Small Business Enterprise: An Economic Analysis
ISBN: 9780415056816 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The role of small business enterprise in a mature market economy is one of the major issues in contemporary industrial organization, and is the focus of this book. Small Business Enterprise brings new standards of rigour and insight into the study of small firms by importing contemporary ideas from industrial economics and by using up-to-date statistical and econometric techniques. Based on a uniquely rich set of data, Small Business Enterprise focuses on the early period after start-up of the small firm. It investigates competitive niches and how they are established,...
The role of small business enterprise in a mature market economy is one of the major issues in contemporary industrial organization, and is the focus ...
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Paths of Enterprise : The Future of Small Business
ISBN: 9780415057882 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the dramatic flourishing of small scale enterprises in the 1980s can the coming decade support and sustain the small business? The socio-economic restructuring of Britain allowed small businesses to thrive but the way ahead looks less favourable. Factors such as demographic trends and technological developments threaten the economic future of the small firm.
After the dramatic flourishing of small scale enterprises in the 1980s can the coming decade support and sustain the small business? The socio-economi...
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647,13 zł |
Technology and Industrial Growth in Pre-War Japan: The Mitsubishi-Nagasaki Shipyard 1884-1934
ISBN: 9780415065528 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to discredit the myth that has the unique cultural traits' of the Japanese as the key to the country's success, arguing that the more realisable foundation of long-term investment in training and research is responsible.
The book looks at the development of Japan in the pre-War period. Yukiko Fukusaku sees the achievements of this period as central to the present competitiveness of the country's industrial technology. She uses the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard as a case study, looking at technological innovation and training as the keys to long-term stability and economic... This book aims to discredit the myth that has the unique cultural traits' of the Japanese as the key to the country's success, arguing that the more r...
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The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820 : Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain
ISBN: 9780415069342 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition provides an alternative overview of 18th-century British economy. Recent macroeconomic history has discounted many of the achievements of the Industrial Revolution, but this text dissects the characteristics and processes of industry in the 18th century. A male industrial revolution has been presented as the general experience, but new industries, notably in textiles and metal products, were primarily employers of women. This work gives these industries and their workforce due prominence.
This new edition provides an alternative overview of 18th-century British economy. Recent macroeconomic history has discounted many of the achievement...
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698,90 zł |
Heritage and Tourism in The Global Village
ISBN: 9780415072373 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A nation's heritage is one of the most potent forces for generating tourism: the Tower of London is the greatest 'visitor attraction' in Britain. But it is pushed into insignificance by comparison with the visitors travelling to Disneyland, Epcot and the other entertainment complexes in the USA; and it will be dwarfed by Euro-Disneyland east of Paris. So how should heritage attractions respond: should they find their own specific audiences and resources? This book, written by a leading hertage specialist, is essential reading for all those concerned both with heritage and leisure managment....
A nation's heritage is one of the most potent forces for generating tourism: the Tower of London is the greatest 'visitor attraction' in Britain. But ...
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217,38 zł |
World Fisheries Resources
ISBN: 9780415075787 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. World Fisheries Resources provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of how this commodity is used. The author examines the various aspects of fishing resources from their biological basis through to marketing and consumption. The subject is set in context by tracing the historical development, from its archaeological origins to the industrial expansion of the 19th and 20th centuries. The work comes up-to-date to discuss the modern situation and current trends in both the developed and developing worlds, and highlights how exploitation of the resource has increased in recent years. The...
World Fisheries Resources provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of how this commodity is used. The author examines the various aspects of fis...
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595,36 zł |
Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Counselling in Health Care
ISBN: 9780415076616 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Limited resources in health care mean that the value of counselling is decided in a highly competitive economic arena. Keith Tolley and Nancy Rowland have written a practical guide to the basic principles of evaluating cost-effectiveness to enable counsellors and service providers to carry out analysis for themselves. They provide helpful definitions of technical terms and use case studies to demonstrate how to apply the theory in different contexts.
Limited resources in health care mean that the value of counselling is decided in a highly competitive economic arena. Keith Tolley and Nancy Rowland ...
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186,32 zł |
Patterns of European Industrialisation : The Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780415081566 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interest in the historical development of the European economy has been heightened by the collapse of the iron curtain and the approach of 1992 in the European Community. Is the economic history of Europe that of an integrated economy or of many separate economies? This volume illustrates the changes in our understanding of Europe's 19th-century economic development that have taken place in the last 25 years. Alexander Gerschenkron's bold interpretation of European industrialization is a starting point for each of the chapters. His grand synthesis has been challenged by a number of later...
Interest in the historical development of the European economy has been heightened by the collapse of the iron curtain and the approach of 1992 in the...
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543,59 zł |
An Introduction to Agricultural Geography
ISBN: 9780415084420 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Employing nearly half of the world's workforce, agriculture is clearly of great economic and social importance. An incredible variety of methods are used globally; the Western world has the latest scientific and industrial advancements at its disposal, yet in the Third World a living is made using tools that have hardly changed in two thousand years. This text provides an extensive guide through this diverse and increaslingly important geographical subject, aiming to show that a wide range of factors explain how agricultural practices differ from place to place. Dealing with the physical...
Employing nearly half of the world's workforce, agriculture is clearly of great economic and social importance. An incredible variety of methods are u...
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673,02 zł |
An Introduction to Agricultural Geography
ISBN: 9780415084437 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Employing nearly half of the world's workforce, agriculture is clearly of great economic and social importance. An incredible variety of methods are used globally; the Western world has the latest scientific and industrial advancements at its disposal, yet in the Thrid World a living is made using tools that have hardly changed in two thousand years. An Introduction to Agricultural Geography provides an extensive guide through this diverse and increaslingly important geographical subject, aiming to show that a wide range of factors explain how agricultural practices differ from place to...
Employing nearly half of the world's workforce, agriculture is clearly of great economic and social importance. An incredible variety of methods are u...
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258,80 zł |
Industrial Efficiency and State Intervention: Labour 1939-1951
ISBN: 9780415088107 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson describe and assess the Labour Party's development of a policy of improving industrial efficiency. They concentrate on the debates and initiatives of the wartime period and subsequent implementation of policy under Attlee.
The book modifies existing historiography in two ways - it shows that the Labour Party of 1945-51 was concerned mainly with industrial modernization, not with creating the Welfare State, and it tackles the consequently necessary re-evaluation of wider theories about Britain's economic decline. Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson describe and assess the Labour Party's development of a policy of improving industrial efficiency. They concentrate on...
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439,99 zł |
Reluctant Partners? Non-Governmental Organizations, the State and Sustainable Agricultural Development
ISBN: 9780415088435 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reluctant Partners? combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGOs' work in agriculture with wider considerations of their relations with the State and their contribution to democratic pluralism. This overview volume for the Non-Governmental Organizations series contextualizes and synthesizes the case study material in the three regional volumes on Africa, Asia and Latin America, where over sixty specially commissioned case studies of farmer-participatory approaches to agricultural innovation are presented.
Specific questions are raised. How good/bad are NGOs at... Reluctant Partners? combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGOs' work in agriculture with wider considerations of their relations wit...
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217,38 zł |
Reluctant Partners? Non-Governmental Organizations, the State and Sustainable Agricultural Development
ISBN: 9780415088442 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reluctant Partners? combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGOs' work in agriculture with wider considerations of their relations with the State and their contribution to democratic pluralism. This overview volume for the Non-Governmental Organizations series contextualizes and synthesizes the case study material in the three regional volumes on Africa, Asia and Latin America, where over sixty specially commissioned case studies of farmer-participatory approaches to agricultural innovation are presented.
Specific questions are raised. How good/bad are NGOs at... Reluctant Partners? combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGOs' work in agriculture with wider considerations of their relations wit...
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134,55 zł |
Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Latin America: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development
ISBN: 9780415088466 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This presents 20 specially-commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Latin America. Beginning with a broad review of institutional activity at the grassroots, the authors set the case material within the context of NGO relations with the state and their contribution to democratization and the consolidation of rural civil society. Specific questions are raised: how good/bad are NGOs at promoting technological innovation and addressing constraints to change in present agriculture?; how effective are NGOs at strengthening...
This presents 20 specially-commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Latin America....
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284,69 zł |
Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Africa: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development
ISBN: 9780415088497 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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595,36 zł |
Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Africa: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development
ISBN: 9780415088503 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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175,97 zł |
The Global Jukebox: The International Music Industry
ISBN: 9780415092753 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Popular music is with us constantly. It is part of our everyday enviroment and in global terms it is now perhaps the most universal means of communication.
The Global Jukebox is the first comprehensive study of the international music industry at a time of great change, as the entertainment industry acknowledges its ever growing global audience. Robert Burnett provides an international overview of the music business and its future prospects in the UK, Northern Europe and the United States and Canada. He examines the relationship between local and global cultures and between... Popular music is with us constantly. It is part of our everyday enviroment and in global terms it is now perhaps the most universal means of communica...
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698,90 zł |
The Global Jukebox: The International Music Industry
ISBN: 9780415092760 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Popular music is with us constantly. It is part of our everyday enviroment and in global terms it is now perhaps the most universal means of communication.
The Global Jukebox is the first comprehensive study of the international music industry at a time of great change, as the entertainment industry acknowledges its ever growing global audience. Robert Burnett provides an international overview of the music business and its future prospects in the UK, Northern Europe and the United States and Canada. He examines the relationship between local and global cultures and between... Popular music is with us constantly. It is part of our everyday enviroment and in global terms it is now perhaps the most universal means of communica...
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Managing Quality Cultural Tourism
ISBN: 9780415099851 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managing Quality Cultural Tourism is an authoritative look at how to manage cultural tourist sites to best meet the needs of the visitors, the presenters and the site itself. As cultural tourism increases the management of heritage sites becomes more complex. Priscilla Boniface addresses these crucial management issues using a marketing approach to identify the needs of all concerned.
This volume is specifically aimed at professionals and students of leisure, tourism and heritage management. It provides an invaluable background to cultural tourism and then focuses on some... Managing Quality Cultural Tourism is an authoritative look at how to manage cultural tourist sites to best meet the needs of the visitors, t...
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The Steel Industry in Japan: A Comparison with Britain
ISBN: 9780415103862 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Japanese steel industry has experienced both boom and recession over the past 30 years and is now in real decline. This study analyzes the economic, technical and political changes paying particular attention to the impact of modern technology upon employees within the industry. It introduces an important conceptual tool for comparative study: convergence. Challenging the simplistic notion of leader and follower industries, the text utilises this concept to investigate whether the steel industry, and by extension other manufacturing industries, can survive in mature economies.
The Japanese steel industry has experienced both boom and recession over the past 30 years and is now in real decline. This study analyzes the economi...
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647,13 zł |