Business to Business Marketing or Charismatic Leadership in Organizations

Business-to-Business Marketing: A Strategic Approach

Author: Michael H Morris

Thoroughly updated, this much anticipated new edition provides students with a comprehensive, state-of-the-art view of industrial marketing. With a focus on strategic thinking and acting, the authors examine the distinct challenges of the business-to-business marketplace. These include: faster product and service development; shortened product life cycles;, new processes for selling, distribution, and customer service; increase in entrepreneurial firms; and the need to create and sustain long-term customer relationships. Separate chapters are devoted to buying decisions, market research and analysis, and purchasing practices, including treatment of the latest technological developments in just-in-time systems, Web-based procurement, and enterprise resource planning and manufacturing systems. Each chapter includes illustrations of real world marketing issues, key concepts, learning objectives, and discussion questions.

 

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The new edition of a textbook, intended for M.B.A. students, covering industrial marketing (marketing when the customer is a business or organization). The first half of the text focuses on understanding the industrial marketplace, while the other half concentrates on translating that understanding into marketing programs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Charismatic Leadership in Organizations

Author: Rabindra N Kanungo

Charismatic leaders have proven to be remarkable change agentsùable to create or reinvent entire organizations. At the same time, these leaders provide us with lessons about the greatest dangers of leadership. For example, throughout history, certain charismatic leaders have demonstrated a shadow side as master manipulators and purveyors of evil. Charismatic Leadership in Organizations reflects the latest thinking on this seemingly elusive yet remarkable form of leadership. Written by two of the most important scholars on the subject, this volume not only integrates the growing body of research and theory on the subject, but also pushes the frontiers of our knowledge by introducing new theory and insights. It presents readers with a highly comprehensive model of the charismatic leadership process that is documented with extensive empirical research and richly illustrated with case examples of corporate leaders. The book also includes a questionnaire measure of charismatic leadership and suggests an agenda for future research in the field. Written in a highly accessible style, Charismatic Leadership in Organizations will be of interest to professionals, students, and scholars in management, public administration, psychology, political science, sociology, and religion.

Table of Contents:

PART ONE: THEORY DEVELOPMENT Evolution of the Field A Model of Charismatic Leadership Charismatic Leadership
Measurement and Empirical Validity PART TWO: COMPONENTS OF CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP The Leader's Search for Opportunity Aligning The Organization through Vision Implementing the Vision PART THREE: REMAINING CHALLENGES The Shadow Side of Charisma Looking to the Future

Union and Collective Bargaining or Corporate Governance Economic Reforms and Development

Union and Collective Bargaining: Economic Effects in a Global Environment

Author: Toke Aidt

Unions and Collective Bargaining: Economic Effects in a Global Environment offers an extensive survey and synthesis of the economic literature on trade unions and collective bargaining and their impact on micro- and macroeconomic outcomes. The authors demonstrate the effects of collective bargaining in different country settings and time periods. A comprehensive reference, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of labor policy as well as to policy makers and anyone with an interest in the economic consequences of unionism.

Book about: The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy or Western Times and Water Wars

Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms, and Development: The Indian Experience

Author: Darryl Reed

This volume comprehensively discusses the history of development efforts, the corporate economy of India, and the recent changes in global economoy highlighting the improvements in corporate governance.

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables and Figures
	Contributors
	Preface
	Introduction
1	Corporate Governance Reforms in Developing Countries	1
2	Corporate Governance in India Three Historical Models and Their Development Impact	25
3	Economic Reforms, Corporate Boards, and Governance	64
4	Economic Reforms, Corporate Philosophy, and Development	84
5	Corporate Financial Reporting	94
6	Institutional Investors and Nominee Directors	116
7	Corporate Governance and Development in India: A Survey	145
8	Corporate Governance Reforms and Corporate Sector Development in India	166
9	On Economic Reforms, Governance, and Development: Examining the Problematic Role of Corporate Profit Strategies	204
10	The Role of Business in Society: Business-NGOs Partnerships for Development	222
11	From Social Responsibility to Development-driven Business: The Ongoing Experience of the TATA Group	234
12	The Role of Governance in Promoting Development: Evaluating Governance Responsibilities and Models of Governance	249

You Say You Want a Revolution or A Guide to the Euro

You Say You Want a Revolution

Author: Reed E Hundt

This book is a unique account of the way politics has shaped the information age in America. Reed E. Hundt, chairman from 1993 to 1997 of the Federal Communications Commission, the nation’s chief regulatory agency for media and communications industries, tells of the battles for political advantage that lie behind the enormous creation of wealth and social changes that are generally called the “New Economy.” The central theme of the narrative is the surprising passage and fascinating implementation of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which authorized the Federal Communications Commission to replace monopoly with competition and to guarantee access to the Internet to all Americans, including every child in every classroom.

Depending on the leadership of his high school classmate Al Gore and finding unexpected allies in the ranks of free market ideologues, Hundt led the FCC to make the decisions that helped start a wave of entrepreneurship, which in turn has given the United States the world’s leading Internet economy. As the memoir shows, every decision involved prodigious political battles—between existing industries and start-ups, between Newt Gingrich and the Clinton-Gore White House, between inside-the-Beltway lobbyists and the new grassroots advocacy of e-mails, between the politics of money and the politics of ideas. In the same period, the often ignored and historically maligned FCC was the place where government decided whether to undertake the largest national initiative to reform K–12 education in the country’s history: the program to connect every classroom to the Internet by the year 2001.

Hundt’s reportfrom the political battlefield offers significant insight into the motives and personality not only of Al Gore but other prominent figures in political life, as well as many of the media moguls of our time. Told with great energy and wit, it is a tale that inspires both concern for and confidence in our democracy in the information age.

Publishers Weekly

The Wall Street Journal branded him a "French bureaucrat," and cable television magnate John Malone famously quipped that he should be shot. But it was all in a day's work for former FCC chairman Hundt, who served as chief regulator and de facto architect of the New Economy from 1993 to 1997. In this insightful and good-natured memoir of his experiences at the helm of the "deep-inside-the-Beltway" regulatory agency, Hundt recounts the savage battles he waged to help introduce competition and technological change into America's communications markets, all the while shielding consumers from profit-hungry cable and telephone lobbies. The former lawyer was propelled to center stage with the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which empowered the FCC to interpret the thousands of regulatory decisions required by the law. As vulturelike lobbyists swooped down to win concessions on everything from digital television to long-distance rates, Hundt kept to a high-minded mission to connect the Internet to every classroom in America and called for more public programming on broadcast media. While his consistent poise amid roiling market forces is commendable, Hundt's narrative occasionally gets waylaid when justifying a certain policy decision or waxing piously about Al Gore. Such digressions, however, are compensated for by a welcome sense of humor, evident in one anecdote about a trip to discuss communications policy in Ireland: after Hundt laid out his master plan for a globally networked society, one member of the Irish contingent shot back, "Can you pour Guinness by e-mail? Then there will always be an Ireland!" (May) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

The Standard

Early in Reed Hundt's tenure as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Vice President Al Gore called him to the White House for a chat. From day one, the Clinton appointee, who had gone to law school with the president and high school with the vice president, had stepped on enough toes for it to get back to the White House.

Gore proceeded to tell him a story about a dog-food salesman who created the best product ever made. But the man went out of business. The problem? "The dogs don't like the dog food," Gore said. Gore's message: It doesn't matter how good your decisions are if the top dogs in power won't accept them.

So begins Hundt's tale of passing the 1996 Telecommunications Act. As FCC chairman through the first term of the Clinton presidency, Hundt weathered the 1994 Republican takeover of the House and Senate - a time when Newt Gingrich indirectly declared war on the FCC, among other branches of the government. He also weathered such descriptions of himself in the press as "The Curse of Yale Law School."

But by the time Hundt stepped down, he saw his vision come to fruition - auctions of the wireless communications spectrum, federal requirements for educational television and new rulings that encouraged competition among the telephone and cable industries, which helped in no small part to fuel the Internet boom.

From Hundt's description in his new book, You Say You Want a Revolution, he was in for a rude shock on his first day at work at the FCC. The refrigerator emitted noxious odors and the walls were covered in textiles that, according to Hundt, needed to be mowed. But the stories he tells from his days inside those walls are lively and instructional, especially for the high-tech community. If those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it, then Hundt's book is a good read for those who want to ensure technology continues on an upward climb.

When Hundt writes about himself, he's a one-man band of self-depreciation. At first it's humorous to see him bumbling his way through lunches with Washington's power elite and making one bad political move after another. At one point he remarks during a lunch at the Washington Post that the cable industry should be "grateful" he demanded rate reductions.

But while he's clear on his own version of events, his grasp of technology is more muddled. He fawns over Bill Gates, crediting him with creating the Microsoft operating system - when Gates in fact bought the original MS-DOS from a Seattle programmer.

Other famous characters take center stage as well. We meet Ted Turner, who sarcastically praises Hundt for killing Turner's plans to donate part of his fortune to charity. And we cringe under Mike Ovitz's predatory stare. But eventually these meetings begin to sound cliche, such as when George Lucas - apparently startled at an awards show when Hundt asks him to lobby for wiring classrooms to the Internet - replies Yoda-like, "Help can I? Let me know."

The book also jumps around. Although organized as a diary, it can be difficult to follow. In some places, even Hundt appears confused, as he often repeats himself. While the chronological style may be true to the timing of events, for the layman it can make for glazed eyes. And it is the average reader who should read Hundt's book, not only the high-tech entrepreneur who might learn from whence his current opportunities sprang.

Toward the end of his job, Hundt learns a crucial lesson. A Republican governor gloats about his use of convicts in wiring classrooms. "But in my new nonglib era," writes Hundt, "I let the moment pass." In politics, he finally learns that while journalists may appreciate a razor-edge comment, it always comes back to bite you.

What People Are Saying

Andrew S. Grove
Hundt was a referee in the free-for-all that was the transformation of the US communications world. As often happens to referees, he was bustled and pummeled by all sides. Yet, he clearly enjoyed it all and lived to tell the tale - cheerfully and intelligently.

Table of Contents:

Preface

Cast of Characters

Part I: Experience Keeps a Dear School

Part II: Changes and Choices

Part III: Remember Who You Are

Index

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A Guide to the Euro

Author: Jay H Levin

In this concise and comprehensive introduction to Europe's currency, Levin explains both the historical and political background as well as the economic underpinnings of monetary integration in contemporary Europe.

Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for E Commerce or New Venture Strategy

Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for E-Commerce

Author: Alan Simon

You go online to buy a digital camera. Soon, you realize you've bought a more expensive camera than intended, along with extra batteries, charger, and graphics software-all at the prompting of the retailer.

Happy with your purchases? The retailer certainly is, and if you are too, you both can be said to be the beneficiaries of "customer intimacy" achieved through the transformation of data collected during this visit or stored from previous visits into real business intelligence that can be exercised in real time.

Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for e-Commerce is a practical exploration of the technological innovations through which traditional data warehousing is brought to bear on this and other less modest e-commerce applications, such as those at work in B2B, G2C, B2G, and B2E models. The authors examine the core technologies and commercial products in use today, providing a nuts-and-bolts understanding of how you can deploy customer and product data in ways that meet the unique requirements of the online marketplace-particularly if you are part of a brick-and-mortar company with specific online aspirations. In so doing, they build a powerful case for investment in and aggressive development of these approaches, which are likely to separate winners from losers as e-commerce grows and matures.

Features

• Includes the latest from successful data warehousing consultants whose work has encouraged the field's new focus on e-commerce.
  
• Presents information that is written for both consultants and practitioners in companies of all sizes.
  
• Emphasizes the special needs and opportunities of traditionalbrick-and-mortar businesses that are going online or participating in B2B supply chains or e-marketplaces.
  
• Explains how long-standing assumptions about data warehousing have to be rethought in light of emerging business models that depend on customer intimacy.
  
• Provides advice on maintaining data quality and integrity in environments marked by extensive customer self-input.
  
• Advocates careful planning that will help both old economy and new economy companies develop long-lived and successful e-commerce strategies.
  
• Focuses on data warehousing for emerging e-commerce areas such as e-government and B2E environments.

Interesting textbook: Conquest in Cyberspace or Learning Red Hat Linux

New Venture Strategy: Timing, Environmental Uncertainty, and Performance

Author: Dean A Shepherd

If an opportunity exists, is it best to ensure that your product is first to the market or is performance enhanced through waiting and following? What factors should an entrepreneur consider in deciding when to take the lead in being the first to introduce a new product or service? What can be done to improve new venture performance? New Venture Strategy examines the process of introducing a new product or service and offers readers a framework for thinking through the issues involved in new venture performance. Examples include entry timing, market conditions facing the entrant, focus or breadth of entry scope, product or process mimicry, creation and development of entry barriers, and differences between independent and corporate ventures. New Venture Strategy will be useful as a core text in courses on entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, new product development, small business, and strategic planning. It will also be of interest to those developing business plans and others involved in new venture funding, marketing, and business development.

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To lead or follow? Presenting their assessment of the common wisdom on business venture pioneering, Shepherd (entrepreneurship and strategy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Shanley (management and strategy, Northwestern U.) warn of the dangers of an oversimplistic view of first-mover advantages using the concept of the liability of newness. Their analysis introduces other entry strategy variables that may affect the relationship between timing, profitability, and the probability of survival (e.g. uncertainty factors related to demand or technology, and conflicts over new organizational roles). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Common Wisdom on the Timing of Entry

Environmental Stability, Timing and New Venture Performance

Educational Capability, Timing and New Venture Performance

Barriers to Entry, Timing and New Venture Performance

Scope of Entry and Degree of Mimicry

Competence, Timing of Entry and New Venture Performance

Conclusion and Summary

Human Relations In Organizations or Stimulating Innovation in Products and Services

Human Relations In Organizations: Applications and Skill Building

Author: Robert N Lussier

Lussier's Human Relations in Organizations: Applications and Skill Building,5e,takes on an application/skill building approach. This approach suits professors,who want to incorporate more activities and exercises into the classroom,and students who want to be able to do more than just understand concepts,but actually apply and develop skills that they can use in their daily and professional life.

The book continues to have integration balanced by a three-pronged approach:

-clear concise understanding of human relations/ organizational behavior concepts;

-the application of HR/OB concepts for critical thinking in the business world; and

-the development of HR/OB skills.

This approach allows the student to learn the concept,apply it through various applications and situational activities,and ultimately apply it to his/her own life.

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Stimulating Innovation in Products and Services: With Function Analysis and Mapping

Author: J Jerry Kaufman

Practical techniques to help any organization innovate and succeed


In this groundbreaking book, internationally acclaimed authors demonstrate that innovation can be mastered via systematic and replicable methods. Following careful instructions and guidelines, readers discover how to foster the ingenuity that resides within all organizations and how it can be most efficiently and effectively used to create value.

At the core of this book is the Function Analysis Systems Technique (FAST). FAST is a powerful mapping technique that graphically models projects, products, and processes in function terms and identifies function dependencies. It is an organized structure ideally suited to exploring complex issues. Readers start with basic concepts and then move on to more advanced concepts using FAST to help their organizations survive and prosper in today's global economy. Topics include:
* Problem-solving techniques
* Function analysis
* Function Analysis Systems Technique (FAST)
* Dimensioning the FAST model
* Attributes and the FAST model
* Enabling innovation
* From competency to capability

Practical examples and case studies are provided throughout the book to assist the reader in applying the principles of FAST to their own organizations.

Stimulating Innovation in Products and Services is based on the authors' many years of experience advising clients in a variety of industries, including oil and gas, aerospace, health care, and man-ufacturing. Its practical focus assists all engineers, scientists, and managers who want to foster innovation within their organizations. Extensive use of case studies makes this an idealcoursebook for MBA students.

Table of Contents:

FOREWORD.

PREFACE.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

1. INTRODUCTION.

The Meaning of Function.

Reading FAST.

FAST Logic.

Some Observations.

What Have We Learned?

Applying FAST to Hardware Products.

Reading a FAST Model.

Analyzing a FAST Model.

Some Unique Ways That a FAST Model Has Been Used.

How It All Began.

Toward an Innovation Process.

Who Models Functions?

Why an Interdisciplinary Team?

Team Makeup.

Unlocking Practical Ingenuity.

When Should We Use FAST?

Fundamental Questions.

Distinguishing Between Problem and Opportunity.

Difference Between FAST Diagrams and FAST Models.

Validating Function Models.

Outline of This Book.

2. PROBLEM-SOLVING TECHNIQUES.

Verb–Noun Function Technique.

Fuzzy Problem Technique.

Setting Up the Problem in the Fuzzy Problem Technique.

Hierarchical Technique.

Verb–Noun and Fuzzy Problem Techniques Within the Hierarchical Technique.

Closing Remarks.

3. FUNCTION ANALYSIS.

Function Analysis Syntax.

Active Verbs.

Measurable Nouns.

Using Two Words to Describe Functions.

Defining and Classifying Functions.

Types of Functions.

Extrinsic Functions.

Intrinsic Functions.

Basic Functions.

Secondary Functions.

Practical Definitions.

Rules GoverningBasic Functions.

Function Identification Example.

Random Function Determination.

Levels of Abstraction.

Function and Component Selection.

Function Cost Matrix.

Simplifying the Process.

Closing Remarks.

4. FUNCTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM TECHNIQUE.

Process Overview.

Some Misconceptions.

“As Is” Versus “Should Be” Models.

Syntax Used to Create and Read a FAST Model.

Reading How–Why and Our Intentions.

How–Why Versus Why–How Orientation.

Reading When to Consider Causality and Consequential Functioning.

Key Elements of a FAST Model.

Scope Lines.

Highest-Order Function(s).

Lowest-Order Function(s).

Basic Function(s).

Content.

Requirements or Specifications.

Dependent Functions.

Independent (Support) Functions.

Logic Path Functions.

Articulating Theories in FAST.

Variations of How–Why Questions.

Considering And–Or Along the Logic Path.

Considering And in the When Direction.

Considering Or in the When Direction.

FAST Model-Building Process: Product Example.

Expanding the Number of Functions.

Case for Using Active Verbs.

Purpose of Expanding Functions.

Avoiding Duplicate Functions.

Starter Kit Functions.

Preparations for Building a FAST Model.

Build How and Test Why.

Relationship of the Left Scope Line to the Basic Function.

Right Scope Line.

Left Scope Line.

What’s the Problem?

Defining the Problem.

Three Questions Before Starting the FAST Process.

How the Strategic Questions Are Asked in a Workshop.

Symbols and Notations Used in FAST Modeling.

Taking Exception to the FAST Rules.

Independent Functions Above the Logic Path, Activities Below the Logic Path.

No Activities in the Major Logic Path.

Only Two Words Used to Describe Functions.

Loop-Back Modeling.

Validating the Logic Flow.

Exploration Drilling Model.

Closing Remarks.

5. DIMENSIONING THE FAST MODEL.

Pre-event Stage.

FAST Dimensioning Themes.

Business Process and Soft Issues.

Sensitivity Matrix.

Facility Management Case Study.

Determining Responsibility, Move to Action.

Incorporating Other Dimensions in FAST Models.

RACI/RASI Dimensioning.

FAST and Organizational Effectiveness.

Organizational Effectiveness Case Study.

Model the Future or the Present?

Incorporating Additional Dimensions.

Product- and Equipment-Based FAST Models (Artifacts).

Sensitivity Matrix in Product (Artifact) Analysis.

Staple Remover Case Study Using FAST With the Sensitivity Matrix.

Determining Component Function–Cost Details.

Proposed Solution.

Pipeline Case Study Using the Sensitivity Matrix.

Other Case-Specific Dimensions.

Budgeting Operating Expenses and the Sensitivity Matrix.

Clustering Functions.

Example Using Clustering.

Closing Remarks.

6. ATTRIBUTES AND THE FAST MODEL.

Defining an Attribute’s Range of Acceptance.

Ranking Attributes.

Incorporating Attributes Into a FAST model.

Linking Issues of Concern to a FAST model.

Construction Management Case Study.

Influence of Attributes and Incentives on FAST Modeling.

Software Acquisition Case Study.

Validity of a FAST Model.

Pre-event’s Role in FAST Modeling.

Areas Defined by a Scope Line.

Resolving the Incentive Issue.

Determining the Incentive Earned Points Score.

Closing Remarks.

7. ENABLING INNOVATION.

Analyzing FAST Models.

Distinguishing Outcomes and Ideas.

Starting to Generate Ideas.

Handling Negative Functions.

Examples of Negative Functions.

TRIZ and Negative Functions: Path to Creativity.

Defining Problems: Prerequisite to Seeking Solutions.

Problem Set Matrix.

Identifying Critical Innovation Points.

Realizing Innovation Through FAST Models.

Toward Innovation That Makes a Difference.

Importance of the Pre-event Phase.

XYZ-3 Case Study.

Defining XYZ-3’s Problems.

Setting Project Goals.

Selecting Attributes.

Selecting Random Functions.

Constructing the FAST Model.

Selecting Functions to Be Brainstormed.

Using FAST for Brainstorming.

Concluding the XYZ-3 Value Study.

Closing Remarks.

8. FROM COMPETENCY TO CAPABILITY.

Moving Toward Know-How and FAST models.

Beyond Intuition.

Discovering New Knowledge.

Management of Functionality.

Using FAST Modeling to Improve the Supply Chain.

Using FAST Modeling to Enable Shared Understanding.

Managing Intangible Value to Advantage.

Automotive Parts Case Study.

How Can We Unify?

Functional Enquiry.

Closing Remarks.

END NOTES.

REFERENCES.

APPENDIX: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.

INDEX.

Practical Business Statistics or Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States

Practical Business Statistics

Author: Andrew F Siegel

Practical Business Statistics, 5/e was written in response to instructors not wanting a formula driven, mathematically encyclopedic book. The use of computer applications means some topics no longer require coverage in detail. This allows future managers to know how to use and understand statistics. The text does this by using examples with real data that relate to the functional areas of business such as finance, accounting, and marketing. It de-emphasizes the theoretical, and presents the material in a well-written, easy style designed to motivate students. The emphasis is on understanding and applications as opposed to mathematical precision and formula detail.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction Defining the Role of Statistics in Business
2. Data Structures Classifying the Various Types of Data Sets
3. Histograms Looking at the Distribution of the Data
4. Landmark Summaries Interpreting Typical Values and Percentiles
5. Variability Dealing with Diversity
6. Probability Understanding Random Situations
7. Random Variables Working with Uncertain Numbers
8. Random Sampling Planning Ahead for Data Gathering
9. Confidence Intervals Admitting that Estimates Are Not Exact
10. Hypothesis Testing Deciding between Reality and Coincidence
11. Correlation and Regression Measuring and Predicting Relationships
12. Multiple Regression Predicting One Factor from Several Others
13. Report Writing Communicating the Results of a Multiple Regression
14. Time Series Understanding Changes over Time
15. ANOVA Testing for Differences among Many Samples, and Much More
16. Nonparametrics Testing with Ordinal Data or Nonnormal Distributions
17. Chi-Squared Analysis Testing for Patterns in Qualitative Data
18. Quality Control Recognizing and Managing Variation
Appendix A: Employee Database
Appendix B: Self Test: Solutions to Selected Problems and Database Exercises
Appendix C: Statistical Tables
Appendix D: StatPad--Quick Reference Guide

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Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States

Author: Dennis F Thompson

This volume, the fourth to result from a remarkably productive collaboration between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, presents a selection of thirteen high-caliber papers addressing issues in the employment practices, labor markets, and health, benefit, and pension policies of the United States and Japan.
After an opening chapter assessing the recent ascendance of the U.S. economy, papers diverge to tackle a range of specific issues. Focusing less on international comparison than on the assembly of high-quality research, contributors hone in on a variety of individual topics. Chapters delve into issues of youth employment, participatory employment, information sharing, fringe benefits, and drug coverage in Japan, as well as the dynamics of medical savings accounts, private insurance coverage, and benefit options in the U.S.
Like previous volumes stemming from NBER/JCER collaboration, this book represents a valuable mass of empirical data on some of the most notable employment and benefits issues in each nation, information that will both anchor and provoke scholarly analysis of these topics well into the future.

Case Studies in Modern Corporate Finance or The Six Silent Killers

Case Studies in Modern Corporate Finance

Author: Robert W Whit

This book contains current cases that focus on the major financial decisions made in a corporation, including such current issues as: globalization; corporate governance; ethics; privatization; securitization; risk management; option pricing; pricing of complex securities; structured financing; value-added taxes; and so on.

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The Six Silent Killers: Management's Newest and Greatest Challenge

Author: James R R Fisher

Times have changed. Downsizing, rightsizing, and corporate restructuring have drastically altered the face of the American workplace. Yet most managers are still using the same old methods of dealing with employees - with predictably disastrous results. Six Silent Killers: Management's Greatest Challenge shows how to conquer the dissatisfaction, apathy, and resentment so prevalent in the American workplace - and how to bring your management style in line with the needs of the 21st century. What can you do to lower employee turnover? How can you attract and retain quality workers? Why are your employees dissatisfied - and what can they achieve with the proper training and guidance? Six Silent Killers identifies the challenges facing today's managers and explains how to overcome these common problems in the workplace. Written by an expert in the field, it provides you with the tools to effectively motivate your employees and achieve that all-important competitive edge. Six Silent Killers is an ideal guide for team leaders, supervisors, managers, consultants, and anyone interested in breaking through the barriers to successful management. You'll discover how to boost productivity, enhance performance, and reward quality workers - the first steps on the fast track to success.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	About the Author
1	Introduction	1
2	The Dominant Cultures of the Workplace, or Why We Can't Get There from Here	7
3	The Need for a New Set of Organizational Paradigms	23
4	Incipient Catastrophe	45
5	Echoing Footsteps	65
6	Six Silent Killers: The Manic Monarchs of the Merry Madhouse	83
7	The Culture of Comfort	143
8	The Culture of Complacency	169
9	The Culture of Contribution	197
10	The Difficult Agenda Ahead, or When the Simple Is Complex	221
11	Afterword	265
	Index	273

The Other Mirror or Payment Law

The Other Mirror: Grand Theory through the Lens of Latin America

Author: Miguel Angel Centeno

If social science's "cultural turn" has taught us anything, it is that knowledge is constrained by the time and place in which it is produced. In response, scholars have begun to reassess social theory from the standpoints of groups and places outside of the European context upon which most grand theory is based. Here a distinguished group of scholars reevaluates widely accepted theories of state, property, race, and economics against Latin American experiences with a two-fold purpose. They seek to deepen our understanding of Latin America and the problems it faces. And, by testing social science paradigms against a broader variety of cases, they pursue a better and truly generalizable map of the social world.

Bringing universal theory into dialogue with specific history, the contributors consider what forms Latin American variations of classical themes might take and which theories are most useful in describing Latin America. For example, the Argentinian experience reveals the limitations of neoclassical descriptions of economic development, but Charles Tilly's emphasis on the importance of war and collective action to statemaking holds up well when thoughtfully adapted to Latin American situations. Marxist structural analysis is problematic in a region where political divisions do not fully expresses class cleavages, but aspects of Karl Polanyi's socioeconomic theory cross borders with relative ease.

This fresh theoretical discussion expands the scope of Latin American studies and social theory, bringing the two into an unprecedented conversation that will benefit both. Contributors are, in addition to the editors, Jeremy Adelman, Jorge I. Domínguez, Paul Gootenberg, Alan Knight, Robert M. Levine, Claudio Lomnitz, John Markoff, Verónica Montecinos, Steven C. Topik, and J. Samuel Valenzuela.

What People Are Saying

Charles Tilly
No previous review of theory comes close to this book's range and daring. Its audience should include not only Latin Americanists,but students of social theory and of development in general.

Mauricio A. Font
"The Other Mirror succeeds in providing a highly stimulating account of the dialectics between general theory and history. It will have a much-needed positive impact on Latin American studies and its place in general social theory."

Mauricio A. Font
The Other Mirror succeeds in providing a highly stimulating account of the dialectics between general theory and history. It will have a much-needed positive impact on Latin American studies and its place in general social theory.

Table of Contents:

PREFACE

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Payment Law

Author: Douglas J J Whaley

This new edition from Douglas Whaley, the recognized master of the problem method, concentrates on helping students understand the exact statutory language in the UCC, Electronic Funds Transfer Act, and the Expedited Funds Availability Act.

Praised for its straightforward, accessible writing, PROBLEMS ON MATERIALS ON PAYMENT SYSTEMS, Fifth Edition, builds on its strengths which include:

An in—depth focus on the basics in a compact and concise casebook

Clear and lucid style

Exercises that help students test their understanding of the language of the law

Whaley's new edition offers:

new material throughout the book moving from negotiability and negotation through holders in due course and the nature of liability; to banks and their customers; wrongdoing and error; electronic banking; and investment securities

updated case law

new problems

coverage of revisions to Article 8 (Investment Securities) of the UCC

A helpful Teacher's Manual makes the book as accessbile to instructors as it is to students.

Managing Knowledge or Designing and Delivering Superior Customer Value

Managing Knowledge: Experts, Agencies and Organisations

Author: Steven Albert

This book explores the growing phenomenon of atypical work manifested in workforce flexibility, mobility, the feminization of professional employment, and technological changes. Albert and Bradley focus on an influential group of knowledge-based employees--experts--and show the way in which they are ushering in changes in the work environment by resorting to atypical employment arrangements that are enhanced by an agency system. Case studies are developed from companies including AT&T, the Hollywood film industry, London accounting firms, and specialized agencies such as Labforce and Knowledge Net.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Introduction: the supply-side in context	1
Pt. 1	Expert employees and their new organization
1	Trends in the labour market	17
2	Adaptations in the labour market and the expert employee	36
3	From the firm to the agency	49
4	Expert agency employment as a facilitator of intellectual capital	64
5	The temporal advantages of agency work for the expert employee	82
6	Taking stock	98
Pt. 2	The labour market and the expert employee
7	AT&T's special employment policies for expert employees	107
8	An external temporary agency and expert employees	120
9	The Hollywood agency system	132
10	The Internet as an agent	144
11	Labour market segments re-examined	152
12	Agents and intellectual capital	160
App. A	Formal exposition of Winston model	169
App. B	Agency employment and search costs	173
	Notes	183
	References	197
	Index	209

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Designing and Delivering Superior Customer Value: Concepts, Cases and Applications

Author: Art Weinstein

Great companies don't just satisfy their customers, they strive todelight and amaze them. Designing and Delivering Superior Customer Value explains how to continually create customer experiences that exceed expectations. This turns buyers (try-ers) into lifetime customers
The emerging value paradigm is not only a new way to think about marketing, but a new business imperative in the 21st century. It is the strategic driver that differentiates great companies from the pack. Value connotes many meanings - yet, it is always defined by the customer
This book stresses the service aspects of an organization - especially customer service, marketing, and organizational responsiveness, and how to create and provide outstanding customer value to the target market(s). With the integrated management perspective used by the authors, you will understand how to blend the delivery of service and quality, together with pricing strategies to maximize the value proposition
Those companies that embrace customer-driven value-creating methods will gain a competitive edge in the 21st century, those that do not will experience declines. This exciting new book is a guide to retaining your existing customers and to gaining loyal new customers
Features

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Provides marketing practitioners, managers and executives, and scholars with a guide to designing, implementing, and evaluating a customer value strategy in service organizations. A foundation section examines critical business issues such a creating value, customer orientation, and relationship marketing. Each chapter provides discussion questions. A second section offers 19 detailed examples of how successful organizations create value for their customers, plus case questions. Three more sections consist of condensed articles, exercises, and a customer value audit. The authors are professors of marketing at Nova Southeastern University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Software Engineering Project Management or Fundamentals of Financial Management Concise 4E with Xtra CD ROM and InfoTrac Access Card

Software Engineering Project Management

Author: Edward Yourdon

Newly revised for 2001, this second edition of Richard Thayer's popular, bestselling book presents a top-down, practical view of managing a successful software engineering project. The book builds a framework for project management activities based on the planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling model. Thayer provides information designed to help you understand and successfully perform the unique role of a project manager.

This book is a must for all project managers in the software field. The text focuses on the five functions of general management by first describing each function and then detailing the project management activities that support each function. This second edition shows you how to manage a software development project, discusses current software engineering management methodologies and techniques, and presents general descriptions and project management problems. The book serves as a guide for your future project management activities. The text also offers students sufficient background and instructional material to serve as a main or supplementary text for a course in software engineering project management.

Note: The 2001 revision includes a new Chapter 4 Introduction and a new paper that replaces an older paper.

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Reprints and five new papers present a "top-down view" of the subject. Covers software engineering and SE project management--planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling a SE project. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Contributors of Original Papers	v
	Foreword
	Edward Yourdon	vii
	W.W. Royce	ix
	Preface	xi
Chapter 1	Introduction to Management	1
	Management Science, Theory, and Practice	4
	The Management Process in 3-D Harvard Business Review, November-December 1969	14
Chapter 2	Software Engineering Process	17
	Software's Chronic Crisis Scientific American, Vol. 271, No. 3, September 1994	20
	System Development Woes Communications of the ACM, October 1993	29
	Software Engineering Software Engineering, M. Dorfman and R.H. Thayer, eds., 1997	30
	Cabability Maturity Model for Software Software Engineering, M. Dorfman and R.H. Thayer, eds., 1997	48
Chapter 3	Software Engineering Project Management	61
	The Mythical Man-Month Datamation, December 1974	64
	Software Engineering Project Management	72
	Software Life Cycle Models	105
Chapter 4	Planning a Software Engineering Project	115
	Software Requirements: A Tutorial Software Engineering, M. Dorfman and R.H. Thayer, eds., 1997	119
	Fundamentals of Project Management Journal of Systems Management, November 1978	141
	Applying Corporate Software Development Policies TRW, Defense and Space Systems Group, December 1977	149
	Inserting New Technologies into a Software Project	167
	Fundamentals of Master Scheduling for the Project Manager Project Management Journal, June 1985	171
	Work Breakdown Structures	183
	Software Risk Management	195
	Standard Software Project Management Plans	203
Chapter 5	Software Cost, Schedule, and Size	213
	Software Estimating Technology: A Survey	218
	Synopsis of COCOMO	230
	How to Estimate Software System Size Adapted from Chapter 7 of The Software Measurement Guidebook, SPC-91060-CMC	246
	How to Estimate Software Project Schedules	257
	By Popular Demand: Software Estimating Rules of Thumb Computer, March 1996	267
	Cost Models for Future Software Life Cycle Processes: COCOMO 2.0 Annals of Software Engineering, Volume 1, 1995	270
Chapter 6	Organizing a Software Engineering Project	309
	Organization Alternatives for Project Managers Project Management Quarterly, March 1977	312
	The Matrix Organization A Decade of Project Management, 1981	320
	The Effect of Programming Team Structures on Programming Tasks Communications of the ACM, March 1981	333
Chapter 7	Staffing a Software Engineering Project	341
	How to Pick Eagles Datamation, September 15, 1985	344
	Not All Programmers Are Created Equal University of California at Irvine, Irvine CA, Ucirv-95-PROC-CSS-006	346
	Managing the Consequences of DP Turnover: A Human Resources Planning Perspective Proceedings of the 20th ACM Computer Personnel Research Conference, 1983	356
	I'm OK--and You're Not Savvy, April 1984	364
	Trial by Firing: Saga of a Rookie Manager IEEE Software, September 1994	366
Chapter 8	Directing a Software Engineering Project	369
	Leadership: The Effective Use of Power Management of Personal Quarterly, 1971	372
	Delegate Your Way to Success Computer Decisions, March 1981	376
	Excitement and Commitment: Keys to Project Success Project Management Journal, December 1984	380
	Motivating and Keeping Software Developers Computer, January 1997	388
	Who is the DP Professional? Datamation, September 1978	391
	Conflict Management for Project Managers Extracted from Conflict Management for Project Managers, 1982	395
Chapter 9	Controlling a Software Engineering Project	407
	Software Project Management: Threads of Control	410
	Making Software Development Estimates "Good" Datamation, September 1981	423
	Criteria for Controlling Projects According to Plan Project Management Journal, June 1986	426
	Software Quality Assurance: A Management Perspective	433
	Elements of Software Configuration Management IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, January 1984	441
Chapter 10	Software Metrics and Visiblity of Progress	451
	Software Peer Reviews	454
	Software Project Management Audits Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 2, 1981	470
	The Unit Development Folder (UDF): A Ten Year Perspective Software Engineering Project Management, 1st ed., R.H. Thayer, editor, 1988	477
	Software Management Metrics	488
Chapter 11	Epilogue: The Silver Bullets	503
	Software Engineering Project Management: The Silver Bullets of Software Engineering	504
	Appendix
	Glossary	506
	Author Biography	531

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Fundamentals of Financial Management, Concise 4E with Xtra! CD-ROM and InfoTrac Access Card

Author: Eugene F Brigham

The market leader, Brigham/Houston, continues to grow in reputation as the most effective approach for learning the basic finance principles, tools, and applications. The Concise version of the extremely successful Fundamentals of Financial Management text offers an briefer alternative containing the same level of rigor concerning the topics covered. It is also updated to reflect the latest in theory, research, real-world examples, and use of technology. The seamless, integrated ancillary package - done by the authors - is a hallmark of this package that makes the subject more accessible for learners.

Information Systems or The Advantage Series

Information Systems: Success in the 21st Century

Author: Uma G Gupta

This introductory information systems book helps readers overcome the challenges of sorting through IS issues, concepts, and terms to maintain a current and relevant knowledge base in the midst of an information revolution. Chapter topics include IS use in business, computer hardware and software, databases for business applications, telecommunications, the internet, electronic commerce, client/server computing, managerial decision making, designing and developing IS systems, and computer security. For individuals with varying degrees of technical experience, interested in exploring the changes in the field of IS that are transforming society, business, and our personal lives.

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The Advantage Series: Integrating and Extending Microsoft Office XP- Brief

Author: Sarah Hutchinson Clifford

The Advantage Series presents the Feature-Method-Practice approach to computer software applications to today's technology and business students. This series implements an efficient and effective learning model, which enhances critical thinking skills and provides students and faculty with complete application coverage.

Table of Contents:

CHAPTER 1: INTEGRATING WORD AND EXCEL

1.1 Using the Office Clipboard

1.2 Pasting, Linking, and Embedding

1.3 Manipulating Shared Objects

1.4 Inserting New Worksheets and Charts in Word

CHAPTER 2: PERFORMING MORE INTEGRATION TASKS

2.1 Creating a Presentation from a Word Document

2.2 Integrating PowerPoint with Word and Excel

2.3 Integrating Access with Word and Excel

CHAPTER 3: EXTENDING MICROSOFT OFFICE TO THE WEB

3.1 Using Hyperlinks

3.2 Saving Existing Documents to HTML

3.3 Preparing Web Pages Using Office

End of Chapter Materials

Chapter Summary

Command Summary

Key Terms

Chapter Quiz

Short Answer

True/False

Multiple Choice

Hands-On Exercises

Case Projects

The Software Edge

On Your Own

Case Problems

Module 8 or Public Speaking

Module 8: Writing and Presenting a Business Plan

Author: James ORourk

This text, written by Carolyn A. Boulger, reviews the entire process of writing and presenting a business plan. From idea generation to feasibility analysis, and from writing the plan to presenting it to various audience groups, this text covers all steps necessary to develop and start a business. It also offers guidance on meeting with investors and getting funding for the new venture, and provides numerous samples of effective plans and presentations.

Table of Contents:

1: What To Do With That Great Idea. 2: Can This Really Work? 3: Roll Up Your Sleeves And Start Writing. 4: Show Your Plan To The World. 5: Talk And Listen To Those Who Can Help.

New interesting book: Mathematical Formulas for Economists or Keeping Current W Texas Real Estate

Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach

Author: Steven A Beeb

Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach, 7/E

Steven A. Beebe, Texas State University - San Marcos
Susan J. Beebe, Texas State University - San Marcos

The uniqueaudience-centered approach of this top-selling text emphasizes that your success in public speaking depends on how listeners interpret the message. Its distinctive and popular approach emphasizes the importance of analyzing and considering the audience at every point in your speechmaking process. This model of public speaking is the foundation of the text, guiding you through the step-by-step process of public speaking, focusing your attention on the dynamics of diverse audiences, and narrowing the gap between the classroom and the real world.
 

NEW FEATURES OF THE SEVENTH EDITION:
•

The Confidently Connecting with Your Audience margin feature appears in every chapter and provides tips and strategies for managing communication apprehension effectively—from building confidence with a well-organized speech (Ch. 9) to focusing on the information you have to share rather than on your fears (Ch. 15).
•

Expanded and improved Learning From Great Speakers box identifies lessons you can learn from great speakers. 
•

Speech Workshop, an end-of-chapter feature, provides a wealth of activities, worksheets, strategies, and suggestions for helping you develop and deliver speeches.
•

The popular and effective Developing Your Speech Step by Step box offers a new model that allows you to follow the steps of a successful student speaker as she works through the speechmaking process.

 

MySpeechLab is a fun, interactive online resource that gives you everything you need to succeed in your Public Speaking course — all in one easy-to-use website. Log on to www.myspeechlab.com and find a wealth of videos, practice exams and tests, interactive activities, an outline tool, research help, and much more!  (Access code required.)

Quality Management Systems a Practical Guide for Improvement or Power and Influence in Organizations

Quality Management Systems a Practical Guide for Improvement

Author: Howard S Gitlow

Do you remember the first time you drove a car? To prepare for this you probably read the drivers manual, watched movies, practiced in your driveway, and endlessly discussed the impending event with your friends. The result - you knew a lot about the theory of driving, you just didn't know how to translate that theory into practice. Quality Management poses a similar problem to many organizations. The time has come to put Quality Management theory to use. Since the early 1980s, you may have read books and journals, attended seminars and training sessions, or watched films and videos about Quality Management. Once again you must make the jump from theory to application. Quality Management Systems: A Practical Guide for Improvement makes it possible. This book presents a model of Quality Management that combines the theoretical base of Dr. W. Edwards Deming and the practical techniques of the Japanese into a useful application. The fork shaped model includes: oThe Handle - Management's Commitment to Transformation oThe Neck - Management's Education oProng One - Daily Management oProng Two - Cross-Functional Management oProng Three - Policy Management Quality Management Systems: A Practical Guide for Improvement supplies an integrated approach that explains the theory and how to put it into practice using a step-by-step method.

Booknews

Augmenting the many books on the theory of quality management, Gitlow (business administration, U. of Miami-Coral Gables) integrates the theory with a step-by-step method for putting it into practice. He combines the theoretical base of Deming with the practical techniques of the Japanese to show how to get started and actually do quality management. He does not provide a bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	A Quality Management System	1
2	The Handle: Management's Commitment to Transformation	29
3	The Neck: Management's Education	51
4	Prong One: Daily Management	79
5	Prong Two: Cross-Functional Management	131
6	Prong Three: Policy Management	163
App. 6A	The Voice of the Customer	245
App. 6B	The Voice of the Business	253
App. 6C	Table of Tables	255
App. 6D	The Evolution of Quality at Florida Power & Light	261
7	Resource Requirements of the Fork Model	267
	Index	277

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Power and Influence in Organizations

Author: Roderick Kramer

This volume is a readily accessible compilation of current, original research in the area of power and influence in organizations. Power and Influence in Organizations offers a rich exploration of emerging trends and new perspectives. Contributors include leading scholars in organizational behavior and theory and major contemporary intellectual pioneers in research on power and influence, including Samuel B. Bacharach, Robert Cialdini, Edward J. Lawler, and Jeffrey Pfeffer. Each contributor provides insight into his or her own research, an overview of general trends, and thoughts about the direction of future research. Topics examined include manipulation of employee perceptions and values; the links between power and accountability; sharing power; the effects of gender on power and influence; illusions of influence; and impression management. Advanced students and scholars in organizational behavior, social influence, power and politics, conflict management, and institutional politics will find Power and Influence in Organizations stimulating and a useful roadmap to present and future research.

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A compilation of current research, emerging trends, and new perspectives in the area of power and influence in organizations that is the end product of a conference by the same name held at Stanford University, May 1996. Fifteen contributions provide insight into each author's own research, an overview of general trends, and thoughts about the direction of future research. Topics examined include manipulation of employee perceptions and values; the links between power and accountability; sharing power; the effects of gender on power and influence; illusions of influence; and impression management. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis or International Marketing

Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis: A Strategic Approach

Author: Clyde P Stickney

The premise of the text is that students learn financial statement analysis most effectively by performing the analysis on actual companies. Students learn to integrate concepts from economics, business strategy, accounting, and other business disciplines. The text is designed for courses on financial statement analysis and financial reporting found in accounting, finance, and economics departments.

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International Marketing: Analysis and Strategy

Author: Sak Onkvisit

The main aim of International Marketing, is to provide solid foundations that are useful for explanation, prediction and control of international business activities. The authors have developed a strong conceptual and theoretical framework to help to understand international marketing problems and guide marketing decisions. The book combines both marketing applications and theoretical foundations, thus providing a good balance between theory and practice. Rather than just merely descriptive the approach is analytical and managerial.

Table of Contents:

1	Nature of international marketing : challenges and opportunities	1
2	Trade theories and economic development	22
3	Trade distortions and marketing barriers	52
4	Political environment	84
5	Legal environment	121
6	Culture	153
7	Consumer behavior in the international context : psychological and social dimensions	187
8	Marketing research and information system	213
9	Foreign market entry strategies	243
10	Product strategies : basic decisions and product planning	272
11	Product strategies : branding and packaging decisions	308
12	Channels of distribution	344
13	Physical distribution and documentation	386
14	Promotion strategies : personal selling, publicity, and sales promotion	413
15	Promotion strategies : advertising	440
16	Pricing strategies : basic decisions	472
17	Pricing strategies : countertrade and terms of sale/payment	495
18	Sources of financing and international money markets	522
19	Currencies and foreign exchange	549

Managing Strategic Change or Spaces of Globalization

Managing Strategic Change: Technical, Political, and Cultural Dynamics

Author: Noel M Tichy

Shows how managers can use the conceptual framework of TPC theory (technical, political, and cultural dynamics) to cope with major strategic reorientation. Raises such fundamental questions about the nature of organizations. What business(es) should we be in? Who should reap what benefits from the organization? What are the values and norms of organizational members? Provides concepts and workable technologies for dealing with these questions and preparing for future change. Includes extensive examples.

Table of Contents:

Partial table of contents:
A FRAMEWORK FOR STRATEGIC CHANGE.
Strategic Change Management.
Organizational Models.
STRATEGIC ISSUES: DIAGNOSIS AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT.
Diagnosis for Change.
Application of Diagnostic Strategy.
Change Strategy.
Technical Change Strategies.
Political Change Strategies.
Cultural Change Strategies.
IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIC CHANGES.
Change Technologies.
Transition Management.
MONITORING CHANGE AND THE FUTURE OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT.
Monitoring and Evaluating Strategic Change.
Strategic Change in the Future.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.

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Spaces of Globalization

Author: Kevin R Cox

Arguments about the globalization of economic relations have become commonplace; part of the everyday diet of social science and public affairs alike. Citing the growth of multinational and transnational corporations, and the enhanced mobility of goods, services and money, proponents of the globalization hypothesis claim that capital now creates new forms of competition beyond the reach of state agencies and nationally organized forms of worker representation. Defined in this manner, globalization becomes a threat to the welfare state, to policies of full employment, and to national living standards. Taking a radically different tack, this timely and far-reaching volume reexamines the underlying assumptions of globalization arguments from a critical perspective. Alongside globalization, authors show, there persist tendencies towards the territorialization and re-territorialization of economic life, as well as the development of new organizing strategies by labor. Probing the complex relationship between the global and the local and investigating the changing dynamics of contemporary firms, labor, capital, and communities, the book also addresses the broader question of the difference that space makes in understanding society.

Getting Work or Our Continent Our Future

Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950

Author: Walter Licht

How did working people find jobs in the past? How has the process changed over time for various groups of job seekers? Are outcomes influenced more by general economic circumstances, by discriminatory practices in the labor market, or by personal initiative and competence? Walter Licht uses intensive primary-source research on a major industrial city for a period of over one hundred years to tackle these questions. He looks at when and how young people secured first jobs, the influence of agencies on the hiring process, schools and work, apprenticeship programs, unions, the role of firms in structuring work opportunities, the state as employer and as shaper of employment conditions, and the problem of losing work--the job search as a seemingly perpetual activity. Licht's findings enliven and sometimes revise specific scholarly and social policy debates. School programs, for example, are shown to have been unsystematic because of various social clashes; working-class children had only loose ties to schools. Men and women, blacks and whites, older-stock Americans and newcomers had disparate labor market experiences. Experience in the labor market varied not only by group and across time, but also during different stages of the individual's life. Getting Work is important reading for policymakers, social historians, economists, and students of management and industrial relations.

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables	viii
	Preface	ix
1.	Particularities	1
2.	Entering the World of Work	17
3.	Schools and Work	57
4.	Agencies	98
5.	Firms	141
6.	The State	174
7.	Losing Work and Coping	220
	Conclusion	256
	Primary Sources	265
	Notes	267
	Index	313

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Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment

Author: Thandika Mkandawir

For decades now, many African countries have implemented the structural adjustment programs of the Bretton Woods Institutions. The results, however, have been less than sterling. Extreme poverty and underdevelopment continue to plague what is becoming the world's "forgotten continent," and it is now generally agreed that a new approach is urgently required. Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy.

Times Literary Supplement - Michael Chege

A refreshing work from two of Africa's most eminent economists, which employs the research efforts of twenty-five of their colleagues across Africa.