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  • The end of the experiment?

    From competition to the foundational economy

    by Andrew Bowman, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Mick Moran, John Law, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    For thirty years, the British economy has repeated the same old experiment of subjecting everything to competition and market because that is what works in the imagination of central government. This book demonstrates the repeated failure of that experiment by detailed examination of three sectors: broadband, food supply and retail banking. The book argues for a new experiment in social licensing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What a waste

    Outsourcing and how it goes wrong

    Edited by Andrew Bowman, Ismail Ertürk, Peter Folkman, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Nick Tsitsianis, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing – contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Capitalism without Capital

    The Rise of the Intangible Economy

    by Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake ...
    The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, from tech firms and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • The Fish Rots From The Head

    The Crisis in our Boardrooms: Developing the Crucial Skills of the Competent Director

    by Bob Garratt ...
    As a Chinese proverb says 'The fish rots from the head' and so it is with businesses and other organisations - the buck starts and stops in the boardroom. This third edition of Bob Garratt's bestselling book that highlights the importance of effective corporate governance has been extensively updated following the corporate scandals of the early 2000s - Enron, WorldCom, Tyco - and the abysmal ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Simple Tools and Techniques for Enterprise Risk Management

    by Robert J. Chapman ...
    Your business reputation can take years to build—and mere minutes to destroyThe range of business threats is evolving rapidly but your organization can thrive and gain a competitive advantage with your business vision for enterprise risk management. Trends affecting markets—events in the global financial markets, changing technologies, environmental priorities, dependency on intellectual property ... Read more

    $111.00 USD

  • What You Need to Know about Business

    by Roger Trapp, Sumeet Desai, George Buckley ...
    Business is big. Actually, it's often small and medium-sized too. But the point is that it matters – a lot.This book is designed to answer all those confusing questions that flit through your mind when you get to the business pages of the paper, and stop you being embarrassed in job interviews.It explains the things you really need to know about business, and will tell you:What the point of ... Read more

    $13.00 USD

  • Comparative Competition Law and Economics

    by Roger J. Van den Bergh ...
    Offering a concise and critical comparison of EU competition law and US antitrust law from an economic perspective, this is the ideal textbook for international and interdisciplinary courses combining law and economic approaches.The book provides thorough coverage including the definition of market power, the use of horizontal and vertical restrictions, mergers and the unilateral conduct of ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation

    New Ideas for Investment-Led Growth

    Edited by Mariana Mazzucato, Caetano C.R. Penna ...
    The role of the state in modern capitalism has gone beyond fixing market failures. Those regions and countries that have succeeded in achieving “smart” innovation-led growth have benefited from long-term visionary “mission-oriented” policies—from putting a man on the moon to tackling societal challenges such as climate change and the wellbeing of an ageing population. This book collects the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • When nothing works

    From cost of living to foundational liveability

    by Luca Calafati, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Karel Williams ...
    Series series Manchester Capitalism
    It’s hard to escape the feeling that in Britain today nothing works. In the face of mounting inflation and widespread industrial action, this book offers an incisive analysis of the UK’s problems and a new approach to tackling them.Economic growth and higher wages, the traditional responses of mainstream politicians, are simply not enough. This is because the so-called ‘cost of living crisis’ is ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Corporate Governance Ethics and CSR

    by Justine Simpson, John R Taylor ...
    The rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is creating a paradigm shift in contemporary corporate culture and organizational behaviour with shareholder and stakeholder activism on the rise as international banking crises and global corporate scandals dominate the headlines.Through accountability and transparency, fiduciary capitalism is being challenged to tie sustainability and corporate ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Shaping Places

    Urban Planning, Design and Development

    by David Adams, Steve Tiesdell ...
    Shaping Places explains how towns and cities can turn real estate development to their advantage to create the kind of places where people want to live, work, relax and invest. It contends that the production of quality places which enhance economic prosperity, social cohesion and environmental sustainability require a transformation of market outcomes. The core of the book explores why this is ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Public Sector Management

    by Norman Flynn, Alberto Asquer ...
    The seventh edition of the bestselling Public Sector Management is a rich and insightful description, analysis and critique of the management of the public sector by the UK government.NEW to the seventh edition:Now set in an international context with comparative global examples throughoutThree new chapters covering: strategy and planning in the public sector; transparency, accountability and ... Read more

    $69.29 USD