The Global Challenge for Multinational Enterprises: Managing Increasing Interdependence
ISBN: 9780080435848 / Angielski / Twarda / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the relationship between multinational firms and emerging markets, a relationship which has changed profoundly in the period from the 1950's to the late 1990's. Governments and multinational firms have moved from a situation of conflict to one where government policies were seen as a constraint on the activities of MNE's, and finally to an era of cooperation. This relationship has been reflected in (and driven by) academic writing on the subject, of which this book is a selection of the best examples. The readings in part one show how the critical conflictual elements of...
This book examines the relationship between multinational firms and emerging markets, a relationship which has changed profoundly in the period from t...
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569,90 zł |
The New World Order: Internationalism, Regionalism and the Multinational Corporations
ISBN: 9780080436289 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardbound. As the new millennium dawns, a new world order is taking shape. The political environment in which the global economy has to function is finally recovering from the bewilderment which followed the collapse of the bipolar system which had, in turn, come into being after World War Two. The aim of this book is to provide a discussion of the new world order as manifested by some of the changes which dominate the arena, specifically the dichotomy of concurrent attempts at globalization and regionalization of international trade and financial issues.The book is organized into four parts....
Hardbound. As the new millennium dawns, a new world order is taking shape. The political environment in which the global economy has to function is fi...
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972,45 zł |
Japanese Multinational Companies: Management and Investment Strategies
ISBN: 9780080436296 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardbound. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the management and investment strategies of Japanese multinational companies, examining foreign investment from a Japanese perspective by studying international business practices and the behaviour of multinational companies in the global environment. Beginning with an overview of recent trends in international capital flows and the role of international mergers and acquisitions, it describes the global environment for Japanese multinational companies as it affects Japanese foreign direct investment, as well as the impact of Japanese...
Hardbound. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the management and investment strategies of Japanese multinational companies, examining foreign ...
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873,45 zł |
Compost Science and Technology
ISBN: 9780080439600 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Composting is a widely used biological process for the management of some wastes produced in communities and agricultural activities, which have experienced substantial growth during the last few years. Because this and the knowledge of composting has increased, the number of composting facilities has increased tremendously, especially in some European countries. Interest has also increased in several countries in other regions of the world. Compost Science and Technology attempts to summarize some of the most important work conducted during the last few years under one cover. The...
Composting is a widely used biological process for the management of some wastes produced in communities and agricultural activities, which have exper...
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835,83 zł |
Accounting for Improvement
ISBN: 9780080446080 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Accounting for Improvement" offers concrete and constructive demonstrations of the possibilities of designing participative forms of organization. Field experiment cases illustrate how the operational level can assume a new significance in competitiveness and strategic positioning. In this way, the relevance of the accounting function to the improvement of productivity and quality is restored. Several broadly applicable lessons can be learnt, among them: how companies can strengthen their competitive base by patient improvement; how people with operative jobs can take command of their work...
"Accounting for Improvement" offers concrete and constructive demonstrations of the possibilities of designing participative forms of organization. Fi...
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510,57 zł |
Management of Technology: Key Success Factors for Innovation and Sustainable Development - Selected Papers from the Twelfth International Conference on Management of Technology
ISBN: 9780080446493 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 12th International Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) held in March 2002 in Nancy, France, focused on "Innovation and Sustainable Development." These conferences present a unique opportunity to exchange best practice while debating new concepts of managing innovation, technology and R&D. IAMOT remains a major scientific forum where leading researchers and practitioners meet. This book represents a selection of the best contributions presented in Nancy.
The 12th International Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) held in March 2002 in Nancy, France, focused o...
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1240,32 zł |
Corporate and Institutional Transparency for Economic Growth in Europe
ISBN: 9780080446653 / Angielski / Twarda / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transparency has in recent years become a buzzword in the economic-political debate about prospects for economic growth in general and for Europe in particular. A number of events, trends, and developments for example the East-Asian financial crisis, a series of corporate governance scandals in the United States and in Europe, the introduction of the euro as a common currency in part of the European Union, a global trend toward politically independent central banks, growing attention to environmental issues, and attempts to reform the governance structures of supranational and multilateral...
Transparency has in recent years become a buzzword in the economic-political debate about prospects for economic growth in general and for Europe in p...
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949,16 zł |
The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
ISBN: 9780123724991 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence presents an A-to-Z approach for getting the most business intelligence (BI) from a company's data assets or data warehouse. BI is not just a technology or methodology, it is a powerful new management approach that - when done right - can deliver knowledge, efficiency, better decisions, and profit to almost any organization that uses it. When BI first came on the scene, it promised a lot but often failed to deliver. The missing element was the business-centric focus explained in this book. It shows how you can achieve the... The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence presents an A-to-Z approach for getting the most business intelligence (BI) from a company's data... |
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A Second Course in Stochastic Processes
ISBN: 9780123986504 / Angielski / Twarda / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Second Course continues the development of the theory and applications of stochastic processes as promised in the preface of
A First Course. We emphasize a careful treatment of basic structures in stochastic processes in symbiosis with the analysis of natural classes of stochastic processes arising from the biological, physical, and social sciences. This Second Course continues the development of the theory and applications of stochastic processes as promised in the preface of
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499,35 zł |
Evaluation of Industrial Disability: Prepared by the Committee of the California Medical Association and Industrial Accident Commission of the State o
ISBN: 9780195011432 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This concise, practical manual offers invaluable guidance for both professional and lay use in determination of accidental joint damage. The result of a California study, the original edition won wide acceptance in many other states as well.
This concise, practical manual offers invaluable guidance for both professional and lay use in determination of accidental joint damage. The result of...
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185,54 zł |
Population Dynamics: A New Economic Approach
ISBN: 9780195121582 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Population Dynamics fills the gap between the classical supply-side population theory of Malthus and the modern demand-side theory of economic demography. In doing so, author Cyrus Chu investigates specifically the dynamic macro implications of various static micro family economic decisions. Holding the characteristic composition of the macro population to always be an aggregate result of some corresponding individual micro decision, Chu extends his research on the fertility-related decisions of families to an analysis of other economic determinations. Within this framework, Chu...
Population Dynamics fills the gap between the classical supply-side population theory of Malthus and the modern demand-side theory of economi...
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300,13 zł |
The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy, and Power in Colonial Bengal
ISBN: 9780195139020 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of the Bengali Kartabhaja sect and its place in the broader movement of Tantrism, an Indian religious movement employing purposely shocking sexual language and rituals. Urban looks closely at the relationship between the rise of the Kartabhajas, who flourished at the turn of the 19th century, and the changing economic context of colonial Bengal. Made up of the poor lower classes laboring in the marketplaces and factories of Calcutta, the Kartabhajas represent "the underworld of the imperial city." Urban shows that their esoteric poetry and songs are in fact saturated with the...
This is a study of the Bengali Kartabhaja sect and its place in the broader movement of Tantrism, an Indian religious movement employing purposely sho...
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753,32 zł |
Incentives and Political Economy
ISBN: 9780199248681 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Laffont examines the incentive problems created by delegating economic policy to self-interested politicians and the blurry line between flexibility of decision-making and discretion to pursue personal agendas.
Laffont examines the incentive problems created by delegating economic policy to self-interested politicians and the blurry line between flexibility o...
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315,07 zł |
Geography and Retailing
ISBN: 9780202309460 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important contribution to our understanding of the distribution of retail activities, particularly within cities, this book provides a critical review of the literature on the subject. It points out the major general propositions concerning retailing from the geographical point of view, and identifies key research problems, which need to be examined in order to push forward the frontiers of this sub field of economic geography. It presents a major critique of the central-place model, which has come to hold an important place in the methodology of economic geography, and clearly and...
An important contribution to our understanding of the distribution of retail activities, particularly within cities, this book provides a critical rev...
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231,25 zł |
Ethik im chinesischen Sozialsystem
ISBN: 9783639486889 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Infinite-Dimensional Optimization and Convexity
ISBN: 9780226199887 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume, Ekeland and Turnbull are mainly concerned with existence theory. They seek to determine whether, when given an optimization problem consisting of minimizing a functional over some feasible set, an optimal solution-a minimizer-may be found.
In this volume, Ekeland and Turnbull are mainly concerned with existence theory. They seek to determine whether, when given an optimization problem co...
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The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy: The Economics and Politics of Institutional Change
ISBN: 9780226401713 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The call to "reinvent government"-to reform the government bureaucracy of the United States-resonates as loudly from elected officials as from the public. Examining the political and economic forces that have shaped the American civil service system from its beginnings in 1883 through today, the authors of this volume explain why, despite attempts at an overhaul, significant change in the bureaucracy remains a formidable challenge.
The call to "reinvent government"-to reform the government bureaucracy of the United States-resonates as loudly from elected officials as from the pub...
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Competition and Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 9780226437767 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stressing verbal logic rather than mathematics, Israel M. Kirzner provides at once a thorough critique of contemporary price theory, an essay on the theory of entrepreneurship, and an essay on the theory of competition. Competition and Entrepreneurship offers a new appraisal of quality competition, of selling effort, and of the fundamental weaknesses of contemporary welfare economics.
Kirzner's book establishes a theory of the market and the price system which differs from orthodox price theory. He sees orthodox price theory as explaining the configuration of prices and quantities... Stressing verbal logic rather than mathematics, Israel M. Kirzner provides at once a thorough critique of contemporary price theory, an essay on the t...
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149,40 zł |
The Organization of Interests: Incentives and the Internal Dynamics of Political Interest Groups
ISBN: 9780226533537 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Criticisms of Mancur Olson's theory of group membership and organizational behavior and discussions of the limits of his formulations are not new, but Terry Moe has set them forth in thoroughgoing fashion, has elaborated and extended them, and has made positive new contributions. The result is a book that is valuable and constructive, one that may well revive interest in the systematic study of political groups." David B. Truman, "American Political Science Review
" ""The Organization of Interests" is a valuable addition to the literature. It reminds us that the interior life of groups... "Criticisms of Mancur Olson's theory of group membership and organizational behavior and discussions of the limits of his formulations are not new, bu...
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People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character
ISBN: 9780226676333 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a "people of plenty" a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this phenomenon and in his approach to the question of national character. He brings a fresh historical perspective to bear on the vital work done in this field by anthropologists, social psychologists, and psychoanalysts.
"The rejection of hindsight, with the insistence on trying to see events from the point of... America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a "people of plenty" a people whose distincti...
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154,94 zł |