Publication date: 1995-08
List Price: $130.00
Price: $129.99
Review Small Firms and Local Economic Development: Entrepreneurship in Southern Europe and Turkey / Avebury:This study of entrepreneurship in Southern Europe and Turkey takes full account of all the complex factors which explain how small firms behave in various local and sectoral contexts. By studying the economics, anthropology and the entrepreneurship dynamics of small business in three sectors (commerce, manufacturing, construction) the analysis tests various assumptions about small firm growth and survival.
Authors
- Larry D. Dershem
- David J. O'Brien
- Valeri V. Patsiorkovski
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $140.00
Price: $129.36
Review Household Capital and the Agrarian Problem in Russia / Ashgate Pub Ltd:Using micro-level data, this text shows that rural Russian households have made significant adaptations to an emerging market economy in just a few years. It focuses on how household capital (household labour, social networks and comunity attachment) effect the economic and psychological adaptation of households to rapid socioeconomic change. Findings are from 1995 to 1997 panel surveys made in three waves. The book deals systematically with micro-level processes of household adaptation to a market economy, institutional change and emerging informal and formal patterns of land tenure and use in Russia. It shows how structural changes are occurring in rural Russia and their impact on household enterprise development and income. Difference in household capital explains the emergence of inequality in the countryside and differences in the degree to which households experience stress and a higher or lower subjective quality of life.
Creator: Thomas Derdak
Publication date: 1994-04-22
Dewey code: 338.7409
List Price: $220.00
Price: $220.00
Review International Directory of Company Histories Volume 9. (International Directory of Company Histories) / St. James Press:When students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors need accurate and detailed information on the development of any of the world's 4,550 largest and most influential companies, direct them to International Directory of Company Histories. This multi-volume work is the first major reference to bring together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. Each three- to five-page entry is meticulously detailed with facts gathered from popular magazines, academic periodicals, books, annual reports and the archives of the companies themselves. Entries provide information on founders, expansions and losses, labor/management actions, NAIC codes, key dates, ticker symbol, principal subsidiaries, principal divisions, principal operating units, principle competators and other significant milestones - all peppered with statistics, dates and names of key players. Vols. 1-6 are organized alphabetically by major industries; Vol. 7 and subsequent volumes are arranged alphabetically by company name within each volume. Each volume includes a cumulative index to companies and personal names. Vol. 7 and subsequent volumes include a cumulative index to industries. [+]The histories were compiled from publicly accessible sources, as well as from material supplied by the companies themselves. Entries on companies that have had major changes since they were last profiled may be selected for updating. Starting with Volume 37 a geographical index to companies sorted by country of head office. The index includes Country name, alphabetical list of companies from that country, and volume number where the company profile can be found. (19991201).
Creator: Aleksandr Grigorevich Granberg
Edition: 1 Ed
Publication date: 2000-04
Dewey code: 338.947
List Price: $130.00
Price: $129.99
Review Regional Development in Russia: Past Policies and Future (In Association with the Swedish Institute for Regional) / Edward Elgar Publishing:Ten years ago the former Soviet Union was pictured in the West as a monolithic unit governed from Moscow with a firm hand. Today, the geographical area which once constituted the USSR no longer exists and the disparities between regions are increasing all the time. This is the first book to provide an overview of Russia's regional development during the entire Soviet period as well as presenting a penetrating analysis of the array of regional problems facing Russia as we move into the twenty-first century. It analyses factors contributing to cohesion and disintegration in Russia today, stressing the importance of ethnicity, religion and Russian nationalism. In examining regional developments and spatial policy during the Soviet period, the authors reveal a remarkable paradox that the development of heavy industry actually reduced regional inequalities, but as the economy diversified disparities widened. The book is also a document from 'the people who were there' - that is, those trying in the circumstances then prevailing to develop regional science which never achieved practical application under central planning. The authors conclude that the development of Russia is increasingly becoming an issue of the development of its regions. This book will be useful for academics working in the areas of transitional economics, economic geography, particularly those interested in long term regional divergence and convergence, and economic history.
Authors
- Project Management Institute
Dewey code: 330
List Price: $99.95
Price: $129.94
Review Connections 2000: Pmi Seminars & Symposium Proceedings 7-16 September 2000 (Pmi Seminar and Symposium Proceedings) / Project Management Institute:
Publication date: 2007-01-30
Dewey code: 658.4038
List Price: $130.00
Price: $130.00
Review Know-Who Based Entrepreneurship: From Knowledge Creation to Business Implementation / Edward Elgar Publishing:‘How can we build stronger bridges between scientific knowledge creation and corporate value creation for accelerated growth through innovation in business and society? Sigvald Harryson makes an excellent illustration of how to build these bridges in practice and how to manage the critical dimensions of human relationships and researcher mobility. The case of Bang & Olufsen shows that industry–university collaboration can both lead to scientific breakthroughs and have a strong business impact. The case also illustrates how the teacher exception rule can give Sweden a competitive advantage in terms of industry–university collaboration at PhD level. ’ – Per Eriksson, Director General, VINNOVA ‘The bigger the company and the more specialized the know-how we use, the more appropriate a know-who based approach becomes: After four calls at the latest, we usually have the right person on the phone. But there is more in this idea. Sigvald Harryson gives us many new hints with his groundbreaking case studies and smart application of theories. ’ – Roman Boutellier, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland ‘Know-Who Based Entrepreneurship solves the complex challenges of breakthrough innovation by arguing and illustrating how to capture the mutual benefits of groundbreaking exploration and global exploitation. In essence, you need to clearly distinguish between the two activities while using intelligent networks to integrate the results. Based on this fundamental principle, we decided to spin off our breakthrough technology B&O ICEpower for continued ice-breaking exploration and expanded value creation into fundamentally new segments. ’ – Karsten Nielsen, Founder and CTO of Bang & Olufsen ICEpower ‘How can a large company capture the benefits of smallness to make big breakthroughs? Can a company enjoy decades of growth without losing the spirit of entrepreneurship? These questions are by no means new, but so are the answers and examples provided in this insightful book. [+]Sigvald Harryson brings unique best-practice examples from different industries into a new managerial framework. Know-Who Based Entrepreneurship explores fundamentally new ways of combining the full benefits of small and big. ’ – Bo Risberg, Member of the Executive Board, Hilti Corporation ‘Know-Who Based Entrepreneurship is a thought-provoking, insightful, and practice-based exploration of the network-based entrepreneurship. Not only does it offer insightful case examples of successful entrepreneurships, it also provides a useful framework to understand why these entrepreneurs were successful. If entrepreneurship, business and social network, and knowledge management interests you, you do not want to miss this book. ’ – Ikujiro Nonaka, Hitotsubashi University, Japan In this book, Sigvald Harryson demonstrates how to use know-who based networking to increase knowledge whilst reducing complexity. He reveals new synergies between external and internal knowledge networking that promise to enhance the innovation performance of any transitional, transnational company. The book develops and builds upon knowledge in the interconnected areas of entrepreneurship and networking across different levels and units of analysis. In-depth studies of a wealth of absolute best practice companies are explored, illustrating how concrete management practices can be established to acquire and then transform science into sales in more time- and cost-efficient ways. A unique framework is developed to overcome the dichotomies between knowledge creation and business implementation. Through this, the author provides the necessary foundations from which profitable growth through innovation (GTI) can be developed: • Identification and analysis of the most important barriers to entrepreneurship; • Enabling factors and intelligence processes required for forceful innovation; • A GTI process for application in practice. Know-Who Based Entrepreneurship shows that the knowledge and innovation process is no longer limited to intracorporate know-how, but has now expanded to encompass global know-how. It will thus be invaluable to business managers, international scholars and researchers of R&D, innovation, entrepreneurship and the knowledge economy.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-08-09
Dewey code: 338.95105
List Price: $170.00
Price: $141.38
Review Challenges for China's Development An Enterprise Perspective (Routledgecurzon Contemporary China Series) / Routledge:There is no doubt that China is a major economic force, and the country's phenomenal recent rate of growth means that it is primed to become an even bigger player on the world stage. The pace of reform for China's enterprises of all kinds has quickened as the Chinese have sought to cope with the challenges of self-determination - strategic, financial and governmental - in a rapidly evolving social and political context. This timely collection explores China's current challenges from the perspective of the enterprise. It includes discussion of current and likely future overall trends, reports on new research findings on the true extent of governance and accounting reforms within enterprises, and considers the impact of increasing global competition on strategy, business relationships and management culture across a range of different kinds of enterprises. Starting with the macro view, contributors then focus on aspects such as Chinese-European cooperation, Chinese shareholders, corporate governance, the insurance industry, value creation and business style. As China confronts large-scale economic, environmental, political and welfare problems, this book will be an invaluable resource for academics and businesspeople examining the underpinnings of the Chinese economic systems and its probable course.
Creator: Chris Steyaert
Publication date: 2009-04-30
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $130.00
Price: $130.00
Review The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship (New Movements in Entrepreneurship) / Edward Elgar Pub:Completing the series, this fourth "New Movements in Entrepreneurship" book presents original empirical material showing how entrepreneurship in various organisational contexts provokes attempts to control. It goes on to demonstrate how control can be exercised entrepreneurially, how art brings an entrepreneurial force into society, and how entrepreneurship operates by aesthetic moves. The need to move beyond the traditional focus on the economic and business implications of entrepreneurship is also discussed, as the relevance of political and aesthetic theory to our understanding of entrepreneurship as a creative force.
Creator: Tony Hubert
Publication date: 1986-04
Dewey code: 338.642094
List Price: $89.95
Price: $129.96
Review A Guide to Small Firms Assistance in Europe / Gower Publishing Company:
Authors
- Reynolds Anthony
- Arlen C. Mills
- Richard L. Parli
Dewey code: 333.338
List Price: $50.00
Price: $130.00
Review The Valuation Of Apartment Properties / Appraisal Institute:This text explores the appraisal of conventionally developed rental apartment complexes of various types and classes. Mirroring the valuation process, the text examines site, property, and market analysis; the forecasting of supply and demand to derive capture rates; and the application of the cost, sales comparison, and income approaches to value.
Edition: 5
Publication date: 1995-10
Dewey code: 338
Price: $27.95
Review Starting and Operating a Business in New Jersey: A Step-By-Step Guide (Psi Successful Business Library) / Oasis Pr:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-12-01
Dewey code: 331.6368079
List Price: $130.00
Price: $129.98
Review Hispanic Self-Employment in the Southwest: Rising Above the Threshold of Poverty (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor) / Routledge:Self-employment is an option that has been considered a viable economic alternative for minority populations facing barriers to gainful employment in the traditional wage and salary labor market in the U. S. This book examines whether self-employment is an opportunity that will enable the Hispanic householder who resides in the Southwest portion of the United States to earn a living that will keep his/her household above the threshold of poverty. (Ph. D. Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1997; revised with new Introduction and Preface. ).
Publication date: 2002-03-31
Dewey code: 338.88095
List Price: $130.00
Price: $129.76
Review Entrepreneurship and the Internationalisation of Asian Firms: An Institutional Perspective / Edward Elgar Publishing:Entrepreneurs engaging in international business face business environments that are fundamentally different from their home countries. Despite decades of entrepreneurship research, we know little about these entrepreneurs and their strategic behaviour in establishing and managing transnational operations. This study applies an institutional perspective on transnational entrepreneurship to empirical investigations of transnational corporations from Hong Kong and Singapore. Henry Wai-chung Yeung argues that significant variations in institutional structures of home countries explain variations in the entrepreneurial endowments of prospective transnational business networks. This is illustrated by empirical data from two in-depth studies of over 300 TNCs from Hong Kong and Singapore and over 120 of their foreign affiliates in Asia. The volume should be of interest to those interested in international business, industrial economics, organization studies, political economy, regional studies and economic geography.
Creator: Ali Farazmand
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-06-10
Dewey code: 350.001
List Price: $269.95
Price: $200.75
Review Handbook of Bureaucracy (Public Administration and Public Policy) / CRC:This encyclopedic reference/text provides an analysis of the basic issues and major aspects of bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics and administrative theory, public policy, and public administration in historical and contemporary perspectives. Examining theoretical, philosophical, and empirical interpretations, as well as the intricate position of bureaucracy in government, politics, national development, international relations, and a host of other institutions, the book focuses on the multifunctional role of public bureaucracies in societies with various socioeconomic, political, cultural, and ideological orientations and covers a wide range of processes and subjects.
Authors
- James O. Fiet
- Pankaj C. Patel
Dewey code: 338.04
List Price: $130.00
Price: $129.97
Review Prescriptive Entrepreneurship / Edward Elgar Publishing:In the only known program of prescriptive entrepreneurship, James Fiet provides a marked contrast to the standard descriptive focus of entrepreneurship studies. Instead of the anecdotally based pedagogies that have dominated the teaching of entrepreneurship (and which do not control for luck-based success), the author lays out a program of research to develop and test theoretically derived guidelines for how to improve the success rate and performance of aspiring entrepreneurs. Rather than describing what entrepreneurs do, he prescribes and tests what they ought to do. The author finds that the use of systematic search at the launch relates positively to both the discovery of wealth-generating ideas and the founding of ventures. The book also uncovers the characteristics of forgiving business models and discusses their teachability. Training elements of the book include a prescriptive model of how to search for and discover wealth-generating ideas, a detailed protocol for how to train aspiring entrepreneurs in the use of systematic search, and an instrument that allows aspiring entrepreneurs to test the potential of their ideas before launching a venture. The book will be of interest to business and entrepreneurship scholars and teachers, students and aspiring entrepreneurs who are looking for prescriptive tools to help them launch a successful business.
Authors
- Germany) International Workshop on Groupware (7th : 2001 : Darmstadt
- Ulrich Hoppe
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 005.376
List Price: $130.00
Price: $130.00
Review Seventh International Workshop on Groupware: Criwg 2001 : September 6-8, 2001 ; Proceedings / IEEE Computer Society Press:This work contains the papers presented at the 7th International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG 2001).
Edition: 3rd
Publication date: 2008
Price: $129.95
Review Opening a Specialty Coffee Drive-Thru Third Edition / Bellissimo Coffee InfoGroup:New! Third Edition 2008! Finally, valuable information about opening and operating a coffee drive-thru. This concept-specific supplement to Bean Business Basics covers aspects of concept planning, location selection, drive-thru construction, bureaucratic considerations, and day-to-day operations. Includes estimated start-up costs. Opening a Specialty Coffee Drive-thru is of most value when read in conjunction with Bean Business Basics, Bellissimo's 740-page definitive how-to manual for opening and operating any type of retail coffee business. Like all other Bellissimo publications, Opening a Specialty Coffee Drive-Thru is teeming with valuable business insight. Ed Arvidson has put together a thorough reference guide that asks all the right questions and provides the answers. Karen Foley, KRF Creative In a maturing specialty coffee market, the days of opening a retail operation on a lark are over. Success belongs to those whose passion for quality coffee is matched by solid business practices. Ed Arvidson and Bellissimo long ago established a reputation for helping their clients with both. In this new book, Arvidson breaks down a deceptively simple conceptthe drive-thru coffeeto its essential business elements, providing a detailed start-up guide for a market niche that remains relatively untapped in many areas. [+]Mike Ferguson, Former Communications Director, Specialty Coffee Association of America Anyone considering a coffee drive-thru would be foolish not to perceive the value of this text. This resource should be carefully studied and used during each step of the process. No other resource will deliver the unbiased facts contained within these pages. Bruce Milletto, President, Bellissimo Coffee InfoGroup A long overdue publication for the industry, and an absolute must-read for anyone even remotely thinking about opening a drive-thru. I highly recommend it. Sue Gillerlain, Former Editor, Specialty Coffee Retailer Magazine.
Publication date: 1992-09
Dewey code: 658.4012
Price: $69.95
Review The Focused Business Plan / Gower Pub Co:
Authors
- Bjorn Bjerke
- Claes Hultman
Dewey code: 658.8
List Price: $130.00
Price: $129.99
Review Entrepreneurial Marketing: The Growth of Small Firms in the New Economic Era / Edward Elgar Pub:Just as society has realized the value of entrepreneurs, so entrepreneurs are gradually realizing the value of strategic marketing. In this text the authors explain the substantial role of marketing in the success of small firms which have emerged in the business environment since the late 1980s.
Publication date: 2002-01-02
List Price: $149.95
Price: $130.00
Review BizPricer¿ Business Valuation Manual w/Software / RDS Associates Inc.:BizPricer Business Valuation Manual w/Software" is a user-friendly, extremely cost-effective resource for prospective business buyers and sellers (and business brokers) who need to know the fair market value of a business! The 32 page Manual includes a Microsoft Excel based CD-ROM software program. "BizPricer Business Valuation Manual w/Software" walks the user through the valuation process without getting involved with complicated academic theory. BizPricer accomplishes all of the calculations for you. All you do is enter the company’s financial data. No financial expertise or specialized knowledge is needed. The software uses the Microsoft Excel™ program on your computer. No questionable software program to load that could cause problems with your system! Save hundreds to thousands of dollars over hiring an appraiser to provide you with a similar result. Use the software over and over again for a "what-if" analysis. BizPricer™ uses the same valuation method used by the author/business appraiser (and many other appraisers) in hundreds of business valuations and verified against actual transaction data and real-world results. BizPricer even calculates the Goodwill value in the business! Business Buyers: Don't overpay for an over-priced business! Estimate a solid fair-market value for the business you're considering buying. [+]Experience shows that many businesses are overpriced by at least 50% if the seller or business broker has set the price without a professionally based appraisal. Use the BizPricer results in your negotiations to establish a fair price for the business. Business Owners: What's your business really worth? Don't leave money on the table! Find out now what your business might sell for in a fair-market transaction. Learn what to do to maximize the selling price. Do a "what if" analysis to see what expenses need to be cut to greatly increase the business's value and by how much. Use BizPricer as a planning tool to unlock the hidden value in your business. Business Brokers and Real Estate Agents: Forget trying to figure out the fair-market value of a business on the back of an envelope or by using expensive software that calculates dozens of different values using several different methods that have little relationship to the real world. Calculate a fair market value for the business that makes sense for both buyers and sellers. Don't waste your time trying to market an overpriced business that won't stand up to the negotiation process. BizPricer will: - Determine the actual and projected available cash flow for the business. - Calculate the risk-factor multiplier used in determining the business value. - Factor in the current assets and adjust for liabilities to be assumed. - Determine the Goodwill/intangible asset value. - Calculate the overall business value including all assets and liabilities. BizPricer will create: - Reconstructed Income and Expense Statements - Available Cash Flow Projections - Continued Operations Risk Assessments and a Valuation Multiplier - A Capitalized Valuation Estimate (the fair market value) NOTE: You must already have Microsoft’s Excel program installed on your computer (any version, MAC or PC).
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