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Employment, the Small Firm and the Labour Market (Routledge Library Editions: Small Business)
By John Atkinson, David J. Storey. 1994
This volume provides a rigorous examination of key issues relating to employment in small businesses. These include an anlysis of…
the true extent of job crreation provided by small firms, the rleative quality of jobs in small firms, the growth of self-employment during the 1980s and the way in which the small firm interacts with its local labour markets. These issues are examined in an international context, wth comparative examples from the USA, the UK and Europe.The Uses and Abuses of Economics: Contentious Essays on History and Method
By Terence Hutchison. 1994
Terence Hutchison has made a unique contribution to debates in the history of economic thought and in economic methodology. The…
material collected here - much of which is appearing for the first time - includes some of the most significant and provocative parts of this contribution. Working from the principle that an idea that offends no one is not worth entertaining, the essays selected here offer a major reinterpretation of what has been called `the Smithian Revolution', and especially of Ricardo, plus a re-assessment of subjectivism and the methodology of the Austrian school.Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics: Towards a Reformulation of Methodology
By Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman. 1995
Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the recent debates in economic methodology.... praise the book for its…
careful scholarship, its intellectual novelty and its familiarity with existing methodological literature." D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound, USAThe Polish Economic Crisis: Background, Circumstances and Causes
By Batara Simatupang. 1994
In order to understand the dramatic events of 1989 it is necessary to examine the circumstances leading up to them.…
The Polish Economic Crisis examines the primary factor. The author analyses how the severe recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s intensified the need for economic reform and resulted in the economic slump of the 1980s. Batara SiHow Developing Countries Trade: The Institutional Constraints
By Sheila Page. 1995
Over the last fifteen years there have been dramatic increases in both private and public intervention in international trade. Traditional…
barriers to market-based trade such as commodity cartels and tariffs have been augmented by new developments such as the rise of regional trade blocs and the growth of intra-firm trade. This book argues that theLiberty and the News
By Walter Lippmann. 1995
This little gem of a book, which first appeared in 1920, was written in Walter Lippmann's thirtieth year. He was…
still full of the passionate faith in democracy that was evident in his writings before the First World War. From today's point of view, Lippmann's argument seems unusually prescient. He was troubled by distortions in newspaper journalism, but was also deeply aware of the need to protect a free press. Lippmann believed that toleration of alternative beliefs was essential to maintaining the vitality of democracy. Liberty and the News is a key transitional work in the corpus of Lippmann's writings. For it is here that he proposes that public opinion is largely a response not to truths but rather to a "pseudo-environment" which exists between people and the external world. Lippmann was worried that if the beliefs that get exchanged between people are hollow, and bear only a purely accidental relationship to the world as it truly is, then the entire case for democracy is in danger of having been built on sand. His concerns remain very much alive and important.Perfect Competition and the Transformation of Economics
By Frank Machovec. 1995
Frank Machovec argues that the assumption of perfect information has done untold economic damage. It has provided the rationale for…
active state intervention and has obscured the extent to which entrepreneurial activity depends upon the exploitation of asymmetric information.Based on cases and interviews in Britain, Europe and the United States, this book explains the recurrence of regional planning…
and of initiatives in regional governance, in a wide range of advanced industrial countries. Providing an analysis of the nature of regional planning and governance, the book traces the development of regional planning and the institutions associated with it. It also looks at the way that regions have been changing their form under pressure from economic and political developments and examines how regional planning and governance has responded, comparing experience in the UK, the rest of Europe and the US. In concluding that regionalism is an imperative feature of politics in most countries, associated with almost any of the variety of forms of governance, the author offers a major appraisal of the significance of regional planning in an intemational contextHunger and Food Assistance Policy in the United States (Routledge Library Editions: Food Supply and Policy)
By Regina Galer-Unti. 1995
Originally published in 1995. This study collects and analyses the results of hunger studies carried out in the United States…
during the 1980s, whether national, state or local. It also reviews the history and development of food assistance programs and policy. This is an unusual and fascinating study of public health policy which employs meta-analysis to investigate the sociodemographic factors affecting those seeking food assistance and draws recommendations for future studies and to feed into policy decisions.Dictionary of European Proverbs
By Emanuel Strauss. 1995
This Dictionary contains over 50,000 proverbs, in some 70 European languages and dialects, arranged in 2,500 sets. It is the…
fruits of over 40 years of collection and research, the only collection of proverbs on anything like this scale ever to be published anywhere in the world. Emanuel Strauss has trawled through innumerable collections of proverbs in all languages, from early printed books and rare items to the latest theses and journals, and grouped together many thousands of proverbs in sets of equivalent meaning. Comprehensive indexes for each language provide access to any proverb by way of its key words. A critical bibliography musters some 500 items, from incunabula to the current decade.Strategic Networks: Creating The Borderless Organization
By J Carlos Jarillo. 1995
Strategic Networks examines the new style of industrial co-ordination which enables independent companies to work so closely together that they…
can sometimes present a 'single face' to the outside world. Co-ordination is not achieved by mergers and acquisitions, but through the creation of a 'strategic network' of companies working towards the same goals. Based on the author's extensive research, the book first analyses the economic arguments forindustry co-ordination, and suggests in which industries it is most likely to occur. The second part of the book focuses on * managerial implications for this type of organization * impact on responsibilties * control without ownership * co-operationinstead of competition * how to set up alliances and how to maintain them A wide range of international examples and cases are featured in the book. J. Carlos Jarillo is Professor of Strategy at the University of Geneva (previously Professor of GeneralManagement and International Strategy at IMD, Switzerland). His research on strategy has been widely published in more than two dozen articles and books. He also acts as senior adviser to a large number of international corporations.Originally published in 1995, Beyond Capital Labor is a comprehensive empirical study about how and how much technology and regional…
contextual factors may influence company production and productivity growth. The book constitutes a conceptually consistent and empirically efficient study and provides a consolidated model and an analytical framework to examine the contributions of technology and regional factors to company production and productivity growth. This work goes beyond the current state and brings many scattered theoretical components together to establish an integrated model.Museum Provision and Professionalism (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies)
By Gaynor Kavanagh. 1994
Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety and contradiction.…
They can be places of great excitement and great boredom, sharply insightful and hopelessly bland. Museums are anything that the political climate and the imagination allows them to be. No two museums are the same. The papers which make up this volume give ample evidence of the variety of views that exist about museums. They also demonstrate that museums and museum professionals are moving forward with energy and conviction. This volume will be invaluable to students and museum professionals and will provoke them to consider museum provision and professionalism in all their forms.Manufacturing for Export in the Developing World: Problems and Possibilities
By G. K. Helleiner. 1995
In recent years, much has been made of the success of developing countries, particularly in East Asia, which have achieved…
economic growth by manufacturing goods which are then exported to developed economies. Case studies of five countries uncover serious potential difficulties in maintaining the pace of manufacturing for export in the developingDeveloping Human Resources (Institute Of Management Ser.)
By Christopher Mabey, Rosemary Thomson. 1994
Developing Human Resources is aimed at managers wishing to understand their role in human resource strategy. In a clear, succinct…
way the authors cover the skills and techniques required to design and implement an effective HRD policy. In addition, they tackle the important tasks of team building, recruitment and change management, as well as the role you play in motivating and appraising your staff. Real examples and case studies are used throughout to illustrate points in a practical context. Developing Human Resources is designed to provide the underpinning knowledge and understanding required for any competency-based management course. It is based upon the Management Charter Initiative's Occupational Standards for Management NVQs and SVQs at Levels 4 & 5. It is particularly suitable also for managers on Certificate and Diploma in Management programmes, including those accredited by BTEC. Rosemary Thomson and Dr Christopher Mabey are both lecturers in human resource management at the Open Business School. Series adviser: Paul Jervis The Institute of Management is the leading management institute in the UK and the largest in Europe. The institute embraces all levels of management from management students to senior executives. It offers a unique range of services for all management disciplines, enabling managers to develop themselves throughout their careers. If you would like to hear more about the benefits of individual or corporate membership, please contact: Dept HM Institute of Management Cottingham Road Corby NN17 1TT 0536 204222German Business Situations
By Paul Hartley, Gertrud Robins. 1995
German Business Situations is a handy reference and learning text for all who use or need spoken German for business.…
Over 40 situations are simply presented, including * basic phone calls * leaving messages * making presentations * comparing, enquiring, booking selling techniques With full English translations and usage note, German Business Situations will help you to communicate confidently and effectively in a broad range of everyday business situationsBehind the Myth of European Union: Propects for Cohesion
By Ash Amin, John Tomaney. 1995
The vision of the original arhitects of the European Community was to create a Europe of economic prosperity and social…
harmony. Economic integration has come ever closer, but sustained growth and a reduction in social disparities seen as far away as ever. This book examines the prospects for the real cohesion in Europe and find that, far from promroting it, many of the Community's current policies are divisive. The neo-liberal philosophy at the moment is producing policies which favour relatively wealthy regions and major corporations at the expense of less favoured regions and peoples.Industrial Subsidies and Friction in World Trade: Trade Policies or Trade Politics?
By Rambod Behboodi. 1994
National industrial subsidies are a major irritant in international trading relations. There have been many attempts to curb the damaging…
effects of subsidies on the international trading order; most have met with stiff oppostion and mixed success. Today the combination of industrial subsidies and the countervailing duties intended to combat them pIndustrial Technology Development in Malaysia: Industry and Firm Studies (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia #No.22)
By Rajah Rasiah, K. S. Jomo, Greg Felker. 1995
This book, and its companion, Technology, Competitiveness and the State, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience…
of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on the development of Malaysia's technological-industrial base from a sector and firm-specific perspective, including the role of foreign multinationals in this process. Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia, provides a valuable analysis of the technological development of a Newly Industrializing Country and reflects on whether existing development strategies can be maintained in the wake of the financial crises sweeping the East Asian economies.