e Commerce Law or Organizations in America

e-Commerce Law: Issues for Business

Author: John W Bagby

This exciting new text, e-Commerce Law: Issues for Business, provides an understanding of the major legal issues confronting cyberspace and e-commerce. An integration of traditional law with the emerging law of cyberspace provides a unique perspective to help students see how and why business decision-makers may seek legal assistance before their transactions beome irrevocably fixed or their actions become irreversible. This text utilizes court decisions, federal and state statutes, administrative rulings, the legal literature, and ethical issues relating to Internet Law to explain and demonstrate how e-commerce and the law relate to one another.

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This text provides an understanding of the major legal issues confronting cyberspace and e-commerce, integrating traditional law with the emerging law of cyberspace. The text examines court decisions, federal and state statutes, administrative rulings, and the legal literature to explain and demonstrate how e-commerce and the law relate to one another. Each chapter contains several excerpted cases concerning well-known business entities, and comment boxes highlight controversial areas of law. Coverage includes the legal system and private law, intellectual property, e-commerce, and regulation. The author is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Organizations in America: Analysing Their Structures and Human Resource Practices

Author: David Knok

Based on the findings of The National Organizations Study, Organizations in America provides a comprehensive review of the first national survey of organizations in the United States. Using a statistically representative sample, this work is the most authoritative database on the workings of organizations available. The principal investigators of the study use this data set to define what we know about the structures and human resource practices in American organizations and describes: The National Organizations Study and its implications Specific employment practices--hiring, training, promotion, performance measurement, benefit packages, contingent work--and how they compare between different businesses and business sectors Differential treatment of employees according to ethnicity and gender This breakthrough publication is an indispensable reference tool for those in the areas of organizational studies, human resources, sociology of work, industrial psychology, social stratification, labor, and labor economics.

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Reports and analyzes the results of the 1991 National Organizations Study, which collected data on a representative sample of US work establishments. Provides information about structure, context, personnel practices, and other dimensions that shed light on social behavior in workplaces. After explaining the design of the project, presents conclusions on such matters as bureaucratic structure for coordination and control, job training, unions and internal labor markets, and patterns of gender segregation. Paper edition (unseen), $27.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables
	List of Figures
	Preface
1	Organizational Properties and Practices	3
2	Design of the National Organizations Study	23
3	American Organizations and Their Environments	45
4	Bureaucratic Structures for Coordination and Control	69
5	Formalizing the Employment Relation	87
6	Human Resource Management and Organizational Performance	113
7	The Staffing Process	133
8	Job Training in U.S. Organizations	157
9	Training, Unions, and Internal Labor Markets	180
10	Organizational Differences in Earnings	200
11	The Structure of Organizational Earnings Inequality	214
12	Cui Bono? Employee Benefit Packages	232
13	Contingent Employment in Organizations	253
14	Organizational Patterns of Gender Segregation	276
15	Gender Differences and Organizational Commitment	302
16	Conclusions and Prospects	324
	Appendix	337
	References	339
	Author Index	359
	Subject Index	365
	About the Authors	379
	About the Contributors	381

Studying Your Workforce or Democracy and Development

Studying Your Workforce: Applied Research Methods and Tools for the Training and Development Practitioner

Author: Alan B Clardy

Studying Your Workforce concisely and easily describes how to apply specific research methods to common human resource development problems. It outlines the basic principles of research and ties those principles to human resource development functions. Some of the topics examined include performance problem analysis, performance solutions, and assessing solution adequacy. Background sections on the theoretical and research aspects of the methods are included, along with examples drawn from the field showing the approach used in practice. The book concludes with a discussion of special issues including legal and ethical concerns, reporting results, sample size and statistical analysis issues, and confidentiality and privacy.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Using Research for Training and Development	1
2	Data Collection: Planning, Tests, and Observation	18
3	Data Collection: Surveys, Interviews, Analyzing the Data, and Reporting Results	34
4	Front-End Assessment: Identifying Performance Problems and Training Needs	50
5	Front-End Assessment: Training Programming From Needs Assessment	68
6	Developing HRD Solutions	86
7	Assessing the Adequacy of HRD Solutions	105
	References	127
	Index	137
	About the Author	141

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Democracy and Development: Theory and Practice

Author: Adrian Leftwich

This book calls into question the current western orthodoxy about the relationship of democracy and development, exploring the theoretical issues involved in the relationship and examining a number of case sudies.

Product Design and Manufacture or For Democracys Sake

Product Design and Manufacture

Author: Robert M Wygant

Basic yet comprehensive in approach, this book introduces readers interested in engineering, technology, and design to the methods and theory of concurrent or simultaneous design (i.e., design for manufacturing), where all aspects of product design and manufacturing are involved, from the outset of the planning effort as a totality. It explores a broad range of methods for general product design and considers the significant issues that must be addressed early in the design process. This book examines historical antecedents, information, and data on product design theory and procedures. It considers computer applications in design and manufacturing and explores human factors (ergonomics) in design, and their applications to products and tools. The book discusses physical materials used in the design of quality products, and the methods employed to process these materials. It highlights special applications to graphics design and packaging and surveys the history of the functional, material and visual requirements of product design, and the methods used in industrial, engineering, and crafts design. Also explained are the legal aspects of product design relative to protecting the rights to intellectual property, and the issues of product liability.

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For Democracy's Sake: Foundations and Democracy Assistance in Central Europe

Author: Kevin FF F Quigley

Assisting democracy has become a major concern of the international community since the end of the cold war. Not only governments, but private actors -- foundations and other non-governmental organizations -- are playing a growing role in these efforts, rivaling that of governments and international institutions. This pathbreaking study examines foundations' democracy assistance programs in Central Europe in the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin Wall, both measuring their size and evaluating their strategies.

For Democracy's Sake assesses such efforts in post-cold war Central Europe through extensive field research, a rare series of workshops in which Central Europeans knowledgeable about democracy efforts participated, and the author's own experience as a foundation executive. The book includes chapters concentrating on foundations' efforts in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, a chapter on regional initiatives, and a chapter on the philanthropy of George Soros. This timely volume offers broadly applicable lessons regarding the most effective strategies, approaches, and techniques for helping others develop their own versions of democracy.

"Quigley presents a vast amount of new information, based on a comprehensive, sophisticated research effort. This material will be of great utility to persons interested in Eastern Europe, and the book will certainly become the standard work on the role of private foundations in the former communist states." -- Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, author of Assessing Democracy Assistance: The Case of Romania

Table of Contents:

	Figures and Tables
	Abbreviations and Acronyms
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: A New World	1
2	Czech Republic: Standing Apart	13
3	Hungary: The Long Road	29
4	Poland: First among Equals	43
5	Slovakia: Slipping Behind	59
6	Regional Projects: Going against the Grain	73
7	George Soros: Leader of the Band	87
8	Conclusions and Recommendations	103
App. 1	Project Advisory Committee Members	115
App. 2	For Democracy's Sake Workshop Participants	117
App. 3	Data on Foundation Assistance	121
	Notes	157
	Select Bibliography	173
	Index	183

The Sources of Economic Growth or ActiveBook Excellence in Business Communication

The Sources of Economic Growth

Author: Richard R Nelson

Technological advance is the key driving force behind economic growth, argues Richard Nelson. Investments in physical and human capital contribute to growth largely as handmaidens to technological advance. Technological advance needs to be understood as an evolutionary process, depending much more on ex post selection and learning than on ex ante calculation. That is why it proceeds much more rapidly under conditions of competition than under monopoly or oligopoly.

Nelson also argues that an adequate theory of economic growth must incorporate institutional change explicitly. Drawing on a deep knowledge of economic and technological history as well as the tools of economic analysis, Nelson exposes the intimate connections among government policies, science-based universities, and the growth of technology. He compares national innovation systems, and explores both the rise of the United States as the world's premier technological power during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century and the diminishing of that lead as other countries have largely caught up.

Lucid, wide-ranging, and accessible, the book examines the secrets of economic growth and why the U.S. economy has been anemic since the early 1970s.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
Pt. I	A Perspective on Economic Growth and Technical Advance	7
1	Research on Productivity Growth and Productivity Differences: Dead Ends and New Departures	9
2	Capitalism as an Engine of Progress	52
Pt. II	Schumpeterian Competition	85
3	Schumpeter and Contemporary Research on the Economics of Innovation	87
4	Why Do Firms Differ, and How Does It Matter?	100
5	On Limiting or Encouraging Rivalry in Technical Progress: The Effect of Patent-Scope Decisions	120
Pt. III	Science and Technical Advance	145
6	The Role of Knowledge in R&D Efficiency	147
7	The Link between Science and Invention: The Case of the Transistor	159
8	American Universities and Technical Advance in Industry	189
Pt. IV	International Differences and International Convergence	231
9	The Rise and Fall of American Technological Leadership: The Postwar Era in Historical Perspective	233
10	National Innovation Systems: A Retrospective on a Study	274
	Notes	303
	References	308

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ActiveBook, Excellence in Business Communication

Author: John V Thill

This book offers users the tools they need to succeed in today's workplace by developing their essential communication skills. Three easy-to-follow steps (planning, writing, and completing business messages) offer learners a practical strategy for writing and delivering business messages. Abundant sample documents demonstrate how to apply the principles being discussed. This is the only book that offers business communication experience in every chapter through real-world “on-the-job” simulations featuring actual companies and real-world business documents. These simulations provide a unique opportunity to apply concepts to real events and to sharpen business communication problem-solving skills. A five-part organization covers the foundations of business communication; the three-step writing process; letters, memos, e-mail, and other brief messages; reports and oral presentations; and employment messages. For business professionals—at any level—seeking to improve their oral and written communication skills.

Total Quality Management for Hospital Nutrition Services or Electronic Commerce

Total Quality Management for Hospital Nutrition Services

Author: M Rosita Schiller

This manual provides the necessary information to build and sustain an effective total quality management program for nutrition services in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and nursing homes. Forms, charts, and guidelines are included in reproducible format. This manual provides numerous real—life examples.

Elizabeth Wall

This manual was written for the management staff of a nutrition department. The text is divided into four sections that thoroughly cover the information needed to develop, implement, sustain, and evaluate a quality management program. The purpose is to provide a comprehensive guide to facilitate a transition to and evaluation of quality improvement management for nutrition departments. The authors have targeted nutrition professionals and dietitians to use this text. In addition, this manual would be an excellent reference for an administrator who is charged with an institution's quality improvement program. This text is divided into sections that systematically review the background of quality management and essential components of a quality improvement program. A comparison of several quality management programs is provided. The text contains many figures, diagrams, and tables that are easy to interpret and are complementary to the topics discussed. In addition, there is an extensive appendix that contains multiple sample documents from actual nutrition practices. The text is published in looseleaf format that gives the reader easy access for copying or revising sample documents. This book is well referenced with recent publications. A portion of the text outlines the current nutritionally related guidelines and requirements that are mandated by the various accreditation organizations. This text is an excellent resource for anyone who is developing, updating, or evaluating a quality improvement program. The sample forms, program outlines, and summary of regulatory guidelines are attractive features of this text. This very practical text would be a useful reference for a nutritiondepartment or for any professional who is overseeing a nutrition quality improvement program.

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Reviewer: Elizabeth Wall, MS, RD (University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Description: This manual was written for the management staff of a nutrition department. The text is divided into four sections that thoroughly cover the information needed to develop, implement, sustain, and evaluate a quality management program.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a comprehensive guide to facilitate a transition to and evaluation of quality improvement management for nutrition departments.
Audience: The authors have targeted nutrition professionals and dietitians to use this text. In addition, this manual would be an excellent reference for an administrator who is charged with an institution's quality improvement program.
Features: This text is divided into sections that systematically review the background of quality management and essential components of a quality improvement program. A comparison of several quality management programs is provided. The text contains many figures, diagrams, and tables that are easy to interpret and are complementary to the topics discussed. In addition, there is an extensive appendix that contains multiple sample documents from actual nutrition practices. The text is published in looseleaf format that gives the reader easy access for copying or revising sample documents. This book is well referenced with recent publications. A portion of the text outlines the current nutritionally related guidelines and requirements that are mandated by the various accreditation organizations.
Assessment: This text is an excellent resource for anyone who is developing, updating, or evaluating a quality improvement program. The sample forms, program outlines, and summary of regulatory guidelines are attractive features of this text. This very practical text would be a useful reference for a nutrition department or for any professional who is overseeing a nutrition quality improvement program.

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Table of Contents:

Contents: BASICS OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT * Overview of Quality Management Quality Management in Health Care * Patient Satisfaction: A Mark of Quality * Continuous Quality Improvement * DEPARTMENTAL SYSTEMS AND TOOLS FOR QUALITY MANAGEMENT * Preparing to Initiate a Quality Program * The Nutrition Services Environment Improving Quality through Group Processes * Quantitative Quality Management Tools * MONITORING AND EVALUATION * Departmental Planning for Continuous Quality Improvement * Quality Indicators, Criteria, and Monitors * Collecting and Organizing Data * Data * Data Analysis and Evaluation * Taking Action to Improve Care * Communication: The Vital Link in Continuous Quality Improvement * MANAGING A NUTRITION SERVICES QUALITY PROGRAM * Involving Clinical Staff in the Quest for Excellence * Managing Change to Achieve Quality Improvement * Patient-Focused and Cross-Functional Teams * Evaluating Quality Management Programs * Quality Management in Hospital-Affiliated Services

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Electronic Commerce: B2C Strategies and Models

Author: Steve Elliott

Notwithstanding the NASDAQ upheavals in 2000, industry is continuing to embrace the concepts of Electronic Commerce. However, a major barrier to more widespread implementation of Electronic Commerce is uncertainty within organizations as how best to proceed.

Based on research in six economies - the UK, USA, Denmark, Greece, Hong Kong (China) and Australia, this much needed guide to the implementation of business-to-consumer electronic commerce addresses the documented uncertainties of business and consumers with Internet retailing by presenting the experiences of leading examples of Business to Consumer Electronic Commerce in each of six economies. The countries represent a broad range of environments to identify issues that may be specific to a particular market. The firms have been selected as significant examples of Internet retailing in industry sectors recognized as leaders in the use of the Internet, including; travel, books, music CDs, technology sales, gifts, groceries and general merchandise.

Introduction to Information Technology or Globalization and Social Policy

Introduction to Information Technology

Author: Efraim Turban

It makes your business soar! Without Information Technology (IT), the snowboard on the cover simply would never make it to the slopes. As you read Introduction to Information Technology, you'll discover that IT integrates and enhances all functions of a business-from the research and development that goes into designing a faster, more flexible board, to the delivery systems that make sure stores receive stock in time for winter, to the point-of-sale systems that track sales trends and customers' buying preferences. Written in language you can easily understand, the text gradually presents complex technical information on a need-to-know basis, so that you won't get overwhelmed by the details. Each chapter is filled with dozens of real-world examples that demonstrate IT's relevance to different disciplines, industries, and companies. Throughout the text, you'll also find numerous opportunities to apply what you've learned. Features
* Relevance: The authors explain why IT is important to all individuals and functions within an organization by relating topics to specific business majors (finance, marketing, MIS, production/operations, HR, etc.).
* Real-World Examples: Extensive examples show you the capabilities of IT, its cost and justifications, and innovative ways actual corporations are using IT in their operations.
* Global Perspective: The text explains how IT facilitates export and import, managing multinational companies, and electronic trading around the globe.
* Integrated Systems: Integrated systems (e.g. SAP R/3; extranets) are stressed and related to supply chain management and multinational corporations.
* Making Connections: The text emphasizes the importance of connections among individuals, groups, and organizations, and the support that IT provides in enabling these connections.
* The Web: In addition to teaching the fundamentals of the Internet, the text presents a comprehensive chapter on e-commerce. All chapters include Web-based, real-world applications, "integration with the Web" exploration, and Internet exercises.
* The Virtual Company: A Web-based case for a simulated company manufacturing snowboards enables you to create and operate a small business a small business on the Web.

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Aiming to teach undergraduate business majors how to use information technology (IT) to the benefit of their future organizations, this textbook covers IT infrastructure, IT applications, and system development and management. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Globalization and Social Policy

Author: Nicola Yeates

'This book exhibits the characteristics of all good social policy texts. It is fired by a commitment to welfare. It is informed by extensive multidisciplinary scholarship. It debunks fashionable myths. Nicola Yeates argues convincingly that while globalization in its many manifestations and dimensions (economic, cultural and political) has to be built into the analytical framework used by social policy scholars, globalizing pressures are not immutable nor guaranteed success in overriding local and national social and political forces... . Essential reading on all social policy courses'- Bob Deacon, Professor of Social Policy, University of Sheffield/STAKES, Finland

'Many social scientists have not yet woken up to the fact that globalization

has transformed the nature of social policy. The severity and the causes of

many problems are harder to pin down; research and teaching programmes have to be re-cast. This book offers a penetrating assessment of the changes that have to be made'- Peter Townsend, Professor of International Social Policy, LSE

This timely textbook critically evaluates the relevance and implications of globalisation in relation to both the academic study of social policy and social welfare provision.

Globalisation and Social Policy:

· Examines the implications of globalization for social policy analysis and provision

· Analyses how social policies and politics contribute to and shape globalizing strategies

· Argues that the degree to which globalization gives rise to systematic changes in the funding, regulation and provision of welfare has been overestimated and

·Demonstrates that national and local forces remain decisive in understanding the development of social policy

Globalization and Social Policy provides an invaluable guide to the expanding field. It provides a refreshing antidote to 'victorious' and 'defeatist' accounts of globalization and its implications for social welfare, and argues that politics matter now as much as they ever did. It will be welcomed by all students of social policy, and will also be of interest to other social science students engaged in issues of globalization.

Table of Contents:

	Globalization and Social Policy
	Mapping the Territory
	Global Economic Structures and Processes
	Globalization and the State
	From Defeat to Political Struggle
	International Governmental Organizations and Social Policy
	The Globalization of Social Conflict and Political Struggle

Issues in Economics Today or Theories of the Information Society

Issues in Economics Today

Author: Robert Guell

Robert Guell's Issues in Economics Today, 2e employs a unique format that allows instructors and students the flexibility to choose which issues they wish to cover in their one-semester survey course. The book begins with eight intensive core theory chapters followed by thirty shorter issues chapters that can be easily mixed and matched to create a customized course syllabus. Two additional issues chapters can be found on the book's website. In the preface, the author provides a list of suggested issues to cover in a course with specific themes, such as social policy, international issues, or business. For those instructors who want to "do it themselves," the author has also included a grid that shows which theory chapters need to be mastered before moving on to each issue.Instructors and students alike will appreciate the solid theoretical foundation as well as the intriguing and timely economic issues explored in the book, such as sports, education, and crime.

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Theories of the Information Society

Author: Frank Webster

In this new and thoroughly revised edition the author brings his work right up to date both with new theoretical work and with social and technological changes - such as the rapid growth of the internet and accelerated globalization - and re-assesses the work of key theorists in light of these changes. This book will be essential reading for students of contemporary social theory and anybody interested in social and technological change in the post-war era.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
2	The idea of an information society	8
3	The information society as post-industrialism: Daniel Bell	30
4	Information, restructuring and globalisation	59
5	Informational capitalism: Manuel Castells	97
6	Information and advanced capitalism: Herbert Schiller	124
7	Information management and manipulation: Jurgen Habermas and the concept of the public sphere	161
8	Information, reflexivity and surveillance: Anthony Giddens	202
9	Information, postmodernism and postmodernity	227
10	Conclusion: is there an information society?	263
	Bibliography	274
	Index	299

The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry or Money and Capital Markets 3e

The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry: A Supply-Side Analysis

Author: Dimitri Ioannides

The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry examines whether tourism can be defined as an industry. Bridging the gap between tourism research and economic geography, the authors by bring together leading academics in geography, planning and tourism, to explain tourism's definitions. Providing detailed analyses of key sectors, such as tour operators, airlines and the hotel industry from a broad international perspective, and backed by a broad range of international studies, the book also explores issues such as business cycles, labor dynamics, entrepreneurship and the role of the state in tourism and concludes that the production of tourism-related services has characteristics commonly associated with "harder" production sectors, such manufacturing and producer services.

Table of Contents:

	Illustrations
	Tables
	Notes on contributors
	Foreword
	Preface
1	Introduction: exploring the economic geography and tourism nexus	1
Pt. A	Conceptual and definitional issues: barriers to theory	15
2	The tourist industry and economic geography: missed opportunities	17
3	Tourism as an industry: debates and concepts	31
4	The tourism production system: the logic of industrial classification	53
Pt. B	The demand-side	77
5	The determinants of tourism demand: a theoretical perspective	79
Pt. C	Neo-Fordism and flexibility: a sectoral approach	97
6	Neo-Fordism and flexible specialization in the travel industry: dissecting the polyglot	99
7	Distribution technologies and destination development: myths and realities	123
8	Tour operators: the gatekeepers of tourism	139
9	The airline industry and tourism	159
10	Continuity and change in the hotel sector: some evidence from Montreal	180
Pt. D	Global-local nexus: place commodification, entrepreneurship, and labor	197
11	The institutional setting - tourism and the state	199
12	Tourism and economic development policy in US urban areas	220
13	Entrepreneurship, small business culture and tourism development	235
14	Tourism in the Third Italy: labor and social-business networks	256
Pt. E	Cycles and innovations	271
15	Economic business cycles and the tourism life-cycle concept	273
Pt. F	Synthesis and new directions	285
16	Conclusion: the commodification of tourism	287
	Bibliography	293
	Index	323

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Money and Capital Markets 3e

Author: Miles Livingston

Money and Capital Markets offers thorough coverage of financial institutuions and markets for upper level endergraduate and MBA students.
Prerequisites for the text are an introductory finance course and basic knowledge of algebra. Money and capital Markets presents the major theories of the impact of inflation, government spending, and monetary policy upon interest rates. In order to emphasize factors determining the prices and risks of financial instruments, descriptive information about institutions is kept to a minimum. The links between different types of securities are shown through risk-free arbitrage. this allows lecturers and students to establish frameworks for linking different types of bonds and connecting futures markets with spot markets.
The third edition features:

• Updated institutional information, including coverage of US treasury auctions, investment banking, brokers and dealers, bank regulation, and mortagage markets.


• Extensively revised end of chapter problems challenging the student to think critically.


• More user friendly chapters on spot and forward interest rates, coupon-bearing bands, bond investment risks and features.

Intermediate Accounting Chapters 1 14 or Successful Marketing Strategy for Hightech Firms Second Edition

Intermediate Accounting, Chapters 1-14, Vol. 1

Author: Donald E Kieso

This bestseller has powered the careers of countless professionals. The new edition builds on the book's reputation for comprehensiveness, accuracy, and currency, incorporating all the recent changes to the accounting literature.

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The new, enhanced edition of a standard text includes substantial new content and new pedagogical features. Coverage begins with a chapter on financial accounting and accounting standards and continues through 24 chapters covering such topics as income statement and related information; balance sheet and statement of cash flows; valuation of inventories; depreciations, impairments, and depletion; intangible assets; long-term liabilities; income taxes; and pensions and postretirement benefits; among other topics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Successful Marketing Strategy for Hightech Firms, Second Edition

Author: Eric Viardot

From analyzing competition and identifying market segments, to capitalizing on Internet marketing opportunities and creating valuable after-sale services, this practical new book helps you understand and apply marketing principles that are essential for success in designing high-tech product marketing strategies in today's fiercely competitive international marketplace.

Packed with contemporary real-world examples and focusing on the key success factors behind the management of leading global high-tech firms, the book helps both novice and veteran marketing professionals focus on the critical factors that can determine success or failure for high-tech products. You learn how to objectively evaluate and manage your company's technological and knowledge-based competencies, develop effective product and pricing strategies, more precisely target your marketing efforts, and utilize the very latest distribution and sales channels. Also included is an insightful look at the most effective positioning of the marketing department within the organization, and a step-by-step guide to writing a strategic marketing plan.

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Based on the observation that successful high-technology companies do not necessarily offer the best goods and services, but have the best marketing strategy, recommends making marketing the center of attention, around which pivot research and development, manufacturing, sales, and after-sales service. Explains how managers get dazzled by the technology they produce and claim that it alleviates the necessity of the same marketing strategies and practices needed to sell yogurt or detergents. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	References
1	What Is High-Tech Marketing?	1
2	Corporate and Marketing Strategy in the High-Tech Industry	19
3	Knowing Customers and Markets	63
4	Understanding Competitors	91
5	Selecting Markets	113
6	Product Strategy	135
7	Pricing High-Tech Products	163
8	Communication Strategy for High-Tech Products	181
9	Distributing and Selling High-Tech Products	197
10	The Position of Marketing Within High-Tech Companies	223
App. A	Key Success Factors of a Marketing Department in a High-Tech Company	245
App. B	The Marketing Plan	249
	About the Author	255
	Index	257

Business Communication or Human Relations for Career and Personal Success

Business Communication: International Case Studies in English

Author: Drew Rodgers

Business Communications is a concise, current, and practical text for international business students in today's global economy. This text uses the case-study method to develop students' general communication and vocabulary skills as well as their international business acumen. The text also focuses on information-gathering, problem-solving, and decision-making activities, and includes information on business writing, telephone calls, and electronic communication.

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Human Relations for Career and Personal Success

Author: Andrew DuBrin

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This best-selling text presents skills demanded by successful employers in the 21^st century. It incorporates self-assessment into the introduction of critical development areas.

Additional Self-Assessment is available by packaging Pearson Prentice Hall's Assessment CD-ROM's with the textbook.

Dr. DuBrin covers the hottest areas in business today.

• Self-esteem
• Risk-taking
• Emotional Intelligence
• Health in the Workplace
• Gender, Email, and Voicemail Communication
• Online Addictions
• Non-verbal Indicators
• Conflict Resolution
• Cyber-stalking
• Cross-cultural Relations
• Cyber-networking
• Servant Leadership
• Stress Busters

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A course text for college and vocational-school students who may or not be going into human relations, or indeed any business field. Explains how the principles can be applied to relations with people both at work and in the rest of life. Covers self- understanding and self-managing, dealing effectively with people, developing career thrust, and managing a personal life. Includes a glossary without pronunciation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Human Relations and Yourself	2
2	Self-Motivation and Goal Setting	25
3	Solving Problems and Making Decisions	51
4	Achieving Wellness and Managing Stress	81
5	Dealing with Personal Problems	113
6	Communicating with People	139
7	Handling Conflict and Being Assertive	171
8	Getting Along with Your Manager	199
9	Getting Along with Co-workers and Customers	223
10	Choosing a Career and Career Switching	245
11	Finding a Suitable Job	273
12	Developing Good Work Habits	305
13	Getting Ahead in Your Career	327
14	Developing Self-Confidence and Becoming a Leader	353
15	Managing Your Personal Finances	381
16	Enhancing Your Personal Life	411
	Glossary	437
	Name Index	445
	Subject Index	451

Lending Credibility or Globalizing Human Resource Management

Lending Credibility: The International Monetary Fund and the Post-Communist Transition

Author: Randall W Ston

With the end of the Cold War, the International Monetary Fund emerged as the most powerful international institution in history. But how much influence can the IMF exert over fiercely contested issues in domestic politics that affect the lives of millions? In Lending Credibility, Randall Stone develops the first systematic approach to answering this question. Deploying an arsenal of methods from a range of social sciences rarely combined, he mounts a forceful challenge to conventional wisdom. Focusing on the former Soviet bloc, Stone finds that the IMF is neither as powerful as some critics fear, nor as weak as others believe, but that the answer hinges on the complex factor of how much credibility it can muster from country to country.

Stone begins by building a formal, game-theoretic model of lending credibility, which he then subjects to sophisticated quantitative testing on original data from twenty-six countries over the 1990s. Next come detailed, interview-based case studies on negotiations between the IMF and Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Bulgaria. Stone asserts that the IMF has exerted startling influence over economic policy in smaller countries, such as Poland and Bulgaria. However, where U.S. foreign policy interests come more heavily into play, as in Russia, the IMF cannot credibly commit to enforcing the loans-for-policy contract. This erodes its ability to facilitate enduring market reforms. Stone's context is the postcommunist transition in Europe and Asia, but his findings carry implications for IMF activities the world over.

Foreign Affairs

The IMF has come under heavy criticism in recent years for its inability to prevent financial crises and promote effective economic reforms. In a meticulous analysis, political scientist Stone addresses the role of the IMF in former communist countries making the transition to market economies. He sets out a game-theoretic framework involving national governments, the IMF, and international investors. This framework is closely argued but accessible and produces some surprising solutions. The model's predictions are generally born out by statistical tests. Fascinating and well-argued case studies of the interactions between the IMF and national officials are provided for Bulgaria, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. A main finding is that countries especially important to the United States — such as Russia and Ukraine — violate IMF conditions more often but regain access to credit more quickly than do other countries; as a result, they have experienced worse economic performance. In other words, the IMF is more credible, hence more effective, when the United States is less engaged. It is a fine example of modern social science, although one can criticize it for exploring only monetary variables as measures of performance. Thus the study invites extension both to other variables and to other countries.

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Globalizing Human Resource Management

Author: Paul Sparrow

As firms continue to become internationally minded, the role of international HR professionals is coming increasingly to the foreground of business. The realization that for success, companies must pay attention to foreign markets and competition is more widespread than ever. This book considers HRM in its global context, asking questions about what drives international HRM, how effective it is and how important it is for prosperity. Providing both a coherent overview of the field and a detailed practical analysis of modern management, this book is an important new addition to the HRM field. It draws upon current research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's Global Research Project and includes data, surveys and case-studies.

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations
	About the authors
	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Understanding the impact of globalization on the role of IHR professionals	1
2	Globalization and HRM	15
3	Organizational drivers of globalization	39
4	The impact of technology on global HRM	65
5	Knowledge management and global expertise networks	85
6	Developing global themes: capabilities, employer branding and talent management	110
7	Managing international mobility	129
8	Measuring the contribution of the corporate HR function	153
9	Developing global HR professionals	179
	Bibliography	198
	Index	221

Industrial Societies or Business Ethics

Industrial Societies: An Evolutionary Perspective

Author: Ronald G Stover

This book uses a dual approach to introduce an analysis of work in industrial societies. First, it analyzes how those societies first evolved. And second, it analyzes specific contemporary industrial societies (United States, Germany, Japan, Spain, and Sweden) to determine what it means to live in an industrial society. By comparing the rise of various industrial societies, Industrial Sociology demonstrates that industrial societies constitute just one type of society (among many types). Using actual situations to provide a real-world context, the book encourages readers to consider the questions inherent to industrial societies, such as implications of living in an industrial society, the power of organizations, development of occupations, implications of shifting from a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based economy, and political and economic implications of international relations. A valuable resource for any reader interested in understanding the changing demands of working in an industrial society.

Table of Contents:

1. Industrial Sociology.

2. Early Societies.

3. Pre-Industrial Europe.

4. The Industrial Revolution.

5. Social and Economic Characteristics of Industrial Societies.

6. Industrial Organizations.

7. The Quality and Empowerment Revolutions.

8. The Economics of Industrial Societies.

9. Occupational Roles: Life at the Top and Middle of Organizations.

10. Occupational Roles: Life at the Bottom.

11. Strains in the Workplace.

12. Union Management Relations.

13. Forms of Industrial Relations.

14. The Challenges and Future of Industrial Society.

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Business Ethics

Author: Chris Moon

This book builds on a survey done by London Business School with Arthur Andersen and work done by other organisations, such as the Centre for Tomorrow's Company, the Institute of Directors and the Global Ethics Trust. It reviews the issues and provides a practical framework for businesses to ensure that their ethics meet standards that enhance their reputation and performance. The book compares the different approaches taken on both sides of the Atlantic - the United States emphasis on regulation and compliance and the United Kingdom preference for changing corporate values - and draws heavily on the experiences of a wide range of companies and business managers. Chapters cover: Championing Ethics; Ethical Fitness; the Role of Leadership; Organisational Purpose and Values; Corporate Governance; Regulation and Alternatives; Corruption in High and Low Places; Accounting for Ethics; the Problems of Dealing with or Sourcing Products from Emerging Economies.

Author Biography: Each of the fifteen contributors is a special in business ethics working for such organisations as the Centre for Tomorrow's Company, the IOD, the Institute for Global Ethics, Transparency International, the Institute of Business Ethics.

Out of Work or Research Methods in Business Studies

Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America

Author: Richard K Vedder

The most comprehensive book ever to appear on unemployment in the United States.
--George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty A triple hit: an engaging narrative of a century of U.S. economic history . . . an attack on the mythology that high wage rates and government spending reduce unemployment and a critique on wrong-headed public policies since 1930 that have raised unemployment levels.
--Anna J. Schwartz, National Bureau of Economic Research Vedder and Gallaway show convincingly that we need once again to rethink our entire notion of unemployment.
--Jonathan R. T. Hughes, Northwestern University A book of great interest.
--Kenneth Boulding Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.

An Independent Institute Book

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface to the Updated Edition
	Preface to the First Edition
1	The Unemployment Century	1
2	Unemployment in Theory	13
3	The Neoclassical/Austrian Approach: An Overview	31
4	The Gilded Age	53
5	From New Era to New Deal	74
6	The Banking Crisis and the Labor Market	112
7	The New Deal	128
8	The Impossible Dream Come True	150
9	The Gentle Time	176
10	The Camelot Years	194
11	"Pride Goeth Before a Fall"	209
12	The Winds of Change	226
13	The Natural Rate of Unemployment	246
14	Who Bears the Burden of Unemployment?	268
15	Unemployment and the State	288
16	Afterword	298
	App. A	313
	App. B	323
	Bibliography	359
	Index	381
	About the Authors	389

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Research Methods in Business Studies: A Practical Guide

Author: Pervez Ghauri

Research Methods in Business Studies

A Practical Guide

Third edition

Pervez Ghauri and Kjell Gronhaug

This clearly written introduction is ideal for business students taking a course in research methods, or undertaking their first dissertation or report on a work placement project. Written in a concise and accessible style, it demonstrates the importance of a scientific approach to business research and problem-solving projects.  It shows students how to formulate a problem, choose a research method, argue and motivate, and how to collect, analyse and present the data.

Key Features:

 
• Provides guidelines to formulate a research problem, preparing students to fully understand the questions and objectives before undertaking research.
• Explains the importance of methods and models to equip students with a systematic approach in thinking, executing and writing.
• Evaluates different qualitative and quantitative methods and their consequences on data collection and analysis so that students can choose the most appropriate research method for a given situation.
• Offers clear guidelines about structuring clear, concise and relevant reports.
• Contains detailed discussion of research theories and their practical application in business.

This edition has extended coverage of international and cross-cultural research, more examples from real dissertations and research projects from diverse areas of business such as HRM and accounting, and a new chapter on qualitative research and the software used to analyse data.

A concise, clear and comprehensive introduction to research methods, which equips students with asystematic approach to business research.

 

Dr. Pervez Ghauri is Professor of International Business at Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK.Dr Kjell Gronhaug is Professor of Business Studies at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway.

International Agriculture Trade Disputes or Origins of National Financial Systems

International Agriculture Trade Disputes: Case Studies in North America

Author: Andrew Schmitz

Examining factors such as U.S. farm policy and the role of national and global political bodies, this book uses recent case studies to uncover the various trade remedy measures employed to resolve disputes. This collection also includes a detailed discussion of the evolution of the dispute settlement system and a thorough introduction to each case study that outlines the specific issues in the dispute.

Table of Contents:

1	NAFTA trade disputes and U.S. agriculture	3
2	Trade remedy laws and NAFTA's chapter 12 agricultural trade rulings	13
3	The potential impacts of mandatory country-of-origin labelling on U.S. agriculture	35
4	WTO and NAFTA dispute settlement for North American agricultural trade	47
5	Why antidumping law is good for agriculture	63
6	Welfare implications of the Byrd amendment	87
7	The WTO ruling on Canadian dairy exports	101
8	The WTO case on Canadian dairy export subsidies : implications for two-tiered pricing	113
9	Contested trade in logs and lumber	121
10	Political economy of the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber trade dispute	139
11	Two cases of tomatoes : demonstrating the need for antidumping reform	149
12	Asymmetric Canada-U.S. bilateral trade in grains and trade remedy actions	165
13	Canada-U.S. beef dumping and countervailing disputes	185
14	Mexico's antidumping regime against high fructose corn syrup from the United States	207
15	The shrimp import controversy	225
16	Fresh garlic from the People's Republic of China and U.S. trade remedy law	245
17	Summary	269

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Origins of National Financial Systems: Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered, Vol. 21

Author: Douglas J Forsyth

Since the 19th Century, there has been an accepted distinction between financial systems that separate commercial and investment banking and those that do not. This comprehensive collection aims to establish how and why financial systems develop, and how knowledge of financial differentiation in the 19th Century may afford insight into the development of contemporary banking structure.
This book poses a systematic challenge to Alexander Gerschenkron's 1950s thesis on universal banks. With contributions from leading scholars such as Ranald Michie and Jaime Reis, this well written book provides solid and intriguing arguments throughout.

Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement or J2EE Best Practices

Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement

Author: Thomas P Ryan

A comprehensive, up-to-date survey of statistical methods for quality improvement

Statistical methods for quality improvement offer numerous benefits for industry and business, both through identifying existing trouble spots and alerting management and technical personnel to potential problems. In the Second Edition of his successful book that is still unrivaled in content, Tom Ryan continues to offer clear, thorough coverage of all available techniques-from basic control charts to regression and design of experiments, and the combined use of these tools. This edition is fully expanded and revised, bringing readers up to date with very recent research and providing a solid foundation from which to explore the statistical literature. Dr. Ryan tackles complicated topics in a logical, engaging, easy-to-understand style, downplaying mathematical formulas and making the material accessible to industrial engineers and applied statisticians alike. Special features of Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement, Second Edition include:

• Greatly expanded chapters on process capability indices and multivariate control chart methods

• Improved attributes control charts based on the author's research

• A detailed presentation of Six Sigma programs

• A new, separate chapter on CUSUM and EWMA procedures

• New material on robust design and Taguchi-type procedures

• Chapter appendices for more in-depth coverage of selected topics

• Very extensive and up-to-date references in each chapter, in addition to a bibliography of papers on a variety of control chart applications

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

...the book is carefully written, well produced, and contains a wealth of information for the interested reader.

Short Book Reviews

This is a significant update of Professor Ryan's textbook from 1988. The chapters on statistical process contril and process capability have been expanded considerably to include recent research in the field. The chapter on design of experiments is also longer, with the inclusion of robust design issues. The book is very well written.

Technometrics

As a comprehensive statistics reference book for quality improvement, it certainly is one of the best books available.

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

...the book is carefully written, well produced, and contains a wealth of information for the interested reader.

Booknews

A reference for managers and technicians more than a textbook, though Ryan (statistics, Case Western Reserve U.) has used much of the material in industrial and college courses. He writes in the recognition that quality improvement requires using more than just control charts, and that it would be difficult to keep a particular process characteristic in control without some knowledge of the factors affecting that characteristic. He has updated the 1989 first edition by revising and lengthening the chapters on process capability and multivariate control charts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Preface to the First Edition
Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Basic Tools for Improving Quality	11
Ch. 3	Basic Concepts in Statistics and Probability	28
Ch. 4	Control Charts for Measurements with Subgrouping (for One Variable)	77
Ch. 5	Control Charts for Measurements without Subgrouping (for One Variable)	133
Ch. 6	Control Charts for Attributes	152
Ch. 7	Process Capability	186
Ch. 8	Alternatives to Shewhart Charts	216
Ch. 9	Multivariate Control Charts for Measurement Data	253
Ch. 10	Miscellaneous Control Chart Topics	289
Ch. 11	Other Graphical Methods	319
Ch. 12	Linear Regression	337
Ch. 13	Design of Experiments	359
Ch. 14	Contributions of Genichi Taguchi and Alternative Approaches	427
Ch. 15	Evolutionary Operation	474
Ch. 16	Analysis of Means	494
Ch. 17	Using Combinations of Quality Improvement Tools	519
	Answers to Selected Exercises	530
	App.: Statistical Tables	532
	Author Index	545
	Subject Index	551

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J2EE Best Practices: Java Design Patterns, Automation, and Performance

Author: Darren Broemmer

Learn how to apply robust application design to your J2EE projects

There are a number of best practices you need to consider to build highly effective J2EE components and integrate them into applications. These practices include evaluating and selecting the right set of software components and services to handle the job.

In this book, Darren Broemmer supplies you with a set of best practices for J2EE development and then teaches you how to use them to construct an application architecture referred to as the reference architecture. The design and implementation of the reference architecture is based on a set of guiding principles that are used to optimize and automate J2EE development.
In addition to the author's thorough discussions of the latest technologies for J2EE implementation-including EJB 2, Jakarta Struts, Servlets, Java Server Pages, UML, design patterns, Common Business Logic Foundation components, and XML-Broemmer addresses such topics as:

• Understanding J2EE application architecture

• Building business applications with J2EE, a business object architecture, and extensible components created with design patterns

• Designing and implementing a sample banking Web application

• Integrating proven performance-engineering and optimization practices in the development process

• Using metadata-driven, configurable foundation components to automate much of the development and processing of Web-based business applications

The companion Web site contains the source code for a Common Business Logic Foundation and sample applications from the book, including aJakarta Struts project and a banking application. Links to the Jakarta Struts frameworks and J2EE application servers such as BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere are also provided.

Tomorrows Organization or Evaluating Capital Projects

Tomorrow's Organization: Crafting Winning Capabilities in a Dynamic World

Author: Associates

Create a more flexible, responsive, and competitive business

A Publication of The Center for Effective Organizations

Picking up where the successful Organizing for the Future left off, this work from the Center for Effective Organizations presents a coherent set of principles and hands-on guidance for creating the successful organization of tomorrow. Celebrated contributors such as Jay Conger, David Finegold, and Tora Bikson--not to mention the editors themselves--empower a book that captures the latest thinking and new practices regarding the design of complex organizations. The emerging forms and contexts of organizations, enablers of continuous performance improvement, and change implementation processes are among the many cutting-edge topics discussed.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Authors
	Introduction: The Challenge of Change: Organizing for Competitive Advantage	1
Pt. 1	Designing Competitive Organizations	21
1	Corporate Boards: Developing Effectiveness at the Top	23
2	Linking Customers and Products: Organizing for Product and Customer Focus	51
3	Designing the Networked Organization: Leveraging Size and Competencies	76
4	Structuring Global Organizations	103
Pt. 2	Enabling Competitive Performance	131
5	Organizing for Competencies and Capabilities: Bridging from Strategy to Effectiveness	133
6	The Changing Nature of Work: Managing the Impact of Information Technology	154
7	Employee Involvement, Reengineering, and TQM: Focusing on Capability Development	179
Pt. 3	Managing People in the Competitive Organization	209
8	The New Human Resources Management: Creating the Strategic Business Partnership	211
9	The New Learning Partnership: Sharing Responsibility for Building Competence	231
10	Executive Education: A Critical Lever for Organizational Change	264
11	Strategic Pay System Design	286
Pt. 4	Transforming the Organization	307
12	Teams and Technology: Extending the Power of Collaboration	309
13	Accelerating Organizational Learning During Transition	330
14	Catalyzing Organizational Change and Learning: The Role of Performance Management	362
	Conclusion: Facing the Challenges of the Future	394
	References	413
	Name Index	437
	Subject Index	443

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Evaluating Capital Projects

Author: Ahmed Riahi Belkaoui

The successful evaluation of capital projects requires not only a thorough understanding of traditional techniques of capital budgeting but advanced techniques as well. Riahi-Belkaoui examines the multidimensionality of capital budgeting in its various facets and in ways that executives with no special facility in the subject can follow. He covers replacement decisions, capital rationing, capital budgeting under inflation uncertainty, capital budgeting in a multinational setting with attention to political risks, social project evaluation, and concepts of wealth measurement and distribution. The result is a wide ranging treatment for executive decision makers in finance, banking, investment, and general management, and for their colleagues with similar interests in the academic community.

Booknews

Examines the scope of capital budgeting, looking at both traditional and nontraditional facets. Explains principles of true value of money and capital budgeting, then outlines advanced issues of replacement decisions, capital rationing, and capital budgeting under uncertainty and inflation. Examines areas associated with capital budgeting in a global context, discusses the determination of political risk and its use in capital budgeting internationally, and compares techniques of leasing versus purchasing. Examines techniques of capital budgeting as applied to social projects, and deals with behavioral and cognitive implications of wealth measurement and distribution. The author teaches accounting at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics or Global City Regions

William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics

Author: Harro Maas

The Victorian polymath William Stanley Jevons (1835-82) is generally and rightly venerated as one of the great innovators of economic theory and method in what came to be known as the 'marginalist revolution'. This book is an investigation into the cultural and intellectual resources that Jevons drew upon to revolutionize research methods in economics. Jevons's uniform approach to the sciences was based on a firm belief in the mechanical constitution of the universe and a firm conviction that all scientific knowledge was limited and therefore hypothetical in character. Jevons's mechanical beliefs found their way into his early meteorological studies, his formal logic, and his economic pursuits. By using mechanical analogies as instruments of discovery, Jevons was able to bridge the divide between theory and statistics that had become more or less institutionalized in mid nineteenth-century Britain.

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Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy

Author: Allen J Scott

There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations of more than one million. As globalization intensifies, these city-regions come to pose many new questions and problems. This book presents a highly original and multifaceted review of these issues by some of the leading researchers in the field. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them; it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization; and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world.

Table of Contents:

Introduction, Allen J. Scott

Part I: Opening Arguments

1. Global City-Regions, Allen J. Scott, John Agnew, Edward W. Soja, and Michael Storper

Part II: On Practical Questions of Globalization and City-Region Development

2. How to Invite Prosperity from the Global Economy into a Region, Kenichi Ohmae

3. The World Bank and Global City-Regions: Reaching the Poor, James D. Wolfensohn

4. Quebec in an Era of Global City-Regions, Lucien Bouchard

Part III: The Global City-Region: A New Geographic Phenomenon?

5. Global City-Regions in the Twenty-First Century, Sir Peter Hall

6. Global Cities and Global City-Regions: A Comparison, Saskia Sassen

7. The Economic Role and Spatial Contradictions of Global City-Regions: The Functional, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Context, Roberto Camagni

8. Intercity Networks in a Globalizing Era, John Friedmann

Part IV: The Competitive Advantages of Global City-Regions

9. Regions and the New Economics of Competition, Michael E. Porter

10. Ontario as a North American Region-State, Toronto as a Global City-Region: Responding to the NAFTA Challenge, Thomas J. Courchene

Part V: Global City-Regions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Political and Economic Challenges

11. Local Governance and Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City-Regions, Richard Stren

12. Innovation and Risk-Taking: Urban Governance in Latin America, Tim Campbell

13. Intercity Competition and the Question of Economic Resilience: Globalization and Crisis in Asia, Michael Douglass

14. Repositioning of City-Regions: Korea after the Crisis, Won Bae Kim

Part VI: Social Inequalities and Immigrant Niches in Global City-Regions

15. Inequality in Global City-Regions, Susan S. Fainstein

16. The Immigrant Niche in Global City-Regions: Concept, Patterns, Controversy, Roger Waldinger

Part VII: Questions of Citizenship

17. Urban Citizenship and Globalization, James Holston

18. Istanbul's Conflicting Paths to Citizenship: Islamization and Globalization, Engin F. Isin

Part VIII: The New Collective Order of Global City-Regions

19. Governing Cities and Regions: Territorial Restructuring in a Global Age, Michael Keating

20. Lessons from Silicon Valley: Governance in a Global City-Region, Douglas Henton

21. Local Governance and Conflict Management: Reflections on a Brazilian Cluster, Hubert Schmitz

Part IX: Coda: Environmental Issues

22. Environmental Sustainability and Services in Developing Global City-Regions, Theodore Panayotou

Biotech Industry or Towards the Semantic Web

Biotech Industry: A Global, Economic, and Financing Overview

Author: Bryan Bergeron

"The biotech industry is a complex, rapidly evolving, and critical industry. The industry holds great commercial and societal promise, but it is also filled with hype, confusion, and risks. Bergeron and Chan do a remarkable job of providing a sweeping insightful, and probing assessment of the current state and likely evolution of this global industry. This book is essential reading for the executive who desires a thorough understanding of this business and its potential."--John P. Glasser, Vice President and Chief Information Offers, Partners Healthcare System, Inc.
"Bergeron and Chan have done a marvelous job integrating many different perspectives to give the reader a coherent road map of the biotech industry for the next decade. This powerful book is anchored by numerous relevant examples that create a framework which any life sciences professional needs to understand. Of particular note is the compelling assessment of the IT industry and its impact on the life sciences as these industries converge."--Michael A. Greeley, Managing General Partner, IDG Ventures.
An in-depth examination of the growth and financing of the biotechnology industry worldwide Biotech Industry: A Global, Economic, and Financing Overview provides a thorough look at the current state of the biotechnology industry, including where major research is being conducted, where it's being applied, and where money and intellectual capital are flowing.
Written by a renowned business columnist and an entrepreneurial scientist in the biotech area, this unique book gives Eos and other senior-level managers an understanding of Asia's pivotal role in the worldwide success of biotechnology commercialization,as well as insight into the biotech market over the next decade.

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Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management

Author: Dieter Fensel

With the current changes driven by the expansion of the World Wide Web, this book uses a different approach from other books on the market: it applies ontologies to electronically available information to improve the quality of knowledge management in large and distributed organizations. Ontologies are formal theories supporting knowledge sharing and reuse. They can be used to explicitly represent semantics of semi-structured information. These enable sophisticated automatic support for acquiring, maintaining and accessing information. Methodology and tools are developed for intelligent access to large volumes of semi-structured and textual information sources in intra- and extra-, and internet-based environments to employ the full power of ontologies in supporting knowledge management from the information client perspective and the information provider.
The aim of the book is to support efficient and effective knowledge management and focuses on weakly-structured online information sources. It is aimed primarily at researchers in the area of knowledge management and information retrieval and will also be a useful reference for students in computer science at the postgraduate level and for business managers who are aiming to increase the corporations' information infrastructure.

The Semantic Web is a very important initiative affecting the future of the WWW that is currently generating huge interest. The book covers several highly significant contributions to the semantic web research effort, including a new language for defining ontologies, several novel software tools and a coherent methodology for the application of the tools for business advantage. It alsoprovides 3 case studies which give examples of the real benefits to be derived from the adoption of semantic-web based ontologies in "real world" situations. As such, the book is an excellent mixture of theory, tools and applications in an important area of WWW research.
* Provides guidelines for introducing knowledge management concepts and tools into enterprises, to help knowledge providers present their knowledge efficiently and effectively.
* Introduces an intelligent search tool that supports users in accessing information and a tool environment for maintenance, conversion and acquisition of information sources.
* Discusses three large case studies which will help to develop the technology according to the actual needs of large and or virtual organisations and will provide a testbed for evaluating tools and methods.
The book is aimed at people with at least a good understanding of existing WWW technology and some level of technical understanding of the underpinning technologies (XML/RDF). It will be of interest to graduate students, academic and industrial researchers in the field, and the many industrial personnel who are tracking WWW technology developments in order to understand the business implications. It could also be used to support undergraduate courses in the area but is not itself an introductory text.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Biographies
	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	OIL and DAML+OIL: Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web	11
3	A Methodology for Ontology-based Knowledge Management	33
4	Ontology Management: Storing, Aligning and Maintaining Ontologies	47
5	Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema	71
6	Generating Ontologies for the Semantic Web: OntoBuilder	91
7	OntoEdit: Collaborative Engineering of Ontologies	117
8	QuizRDF: Search Technology for the Semantic Web	133
9	Spectacle	145
10	OntoShare: Evolving Ontologies in a Knowledge Sharing System	161
11	Ontology Middleware and Reasoning	179
12	Ontology-based Knowledge Management at Work: The Swiss Life Case Studies	197
13	Field Experimenting with Semantic Web Tools in a Virtual Organization	219
14	A Future Perspective: Exploiting Peer-to-Peer and the Semantic Web for Knowledge Management	245
15	Conclusions: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management - Towards the Semantic Web?	265
	References	267
	Index	281

Toward Zero Defect Programming or Management Accounting

Toward Zero Defect Programming

Author: Allan M M Stavely

Toward Zero-Defect Programming describes current methods for writing (nearly) bug-free programs. These methods are based on practices developed at IBM and elsewhere under the name Cleanroom Software Engineering. The successful application of these methods in commercial projects over the past fifteen years has produced defect rates that are, at least, an order of magnitude lower than industry averages. Remarkably, this reduction in defects comes at no net cost; on the contrary, it is often accompanied by increased productivity and shorter overall development time!

In a concise and well-illustrated presentation, Stavely shows how these methods can be applied in three key areas of software development:

• specification
• verification
• testing.

Requiring formal specifications, and requiring that the code be proved mathematically to agree with the specifications, forces software engineers to program more simply and more clearly, eliminating many defects as a consequence. Performing verification as part of a team process uncovers additional defects and encourages careful examination of the program for efficiency and other quality aspects. Testing the program, to compensate for human fallibility in the preceding steps, catches (nearly) all remaining bugs.

Highlights:

• Explains Cleanroom methods for developing high-quality software.
• Encourages a team process for program verification.
• Illustrates the importance of incremental development.

The author departs somewhat from IBM Cleanroom methods in simplifying the procedures that readers must learn. His aim is to make specification and verification readily accessible to any student or practitioner who can write well-structured programs. No great mathematical sophistication is assumed. Although the books examples are written in a number of programming languages to explain different points, the largest number are in C; therefore, a prior knowledge of C is useful.

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Management Accounting: A Strategic Approach

Author: Wayne J Mors

Morse is not just a cost determination management text. Taking a much more strategic approach, this text focuses on the full range of cost drivers within the value chain instead of the distinctions between product/non-product costs and unit-variable/fixed costs.

Booknews

This textbook integrates traditional financial analysis with business management concepts to help managers make strategic, organizational, and operational decisions. The approach focuses on cost drivers, the value chain, and activity-based management. The third edition adds sections on the uses and evolution of activity-based costing, and the balanced scorecard and strategy implementation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Preface. 1. Management Accounting: A Tool for Decision-Making. 2. Activity Cost Analysis and Planning. 3. Profitability Analysis and Planning. 4. Contribution Analysis for Decision-Making. 5. Value Chain Analysis and Activity Based Management. 6. Product Costing and the Manufacturing Environment. 7. Designing Product Cost Systems Not Final. 8. Inventory Valuation Approaches & Just-In-Time Inventory Management Not Final. 9. Strategic Management of Price, Cost, and Quality Not Final. 10. Strategic Management of Capital Expenditures Not Final. 11. Operational Budgeting Not Final. 12. Performance Assessment. 13. Profitability Analysis of Strategic Business Segments. Appendix: Value Chain Cases. Glossary. Index. Check Figures.