Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Development - Business Development

For much of the twentieth century, American corporations led the world in terms of technological progress. Why did certain industries have such great success? Experimental Capitalism examines six key industries--automobiles, pneumatic tires, television receivers, semiconductors, lasers, and penicillin--and tracks the highs and lows of American high-tech capitalism and the resulting innovation landscape. Employing "nanoeconomics"--a deep dive into the formation and functioning of companies--Steven Klepper determines how specific companies emerged to become the undisputed leaders that...

Foresight for Organizations will acquaint the reader with various foresight methods and tools, to show the reader how these methods are used, what the pitfalls are and how the methods relate to each other. This innovative volume offers the reader the ability to carry out a study of the future by him- or herself and apply the results in a decision-making strategy process.

The author addresses the following methods: scenarios, trend analysis, the Delphi method, quantitative trend extrapolation, technology assessment, backcasting and roadmapping; the most relevant and popular...

Can a book actually help you close more sales? Yes it can Sales Success is the book that shapes sales careers. While reading this sales fable, learn sales strategies used and recommended by members of the sales hall of fame including Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins and Scott McKain. In Sales Success, you will discover why sales success happens for the earnest student...and why it doesn't for the rest.

Come along with master storyteller, Mark Bowser, as he takes you on a journey of discovering ultimate sales success. In Sales Success, you will meet Digger Jones, the mentor we all wished we...

Over the past two decades international entrepreneurship has become a key issue in international business studies. This second edition of International Entrepreneurship proposes an integrated framework to enable firms to develop innovative responses to the uncertainties arising from international markets, and to capture the opportunities.

Made in Africa: Learning to Compete in Industry outlines a new industrialization strategy to help...

This book examines the relationship between the legal extension of copyright duration as an enduring means of copyright protection and the growth of the UK book publishing industry as a typical creative industry reliant on copyright. The book draws on Schumpeter's theory of creative destruction to analyse the implications of copyright law and policy on the book industry and illustrate the dynamic interaction between copyright expansion and the growth of the creative industries. The book reviews the historical development of UK copyright expansion and also considers copyright in the digital...