Globalization and Growth or Total Quality in Higher Education

Globalization and Growth: Case Studies in National Economic Strategies

Author: Richard H K Vietor

GLOBALIZATION AND GROWTH: CASE STUDIES IN NATIONAL ECONOMIC STRATEGIES explores the major developmental trajectories that have defined the recent history of economic growth. These cases empirically describe the strategies of China, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Poland and the Czech Republic, Europe and the United States. The cases are as much political and institutional as they are economic and are based on Harvard Business School's way of teaching analytical methodology for managers called "country analysis," which is a method of identifying the economic performance, social and political context, and national development strategy of a country or region.

Table of Contents:

1. Savings, Productivity and Structured Growth. Case Study: Singapore Inc.
2. Gradual Transition from a Planned Economy. Case Study: China: Facing the 21st Century.
3. Import Substitution to Washington Consensus. Case Study: India on the Move.
4. State Socialism's Disintegration. Case Study: Russia: The End of a Time of Troubles? Conceptual Note: The State.
5. Structural Adjustment Beyond the Washington Consensus. Case Study: Mexico: The Unfinished Agenda.
6. Regional Free Trade Amidst Instability. Case Study: Brazil: Embracing Globalization?
7. The African Renaissance. Case Study: South Africa: Getting in GEAR.
8. Islamic Resurgence. Case Study: Saudi Arabia: Getting the House in Order. Industry Note: World Oil Markets.
9. Regional Integration. Case Study: European Monetary Union.
10. Monetary Union and Microeconomic Competitiveness. Case Study: Italy: A New Commitment to Growth.
11. The Limits of Managed Growth. Case Study: Japan: Beyond the Bubble.
12. Deficits, Debt and Defense. Case Study: Excerpts from Economic Report of the President, 2003.

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Total Quality in Higher Education

Author: Ralph G Lewis

This book provides a framework for implementing total quality principles in the college or university environment. It includes the history and principles of quality management and an assessment of factors in the college and university environment that are leading to serious questions concerning higher education effectiveness and efficiency.

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For both academic and administrative members of the college and university communities, introduces the principles of total quality management, and provides a framework and practical information for their implementation. Includes case studies and journal articles and a chapter on ISO 9000 in training and education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The CCL Guide to Leadership in Action or Business Race and Politics in British India C 1850 1960

The CCL Guide to Leadership in Action: How Managers and Organizations Can Improve the Practice of Leadership

Author: Martin Wilcox

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is the world’s premier institution devoted exclusively to leadership research and education. For more than three decades, CCL has worked with hundreds of thousands of executives to create practical models, tools, and publications for the development of effective leaders and organizations. This important collection is drawn from CCL’s long-running publication Leadership in Action. The guide examines the skills that you need to successfully give and receive feedback, make use of coaching, work with difference, deal with change, achieve work-life balance, and address the larger issue of expanding the leadership capacity of your organization.

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Martin Wilcox and Stephen Rush are two editors from the Center for Creative Leadership, the world's premier leadership research and education institution. In The CCL Guide to Leadership in Action, they have compiled the best articles from CCL's bimonthly magazine, Leadership in Action, to show leaders how they can improve their work. Featuring the work of 38 leadership experts, their book describes a plethora of ways leaders can develop leadership skills, lead effective change, and build a healthy society. Copyright © 2004 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface : ideas into action
	Acknowledgments
	List of contributors
1	Skills for leaders	3
	Making the connection : leadership skills and emotional intelligence
	Through a new lens : a talk with Margaret J. Wheatley
	Redefining accountability : a talk with Peter Block
	Nine keys to good leadership
2	How to deal with change	35
	Leading Transition : a talk with William Bridges
	Getting a grip on conflict
	After the storm : leading in the wake of a crisis
	Adaptability : what it takes to be a quick-change artist
3	How to work across cultures	73
	Getting the message : how to feel your way with other cultures
	Global managing : mastering the spin of a complex world
	One prescription for working across cultures
4	Feedback and coaching	99
	Leadership through feedback : helping subordinates succeed
	Three keys to effective feedback
	A winning recipe for working with a coach
5	Striking a balance	125
	Throwing the right switches : how to keep your executive career on track
	Putting some life into your leadership
	Stress takes a toll on leaders
6	What is leadership development?	153
	The third way : a new source of leadership
	The missing link : organizational culture and leadership development
	Leading together : complex challenges require a new approach
7	Creating the leadership pipeline	181
	Ending the board game : new leadership solutions for companies
	The ins and outs of selecting successful executives
	Finding success at succession
8	The leadership context is diversity	205
	Telling the untold story : a conversation with Stella M. Nkomo
	X Marks the spot : developing and retaining emerging leaders
	Across the divide : grasping the black experience in corporate America
9	Creating teams that work	235
	Making sure that a team is the right way to go
	The right start : a team's first meeting is key
	Cultivating teams
10	The long view for organizational success	259
	Strategic command : taking the long view for organizational success
	Index	271
	About the Center for Creative Leadership	281

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Business, Race, and Politics in British India, C. 1850-1960

Author: Maria Misra

This study examines the political, racial, and economic attitudes of an important group of British businessmen in India. In explaining the reasons for their decline, Misra casts new light on British colonial society and makes an important contribution to the current debate on the role of race and culture in the erosion of British imperial power.

Incorporating Women or Realising Strategy in Management

Incorporating Women (Twayne's Evolution of Modern Business Series): A History of Women and Business in the United States

Author: Angel Kwolek Folland

The only book on the market to bring together business and women's history, Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States by award-winning author Angel Kwolek-Folland, is an engaging and unique survey of women in business that begins with 17th century Native American fur traders and ends with the producer of the film Top Gun. Along the way, the reader is introduced to some of the women - famous, infamous, and forgotten - who have engaged in business throughout U.S. history. This narrative challenges our expectations about both the history of women and the history of business as it focuses on the changing legal and social climate for women's economic activities and traces the expansion of opportunities as well as the persistent problems that continue to face women in the business world. Kwolek-Folland has chosen two organizational themes: women's business experiences in light of a diversity of economic relations, and the importance of the legal and social conditions of women to their business opportunities. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship in the "new business history," this volume covers everything from firms and markets, to small and large businesses, to workers and entrepreneurs. The extensive research from both primary and secondary sources, incorporates the latest scholarship on women and business and is presented in clear, jargon-free prose that makes this introduction to women's business history accessible to scholars, students, and everyone interested in the role of American women in business throughout history.

Mansel Blackford

The single best history of the varied roles women have played in American business from the colonial period to the present day.

Edwin J. Perkins

A masterful, pathbreaking study that fills a huge gap in historical literature.

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First published in 1998, this book surveys the history of women in business, from seventeenth-century fur traders to twentieth-century movie producers. The diversity of women's experiences in the business world, and the effects of legal and social conditions on that experience are foregrounded. The book considers the experiences of women as entrepreneurs, managers and professionals, workers, and within families. Kwolek-Folland teaches history and women's studies at the University of Florida. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
1	Incorporating Others: The Social Categories of Business History	1
2	Female Economies: Women and Business in Preindustrial America, 1550-1830	13
3	Mills and More: Women's Business and the First Industrial Revolution, 1830-1880	47
4	Personal Work: Women's Business in a Corporate World, 1880-1930	85
5	Crisis Management: Women and Business at Midcentury, 1930-1963	130
6	Difference at Work: The Renewal of the Businesswoman, 1963-1997	169
7	Conclusion	211
	Notes and References	217
	Bibliographic Essay	229
	Index	259

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Realising Strategy in Management: Themes and Applications

Author: Loizos Heracleous

Examining some of the new and emerging issues in strategic management, Loizos Heracleous presents an original approach to the established ideas of strategy. He emphasizes the importance of organizational culture in realizing strategy and applies this concept to such important new areas as corporate governance and the impact of the Internet on business organization and activity. Combining original research with thorough surveys of the literature, the book is intended for MBA level students, researchers and professionals.

Principles of Macroeconomics or Health Occupations Workplace Readiness

Principles of Macroeconomics

Author: Karl E Cas

Reviewers tell us that Case/Fair is one of the all-time bestselling principles of economics texts because they trust it to be clear, thorough and complete.  This well-respected author team is joined for the 9^th edition by a new co-author, Sharon Oster.  Sharon’s research and teaching experience brings new coverage of modern topics and an applied approach to economic theory, as demonstrated in the new Economics in Practice feature.

Introduction to Economics; Concepts and Problems in Macroeconomics; The Core of Macroeconomic Theory; Further Macroeconomic Issues; The World Economy

For those looking for a trusted and authoritative principles of macroeconomics text that focuses on international econmies as well as the Keynesian Cross. Case/Fair/Oster believe strongly, that a text should use the Keynesian Cross carefully and systematically, to build up to the AD/AS model.  One of the great benefits of this approach, is that students of economics won’t mistakenly apply what they learned about simple demand and supply to aggregate demand & supply.  (A detailed summary of this approach can be found in the preface).

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Comprises the first five introductory chapters, 16 macroeconomics chapters, and the four international chapters form the cloth bound textbook Principles of economics. A companion volume contains the micro chapters. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Health Occupations Workplace Readiness

Author: Bruce J Colbert

This innovative worktext covers the workplace readiness skills identified by the SCANS project and the National Health Care Skill Standards. It includes information on the interpersonal as well as the professional skills required to enter the health care work force. Topics such as critical and creative thinking, ethics, interviewing and communication are addressed with a balance of humor and real-life examples to help engage readers. Numerous individual and group activities are included to help students develop these necessary skills.

Table of Contents:

Section 1: Communicating With Yourself: Achieving Personal Excellence,

Chapter 1: Study Skills: Laying the Foundation,

Chapter 2: Personal and Professional Characteristics for Success,

Chapter 3: Setting Goals and Time Management,

Chapter 4: Stress Management,

Chapter 5: Thinking and Reasoning Skills,
Section 2: Communicating With Others: Achieving Professional Excellence,

Chapter 6: Types of Communications,

Chapter 7: Communication in Action,

Chapter 8: Communication within an Organization,

Chapter 9: Patient Communication,

Chapter 10: Your First Job in Healthcare,

Chapter 11: Selected Topics

Operations Management or Strategic Management and Business Analysis

Operations Management: A Process Approach with Spreadsheets

Author: Scott M Shafer

Jack Meredith and Scott Shafer abandon the traditional approach for operations management books and focus on business processes and spreadsheets to solve problems. They provide readers with an applied and contemporary introduction to operations management as well as a solid foundation in its theory. With this text, readers will discover the latest trends currently being used in business. They'll learn about the additional skills needed to succeed in an extremely competitive environment. This includes the trend away from vertical hierarchical organizations toward horizontal process-centered ones creating a need for individuals who can also work as part of a team and who understand how technology can be used to better meet customer needs.

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Strategic Management and Business Analysis

Author: David Williamson

Strategic Management and Business Analysis takes a different approach to the study of business strategy An essential feature of this approach is the provision of a detailed roadmap for the strategic analysis of a company. It identifies key strategic questions and provides clear guidance on how they may be answered.

The issues involved in answering the questions are then explored and this includes a review of the tools and techniques that can be used in strategic analysis. This is supported with a CD that has powerful strategic modelling and financial analysis tools to significantly ease the strategic analysis task.

The book contains case studies with detailed and practical advice on their analysis. Taken altogether, the book outlines an exciting and robust framework for strategic analysis and decision making, and provides materials that encourage students to become familiar with important concepts in strategic management.

David Williamson, Head of Centre for Research into Corporate Responsibility and the Environment and Principal Lecturer in Business Strategy, Staffordshire University Business School, UK.

Wyn Jenkins, MBA Award Tutor and Senior Lecturer in Business Strategy, Staffordshire University Business School, UK

Peter Cooke, Part -time Lecturer in Financial and Strategic Modelling, Staffordshire University Business School, UK.

Keith Michael Moreton, Awards Tutor for Postgraduate Programmes in Operations and Supply Chain Management and Senior Lecturer in Operations Strategy, Staffordshire University Business School, UK.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
	How to use the CD
	Acknowledgements
Pt. 1	The Four Big Questions You Need to Ask
1	The first big question: Where is the organization now?	3
2	The second big question: What options are open to the organization?	18
3	The third big question: What is the best way forward for the organization?	26
4	The fourth big question: How can this be achieved?	32
Pt. 2	Helping You Answer the Four Big Questions
5	Organization structure and strategy	49
6	Strategy-making processes	64
7	Organization environments	77
8	Competitive advantage	88
9	Auditing resources	103
10	Financial performance and investment appraisal	115
11	Models for aiding strategic selection	127
Pt. 3	Case Study Analysis and Case Studies
12	Case study analysis	143
13	Wm. Morrison Supermarkets PLC	156
14	The UK supermarket sector in 1996	174
15	Delamere Pottery Limited	205
16	Alpha Toiletries Limited	221
17	AB machine tools	228
	References	253
	Index	259

Current Perspectives or Paraprofessionals in Education

Current Perspectives: Readings from InfoTrac

Author: Wadsworth

These readers, designed to give students a deeper taste of special topics in criminal justice, include free access to InfoTrac® College Edition. The timely articles are selected by experts in each topic from within InfoTrac College Edition.

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Paraprofessionals in Education

Author: Kathryn Jane Skelton

This book offers new paraeducators important information on how to become an effective member of a successful teaching team. It presents job-seeking skills, getting started as a paraeducator, daily routines and also covers legal issues, general child development, special education, classroom management and organization. With helpful suggestions and activities for enhancing the education of children of all ages, this book can serve as both a training resource or as a workshop supplement for inservice training.

Table of Contents:

Overview for Paraprofessionals. Phases and Stages: Learning About the Children. Preparation for New Challenges: Get Ready. Working and Playing with Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers. Learning Activities: Hands-On Learning with All Systems Go. Games and Learning Centers: Making It Fun and Making It Stick. Working with Children with Special Needs. Ways and Means For Good Behavior. Classroom Organization. Resources for the Productive Paraprofessional. Onward and Upward: Upgrading Paraeducator Status. Policies and Procedures: Learning the Ways of Your Workplace. The Job Market for Paraprofessionals.
Appendix A: End of Year Poem.
Appendix B: Abbreviations.
Appendix C: Paraeducator Competencies and Job Descriptions.
Appendix D: United States Civil Rights Office.
Appendix E: Forms That May Help In the Beginning Days.
Appendix F: Ideas to Get You Started.
Appendix G: Legal Issues for Paraeducators: Your Rights and Your Obligations.
Appendix H: Where to Find Answers to Common Questions.

Computer Confluence Comprehensive and Student CD or Financial Administration And Control

Computer Confluence, Comprehensive and Student CD

Author: George Beekman

Available in three separate editions for maximum user flexibility, Computer Confluence combines three information sources—an illustrated book, a multimedia CD-ROM, and an up-to-the-minute Companion Website—to explore the promises and challenges of information technology, its effect on businesses, people, society, and the future. Chapter topics include hardware basics; software basics; basic office applications; graphics, digital media, and multimedia; database applications and implications; networking and telecommunication; and the Internet and the World Wide Web. For educators, theologians, writers, artists, and others for whom technology is an important tool but not a passion.

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Financial Administration And Control

Author: Cox

Financial Administartion and Control is for students studying financial management practice. The book provides a concise, practical guide to the current application of financial analysis and shows how an administrator would evaluate, plan, and control the unit of his or her responsibility. Insights in administering not-for-profit organizations are also provided.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction.
2. Interpreting Financial Statements.
3. Analysis of Performance.
4. Financial Planning, Budgeting and Control.
5. Cost Behavior.
6. Long-term Financial Decision.
7. Appendix.
8. Answers and Questions to Problems.
9. Glossary.

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography or Respiratory Care In Alternative Sites

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography

Author: Gordon L L Clark

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography is the single most important statement of the scope and status of the vibrant interdisciplinary field of economic geography. It brings together more than 40 leading economists and geographers from around the world. From general statements about the history and evolution of the field to statements about the crucial problems of economic geography, the volume is preoccupied with the rival theories and perspectives that have sustained its recent growth. The volume is also focused upon linkages, including those between the global and the local, between industry location and trade, and between corporate strategy and market structure.

Table of Contents:

	The Editors
	The Contributors
	Introduction	1
1	Economic Geography: Transition and Growth	3
2	Economic Geography: The Great Half-Century	18
Pt. I	Conceptual Perspectives
3	Where in the World is the 'New Economic Geography'?	49
4	Doing Regulation	61
5	The New Economics of Urban and Regional Growth	83
6	Geography or Economics? Conceptions of Space, Time, Interdependence, and Agency	99
Pt. II	Global Economic Integration
7	The Geography of International Investment	125
8	Globalization, Localization, and Trade	146
9	Climate, Coastal Proximity, and Development	169
10	The Great Tablecloth: Bread and Butter Politics, and the Political Economy of Food and Poverty	195
11	The Regulation of International Finance	215
12	Finance and Localities	230
Pt. III	Corporate Structure, Strategy, and Location
13	Locations, Clusters, and Company Strategy	253
14	Places and Flows: Situating International Investment	275
15	The Globalization of Retail Capital: Themes for Economic Geography	292
16	The Management of Time and Space	317
17	Corporate Form and Spatial Form	333
Pt. IV	The Geography of Innovation
18	Nation States and Economic Development: from National Systems of Production to National Systems of Knowledge Creation and Learning	353
19	Location and Innovation: The New Economic Geography of Innovation, Spillovers, and Agglomeration	373
20	Restructuring and Innovation in Long-Term Regional Change	395
21	Industrial Districts: The Contributions of Marshall and Beyond	413
22	Innovation Networks, Regions, and Globalization	432
Pt. V	Localities and Difference
23	Local Labour Markets: Their Nature, Performance, and Regulation	455
24	Firms, Workers, and the Geographic Concentration of Economic Activity	477
25	Feminists Rethink the Economic: The Economics of Gender/The Gender of Economics	497
26	Racial and Economic Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas	518
27	Elite Power, Global Forces, and the Political Economy of 'Glocal' Development	541
28	Economic Geography in Practice: Local Economic Development Policy	559
Pt. VI	Global Transformations
29	Markets and Environmental Quality	585
30	Environmental Innovation and Regulation	607
31	Spontaneous Integration in Japan and East Asia: Development, Crisis, and Beyond	625
32	Regional Economic Integration in North America	649
33	The European Union as more than a Triad Market for National Economic Spaces	671
Pt. VII	Coda
34	Pandora's Box? Cultural Geographies of Economies	689
	Index	705

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Respiratory Care In Alternative Sites

Author: Kenneth A Wyka

With the impact health care reform, managed care and hospital restructuring are having on the respiratory care profession, this new book will help respiratory care practitioners learn how to meet the needs and demands of care at alternate sites such as pulmonary rehabilitation centers, subacute care facilities or the home.

Global Corporate Finance or Designing Economic Mechanisms

Global Corporate Finance: Text and Cases

Author: Suk H H Kim

A highly practical tText in a user-friendly format.

This highly acclaimed text is solidly grounded in the modern theory of finance and yet has strong ties to the real world of global finance. Over 100 colleges, universities, and management development programs around the world have adopted this book, because it stresses practical applications in a user-friendly format.

The 4th edition is even more attractive because it contains the five essential elements for any outstanding text: practicability, a user-friendly format, readability, brevity, and a highly competitive set of supplements. In this book the authors covered all the basic concepts and techniques of international finance without extraneous details that distract students from the key lessons. Get a copy and see for youself.

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Designing Economic Mechanisms

Author: Leonid Hurwicz

A mechanism is a mathematical structure that models institutions through which economic activity is guided and coordinated. There are many such institutions; markets are the most familiar ones. Lawmakers, administrators and officers of private companies create institutions in orders to achieve desired goals. They seek to do so in ways that economize on the resources needed to operate the institutions, and that provide incentives that induce the required behaviors. This book presents systematic procedures for designing mechanisms that achieve specified performance, and economize on the resources required to operate the mechanism, i.e., informationally efficient mechanisms. Our systematic design procedures are algorithms for designing informationally efficient mechanisms. Most of the book deals with these procedures of design. When there are finitely many environments to be dealt with, and there is a Nash-implementing mechanism, our algorithms can be used to make that mechanism into an informationally efficient one. Informationally efficient dominant strategy implementation is also studied.

Table of Contents:

1	Mechanisms and mechanism design	14
2	From goals to means : constructing mechanisms	63
3	Designing informationally efficient mechanisms using the language of sets	182
4	Revelation mechanisms	296

Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization or Faded Dreams

Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization

Author: Carl Riskin

China's explosive economic growth since 1988 has not resulted in an equal increase of income among all Chinese citizens. The authors explore a range of reasons for the disparity and base their conclusions on strong empirical evidence--especially the 1996 survey conducted by the State Statistical Bureau.

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Faded Dreams: The Politics and Economics of Race in America

Author: Martin Carnoy

Faded Dreams paints a new and challenging picture of how racial inequality has evolved in America. Martin Carnoy shows that three dominant views of economic differences between blacks and whites--that blacks are individually responsible for not taking advantage of market opportunities, that the world economy has changed in ways that puts blacks at a tremendous disadvantage compared to whites, and that pervasive racism is holding blacks down--do not adequately explain why blacks made such large gains in the past and stopped making them in the 1980s and 1990s. Using a systematic analysis of fifty years of data on income, education, and the variety of jobs that both blacks and whites have held, Faded Dreams offers a powerful argument for active government intervention to improve the education and living conditions of disadvantaged black children.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	The ups and downs of African-American fortunes	13
3	The politics of explaining racial inequality	34
4	Are blacks to blame?	58
5	Is the economy to blame?	86
6	Have racism and discrimination increased?	109
7	Politics and black educational opportunity	127
8	Politics and black job opportunities: I	150
9	Politics and black job opportunities: II	172
10	Black economic gains and ideology: the White House factor	195
11	Is there any hope for greater equality?	221
	Appendix A	243
	Appendix B	246
	Notes	248
	Index	275

Control 2000 or International Trade

Control 2000: Mineral and Metallurgical Processing

Author: John A Herbst

These proceedings from the 2000 SME Annual Meeting chronicle recent developments in control systems in the mineral industry. Discussions include the use of maintenance schedules and metal prices in control systems, video imaging, and more extensive use of research previously consider primarily academic.

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Presents papers from a 2000 symposium, divided into sections on new uses of plant information, operating experience with stabilizing control and with advanced control, progress toward plantwide control, and tools for optimal decision making. Papers reflect trends in use of information from new sources, video imaging, simulators, and expert systems. Specific topics include online fragmentation analysis for grinding and crushing control, an evaluation of plantwide control strategies for coal preparation plants, and model-based decision making for mineral processing. Member price, $79.00. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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International Trade: Theory, Strategies, and Evidence

Author: Luis Rivera Batiz

The field of international trade has been a focus of renewed debate for academics and policy-makers alike. The progressive integration of economics at a worldwide level have led to debates surrounding the migration of labor markets, restrictive trade practices, the impact of foreign investment, the role of cooperation through multilateral and regional agreements, and the enforceability of international agreements.
This book reviews the new research findings and theoretical developments that have informed these debates, offering a balanced analytical account of American and European experiences, viewpoints, approaches and policy.
Written in six parts, the first part examines the determinants of trade patterns, economic location, foreign investment and the interaction between trade and economic growth. The second part deals with strategic policy interventions. The third part examines the role of innovation, skills and contracts in trade and foreign direct investment. The fourth part focuses on trade reform, trade and investment restrictions and economic sanctions. The fifth part tackles the endogenous formation of policy through the interaction between interest groups and the government, block formation and a host of coexisting trade-restricting and -promoting practices. The sixth part focuses on the economics of the World Trade Organization, cooperative agreements, and their sustainability.
Comprehensive in its approach, this book will be of particular interest to graduate students, policymakers, and practitioners with an interest in international trade.

Where the Dove Calls or Cases in Cost Management

Where the Dove Calls: The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico

Author: Thomas E Sheridan

Thomas Sheridan's study of the municipio of Cucurpe, Sonora, offers new insight into the ability of peasants to respond to ecological and political change. In order to survive as small rancher-farmers, the Cucurpeños battle aridity and one another in a society characterized by sharp economic inequality and long-standing conflict over the distribution of land and water. Sheridan has written an ethnography of resource control, one that weds the approaches of political economy and cultural ecology in order to focus upon both the external linkages and internal adaptations that shape three peasant corporate communities. He examines the ecological and economic constraints which scarce and necessary resources place upon households in Cucurpe, and then investigates why many such households have formed corporate communities to insure their access to resources beyond their control. Finally, he identifies the class differences that exist within the corporate communities as well as between members of those organizations and the private ranchers who surround them. Where the Dove Calls (the meaning of "Cucurpe" in the language of the Opata Indians), an important contribution to peasant studies, reveals the household as the basic unit of Cucurpe society. By viewing Cucurpe's corporate communities as organizations of fiercely independent domestic units rather than as expressions of communal solidarity, Sheridan shows that peasants are among the exploiters as well as the exploited. Cucurpe¤os struggle to maintain the autonomy of their households even as they join together to protect corporate grazing lands and irrigation water. Any attempt to weaken or destroy that independenceis met with opposition that ranges from passive resistance to violence.

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Cases in Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis

Author: John K Shank

Designed to augment managerial and cost accounting study, Cases in Cost Management develops the ability to apply cost analysis to decision-making situations. Thoroughly tested and proven highly effective, the cases provide challenging and fun problems that help build skills with managerial and cost accounting techniques. Based on real-life scenarios, the cases give the opportunity to analyze the situation, decide which accounting concept is most appropriate, and apply the concept as the manager of a firm.

Table of Contents:

1. Ajax Petroleum. 2. Allied Office Products. 3. Arctic Insulation. 4. Baldwin Bicycles. 5. Berkshire Threaded Fasteners. 6. Booker Jones. 7. Boston Creamery. 8. Bridgewater Castings. 9. Brunswick Plastics. 10. California Products. 11. Chalice Wines. 12. Dairy Pak. 13. Dansk Minox. 14. Cases in Applying EVC: Micromini Computer and Acme Fasteners. 15. Forbes and White. 16. Graham Inc. 17. Jones Ironworks. 18. Kinkead Equipment. 19. Levi's Personal Pair. 20. M-L Fasteners. 21. Mavis Machine Shop. 22. Montclair-The APL Line. 23. Montclair-The "Deep Color" Grades. 24. OSRAM, North America. 25. Peterson Pottery. 26. RC Blake Co. 27. Reichard Machinen. 28. Ringo Rag Company. 29. Skyview Manor. 30. Sloan Styles. 31. Societe Bonlieu. 32. Tashtego. 33. Tijuana Bronze Machining (TBM). 34. Unitron. 35. Wellington Chemicals.

Finding Time or Macroeconomics

Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices

Author: Leslie A Perlow

Why do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Leslie A. Perlow documents the worklife of employees who assume that for their own success and the success of their organization they must put in extended hours on the job. Perlow doesn't buy it. She challenges the basic assumption that the more employees work, the better the corporation will do. For nine months, Perlow studied the work practices of a product development team of software engineers at a Fortune 500 corporation. She reports her findings in detailed stories about individual employees and in more analytic chapters. Perlow first describes the individual heroics necessary to succeed in the existing work culture. She then explains how the system of rewards perpetuates crises and continuous interruptions, while discouraging cooperation. Finally, she shows how the resulting work practices damage both organizational productivity and the quality of individuals' lives outside of work.

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Perlow, an assistant professor at the Univ. of Michigan business school, spent four years under the auspices of the Ford Foundation, studying the work habits of engineers at Ditto, a pseudonymous Fortune 500 company. She starts by examining the structure of Ditto and how its employees work together. Using single men, working mothers and working fathers as examples, Perlow presents employees' chronicles in which they detail everything they do from when they get up to arrival at the office to lunchtime to going to bed. Several employees also discuss how they spend their time, both at the office and at home, as they juggle the responsibilities of work and their personal life. While there are real difficultiesworking mothers, rather than fathers, still have more responsibilities at home and will stay home with a sick childthere are also issues of perception. Driven, successful people are perceived to work long hours, to expand their workdays to include formal and impromptu discussions. So, while some employees requested flexible schedules, flextime seemed to hinder an employee's chances for promotion. Perlow offers some suggestions for improving employee productivityby having employees specify certain hours for "interactive" time and "quiet" time. However, most workers were unable to adhere to these strategies, in part because of the continuing pressure to be seen as accessible. As a portrait of what is an all-too-common situationemployees finding there aren't enough hours in the day to meet their work and family demandsthis is an interesting portrait. However, the suggestions for change fall short. (Jan.)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction: The Case against Long Work Hours	1
Pt. I	Life in the Fast Lane	9
1	Organizational Superstar: Max's Story	15
2	Ideal Female Employee: Laura's Story	23
3	Individual Heroics: Criteria for Success	33
4	Home Life: Tradeoffs between Work and Family	45
Pt. II	How Work Really Gets Done	57
5	Help and Helping: Matt's and Sarah's Stories	61
6	Constant Interruptions: Misuses of Time	73
7	Crisis Mentality: Rhythms of Work	87
8	Vicious Work Time Cycle: A Major Impediment to Corporate Productivity	95
Pt. III	The Possibility of Change	99
9	Flexible Work Options Fall Short: Kate's Story	103
10	Potential for Collective Change: Quiet Time	115
11	New Work Practices: Benefits for Corporations, Individuals, and Families	129
	Afterword: Two Years Later	137
	Methodological Appendix: A Research Tale	141
	References	149
	Index	153

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Macroeconomics

Author: Richard G G Lipsey

This thoroughly revised edition provides a complete, balanced introduction to economics and to the most important issues facing the world's economies at the turn of the millennium. In addition to fine-tuning and streamlining the prose and the overall presentation, the authors have comprehensively updated the text and the applications to reflect recent economic developments and topics of current interest. Students in particular will find the Study Guide, with its practice questions, exercises, and problems, to be an excellent source of study support and extra review material. It is available in both a one- and a two-volume edition.

Library Journal

Why are there no taxes in Kathmandu? Why is rent in Manhattan so high? And who really pays taxes? These and many other questions about economics of interest to a lay audience form the basis of this excellent set, which is tailor-made for public and high school libraries. The staff editors do not provide an academic treatise on the complex, technical details of economic theory or principles. Instead, they focus on translating economics into an easily understood language, making this work highly useful for students--especially at the high school level. The six volumes cover money, banking, and finance; the citizen and the economy; business operations; the U.S. economy and the world; economic theory; and economic history. With the exception of Volume 5 (on economic theory), the volumes contain numerous well-organized chapters that adequately cover the topic. Volume 5 is arranged as an A-Z encyclopedia of shorter articles about fundamental concepts in economics and can be used as both a reference to the other volumes and a stand-alone reference. Numerous charts, diagrams, figures, and glossy photos are used to clarify concepts, and the set's glossary, reading list, and index are re-produced in each of the six volumes, making for easier cross-referencing. With the ever-changing nature of finance law and regulations, this well-prepared reference set will need regular updates, but it remains the resource of choice on economics for its targeted audience.--Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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An introduction to issues, methods, and policy problems in economics. Part I discusses comparative economic systems. Part II deals with demand and supply, and applies the tools of price determination and elasticity to case studies. Part III presents foundations of supply and demand and consumer behavior, and includes material on the derivation of demand curves using indifference curves. Features highlighted key concepts, chapter summaries, questions, and applications boxes. This 11th edition focuses on globalization, and addresses transitional economies in Eastern Europe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The New Project Management or Talk Is Cheap

The New Project Management: Tools for an Age of Rapid Change, Complexity, and Other Business Realities

Author: J Davidson Fram

Drawing on more than twenty-five years experience consulting and training on project management in companies such as NCR, AT&T, and 3M, J. Davidson Frame updates and expands what he introduced in the first edition of The New Project Management in 1994-a set of core competencies for managerial success in a corporate climate where downsizing, outsourcing, and employee empowerment are a way of life. This new edition focuses on the hottest areas in project management today-augmenting and expanding the existing coverage of risk management and estimating, and including three all-new chapters on critical issues that did not even exist in 1994.

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Frame, dean of academic affairs at the University of Management and Technology, offers strategies for managing all types of projects in today's complex business environment, emphasizing the importance of key issues such as ensuring customer satisfaction, managing complexity, accelerating schedules, managing managers, and building team spirit. This second edition reflects changes in the field since 1994, with expanded coverage of risk management and estimating, and three new chapters on establishing and maintaining the project support office, new techniques for scheduling, and bridging the business- technology gap when developing project requirements. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	The Author
1	The New Business Environment and the Need for a New Project Management	1
Pt. 1	Managing in the New Business Environment	19
2	Managing Complexity: Techniques for Fashioning Order out of Chaos	21
3	Engaging Change: Knowing When to Embrace, Accept, or Challenge	44
4	Managing Risk: Identifying, Analyzing and Planning Responses	72
5	Satisfying Customers: Knowing Who They Are, What They Want, and When They Are Right or Wrong	93
6	Defining Requirements That Bridge the Customer-Developer Gap	118
Pt. 2	Tools for the New Project Management	143
7	Acquiring Political Skills and Building Influence	147
8	Building Teams with Borrowed Resources	173
9	Selecting Projects That Will Lead to Success	190
10	Estimating Realistic Costs, Schedules, and Specifications to Ensure Project Success	207
11	Scheduling Projects with New Tools: The Time-Boxed and Critical Chain Scheduling Techniques	229
12	Outsourcing to Control Costs, Focus on Core Work, and Expand Resources	252
13	Integrating Cost and Schedule Control to Measure Work Performance	274
14	Evaluating Projects to Maintain Goals, Strengthen Accountability, and Achieve Objectives	292
15	Understanding and Using Performance Metrics: Measuring the Right Stuff	306
16	Establishing and Maintaining a Project Support Office to Strengthen Project Management Capabilities	327
17	Carpe Diem: Seize the Day!	344
	References	347
	Index	351

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Talk Is Cheap: Declining Costs, New Competition, and Regulatory Reform in Telecommunications

Author: Robert W W Crandall

'Talk is Cheap is the call for the reform of telecommunications regulation in North America. The Author demonstrates the difficulties facing public officials who respond to today's rapid technological changes with regulatory tools designed for a different era.

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Corbett, a teacher of children and adults with learning disabilities and a university lecturer in special education and disability politics, challenges common words applied to disabled people and analyzes specific texts by various authors from the disabled community, in chapters on deconstructing special language, struggling with political correctness, and constructing different languages. Includes poetry and discussion questions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Researching Sexual Violence Against Women or Dramaturgy in American Theatre

Researching Sexual Violence Against Women: Methodological and Personal Perspectives

Author: Martin D Schwartz

"As the backlash against feminist research continues unabated, this important volume signals no retreat. Bringing together the foremost international researchers in the area of violence against women, Researching Sexual Violence Against Women offers excellent assessments of the dimensions of date rape-particularly on college campuses. Reasons why this form of violence against women has provoked such intense responses as well as new methodologies are thoroughly explored. Finally, the work examines the impact this research has on those who do it and calls for more work on women's victimization and the links between it and other forms of discrimination." --Meda Chesney-Lind, Women's Studies Program, University of Hawaii--Manoa A remarkable introduction to research in the field, Researching Sexual Violence Against Women provides cutting-edge information on the various studies conducted on North American campuses. This compelling book not only provides a strong overview of the entire field but also simultaneously offers an answer to backlash critics who claim that feminists exaggerate their statistics. Several of the best-known researchers describe their own work and that of others to illustrate both large-scale and local studies. The contributors also take a compelling look into the emotions of sexual assault research by discussing their own emotional experiences of working with rape research, including experiences of harassment by subjects or disrespect by colleagues. In addition, several scholars peruse empirical and epistemological questions--and arrive at surprising conclusions-on feminist participatory research into lesbian battering, reflexivity in studying prostitutes, thegendered nature of research interviews, and white women studying battered women of color. Including chapters on very hot topics and celebrating feminist research methodology, Researching Sexual Violence Against Women speaks to a broad audience, including researchers, academics, professionals, and students in the areas of interpersonal violence, social work, sociology, criminology, women's studies, psychology, family studies, and counseling as well as college administrators and mental health practitioners.

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Dramaturgy in American Theatre: A Source Book

Author: Susan Jonas

This comprehensive work is truly the first textbook in the field of dramaturgy. Most of the material-much of it by leaders in all areas of the theater-was commissioned for this collection, rather than being reprinted. Its currency and importance cannot be overestimated. A review of the history of dramaturgy as a profession, together with its European antecedents, gives students a sense of historical context. Selections from respected and recognized names in theater provoke student interest and communicate the benefits of those experts' experiences.

Table of Contents:

Dedication. Introduction. Acknowledgements. PART I: PRECEDENTS AND NEW BEGINNINGS. Preview. Anne Cattaneo, Dramaturgy: An Overview. Joel Schechter, In the Beginning There Was Lessing...Then Brecht, Muller, and Other Dramaturgs. Martin Esslin, Towards an American Dramaturg: Adapting the Function of Dramaturgy to US Conditions. Jonathan Marks, On Robert Brustein and Dramaturgy. Robert Brustein, from The Future of an un-American Activity. Jonathan Kalb, Notes for a Definition. PART II: TOWARD A DRAMATURGICAL SENSIBILITY. Preview. Oscar G. Brockett, Dramaturgy in Education: Introduction. Mark Bly, Bristling with Multiple Possibilities. Art Borreca, Dramaturging New Play Dramaturgy: The Yale and Iowa Models. Jane Ann Crum, Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility. Arthur Ballet, Why in the Hell Are We So Serious? . Heidi Gilpin, Shaping Critical Spaces: Issues in the Dramaturgy of Movement Performance. Mark Lord, The Dramaturgy Reader. Richard Pettengill, Dramaturgy Education. Michael Lupu, There Is Clamor in the Air. Leon Katz, The Complete Dramaturg. PART III: MODELS OF COLLABORATION. Preview. Geoff Proehl, The Images Before Us: Metaphors for the Role of the Dramaturgy in American Theater. Tori Haring-Smith, The Dramaturgy as Androgyne: Thoughts on the Nature of Dramaturgical Collaboration. Allen Kuharski, Joseph Chaikin and the Presence of the Dramaturg. Mira Rafalowicz, Mira Rafalowicz: Dramaturg in Collaboration with Joseph Chaikin. Royston Coppenger and Travis Preston, The Way We Work Together. Gregory Gunter, Exploration Through Imagery: Gregory Gunter Talks About Working with Anne Bogart. "How to Talk to a Playwright": Panel Discussionwith Steve Carter, Constance Congdon, John Glore, Philip Kan Gotanda, Eric Overmyer, and Sandy Shinner Allen Kennedy. Professional Theater and Education:Contexts for Dramaturgy . Richard Pettengill, Education and Community Programs at the Goodman Theater, 1996. Lee Devin, Conceiving the Forms: Play Analysis for Production Dramaturgy. John H. Lutterbie, Theory and the Practice of Dramaturgy. PART IV: NEW CONTEXTS. Preview. Susan Jonas, The Dramaturg-Director: Aiming the Canon at Now. Carl Weber, Foreign Drama in Translation - Some Reflections on Otherness, Xenophobia, the Translator's Task.

Drawn to Extremes or Business of Writing and Speaking

Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons

Author: Chris Lamb

Four days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Pulitzer Prize--winning cartoonist Joel Pett of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader chided President George W. Bush for having declared that America would "punish any state that harbored or trained terrorists." In one of his cartoons, Pett asked if this included the state of Florida, where the terrorists had lived and taken flying lessons. When Pett followed with other criticisms of Bush, readers canceled subscriptions, demanded that Pett be fired, and left profane messages on his voice mail. "One elderly woman spat into the phone that I 'should have been in the World Trade Center,'Pett said. "Such is the power of the cartoon when it is unleashed."

Unrestricted by journalistic standards of objectivity, editorial cartoonists wield ire and irony to reveal the naked truths about presidents, business leaders, and other public figures. Indeed, since the founding of the republic, cartoonists have both made an important contribution to and offered a critical commentary on our society.

This book demonstrates the limits of cartooning from the courtroom to the newsroom. Chris Lamb examines the reasons for the declining state of the art and the implications for all of us. Most newspapers today publish relatively generic, gag-related, syndicated cartoons. They are cheaper and generate fewer phone calls than hard-hitting cartoons. Lamb charges that they are symptomatic of the foundering newspaper industry and reflect a weakness in the newspaper's traditional watchdog function. If a newspaper wants to fulfill its function in society, maybe it should find ways to make the phone ring more -- not less!

Table of Contents:

1	You should have been in the World Trade Center!	1
2	President Bush has been reading Doonesbury and taking it much too seriously	30
3	No honest man need fear cartoons	57
4	McCarthyism	90
5	Second-class citizens of the editorial page	126
6	We certainly don't want to make people uncomfortable now, do we?	156
7	That's not a definition of libel; that's a job description	185
8	Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable	209

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Business of Writing and Speaking: A Managerial Communication Manual

Author: Larry M Robbins

This concise MBA-level communication manual applies the rhetorical principles of writing and speaking to managerial communication. The book offers guidance for specific tasks of writing (letter,memos,reports,proposals,and resumes) and of speaking (meetings,group presentations,questions and answer sessions,and interviewing). Both end-of-chapter exercises and an end-of book exercise workshop provide ample practice in the common forms of communication. This updated,revised edition reflects use of new technology in the research process and has increased emphasis on meetings.

Efficient Monopolies or International Handbook on Innovation

Efficient Monopolies: The Limits of Competition in the European Property Insurance Market

Author: Thomas Von Ungern Sternberg

This book presents startling evidence that state monopolies can produce better outcomes than the free market. It provides an empirical comparison of the property insurance market in five European countries: Britain, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Germany. The market and cost structures of insurers in each country are described, and particular features of each market and the outcomes for customers examined. The regulatory frameworks vary widely from country to country and so do the market outcomes, both in terms of premium level and in terms of available insurance cover.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Introduction	1
1	Britain	21
2	Spain	56
3	France	75
4	Switzerland	105
5	Germany	125
	References	152
	Index	156

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International Handbook on Innovation

Author: Larisa V Shavinina

The International Handbook on Innovation is the most comprehensive and authoritative account available of what innovation is, how it is measured, how it is developed, how it is managed, and how it affects individuals, companies, societies, and the world as a whole. Leading specialists from around the world, responsible for much of the current research in the field, analyze the multidisciplinary and multifaceted nature of innovation, its types and levels, its criteria, its development, its management, its specificity in various domains and contexts, and societal demands on it. They consider innovation from the viewpoints of psychology, management science, business, technology, sociology, philosophy, economics, history, education, art, and public policy.

With contributions from over 90 distinguished authors covering 17 nations, readers will obtain expert insight into the latest research and future developments in the field of innovation. The Handbook will present many facets of innovation including its nature, its development, its measurement, its management, and its social, cultural, and historical context. The breadth of this work will allow the reader to acquire a comprehensive and panoramic picture of the nature of innovation within a single handbook. The reader will develop an accurate sense of what spurs potentially creative and innovative people and companies toward their extraordinary achievements and exceptional performances.

The handbook can be used as a reference source for those who would like information about a particular topic, or from cover to cover either as a sourcebook or as a textbook in a course dealing with innovation. Anyone interested in knowing the wide range of issues regarding innovation will want to read this handbook.

Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry or Foundations of Finance

Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry: A Practitioner's Perspective

Author: Dana Teson

Written from a practitioner's perspective, this straightforward concise book provides the planning, organizing, influencing, and control functions associated with human resource management in hospitality and tourism organizations. The basis of this book is to present the knowledge, skills, and abilities that are required for an individual to become a middle level manager in the field of hospitality human resources. Part One focuses on the evolution of the practice of commerce to include the development of complex employer/employee relationships; Part Two presents a snapshot of duties and responsibilities associated with the practice of professional management; Part Three covers communication, leadership, motivation, and recruitment and selection skills. For HR generalists and specialists, or for training programs in any industry.

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Foundations of Finance: The Logic and Practice of Finance Management

Author: Arthur Keown

KEY BENEFIT: Keown allows readers to see the big picture by letting them understand the logic that drives finance rather than memorizing formulas. Very user friendly, the basic pedagogical approach to the presentation of new tools and techniques is “say it” then “illustrate it with an example” and reinforce with lots of “real world examples”. As well as including strong international coverage some key topics are: Financial Markets and Interest Rates; Understanding Financial Statements and Cash Flows; Time Value of Money; Risk and Return; Bond and Stock Valuation; Capital-Budgeting Techniques and Practice; Cash Flows and Other Topics in Capital Budgeting; and Current Asset Management. For an enduring understanding of the basic tools and fundamental principles upon which finance is based.

Table of Contents:

1. An Introduction to the Foundations of Financial Management — The Ties That Bind

2. The Financial Markets and Interest Rates

3. Understanding Financial Statements and Cash Flows

 

4. Evaluating a Firm's Financial Performance

 

5. The Time Value of Money

 

6. Risk and Return

 

7. Bond Valuation

 

8. Stock Valuation

 

9. Capital-Budgeting Techniques and Practice

 

10. Cash Flows and Other Topics in Capital Budgeting

 

11. Cost of Capital

 

12. Determining the Financing Mix

 

13. Dividend Policy and Internal Financing

 

14. Short-term financial planning

15. Working-Capital management

16. Current Asset Management

 

17. International Business Finance

Services Marketing Management or Andersons Business Law and the Regulatory Environment

Services Marketing Management: An International Perspective

Author: Hans Kasper

Services Marketing Management provides students with an understanding of services marketing in an international context. Based on the authors' views about the essence of marketing in concepts such as market orientation, long-term relationships, quality and, ultimately, satisfaction, this unique book includes the latest developments in Europe, Northern America and Australasia.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
1	Fundamentals of Services Marketing	5
2	Classifying Services	43
3	Service Environment	71
4	From Buying Behavior to Relationships	143
5	Service Quality	181
6	Collecting and Managing Market Information	241
7	Strategic Planning at Corporate Level	303
8	Marketing Planning in Strategic Business Units	343
9	Internationalization Strategies	383
10	People, Organization and Processes	441
11	Developing and Providing Services	489
12	Communication	543
13	Distribution	587
14	Pricing	625
15	Implementation and Control	671
	Bibliography	725
	Index	740

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Anderson's Business Law and the Regulatory Environment: Principles and Cases

Author: Ivan Fox

This is one of the most accurate, in-depth, and up-to-date business law texts available. A hallmark of this text has always been the exclusive selection of interesting and relevant cases, and this edition is certainly no exception. This text meets all AACSB curriculum standards and contains complete coverage of the business law topics covered on the CPA exam-including applications emphasizing ethics, public policy and the Internet.

Endangered Peoples of the Arctic or Study Guide to Accompany Principles of Corp Finance

Endangered Peoples of the Arctic: Struggles to Survive and Thrive (Endangered Peoples of the World Series)

Author: Milton MR Freeman

In the Arctic regions, virtually all inhabitants are cultural minorities within their own countries, and although their native culture is constantly evolving naturally, outside pressures are endangering their most important traditions. Endangered Peoples of the Arctic focuses on 14 endangered cultures, from the Inuit tribes in Canada, Alaska, and Greenland to the Saami in Sweden. Students and interested readers will become informed about the contemporary impacts on their traditional way of life, such as loss of language, military intrusions, oil drilling, and wildlife protection, and how these groups are responding. The chapters are written by anthropologists based on their recent fieldwork, which guarantees unparalleled accuracy and exciting immediacy.

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Study Guide to Accompany Principles of Corp. Finance

Author: Richard A Brealey

Recognized as the market leader,this text blends a clear,distinctive,and modern presentation of financial theory with in-depth analysis and applications. This edition is thoroughly updated throughout to include current illustrations of modern financial management techniques and issues. Basic material is carefully streamlined.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Value	1
Ch. 1	Finance and the Financial Manager	2
Ch. 2	Present Value and the Opportunity Cost of Capital	12
Ch. 3	How to Calculate Present Values	32
Ch. 4	The Value of Common Stocks	58
Ch. 5	Why Net Present Value Leads to Better Investment Decisions Than Other Criteria	90
Ch. 6	Making Investment Decisions with the Net Present Value Rule	118
Pt. 2	Risk	151
Ch. 7	Introduction to Risk, Return, and the Opportunity Cost of Capital	152
Ch. 8	Risk and Return	186
Ch. 9	Capital Budgeting and Risk	220
Pt. 3	Practical Problems in Capital Budgeting	253
Ch. 10	A Project is not a Black Box	254
Ch. 11	Where Positive Net Present Values Come From	286
Ch. 12	Making Sure Managers Maximize NPV	310
Pt. 4	Financing Decisions and Market Efficiency	343
Ch. 13	Corporate Financing and the Six Lessons of Market Efficiency	344
Ch. 14	An Overview of Corporate Financing	376
Ch. 15	How Corporations Issue Securities	400
Pt. 5	Dividend Policy and Capital Structure	431
Ch. 16	The Dividend Controversy	432
Ch. 17	Does Debt Policy Matter?	464
Ch. 18	How Much Should a Firm Borrow?	488
Ch. 19	Financing and Valuation	522
Pt. 6	Options	561
Ch. 20	Understanding Options	562
Ch. 21	Valuing Options	590
Ch. 22	Real Options	616
Ch. 23	Warrants and Convertibles	642
Pt. 7	Debt Financing	665
Ch. 24	Valuing Debt	666
Ch. 25	The Many Different Kinds of Debt	700
Ch. 26	Leasing	728
Pt. 8	Risk Management	753
Ch. 27	Managing Risk	754
Ch. 28	Managing International Risks	786
Pt. 9	Financial Planning and Short-Term Management	815
Ch. 29	Financial Analysis and Planning	816
Ch. 30	Short-Term Financial Planning	850
Ch. 31	Cash Management	880
Ch. 32	Credit Management	908
Pt. 10	Mergers, Corporate Control, and Governance	927
Ch. 33	Mergers	928
Ch. 34	Control, Governance, and Financial Architecture	962
Pt. 11	Conclusion	993
Ch. 35	Conclusion: What We Do and Do Not Know About Finance	994
App. A	Present Value Tables	1006
	App. B: Answers to Quizzes	1017
	Glossary	1039
	Global Index	1052
	General Index	1057

Ethnicity and Globalization or India

Ethnicity and Globalization

Author: Stephen Castles

". . . With its generally clear exposition and a structure that is logical and even dramatic, this illuminating book deserves wide use in the classroom and beyond."
--CANADIAN REVIEW OF STUDIES IN NATIONALISM, XXIX (2002)

This book, written by one of the leading authorities on migration, traces the growth of global migration since 1945, showing how it has produced fundamental economic, social and cultural changes in most parts of the world. Using techniques of comparative analysis the book shows the gap between global migration and policy. As the postwar demand for labour outstripped supply, flows of ethnic migration were encouraged throughout the developed Western countries. The rooting of new ethnicities in different soils was neither planned or managed effectively. The book shows how the economic demand for work has been supplemented by the demand from asylum seekers to recognize injustice and oppression. The book also examines the emergence of multicultural societies and the impact of this on traditional concepts of citizenship, culture and identity.

Table of Contents:

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Thirty Years of Research on Migration and Multicultural Societies PART TWO: WESTERN EUROPE: THE 'GUESTS' WHO STAYED The Function of Labour Migration in Western Europe The Social Time-Bomb
Education of an Underclass in West Germany The Guest-Worker in Western Europe
An Obituary PART THREE: THE GLOBALIZATION OF MIGRATION Migration and Minorities in Europe
Perspectives for the 1990s - Eleven Hypotheses Contract Labour Migration Migrations in the Asia-Pacific Region
Before and After the Crisis Globalization and Migration
Some Pressing Contradictions PART FOUR: MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES AS A CHALLENGE TO THE NATION-STATE Multicultural Citizenship
The Australian Experience Explaining Racism in the New Germany The Racisms of Globalization Citizenship and the Other in the Age of Migration

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India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity

Author: Jean Drez

India's success in reducing endemic deprivation since Independence has been quite limited. Recent diagnoses of this failure of policy have concentrated on the counterproductive role of government regulation, and on the need for economic incentives to accelerate the growth of the economy. This book argues that an assessment of India's failure to eliminate basic deprivations has to go beyond this limited focus, and to take note of the role played in that failure by inadequate public involvement in the provision of basic education, health care, social security, and related fields, Even the fostering of fast and participatory economic growth requires some basic social change, which is not addressed by liberalization and economic incentives. The authors also discuss the historical antecedents of these political and social neglects, including the distortion of policy priorities arising from inequalities of political power. Following on from this, the book considers the scope for public action to address these earlier biases and achieve a transformation of policy priorities.

Beginning with an introductory chapter presenting the motivation, focus, and approach of the book, it discusses the respective roles of the market mechanism and government action in economic development and discusses the particular role of public involvement in the fields of health and education. International comparisons of development experiences are brought to bear on the diagnosis of India's successes and failures, and the work discusses the lessons to be learnt from the contrasting development experiences of different states within India, with particular attention to Kerala's outstanding success in socialfields. The authors consider the role of public action and political organization in promoting social opportunities. Attention is drawn, in particular, to the part played by widespread illiteracy in suppressing that process and perpetuating social inequalities. The work also looks at the issue of basic education, including a critical assessment of public policy in this field. The issue of gender inequality is discussed, and the role of women's agency in the expansion of social opportunities for both women and men is explored. The work concludes by consolidating the argument and discussing the policy implication of the analyses presented. A statistical appendix presents a comparative picture of India and other developing countries, and also the comparative performance of different states within India.

This new work by two internationally renowned economists is an important and relevant argument for promoting human welfare.

Abrams and Doernbergs Federal Corporate Taxation or Study Guide for Use with Financial Accounting

Abrams and Doernberg's Federal Corporate Taxation (Concepts and Insights Series)

Author: Norman E Abrams

Corporate Double Tax; Forming a Corporation; Corporation as a Taxable Entity; Cash and Property Distributions; Redemptions; Stock Dividends; Tainted Stock; liquidations; Taxable Acquisitions; Reorganizations; Combining Tax Attributes; Penalty Provisions; S Corporations.

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Study Guide for Use with Financial Accounting

Author: Robert Libby

The authors wrote this text based on their belief that the subject of financial accounting is inherently interesting,but financial textbooks are often not. They believe most financial accounting textbooks fail to demonstrate that accounting is an exciting field of study and one that is important to future careers in business. When writing this text,they considered career relevance as their guide when selecting material,and the need to engage the student as their guide to style,pedagogy,and design. Libby/Libby/Short is the only financial accounting text to successfully implement a real-world,single focus company approach in every chapter. Students and instructors have responded very favorably to the use of focus companies and the real world financial statements. The companies chosen are interesting and the decision-making focus shows the relevance of financial accounting regardless of whether the student has chosen to major in accounting. This text has enjoyed tremendous success,and will continue to do so because of its timely,real world and relevant content,its solid pedagogical features,and its appropriate balance of innovative and traditional content.

Table of Contents:

1. Financial Statements and Business Decisions
2. Investing and Financing Decisions and the Balance Sheet
3. Operating Decisions and the Income Statement
4. The Adjustment Process and Financial Statements
5. The Communication of Accounting Information
6. Reporting and Interpreting Sales Revenue, Receivables, and Cash
7. Reporting and Interpreting Cost of Goods Sold and Inventory
8. Reporting and Interpreting Property, Plant and Equipment; Natural Resources; and Intangibles
9. Reporting and Interpreting Liabilities
10. Reporting and Interpreting Bonds
11. Reporting and Interpreting Owners' Equity
12. Reporting and Interpreting Investments and Other Corporations
13. Statement of Cash Flows
14. Analyzing Financial Statements