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Reconnecting Marketsby Estelle Biénabe; Julio Berdegué; Lucian Peppelenbos
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95Reconnecting Markets is the second volume of case examples from the Regoverning Markets Project, (2005-2007). It focuses on the keys to inclusion of small scale farmers and rural SMEs into dynamic national and regional markets. The cases document specific arrangements that appear to have played a positive role in supporting greater inclusion, such as public policies and business initiatives, collective action by farmers and support from development agencies. more...
The Truth About the Drug Companiesby Marcia Angell
Random House Publishing Group 2004; US$ 11.99During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine , Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless influence over medical research, education, and how doctors do their jobs. She sympathized as the American public, particularly the elderly, struggled and increasingly failed to meet spiraling prescription drug prices. Now, in this bold, hard-hitting new book, Dr. Angell exposes the shocking truth of what the pharmaceutical industry has become–and... more...
Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industryby Michael A. Santoro; Thomas M. Gorrie
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 27.00This book is a discussion of the ethical dilemmas of drug industry behavior. It examines such aspects as the role of intellectual property rights and patent protection, the moral and economic requisites of research and clinical trials, drug pricing, and marketing. more...
Unleashing Innovationby Nancy Tennant Snyder; Deborah L. Duarte
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008; US$ 27.95In publications such as BusinessWeek and Fast Company , the media have celebrated Whirlpool's transformation into a leading-edge innovator and Nancy Tennant Snyder's role as chief innovation officer. Ten years after this remarkable transformation, Unleashing Innovation tells the inside story of one of the most successful innovation turnarounds in American history. Nancy Tennant Snyder and coauthor Deborah L. Duarte reveal how Whirlpool undertook one of the largest change efforts in corporate history and show how innovation was embedded throughout the company, which ultimately lead to bottom-line results. more...
Poorly Made in Chinaby Paul Midler
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010; US$ 16.95An insider reveals what can—and does—go wrong when companies shift production to China In this entertaining behind-the-scenes account, Paul Midler tells us all that is wrong with our effort to shift manufacturing to China. Now updated and expanded, Poorly Made in China reveals industry secrets, including the dangerous practice of quality fade—the deliberate and secret habit of Chinese manufacturers to widen profit margins through the reduction of quality inputs. U.S. importers don’t stand a chance, Midler explains, against savvy Chinese suppliers who feel they have little to lose by placing consumer safety at risk for the sake of greater profit. This is a lively and impassioned personal account, a collection of true... more...
Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crisesby Mahmoud A. El-Gamal; Amy Myers Jaffe
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 23.00This book explains the links between past and present oil crises, financial crises, and geopolitical conflicts. more...
The Unauthorized Guide To Doing Business the Bill Gates Wayby Des Dearlove
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010; US$ 15.95Mega-mogul Bill Gates is quite simply the richest and most successful businessman of all time. His remarkable vision and obsessive desire to win have created a leadership style radically different to anything the business world has seen before. The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Bill Gates Way draws out the universal lessons from Bill Gates' phenomenal success and identifies 10 secret leadership strategies that can be applied to any business or career: Be in the right place at the right time Fall in love with technology Take no prisoners Hire very smart people Learn to survive Don't expect any thanks Assume the visionary position Cover all the bases Build a byte-sized business Never ever take your eye off the ball Want to be the... more...
Dethroning the Kingby Julie MacIntosh
John Wiley & Sons 2011; US$ 18.95How the King of Beers collapsed without a fight and what it means for America's place in the post-Recession world How did InBev, a Belgian company controlled by Brazilians, take over one of America's most beloved brands with scarcely a whimper of opposition? Chalk it up to perfect timing—and some unexpected help from powerful members of the Busch dynasty, the very family that had run the company for more than a century. In Dethroning the King , Julie MacIntosh, the award-winning financial journalist who led coverage of the takeover for the Financial Times , details how the drama that unfolded at Anheuser-Busch in 2008 went largely unreported as the world tumbled into a global economic crisis second only to the Great Depression. Today,... more...
American Investment in British Manufacturing Industryby John Dunning
Routledge 1998; US$ 83.95Originally published by Allen and Unwin and long since out of print, this book was the first to examine the extent and impact of foreign direct investment in a host of countries. Dunning has updated the original text for this edition. more...
Globalisation of High Tech Productionby J Henderson
Routledge 1989; US$ 200.00Subtitled, Society, space and semiconductors in the restructuring of the modern world. Through his study of semi-conductors, the author concludes that conventional ways of understanding how transnational corporations organize their global operations need to be re-thought. more...