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From Roots to Branches: The History of Olive Branch, Mississippi
ISBN: 9781481751391 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "From Roots to Branches" is a reader-friendly, historical overview of the development of one of the United States' fastest growing cities, Olive Branch, Mississippi.
"From Roots to Branches" is a reader-friendly, historical overview of the development of one of the United States' fastest growing cities, Olive Branc...
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Sinophobia: The Huawei Story
ISBN: 9781482006735 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sinophobia: The Huawei Story is an exhaustive study of the firm's rise to global prominence and the subsequent difficulties it has encountered in trying to enter the U.S. market. Employing over 1,000 reports from academia, blogs, media sources, and techie news sites, I have been able to assemble the evidence that suggests the U.S. Congress has been engaged in a witch hunt-and reveal some of the warts Huawei has exposed in its business practices over the last 25 years. Prologue: A brief history of Sinophobia in the United States since Chinese immigrants first came to work the California gold...
Sinophobia: The Huawei Story is an exhaustive study of the firm's rise to global prominence and the subsequent difficulties it has encountered in tryi...
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Construction Management for Public Agency Professionals: Introduction to Construction Management for Professionals With No Previous Construction Exper
ISBN: 9781480159976 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book written for public agency professionals with little or no previous education, training or experience in construction. Often, professionals in government are tasked to become involved in capital projects...managers, administrators, accountants, facility operators, investigators, auditors, affirmative action compliance personnel and others. This book provides a single, comprehensive, easy to read reference covering the major elements of construction and the issues that arise in public agency construction.
This is the first book written for public agency professionals with little or no previous education, training or experience in construction. Often, pr...
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The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U. S. and U.K.
ISBN: 9780195040333 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Driven by declining profits and government regulation, a new form of class-wide business leadership has emerged: a transcorporate network that is giving a new coherence and power to business in both America and Britain. This book delineates the "inner circle" of top executives who play a leading role in this network, advising the highest levels of government and working to promote a political environment favorable to all business.
Driven by declining profits and government regulation, a new form of class-wide business leadership has emerged: a transcorporate network that is givi...
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The Economics of the European Patent System: IP Policy for Innovation and Competition
ISBN: 9780199216987 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why does society allow, or even encourage, private appropriation of inventions? When do patents encourage competition, when do they hamper it? How should society design the compromise between the interest of the inventor and the interest of the users of patented inventions? How should the patent system adapt to new technological areas?
These questions and many more are addressed by the authors in this groundbreaking analysis of the economics behind the European patent system. Beginning with the history and principles of the patent system, the book then examines the economic effects of... Why does society allow, or even encourage, private appropriation of inventions? When do patents encourage competition, when do they hamper it? How sho...
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition
ISBN: 9780199535927 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, The Wealth of Nations actually shows that Adam Smith viewed capitalism with a deep suspicion, and tempered his celebration of a self-regulating market with a darker vision of the dehumanizing potential of a profit-oriented society. Smith did not write an economics textbook, but rather a panoramic narrative about the struggle for individual liberty and general prosperity in history. This edition includes generous selections from all five books of The Wealth of Nations. It...
While it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, The Wealth of Nations actually show...
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Digital Government at Work: A Social Informatics Perspective
ISBN: 9780199557721 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past decade, putting public services on-line has been a focus of huge policy and financial investments aimed at providing more joined-up service delivery. For some this is part of a transformation that is bringing about a new era of integrated digital government. For others digitalization means threats to privacy and security and a strengthening of bureaucracy.
In the UK and beyond, front-line service providers and citizens have been slow to take up digital services whilst major projects have floundered. This book takes a fresh look at this vital area for public policy and... Over the past decade, putting public services on-line has been a focus of huge policy and financial investments aimed at providing more joined-up serv...
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Oxford Handbook of Business and Government
ISBN: 9780199693740 / Angielski / Miękka / 808 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides an introduction to the ways in which five different disciplines have approached the study of business and government. It examines how business interacts with government in different parts of the world, including the United States, the EU, China, Japan and South America.
This text provides an introduction to the ways in which five different disciplines have approached the study of business and government. It examines h...
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Global Action Networks: Creating Our Future Together
ISBN: 9780230285484 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world's governments are overwhelmed with climate change, war and unrest, the global financial crisis and poverty but there is a promising invention in Global Action Networks (GANs). GANs mobilize resources, bridge divides and promote the long-term deep change and innovation work that is needed to address the global challenges.
The world's governments are overwhelmed with climate change, war and unrest, the global financial crisis and poverty but there is a promising inventio...
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The WTO Primer: Tracing Trade's Visible Hand Through Case Studies
ISBN: 9780230600218 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the WTO from its post-WWII beginnings in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade through a series of negotiated enhancements of these agreements. It describes the WTO's origins, structure, and growing pains as it has had to face challenges from within and without.
This book describes the WTO from its post-WWII beginnings in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade through a series of negotiated enhancements of...
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The British Citizenship Test For Dummies
ISBN: 9780470723395 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes chapters 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 from the Home Office's Life in the United Kingdom book. This fully updated edition of The British Citizenship Test For Dummies covers all the most up to date information that you need to know to pass the latest UK Government's Life in the UK test - valid for tests taken after April 2007.
Includes chapters 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 from the Home Office's Life in the United Kingdom book. This fully updated edition of The British Citizenship T...
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Branding for the Public Sector: Creating, Building and Managing Brands People Will Value
ISBN: 9781118756317 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to apply for-profit marketing strategies to non-profit organizations
Branding for the Public Sector presents powerful and effective branding strategies for the public sector illustrated through case studies and examples. The book covers branding architecture, brand vision, market research, brand perception, engagement, communication, managing brand change and much more. Additionally, the book highlights the future of public sector branding and how organizations in the public sector may be a key driver of economic growth and prosperity through the twenty-first century. Branding... How to apply for-profit marketing strategies to non-profit organizations
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Globalization and Welfare: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 9781403901668 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rollback of the welfare state in advanced industrial democracies is often justified as the inevitable consequence of economic globalization. This reader provides a collection of inter-disciplinary essays by sixteen leading scholars in the field that rebuke the 'inevitability thesis' on welfare state restructuration.
The rollback of the welfare state in advanced industrial democracies is often justified as the inevitable consequence of economic globalization. This ...
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Paths to Making a Difference: Leading in Government
ISBN: 9781442213081 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives succeed in accomplishing an administration's objectives, business in government experts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findings of a two year's study of top political appointees in the Obama administration. The participants--deputy secretaries and agency heads--provide case studies of how each approaches the management challenges and achieves the mission of their organization. Full of behind-the-scenes insights and practical advice from government political executives on how they face management...
To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives succeed in accomplishing an administration's objectives, business in gover...
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The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
ISBN: 9781591844402 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An essential guide to the future of the world economy." -David Smick, author of "The World is Curved" A number of authoritarian governments, drawn to the economic power of capitalism but wary of uncontrolled free markets, have invented something new: state capitalism. In this system, governments use markets to create wealth that can be directed as political officials see fit. As an expert on the intersection between economics and politics, Ian Bremmer is uniquely qualified to illustrate the rise of state capitalism and its long-term threat to the global economy. The main characters in... "An essential guide to the future of the world economy." -David Smick, author of "The World is Curved" A number of authoritarian governments, dra... |
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Government and Business: American Political Economy in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9781608710171 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the nexus of government and business in some of the world's most prominent industrial nations, the author explores the strategies adopted by business to influence governmental acdtions and analyzes the public policies that bind business to the state.
Examining the nexus of government and business in some of the world's most prominent industrial nations, the author explores the strategies adopted by...
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China's State-Owned Enterprises: Nature, Performance and Reform
ISBN: 9789814383844 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides a detailed description about State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) in China with respect to both efficiency and distribution. This book is a good reference for those researchers on the subject with a large number of data and information about SOEs. It is also suitable for ordinary people and students of social sciences to learn about SOEs.
Provides a detailed description about State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) in China with respect to both efficiency and distribution. This book is a good re...
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Strategic Management in Public Organizations: European Practices and Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415729871 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strategic management has often been seen as theoretically 'incompatible' with the political and bureaucratic character of public organizations. At the practical level, there is an increasing absorption of strategic management models in government and public services across Europe - and not without some pitfalls. Taking into account the political dimensions, not least the relationship between elected politicians on one hand and civil servants and public managers on the other, this book demonstrates the confusion and complexity surrounding the interaction between democracy, policy making, and...
Strategic management has often been seen as theoretically 'incompatible' with the political and bureaucratic character of public organizations. At the...
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Tapping the Markets: Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Water and Sanitation for the Poor
ISBN: 9781464801341 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What steps are needed to enable the domestic private sector to expand its role in the provision of safe water and improved sanitation to the poor in developing countries? Is an expanded role constrained because of limited market potential, are business models unable to support an expansion of supply, or do government policy and the broader climate for investment inhibit enterprises? Tapping the Markets: Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Water and Sanitation for the Poor presents the results of a detailed examination of market opportunities for the domestic private sector in the...
What steps are needed to enable the domestic private sector to expand its role in the provision of safe water and improved sanitation to the poor in d...
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102,18 |
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The Economic Viability of Micropolitan America
ISBN: 9781466513686 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the global recession of 2008 and beyond took hold of the American economy, smaller markets were disproportionately affected by job losses as well as the resultant brain drains, tax base reductions, diminished housing values, and diminishment of their overall quality of life. So it is not surprising that these smaller markets face unique challenges during recovery. The Economic Viability of Micropolitan America addresses the economic history and future of small cities and towns across the country, as they have and will continue to see dramatic shifts in the roles they play in the... As the global recession of 2008 and beyond took hold of the American economy, smaller markets were disproportionately affected by job losses as wel... |
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