Strategic Planning

With unequaled insight, business experts profile 12 outstanding, sustainable, small- to medium-sized enterprises and explain how their green strategies and methods have helped them succeed. A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for...

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This is a practical guide for CEOs and corporate managers who want to improve their ability to develop corporate strategy, chart the direction of their organization, and involve their key executives in the successful implementation of that strategy...

Are Small Firms Important? Their Role and Impact proposes and supports the claim that small firms make two indispensable contributions to the economy. First, they are an integral part of the renewal process that pervades market economies. New and small...

The costs of stress and ill-health to society are enormous. In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on workplace initiatives to reduce stress and improve individual resilience. This volume brings chief medical officers, leading health...

Emphasizing the need for businesses to take a proactive approach to media relations, examines methods and techniques used by executives to develop successful press relations. Marketing News Media relations is a hot topic on today's business agenda. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595338078Author Mark S TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 168g

A comparison of the development of the synthetic dye industry in Great Britain, Germany, and the US. The rise of this industry constitutes an important chapter in business, economic, and technological history because synthetic dyes - invented in 1857 -...

`I found myself questioning my current views on globalization and international competition. In so doing, I have come to a fuller understanding of the dynamics of the process and have enjoyed a unique view into the minds of the decision makers' -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990637455Author Sandhya JaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Sandhya JanePublisher Sandhya JaneWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957295889Author Corinne Michaela FlickFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Convoco EditionsPublisher Convoco EditionsWeight(grams) 181g

Knowledge management is a prerequisite to sustain a competitive advantage in project-based companies. However, in these companies and projects in general, activities like knowledge acquisition and sharing are often very complex tasks. This book presents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648018292Author James PatersonFormat HardbackImprint James Paterson AuthorPublisher James Paterson AuthorWeight(grams) 140g

Misbehaviour in organizations can be difficult for management to detect and correct, and as a consequence, the cost to organizations can be high. This book presents useful theories and empirical evidence that help to describe, explain, predict and...

"Business strategy is not rocket science. It's about using pertinent information to make smart decisions, and doing it fast enough to keep your business ahead of the curve. And while many companies have embraced the 24/7 business paradigm, their...

This book investigates how organizations can be designed for efficiency. Strategy, structure, boundaries and the governance of organizations are analyzed for any interdependencies within or between them and synthesised to a consistent system. Case...

The author describes the property rights that exist in different organizational forms and explains how these establish incentives for managerial decision behaviour. She compares the rights, incentives, and corresponding decision behaviour in for-profit,...

The third volume in a series of three focuses on myth in everyday organizational life. The mythical narratives presented in this volume serve as metaphors of an organizational issue that can take inspiration from or be better understood through the myth...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595356799Author Joe Y EngFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 744g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595375561Author Daniel S FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 95g

This book analyzes rapidly-growing world-class Spanish retail banks. It argues that their success is due to excellent management, clear-headed CEOs, the presence of a cluster of like-minded executives who complement each other and create a homogenous...

Managing Industrial Knowledge illuminates the complex processes at work in the creation and successful transfer of corporate knowledge. It is now generally recognized that the competitive advantages of firms depends on their ability to build, utilize and...

Reviewing the exisiting literature in the area of entrepreneurship strategy, this book explores the thinking of six strategic management scholars. Each chapter outlines the approach of each theorist, with an emphasis on the way entrepreneurial action...

This book outlines a number of different tools for mapping strategic knowledge, and thus making knowledge more accessible. Anne Sigismund Huff and Mark Jenkins have brought leading academics together in this work: - to provide informed analysis and...

Today's nonprofit organizations face an environment characterized by higher levels of competition for funding, clients and audiences, talent, and recognition. In addition, they confront greater pressures from donors, government, and the public to...

Research and development (R and D) leads to innovation, and innovation leads to technological change. Technological change, in turn, is the primary driver of economic growth. Public/private partnerships -- cooperative relationships among industry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999634615Author Whitney VosburghFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Wtf!Publisher Wtf!Weight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973224702Author Chris BartFormat PaperbackImprint Bart & Company Inc.Publisher Bart & Company Inc.Weight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595423149Author R Blake HendrixFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 277g

Over the last decade or so, aesthetic and art theory has played an increasingly significant role in the way work and its organization has come to be understood. Bringing together the work of an international spectrum of academics, this collection...

This volume is the first to show the influence that culture has on the success of TQM, and uses the case of Chinese companies operating in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to support the assertion that culture has a greater effect on TQM than has...

Multinationals can impact significantly on the quality of social relations within their communities, partly through corporate citizenship projects. This book analyzes the nature and effectiveness of these projects, using theoretical and empirical...

Strategy as Action presents an action plan for how firms can build, improve, and defend their competitive advantage at every stage of their life cycle. For start-up firms entering a market, it provides a model for exploiting competitve uncertainty and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873898096Author Jim BowieFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint ASQ Quality PressPublisher ASQ Quality Press

Using both established as well as more recent modes of inquiry, this book sheds new light on an increasingly important dimension of organizational cooperation and competition - that of knowledge and knowledge transfer. Based on research and practice, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369323521Author Bob JohansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 556Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 156g

Ronald J. Kudla and Thomas H. McInish explore the implications and advantages of the spin-off, a type of business divestiture which results in a new, separate, publicly held operating company. Using information from in-depth interviews with executives...

Storytelling in organizations is a notion that encompasses both the stories that the organization produces and the ones told by its members. It provides both an in-depth treatment of the literature on narratives, stories and storytelling and an extensive...

In a world where your intellectual property is your most valuable asset, patents are becoming an essential tool for achieving and maintaining a competitive edge. With billions of dollars at stake, companies are defending their patents vigorously;...