Bringing in customers, record keeping, etc. Complete listing of clock collectors and repair organizations with descriptions and information on how to join. Very unique and useful book.
Authors
- The Customer Service Group
Publication date: 1999-03-01
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $39.95
Price: $133.67
Review Guide to Customer Service Teams: Nine Steps to Improving Productivity and Service with Teams (Ichor Business Books) / The Customer Service Group:Improve your operations with customer service teams! Guide to Customer Service Teams shows you step by step how to build a team-based customer service department. Based on the experiences of best-practice companies, you'll be able to create a team environment to boost service quality and rep performance. You'll get the answers to all of your questions, including the following: What are the benefits of moving to a team-based operation? What type of team is right for my department? How do I know if my team members can work together? How can I make the transition from manager to team coach? How can I empower my frontline team? What are some guidelines for team goal-setting? What are the best ways to monitor team performance? How are other companies setting up team incentives?.
Creator: Haydn Shaughnessy
Publication date: 1994-03
Dewey code: 658.404
List Price: $255.00
Price: $133.00
Review Collaboration Management: New Project and Partnering Skills and Techniques (Business Boundaries) / John Wiley & Sons:
Creator: Rathin Roy
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-11
Dewey code: 338.9
List Price: $140.00
Price: $139.99
Review Economic Decentralization and Public Management Reform (New Horizons in Public Policy Series) / Edward Elgar Publishing:This book sheds new light on the political economy of public management reform. It examines the new forms of economic decentralization and macroeconomic adjustment, and discusses their implications for policy design and regulation. The authors discuss leading-edge research on public management reform, privatization and decentralization in both industrialized and aid-dependent countries, concentrating on the meso level of institutional response. Combining theory, case studies and institutional analysis, they focus on issues including public/private partnerships, public finance and aid allocation. The authors also present new ideas on the design of a regulatory framework. This book will be welcomed by academics and researchers working in the fields of development studies, development economics, political economy and international public management as well as policymakers working for government agencies and NGOs in developing countries.
Publication date: 2001-01-22
Review The Concierge Manual: A Step by Step Guide on How to Start Your Own Concierge and/or Errand Service / NewRoad Publishing:Written by industry expert, Katharine C. Giovanni, this extraordinary 236-page guide will provide you with all the tools that you need to become a successful concierge, personal assistant and/or errand service professional. Inside you will learn about all the different types of concierge/errand service businesses. Do you want to be an on-site/lobby concierge, corporate concierge or serve individuals? How do you get the contracts and set it all up? You will also learn about the business basics of starting a new company. business plan, brochure, website, insurance. it’s all here! The Manual also explores in great detail what services you might wish to offer and how to set up your fees. [+]Learn how to set up your errand service and hire employees. Learn how to set up your vendor services and actually get commissions from them! Plus there are some wonderful sales and marketing tips that will help you get started! All the information you need to start your new business is right here. "I have read your manual on starting your own concierge business, and it was wonderful. The examples and all of the tried and true advice made sense. I have read too many home business books that are too general, even if the table of contents suggests otherwise. Thank you for putting together exactly what I needed. It made it easy to get started. " Carla Mandell, Spirit Concierge "A comprehensive masterpiece! An indispensable A to Z guide for all businesses that intend to offer nothing less than their best in the service to others. " Nicolé Perrin-Grizzard, GO-FERS "We utilized your comprehensive and invaluable book to establish our own successful independent concierge service business. We would highly recommend it to any entrepreneur desiring to establish their own business and advance into the rapidly expanding, international concierge industry. " Nicole Hanson, Style de Vie Concierge Service, Australia "I'd like to thank you for writing The Concierge Manual - I am just starting my own concierge service, and I know that I could not have done it correctly without your guidance. The information has been extremely helpful, and it gives me a step-by-step guide on starting the business. Otherwise, I know that I would have wasted a lot of time and probably would have learned many things the hard way. Thanks so much. " Holly Parker, Time Solutions Group, LLC.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-10-11
Dewey code: 338.642
List Price: $180.00
Price: $144.12
Review Understanding the Small, Family Business (Routledge Studies in Smallbusiness, 8) / Routledge:It is estimated that family businesses comprise between 60-90 % of all firms in Europe and the United States. This book makes an important contribution to the understanding of small family firms by bringing together a number of key themes in management/organization studies. Reviewing a range of theoretical approaches, examining key literature and drawing from an international range of primary research, it also points to the future of research in this arena, and indicates how support and policy initiatives may be directed in the future.
Publication date: 2005-04-30
Review A Guide to Entepreneurship / Jaico Publishing House:
Creator: Levinus Timmerman
Publication date: 2005-07-20
Dewey code: 340
List Price: $159.00
Price: $139.00
Review Voc 1602-2002: 400 Years of Company Law (Law of Business and Finance) (Law of Business and Finance) / Kluwer Law International:VOC 1602-2002, 400 Years of Company Law consists of two parts. Part I deals with the history of company law, focussing on the Dutch East India Company ("VOC"), allegedly the first public limited liability company in the world, and its equals in a number of European countries. Part II contains articles on various aspects of modern company law against the background of 400 years of company law. The English translation of the VOC Charter is just one of the remarkable features of this book. This book is interesting for both academics and practitioners in the fields of company law and corporate governance and will advance the understanding of the 'eternal' questions of corporate governance.
Creator: Domenico Siniscalco
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-07-31
Dewey code: 338.926
List Price: $133.00
Price: $133.00
Review Creation and Transfer of Knowledge: Institutions and Incentives / Springer:Is knowledge an economic good? Which are the characteristics of the institutions regulating the production and diffusion of knowledge? Cumulation of knowledge is a key determinant of economic growth, but only recently knowledge has moved to the core of economic analysis. Recent literature also gives profound insights into events like scientific progress, artistic and craft development which have been rarely addressed as socio-economic institutions, being the domain of sociologists and historians rather than economists. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to bring knowledge in the focus of attention, as a key economic issue.
Authors
- Marianne Hardart
- Lorraine Diehl
Publication date: 2002-11-19
Dewey code: 647.9573
List Price: $18.00
Price: $207.35
Review The Automat: The History, Recipes, and Allure of Horn & Hardart's Masterpiece / Clarkson Potter:On the 100th birthday of Horn & Hardart, a look back at one of America’s most beloved institutions A coin-operated glass-and-chrome wonder, Horn & Hardart’s Automats revolutionized the way Americans ate when they opened up in Philadelphia and New York in the early twentieth century. In a country where the industrial revolution had just taken hold, eating at a restaurant with self-serving vending machines rather than waitresses and Art Deco architecture instead of stuffy dining rooms was an unforgettable experience. The Automat served freshly made food for the price of a few coins, and no one made a better cup of coffee. By the peak of its popularity—from the Great Depression to the post-war years—the Automat was more than an inexpensive place to buy a good meal; it was a culinary treasure, a technical marvel, and an emblem of the times. The Automat will take readers back to the days of Charles Lindbergh and Babe Ruth, Walter Winchell and Jack Benny, the Brooklyn Dodgers and shows at Radio City. Through beautiful archival photography, candid interviews, delicious recipes, and wonderfully evocative memorabilia, Lorraine Diehl and Marianne Hardart bring to life a time when a handful of nickels and the twist of a wrist bought a good square meal—Macaroni and Cheese, Boston Baked Beans, Chicken Pot Pie, Rice Pudding, and all the other favorites whose recipes are in these pages. The Automat was a true American treasure, and here is its tribute. “I have always thought that the Automat in New York has the best scrambled eggs in the world. ” —Gregory Peck “To have your own stack of nickels placed in your tiny hands; to be able to choose your own food, richly on display like museum pieces; to make quick and final decisions at the age of eight; this was a lesson in financial dealings that not even two years at the Wharton School could buy today. ” —Neil Simon“Oh, be still my heart! I used to shine shoes when I was fourteen years old. [+]And when I was a little ahead, I would stop at Horn & Hardart. ” —Tony Curtis“I lived at the Automat. They had the greatest chocolate milk. When I moved to Philadelphia, I apportioned less than two dollars a day to eat on, and the Automat was the only place I could do it. ” —Dick Clark“I went to the Automat all the time. I grew up going to the Automat. The food was delicious. And it was wonderful. ” —Woody Allen“The first time I came to New York, I had a meal at the Automat. I had heard about the Automat, and I had to go see what it was all about. ” —Leonard Nimoy“I had the same lunch every day: three vegetables, a roll, and cocoa. All for twenty-five cents. ” —Jerome Robbins.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-12-13
Dewey code: 658.421
List Price: $160.00
Price: $133.12
Review Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress (Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy) / Routledge:Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elements of the economy. This new book from Randall Holcombe begins by identifying areas in which evolutionary and Austrian approaches differ from the academic mainstream literature on economic growth, before moving on to distinguish growth from progress. The author then analyzes economic models of the firm based on the idea that it is entrepreneurship that drives economic progress. The book should prove to be a natural successor to recent Routledge books by Frederic Sautet and David Harper.
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Optimal Inventory Modeling of Systems: Multi-Echelon Techniques (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science), Planning and Budgeting for Higher Profits (Business User's Guides), Claim, Intent, and Persuasion: Organizational Legitimacy and the Rhetoric of Corporate Mission Statements, Managing Technological Development (Routledge Advances in Management and Businessstudies, 25), Entrepreneurial Teams as Determinants of of New Venture Performance (Studies in Entrepreneurship), Asian Business Networks (De Gruyter Studies in Organization), Microfinance Perils and Prospects (Routledge Studies in Development Economics), Entrepreneurship and Business Culture (Studies in the Economics of Trust/Mark Casson, Vol 1), Encyclopedia of International Development, Clock Repair: Part-Time Hours, Full-Time Pay, Guide to Customer Service Teams: Nine Steps to Improving Productivity and Service with Teams (Ichor Business Books), Collaboration Management: New Project and Partnering Skills and Techniques (Business Boundaries), Economic Decentralization and Public Management Reform (New Horizons in Public Policy Series), The Concierge Manual: A Step by Step Guide on How to Start Your Own Concierge and/or Errand Service, Understanding the Small, Family Business (Routledge Studies in Smallbusiness, 8), A Guide to Entepreneurship, Voc 1602-2002: 400 Years of Company Law (Law of Business and Finance) (Law of Business and Finance), Creation and Transfer of Knowledge: Institutions and Incentives, The Automat: The History, Recipes, and Allure of Horn & Hardart's Masterpiece, Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress (Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy)Top headlines: Mailman who kept junk mail avoids jail: A former North Carolina mailman who admitted keeping people's junk mail in his garage or buried in his backyard has been sentenced to probation. ›22:21 25 Nov, Tue Son of slain rabbi heads to Israel: An Israeli Air Force jet left India for Israel Monday carrying the 2-year-old orphan of a rabbi and his wife who were slain in the Mumbai Jewish center attack. ›16:47 Problems force manual docking at space station: A Russian cosmonaut used a joystick to guide a modernized cargo ship to the international space station Sunday after problems with an automated system prompted a last-minute switch to a manual docking. ›17:01 30 Nov, Sun Dine-and-dash gang nabbed via Facebook: An restaurateur left holding a hefty unpaid bill when five young diners bolted used the popular social networking Web site Facebook to track them down and they got their just desserts. ›09:45 27 Nov, Thu Video: Sorrow turns to outrage in Mumbai: Nov. 30: Cheers for the end of the hostage crisis have turned into chants against the government as the search for victims and answers continues. 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