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This work serves as a comprehensive update to Jesse W. Markham's 1952 industrial organization study, Competition in the Rayon Industry. It extends Markham's study to all large volume man-made fibers in a manner that will also be applicable to other...

Drawing upon his three decades of experience as a corporate economist, including 17 years as a senior economist with Business International Corporation, Alex Rubner here offers an incisive study of the multinational corporation as its fortunes have waxed...

With the rise of advanced technology firms, government's role in nurturing business may be changing. Based on a survey of 450 managers of advanced technology firms in Pennsylvania, this book describes how the private and public sectors can work together...

The economics of the world's petroleum industry are outlined, the nature and significance of the large international firm are described, and the history of the oil industry, the operation of the major oil companies, prices in the industry, and the...

This title contains six autobiographical works that Yeats published in the mid 1930s. Together, they provide a fascinating insight into the first 58 years of his life. The work provides memories of his early childhood, through to his experience of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837187426Author J.Fred WestonFormat HardbackPage Count 159Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837166247Author David BuntingFormat HardbackPage Count 311Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837182384Author Wesley McConeFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Over the last forty years, surfing has emerged from its Pacific islands origins to become a global industry. Since its beginnings more than a thousand years ago, surfing's icon has been the surf- board-its essential instrument, the point of physical...

This book, designed for policymakers, academics and researchers, and SEZ program practitioners, provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of SEZ programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the result of detailed surveys and case studies...

Although at different stages of development, the countries of the Western Balkans--Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia--face similar challenges in transforming and modernizing their...

Corruption is a multidimensional phenomenon that rears its head in many places. For this reason, it is difficult and challenging to assess how well a country is doing in addressing it. This volume examines corruption across a variety of sectors - from...

Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to ""See Rock City"" or similar tourist attractions. From battlegrounds to birthplaces, and sites in between, heritage tourism has always been...

In this comprehensive history, David J. Weber draws on Spanish, Mexican, and American sources to describe the development of the Taos trade and the early penetration of the area by French and American trappers. Within this borderlands region, colorful...

Advances in Chinese Industrial StudiesBook InformationISBN 9780762303151Author Nigel CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint JAI Press Inc.Publisher Emerald Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 615g

Unions in America provides a concise and current introduction to what America's labor unions do and why they do it. In this engaging text, author Gary Chaison portrays America's unions as complex, self-governing organizations that are struggling to...

This study uses the tuna-dolphin controversy arising from the 1973 Marine Mammal Protection Act to throw light on the increasing effects of globalisation on agricultural and food production. It shows how quite small groups can affect legislation that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692128725Author Joel AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Nuts & Bolts Contracting, LLCPublisher Nuts & Bolts Contracting,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578721026Author Blake ValeriusFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Blake ValeriusPublisher Blake ValeriusWeight(grams) 152g

Robert Taylor examines some of the most important personalities and events that shaped the Trades Union Congress during the twentieth century, from the General Strike of 1926 to the New Unionism of the 1990s. The study includes portraits of Walter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333386064Author Alastair HetheringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 439g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333374542Author Patricia M. HillebrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 306g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333321904Author Alan WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 296g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333132760Author Peter BohmFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 278g

Although Latin America had a substantial merchant fleet by the 1950s, at the end of the century most of the major shipping companies have disappeared from the continent. Continuing to grow through protectionist efforts during the 1960s and 1970s, the...

Following Frederick Jackson Turner's lead, most economic historians assume the West and its people were shaped by economic determinism. This study proposes a different path. The federal government, Malone claims, opened the frontier before waves of...

This book comes to terms with Marxism and its relationship to workers' self-management. David L. Prychitko offers a reinterpretation of Marx's vision of socialism by arguing that Marx's understanding of the praxis-nature of humankind led him to a utopian...

With rapidly expanding information sources available in libraries and on the internet, researchers delving into business history need to know what is useful and what is not. Together with the first two volumes of the Handbook of American Business...

The history of cut nail manufacturing shows how the interaction of technology and markets shaped the structure, organizational patterns, management systems, and individual production units of a single industry--a classic example of the American...

This study develops the calculus which, if used in selecting overseas projects, structuring international enterprises, and resolving operatonal problems, would reduce the area of conflict in business and become a more viable international concept.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313233388Author Melvin L. GreenhutFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book criticizes the static marginalist equilibrium method of analysis of the individual firm.Book InformationISBN 9780313230530Author P.W.S. AndrewsFormat HardbackPage Count 141Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The emerging markets have shifted rapidly from being the key growth points of the global auto industry in the mid 1990s, to being in crisis and recession at the end of the decade. This volume addresses three questions about the emerging markets and their...

For this book a distinguished team of economists and historians-R. W. Davies, Paul R. Gregory, Andrei Markevich, Mikhail Mukhin, Andrei Sokolov, and Mark Harrison-scoured formerly closed Soviet archives to discover how Stalin used rubles to make guns...

Over the past century, higher education in the United States has developed an increasingly powerful corporate ethos, as institutions compete for students, faculty, and funding. This book examines how the liberal democratic principles driving higher...

Most books on women entrepreneurs are either popular accounts of successful business women who started their own firms, or how-to books on the process of starting a business written for the woman reader. This current study brings together scholars with...

Development is necessary in all countries, not only the so called `underdeveloped' or `developed' countries. So begins this comparative analysis of agricultural growth and development around the world, not just in developing countries. Unique to this...

Following World War II, the U.S. manufacturing sector emerged as the dominant industrial force in the world in virtually all areas, including productivity, market share, innovations, and capital investments. Though other countries have caught up with and...

Non-Traditional Agriculture and Economic Development identifies the implications of Brazilian economic development of government support for rapid growth of non-traditional agricultural crops such as soybeans. The volume established a framework for the...

Nothing could be more valuable than creating a new paradigm in economics, particularly in the field of agricultural development. A notable example is T. W. Schultz's (1964) thesis regarding "efficient but poor" small-scale farmers in low-income...