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Plain Talk
ISBN: 9780471155140 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A visionary, maverick, and genuine American business hero, Ken Iverson is one of the most closely-watched business leaders in the world.
A visionary, maverick, and genuine American business hero, Ken Iverson is one of the most closely-watched business leaders in the world.
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159,17 zł |
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Obama's Bank: Financing a Durable New Deal
ISBN: 9780521197540 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Obama administration aims to lay a sound foundation for growth by investing in high-speed rail, clean energy, information technology, drinking water, and other vital infrastructures. The idea is to partner with the private sector to produce these public goods. An Obama government bank will direct these investments, making project decisions based on the merits of each project, not on politics. This approach has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for several decades. In fact, our government-led reinvestment in America is modeled explicitly on international public banks and...
The Obama administration aims to lay a sound foundation for growth by investing in high-speed rail, clean energy, information technology, drinking wat...
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237,35 zł |
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Obama's Bank: Financing a Durable New Deal
ISBN: 9780521147118 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Obama administration aims to lay a sound foundation for growth by investing in high-speed rail, clean energy, information technology, drinking water, and other vital infrastructures. The idea is to partner with the private sector to produce these public goods. An Obama government bank will direct these investments, making project decisions based on the merits of each project, not on politics. This approach has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for several decades. In fact, our government-led reinvestment in America is modeled explicitly on international public banks and...
The Obama administration aims to lay a sound foundation for growth by investing in high-speed rail, clean energy, information technology, drinking wat...
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154,17 zł |
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Business, Government, and EU Accession: Strategic Partnership and Conflict
ISBN: 9780739130551 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Business, Government, and EU Accession is a detailed study of how EU accession impacts the relationship between business and government in the acceding country. Using Bulgaria as a case study, Iankova examines the mechanisms of these interactions and interrogates the effectiveness of existing models in facilitating national goals of EU accession, revealing difficulties with and resistances to applying an EU-designed model of institutional change in postcommunist regions.
Business, Government, and EU Accession is a detailed study of how EU accession impacts the relationship between business and government in the accedin...
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551,19 zł |
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Business Systems in East Asia: Firms, Markets and Societies
ISBN: 9780803987401 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this major contribution to comparative-international business Richard Whitley compares and contrasts the dominant characteristics of firms and markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, relating these to their particular social, political and economic contexts. At the level of the firm he looks at such areas as management styles and structures, decision-making processes, owner-employee relations, and patterns of company growth and development. He also discusses market development, customer, supplier and inter-firm relations, and the roles of the financial sectors and the state in...
In this major contribution to comparative-international business Richard Whitley compares and contrasts the dominant characteristics of firms and mark...
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312,18 zł |
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Unlikely Victory: How General Electric Succeeded in the Chemical Industry
ISBN: 9780816908196 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many companies that stray too far from their core business fail. So how is it that General Electric, a major electrical manufacturing company, ended up as one of the top U.S. chemical producers--with 1998 sales of $6.6 billion? In Unlikely Victory, Jerome T. Coe, a retired 40-year career employee with General Electric, who spent more than 20 years as a manager of the company's chemical businesses, suggests that it was a combination of necessity, forward-thinking of the engineers, and managers wise enough to give them breathing room. -Much of what they did (then) was counter to the prevailing...
Many companies that stray too far from their core business fail. So how is it that General Electric, a major electrical manufacturing company, ended u...
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461,85 zł |
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Industrial Enterprise and European Integration: From National to International Champions in Western Europe
ISBN: 9780198279723 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on how European national champions have fared in an increasingly globalized industrial context. After setting the four national policy contexts of France, Germany, Britain, and Italy, the work compares for major industrial sectors: electricity, aerospace, air transport, and telecommunications. This work will be of interest to scholars and students of European politics and policy, political economics, and industrial relations.
This volume focuses on how European national champions have fared in an increasingly globalized industrial context. After setting the four national po...
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1057,59 zł |
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The Last Male Bastion: Gender and the CEO Suite in America's Public Companies
ISBN: 9780415872959 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The Last Male Bastion' is a systematic approach to the subject why, proportionaly, so few women occupy seats of power in today's public companies.
'The Last Male Bastion' is a systematic approach to the subject why, proportionaly, so few women occupy seats of power in today's public companies.
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926,78 zł |
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Out of Thin Air: A History of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., 1940-1990
ISBN: 9780275937652 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., is exciting--full of struggle, determination, crisis, and heroic endeavor. Air Products grew out of the vision and drive of one individual, Leonard Pool. In the course of fifty years, Pool's precarious project has become a major, multinational corporation. Words like entrepreneurship, sales, finance, engineering, and technology are central to the history of Air Products. So too are concepts like being a late entrant to an established business, struggling to find market niches, moving into fields of endeavor, developing human resources, and... The story of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., is exciting--full of struggle, determination, crisis, and heroic endeavor. Air Products grew out of ... |
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379,95 zł |
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Physical Infrastructure Development: Balancing the Growth, Equity, and Environmental Imperatives
ISBN: 9780230100305 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the key challenges of balancing economic growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental protection in the development of major physical infrastructure, ranging from transport to energy.
This book addresses the key challenges of balancing economic growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental protection in the development of major phy...
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201,72 zł |
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Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America
ISBN: 9780822960676 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 19th century, rails from Bethlehem Steel helped build the United States into the world's foremost economy. During the 1890s, Bethlehem became America's leading supplier of heavy armaments, and by 1914, it had pioneered new methods of structural steel manufacture that transformed urban skylines. Demand for its war materials during World War I provided the finance for Bethlehem to become the world's second-largest steel maker. As late as 1974, the company achieved record earnings of $342 million. But in the 1980s and 1990s, through wildly fluctuating times, losses outweighed gains,...
In the late 19th century, rails from Bethlehem Steel helped build the United States into the world's foremost economy. During the 1890s, Bethlehem bec...
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251,34 zł |
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Opportunities in Dam Planning and Management
ISBN: 9780821382165 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Handbook offers 'how to' ideas to help infrastructure practitioners identify good practice improvements in communication, starting with the World Bank's own expanding portfolio of dam projects. In-depth case studies prepared for this Handbook show the considerable scope, value added, and many practical reasons to link governance, sustainability, and communication aspects at all stages of the project cycle. The Handbook reflects a philosophy of continuous improvement in development practices. Improving communication in dam planning and management not only achieves consensus on imbedding...
This Handbook offers 'how to' ideas to help infrastructure practitioners identify good practice improvements in communication, starting with the World...
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102,39 zł |
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Mountain Dew: The History
ISBN: 9781419660870 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the history of one of America's most popular soft drinks, Mountain Dew. The 300 page book brings you from the drink's earliest beginnings in 1946 all the way through to today's newer drinks like Mountain Dew LiveWire and Code Red. Learn about the Hatfield/McCoy feud that has been brewing for years over the bragging rights to Mountain Dew. This book gives you detailed information on who invented Mountain Dew, when they did it, and the progress of the drink through the years. We start you in Johnson City, TN where you meet Charlie Gordon, Jim Archer and Bill Kilber of "Charlie,...
This book tells the history of one of America's most popular soft drinks, Mountain Dew. The 300 page book brings you from the drink's earliest beginni...
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141,19 zł |
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The Corporate Paradox: Economic Realities of the Corporate Form of Organization
ISBN: 9780792386957 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The corporation' is by far the most successful legal concept of organization among large business firms. Yet there are numerous examples of firms operated in corporate form that were troubled either by internal problems arising from divergences of interests between the firm's various constituents (notably, managers and investors), or by conflicts with other members of society (including both victims of accidents or environmental pollution caused by the firm and unpaid creditors in the event of business failure). It is this paradox between the corporation's prima facie success and its...
The corporation' is by far the most successful legal concept of organization among large business firms. Yet there are numerous examples of firms oper...
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806,99 zł |
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A Place to Live and Work: The Henry Disston Saw Works and the Tacony Community of Philadelphia
ISBN: 9780271030753 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rich history of the unique relationship between life and work in an American factory town from 1840 to 1984, A Place to Live and Work tells the remarkable story of Henry Disston's saw manufacturing company and the factory town he built. The book provides a rare view of the rise of one of America's largest and most powerful family-owned businesses, from its modest beginnings in 1840 to the 1940s, when Disston products were known worldwide, to the sale and demise of the company in the postwar years. Henry Disston, however, not only built a factory; he also shaped Tacony, the town... A rich history of the unique relationship between life and work in an American factory town from 1840 to 1984, A Place to Live and Work te... |
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155,84 zł |
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Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire
ISBN: 9780521142663 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book questions the conventional wisdom that in the heyday of laisez-faire capitalism wages were set by thorough going competition. Drawing on the experience of a key group of workers during industrialization, this book shows that even in the absence of trade unions, minimum wage legislation or unemployment insurance, wages do not always move with changes in the demand for and supply of labor. Workers and firms have good reasons to fix wages independently of market fluctuations.
This book questions the conventional wisdom that in the heyday of laisez-faire capitalism wages were set by thorough going competition. Drawing on the...
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205,79 zł |
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Incentives and Dynamics in the Ethiopian Health Worker Labor Market
ISBN: 9780821383582 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By international standards, health workers in Ethiopia are in short supply. In addition, those who do enter the health fields and remain in the country disproportionately live and work in the capital, Addis Ababa. This paper uses detailed data gathered from nearly 1,000 health workers to examine the incentives and constraints that health workers face when choosing where to work, the likely responses of workers to alternative incentive packages, and the longer term performance of the health worker labor market. This working paper was produced as part of the World Bank's Africa Region Health...
By international standards, health workers in Ethiopia are in short supply. In addition, those who do enter the health fields and remain in the countr...
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121,89 zł |
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Electronic Supply Network Coordination in Intelligent and Dynamic Environments: Modeling and Implementation
ISBN: 9781605668086 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Electronic supply network coordination in intelligent and dynamic environments: modeling and implementation presents cutting-edge knowledge on scientific approaches to the management of supply networks in a highly informed global environment with abundant dynamic and uncertain challenges. This work examines how new mathematical and conceptual approaches are integrated with information technology and intelligent systems and how these models can help to improve the coordination of supply networks.
Electronic supply network coordination in intelligent and dynamic environments: modeling and implementation presents cutting-edge knowledge on scienti...
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919,08 zł |
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The Happiness Habit: Official Coaching Handbook of the Irish Institute of NLP
ISBN: 9780717147762 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whatever you want from life, this book will have a benefit for you. A key element to finding happiness is understanding what your (often unconscious) basic drives are and ensuring that these are being satisfied. Brian Colbert addresses the core questions that will help you discover who you really are. In this book he will teach you how to get past what's stopping you from reaching your true potential and how to bring about lasting happiness into your life.
Many of us think that in order to change, we need therapy. This is not always the case--you may just need this book. Using a... Whatever you want from life, this book will have a benefit for you. A key element to finding happiness is understanding what your (often unconsciou... |
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95,79 zł |
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Rolls-Royce: The Merlin at War
ISBN: 9780333240168 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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605,23 zł |