Edition: 4th
Publication date: 1992-12-01
Price: $117.90
Review Small Business Management in Australia: Textbook / McGraw-Hill Professional:This edition of this highly successful small business management text will feature a new modular teaching approach, without compromising the theoretical framework. Increased pedagogical aids, such as learning objectives, worked examples, discussion topics and case profiles, will add to its flexibility. A feasibility plan is incorporated and material is added to summarise small business accounting for students without accounting training.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2000-12-05
Dewey code: 658.40352
List Price: $190.00
Price: $118.50
Review Risk Analysis: A Quantitative Guide / Wiley:Risk Analysis A Quantitative Guide Risk and uncertainty are key features of most business and government problems and need to be understood for rational decisions to be made. This book concerns itself with the quantification of risk, the modelling of identified risks and how to make decisions from those models. Following on from the success of the previous edition of this clearly written and highly regarded book, this edition is extensively revised and updated and will provide an invaluable practical guide for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Quantitative risk analysis (QRA) using Monte Carlo simulation offers a powerful and precise method for dealing with the uncertainty and variability of a problem. By providing the building blocks the author guides the reader through the necessary steps to produce an accurate risk analysis model and offers general and specific techniques to cope with most modelling problems. A wide range of solved problems is used to illustrate these techniques and how they can be used together to solve otherwise complex problems. Reviews of the first edition "It identifies the various facets of risk analysis and provides a valuable reference to the concepts and techniques employed. " Project, 1997 "It clearly explains many essential aspects of quantitative risk analysis. provides valuable techniques and sound professional advice. " Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol. [+]12, 1999 "The book offers a powerful method for dealing with risk and uncertainty. " Zentralblatt für Mathematik, Band 908, 1999.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2009-05-30
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $130.00
Price: $117.69
Review Entrepreneurship and Organisation (Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks) / Routledge:Working from a unique standpoint and challenging the orthodoxy on entrepreneurship, this controversial book explores the possibilities of entrepreneurship in organizations and entrepreneurship in organization creation whilst re-anchoring entrepreneurship within a broader disciplinary approach. Demonstrating that there is an increasingly relevant and complex relationship between entrepreneurship and organization, this volume de-contextualizes entrepreneurship from its present inclusion in management. It provides the philosophical and historical conditions for the emergence of entrepreneurship and management in society. It re-contextualizes entrepreneurship in organization via its central concepts of imagination, desire/passion, power, becoming and organizational creation. It places entrepreneurship among the natural human activities in organized contexts. A fascinating account of the relationship between entrepreneurship and organization, this book is a must read for all those researching entrepreneurship, organizational theory, and business and management thought.
Creator: Inderjit Singh
Publication date: 1998-11
Dewey code: 658.4
List Price: $130.95
Price: $130.94
Review Corporate Governance in Central Eastern Europe: Case Studies of Firms in Transition (Microeconomics of Transition Economies) / M.E. Sharpe:Economic restructuring in Eastern Europe has added a new universe of firms to the pool of cases for study of managerial effectiveness. Yet, in the ideologically charged atmosphere of post-communist transitions, analysis of the functioning of East European firms is sometimes clouded by preoccupation with privatization issues - whether ownership is held by banks, a state or public agency, foreign investors, or inside or outside shareholders. This volume focuses on the performance of firms as a measure of the effectiveness of corporate governance, and only then attempts to draw conclusions about the relative advantages of different ownership structures.
Authors
- Stephen Spinelli
- Jeffry Timmons
Publication date: 2008-09-04
Dewey code: 658.1141
Price: $117.92
Review New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century / McGraw-Hill/Irwin:New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century is about the actual process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it, and starting again. It continues to be the product of experience and considerable research in the field�rooted in real-world application and refined in the classroom. The design and flow of the book are aimed at creating knowledge, skills, and awareness. In a pragmatic way�through text, case studies and hands-on exercises�students are drawn in to discover critical aspects of entrepreneurship, and what levels of competencies, know-how, experience, attitudes, resources and networks are required to pursue different entrepreneurial opportunities. The Eighth edition includes new cases and exercises, updated Web sites, and new text material to capture the current financial, economic, technological, and globally competitive environment of this first decade of the new century.
Creator: P.N. Ghauri
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-10-01
Dewey code: 658.049
List Price: $119.00
Price: $119.00
Review The Global Challenge for Multinational Enterprises (International Business and Management) (International Business and Management) / Pergamon:Hardbound. This book examines the relationship between multinational firms and emerging markets, a relationship which has changed profoundly in the period from the 1950's to the late 1990's. Governments and multinational firms have moved from a situation of conflict to one where government policies were seen as a constraint on the activities of MNE's, and finally to an era of cooperation. This relationship has been reflected in (and driven by) academic writing on the subject, of which this book is a selection of the best examples. The readings in part one show how the critical conflictual elements of the relationship were emphasized in the period 1950 to 1975. Latterly, writing has emphasized cooperation, even harmony, and writers have pointed out that free trade based on cooperative advantage can bring benefits for all. The most profound change in the world economy in the early post-war period was the emergence of successive waves of Asian 'newly.
Publication date: 1997-10
Dewey code: 658.385
List Price: $118.50
Price: $118.49
Review The Gains of Listening: Perspectives on Counselling at Work / Taylor & Francis Group:Focus on the rise of counseling at the workplace & the stress reduction, mental health enhancement that apparently accompanies this trend in a climate of rapid change and uncertainty over jobs. DLC: Employees - Counseling of.
Creator: Undp
Publication date: 2003-01
List Price: $22.00
Price: $117.98
Review Best Practice in the Development of Entrepreneurship and Smes in Countries in Transition: The Belarusian Experience / United Nations Publications:This publication is adopted from the Forum on Best Practice in the Development of Enterpreneurship and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Countries in Transition: The Belarusian Experience. The meeting was held at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) headquarters in Geneva, in October 2001. It includes the agenda, the papers that were presented, issues that were discussed, and a list of participants with their full contact information.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-01-17
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $190.00
Price: $185.99
Review Competitiveness Strategy and Industrial Performance in Developing Countries: A Manual of Policy Analysis (Routledge Studies in Development Economics) / Routledge:Globalization and structural adjustment offer many opportunities for export orientated industrialization in developing economies. As a group, competitiveness in the developing countries has improved, but, while East Asian economies have had rapid export growth and technological upgrades, South Asian and African economies have lagged behind. Old structures, institutions, behavioural patterns and public policies are ill-adapted to deal with the challenges posed by technological change and economic liberalization. Consequently there is an urgent need for change in government and private sector attitudes and strategies. This volume seeks to generalise the lessons across developing country and enterprise cases, and sheds light on which trade and industrial strategies and instruments work best, and which do not work, in relation to manufacturing competitiveness.
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $17.00
Price: $118.74
Review Franchise Opportunities Guide: Fall Winter 1999 (Franchise Opportunities Guide, Fall/Winter 1999) / Intl Franchise Assn:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-12-16
Dewey code: 658.301
List Price: $150.00
Price: $117.89
Review The Aesthetic Challenges of Human Resource Development (Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development) / Routledge:If Human Resource Development is to fulfill the hopes of those who believe it is an essential contributor to social and economic success then there are many challenges to be met. Among these are the challenges raised by the growth of the creative class, with creative and cultural industries now forming a major sector of employment and creativity, individuality and imagination being highly valued in the workplace. The Aesthetic Challenges of Human Resources Development questions how the increasing importance of creativity impacts on the ways in which we understand HRD, and what its role is in the future if the creative industries continue to prosper. The book asks whether HRD is an area of theory and action whose professionals are, or can become, members of the creative class. In exploring these issues Gibb introduces discourses of, and debates about aesthetics, creativity, beauty and imagination into the world of HRD, in order to move beyond the non-aesthetics, relativity, beauty andimagination into the world of HRD, in order to move beyond the non-aesthetics, creativity, beauty and imagination into the world of HRD, in order to move beyond the non-aesthetic and utilitarian paradigms of human development and people management that evolved in the twentieth century. Aesthetics and aesthetic values are used to re-configure how we might understand and practice HRD.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2009-04-14
Dewey code: 338.040711
List Price: $130.00
Price: $117.69
Review The Entrepreneurial University (Studies in Entrepreneurship) / Routledge:Critically examining the concept of the entrepreneurial university, this book provides readers with a comprehensive and systematic review of its key features, the existing debates surrounding it and the results of detailed new research on the idea. It: reviews the emergence and development of the concept of the entrepreneurial university in an historical context; and explores the impact of this concept on the development of a new focus and range of activities undertaken by universities. A seminal reference work in the field, it is an indispensable tool for students and researchers in the areas of industrial economics, entrepreneurship and education management as well as a range of readers in the public policy arena.
Creator: Nigel Wadeson
Publication date: 2006-10-19
Dewey code: 658.421
List Price: $175.00
Price: $117.99
Review The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship (Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management) / Oxford University Press, USA:This is a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art research in Entrepreneurship, written by an international team of leading scholars. Entrepreneurship has been a dynamic and expanding area of research over the last twenty years, but there has been no standard reference work for both established scholars and new researchers. This book fills that gap.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-05-16
Dewey code: 338.4095
List Price: $150.00
Price: $124.82
Review Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities: New Development Trajectories (Routledgecurzon Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia) / RoutledgeCurzon:During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, services, in particular, finance, information and creative services, have become deeply embedded in the processes of urban growth. In Asia-Pacific the rise of service industries has lead to national modernization programmes and globalization strategies. Services are also driving change in the internal form of city regions and are being actively deployed as instruments of metropolitan reconfiguration and land use changes. These changes have created problems such as social polarization and the displacement of traditional industries and residential districts. Also, there are tensions between local and global processes in the development of service industries, and between the imperatives of competitive advantage and sustainable development. Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities brings together a multi-disciplinary team of experts to explore and illustrate the theoretical, conceptual and practical issues arising from the transformation of Asia-Pacific cities by service industries.
Publication date: 2001-08-03
List Price: $13.00
Price: $118.74
Review Wake Up Everybody: The Life of a Player / Envisions Pub:Wake Up Every body is an in-depth graphic journey into the struggle of life as a young black male raised by America's inner city streets. This journey is not only Jihad's, but documented bits and pieces of every African-American mother's son's life. The private lives of so many that have revolved around him as he evolved thru childhood, adolescence and adulthood is profiled. As the merry-go-round of life in the hood is relived, explanations will become evident as to what sets the stage for the events and circumstances that lead so many to the prison-gates. A vivid colorful picture is painted throughout of the how and why Black men in America raised in the inner cities, fortunate enough to live past the age of eighteen are conditioned to accept the inevitability of prison. Growing up in an environment where happiness is sought in the bottom of liquor bottles, needles and dope sacks is just ordinary life in the hood. Through several edutaining sub-stories the fine line between user and dealer, and how they use the same means to get to the same ends is profiled. Whenever one tries to break the cycle, it will become as clear as my words in writing as to how unseen hands pull at him to continue the course he was conditioned to complete, bombard him. First hand accounts of the black cultural documentary like revolving doors of ignorance and how the school system perpetuates the black man's American Dream (life as a player, hustler, thief, drug dealer and wannabe pimp) is entertainingly analyzed. Travel into the world of a dope addict. [+]Make the introduction to several self-empowered revolutionary freedom fighting black men that are deemed as poison in today's society, men that will never be given a second chance to give back so much that has been missing. Hold steadfast to something strong and real as the harsh reality of life, and it's dizzying revolutions and evolutions as seen through the eyes of one young black male is detailed in various stages such as project, penthouse, hospital and penitentiary life. Take a first hand look behind the walls and fences of America's slave prison system, where you can seen what about 37% of all black males from ages 17-29 experience in this country. Shown throughout is how our socio-economic conditioning controls the masses of the people. This is a story of tragedy, love and of hope: A story of slavery and freedom. This story is based on my life growing up in Indianapolis, Indiana and Atlanta, Georgia in the 1970's, 80's, and 90's. In rare occasions, other people's experiences are intermingled, specifically ones that had a strong impact on my life. The ending is totally fiction, due to the fact that this book was completed a short time after being released from Americas slave system, also known as its prison system.
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 302.35
List Price: $102.00
Price: $117.99
Review The End of Organization Theory?: Language As a Tool in Action Research and Organizational Development (Dialogues on Work and Innovation) / John Benjamins Publishing Co:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2009-06-14
List Price: $130.00
Price: $118.34
Review The Development of Intellectual Property Regimes in the Arabian Gulf (Routledge Research in Intellectual Property) / Routledge Cavendish:This book examines the development of national legislative regimes for the protection of intellectual property rights in the Arabian Gulf states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. David Price analyses IP rights in these states in the context of WTO membership, and consequent compliance with the requirements of the WTO's TRIPS Agreement. The challenges of domestic enforcement of the states' IP laws receive critical attention. A particular focus of the book is on foreign forces which have shaped or influenced the character of the states' IP protection regimes. It includes commentary on the contribution of foreign states, the WTO and WIPO in the pre-TRIPS and TRIPS compliance stages, and the US bilateral trade strategy for pursuing IP protection standards that exceed those enshrined in TRIPS, and the impact of these forces upon the states' enforcement performance. The role of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and the Special 301 provisions as a powerful tool in the US' bilateral strategy receives particular attention. The intellectual property laws of these states have been developed virtually in the span of a single generation, and the process of change is continuing. As such, this book will interest practitioners both in and outside of the region, and those with an interest in intellectual property law, comparative law, Middle East legal systems and affairs, and international trade.
Edition: 2nd Rev
Publication date: 1998-11
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $54.95
Price: $118.19
Review Economists, Entrepreneurs And The Pursuit Of Economics: An Analysis Of The Views Of The Entrepreneur Among The Economists Of The Classical Period And Their Differences (European University Studies) / Peter Lang Publishing:The entrepreneur - good or evil? Necessary for a prospering economy or the unscrupulous exploiter of workers and the environment? There is probably no other economic agent as disputed in political discussion as the entrepreneur. In mainstream economics, nonetheless, one can hardly find any treatment of this figure. The allusion to Smith's invisible hand is thought sufficient to acquit the employer and decision-maker of any harm done. But is this support from the past properly chosen, was Smith actually that little critical of the entrepreneurs and what view of this economic agent had other eminent thinkers in the first century of economic science (1776-1870)? This work provides a comprehensive analysis of the treatment of the entrepreneur by the early economists. It is uncovered that the diversity of ideas developed in that period is not only a valuable source for modern theories of entrepreneurship, but also raises questions about the objectivity and the progress of economic science.
Creator: S. Ramakrishna Velamuri
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 338.04091724
List Price: $150.00
Price: $149.99
Review Entrepreneurship In Emerging Regions Around The World: Theory, Evidence and Implications (Batten Entrepreneurship) / Edward Elgar Publishing:The contributors to this original volume of theoretically grounded case studies of the entrepreneurial phenomenon look at the process of entrepreneurship in the emerging regions of India, China, Ireland, Eastern Europe, North and South America, and North and South-East Asia. The book's organization is designed to take the reader from a general framework for understanding the relationship between economic development and entrepreneurship to more specific examples of how entrepreneurs and their firms respond to the opportunity and threats that are dynamically evolving in such places. The case studies provide scholars with the opportunity to develop theoretically grounded research questions that will advance the field beyond what we already know from previous work in the contexts of the US and developed economies. The book represents the first serious attempt to suggest new theoretical frameworks for understanding the emergence of entrepreneurship in regions that do not have all of the classical prerequisites (such as financial and human capital, favourable geography, institutional infrastructures, and so on) predicted in extant development models. Scholars and graduate students in business, economic development, and regional studies; policymakers in economic development, technology transfer, and financial markets; and journalists following business and development issues in emerging regions will all find this book an important step forward in our knowledge of entrepreneurship.
Publication date: 1999-07-28
Dewey code: 658.5
List Price: $119.00
Price: $118.99
Review Turnaround Management / Butterworth-Heinemann:Manufacturing and process plants must be regularly closed down for planned maintenance operations. This may entail the complete shutdown and re-start of large-scale serial and batch operations and must be performed in as short a period of time as is cost-effective. This is the process of turnaround, and as the processes are often high value and the maintenance operations intensive, complex and costly, it is vital that it be planned and carried out effectively. Tom Lenahan is an acknowledged expert in this field, who has worked and consulted internationally, and his book will show the maintenance manager or project leader how to get the job done correctly. This will include ensuring that lost production value (including sourcing replacement capacity) is balanced against intensive maintenance costs, as well as numerous other factors that may not be obvious to the first-time shutdown manager. The book draws upon his many years of experience with ICI, and has been written in conjunction with Eutech Engineering Services Ltd. Foreword by Anthony Kelly, author of Maintenance Strategy and Maintenance Organization and Systems.
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