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  • Management, Uncertainty, and Accounting

    Case Studies, Theoretical Models, and Useful Strategies

    by Akira Nishimura ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is a capstone to the magisterial career of one of Japan's most senior scholars of risk, accounting, and management. How can companies and organizations navigate today's world, rife with unexpected challenges and opportunities? In this trenchant book, Nishimura offers case studies, theoretical models, and useful strategies for the new normal. This book will be useful to scholars, ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • International Business Strategy

    Rethinking the Foundations of Global Corporate Success

    by Alain Verbeke, I. H. Ian Lee ...
    Now in its third edition, this core textbook for advanced undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students combines analytical rigour and managerial insight on the functioning and strategy of large multinational enterprises (MNEs). Verbeke and Lee develop an original conceptual model that supports student learning by providing an integrated perspective, rooted in theory and practice. The ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Strategy Paradox

    Why committing to success leads to failure (and what to do about it)

    by Michael E. Raynor ...
    A compelling vision. Bold leadership. Decisive action. Unfortunately, these prerequisites of success are almost always the ingredients of failure, too. In fact, most managers seeking to maximize their chances for glory are often unwittingly setting themselves up for ruin. The sad truth is that most companies have left their futures almost entirely to chance, and don’t even realize it. The reason? ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Economic Approaches to Organization

    by Sytse Douma, Hein Schreuder ...
    This text explains in a non-technical way different economic approaches (including game theory, agency theory, transaction costs economics, economics of strategy and evolutionary approaches) using practical real-world examples to aid understanding of how the concepts relate to economic and organisational problems in the world today.This book is unique in the market in its attempt to make the link ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Strategic Risk Management Practice

    How to Deal Effectively with Major Corporate Exposures

    by Torben Juul Andersen, Peter Winther Schrøder ...
    At a time when corporate scandals and major financial failures dominate newspaper headlines, the importance of good risk management practices has never been more obvious. The absence or mismanagement of such practices can have devastating effects on exposed organizations and the wider economy (Barings Bank, Enron, Lehmann Brothers, Northern Rock, to name but a few). Today's organizations and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Architecture of Innovation

    The Economics of Creative Organizations

    by Joshua Lerner ...
    Find the right innovation modelInnovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea, many companies miss the mark-plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a low-odds crapshoot?In The Architecture of Innovation, Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner-one of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pragmatic MBA for Scientific and Technical Executives

    by Bertrand C. Liang ...
    This primer enables professionals with technical expertise to collaborate with their business-side colleagues. Emphasizing brevity and clarity, it gives technical staff answers to their most pressing questions about economics, finance, marketing, strategic decision-making, accounting, management, and related subjects. It does not offer condensed 1st year MBA courses; instead, it presents ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Wired for Innovation

    How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy

    by Erik Brynjolfsson, Adam Saunders ...
    Two experts on the information economy explore the true economic value of technology and innovation.A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Modern Firm : Organizational Design for Performance and Growth

    Organizational Design for Performance and Growth

    by John Roberts ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
    Business firms around the world are experimenting with new organizational designs, changing their formal architectures, their routines and processes, and their corporate cultures as they seek to improve their current performance and their growth prospects. In the process they are changing the scope of their business operations, redrawing their organization charts, redefining the allocation of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Sustainability Governance and Management

    by Alan S. Gutterman ...
    Corporate social responsibility ("CSR") is like any other important management initiative and requires proactive leadership from the top of the organization. In fact, it is clear that the "tone at the top" is an important factor in the success or failure of any CSR initiative and that the directors, executive officers and senior managers of the organization are uniquely positioned to act as ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Responsible Restructuring

    Creative and Profitable Alternatives to Layoffs

    by Wayne F Cascio ...
    Firms that restructure through downsizing are not more profitable than those that don't, and often end up hurting themselves in the long run. Responsible Restructuring draws on the results of an eighteen-year study of S&P 500 firms to prove that it makes good business sense to restructure responsibly-to avoid downsizing and instead regard employees as assets to be developed rather than costs to be ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets

    Why Philanthropy Doesn't Advance Social Progress

    by Steven H. Goldberg ...
    Praise for BILLIONS OF DROPS in MILLIONS OF BUCKETS"Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets provides a bracing and original look at philan-thropy that offers a much-needed corrective to conventional wisdom. Steve Goldberg combines a resolve to understand why so much philanthropy accomplishes so little enduring social change with a timely and serious proposal to reinvigorate nonprofit capital ... Read more

    $26.00 USD