Management

Building upon the work of Donald Schon, this edited collection expands the research into the idea of the reflexive practice - understanding how to create better solution-oriented practices for business during turbulent and chaotic situations.Book...

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This book is for those who want their company to prevail in the coming post-petroleum era. Using charts, diagrams, tables, and checklists, the book's principal aim is to make understandable to senior and middle managers issues surrounding the search for...

How are the new electronic technologies transforming business here and abroad - indeed, the entire world economy - and what new strategies must business develop to meet the challenges of this transformation? Economist, writer, and communications...

Mass production is on its way out, according to Glenn Bassett, and is being replaced by a project shop economy. In a visionary book that is both theoretical and practical Bassett examines the factors turning our economy back to the short-run production...

The comprehensive guide to all the essential legal and business considerations in structuring domestic and international strategic business alliances. Readers are provided with a clear and concise introduction to the various domestic and international...

Redefining Financial Services explores the fundamental redefinition of the role of financial intermediaries in the new century. Combining empirical knowledge with a historical approach, the author reveals that seven centuries of advances in technology...

The high profile leaps and falls of the share prices of dot.com enterprises have highlighted not only the enormous opportunities but also the perils of starting an e-business. kick-starter.com is the definitive guide by Andersen Consulting and other...

The business world has been changing at a faster rate than before and has become more complex and interdependent. This has given rise to greater opportunities for new business platforms and growth, but the need for new understanding of this complexity...

Written by the world's leading academics in the outsourcing field, this books gives the most recent overview of developments in research and practice. It focuses on new practices in innovation, offshoring, onshoring, capabilities, project management and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759683112Author Larry WennikFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759640863Author Larry L. OsbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 222g

Managers and National Culture primarily looks at the role of managers in private-sector companies in fifteen advanced and newly industrializing nations throughout the world: the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Russia, Poland,...

The authors examine the reasons for the problems currently afflicting corporate America, particularly the loss of global competitive advantage, and review the track record of traditional strategic planning and portfolio management. The problems of recent...

A structural overview of the new field of management geography including globalization, embeddedness of MNEs, networking, hybridization, regional economies, technology, acculturation, internationalization, IHRM and implications for management and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870947049Author J.D. CarterFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint McGraw-Hill Inc.,USPublisher McGraw-Hill Education - EuropeWeight(grams) 896g

This unique volume sets forth a managerial paradigm for helping companies to compete and prosper in a global market that is increasingly dominated by Japan, Germany and the emerging EEC. While emphasis on short-term profitability has been widely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980011838Author Yuval Bar-OrFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Light Brigade Corp.Publisher Light Brigade Corp.Weight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615329390Author Michael A DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Flywheel Effect PublishingPublisher Flywheel Effect PublishingWeight(grams) 313g

Big business is often seen as the villain in terms of the environment or social wellbeing. But some leading businesses are becoming leaders in the fight against climate change and protectors of human rights. This book explains why this is now a core part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989822992Author Mike EttoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Fidelis Leadership Group, LLCPublisher Fidelis Leadership Group, LLCWeight(grams) 268g

This book deals with the organizational use of aesthetic means. Based on the idea that organizations are systems of communication, it is shown that consciously or not, organizations have always used aesthetic means to reinforce their communication.Book...

There are many books on strategy. The specific purpose of this book is to give a concise and portable guide to the essential elements of successful strategy. The readers will be able to improve the quality and content of their own strategies and thus...

All too often, books on accounting are written for accountants. In this unique book, accounting is used as a means, not as an end unto itself. Heely and Nersesian have written a guide for managers of multinational companies who wish to better understand...

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By analysing the rationales for sustainability strategies, this book addresses a timely question for managers, academics and MBAs: 'when does it pay to be green?' Based on solid theoretical foundations and empirical research, it clarifies the elements...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446678483Author Gerald GreenwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Business PlusPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 310g

Attempting to overcome distance and cultural differences in accomplishing common goals, this guide shows how certain companies have turned their international into a competitive advantage. It looks at how to implement productive cross-functional and...

In a timely and important contribution to the management literature, Louis Nevaer and Steven Deck take a careful, critical look at the various forms of corporate restructurings prevalent today-alliances, mergers, and acquisitions-and at their long-term...

To beat your competitors you must know exactly what they are doing. It is impossible to put together a successful competitive strategy if you are unsure what your competitors are doing, what they plan to do or even who your competitors really are. As...

For all of the technical explanations for meltdown in the financial markets during the banking crisis, the most readily accepted and almost universal explanation is the single word 'greed'. This is a subject which can at once be seen as the disease at...

What does global justice look like, and how can leadership help get us there? The contributors explore justice in various spheres: citizenship, the marketplace, health, education, and the environment. And they provide creative and constructive moral...

De Lange suggests a new contextually linked building block model to develop theories of the firm in the field of strategy and organizations. Using this approach, she proposes two models: one that is a realistic American version and another that is a...

This book brings together the stories and ideas of the future from a survey of nearly 300 emerging leaders to get their points of view and thoughts about how organizations need to change in order to develop effective leaders of tomorrow.Book...

This book presents an analytical framework for understanding how governments develop policies of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The research analyses CSR public policies in 15 European Union countries, and it defines four models of governmental...

This book describes the challenges facing charities, explains how they must reassess their commitment, and pushes charities to be their best. It also examines how two sectors of society - business and government - would benefit from a similar corrective...

The authors present a new approach to leadership based on findings from complexity science. Integrating real case studies with rigorous research results, they explore the biggest challenges being faced in fast-paced organizations, and provide a host of...

This book, a collection of essays from scholars across disciplines, explores leadership of discovery, probing the guided and collaborative exploration and interpretation of the experience of our inner thoughts and feelings, and of our external worlds...

The internet has changed the way consumers interact with companies. Businesses must maintain good levels of customer service in a digital world where old strategies may no longer suffice. This book explores what the successful compliance-centred...

Strategic management makes a difference to the performance of public organizations. This book demonstrates that the most appropriate response is 'it all depends': on which aspects of strategy content and processes are pursued together, and how these are...