Publication date: 2009-01-31
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $125.00
Price: $125.00
Review Entrepreneurial Growth in Industrial Districts: Four Italian Cases / Edward Elgar Pub:This book illustrates that Industrial Districts (ID) have dramatically changed over the past three decades: the Marshallian notion of a cluster of small firms has been vastly transformed by the emergence of rapidly-growing firms. The authors therefore highlight the need to understand these changes and identify how ID competitiveness can be effectively sustained. Four Italian case studies are then utilised to demonstrate the process of firm growth within ID via the lenses of corporate entrepreneurship.
Authors
- John L. Ward Craig E. Aronoff
Publication date: 1993-10
Price: $21.95
Review Family Business Compensation (Family Business Leadership Series Number 5) / Business Owner Resources:Compensation matters are among the most frequently asked * and complicated questions facing business-owning families. What is * fair? How can the rewards of ownership be distinguished from pay for * performance? How can the owner motivate and retain key non-family * employees? Family Business Compensation shows you how to deal with * these tough issues in ways that strengthen your business and your * family teams. This booklet shows you how to: develop a philosophy of * compensation; establish incentive plans; make compensation a * catalyst for business planning; compensate non-family executives; * build trust through the compensation process; communicate about * compensation; anticipate and avoid common compensation problems; and * much more. Family Business Compensation gives straight answers * and sound advice for family businesses of any size or in any stage * of development.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-02-24
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $200.00
Price: $164.75
Review Thinking About Management: A Reflective Practice Approach / Routledge:The book aims to encourage readers to undertake their own personal explorations of the impact which origins and precedents have upon the everyday activities of managers. Through the process of reflective practice, the book seeks to encourage wider thinking and debate about the "why" questions which lie behind so many of the "how to do" approaches to management.
Creator: Premachandra Athukoralge
Publication date: 2002-08-31
Dewey code: 338.959
List Price: $765.00
Price: $746.93
Review The Economic Development of South Asia (Elgar Mini Series) / Edward Elgar Publishing:This three-volume set brings together a comprehensive selection of papers on development policy making and economic performance in the five major economies in South Asian countries -India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka - during the past half a century of the post colonial era. Volume 1 covers economic conditions at the time of independence, and broader patterns of economic development against the backdrop of policy transition from import-substitution strategy to economic restructuring through liberalization, and the underlying political economy. The next two volumes are arranged thematically: volume 2 covers agriculture and the rural economy, industrialization and finance and development, and volume 3 deals with the external dimension of development, population dynamics and human resource development, and poverty and income distribution. The economic debates in South Asia, particularly in India, have been wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating, with active participation of a number of pioneers in development economics. The existing knowledge on a number of key issues, such as the role of development planning, foreign trade regimes and economic development, the political economy of rent-seeking, choice of technology, causes of famines, sex bias in poverty, and poverty and public policy, have been shaped significantly by the South Asian experience. This three-volume set should therefore be a valuable reference not only for the South Asian specialist but also for all students and practitioners in the field of economic development.
Publication date: 1987-03
List Price: $53.95
Price: $125.43
Review Going Public: The Markets in Unlisted Securities / Hyperion Books:
Publication date: 2004-10-05
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $35.10
Price: $125.29
Review Sir Tom Cowie A True Entrepreneur: A Biography by Denise Robertson / Business Education Publishers Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-09-30
Dewey code: 658.4012
List Price: $175.00
Price: $145.61
Review Strategic Operations Management: The New Competitive Advantage / Routledge:This indispensable text offers students a high quality treatment of strategic operations management. It provides the reader with a clear understanding of the importance and nature of operations strategy by determining exactly which management activities, core competencies, resources and technologies underpin an operational strategy. The book demonstrates how various operational elements and components can be combined and customised into unique operational strategies. When these strategies are correctly implemented, they provide sustainable competitive advantage and allow firms to provide a diverse range of services and goods in their increasingly demanding, complex and dynamic marketplaces and spaces.
Publication date: 1993
Price: $125.00
Review The demand for trade credit: An investigation of motives for trade credit use by small businesses (Staff study) / Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-05-01
Dewey code: 338.8
List Price: $160.00
Price: $133.13
Review Power in Business and the State: An Historical Analysis of its Concentration (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy, 36) / Routledge:It is a commonplace that political power is becoming more centralized and remote: faceless people, sometimes in unknown places, determine our circumstances and our opportunities. This ground-breaking book argues that this happened through a slow development which began before globalization.
Authors
- Quebec) International Professional Communication Conference (1998 : Quebec
Dewey code: 601.4
List Price: $148.00
Price: $148.00
Review Ipcc 98: A Contemporary Renaissance : Changing the Way We Communicate : Proceedings 1998 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference / Institute of Electrical & Electronics Enginee:This is a collection of papers presented at the 1998 International Professional Communication Conference. It covers topics such as changing the way we work and manage, changing who we are and changing how we educate.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-10-31
Dewey code: 658.4093
List Price: $136.00
Price: $128.19
Review The Allocation of Limited Entrepreneurial Attention / Springer:The Allocation of Limited Entrepreneurial Attention examines the implications of allocating limited entrepreneurial attention among activities or projects. This book maintains that attention is simultaneously limited in that a decision maker can pay attention to only one thing at a time, and entrepreneurial in that it may be allocated to evaluating a potential new project for possible adoption. However, since the outcome of the allocation of attention is not certain, the number of projects among which attention can be allocated is stochastic and the maximum number of projects is endogenously determined by the optimal allocation of limited entrepreneurial attention and describes the implications of this analysis for a number of economic problems.
Creator: Kathleen Sommers Luchs
Publication date: 1995-11
Dewey code: 658.046
Price: $81.95
Review Managing the Multibusiness Company: Strategic Issues for Diversified Groups / Routledge:All multibusiness companies need to be able to justify their ownership of their multiple businesses. The corporate-level strategy must show how and why the corporate parent adds value to its business. Classic strategic issues which are addressed in this book include the allocation of resources between businesses, the creation of synergy through linkages amongst the businesses and the choices faced when creating a corporate portfolio. The selection of readings chosen, including writings by leading business theorists such as Michael Porter, Alfred Chandler, Michael Jenkins, Rosabeth Moss Kanter and C. K. Prahalad, have been organised around the major issues outlined above. In the first section, the readings concern the basic justification for the existence of multibusiness companies. The next two sections concentrate much more on advice for the managers of these companies about how to handle difficult strategic issues. Section 4 offers empirical evidence on how diversified companies have performe.
Authors
- A.I. Dimitras
- C. Zopounidis
Publication date: 1998-01-31
Dewey code: 658.16
List Price: $144.00
Price: $127.36
Review Multicriteria Decision Aid Methods for the Prediction of Business Failure (Applied Optimization) / Springer:This book provides a new point of view on the subject of business failure prediction, through the application of multicriteria analysis methods. The aim of the book is to provide a review of the research in the area and to explore the adequacy of these methods to one of the most complex problems in the area of financial management. In addition, the book explores the applications of the methods so that it can become a very useful tool for researchers and practitioners. The analysis of the modeling and the results in these applications provides the background for further employment of the methods.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1999-02-01
Dewey code: 640.73
Price: $29.95
Review Get Paid to Shop: Be a Personal Shopper for Corporate America / Forte Publishing:Getting paid to shop might sound like a fantasy, but this book tells how to make it a lucrative reality by launching a full- or part-time career as a personal shopper.
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 338.04
List Price: $145.00
Price: $132.06
Review A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: The Individual-Opportunity Nexus (New Horizons in Entrepreneurship Series) / Edward Elgar Publishing:In this volume, Scott Shane extends the analysis of entrepreneurship by offering an overarching conceptual framework that explains the different parts of the entrepreneurial process - the opportunities, the people who pursue them, the skills and strategies used to organize and exploit opportunities, and the environmental conditions favourable to them - in a coherent way. Given the level of interest devoted to entrepreneurship in the economy and among academics at business schools, one would think that researchers would have deep insights into this phenomenon. However, those who look closely at academic investigations of entrepreneurship realize that scholarly understanding of this field is quite limited. Unlike its sister fields of accounting, marketing, finance, organizational behaviour and strategic management, entrepreneurship is rather poorly explained by academics. Shane resolves this by considering the nexus of enterprising individuals and valuable opportunities and by using that nexus to understand the processes of discovery and exploitation of opportunities, the acquisition of resources, entrepreneurial strategy and the organizing process.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-10-11
Dewey code: 658.0014
List Price: $200.00
Price: $166.41
Review Management Fads and Buzzwords: Critical-Practical Perspectives / Routledge:Taking fads and buzzwords seriously, rather than dismissing them, this book reveals how management "gurus" actually damage organizations. David Collins offers professional managers and students of business and management an alternative account of management that transcends the normal boundaries of organization and the limited viewpoint of fashion. Among the fads and buzzwords coverd are as follows: the guru industry; excellence: business process re-engineering; empowerment; culture; knowledge work; and globalization.
Creator: David Aldous
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 635.9642
List Price: $125.00
Price: $125.00
Review International Turf Management Handbook / Butterworth-Heinemann:Details how the natural turfgrass surface functions and the implications for its management of natural turfgrass sports surfaces in Australia and overseas. Details how the natural turfgrass surface functions and the implications for its management.
Creator: Patrick A. M. Vermeulen
Publication date: 2008-11-30
Dewey code: 658.403
List Price: $125.00
Price: $125.00
Review Entrepreneurial Strategic Decision-Making: A Cognitive Perspective / Edward Elgar Publishing:Strategic choices made by entrepreneurs have major consequences for SME performance. This book explores the factors that influence entrepreneurial strategic decisions using a cognitive theoretical framework. The proposed model, based on a dual processing approach, integrates motivation, emotions and information processing modes and is tested in several empirical studies. The results show the model's potential for furthering interesting research agendas in entrepreneurial cognition research. The authors also reveal that entrepreneurial cognitions can be elicited and represented in the form of cognitive maps. The structural complexity of the cognitive maps (cognitive complexity) is an important prerequisite of effective strategic decisions and is a core concept for the advancement of our knowledge in entrepreneurial cognition. The book is an informed and interesting exploration of entrepreneurial cognition with both theoretical and methodological contributions to this field of research. It will be of great interest to undergraduate students, and academics in the field of entrepreneurship. Policymakers will learn from this study to understand the distinctions between various types of entrepreneurial decisionmakers and the way they make strategic decisions.
Publication date: 2003-06-01
Dewey code: 658.15224
List Price: $47.95
Price: $152.05
Review Prospect Research: A Primer for Growing Nonprofits / Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.:Written by a prospect researcher, this unique book provides you with tips you need to find your next major gift donors, including step-by-step instructions.
Publication date: 1997-11-30
Dewey code: 338.04019
List Price: $125.00
Price: $125.00
Review A Psychological Typology of Successful Entrepreneurs / Quorum Books:Can psychological factors effectively predict entrepreneurial performance? Drawing upon studies of over 700 entrepreneurial subjects in 10 different samples, Miner settles the issue: yes, they can. He identifies four kinds of people who are capable of achieving entrepreneurial success-but notes that to actually achieve success, they must follow a career route that fits their personalities. Miner's new book is thus a detailed scholarly report on an extensive 20-year research program that focuses on psychological predictors of entrepreneurial activity and success, and a carefully devised, solidly grounded theory to explain why his observations are true. He also discusses the implications for personal career development, entrepreneur selection, entrepreneurship development programs, the assessment of entrepreneurial talent, and related topics crucial not only to entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs themselves, but to their various stakeholders including those with investments in them. Part I of the book reviews the typologies used in the entrepreneurship literature and the various opinions on the value of psychological factors in predicting entrepreneurial success. It then sets forth the four-way psychological typology underpinning Miner's research and the various theoretical extensions of that typology. This section of the book closes with a chapter presenting case examples of the various types, and the ways they can achieve or fail to achieve success. Part II deals with measurement and design considerations, and with the two primary research tests of the theory-a seven-year predictive study of established entrepreneurs and a six-year predictive study of graduate business students enrolled in entrepreneurship classes. Part III reports on three studies dealing with women entrepreneurs, in contrast to men. It also describes an extensive, six-year predictive study of high-technology entrepreneurs and international research dealing with entrepreneurs in Italy, Israel, Sweden, and post-communist Poland. [+]Part IV considers ways the typology may be used to create entrepreneurship development programs and describes a comprehensive regional development effort extending over seven years. Particular attention is given to methods of assessing entrepreneurial talent, in existing as well as in prospective entrepreneurs, not only to help select them, but also to aid in the investment decision. The book closes with predictions for the future for entrepreneurial practice and for entrepreneurship theory and research.
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Entrepreneurial Growth in Industrial Districts: Four Italian Cases, Family Business Compensation (Family Business Leadership Series Number 5), Thinking About Management: A Reflective Practice Approach, The Economic Development of South Asia (Elgar Mini Series), Going Public: The Markets in Unlisted Securities, Sir Tom Cowie A True Entrepreneur: A Biography by Denise Robertson, Strategic Operations Management: The New Competitive Advantage, The demand for trade credit: An investigation of motives for trade credit use by small businesses (Staff study), Power in Business and the State: An Historical Analysis of its Concentration (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy, 36), Ipcc 98: A Contemporary Renaissance : Changing the Way We Communicate : Proceedings 1998 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, The Allocation of Limited Entrepreneurial Attention, Managing the Multibusiness Company: Strategic Issues for Diversified Groups, Multicriteria Decision Aid Methods for the Prediction of Business Failure (Applied Optimization), Get Paid to Shop: Be a Personal Shopper for Corporate America, A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: The Individual-Opportunity Nexus (New Horizons in Entrepreneurship Series), Management Fads and Buzzwords: Critical-Practical Perspectives, International Turf Management Handbook, Entrepreneurial Strategic Decision-Making: A Cognitive Perspective, Prospect Research: A Primer for Growing Nonprofits, A Psychological Typology of Successful EntrepreneursTop headlines: Depression in elderly tied to heart disease: Older people who are depressed are much more likely to develop a dangerous type of internal body fat that can lead to diabetes and heart disease, a disturbing new study found. ›21:05 New hope on AIDS in Africa: In a sign of hope on a continent ravaged by AIDS, a South African fertility clinic has started a service allowing couples infected with the virus to have a healthy baby. ›12:20 Got Thanksgiving leftovers? 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