Alfred D. Chandler (1918 2007) was the founder of modern business history. He was a critical early influence on strategic management and is famous for the dictum that structure follows strategy . This two-volume collection, a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Evaluations in Business and Management, gathers together the key journal articles and other vital research on Chandler to enable students and scholars to explore fully the impact of his ideas.

Together with an extensive annotated bibliography and a full index, the collection has a comprehensive...

A new Routledge Major Work, this is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research in the field of ecological economics.

Chapters address each stage of developing an aquaculture business, including...

The book draws on the extensive research into private landlords conducted by the authors over the past two decades. This...

The Warren Buffetts Next Door profiles previously unknown investors, with legendary performance records, who are proving every day that you don't need to work for a hedge fund or have an Ivy League diploma to consistently beat the best performing Wall Street professionals.

These amazing individuals come from all walks of life, from a globe drifting college dropout and a retired disc jockey to a computer room geek and a truck driver. Their methods vary from technical trading and...

Ray Lucia's The Buckets of Money Retirement Solution: The Ultimate Guide to Income for Life provides just that--a reassuring and scientifically proven strategy that gives investors both growth and income.

Lucia, a Certified Financial Planner who's helped thousands of people invest more than $2 billion, explains how to spend down 'safe' buckets...

Strategic Global Sourcing Best Practices covers the latest trends and leading edge processes in global strategic sourcing, including supply management, t, sustainability, financial decisions, risk management, and international strategies.

• Offers the latest trends and guidance for sourcing and supply managers
• Features coverage of understanding sourcing, procurement and supply management, procurement and best business practices,...

Tourism Research, second edition, introduces the concept of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research methodologies associated with tourism. It also considers indigenous and...

Praise for The Nonprofit Organizational Culture Guide

"This is an important book for consultants and managers who work with nonprofit organizations. The Nonprofit Organizational Culture Guide lays out basic theory about how nonprofits come to be and how they operate, and it demonstrates how important the concept of culture is to understanding this important sector of our society." --Edgar H. Schein, professor of management, emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management

"This book is a must-read for nonprofit executives The authors spell out the themes, beliefs, and assumptions...

For over a decade, The New Wealth Management: The Financial Advisor's Guide to Managing and Investing Client Assets has provided financial planners with detailed, step-by-step guidance on developing an optimal asset allocation policy for their clients. And, it did so without resorting to simplistic model portfolios, such as lifecycle models or black box solutions. Today, while The New Wealth Management still provides a thorough background on investment theories, and includes many...

• Helps to answer the question: which risk measure is best for a given problem?
• Finds new relations between existing classes of risk measures
• Describes applications in finance and extends them where possible
• Presents the theory of probability metrics in a more accessible form which would be appropriate for non-specialists in the field
• Applications include optimal...

Filled with pragmatic insights and proactive strategies, The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Third Edition is destined to become your essential desktop companion. This thorough guidebook is filled with best practices to help you, as CFO, to improve efficiency, mitigate risks, and keep your organization competitive.

• Includes updated information on the relationship of the CFO with the Treasurer, registration statements and Fedwire payments,...

WE'VE ALL EXPERIENCED the challenges associated with working with groups, but The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups turns the idea of "difficult groups" on its head. Rather than view groups as inherently difficult, it looks at the factors that make working with groups difficult. Individual chapters focus on challenges such as involving dissenters, building external perspectives, reducing complaining, adapting to cultural differences, incorporating diversity, facilitating inclusion, working virtually, resolving identity-based conflict, transforming unproductive behavior...

A stellar cast of the world's foremost leadership gurus comes together in one place to offer their thoughts on leadership in the new economy. Edited by renowned leadership expert Warren Bennis, the book addresses issues that Bennis identifies as the ones that "keep CEOs up at night," including why we tolerate bad leaders, why leadership is everyone's business, and how ethics will play into new leadership. With contributions from Charles Handy, Tom Peters,...