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Social Responsibility in the Global Market: Fair Trade of Cultural Products
ISBN: 9780761914648 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An alternative for conducting business, which bridges the consumer's social concerns and the producer's financial concerns. Mary Ann Littrell and Marsha Ann Dickson utilize case studies to introduce past successes and failures for seven Alternative Trading Organizations (ATO's).
An alternative for conducting business, which bridges the consumer's social concerns and the producer's financial concerns. Mary Ann Littrell and Mars...
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552,66 |
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Inuit, Whaling, and Sustainability
ISBN: 9780761990635 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whales inspire great fascination in the public culture of industrialized nations. Images of majestic and mysterious creatures of the sea, hunted to or nearly to tragic extinction in a emblematic example of human excess, have fueled the economic and cultural power of this century's global movement to end whale hunting. However, this political movement, and the ecological research it initiated, has largely ignored the experience of Native circumpolar communities, whose vast knowledge of whales and whaling has evolved through centuries of integrated cultural and economic practices rooted in the...
Whales inspire great fascination in the public culture of industrialized nations. Images of majestic and mysterious creatures of the sea, hunted to or...
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227,85 |
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The Managerial Process and Impact of Foreign Investment in Greater China
ISBN: 9780762303151 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 6th volume of Advances in Chinese Industrial Services, focuses on “The Managerial Process and Impact of Foreign Investment in Greater China”
The 6th volume of Advances in Chinese Industrial Services, focuses on “The Managerial Process and Impact of Foreign Investment in Greater China”
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743,09 |
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Dairy Industry Restructuring
ISBN: 9780762304745 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on the 'dairy problem', a complex issue that relates directly to the agricultural debate of the past two decades and that concerns the socioeconomic well-being and life-chances of many farm families and rural communities in most western societies. Dairy industry restructuring is being affected by formidable forces of change: the withdrawal of government protections and price support mechanisms; the explosion of new technologies; the globalization of markets; the rising power of food processors; and the associated discontinuities of modern life. From studies in North...
This volume focuses on the 'dairy problem', a complex issue that relates directly to the agricultural debate of the past two decades and that concerns...
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576,59 |
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Organizational Politics
ISBN: 9780762306329 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work on organizational politics is part of a series that considers the theoretical, methodological and research issues relevant to organizational sociology. Both micro and macro sociological approaches are emphasized.
This work on organizational politics is part of a series that considers the theoretical, methodological and research issues relevant to organizational...
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935,18 |
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Social Structure and Organizations Revisited
ISBN: 9780762308729 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work brings together empirical research and thematic commentaries which chart out research directions for politically-inflected studies of organizational and institutional change. The chapters give practical voice to the theoretical questions and research designs of an emerging agenda for organization theory that engages questions about broader social structure and organizations with theory in cultural analysis, stratification, and entrepreneurship. industry in the 19th century, studies of the organizational vitality of contemporary evangelical Protestantism, the emergence of gay and...
This work brings together empirical research and thematic commentaries which chart out research directions for politically-inflected studies of organi...
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520,45 |
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Retracing Public Administration
ISBN: 9780762309566 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is public administration? How can we identify it and characterize it? The meaning of public administration seems more problematic than ever after the late 20th century cry for privatization. Some argue there is no need to elucidate the meaning of public administration, others stick to more limited notions like public management or introduce new vocabulary such as governance. administration. Before discarding public administration, a more profound analysis of its meaning is preeminent. Where did the concept originate, why and how was it grounded, and can we perhaps (re)establish its...
What is public administration? How can we identify it and characterize it? The meaning of public administration seems more problematic than ever after...
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449,01 |
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Food, Agriculture, and Economic Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 9780762309924 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together a set of studies analyzing different aspects of food and agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This sector is of crucial importance to the MENA economies, especially in terms of employment. Agriculture is particularly important for the poor, both on the consumption side - a large part of their budget is allocated to food - and as a source of incomes as most of the poor live in rural areas where agriculture dominates. Agriculture production in MENA is severely constrained by water scarcity and low, irregular rainfall. Sustainability is a major...
This volume brings together a set of studies analyzing different aspects of food and agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This sect...
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551,07 |
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Legitimacy Processes in Organizations
ISBN: 9780762310081 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this volume is to produce a collection of articles by leading social psychologists and organizational scholars that focus on legitimacy processes in organizations. Over the last two decades in social psychology within sociology, scholars have developed legitimacy theories that strive to show how legitimacy processes merge into structures.
Also, in organizational research, issues of legitimacy processes are of central concern - for example, in neoinstitutional theory. Therefore, it is worthwhile to devote a volume that will address specifically how these... The purpose of this volume is to produce a collection of articles by leading social psychologists and organizational scholars that focus on legitimacy...
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525,56 |
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Employee Participation, Firm Performance and Survival
ISBN: 9780762311149 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The papers presented in this volume explore empirical studies of the survival of participatory and labour-managed firms, offer new approaches and insights into the performance effects of participatory firms, and assess the experience of employee ownership and participation in transition.
The papers presented in this volume explore empirical studies of the survival of participatory and labour-managed firms, offer new approaches and insi...
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849,24 |
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Product Innovation, Interactive Learning and Economic Performance
ISBN: 9780762311569 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this book is to contribute to the understanding of product innovation - how it takes place and how it affects firms and the economy. It links product innovation to interactive learning and to the performance of firms. It studies the interconnections between these three elements on the basis of unique data sets and detailed case studies. The book will prove helpful for managers, employees and policy makers as well as for scholars and students who want to understand the role of product innovation in the economy. In the book it is shown that product innovation is of major importance....
The aim of this book is to contribute to the understanding of product innovation - how it takes place and how it affects firms and the economy. It lin...
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864,41 |
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Issues in Corporate Governance and Finance
ISBN: 9780762313730 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The papers in this volume deal with the role played by boards of directors, impact of ownership, executive compensation, investor protection, stock repurchases, default, banking, financial sector development, and the Asian financial crisis.
The papers in this volume deal with the role played by boards of directors, impact of ownership, executive compensation, investor protection, stock re...
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454,11 |
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A Tour with Texaco(r)
ISBN: 9780764303609 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This colorful and informative book is the latest offering by Rick Pease. Rick's fourth book is filled with more than 800 photographs of Texaco items dating back to the early 1900s. Touring with Texaco will take you on a pictorial tour of the many U.S. and foreign products produced Texaco. Also included are some very interesting and nostalgic black and white photographs of early Texaco stations around the world. For anyone interested in petroleum collectibles, especially those made by Texaco, this definitive guide will give you a good look at a broad range of items collectors are looking for.
This colorful and informative book is the latest offering by Rick Pease. Rick's fourth book is filled with more than 800 photographs of Texaco items d...
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163,24 |
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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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142,83 |
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International Joint Ventures: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780765604736 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The international joint venture (IJV) remains the primary vehicle by which multi-national corporations expand globally. This book addresses theories, practical lessons and critical issues, such as culture and human resources, that affect IJVs.
The international joint venture (IJV) remains the primary vehicle by which multi-national corporations expand globally. This book addresses theories, ...
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1066,53 |
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International Joint Ventures: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780765604743 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The international joint venture (IJV) remains the primary vehicle by which multi-national corporations expand globally. This book addresses theories, practical lessons and critical issues, such as culture and human resources, that affect IJVs.
The international joint venture (IJV) remains the primary vehicle by which multi-national corporations expand globally. This book addresses theories, ...
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242,34 |
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Industry Studies
ISBN: 9780765609632 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring new chapters on casino gambling and the nursing home industry, and updated throughout, the new edition of this highly readable work analyzes well-defined industries from commodities and manufacturing to distribution and services, showing how firms compete with one another. Each study gives appropriate attention to government policies that have influenced competitive conditions in the industry, and the material is presented without the use of calculus so that anyone with some background in economic principles can benefit from it. The book provides balance in regard to the mix of...
Featuring new chapters on casino gambling and the nursing home industry, and updated throughout, the new edition of this highly readable work analyzes...
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921,09 |
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Industry Studies
ISBN: 9780765609649 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The studies in this volume analyse well-defined industries, from commodities and manufacturing to distribution and services, showing how firms compete with one another. Each study gives appropriate attention to government policies that have influenced competitive conditions in the industry.
The studies in this volume analyse well-defined industries, from commodities and manufacturing to distribution and services, showing how firms compete...
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213,26 |
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Tracking America's Economy
ISBN: 9780765612403 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This completely revised and updated edition of Norman Frumkin's acclaimed work offers vital information for the urgent growing debate on the state of the nation's economy. Frumkin makes complex ideas and statistical data accessible to people without special training in economics. His goal in this book is to provide a better understanding of the performance of the American economy, and a basis for evaluating proposals intended to influence its future course. Using data current through the first half of 2003, Frumkin focuses on the meaning and use of a wide array of indicators of economic...
This completely revised and updated edition of Norman Frumkin's acclaimed work offers vital information for the urgent growing debate on the state of ...
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702,94 |
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Enterprise Restructuring and the Role of Managers in Russia: Case Studies of Firms in Transition
ISBN: 9780765614261 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the story of what might have been considered an unlikely source of dynamic change in Russia - formerly state-owned manufacturing enterprises and their managers. Based on interviews conducted over a six-year span with managers at 47 manufacturing, light industry, consumer durable, and food processing firms in four Russian cities, the study documents the real world challenge of turning hidebound, often dysfunctional manufacturing operations into thriving companies. With analytical rigor and theoretical creativity, this work will dispel some common misconceptions about the...
This book tells the story of what might have been considered an unlikely source of dynamic change in Russia - formerly state-owned manufacturing enter...
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872,61 |