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Product Strategy for High Technology Companies
ISBN: 9780071362467 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the key determinants of success for today's high-technology companies is product strategy--and this guide continues to be the only book on product strategy written specifically for the 21st century high-tech industry. More than 250 examples from technological leaders including IBM, Compaq, and Apple--plus a new focus on growth strategies and on Internet businesses--define how high-tech companies can use product strategy and product platform strategy for competitiveness, profitability, and growth in the Internet age.
One of the key determinants of success for today's high-technology companies is product strategy--and this guide continues to be the only book on prod...
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243,26 |
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Cost-Justifying Usability: An Update for the Internet Age
ISBN: 9780120958115 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You just know that an improvement of the user interface will reap rewards, but how do you justify the expense and the labor and the time-guarantee a robust ROI -ahead of time? How do you decide how much of an investment should be funded? And what is the best way to sell usability to others? In this completely revised and new edition of Cost-Justifying Usability, Randolph G. Bias (University of Texas at Austin, with 25 years' experience as a usability practitioner and manager) and Deborah J. Mayhew (internationally recognized usability consultant and author of two other... You just know that an improvement of the user interface will reap rewards, but how do you justify the expense and the labor and the time-guarantee ... |
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320,57 |
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Essence of Creativity: A Guide to Tackling Difficult Problems
ISBN: 9780195060171 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging problems both attract and repel us. They frustrate us, accelerate our pulses, cause ulcers, and perhaps even curtail our lifespans. On the other hand, the knotty problems of life offer us food for thought, sustaining our creativity, and adding emotional spice to the human experience. We encounter difficult tasks day in and day out. The solutions to these problems must be sought with resourcefulness and creativity, for until now we have had little insight into the nature of these tasks, and even less into methods for resolving them. This unique book explores the nature of...
Challenging problems both attract and repel us. They frustrate us, accelerate our pulses, cause ulcers, and perhaps even curtail our lifespans. On the...
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926,73 |
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Technology Transfer in International Business
ISBN: 9780195062359 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important collection examines the means by which technological knowledge is transferred from countries that develop it to those who need it. Written by well-known authorities and derived from a conference held at the University of California and sponsored by IBEAR (International Business Education Research Program), the contributions focus on the transfer of technology from Western countries to Asian countries.
This important collection examines the means by which technological knowledge is transferred from countries that develop it to those who need it. Writ...
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765,66 |
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Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations
ISBN: 9780195085846 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the latest research and theory about organizational evolutionary change. It brings together the work of organization theorists who have played key roles in challenging the orthodox adaptation views that prevailed until the beginning of the 1980s. Joel A.C. Baum and Jitendra V. Singh emphasize hierarchy of evolutionary processes at the intraorganizational level, the organizational level, the population level, and the community level. Derived from a conference held at the Stern School of Business at New York University, Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations is...
This book presents the latest research and theory about organizational evolutionary change. It brings together the work of organization theorists who ...
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880,71 |
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The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy
ISBN: 9780195089042 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new international economy is today the single most important factor shaping relations between employers, unions, and governments in the world's advanced industrial societies. While companies compete in global markets with firms around the world, workers remain fixed in each country and are influenced by local customs and institutions. mores. This book explores how globalization affects the contemporary workplace and how workplace policies can make nations more internationally competitive. Unlike other country-by-country treatments of the subject, this analysis compares and contrasts the...
The new international economy is today the single most important factor shaping relations between employers, unions, and governments in the world's ad...
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139,71 |
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Dragon Multinational: A New Model for Global Growth
ISBN: 9780195121469 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The conventional view of globalization sees it as a process driven by giant firms from the Triad regions of North America, Europe, and Japan, shaping the world in their own image. This book contests such a view, describing the extraordinary success of a handful of multinationals from the "Periphery" in globalizing their operations extremely rapidly. Focusing on Acer, the Taiwanese IT company; the Hong Leong hotel group of Singapore; Ispat International in steel; Cemex of Mexico in cement; and Li and Fung from Hong Kong in contract manufacturing, Mathews demonstrates that these firms have been...
The conventional view of globalization sees it as a process driven by giant firms from the Triad regions of North America, Europe, and Japan, shaping ...
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466,52 |
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Organizational Change in 100 Days: A Fast Forward Guide
ISBN: 9780195153125 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an age of rapidly changing technology, shifting global opportunities, and activist shareholders, executives are expected to respond quickly. These executives are seeking tools that will allow them to keep a step ahead of changes in the business environment, because they are critically aware of the fact that slow change equals slow death.Organizational Change in 100 Days: A Fast Forward Guide is one such tool. Developed to be used as a companion to Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days, this book provides exercises and worksheets that will allow the reader to...
In an age of rapidly changing technology, shifting global opportunities, and activist shareholders, executives are expected to respond quickly. These ...
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181,14 |
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Boards at Work: How Directors View Their Roles and Responsibilities
ISBN: 9780198288763 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first detailed analysis of the internal working and the external relationships of the boards of Britain's leading companies. Responding to calls for greater scrutiny of boards, this book presents an in-depth examination of directors of UK public companies, a survey of company secretaries, and four case studies of UK PLCs (BAA, Burmah Castrol, Securicor, and Allied Domecq), finding boards to be important devices in maintaining the strategic framework of the organization.
This is the first detailed analysis of the internal working and the external relationships of the boards of Britain's leading companies. Responding to...
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264,02 |
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The Dynamic Firm: The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions
ISBN: 9780198290520 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Business Strategy is becoming increasingly pluralist, drawing on the insights of different disciplines and business practice in different parts of the world. This book brings together the work and ideas of leading international scholars working in the field under three main headings--Technology, Strategy and Organization, and Regions--to explore from different perspectives the dynamic interplay between the technology of a firm; its strategies; organizational choices; and issues of place, region, and location. Together, the contributors address the challenge of explaining the long-run...
Business Strategy is becoming increasingly pluralist, drawing on the insights of different disciplines and business practice in different parts of the...
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777,16 |
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Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy
ISBN: 9780198290865 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is now widely recognized that the effective management of knowledge assets is a key requirement for securing competitive advantage in the emerging information economy. Yet the physical and institutional differences between tangible assets and knowledge assets remains poorly understood. If we are to meet the challenges of the information economy, then we need a new approach to property rights based on a deeper theoretical understanding of knowledge assets.
This clear, accessible study provides some of the key building blocks needed for a theory of knowledge assets. Boisot develops a... It is now widely recognized that the effective management of knowledge assets is a key requirement for securing competitive advantage in the emerging ...
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777,16 |
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A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy
ISBN: 9780198292517 / Angielski / Twarda / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the destruction of its social and economic infrastructure during the Second World War, Japan's subsequent remarkable recovery and growth propelled it rapidly into the ranks of the developed nations. In order to trace this post-war transformation formally, the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) convened a committee of independent academics to compile a seventeen-volume History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy, of which this volume acts as a summary. Translated for the first time into English, it examines the planning, drafting, and implementation of...
Despite the destruction of its social and economic infrastructure during the Second World War, Japan's subsequent remarkable recovery and growth prope...
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742,64 |
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Trust Within and Between Organizations: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Applications
ISBN: 9780198293187 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This original book is the first to offer a wide-ranging study of trust within and between organizations from the perspective of several social and management sciences. The specially commissioned contributions, many from well-known experts combine theoretical analysis of problems around trust with empirical study in a range of different organizations in contexts such as China, Japan, India, the US, as well as several European countries. The wide theoretical scope, together with the range of organizational settings and the rich empirical detail of behavior around trust and opportunism, make...
This original book is the first to offer a wide-ranging study of trust within and between organizations from the perspective of several social and man...
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731,14 |
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Divergent Capitalisms - The Social Structuring and Change of Business Systems
ISBN: 9780198293965 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the comparative business systems framework for describing and explaining the major differences in economic organization between market economies in the late-twentieth century. This framework identifies the critical variations in coordination and control systems across forms of industrial capitalism, and shows how these are connected to major differences in their institutional contexts. Six major types of business system are identified and linked to different institutional arrangements. Significant differences in post-war East Asian business systems and the ways in which...
This book presents the comparative business systems framework for describing and explaining the major differences in economic organization between mar...
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823,18 |
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The Arts of Leadership
ISBN: 9780198294450 / Angielski / Twarda / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grint investigates the notion of leadership in a series of historical case studies and rich essay portraits of some of the world's most famous leaders.
Grint investigates the notion of leadership in a series of historical case studies and rich essay portraits of some of the world's most famous leaders...
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765,66 |
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China's Leap Into the Information Age: Innovation and Organization in the Computer Industry
ISBN: 9780198295372 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes an inside look at the development of four large Chinese domestic computer enterprises from their inception to their establishment as multi-billion dollar businesses. It shows how and why indigenous Chinese high-tech firms gained technology capabilities and modern marketing know-how, and how they were able to compete directly with Western multinationals.
This book takes an inside look at the development of four large Chinese domestic computer enterprises from their inception to their establishment as m...
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314,64 |
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The Dynamic Firm: The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions
ISBN: 9780198296041 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Business Strategy is becoming increasingly pluralist, drawing on the insights of different disciplines and business practice in different parts of the world. This book brings together the work and ideas of leading international scholars working in the field under three main headings--Technology, Strategy and Organization, and Regions--to explore from different perspectives the dynamic interplay between the technology of a firm; its strategies; organizational choices; and issues of place, region, and location. Together, the contributors address the challenge of explaining the long-run...
Business Strategy is becoming increasingly pluralist, drawing on the insights of different disciplines and business practice in different parts of the...
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466,52 |
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The Flexible Firm: Capability Management in Network Organizations
ISBN: 9780198296515 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a detailed account of the network-like organizational forms that some firms are adopting to make themselves more flexible and responsive to changing technologies and customer demands. As these organizations become more pervasive, the winners will be those firms that develop the specific capabilities that are needed to thrive in a networked world.
This book provides a detailed account of the network-like organizational forms that some firms are adopting to make themselves more flexible and respo...
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264,02 |
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The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities
ISBN: 9780198296805 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, the editors and a team of distinguished international contributors analyse the nature of organizational capabilities--how organizations do things, use their knowledge base, and diffuse that knowledge in a competitive environment.
In this book, the editors and a team of distinguished international contributors analyse the nature of organizational capabilities--how organizations ...
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857,70 |
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Cooperative Strategy: Economic, Business, and Organizational Issues
ISBN: 9780198296898 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together some of the latest thinking and research on cooperative strategy. Work in this area has grown rapidly over the last decade, but no single thematic approach has dominated and become the ascendant theory--resource dependency, transaction cost analysis, market power, and game theory have all made significant contributions to the growing literature on strategic cooperation. This book presents chapters from many of these theoretical perspectives and some of the key issues through a number of different lenses.
This book brings together some of the latest thinking and research on cooperative strategy. Work in this area has grown rapidly over the last decade, ...
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961,24 |