This book investigates the growth of an economy with management-controlled corporations. It begins by studying the behaviour of a corporation whose management maximizes the rate of growth constrained by the threat of takeover, and in which research and development efforts are ma…
The sociology of emotions is now at the forefront of micro social theory and research; and increasingly, the dynamics of emotions are seen as one of the ways to link micro to macro-level social processes. For in the end, what drives people to create social structures and to main…
Presenting new insight into such companies as 3M, Walt Disney, and General Electric, a study on what makes companies successful examines their flexibility, ideology, and strong purpose.
Presenting new insight into such companies as 3M, Walt Disney, and General Electric, a study on what makes companies successful examines their flexibility, ideology, and strong purpose.
Volume 20 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains seven papers that deal with important aspects of employment relationships in a variety of industries, countries and research contexts. The first three papers, each of which analyzes the effects of an exogeno…
Volume 26C contains five sets of lectures taken by Glenn Johnson as a doctoral student in economics at the University of Chicago during 1946-7. Johnson went on to become a leading professor of agricultural economics at Michigan State University. At Chicago his professors were am…
Argues that businesses often fail because they fail to implement business plans that can be adapted in response to market changes and competition and outlines how to develop an effective, adaptable business plan.
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Features papers that discuss various aspects of sustainability, environmental performance, and environmental disclosures. This title also contains papers that analyze what firms do about environmental issues and how these activities and their impact on the environment are disclo…
This is a new volume in the Frontiers in Economics & Globalization series. This book deals with a wide-range of trade and development issues in terms of well-known general equilibrium structure. This volume shows how neo-classical models of trade theory can be used to highlight …
Transportation Indicators and Business Cycles recognises the important role the transportation sector plays in business cycle propagation and develops indicators for this sector to identify its current state, and predict its future. The reference cycle is defined, including busi…
New directions in information organization, co-edited by Dr. Jung-ran Park and Dr. Lynne Howarth seeks to provide an overview and understanding of the future directions, leading edge theories and models for research and practice in information organization.
New directions in information organization, co-edited by Dr. Jung-ran Park and Dr. Lynne Howarth seeks to provide an overview and understanding of the future directions, leading edge theories and models for research and practice in information organization.
"It's not easy to be a manager. With growing resource constraints, relentless change, and high turnover, today's business climate poses many difficulties, but most managers point to the same greatest challenge: time. Daily crises require immediate attention, managers must drop e…
This volume provides in depth analyses of: changes in international air transportation's legal environment; airline companies market behavior in this new environment; trade growth in response to changing airline market behavior; and examination of the external costs and benefits…
This volume provides in depth analyses of: changes in international air transportatiońs legal environment; airline companies market behavior in this new environment; trade growth in response to changing airline market behavior; and examination of the external costs and benefits …
This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization offers papers of interest to practitioners and researchers in the library community throughout the world. All of the papers in one way or another address the tension between what researchers can deliver, what the…
