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Hotel Security Management by Harvey Burstein 9780275900694
$109.12This updated volume considers all aspects of security management in the lodging industry. The author provides a comprehensive background on hotel management security problems including security factors in the design and construction of hotels and motels,... -
Managing Public Enterprises by W. T. Stanbury 9780275909093
$163.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275909093Author W. T. StanburyFormat HardbackPage Count 301Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
The Multinational Corporation in the 1980s by Charles Poor Kindleberger 9780262610445
$55.63This collection of essays addresses the vital question of how much the theory of direct foreign investment - developed a decade ago before many drastic changes took place on the international economic scene - still holds. Grouped in five major sections,... -
The Future of the Electronic Marketplace by Derek Leebaert 9780262621328
$55.63The electronic marketplace is a global one, and it's changing every aspect of the consumer-vendor relathionship. The marketplace is the place of exchange between buyer and seller. Once one rode a mule to get there; now one rides the Internet. An... -
Ecosystem Succession: A General Hypothesis and a Test Model of a Grassland by Luis T. Gutierrez 9780262571845
RRP: $48.75$36.08Natural ecosystems such as lakes, grasslands, and forests undergo succession from their early stages of development to maturity, when the community of plants and animals achieves a condition of equilibrium with its physical environment. Because... -
Games Businesses Play: Cases and Models by Pankaj Ghemawat 9780262525534
$69.50Game theory has come to dominate industrial organization economics, but business strategists continue to debate its usefulness. So far, empirical work on the application of game theory to business strategy has been too limited to force a consensus. As a... -
Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930 by David E. Nye 9780262524995
$69.50By viewing the corporation as a communicator, Image Worlds links the histories of labor, business, consumption, engineering, and photography, providing a new perspective on one of the largest and most representative corporations. General Electric was one... -
Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Managers, and Investors Manage Risk in High-Tech Innovations by Lewis M. Branscomb 9780262524193
RRP: $37.03$29.72Lewis Branscomb and Philip Auerswald address early-stage, high-tech innovation in the context of business decision making and innovation policy. How do technology innovators, business executives, and venture capitalists manage the technical elements of... -
Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research by Erik Brynjolfsson 9780262523301
$72.44The rapid growth of electronic commerce, along with changes in information, computing, and communications, is having a profound effect on the United States economy. President Clinton recently directed the National Economic Council, in consultation with... -
Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future by Thomas A. Kochan 9780262527675
$54.85The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges. The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical... -
The Dangerous Book for Ceos by Padraig Berry 9780244121426
$39.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244121426Author Padraig BerryFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint OnefocusPublisher OnefocusWeight(grams) 581g -
University Leadership: Approaches, Formation and Challenges in Europe by Michael O'Mullane 9780230314030
RRP: $87.73$87.69Using a platform of substantial theories and applications, this book explores approaches taken to university leadership, how leadership is formed, and challenges that leadership of universities experiences within the context of Europe.Book... -
The High Engagement Work Culture: Balancing Me and We by D. Bowles 9780230304499
RRP: $87.73$87.69The 2008 crisis set off a systemic panic which almost engulfed the world's financial system. Through a lens of sustainability this book examines how organisations can explore a new business culture today. Drawing from real-life examples and new ideas... -
Environmental Innovation and Firm Performance: A Natural Resource-Based View by Javier Amores Salvado 9780230363472
RRP: $87.73$87.69The links between a firm's competitiveness and the natural environment have been studied since the mid 90's. This volume explores, both theoretically and empirically, the relationships between environmental product innovation, green image and firm... -
Social Enterprises: An Organizational Perspective by Benjamin Gidron 9780230358799
RRP: $175.48$175.25Presents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and to begin to formulate some theoretical constructs on how these... -
Decision-Making in an Organizational Context: Beyond Economic Criteria by Josep Maria Rosanas 9780230297920
RRP: $87.73$87.69Illustrates how decision-making in organizations has to go beyond economic criteria and the individual level, due to the impossibility of making decisions that do not affect other human beings. The author reviews the conventional analyses of... -
Trans-Cultural Leadership for Transformation by Isabelle Derungs-Ruhier 9780230280939
RRP: $175.48$175.25Challenging and innovative in its approach this book explores leadership development on many different levels in an era of internationalization when societies and organizations are becoming increasingly multicultural and undergoing many changes. The... -
Learning Regional Innovation: Scandinavian Models by Marianne Ekman 9780230275607
RRP: $175.48$175.25Participation and social responsibility in innovation is the core theme of this book. Both are issues of organization and not of ethics, or the enforcement of other forms of obligations on individual actors. The need is for a democratization of... -
Ethical Leadership: Global Challenges and Perspectives by Carla Millar 9780230275461
RRP: $175.48$175.25Presents analysis, examples, and ideas about the future in a lively yet academically robust format. The book presents the ethical leadership dilemmas of day-to-day international business life in all their complexity, providing a range of angles, options... -
Network Strategies for Regional Growth by Martin Johanson 9780230273306
RRP: $87.73$87.69In many regions the current focus of the state is to initiate and stimulate the emergence of inter-firm networks in order to produce growth. This book takes a management perspective on the operations and processes in these networks and describes and... -
Humanistic Ethics in the Age of Globality by Claus Dierksmeier 9780230273276
RRP: $87.73$87.69Cultures and moral expectations differ around the globe, and so the management of corporate responsibilities has become increasingly complex. Is there, however, a humanistic consensus that can bridge cultural and ethnic divides and reconcile the diverse... -
Building the Team Organization: How To Open Minds, Resolve Conflict, and Ensure Cooperation by Dean Tjosvold 9780230247123
RRP: $87.73$87.69Interdependence is a basic characteristic of organizations, yet it is only recently that managers, professionals, and employees have begun to appreciate that organizational success depends upon teamwork. This book provides managers, professionals, and... -
Business at a Crossroads: The Crisis of Corporate Leadership by Tom Lloyd 9780230230941
$70.59Recent events suggest liberal capitalism harbours two dangerous seeds of self-destruction; growing inequality and a tendency for markets to spiral out of control. This book advocates the restoration to an earlier state of another sub-system of liberal... -
The New Operational Culture: The Case of the Theatre Industry by Beatriz Munoz-Seca 9780230220966
RRP: $87.73$87.69Imparting experiences from the theatre world to show how to manage operations in the 21st century, this book provides the key ideas necessary to implement a new operational culture that will lead to excellence in service. This is a must read for... -
Values and Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship by Jeffrey Robinson 9780230216686
RRP: $175.48$175.25Over the past few years social entrepreneurship has grown as a research field. In this 3rd volume in the series, contributions explore questions of values in social entrepreneurship as well as the identification and exploitation of social venturing... -
Strategies of Multinationals in Central and Eastern Europe: Innovation Systems and Embeddedness by Yordanka Chobanova 9780230230552
RRP: $87.73$87.69The focus of the study is on the larger food processing companies, which invested in Central and Eastern Europe - namely Nestle, Unilever and InBev - and analyses the motives of investment and the entry strategies of food MNEs, outlines their... -
Toward Integrative Corporate Citizenship: Research Advances in Corporate Social Performance by Marc Orlitzky 9780230201873
RRP: $87.73$87.69Given the increased impact of non-market forces on business reputation, there has never been a greater need to grasp corporate social performance. This book demonstrates that a holistic perspective on corporate citizenship that accommodates the... -
How to Choose and Use Advisors: Getting the Best Professional Family Business Advice by Craig E. Aronoff 9780230111042
RRP: $44.83$29.70In How to Choose and Use Advisors , authors Aronoff and Ward establish benchmarks for excellent advisory services and they show business owners how to benefit from advice ranging from legal and financial to executive search and organizational development... -
People-Centred Businesses: Co-operatives, Mutuals and the Idea of Membership by Johnston Birchall 9780230217188
RRP: $87.73$87.69So what is a member-owned business? What does it look like? How can we distinguish it from an investor-owned business? The crucial distinction is between a business that is people-centred, and one that is money-centred. This book explores the growing... -
Managing Climate Change Business Risks and Consequences: Leadership for Global Sustainability by James A. F. Stoner 9780230115835
RRP: $175.48$175.25Although the title of this volume and its major focus will be on one major aspect of global sustainability - climate change - this volume continues with the overall framing of the series: global sustainability is a multi-faceted, global,... -
Creative Cost-Benefits Reinvention: How to Reverse Commoditization Hell in the Age of Customer Capitalism by Christian Dussart 9780230105300
RRP: $87.73$87.69This book puts the commoditization phenomenon under the microscope, laying out an economic analysis, followed by solutions and strategic recommendations. Using concrete examples this book will help to change businesses approach by acting not only on the... -
Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt. Everest Disaster by D. Christopher Kayes 9780230003323
RRP: $87.73$87.69Leaders extol the value of pursuing challenging goals, but evidence suggests that this leads to disaster as often as success. Drawing upon real-life stories, including the Mount Everest Climbing Disaster, the author shows how destructive goal pursuit can... -
Managing by Values: A Corporate Guide to Living, Being Alive, and Making a Living in the 21st Century by Simon L. Dolan 9780230000261
RRP: $97.48$85.82This book develops a new framework, Management by Values (MBV), for strategic and competitive advantage. Through its step-by-step guide to implementation, it serves as a necessary strategic leadership tool whose practical application will mine market... -
The Relational Economy: Geographies of Knowing and Learning by Harald Bathelt 9780199587391
RRP: $97.48$82.35How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? What are the new geographies emerging from the need to create, access, and share knowledge, and sustain competitiveness? In what... -
Digital Government at Work: A Social Informatics Perspective by Ian McLoughlin 9780199557721
RRP: $214.50$155.84Over the past decade, putting public services on-line has been a focus of huge policy and financial investments aimed at providing more joined-up service delivery. For some this is part of a transformation that is bringing about a new era of integrated... -
Authenticity and the Cultural Politics of Work: New Forms of Informal Control by Peter Fleming 9780199547159
RRP: $258.38$196.85The 'personal' was once something to be put to one side in the work place: a 'professional manner' entailed the suppression of private life and feelings. Now many large corporations can be found exhorting their employees to simply be themselves. This... -
The Dynamic Firm: The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization and Regions by Alfred Dupont Chandler 9780198296041
RRP: $187.20$158.79Business Strategy is becoming increasingly 'pluralist', drawing on the insights of different disciplines, and business practice in different parts of the world. This book brings together the work and ideas of leading international scholars working in the... -
Creating Value with Knowledge: Insights from the IBM Institute for Business Value by Eric Lesser 9780195165128
RRP: $85.78$63.90The mid-1990s saw the rise of an important movement: a recognition that organizational knowledge, in its various forms and attributes, could be an important source of competitive advantage in the marketplace. Knowledge management has become one of the... -
The Thinking Manager's Toolbox: Effective Processes for Problem Solving and Decision Making by William J. Altier 9780195131963
RRP: $55.56$39.00In this indispensable book, a widely experienced business consultant provides a complete set of analytical tools essential to successful trouble-shooting, effective planning, and making better decisions faster, more confidently, and more often. How can... -
Organizational Learning Capability by Arthur K. Yeung 9780195102048
RRP: $169.65$140.73Organizational learning matters now more than ever. In today's hypercompetitive business environment, successful executives must be able to discover opportunities, face problems, and pursue innovative ideas - then turn those ideas into action throughout...