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The Kikkoman Chronicles : A Global Company with a Japanese Soul
ISBN: 9780071347365 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Compelling Saga of One of the World's Oldest Companies.Combining ancient craftsmanship with modern technology andmarketing innovations, Japan's Kikkoman Corporation hasquietly become a $2 billion market leader. The KikkomanChronicles is the fascinating story of how Kikkoman changedthe course of international marketing, shrewdly adapting to20th century realities while never truning their backs oncenturies of tradition; how one man envisioned the future ofglobal enterprise, spearheading the first Japanese manufacturing plant of any kind on U.S. soil; and howgenerations of Mogi family...
The Compelling Saga of One of the World's Oldest Companies.Combining ancient craftsmanship with modern technology andmarketing innovations, Japan's Ki...
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118,23 zł |
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The American Corporation Today
ISBN: 9780195104929 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Not since Edward Mason's classic book The Corporation in Modern Society appeared in 1959 has anyone compiled an authoritative overview of the American business firm. Such a survey is now clearly overdue, for in the last thirty years both the corporation and the business environment has changed radically. In The American Corporation Today, Carl Kaysen and other leading students of business and markets from around the country provide a much-needed analysis of American corporate life at the end of the century.
Here is the American corporation from every angle--its postwar history, its... Not since Edward Mason's classic book The Corporation in Modern Society appeared in 1959 has anyone compiled an authoritative overview of the American...
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335,45 zł |
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Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism : Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons
ISBN: 9780199240623 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ronald Dore places recent developments in Japan in the broader context of gradual changes in modern patterns of capitalism common to all industrial societies--a process that he labels marketization plus financialization. His central focus is on the tendency for shareholder value to be preached as the sole legitimate objective of corporate executives, against the traditional aligment of Japan on the productivist, employee-favoring side of the divide.
Ronald Dore places recent developments in Japan in the broader context of gradual changes in modern patterns of capitalism common to all industrial so...
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854,95 zł |
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The European Corporation : Strategy, Structure, and Social Science
ISBN: 9780199242085 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book examines the evolving strategies and structure of large European firms in comparative and historical context. Although European corporations still differ in terms of ownership and management, they are adopting increasingly similar organizational structures and diversification strategies. The authors explain recent corporate developments by extending Alfred Chandler's original model of strategy and structure to include conglomerate diversification and the more integrated 'networked multidivisional' structure.
This book examines the evolving strategies and structure of large European firms in comparative and historical context. Although European corporations...
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1019,00 zł |
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Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries
ISBN: 9780226468341 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries draws out the underlying economics in business history by focusing on learning processes and the development of competitively valuable asymmetries. The essays show that organizations, like people, learn that this process can be organized more or less effectively, which can have major implications for how competition works.
The first three essays in this volume explore techniques firms have used to both manage information to create valuable asymmetries and to otherwise suppress unwelcome competition. The next three focus on the ways... Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries draws out the underlying economics in business history by focusing on learning processes and...
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140,49 zł |
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The Organization of Industry
ISBN: 9780226774329 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. "The Organization of Industry" collects essays written over two decades pieces prepared especially for this volume, previously unpublished material, and reprinted articles drawn from numerous sources, many which include additional commentary by the author. The essays are unified by George J. Stigler's careful analysis and by his clear and witty style.
In part one, Stigler examines the nature of competition and monopoly. In part two he discusses the forces that determine the size structure of industry, including barriers to entry, economics of scale, and mergers. Part three contains... "The Organization of Industry" collects essays written over two decades pieces prepared especially for this volume, previously unpublished material, a...
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155,43 zł |
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Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Capitalism : The Economics of Business Firm Formation and Growth
ISBN: 9780275937577 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Kirchhoff blends economics, business, and governemnt policy to demonstrate that entrepreneurship's role in business formation and growth energizes and maintains the viability of capitalism. Entrepreneurs convert new ideas into marketable products and services and use these to grab market shares from older, established firms. This process not only produces economic growth, but also redistributes resources so as to assure equitable distribution within society. Acknowledging that this perception is descriptive but lacks predictive power, Kirchhoff offers a typology to assist in predictive... Kirchhoff blends economics, business, and governemnt policy to demonstrate that entrepreneurship's role in business formation and growth energizes ... |
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466,69 zł |
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Business and Democracy in Spain
ISBN: 9780275943912 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This work deals with the political transition in Spain from authoritarianism to democracy and its impact on business. It addresses the fundamental questions of how business was affected by the transition and how business, in turn, influenced the course of democratization, through collective action, and how it influenced the marketplace through the aggregate of individual business decisions. The work has a strong empirical base. Data was collected from the chief executive officers of 260 Spanish companies and the managing directors of over one hundred affiliates of the top-ranked business... This work deals with the political transition in Spain from authoritarianism to democracy and its impact on business. It addresses the fundamental ... |
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466,69 zł |
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The Dual Economy
ISBN: 9780393097818 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A comprehensive study of the organization and dynamics of American industry. It provides the student with an understanding of how micro-economics relates to the contemporary economy, placing theory in its real-world setting. Within this analytical framework the author considers the impact of a changing technology on the two business sectors and assesses the influence of American business dualism on the labor movement and on the role of government in the national economy.
A comprehensive study of the organization and dynamics of American industry. It provides the student with an understanding of how micro-economics rela...
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79,87 zł |
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The Voluntary Sector : Comparative Perspectives in the UK
ISBN: 9780415309745 / Angielski / Twarda / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Increasingly central to public policy debates in the UK, the voluntary sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy. The agencies situated between the market and the state are the lifeblood of the organized civil society. This textbook examines whether these expectations are well founded, through detailed examination of the rhetoric and practice of voluntary sector action. Adopting a comparative approach to the subject, The Voluntary Sector examines the sector's relationship to policy, progress and politics. It features insights from a major international study, as well as...
Increasingly central to public policy debates in the UK, the voluntary sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy. The agencies situ...
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842,14 zł |
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The Voluntary Sector : Comparative Perspectives in the UK
ISBN: 9780415309752 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Increasingly central to public policy debates in the UK, the voluntary sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy. The agencies situated between the market and the state are the lifeblood of the organized civil society. This textbook examines whether these expectations are well founded, through detailed examination of the rhetoric and practice of voluntary sector action. Adopting a comparative approach to the subject, The Voluntary Sector examines the sector's relationship to policy, progress and politics. It features insights from a major international study, as well as...
Increasingly central to public policy debates in the UK, the voluntary sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy. The agencies situ...
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279,60 zł |
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Digital Infrastructures : Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology
ISBN: 9780415324601 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Digital Infrastructures is the first integrated treatment of how IT technology is fundamentally affecting how critical infrastructures are managed. It is geared to provide the new infrastructure professional with state of the art concepts,
Digital Infrastructures is the first integrated treatment of how IT technology is fundamentally affecting how critical infrastructures are managed. It...
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842,14 zł |
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Digital Infrastructures : Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology
ISBN: 9780415324618 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Digital Infrastructures is the first integrated treatment of how IT technology is fundamentally affecting how critical infrastructures are managed. It is geared to provide the new infrastructure professional with state of the art concepts,
Digital Infrastructures is the first integrated treatment of how IT technology is fundamentally affecting how critical infrastructures are managed. It...
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290,13 zł |
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Dutch Enterprise in the 20th Century : Business Strategies in Small Open Country
ISBN: 9780415350273 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This is the first book to summarise the twentieth century economic history of the Netherlands from a business history perspective. It has a broad historical coverage of Dutch business development including in particular the major multinationals such as Philips, Shell, and Unilever. Although focused on Dutch business it has a strong international flavour.
This is the first book to summarise the twentieth century economic history of the Netherlands from a business history perspective. It has a broad hist...
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631,87 zł |
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Strategic and Organizational Change : From Production to Retailing in UK Brewing 1950-1990
ISBN: 9780415360500 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The brewing industry, through its network of public houses, has a profound impact on the lives of much of the population of United Kingdom. This book explores the shaping of the industry in the years from 1950-1990, showing how the industry has moved from being largely concerned with the technical issues of production to being a key part of the retail industries.
Utilizing resources drawn from theoretical traditions such as critical realism and new institutionalism "Strategic and Organizational Change "demonstrates the considerable differences between major companies in the industry and... The brewing industry, through its network of public houses, has a profound impact on the lives of much of the population of United Kingdom. This book ...
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579,31 zł |
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Business Alliances Guide : The Hidden Competitive Weapon
ISBN: 9780471570301 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Business alliances are rapidly growing as a means of meeting new competitive challenges. Robert Lynch is one of America's leading experts on this increasingly important topic and in this book he shares his knowledge, as well as compelling case studies, with the corporate world.
Business alliances are rapidly growing as a means of meeting new competitive challenges. Robert Lynch is one of America's leading experts on this incr...
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297,91 zł |
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Encountering Chinese Networks : Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937
ISBN: 9780520216259 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how various businesses have struggled with this issue as they have adjusted to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics, and foreign affairs.
Cochran devotes a chapter each to six of the biggest business ventures in China before the Communist revolution: two Western-owned companies, Standard Oil... Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting ...
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240,09 zł |
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Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862-1969
ISBN: 9780521023788 / Angielski / Miękka / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is a business history that deals with an important but surprisingly neglected topic. There have been no comprehensive accounts of Rowntree, the confectionery manufacturer, and no assessment of its role in a global industry. For the first time this book reveals the importance of marketing to the success of Rowntree, and makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of marketing and mass consumption in economic development. Rowntree was also a pioneer in managerial organization and industrial relations, as well as in marketing.
This is a business history that deals with an important but surprisingly neglected topic. There have been no comprehensive accounts of Rowntree, the c...
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316,89 zł |
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Science and Corporate Strategy : Du Pont R and D, 1902-1980
ISBN: 9780521028523 / Angielski / Miękka / 780 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Based on voluminous corporate records and extensive interviews with key employees, Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902 1980 provides a comprehensive, critical study of research and development in a large US corporation. Du Pont was among a handful of US corporations that established formal research and development laboratories at the turn of the century to improve competitive positions in their respective industries. Initially, Du Pont's executives viewed R&D as an important though not central part of the corporations strategy. However the gains made by the company's...
Based on voluminous corporate records and extensive interviews with key employees, Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902 1980 provides...
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233,42 zł |
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The Business of Research : RCA and the VideoDisc
ISBN: 9780521322829 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The story of the RCA VideoDisc is a rare inside look at a company and the way it conducts the complex process of science-based innovation. The author examines how RCA shaped a sophisticated consumer electronics technology in a research and development effort that spanned fifteen years. We see how the company's history, its structure, its technical capability, and its competition all influenced the choices that were made in moving VideoDisc from laboratory to development group to market, and ultimately to withdrawal from the marketplace. Published in hardcover as RCA and the VideoDisc.
The story of the RCA VideoDisc is a rare inside look at a company and the way it conducts the complex process of science-based innovation. The author ...
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479,81 zł |