Small firms are highly important in terms of employment and in many countries are becoming more important in terms of job creation. Students, politicians, bankers and potential entrepreneurs need to know more about this important sector. This set synthesizes knowledge about small businesses by bringing together key seminal articles on the topic. It enables the reader to better understand why new firms are established and what makes some of them survive and grow. It is particularly concerned with issues influencing the financing of small firms. The selected material is from a variety of...
Small firms are highly important in terms of employment and in many countries are becoming more important in terms of job creation. Students, politici...
This set reprints key writings on different aspects of consumer psychology, encompassing both theoretical and empirical work. New introductions guide the reader through the material and place the scholarship in context.
This set reprints key writings on different aspects of consumer psychology, encompassing both theoretical and empirical work. New introductions guide ...
Corporate governance mechanisms are recognised as the critical fulcrum of business and management decision-making, with a deep impact not only upon corporate performance but economic prosperity and social well-being. Controversies in corporate governance have seized the public imagination concerning issues such as corporate collapse, executive compensation, the security of superannuation funds, and mergers and takeovers. Corporate governance is a relatively new field, but has now moved from the margins to the mainstream of business and management education. However, discovering the origins...
Corporate governance mechanisms are recognised as the critical fulcrum of business and management decision-making, with a deep impact not only upon co...
This work gathers together articles by leading British, Chinese and Japanese scholars on the mechanisms at work in Chinese business practices, both within China and in other countries. The topics covered include: * the role of family and lineage * business organization * networks * business and foreign multinationals * technology * business and the state Chinese Business Enterprise is an authoritative source which offers a comprehensive coverage of subjects. Where relevant it draws on anthropological, sociological and historical sources to account for current...
This work gathers together articles by leading British, Chinese and Japanese scholars on the mechanisms at work in Chinese business practices, both wi...
An increasing amount of business is taking place across national borders making it more important than ever that managers and students of management come to terms with the variety of organizational structures and management behaviours that prevail across the globe. This book makes this process easier by reproducing the most insightful and influential papers in this area. It includes important articles on principles and methods of comparative management as well as a wide range of country based studies. The collection covers North America, Europe, Asia and the developing world and includes...
An increasing amount of business is taking place across national borders making it more important than ever that managers and students of management c...
This collection brings together some of the most influential writings of the 1970s and 1990s, and major recent publications on current and future directions in the field. "Classics" and important contemporary articles trace the evolution of research on Japanese business over 25 years. This comprehensive set is particularly strong in the area of Japanese management, both in Japan and overseas. It forms an invaluable reference tool, both for practitioners and researchers into the Japanese business phenomenon.This collection includes: * classic articles from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s;...
This collection brings together some of the most influential writings of the 1970s and 1990s, and major recent publications on current and future dire...
In the twentieth century, the United States emerged as the world's largest and most powerful economy. Understanding the evolution, organization and performance of the American corporate enterprise in this period is an indispensable foundation for understanding the evolution, organization, and performance of not only the US economy but also of the global economy. The readings collected in these four volumes examine the evolution, operation and performance of the American corporate enterprise and of the American corporate economy more generally. Many of the readings provide broad overviews...
In the twentieth century, the United States emerged as the world's largest and most powerful economy. Understanding the evolution, organization and pe...
This collection sets out many of the contributions to the theoretical, conceptual and critical advance of the academic subject of human resource management. This has become recognized as an emergent disciplinary field in which theories and models are generated and their propositions tested by rigorous empirical research. It has also become increasingly international in its outlook. This comprehensive set explores the following themes: origins, developments and critical analyses; comparative and international perspectives on human resource management; strategic human resource management; and...
This collection sets out many of the contributions to the theoretical, conceptual and critical advance of the academic subject of human resource manag...
Firms have for a long time been part of the explanatory set-up of economics. However, it is only recently that economists have felt the need for an economic theory addressing: * why firms are different * why firms exist * what determines their boundaries relative to 'the market' * what determines their internal organization. This collection documents the rise of the modern theory of the firm during the last two to three decades. It reprints classic writings from a diversity of perspectives, including not only contractual theories of the firm, but also knowledge-based theories...
Firms have for a long time been part of the explanatory set-up of economics. However, it is only recently that economists have felt the need for an ec...
This collection represents around 80 articles, drawn from the social sciences generally as well as organization studies specifically. It is divided into four volumes: Volume 1 Modes of Management seeks to invert conventional approaches to managing; Volume 2 Objectivity and Others focuses upon issues of epistemology; Volume 3 Selves and Subjects investigates areas hidden from orthodox organization studies; Volume 4 Evil Empires? looks at the damaging effects of large organizations upon the lives of people.
This collection represents around 80 articles, drawn from the social sciences generally as well as organization studies specifically. It is divided in...
