Management

inventing and delivering its future

The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices for which MIT ...

Inventing the organizations of the 21st century

Technological changes have displaced the hierarchical corporation as the model for business organization; the large corporations of the new century are decentralizing and externalizing, creating networks of "industry ecosystems" that will replace the top-down organizations of the last century. Inventing the Organizations of the 21st ...

Rethinking rights and regulations

institutional responses to new communications technologies

The contributors to this volume examine issues raised by the intersection of new communications technologies and public policy in this post-boom, post- bust era. Originally presented at the 30th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC 2002)-- traditionally a showcase for the best ...

Digital library use

social practice in design and evaluation

The contributors to this volume view digital libraries (DLs) from a social as well as technological perspective. They see DLs as sociotechnical systems, networks of technology, information artifacts, and people and practices interacting with the larger world of work and society. As Bruce Schatz observes ...

Software ecosystem

understanding an indispensable technology and industry

Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, how software and the software industry are ...

A history of online information services, 1963-1976

Marshall's tendencies

what can economists know?

Contracts in trade and transition

the resurgence of barter

The structure of applied general equilibrium models

Keys prosperity

free markets, sound money, and a bit of luck

A ghost's memoir

the making of Alfred P.Sloan´s my years with General Motors

Published in 1964, My Years with General Motors was an immediate best- seller and today is considered one of the few classic books on management. The book is the ghostwritten memoir of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1875#1966), whose business and management strategies enabled General ...

The econometrics of corporate governance studies

A vast theoretical and empirical literature in corporate finance considers the interrelationships of corporate governance, takeovers, management turnover, corporate performance, corporate capital structure, and corporate ownership structure. Most of the studies look at two variables at a time. In this book Sanjai Bhagat and Richard ...

The elusive quest for growth

economists' adventures and misadventures in the Tropics

Russian strategic nuclear forces

This encyclopedic book provides comprehensive data about Soviet and Russian strategic weapons, payloads, and delivery systems and on the nuclear complex that supports them. The data are drawn from open, primarily Russian sources. All the information is presented chronologically, arranged by individual systems and facilities ...

Trade policy and market structure

CONTENS: Part 1 Introduction: trade policy and market power strategic effects production efficiency the political economy of the new theory organization. Part 2 Trade policy under perfect competition: tariff analysis import quotas export subsidies and taxes optimal trade taxes a note on general equilibrium domestic ...

The new industrial organization

market forces and strategic behavior

The evolution of central banks

The Evolution of Central Banks employs a wide range of historical evidence and reassesses current monetary analysis to argue that the development of non-profit-maximizing and noncompetitive central banks to supervise and regulate the commercial banking system fulfils a necessary and natural function. Goodhart surveys the ...

Empirical methods for international trade

A wide range of empirical studies is applied to various countries in this important collection. Bringing together the most recent work in econometrics applied to international trade, main sections of the book cover: cross-country analysis, which can be used to test assumptions or implications of ...

Indexing, inflation, and economic policy

Mainstream macroeconomics is under attack, professionally and in the popular press, as rarely before. Stanley Fischer has brought together this collection of essays in support of the view that mainstream macroeconomics can contribute much that it is both scientifically and socially useful to the analysis ...