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Institutions and the Evolution of Modern Business
ISBN: 9780714644004 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A symbiosis has developed between the new institutionalists and business historians, which stems from synergies in the interests of both groups. The central questions posed by Coase and Williamson, of why firms exist and grow, have found echoes in the historical work of Chandler on the forces leading to the rise of big business first in the United States and then in Europe. Conversely Williamson used Chandler's historical evidence to give foundation to his development of transaction cost economics.
A symbiosis has developed between the new institutionalists and business historians, which stems from synergies in the interests of both groups. The c...
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180,06 |
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Institutions and the Evolution of Modern Business
ISBN: 9780714648453 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A symbiosis has developed between the new institutionalists and business historians, which stems from synergies in the interests of both groups. The central questions posed by Coase and Williamson, of why firms exist and grow, have found echoes in the historical work of Chandler on the forces leading to the rise of big business first in the United States and then in Europe. Conversely Williamson used Chandler's historical evidence to give foundation to his development of transaction cost economics.
A symbiosis has developed between the new institutionalists and business historians, which stems from synergies in the interests of both groups. The c...
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632,81 |
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The Asian Financial Crisis: Crisis, Reform and Recovery
ISBN: 9780719066030 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 shook the foundations of the global economy. What began as a localized currency crisis soon engulfed the entire Asian region. What went wrong and how did the Asian economies, long considered "miracles," respond? How did the United States, Japan and other G-7 countries react to the crisis? What role did the IMF play? Why did China remain conspicuously insulated from the turmoil raging in its midst? What lessons can be learnt from the crisis by other emerging economies? This book provides answers to all the above questions and more. It gives a comprehensive...
The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 shook the foundations of the global economy. What began as a localized currency crisis soon engulfed the entire ...
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102,43 |
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Zenith(r) Radio: The Early Years 1919-1935
ISBN: 9780764303678 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zenith's "The Quality Goes in Before the Name Goes On" is one of the most recognized, and well earned, corporate mottos in America. Founded by two Navy radiomen in 1919, luck and the infusion of capital from a wealthy adventurer and car salesman started the Zenith Radio Corporation on a journey that would propell it to the top of the United States electronics manufacturing industry. The rise was an interesting one, the cast of high profile. With access to the Zenith corporate archives and their discovery of the long sealed files of one of Zenith's founders, the authors present for the first...
Zenith's "The Quality Goes in Before the Name Goes On" is one of the most recognized, and well earned, corporate mottos in America. Founded by two Nav...
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143,42 |
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Isotopes and Innovation : MDS Nordion's First Fifty Years, 1946-1996
ISBN: 9780773520820 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When radium began to be used as a cancer treatment, Eldorado quickly became familiar with the medical marketplace and adept at developing products that could solve clinical problems and, more important, save lives. When Canadian nuclear reactors at Chalk River began producing radioisotopes that outperformed radium, Eldorado's radium sales department was transferred to a new crown corporation, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, created to manage Canada's nuclear research establishment. The new company developed many useful applications for radioisotopes, including cobalt-60 cancer therapy...
When radium began to be used as a cancer treatment, Eldorado quickly became familiar with the medical marketplace and adept at developing products tha...
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462,44 |
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Pacific American Fisheries, Inc.: History of a Washington State Salmon Packing Company, 1890-1966
ISBN: 9780786411856 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work documents the rise and fall of Pacific American Fisheries, a salmon packing company based in Bellingham, Washington. It covers the company's history from its beginnings in 1898 up until its closure in 1966.
This work documents the rise and fall of Pacific American Fisheries, a salmon packing company based in Bellingham, Washington. It covers the company's...
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165,68 |
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What Works: A Decade of Change at Champion International
ISBN: 9780787941819 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Inside Account of One Company's Remarkable Transformation
Take a fascinating, decade-long journey to witness the remarkable transformation of a mediocre company into a team-based top competitor. Your guides are a trio of participant/observers, all key players in achieving this systemic change of classic proportion. --Jerome M. Rosow, president, Work in America Institute, Inc. Anyone in a leadership position today, union or management, should read this book. It tells the important story of how labor/management partnerships can make a difference and... An Inside Account of One Company's Remarkable Transformation
Take a fascinating, decade-long journey to witness the remarkable transforma... |
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179,29 |
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Supply Chain Structures: Coordination, Information and Optimization
ISBN: 9780792375340 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the foreword to Supply Chain Structures, Professor Paul Zipkin notes three global changes that have enabled the recent vast developments in the field of supply chains. Moreover, these changes may be only the beginning and more change is likely in the fast-moving field of supply chain management. These global changes are:
In the foreword to Supply Chain Structures, Professor Paul Zipkin notes three global changes that have enabled the recent vast developments i...
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603,81 |
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The Organizational Form of Family Business
ISBN: 9780792379393 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Organizational Form of Family Business attempts to develop an evolutionary family business theory, positioning family businesses as a distinct organizational form (based on conjectures from organizational ecology). An open and uninhibited playing field - achieved through utilizing a grounded theory methodology - heightens chances for observing precisely how family businesses behave.
An introductory chapter is followed by a literature review, beginning with a review of family business research. This is followed by a discussion of family business definitional issues, and... The Organizational Form of Family Business attempts to develop an evolutionary family business theory, positioning family businesses as a dis...
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Changing by Design: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey
ISBN: 9780801432989 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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253,12 |
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European Business Systems: Firms and Markets in Their National Contexts
ISBN: 9780803978157 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Europe moves towards greater integration there is increasing recognition of national differences in European business - because of significant diversity in national cultures and social institutions affecting business systems. This book explores key characteristics of firms and markets in eight European countries - Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands and Germany compared with Britain, Sweden, Italy and France. Some contributors focus on overall business patterns in the countries concerned while others examine particular industries and sectors to consider the relationship between national...
As Europe moves towards greater integration there is increasing recognition of national differences in European business - because of significant dive...
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311,54 |
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Wild Ride: The Rise and Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty
ISBN: 9780805042429 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An award-winning writer chronicles the tragic story behind the downfall of horse racing's crown jewel. Founded in 1924 by Chicago mogul William Monroe Wright, Calumet Farm was to the world of thoroughbred racing what the New York Yankees are to baseball -- a sports dynasty. The stable bred so many superstars that it became the standard by which all achievements were measured in the horse racing industry. But during the 1980s, a web of financial schemes left Calumet destitute. Wild Ride is Ann Hagedorn Auerbach's investigation of the fast-track,... An award-winning writer chronicles the tragic story behind the downfall of horse racing's crown jewel. Founded in 1924 by Chicago mogu... |
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102,59 |
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Marlin Firearms: A History of the Guns and the Company That Made Them
ISBN: 9780811708777 / Angielski / Twarda / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1863 to the present--the company and the men who made it successful, the details of all models of rifles and the many other Marlin products.
From 1863 to the present--the company and the men who made it successful, the details of all models of rifles and the many other Marlin products.
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379,91 |
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Selling 'em by the Sack: White Castle and the Creation of American Food
ISBN: 9780814735671 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of World War I, the hamburger was still considered a disreputable and undesirable food. Yet by 1930 Americans in every corner of the country accepted the hamburger as a mainstream meal and eventually made it a staple of their diet. The quintessential -American- food, hamburgers have by now spread to almost every country and culture in the world. But how did this fast food icon come to occupy so quickly such a singular role in American mass culture? In Selling 'em By the Sack, David Gerard Hogan traces the history of the hamburger's rise as a distinctive American... In the wake of World War I, the hamburger was still considered a disreputable and undesirable food. Yet by 1930 Americans in every corner of the co... |
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Policing Change, Changing Police: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9780815319955 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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778,85 |
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Telecommunications and Information Services for the Poor: Toward a Strategy for Universal Access
ISBN: 9780821351215 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development community in general and the World Bank in particular recognize the importance of access to telecommunications as an element within the agenda of economic development and poverty reduction. The World Bank has adopted a strategy that includes universal access to telecommunications as a goal. This paper outlines various approaches that can be integrated to help close the 'access gap' to telecommunications where needed. These include: designing and implementing appropriate policies and regulations; acquiring both government subsidies and private investment funds; building...
The development community in general and the World Bank in particular recognize the importance of access to telecommunications as an element within th...
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102,18 |
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Private Solutions for Infrastructure in Mexico: Country Framework Report for Private Participation in Infraastructure / Public-Private Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780821354148 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the past two decades, Mexico has proven itself a pioneer in Latin America in encouraging private sector participation in the economy. In the last decade, Mexico has also made major gains in infrastructure service provision. However, for Mexican enterprises to compete effectively and profit from open trade particularly within NAFTA, they will increasingly require higher quality infrastructure services, particularly in the water and energy sectors. 'Private Solutions for Infrastructure in Mexico' begins with a review of Mexico's recent macroeconomic performance and the business...
During the past two decades, Mexico has proven itself a pioneer in Latin America in encouraging private sector participation in the economy. In the la...
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87,57 |
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Institutions, Performance, and the Financing of Infrastructure Services in the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780821362808 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reviews the access to services, investment needs, tariffs, and efficiency of fifteen Caribbean countries across five infrastructure sectors (telecommunications, electricity, water and sanitation, maritime transport and ports, and airports and air services). Benchmarks are established to compare Caribbean countries with each other, and with similar countries. The study highlights several key policy findings and recommends changes that have the potential to help Caribbean governments overcome some of their inherent disadvantages of scale to provide better, cheaper infrastructure...
This book reviews the access to services, investment needs, tariffs, and efficiency of fifteen Caribbean countries across five infrastructure sectors ...
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121,64 |
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Water, Electricity, and the Poor: Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies?
ISBN: 9780821363423 / Angielski / Miękka / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While consumer utility subsidies are widespread in both the water and electricity sectors, their effectiveness in reaching and distributing resources to the poor is the subject of much debate. 'Water, Electricity, and the Poor' brings together empirical evidence on subsidy performance across a wide range of countries. It documents the prevalence of consumer subsidies, provides a typology of the many variants found in the developing world, and presents a number of indicators useful in assessing the degree to which such subsidies benefit the poor, focusing on three key concepts: beneficiary...
While consumer utility subsidies are widespread in both the water and electricity sectors, their effectiveness in reaching and distributing resources ...
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102,18 |
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Accounting for Infrastructure Regulation
ISBN: 9780821371794 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developing effective regulation for utilities has always depended on getting good accounting information on finances and operations. But reforms within the utility sector--such as promoting competition and encouraging private participation--make accurate regulatory accounting even more important. As sector and corporate structures become more complex, with utilities operating in both competitive and regulated markets or across several jurisdictions, cost allocations have become both more critical and complex. Clear requirements for regulatory accounts are an essential element in the...
Developing effective regulation for utilities has always depended on getting good accounting information on finances and operations. But reforms withi...
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121,64 |