ilość książek w kategorii: 2568
Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800
ISBN: 9780198202370 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this broad-ranging interdisciplinary study, Raven explores literature and the book trade in the second half of the eighteenth century. Based on intensive research into the production and sale of literature ranging from novels and periodical essays to courtesy books and popular manuals, the book examines the representation of the newly wealthy. Raven challenges the notion that prejudice against the businessman was a late nineteenth-century phenomenon. He shows how, during a period of often bewildering change and instability, a competitive literature industry led reaction against excessive...
In this broad-ranging interdisciplinary study, Raven explores literature and the book trade in the second half of the eighteenth century. Based on int...
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844,76 zł |
Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes
ISBN: 9780198280767 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our lives are shaped to an enormous extent, and often in unperceived ways, by large multinational corporations. How are the growth, power, and significance of these big businesses to be explained and understood? Focusing on issues of ownership, control, and class formation, Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes explores the implications of these changes in the nature of big business
Our lives are shaped to an enormous extent, and often in unperceived ways, by large multinational corporations. How are the growth, power, and signifi...
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784,86 zł |
The History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 1: Before 1700: Towards the Age of Coal
ISBN: 9780198282822 / Angielski / Twarda / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first volume which completes the definitive five-volume History of the British Coal Industry. Well before 1700 Britain had become heavily dependent upon coal for its fuel, and coal mining had taken its place among the nation's staple industries. Hatcher traces the production and trade of coal from the intermittent small-scale activity which prevailed in the Middle Ages to the rapid expansion and rising importance which characterized the early modern era. Thoroughly grounded in a formidable range of sources, the book explores the economics and management of mining, the productivity...
This is the first volume which completes the definitive five-volume History of the British Coal Industry. Well before 1700 Britain had become heavily ...
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1192,11 zł |
Foundations of Corporate Success: How Business Strategies Add Value
ISBN: 9780198287810 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did BMW recover from the verge of bankruptcy to become one of the Europe's strongest companies? Why did Saatchi and Saatchi's global strategy bring the company to its knees? Why has Philips outstanding record in innovation not been translated into success in the market? What can be learned from the marriage contract about the conduct of commercial negotiations? These are some of the questions addressed as John Kay asks What makes a business successful?
How did BMW recover from the verge of bankruptcy to become one of the Europe's strongest companies? Why did Saatchi and Saatchi's global strategy brin...
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904,64 zł |
The New Public Management in Action
ISBN: 9780198289036 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses changes which have occurred in the organization and management of the United Kingdom public services over the last 15 years. The authors present an up to date analysis around three main themes: the transfer of private sector models to the public sector; the management of change in the public sector; management reorganization and change. In doing so, they examine to what extent has a New Public Management emerged and ask whether this is a parochial UK development or of wider international significance. This is a topical and important issue in management training,...
This book analyses changes which have occurred in the organization and management of the United Kingdom public services over the last 15 years. The au...
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485,42 zł |
From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism: Essays in Business and Industrial History in Honour of Peter Mathias
ISBN: 9780198290469 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What explains the growth of a business, and more broadly the development or decline of a whole economy? What role does a particular entrepreneur or indeed a culture of entrepreneurship play? Does the evidence suggest that a particular structure or organizational form was or should be adopted to ensure best practice and commercial success? These fundamental questions have long preoccupied business and economic historians. With the current expansion of business and management education and training, the investigations and findings of the historian may have wider significance and relevance.
... What explains the growth of a business, and more broadly the development or decline of a whole economy? What role does a particular entrepreneur or in...
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844,76 zł |
Technology, Organization, and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change
ISBN: 9780198290964 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together ideas of leading thinkers in business strategy, organization studies, and innovation, this book explores the dynamics of competitiveness and the origins of the firm's capabilities. Contributors include David Teece, Oliver Williamson, Richard Nelson, Mark Granovetter, Gary Hamilton, Martin Fransman, Keith Pavitt, and William Lazonick.
Bringing together ideas of leading thinkers in business strategy, organization studies, and innovation, this book explores the dynamics of competitive...
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521,35 zł |
Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive
ISBN: 9780198295952 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do firms cope with changing environments? Is flexibility really the solution? Based on an Igor Ansoff Award winning study, Building the Flexible Firm shows how flexibility has become the new strategic challenge for contemporary firms. Offering a wealth of insights and based on extensive interviews with practitioners, Henk Volberda provides a strategic framework which explains what types of flexibility are effective under different organizational conditions and environmental characteristics. He also demonstrates an integrated method for diagnosing a firm's flexibility and for guiding the...
How do firms cope with changing environments? Is flexibility really the solution? Based on an Igor Ansoff Award winning study, Building the Flexible F...
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269,82 zł |
Contemporary Industrial Relations
ISBN: 9780198773887 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "New Industrial Relations" thesis maintains that fundamental change has occurred in British industrial relations sufficient to warrant a re-evaluation of the workplace relationship. In this book leading figures in the field review the assumptions of this argument and the evidence. Topics include the development of HRM policies; employment legislation; changes in union membership, structures and activity; Japanization; changes in the public sector.
The "New Industrial Relations" thesis maintains that fundamental change has occurred in British industrial relations sufficient to warrant a re-evalua...
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269,82 zł |
Firms, Organizations and Contracts: A Reader in Industrial Organization
ISBN: 9780198774358 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The operations of the firm lie at the heart of studying business and business economics. This volume--the first in the new Oxford Management Readers Series--brings together the classic articles analyzing the role of firms and the relations between them, focusing particularly on the increasingly widespread idea that a firm is based on a set of internal and external contracts. The book will be an invaluable tool for teachers and students of business, economics, and management. The editors' Introduction provides an accessible overview, and Nobel prizewinner Ronald Coase contributes a...
The operations of the firm lie at the heart of studying business and business economics. This volume--the first in the new Oxford Management Readers S...
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1192,11 zł |
Firms, Organizations and Contracts: A Reader in Industrial Organization
ISBN: 9780198774365 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The operations of the firm lie at the heart of studying business and business economics. This volume--the first in the new Oxford Management Readers Series--brings together the classic articles analyzing the role of firms and the relations between them, focusing particularly on the increasingly widespread idea that a firm is based on a set of internal and external contracts. The book will be an invaluable tool for teachers and students of business, economics, and management. The editors' Introduction provides an accessible overview, and Nobel prizewinner Ronald Coase contributes a...
The operations of the firm lie at the heart of studying business and business economics. This volume--the first in the new Oxford Management Readers S...
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451,88 zł |
Creating Corporate Reputations : Identity, Image and Performance
ISBN: 9780199241637 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent research suggests that corporate reputations are a valuable strategic asset for every company. This book outlines how high-status companies become corporate super brands and it presents managers with a framework to proactively enhance their corporation's desired reputation. Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, executive seminars, and consulting experience, Dowling emphasizes the roles that customer value and organizational culture play in the reputation-building process and exposes the limitations of corporate advertising, sponsorships, and minor corporate identity change.
Recent research suggests that corporate reputations are a valuable strategic asset for every company. This book outlines how high-status companies bec...
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250,65 zł |
The Making of Modern Management: British Management in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9780199261581 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors provide an historical account of the evolution of modern management in the UK. The book draws on archival and secondary sources and addresses such issues as the particular context of management in the UK; the development of management as a profession; management and economic performance; and the spread of management education and ideas.
The authors provide an historical account of the evolution of modern management in the UK. The book draws on archival and secondary sources and addres...
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327,31 zł |
The Microsoft Way
ISBN: 9780201327977 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An engaging look at Microsoft's success"--The San Francisco Chronicle
"An engaging look at Microsoft's success"--The San Francisco Chronicle
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93,51 zł |
Making America Corporate, 1870-1920
ISBN: 9780226994604 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking study, Oliver Zunz examines how the growth of corporations changed
In this groundbreaking study, Oliver Zunz examines how the growth of corporations changed
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149,06 zł |
The Future of Pricing: How Airline Ticket Pricing Has Inspired a Revolution
ISBN: 9780230600195 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A story about science, technology, and people, The Future of Pricing provides an inside look at how airlines price tickets and how practices developed in the airline industry are now revolutionizing the world of pricing. This book is written for business professionals and students wanting to better understand the rapid growth of scientific pricing.
A story about science, technology, and people, The Future of Pricing provides an inside look at how airlines price tickets and how practices developed...
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190,06 zł |
Morals and Markets: An Evolutionary Account of the Modern World
ISBN: 9780230600973 / Angielski / Twarda / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economist and evolutionary game theorist Daniel Friedman demonstrates that our moral codes and our market systems-while often in conflict-are really devices evolved to achieve similar ends, and that society functions best when morals and markets are in balance with each other.
Economist and evolutionary game theorist Daniel Friedman demonstrates that our moral codes and our market systems-while often in conflict-are really d...
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140,64 zł |
A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture
ISBN: 9780231118781 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each year in the United States, millions of mass-produced greeting cards proclaim their occasional messages: "For My Loving Daughter," "On the Occasion of Your Marriage," and "It's a Boy " For more than 150 years, greeting cards have tapped into and organized a shared language of love, affection, and kinship, becoming an integral part of American life and culture. Contemporary incarnations of these emotional transactions performed through small bits of decorated paper are often dismissed as vacuous cliches employing worn-out stereotypes. Nevertheless, the relationship of greeting cards to...
Each year in the United States, millions of mass-produced greeting cards proclaim their occasional messages: "For My Loving Daughter," "On the Occasio...
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489,76 zł |
Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry
ISBN: 9780252071041 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of the earthmoving equipment industry. It examines the increase in the scope of mining and construction projects, from the Suez Canal through the interstate highway system, made possible by innovations in earthmoving machinery. It traces the efforts of manufacturers in meeting the needs of the construction and mining industries.
A history of the earthmoving equipment industry. It examines the increase in the scope of mining and construction projects, from the Suez Canal throug...
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136,50 zł |
Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might
ISBN: 9780252072338 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making Steel chronicles the rise and fall of American steel by focusing on the fateful decisions made at the world's once largest steel mill at Sparrows Point, Maryland. Mark Reutter examines the business, production, and daily lives of workers as corporate leaders became more interested in their own security and enrichment than in employees, community, or innovative technology. This edition marks the return of a classic and features 26 pages of photos, a new preface, and afterword.
Making Steel chronicles the rise and fall of American steel by focusing on the fateful decisions made at the world's once largest steel mill at Sparro...
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116,27 zł |