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The Concise Dictionary of Business Management
By David Statt. 1999
This second edition of The Concise Dictionary of Business Management has been completely revised and updated to reflect the changing…
world of work and new technology. It has been expanded to include many new terms and buzzwords such as: contracting out, telecommuting, occupational choice, glass ceiling, superwoman, electronic brainstorming, the internet and the virtual corporation. It is the ideal quick reference guide for students and professionals wanting to cut through the jargon of business and management.Hospitality Management Education
By Kaye Sung Chon, Clayton W Barrows, Robert H Bosselman. 1999
Help students succeed now and in the future in any aspect of the hospitality field!Hospitality Management Education focuses on the…
academic aspect of hospitality--the mechanisms of hospitality education programs, their missions, their constituents, and the outcomes of their efforts. This book examines why people study hospitality management, the vast opportunities the field offers, and ways to best prepare students for a career in the industry or in academia. Within Hospitality Management Education, you'll find exhibits, figures, tables, and insight into innovative practice methods that will strengthen your skills as an educator and contributor to the growing success of this discipline.Containing research and first-hand accounts, Hospitality Management Education offers you insight into qualities and strategies that make educators or employees effective and successful in the industry. You'll find useful information to help you better prepare students and enhance your teaching skills, such as: understanding the history and advances of hospitality management education during the past 75 years stressing the difference between the hospitality industry and other industries to help prospective hospitality students understand the unique rigors of hospitality examining degree programs in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States to identify common global teaching trends, differences, and program outcomes enhancing student learning and education programs by linking academic hospitality programs to industry through internships, involvement with industry associations, and advisory councils assuring quality in academic programs through accreditation, certification, outside peer reviews, outside reviews by the industry, and administrative reviews of the faculty preparing for a professional academic career through strategic career planning, networking, and targeting hospitality programsHospitality Management Education discusses educational trends as a whole over the past decade to give you insight into future directions of hospitality such as increased specialization, growing numbers of faculty, more funding, and increased academic focus on research and scholarship. In this valuable volume, you'll find methods and suggestions that will make you a more knowledgeable and effective educator!This book examines the extent of, and motives for, the diffusion of flexible automation (FA) at global level and then…
turns to the local and firm level, bringing together in-depth studies of sixty-two firms in Brazil, India, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela. Research focuses on the impact of computer-numerically-controlled machine tools on scale and scope by exploring changes in lot sizes and product variety (product scale and scope), total plant output (plant scale) and total firm output (firm scale). Barriers to setting up FA-based operations are discussed, as are factors which may affect a decision to locate in a developing country. The contributed studies reveal a relatively slow diffusion of FA in developing countries and it is demonstrated that while FA possibly increases scope, it also requires that plant output be increased in order to maintain efficiency. Alcorta concludes that the location in developing countries will probably only be viable for large domestic firms, multinationals seeking to relocate simple but labour intensive assembly processes and firms in countries with significant domestic markets. This work is unique in addressing the scale and scope issues in developing countries and in the wealth of information regarding machine tools which it provides. The data provided in the appendix includes official United Nations data, previously unpublished. This will be of use for all research into trends in the use of machine tools.Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure (Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era)
By Terry Sullivan, Daniel Drache. 1999
Health Reform explores the challenges facing health care provision in the advanced economies. The book exposes the limitations of market-led…
health reform and demonstrates the indispensable role of a vibrant public authority in the renewal of modern health care systems. Issues covered include: * cost-containment and privatisation strategies in an international perspective * the role of business and the private sector in setting the agenda for health care reform * the restructuring of Anglo-Saxon health systems and the shift in state/market boundaries in Canada, the USA, the UK and Australia * the frontier of health care reform in terms of health and social cohesion *the role of patient choice in health care reform.A History of Portuguese Economic Thought (The Routledge History of Economic Thought)
By Antonio Almodovar, Jose Luis Cardoso. 1998
A History of Portuguese Economic Thought offers the first account in English of the development of economic thought in Portugal.…
The authors adopt a comparative approach to analyse how economic doctrine, theories and policies have been disseminated and assimilated by Portuguese economists in different periods. They assess the influence on Portuguese economic thought of major economists such as Adam Smith, Keynes and Hayek.Fiscal Federalism in the European Union (Routledge Studies in the European Economy #Vol. 9)
By Amedeo Fossati, Giorgio Panella. 1999
To what extent should local and regional governments in the European Union be allowed to determine their own fiscal policies?This…
book explores the core issues of fiscal federalism in the European context. It combines theoretical and empirical analysis in addressing such questions as:* what sort of fiscal federalism is appropriate in the European Community* what are the dangers of more centralization* what are the costs of greater decentralizationWork, Change and Competition: Managing for Bass
By David Preece, Gordon Steven, Valerie Steven. 1999
This book presents an in-depth study of organizational change and innovation in one of the UK's leading retail leisure companies.…
Based on a remarkably deep level of access, the authors provide a fascinating longitudinal study of the management process in action - both the formal, 'on stage' aspects of strategic change and the informal, political behaviour of those involved.Subjects covered include:* the changing contexts of the public house business* from management to managing* change processes and politics* control and empowerment* gender and public house management.Work, Change and Competition will be essential reading for students of organizational change, as well as all readers interested in the changing nature of management/managing and organizations.Knowledge Networking: Creating The Collaborative Enterprise
By David Skyrme. 1999
Knowledge Networking explains the strategic, organizational and human impact of technologies that support knowledge: the internet, groupware, collaborative technologies. It…
shows how they can transform organizational practices and help to improve both individual and team performances. Based on proven experience and includes customised toolkits, cases and action plans. From pooling expertise on a sales bid via computer referencing, to improving customer service using the flexible office, the author demonstrates how potential can become practice.Knowledge management is the big management idea currently influencing organizations, and Knowledge Networking explores the global impact of sharing knowledge and expertise. It is a highly practical text which includes customised toolkits, cases and action plans to enable individuals and teams to improve their performance.Value, Distribution and Capital (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy #Vol. 12)
By Gary Mongiovi, Fabio Petri. 1999
This book explores some of the most important themes in neo-Ricardian economics. It explores the many contributions of Pierangelo Garengnani…
to modern economics, including his work in capital theory, the theory of effective demand and stability analysis. Contributors include Paul Samuelson, John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Edward Nell, Alessandro Roncaglia and Ian Steedman.Antitrust in Pharmaceutical Markets & Geographical Rules of Origin (LIDC Contributions on Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition)
By Bruce Kilpatrick, Pierre Kobel, Pranvera K llezi. 2017
This book gathers international and national reports from across the globe on key questions in the field of antitrust and…
intellectual property The first part discusses the application of competition law in the pharmaceutical sector which continues to be a focus for anti-trust authorities around the world A detailed international report explores the extent to which the application of the competition rules in the pharmaceutical sector should be affected by the specific characteristics of those products and markets including consumer protection rules the need to promote innovation the need to protect public budgets and other public interest considerations It provides an excellent comparative study of this complex subject which lies at the interface between competition law and intellectual property law The second part of the book gathers contributions from various jurisdictions on the topic of What rules should govern claims by suppliers about the national or geographic origin of their goods or services This section presents an international report which offers an unparalleled comparative analysis of this topic bringing together common themes and contrasting the various national provisions dealing with indications of origin amongst other things The book also includes the resolutions passed by the General Assembly of the International League of Competition Law LIDC following a debate on each of these topics which include proposed solutions and recommendations The LIDC is a long-standing international association that focuses on the interface between competition law and intellectual property law including unfair competition issuesBanking on Innovation: Modernisation of Payment Systems (Contributions to Economics)
By Tanai Khiaonarong, Jonathan Liebena. 2008
Innovation in banking should be directed at improving the infrastructure that fosters efficient financial services and international trade In…
this work innovation theory is used to show how modern payment systems have transformed the technology of banking and facilitated changes in the strategy and structure of financial services organisations Design implementation and dissemination of payment systems are described and the analysis of their costs and benefits is combined with case studies of banks undergoing change By studying firm capabilities competencies and resources the approach is extended to services in general and linked to the ability of firms to compete and promote national economies Payment systems vary and advanced and developing economies face obstacles in their legal and technical infrastructure and maturity of banks By adopting an international perspective the book offers a unique comparative analysis that shows what kind of investments are likely to be effectiveOriginally published in 1999 after a decade of research and extensive interviews with some of Toyota's top executives, this book…
examines organizational purpose: what it is, how it is crafted, how does it relate to strategy and objectives and how does it relate to decisions and actions that ultimately produce organizational results. The author explains why Toyoto Motor Corporation was selected to study corporate purpose and examines the various factors that influence purpose. An overview is given of Toyota in the 1990s and its operating environment, particularly outlining the importance of the Japanes motor industry to Japanese society. Operational objectives of Toyota are analyzed and research findings, data and analysis related to Toyota's purpose are presented and the implications described. In the appendix, the detail of the research methodology of this study is included.Women and Business Ownership: Entrepreneurs in Dallas (Garland Studies in Entrepreneurship)
By Alicia S. Lupinacci. 1998
Corporate Fraud
By Michael J. Comer. 1998
Fact: Barings was an excellent company, with professional managers. Their careers were devastated by fraud. How many other managers are…
now in the same position without knowing it? Fact: The average company loses between 2 per cent and 5 per cent of its turnover as a result of dishonesty. When Mike Comer’s book first appeared it quickly established itself worldwide as the standard work in its field. This third edition is a radical revision reflecting the world of EDI, electronic commerce, derivatives, computerization, empowerment, downsizing and other recent developments. Ironically, many of these have exposed companies to an alarming range of new risks. With the help of real-life case histories the author identifies the main types of fraud, the circumstances in which they occur and the telltale signs that give them away. He examines internal control systems and the attitudes and practices that allow fraud to flourish. He explains in detail how fraud can be prevented and detected, and shows why it is that many fashionable management techniques can also potentially pave the way to corporate disaster.This book, originally published in 1999, provided the first comparative, in-depth analysis of workplace relations in east and west Germany.…
The collapse of communism and the ensuing process of reform means that East Germany provides a particularly interesting case, having experienced rapid and radical political and economic transformation, and representing an historically outstanding experiment of the shifting of an entire social system onto a different society. This book examines the success of the institutional transfer of west German labour organisations into east Germany workplaces and addresses central questions such as : Can capitalist labour institutions be imposed on a former communist workforce? What conditions determine the success or failure of these institutions? Can 'social partnership/ between capital and labour be learned?The central theme of this study, first published in 1998, is that parametric change has expanded the autonomy of non-state…
actors, and has reduced the capability of governments to extract involuntary resources from their constituents. This change has profound consequences for world politics. This title will be of interest to students of Finance and Economics.Community Economic Development (Regions and Cities #Vol. 22)
By Graham Haughton. 1999
This important book examines the ways in which community economic development can contribute to local and regional regeneration. It presents…
a unique overview of the state of contemporary British practice in this important policy area and provides a series of fresh, theoretical, methodological and empirical insights which help us to understand ways in which communities are facing up to the challenges of devising and bringing about their own revitalisation. Community Economic Development is underpinned by the argument that much conventional regeneration work represents at best a short-term fix rather than a long-term sustainable solution to the problems of socially excluded communities. The emphasis of the book is largely on the British experience with contributions from a rich mix of new and established academics and practitioners.This book charts the history of Australian retail developments as well as examining the social and cultural dimensions of shopping…
in Australia. In the second half of the twentieth century, the shopping centre spread from America around the world. Australia was a very early adopter, and produced a unique shopping centre model. Situating Australian retail developments within a broader international and historical context, Managing the Marketplace demonstrates the ways that local conditions shape global retail forms. Knowledge transfer from Europe and America to Australia was a consistent feature of the Australian retail industry across the twentieth century. By critically examining the strengths and weaknesses of Australian retail firms’ strategies across time, and drawing on the voices of both business elites and ordinary people, the book not only unearths the forgotten stories of Australian retail, it offers new insights into the opportunities and challenges that confront the sector today, both nationally and internationally. This book will be of interest to all scholars and practitioners of retail, marketing, business history and economic geography, as well as social and cultural history.History is replete with examples of one political system replacing another, one scientific discovery invalidating another – and this cycle…
has occurred repeatedly in the production of goods and products for society. This book, first published in 1998, examines the massive transition currently taking place: the decline of the system of mass manufacturing. Various global changes in American business and manufacturing have forced a review of accepted thinking, and this book is a key text in this evaluation.