Publication date: 1992-09
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Review 30 Days to a Debt-Free Business / Prentice Hall General:
Creator: Aleksandr Grigorevich Granberg
Edition: 1 Ed
Publication date: 2000-04
Dewey code: 338.947
List Price: $130.00
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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.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-02-16
Dewey code: 658.11
List Price: $180.00
Price: $149.70
Review Foundations of Small Business Enterprise (Routledge Studies in Small Business) / Routledge:This volume is an excellent addition to Routledge’s Studies in Small Business series. In this extended and novel entrepreneurial analysis of small firm inception and growth, a leading authority in the field develops a new kind of ‘micro-micro’ analysis, applying rigorous methods from economics, accounting and finance to gain a deeper understanding of micro-firms, examining performance, hierarchy, capital structure, monitoring and control, flexibility, innovation, and information systems. Using statistical, econometric and qualitative methods of empirical research, Foundations of Small Business Enterprise tracks and analyses the evolution of one-hundred-and-fifty small firms from their early years through to maturity. This title will appeal to a wide range of students, specialists and practitioners in economics, accounting and financeGavin C Reid is a Professor in Economics & Finance, CRIEFF, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Authors
- Germany) International Workshop on Groupware (7th : 2001 : Darmstadt
- Ulrich Hoppe
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 005.376
List Price: $130.00
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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: 1
Publication date: 2008-10-01
List Price: $129.00
Price: $129.00
Review Beiräte in der Verantwortung: Aufsicht und Rat in Familienunternehmen / Springer:Mit „Beiräte in der Verantwortung" ist Hermut Kormann eine umfassende Darstellung der Institution Beirat als Beratungs- und Kontrollgremium im Familienunternehmen gelungen. Aus der Sicht eines Praktikers mit jahrelanger Erfahrung sowohl als Geschäftsführer wie auch als Beirat in Familienunternehmen und Aufsichtsrat in Publikumsgesellschaften beschreibt der Autor alle für einen Beirat relevanten Themen- und Problemstellungen. Dabei wird – stets mit Fokus auf Unternehmensführung und Strategie – der Bogen gespannt von den rechtlichen Grundlagen über die Funktion des Beirats gegenüber der Geschäftsführung bis hin zur Arbeitsweise und Zusammensetzung von Beiräten. Entstanden ist ein umfangreiches Praxishandbuch und Nachschlagewerk mit wissenschaftlicher Tiefe, das alle Facetten und Tücken des Themas erläutert – eine unverzichtbare Lektüre für jeden, der sich mit dem Thema Beiräte in Familienunternehmen auseinandersetzen muss oder möchte.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2009-04-14
Dewey code: 658.022
List Price: $140.00
Price: $129.65
Review The Management of Small and Medium Enterprises (Routledge Studies in Small Business) / Routledge:Due to the vital importance of SMEs in developed economies worldwide, this book aims to provide a unique and much-needed investigation into the underlying mechanisms and practices of management within these companies by collecting a wide range of original conceptual and empirical research in the topical area of management in SMEs and new ventures. Collecting work from dozens of leading scholars in fields ranging from management and entrepreneurship to human resource management and strategy, this book aims to supply readers with an overview of the field of research in management of SMEs and new ventures as well as in depth knowledge on a variety of related topics. The essays collected here are focused and practical, offering a variety of explicit and pragmatic recommendations for action and developing new tools and strategies useful to scholars and students as well as practitioners working in the field of SME and new venture management and consulting.
Publication date: 1992-09
Dewey code: 658.4012
Price: $69.95
Review The Focused Business Plan / Gower Pub Co:
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.
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:
Authors
- James O. Fiet
- Pankaj C. Patel
Dewey code: 338.04
List Price: $130.00
Price: $129.99
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.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-12-01
Dewey code: 331.6368079
List Price: $130.00
Price: $130.00
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: 1995-08
List Price: $130.00
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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
- David J. O'Brien
- Larry D. Dershem
- Valeri V. Patsiorkovski
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $140.00
Price: $129.89
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.
Authors
- Hanna L. Schneider
- Lilli M. Huber
Dewey code: 302.4
List Price: $129.00
Price: $129.00
Review Social Networks: Development, Evaluation and Influence / Nova Science Publishers:Social networking is not a new concept. Various traditional facets of our existence might be reinterpreted as social networking, from early Christians to the World Wide Web. It refers to the act of relating nodes for example; individuals, organisations, and other social entities through social links for example; and friendship, professional relationship, and information exchange. Before the 20th century, social networking could only take place at short distance, or with considerable time delay when travelling or exchanging letters. Since the 1950's, telephones, tele- and videoconferencing have allowed real-time communications even over long distances. These two-way communication channels are generally good links for pairs of people or small groups, but they tend to be inefficient for large-scale, mass interactions. Moreover they enable simultaneous communications. This book provides leading edge research on this field from around the globe.
Publication date: 1985-01
Price: $39.95
Review The Awakening Giant: Continuity and Change in Imperial Chemical Industries / Blackwell Publishers:This book is about Imperial Chemical Industries' response to the changing social, political and economic environment of the past twenty years. Using an extensive series of personal interviews and archival material, Andrew Pettigrew examines the evolution of organization structure and culture, technology, and union-management relations within this corporate giant over an extended period of time. It is an account, told from the inside, by one of the world's leading management and organization theorists. The book should become a standard text in corporate strategy, organizational analysis and change, and business history. But anyone with an interest in managing change in a large corporation should find it rewarding reading.
Authors
- Evan J. Douglas
- Dean A. Shepherd
Publication date: 1998-11-01
Dewey code: 658.4012
List Price: $152.00
Price: $144.64
Review Attracting Equity Investors: Positioning, Preparing, and Presenting the Business Plan (Entrepreneurship & the Management of Growing Enterprises) / Sage Publications, Inc:Attracting Equity Investors is designed to help entrepreneurs successfully obtain equity capital. This book discusses how to evaluate a business concept from an investor's perspective and then moves to practical issues such as how to strategically position, prepare, and present the business plan. It recognizes that there is very real competition for the funds that are available. To obtain funding, the entrepreneur must stand out among the competitors. He or she must tell a compelling story in a very convincing manner and be able to answer confidently all questions posed by the potential investor. But more than simply obtaining the funding, the entrepreneur's objective should be to obtain the funding on the best terms possible. Therefore, this book is about organizing your business, writing and presenting a winning business plan, and showing that the management team is the right group of people to be taking that business opportunity forward toward fruition. Attracting Equity Investors is the definitive "getting equity capital" book. Attracting Equity Investors is appropriate for college-level courses in entrepreneurship, business plan writing, new venture funding, strategic management, organizational studies, marketing, economics, and technology management. It will also serve as an excellent resource for entrepreneurs who are actively seeking funding and need to know how to go about it, effectively and economically.
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:
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.
Publication date: 2002-03-31
Dewey code: 338.88095
List Price: $130.00
Price: $129.86
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: Heinz Klandt
Publication date: 2006-09-06
Dewey code: 650.0711
List Price: $130.00
Price: $129.44
Review International Entrepreneurship Education: Issues And Newness / Edward Elgar Publishing:‘Can entrepreneurship be taught? Is it an art or a science? How is entrepreneurship learned? Another masterpiece by the European masters Fayolle and Klandt, this volume – based on the 2003 Grenoble Conference – will be useful for years to come, among educators and policymakers alike, especially those open to the emerging paradigm. ’ – Leo Paul Dana, University of Canterbury, New Zealand This book discusses paradigmatic changes in the field of entrepreneurship education in response to economic, politic and social needs, and the consequential need to reassess, redevelop and renew curricula and methods used in teaching entrepreneurship. Traditional and new questions and concerns are addressed, including: • the development of business schools towards entrepreneurship education • best-practice methods of learning and teaching entrepreneurship both inside and outside the classroom • the design of effective teaching frameworks and tools • the development of entrepreneurial behaviours and attitudes in students • teaching the design and launch of new businesses. The issue of assessing the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education is also raised. A theoretical and methodological framework is used to measure the impact and effectiveness of entrepreneurship education programmes on the attitudes and behaviours of students. Now more than ever, the book argues, research in the field of entrepreneurship education has to be encouraged and facilitated and should drive the activity of entrepreneurship education providers. As such, this fascinating book aims to provide researchers, practitioners, teachers and advanced students engaged in the field of entrepreneurship with relevant and up-to-date insights of international research programs in entrepreneurship education.
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30 Days to a Debt-Free Business, Regional Development in Russia: Past Policies and Future (In Association with the Swedish Institute for Regional), Foundations of Small Business Enterprise (Routledge Studies in Small Business), Seventh International Workshop on Groupware: Criwg 2001 : September 6-8, 2001 ; Proceedings, Beiräte in der Verantwortung: Aufsicht und Rat in Familienunternehmen, The Management of Small and Medium Enterprises (Routledge Studies in Small Business), The Focused Business Plan, Opening a Specialty Coffee Drive-Thru Third Edition, Connections 2000: Pmi Seminars & Symposium Proceedings 7-16 September 2000 (Pmi Seminar and Symposium Proceedings), Prescriptive Entrepreneurship, Hispanic Self-Employment in the Southwest: Rising Above the Threshold of Poverty (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor), Small Firms and Local Economic Development: Entrepreneurship in Southern Europe and Turkey, Household Capital and the Agrarian Problem in Russia, Social Networks: Development, Evaluation and Influence, The Awakening Giant: Continuity and Change in Imperial Chemical Industries, Attracting Equity Investors: Positioning, Preparing, and Presenting the Business Plan (Entrepreneurship & the Management of Growing Enterprises), A Guide to Small Firms Assistance in Europe, Handbook of Bureaucracy (Public Administration and Public Policy), Entrepreneurship and the Internationalisation of Asian Firms: An Institutional Perspective, International Entrepreneurship Education: Issues And NewnessTop headlines: by Lawrence Ulrich: MSN Autos columnist Lawrence Ulrich talks turkey about the 10 worst cars of recent memory. ›07:00 31 Oct, Wed No sweat: Obamas work fitness into daily routine: Many women recoil at the thought of baring their arms in sleeveless dresses or blouses, but not Michelle Obama half of the fabulously fit new first couple. ›17:21 19 Nov, Wed Cops Taser pallbearer at dad's funeral: Five North Carolina sheriff's deputies will be disciplined after they used a Taser while serving an arrest warrant on a man at his father's funeral. ›16:17 NYT: Daschle poses conflict-of-interest test: The choice of Tom Daschle for secretary of health and human services poses questions about how broadly Barack Obama will apply campaign promises to limit conflicts of interest among appointees. ›15:55 Seeking Common Ground on Abortion: Can evangelicals and liberals come together over abortion, gay rights, and the role of religion in public life? ›14:35 10 Oct, Wed Why We Suck: When Denis Leary attacks: In his new book, the writer/comedian/actor rants about well pretty much everyone. 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