Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Entrepreneurship

Written in non-technical language and assuming no prior knowledge, Governments and Small Business will interest and challenge everyone in government and the professions.

Cross-cultural knowledge management, an elusive yet consequential phenomenon, is becoming an increasingly essential factor in organizational practice and policy in the era of globalization. In order to overcome culturally shaped blind spots in conducting research in different settings, this volume highlights how the structuring of roles, interests, and power among different organizational elements, such as teams, departments, and management hierarchies (each comprised of members from different intellectual and professional backgrounds), generates various paradoxes and tensions that bring...

The commercialization of sport since the 1990s has had a number of consequences. The market forces that have defined commercialization, notably pay-per-view television, whilst initially welcomed as important new sources of revenue, have also had the unanticipated consequences of de-stabilizing many sporting competitions and institutions, undermining the financial future of clubs in their traditional role as key social and cultural institutions. This has been manifested in the paradox of chronic financial loss-making amongst professional sports clubs in an era of exponential revenue growth,...

Whether you are thinking about becoming an independent retailer or are already running your own business, there are some tricks you need to know.

Big retailers like Macy's and Bloomingdale's use tricks of the trade to boost productivity, sales, and profits. You can learn and use these techniques to compete with them and to maximize your store's sales and profits.

Joanna Bradshaw, who has served at the highest executive levels with several of America's best known and most successful retailers, and has also enjoyed a career as an independent retailing entrepreneur, explains the...

Whether you are thinking about becoming an independent retailer or are already running your own business, there are some tricks you need to know.

Big retailers like Macy's and Bloomingdale's use tricks of the trade to boost productivity, sales, and profits. You can learn and use these techniques to compete with them and to maximize your store's sales and profits.

Joanna Bradshaw, who has served at the highest executive levels with several of America's best known and most successful retailers, and has also enjoyed a career as an independent retailing entrepreneur, explains the...