The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting Your Own Business, Sixth Edition will contain completely refreshed content and as well as new components that feature the basics of creating a web strategy, even for businesses that aren't focused on web commerce.
Discover everything you need to know to improve your management skills, and understand key management and business theories with this unique graphic e-guide.
This volume discusses the latest techniques and their economic applications for modern industries like computer, pharmaceutical, banking and other manufacturing.
Imparting experiences from the theatre world to show how to manage operations in the 21st century, this book provides the key ideas necessary to implement a new operational culture that will lead to excellence in service.
An investigation into the process of management accounting change triggered by IT implementation, comparing Enterprise Resource Planning with custom software in relation to change in management accounting rules and routines.
This book is the result of a four-year study into the most commonly used management tools and techniques in the areas of business strategy and finance, marketing, production and operations, and procurement and supply chain management.
Recent research in the field of business strategy has shown that strategic flexibility can be achieved through a scenario planning perspective for long term competition and performance.
The theory of price and quality decision-making in industries with a few firms which recognize their mutual interdependence is of increasing interest to economists and policy makers.
The book treats two approaches to decision theory: (1) the normative, purporting to determine how a 'perfectly rational' actor ought to choose among available alternatives; (2) the descriptive, based on observations of how people actually choose in real life and in laboratory experiments.
The Cold War produced a matrix of Canadian/US extra-governmental military and economic relationships which significantly shaped Canadian political decision-making as it related to the defence of the continent under the auspices of the North American Air/Aerospace Defence Agreement (NORAD).
Operational Research in Industry brings together the experience of an international group of practising OR consultants, researchers and academics in the applications of OR in Industry.
While there may be a consensus in the industry that hedge funds clones will bring better liquidity and lower fees, it is still debatable whether replication products should serve as a complement in the hedge fund allocation decision or as a replacement.
Selected essays from the eminent economist, Wynne Godley, tracing the development of his work and illuminating the key theories and models that made his name.
Can it be that in order to reach the investor you need for your new venture, or to find the employer who will give you the chance of a lifetime, you only need to have six cups of coffee?
The world's governments are overwhelmed with climate change, war and unrest, the global financial crisis and poverty but there is a promising invention in Global Action Networks (GANs).
A highly practical and insightful book; it will help you to perform more effectively in a workplace which requires you to function effectively in predominantly adversarial relationships.
