Private Participation in Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Trends, Impacts, and Policy Lessons
ISBN: 9780821355121 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rapid growth of private participation in infrastructure (PPI) in developing countries during the 1990s was followed by a subsequent decline in investments and the re-negotiation and cancellation of some prominent projects. This has lead to controversy as to the impact and the future of PPI. This report attempts to explain the factors behind the growth and decline of PPI, its impact and the policy lessons that have been learnt from this experience. It concentrates on the experience with the private provision of infrastructure over the last 15 years. 'Private Participation in Infrastructure...
The rapid growth of private participation in infrastructure (PPI) in developing countries during the 1990s was followed by a subsequent decline in inv...
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96,48 zł |
Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa: A World Bank Group Strategy for Information and Communication Technology Sector Development
ISBN: 9780821361504 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa' outlines a strategy for information and communication technologies (ICT) development in Sub-Saharan Africa that will further the reform agenda to facilitate deployment of ICT infrastructure, and encourage the development community to support African governments in this regard. The strategy builds on the earlier reform agenda in the sector by leveraging the achievements to date of Sub-Saharan African countries to advance the essential goal of increasing the continent's connectivity. It provides strategies for developing and enhancing the capacity of Africa's ICT...
'Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa' outlines a strategy for information and communication technologies (ICT) development in Sub-Saharan Africa that will f...
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95,94 zł |
Many Shades of Red: State Policy and Collective Agriculture
ISBN: 9780847690398 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a radical and timely corrective to received wisdom about the seemingly inevitable transition from communism to democratic capitalism. Arguing against popular misconceptions that portray collectivized agriculture as an unqualified failure that followed a monolithic Soviet model, the contributors draw upon newly available local sources to illuminate the costs, benefits, successes, and failures of cooperative agriculture. They highlight the wide variety of state policies, local responses, and economic outcomes, as well as the influence of local geography, political...
This volume provides a radical and timely corrective to received wisdom about the seemingly inevitable transition from communism to democratic capital...
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224,47 zł |
Climbing the Ladder of Business Intelligence: Happy About Creating Excellence through Enabled Intuition
ISBN: 9781600050435 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The goal of Climbing the Ladder of Business Intelligence is to introduce an intelligence framework that builds a foundation for success. The Ladder is really a Ladder of Business Intelligence (LOBI) that aims to create intelligent organizations in which technology systems are designed to support success.
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The goal of Climbing the Ladder of Business Intelligence is to introduce an intelligence framework that builds a foundation for success. The Ladder is...
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95,96 zł |
Ford, Regaining Their Competitive Edge: A Study of the Strategic Management Processes for Operational Success
ISBN: 9780595470105 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This project contains a look into the manufacturing company of Ford Motor Company. Research was done about how the company runs business, both globally and domestically. In this report, the company's mission, goals, strategies, product and service portfolios, market share and profit performance, technology and employment information are outlined. Key successes and weakness failures are also discussed in detail. Information about Ford's use of computer systems and an information model for the company is also included. The information model displays Ford's Work System, showing which... This project contains a look into the manufacturing company of Ford Motor Company. Research was done about how the company runs business, both glob... |
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55,62 zł |
The Development of Electricity Markets in the Euro-Mediterranean Area: Trends and Prospects for Liberalization and Regional Intergration
ISBN: 9780821349106 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Electricity markets world-wide are undergoing a transformation, as state-owned and vertically integrated monopolies are being replaced by competitive dynamics and private participation. Policy reforms driving this transformation include the corporatization and restructuring of state-owned utilities; the unbundling of generation, transmission, and distribution; the creation of independent regulators; and the promotion of private sector involvement in investment and management. This study reviews international reform trends and best practice in sector policy, with specific reference to Latin...
Electricity markets world-wide are undergoing a transformation, as state-owned and vertically integrated monopolies are being replaced by competitive ...
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123,54 zł |
Business Regulation and Economic Performance
ISBN: 9780821374078 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Schumpeterian process of 'creative destruction' is an essential ingredient of a dynamic economy. In many countries around the world, however, this process is weakened by pervasive regulation of product and factor markets. This book documents the regulatory obstacles faced by firms, particularly in developing countries, and assesses their implications for firm renewal and macroeconomic performance. Combining a variety of methodological approaches--analytical and empirical, micro and macroeconomic, single- and cross-country-- the book provides evidence that streamlining the regulatory...
The Schumpeterian process of 'creative destruction' is an essential ingredient of a dynamic economy. In many countries around the world, however, this...
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246,79 zł |
The Next Great Thing: The Sun, the Stirling Engine and the Drive to Change the World
ISBN: 9780393334036 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the major challenges of the coming century is how to keep our technological world working and still save the environment and mankind. Author Mark Shelton takes readers through fascinating Sunpower, Inc., staffed by engineers testing a solar-powered machine, which may promise to be one of the most important advances the world has ever known.
One of the major challenges of the coming century is how to keep our technological world working and still save the environment and mankind. Author Ma...
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98,56 zł |
Unleashing Innovation: How Whirlpool Transformed an Industry
ISBN: 9780470192405 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In publications such as BusinessWeek and Fast Company, the media have celebrated Whirlpool's transformation into a leading-edge innovator and Nancy Tennant Snyder's role as chief innovation officer. Ten years after this remarkable transformation, Unleashing Innovation tells the inside story of one of the most successful innovation turnarounds in American history. Nancy Tennant Snyder and coauthor Deborah L. Duarte reveal how Whirlpool undertook one of the largest change efforts in corporate history and show how innovation was embedded throughout the company, which...
In publications such as BusinessWeek and Fast Company, the media have celebrated Whirlpool's transformation into a leading-edge innovato...
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117,53 zł |
Chinese Firms Between Hierarchy and Market: The Contract Management Responsibility System in China
ISBN: 9780333613856 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the enterprise reform in China in general, and the Contract Management Responsibility System (the CMRS) in particular. The latter is an institutional arrangement to deal with the relation between the government and the state-owned enterprise which has always been at the centre of the enterprise reform. This research is based on four in-depth case studies of Chinese state-owned companies.
This book is about the enterprise reform in China in general, and the Contract Management Responsibility System (the CMRS) in particular. The latter i...
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583,65 zł |
Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa
ISBN: 9780853456292 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sports
ISBN: 9780061246586 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sneaker Wars is the fascinating true story of the enemy brothers behind Adidas and Puma, two of the biggest global brands of athletic footwear. Adi and Rudi Dassler started their shoe business in their mother's laundry room and achieved almost instantaneous success. But by the end of World War II a vicious feud had torn the Dasslers apart, dividing their company and their family and launching them down separate, often contentious paths. Out of the fires of their animosity, two rival sneaker brands were born, brands that would revolutionize the world of professional sports,... Sneaker Wars is the fascinating true story of the enemy brothers behind Adidas and Puma, two of the biggest global brands of athletic foot... |
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Public Investment Management in the New Eu Member States: Strengthening Planning and Implementation of Transport Infrastructure Investments
ISBN: 9780821378946 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This paper describes the characteristics of public investment management (PIM) in seven EU countries as it applies to a single sector transport infrastructure. The report highlights some of the common challenges that four relatively new EU member states Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Latvia face as they plan and execute their transport infrastructure projects. It recognizes the importance that EU-mandated processes and procedures have in shaping national systems in the new member states (NMS), but the report finds that actual practices often fall short of EU goals due to capacity...
This paper describes the characteristics of public investment management (PIM) in seven EU countries as it applies to a single sector transport infras...
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The Economics of Social Responsibility: The World of Social Enterprises
ISBN: 9780415465762 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a rethinking of the burgeoning research on not-for-profit organizations and socially responsible economics. Adopting a comparative approach, the chapters explore and reinterpret the impact of social enterprises on the provision of general-interest services, work integration, microfinance, and fair trade, and show how these enterprises form the hub of an emerging economy of social responsibility. The book provides a new interpretation of social enterprises as entrepreneurial organizations that pursue social objectives and are successful due to the non-self-seeking motives... This book offers a rethinking of the burgeoning research on not-for-profit organizations and socially responsible economics. Adopting a comparative... |
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The History of the British Petroleum Company, Volume 2: The Anglo-Iranian Years, 1928-1954
ISBN: 9780521117593 / Angielski / Miękka / 639 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on unrestricted access to papers and personnel at the British Petroleum Company, as well as numerous other sources, this second volume of BP's history aims to be an honest and comprehensive examination of the company in the period 1928SH1954. Such a history inevitably touches on many different historical interests ranging from international relations to social, economic, political and military topics. It includes penetrating insights into the direction and management of the company, and deals with controversial episodes such as the international petroleum cartel and the crisis arising...
Based on unrestricted access to papers and personnel at the British Petroleum Company, as well as numerous other sources, this second volume of BP's h...
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233,50 zł |
The Offshore Imperative
ISBN: 9781603441568 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After World War II, the discovery and production of onshore oil in the United States faced decline. As a result, during the last half of the twentieth century, offshore prospects in the Gulf of Mexico took on new strategic value. Shell Oil Company pioneered many of the early moves offshore and continues to lead the way into "deepwater." For decades, the company dominated the Gulf of Mexico, developing more oil and gas fields there than any other firm. Tyler Priest's study is the first time the modern history of Shell Oil has been told in any detail. Drawing on interviews with Shell retirees...
After World War II, the discovery and production of onshore oil in the United States faced decline. As a result, during the last half of the twentieth...
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142,84 zł |
Africa's Infrastructure: A Time for Transformation
ISBN: 9780821380413 / Angielski / Miękka / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable infrastructure development is vital for Africa's prosperity. And now is the time to begin the transformation. This volume is the culmination of an unprecedented effort to document, analyze, and interpret the full extent of the challenge in developing Sub-Saharan Africa's infrastructure sectors. As a result, it represents the most comprehensive reference currently available on infrastructure in the region. The book covers the five main economic infrastructure sectors--information and communication technology, irrigation, power, transport, and water and sanitation. 'Africa's...
Sustainable infrastructure development is vital for Africa's prosperity. And now is the time to begin the transformation. This volume is the culminati...
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246,49 zł |
The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up
ISBN: 9780230623507 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Age of Productivity offers a look at how the low productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean is preventing the region from catching up with the developed world. The authors look beyond the traditional macro explanations and dig all the way down to the industry and firm level to uncover the causes.
Age of Productivity offers a look at how the low productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean is preventing the region from catching up with the de...
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389,09 zł |
The Age of Productivity: Transforming from the Bottom Up
ISBN: 9780230623521 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Age of Productivity offers a look at how the low productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean is preventing the region from catching up with the developed world. The authors look beyond the traditional macro explanations and dig all the way down to the industry and firm level to uncover the causes.
Age of Productivity offers a look at how the low productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean is preventing the region from catching up with the de...
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389,09 zł |
Enterprise Security for the Executive: Setting the Tone from the Top
ISBN: 9780313376603 / Angielski / Twarda / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Enterprise Security for the Executive: Setting the Tone from the Top" is designed to help business executives become familiar with security concepts and techniques to make sure they are able to manage and support the efforts of their security team. It is the first such work to define the leadership role for executives in any business's security apparatus. In "Enterprise Security for the Executive," author Jennifer Bayuk, a highly regarded information security specialist and sought-after consultant and speaker, explains protocols and technologies at just the right level of depth for the... "Enterprise Security for the Executive: Setting the Tone from the Top" is designed to help business executives become familiar with security concep... |
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309,98 zł |