Management

The 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...

Given 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...

In 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...

So 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...

Although 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,...

This 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...

Leaders 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...

This 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...

How 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...

Over 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...

The '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...

Business 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...

The 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...

In 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 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...

US manufacturing is today in a critical period. As a consequence of new global competitors, changes in technologies, and significant shifts in national priorities, our manufacturing base has shrunk alarmingly and thousands of manufacturing jobs have been...

This book is about the inner workings of an administrative system in the public sector, and is a study of what managers actually do. It looks at why they act in the ways they do, what influences their focus of attention, which issues or people within an...

The survey of the field of management begins with Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, who failed to create a successful business based on it, and ends with Peter Drucker, who is probably the most respected management thinker in America today, but...

This book is the first comprehensive view, based on hard evidence, of how the role of managers in organizations is changing. The business press is full of stories about managers as an endangered species. Though there is some truth to this, the actual...

Corporate governance is a subject of high academic and practical significance in contemporary business. The book determines and analyzes the relationship between corporate governance and the value of a firm in emerging and developed financial markets by...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780071735865Author Brian JoinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint McGraw-HillPublisher McGraw-HillWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780071590129Author Vivek RanadiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint McGraw-Hill/Osborne MediaPublisher McGraw-Hill/Osborne MediaWeight(grams) 318g

The author of this book believes passionately in the National Health Service and through his work offers the government recommendations for how its reform process can be saved from failure. The NHS will only survive and be true to its founding principles...

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This new practical guide explains what makes a crisis and who are the key players. It shows the importance of prior preparation and testing so that the company fully understands the crisis management environment and the importance of communications. Also...

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While you can't personally transform the corporate culture, you can influence the workplace climate and create meaningful and lasting change. Supported by the latest research, this eye-opening book argues that our best work is the product of a positive...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789058231024Author Margaret AlstonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 567g

This engaging student book covers the principal learning at Level 2 and provides a variety of differentiated activities designed to encourage individual learners to apply their skills and knowledge to real-life settings. Brings the workplace alive with...

The AQA Business Studies AS second edition supports the the specification for examination from 2014 with new and updated content. New case studies to illustrate key points with practice questions to build confidence and skills. 'Setting the scene'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780550207142Author Richard WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ChambersPublisher Chambers

This is a collection of articles and essays with a unifying theme - the challenges of tomorrow that face the executive today. The book not only aims at providing and promoting knowledge, insight, foresight and competence - it aims at creating a vision...

If you've ever wondered what makes some people excel effortlessly at everything they do and why others languish forever in middle-management, executive coach Blaire Palmer explains all in The Recipe for Success. Drawing on the insights of the UK's top...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907765872Author Roy HedgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lawpack Publishing LtdPublisher Lawpack Publishing Ltd

Andrew Gillespie has established a well-earned reputation as an examiner and author in Business Studies. In this exciting new book he summarises a number of A Level topics and engages the reader in a series of exercises designed to test knowledge and...

Most organizations - public, private and third sector - know they need to offer better leadership. But, in trying to do so, they too often look in the wrong place. Experience tells us that even heroic leaders are no better than the systems they work in...

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