Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-06-24
Dewey code: 338.642
List Price: $150.00
Price: $130.49
Review The Economics of Small Business (Routledge Studies in Small Business) / Routledge:This book brings together thirty years of original empirical research on key aspects of the formation and development of small firms from selected articles authored or co-authored by Peter Johnson. Complete with a comprehensive introduction from the author placing the work in relation to the contemporary debates on the subject and providing a cohesive overview, these essays provide an excellent historical context for current research in this area. Many of the studies in this book emphasise the interrelatedness of economic activity and decisions, an emphasis that serves as an important reminder of the complex business environments in which small firms operate. The book is divided into five sections. The first part focuses on the process of business formation. In part two, the role of new firms in regional development is considered. The third section deals with employment issues, whilst part four looks at various aspects of growth and development. Finally, the book concludes with two articles on policy.
Authors
- James Foreman-Peck
- Robert Millward
Dewey code: 338.941
Price: $69.00
Review Public and Private Ownership of British Industry 1820-1990 / Oxford University Press, USA:Britain led the way for much of the world with industrial privatization during the 1980s. Yet the historical origins of the process have rarely been discussed. This study shows how a common set of problems raised by basic industries, such as railways, gas, water, electricity, and telecommunications, have triggered varying responses of public policy over the last two centuries. In this original analysis, James Foreman-Peck and Robert Millward provide a coherent and thorough history of the network industries, which continue to play an important role in the British economy.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-09-08
Dewey code: 338.04
List Price: $131.00
Price: $130.80
Review Entrepreneurship: A New Perspective (Studies in Global Competition) / Routledge:The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing. Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network dynamics which discuss certain perspectives of entrepreneurial behavior. This book closes a gap in the entrepreneurship literature. Inspired by modern physics, the author brings together an evolutionary methodology, along the way implicating quantum, graph, and percolation theory. This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to entrepreneurship, opening up new ideas in modeling. Thomas Grebel has provided a synthesis of all the main theories of entrepreneurship and the original thinking within this book should be of interest to all those working in the area of business and management as well as economics.
Authors
- Mark Dodgson
- Marina Yue Zhang
Dewey code: 332.178
List Price: $135.00
Price: $131.01
Review High-Tech Entrepreneurship in Asia: Innovation, Industry And Instututional Dynamics in Mobile / Edward Elgar Publishing:The option for consumers to make payments for services and products via mobile telephones has created a dynamic new industry. "High-Tech Entrepreneurship in Asia" illustrates how small, entrepreneurial firms in Asia have devised and produced innovations crucial for this industry's development. Marina Zhang and Mark Dodgson explore the evolution of the mobile payment industry which has emerged in recent years through the convergence of services provided by financial and mobile telecommunications companies. They consider how leading Asian economies are increasingly becoming the source of important technological innovations. Detailed case studies are used to reveal the technological, social, political, national and cultural factors that encourage and constrain entrepreneurship in Asia, paying particular attention to China and Korea, the industry vanguards. The role played by entrepreneurial start-ups in bridging the gap between banking, credit card and mobile telecommunications sectors is also explored. This highly original work will strongly appeal to students, researchers, policymakers and managers interested in international entrepreneurship, innovation, industrial and technological development and Asian business.
Publication date: 1975-12
Dewey code: 338.10967827
Price: $15.50
Review Rural Organization in Bukoba District, Tanzania / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet:
Publication date: 2002-12-05
Review Die Hoenderboek Vir Suidelike Afrika / Juta Academic:
Creator: Robert F. Lanzillotti
Publication date: 1980-10
Price: $130.43
Review Conglomerate Corporation / Greenwood Press:
Publication date: 2003-12-01
Review In at the Sharp End: The Realities of Running a Small Business (Based on 50 Case Studies) / Harbour Press:
Creator: Wing Lam; Venky Shankararaman
Publication date: 2007-06-04
Dewey code: 658.4038011
List Price: $165.00
Price: $131.90
Review Enterprise Architecture and Integration: Methods, Implementation and Technologies / IGI Global:Enterprise integration is a broad activity that involves solving a range of issues relating to business process definition, common data standards, architectural compatibility, technical interoperability, and organizational alignment. Enterprise Architecture and Integration: Methods, Implementation, and Technologies provides a detailed analysis of the important strategies for integrating IT systems into fields such as e-business and customer-relationship management. This Premier Reference Source supplies readers with a comprehensive survey of existing enterprise architecture and integration approaches, and presents case studies that illustrate best practices. It takes a holistic view of enterprise integration, describing innovative methods, tools, and architectures with which organizations can systematically achieve enterprise integration.
Authors
- Robert Brown
- Alan S. Gutterman
Publication date: 2000-05
Dewey code: 657
Price: $139.00
Review Financing Start-Ups: How to Raise Money for Emerging Companies 2001 / Harcourt Professional Publishing:
Publication date: 1997-05-01
Review White Gold / Allen & Unwin:
Authors
- Claes Andreasson
- Steve Strid
Publication date: 2007-10-28
Dewey code: 658.00948
Price: $17.95
Review The Viking Manifesto: The Scandinavian Approach to Business and Blasphemy / Cyan Communications:Just as ancient Vikings took the world by storm with swords and fast ships, modern Scandinavians have done the same with such innovative companies as Volvo, IKEA, and Absolut. This accessible and witty business study reveals how Nordic companies are making a huge impact on the corporate landscape and what lessons other businesses can learn from them. Unlike many European and American companies, the Scandinavians operate by focusing on an original idea and developing a unique way of turning it into reality. For these businesses, biggest is almost never best, competition is nonsense, and money does not make the world go round—despite what contemporary corporate logic might say.
Authors
- Cheryl Carter New
- James Aaron Quick
Publication date: 2000-02-07
Dewey code: 658.15224
Price: $39.95
Review Grant Winner's Toolkit: Project Management and Evaluation (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) / Wiley:Expert Tools and Techniques for Managing Funded Programs and Keeping the Grant Money Flowing in As anyone with a history in nonprofit management knows, a grant recipient’s job is far from over once the check is cut. That’s just when the real work begins. Especially now, when funders are taking a more active role in seeing that their money makes the desired impact, it is vitally important to the future of your mission that the programs under your stewardship succeed, beyond even your own expectations. Grant Winner’s Toolkit can help make that happen. Based on their own experiences and the experiences of hundreds of nonprofit managers nationwide, authors James Quick and Cheryl New provide expert advice and guidance on managing every aspect of your funded projects with the consummate professionalism demanded by your funders—from the drafting of strategies and action plans to the drawing up of budgets, from staff recruitment and team building, all the way through to the writing of the next grant proposal. They also arm you with an extensive arsenal of forms, checklists, time sheets, practice exercises, and other valuable tools that will help you to successfully:Organize and manage a grantseeking initiativeWrite comprehensive action plansDevelop winning project strategiesDevelop realistic budgetsFind, hire, and manage qualified team membersManage all key project resourcesEvaluate project efficacyImplement and maintain a policy of continual program improvementReplicate programsThe enclosed disk contains customizable forms covering all aspects of project management that make it easy for you and your team to put the methods described in the book to work in your organization. For more information about the Polaris Corporation visit www. polarisgrantscentral. net www. wiley. [+]com/nonprofit.
Publication date: 2000-11-30
Dewey code: 658.514
List Price: $160.00
Price: $152.15
Review Successful Innovation: Towards a New Theory for the Management of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation series) / Edward Elgar Publishing:Innovation as an activity is not new - what has changed is the pace at which firms have to innovate. This book analyzes innovation success at the company, rather than the project level and contributes to the development of a new theory on innovation management in small and medium-sized enterprises. The author uses studies from 63 companies from 35 different industry and service sectors in order to obtain non-sector specific findings. He concludes that innovative success is based on a combination of technological, marketing and organizational competencies and that successfully innovating companies can be said to have a strong internal locus of control.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-02-29
Dewey code: 658.4038
List Price: $169.00
Price: $151.36
Review Information, Organization and Information Systems Design: An Integrated Approach to Information Problems / Springer:During the last two decades, there have been many reports about the success and failure of investments in ICT and information systems. Failures in particular have drawn a lot of attention. The outcome of the implementation of information and communication systems has often been disastrous. Recent research does not show that results have improved. This raises the question why so many ICT projects perform so badly. Information, Organization and Information Systems Design: An Integrated Approach to Information Problems aims at discussing measures to improve the results of information systems. Bart Prakken identifies various factors that explain the shortfall of information systems. Subsequently, he provides a profound discussion of the measures that can be taken to remove the causes of failure. When organizations are confronted with information problems, they will almost automatically look for ICT solutions. However, Prakken argues that more fundamental and often cheaper solutions are in many cases available. [+]When looking for solutions to information problems, the inter-relationship between organization, information and the people within the organization should explicitly be taken into account. The measures that the author proposes are based on organizational redesign, particularly using the sociotechnical approach. In cases where ICT solutions do have to be introduced, Prakken discusses a number of precautionary measures that will help their implementation. The book aims to contribute to the scientific debate on how to solve information problems, and can be used in graduate and postgraduate courses. It is also helpful to managers.
Publication date: 2003-06
List Price: $279.00
Price: $279.00
Review Executive Reports: How to Get an Edge as an Entrepreneur: 100+ C-Level Executives (CEO, CFO, CTO, CMO, Partner) From the World's Top Companies on Keys ... & Personal Success (Executive Reports) / Aspatore Books:This insider look at succeeding as an entrepreneur is written by C-Level executives (CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, CMOs) from the world’s leading companies and venture capital firms. Each executive shares their knowledge on how to get an edge in business, from managing financial resources to making money in a down economy to increasing your efficiencies in all areas of your business (marketing, financial, technology, hr, and more). Pulling from every book, report and journal published by Aspatore Books, also covered are over 250 specific, proven innovative strategies and methodologies practiced by leading executives and CEOs that have helped them gain an edge. This report is designed to give you insight into the leading executives of the world, and assist you in developing additional ideas in all areas of your business that can help you be even more successful as a CEO. This report also includes a special brainstorming section, with hundreds of questions to help spur ideas for innovation. WRITTEN BY C-LEVEL EXECUTIVES FROM COMPANIES AT: Advanced Fibre Communications, American Express, American Standard Companies, AmeriVest Properties, AT Kearney, AT&T Wireless, Bank of America, Barclays, BDO Seidman, BearingPoint (Formerly KPMG Consulting), BEA Systems, Best Buy, BMC Software, Boeing, Booz-Allen Hamilton, Corning, Countrywide, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, Drake Beam Morin, Duke Energy, Ernst & Young, FedEx, First Consulting Group, Ford Motor Co. , Frost & Sullivan, General Electric, IBM, Interpublic Group, KPMG, LandAmerica, Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, Merrill Lynch, Micron Technology, Milliman & Robertson, Novell, Office Depot, On Semiconductor, Oxford Health, PeopleSoft, Perot Systems, Prudential, Salomon Smith Barney, Staples, Tellabs, The Coca-Cola Company, Unilever, Verizon, VoiceStream Wireless, Webster Financial Corporation, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Yahoo!.
Publication date: 1997-06
Review Who Owns Whom: United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Edition / Dun & Bradstreet:
Creator: Marsha Leest
Edition: Bk&CD Rom
Publication date: 2000-01-15
Dewey code: 657
Price: $109.00
Review 2000 How to Manage Your Accounting Practice: A Complete Practice Mangement System / Harcourt Brace Professional Pub:Provides an all-in-one resource for managing an accounting practice, expanding business, and increasing profits. Covers the management, marketing, personnel, and billing questions faced every day by administrators, managing partners, or administrative partners in a CPA firm. Softcover. CD-ROM included.
Publication date: 1997-11
Review Partnerships and Networks / Joseph Rowntree Foundation:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-06-22
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $140.00
Price: $130.86
Review Knowledge and Innovation in Business and Industry: The Importance of Using Others (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology) / Routledge:Provocative and reflective, this volume on the notion of knowledge and innovation in the business industry provides readers with a holistic approach to the subject of ‘knowledge’. Structuring their arguments around four case studies of innovation within four entirely different contexts, Håkansson and Waluszewski invite the business-minded reader to consider the costs of adopting new knowledge and innovation within a business setting. This book:questions the long-held assumption that new knowledge and innovation are universally advantageousfollows the tremor of an innovation as new knowledge reverberates through, or is dampened by the larger economic community - including cultural structures, the industrial standards and the foundational assumptions that rule a particular economic domainfocuses in particular on the interfaces where the innovative agent connects to its customers, suppliers and competitors. An ideal reference source for postgraduate students taking advanced courses in science and technology studies, innovation management, industrial marketing and purchasing, technological development and innovation systems.
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