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Brick by Brick
Crown Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.00Brick by Brick takes you inside the LEGO you've never seen. By following the teams that are inventing some of the world's best-loved toys, it spotlights the company's disciplined approach to harnessing creativity and recounts one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent memory. Brick by Brick reveals how LEGO failed to keep... more...
Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Financial Development
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00This important new book attempts to establish a fresh conceptual framework for the study of corporate governance by employing the new institutional economics of contract enforcement. This framework helps to clarify two critical issues including the role of law in financial development and whether there is an optimal corporate governance model that... more...
Behind the Times:
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 24.00An incisive examination of the world's most respected paper, Behind the Times tells the story of changing Times ian values and of a new era for the paper?a tale of editorial struggles, star columnists and critics, institutional self-importance, and the political and cultural favorites of the Times' owners and editors. Taking the reader inside... more...
Comeback
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 32.95In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's premier industry stumbled, fell, and picked itself up again. The story begins in 1982, when Honda started building cars in Marysville,... more...
For God, Country, and Coca-Cola
Basic Books 2013; US$ 21.99Now fully updated, the classic account of how a bottle of sweetened caramel-colored soda water became synonymous with American capitalism more...
Bread: The Story of Greggs
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 10.67When Ian Gregg was just a boy he joined his father at work selling pies from his van to miners' wives around Newcastle. Now retired, he can look back on a business that began as a husband-and-wife team in the 1930s, and survived a world war and two major recessions to become our favourite bakery, beloved by everyone from children to office workers... more...
Re-Tayloring Management
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Over a century has passed and yet there is growing evidence that knowledge workers across the globe today are as constrained by F.W. Taylor's much maligned The Principles of Scientific Management, as factory workers in the early twentieth century. Re-Tayloring Management looks critically at Taylor's philosophy, contrasting this with more contemporary... more...
The Audacity of Hops
Chicago Review Press 2013; US$ 15.99Charting the birth and growth of craft beer across the United States, Tom Acitelli offers an epic, story-driven account of one of the most inspiring and surprising American grassroots movements. In 1975, there was a single craft brewery in the United States; today there are more than 2,000. Now this once-fledgling movement has become ubiquitous nationwide?there's... more...
The Political Power of the Business Corporation
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00The large business corporation has become a governing institution in national and global politics. This trail-blazing book offers a critical account of its political dominance and lack of democratic legitimacy. Thanks to successful wealth generation and ideological victories the large business corporation has become an effective political actor and... more...
Botty's Rules
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 17.34If you're in business and want to make it big you need to know the rules of success. Nigel Botterill had a successful corporate career for many years until one day, aged 36, he decided to step off the corporate ladder and make it on his own. Since then, Nigel has built five separate multi-million-pound businesses from scratch. ... more...









