Business : Decision-Making & Problem Solving

Written for a wide-range of mathematical abilities this comprehensive, accessible overview emphasizes the conceptual aspects of decision-making rather than mathematical techniques or computer methods. Author McNickle from University of Canterbury, NZ. more...

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Managing Industrial Knowledge illuminates the complex processes at work in the creation and successful transfer of corporate knowledge. It is now generally recognized that the competitive advantages of firms depends on their ability to build, utilize and protect knowledge assets. In this volume many of the foremost international authors and pioneers of the study of knowledge in firms present their latest work and insights into organizational knowledge and innovation. In a world where markets, products, technologies, competitors, regulations, and even societies change rapidly, continuous innovation and the knowledge that produces innovation have become key. The chapters in this keynote volume shed new light on the contextual factors in knowledge creation, the links between knowledge and innovation in all aspects of business life and the processes by which these may be fostered or lost in organizations. more...

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A common complaint from senior management is that marketing managers are often unaware of the financial implications of their recommendations. Equally, it could be argued that many financial managers lack an understanding of marketing and how it influences such basic issues as sales, margins and cash flow. Marketing and Finance offers the opportunity to both marketing and finance managers to gain a better understanding of how their roles integrate in corporate decision making. more...

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The first book available that focuses on the role of the Security Manager in M&A providing the voice of experience to real-world case situations more...

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Multinational Corporations in Political Environments advances and tests a theory of why foreign corporations leave host states. Theories of international business have often ignored the complexity of corporate decisions about leaving foreign countries, generally assuming that the economic and competitive reasons that prompt multinational corporations to enter host states also explain their subsequent reasons for leaving. Alternatively, this book proposes a theory of how different stakeholders’ values and ethics shape multinationals’ strategic leaving behaviors. Tested in South Africa when US multinationals were facing diverse pressures from stockholders, governments and consumers to leave, the research provides a prism to isolate how different stakeholders’ actions influenced multinationals’ behaviors. more...

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