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Managing Growthby Roger Cartwright
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2002; US$ 12.99Fast track route to the successful management of business growth Covers the key areas of growth management, from understanding how organizations grow and the changes needed to facilitate growth, to mergers and acquisitions, franchising and alliances Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including AOL, Dixons, Starbucks, and Wal-Mart, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Patricia Anslinger, Thomas Copeland, Peter Lorange, Baghai Mehrdad, Noel Tichy, David White and Chris Zook. Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide more...
Modelling the Growth of Corporationsby Jacques E. Solvay; Michéle Sanglier; Paul Brenton
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 115.00This book demonstrates to managers and investment analysts the value of analysing the long-run growth processes of corporations. The authors develop an approach for analysing and modelling the productivity growth of individual corporations and show the importance of corporate culture in determining firm performance in the long-run. The model is explained in clear and non-technical terms, and is backed up by full mathematical proofs in an appendix. The authors use their diversity of experience from the business, academic and policy sectors to demonstrate a range of applications for their model. By applying the ideas of complexity and self-organisation to the modern corporation, this book provides an alternative to the standard economic approach... more...
The Growth of Firmsby A. Coad
Edward Elgar Publishing 2009; US$ 40.00Presents a catalog of empirical work, as well as a coherent theoretical structure within which various results can be interpreted and understood. This book brings together a large body of research on firm growth from a multidisciplinary perspective, providing a synthesis of stylized facts and empirical regularities. more...
A Narrative Approach to Business Growthby Mona Ericson
Edward Elgar Publishing 2010; US$ 40.00Mona Ericson conceptualizes business growth using a participatory narrative approach, adopting story-like representations of entrepreneurship activity. This approach emphasizes the use of description, conceptualization, knowledge sharing and interpretation. It connects the subject and the researcher allowing the latter to better understand the actual practice of growing a business. The book aims to open up previously marginalized perspectives in research on growth through this incorporation of storytelling - one of the most fundamental features of human life. Thus, the concepts of business growth and entrepreneurial activity described in this book are brought to life for the student, scholar and reader in a way that more conventional analyses... more...
Money for Nothingby Justine Davies
John Wiley & Sons 2011; US$ 24.95Do you want to manage your cashflow better and get rid of financial stress? Do you put finance products such as health insurance and mortgages in the too-hard basket? Money for Nothing is a call to action to wise up, get smart and get your finances in order. Complete this 12-week financial fitness program and discover how to make substantial savings running into the thousands! Learn how to: get better deals, cut fees and other unwanted charges from your daily spend, and redirect your money where it' most important to you understand your financial profile and how to get the best value for money when choosing your essential finance products shop around using the latest research from CANSTAR and other comparison sites. By breaking... more...
Multinationals and Economic Developmentby James C.W. Ahiakpor; Alan Rugman
Routledge 1990; US$ 180.00This book presents a comparative analysis of the role of multinationals in developing countries, looking at areas such as imports, exports, new technology and resource utilization. more...
New Multinational Enterprises from Korea and Taiwanby Roger van Hoesel
Routledge 1999; US$ 208.00South Korea and Taiwan are prominent examples of 'Asian Miracle' economies. This study shows their success has been based not only on exports, but on major overseas direct investment. more...
Governance of Large Technical Systemsby Olivier Coutard
Routledge 1999; US$ 210.00Combining international case studies with conceptual research, this book offers a wide -ranging discussion of governance issues for the large technical systems so essential to industralized countries. more...
Internationalization of Small to Medium Enterprisesby Antti Haahti; Graham Hall; Rik Donckels
Routledge 1998; US$ 198.00This book uses information from annual surveys of companies in Europe during the formation of a single European market and addresses issues affecting small business such as marketing, entrepreneurship, export strategies. more...
Making Transnationals Accountableby David Bailey; George Harte; Roger Sugden
Routledge 1994; US$ 70.00With transnationals now of immense significance to many economies and thus seeming to have immense leverage over host governments, this book looks at what can be done to influence the behaviour of these corporations. With a case study of Glaxo. more...