Culture and positioninig as determinants of strategy

personality and the business organization

Strategic positioning is the assertion of an organizations personality on decisions of how and where to compete, it determines competitive position in the market place and differentiates the offering to the market. Operational positioning is an exercise in communication that concentrates on perception and image ...

Investing in corporate bonds and credit risk

Investing in Corporate Bonds and Credit Risk is a valuable tool for any corporate bond investor. All the most recent developments and strategies in investment in corporate bonds are analyzed included with qualitative and quantitative approaches. A complete and up-to-date investment process is developed through ...

Financial management

Financial Management is the ideal course text for business and management undergraduates and MBA students taking an introductory module in Financial Management. The concise yet thorough style of the book makes it highly accessible for students coming to the subject for the first time. This ...

Entrepeneurship

context,vision and planning

Entrepreneurship: Context, Vision & Planning enables final year undergraduate and postgraduate students to successfully blend their existing knowledge and skills to create a new enterprise to pursue an opportunity. A comprehensive outline of the historical development of the topic and its underpinnings in history, economics, law ...

Cars, carriers of regionalism?

This highly topical book brings together some of the world's leading specialists on the global car industry who discuss the ins and outs of the faster lane of regionalism at a time that the world is reassessing the ins and outs of globalization. It ...

Contemporary strategic management

Contemporary Strategic Management identifies, outlines and develops the body of skills, knowledge and expertise that is needed by managers in all senior positions within public and private organizations. Covering analysis and choice, implementation and the development of strategic management from a managerial perspective, the text ...

Key concepts in accounting and finance

Accounting and finance underpin much business activity,providing valuable decisioin-making tools.Accounting provides the primary means of examining,recording,analysis and assessing performance and quatifying the financial data of a business.Finance is a broader church which adderesses issues such as investment,the securities markets ...

Key concepts in business practice

Business practice is a broad area study and encompasses aspects of all business-related disciplines.Business practice refers to the administration,the planning,the coordination,monitoring and control of a buisness operation.It also seeks to identify the very best of business practice and apply it ...

Key concepts in human resource management

The sheer complexity of human resource management has given rise to a new discipline,which requires the systematic training of personnel professional.Coping with the profusion of terms,jargon,legislation and procedures can be a hard task for practitioners and an even greater challenge for ...

Key concepts in international business

The term "international business"reflects the fact that international trade and businesses are no longer restricted by national boundaries.Revolutionary changes in information technology,communication and transport have placed businesses into a radically new and challenging environment.Multinational,transnational,multidomestic or international business organizations are ...

Key concepts in marketing

Key concepts in strategic management

Strategic management is a vibrant and controversial area of management,which is not simply restricted to the actions of senior managers at board level.It requires intuition and judgement, to work alongside structure,rules and procedures.Strategic management is about dealing with ambiguities,uncertainties and ...

Interest rate modelling

This book provides the first summary and critical appraisal of the thinking that currently informs the management of business relationships, from the perspectives of both the buyer and supplier. The authors argue that these approaches are one-dimensional and instead recommend a more holistic approach based ...

Perpetuating the family business

50 lessons learned from long-lasting,successful families in business

John L. Ward is a leading world expert on the family business. In this book he brings together a vast amount of experience to show the, 'best practices' of the most successful and long-lasting families in business. He provides a framework of five insights and ...

Sales force desing for strategic advantage

This book focuses upon the role of the sales force in today's changing world and how to design a sales force for strategic advantage. It includes sections on how to assess the current sales force design and how to implement change and covers customer ...

The dynamics of employee relations

Nationalist Politics in Europe

The Constitutional and Electoral Dimensions

What global economic crisis?

Economics has become an excessively esoteric discipline. Opportunities to bridge the gap between theorizing and policymaking are becoming increasingly limited. One issue of great importance to modern policymakers is the relationship between globalization and economic crisis. With unprecedented trends towards globalization (in part propelled by ...

World democratic federalism

peace and justice indivisible

Myron J. Frankman provides an interrelated set of initiatives whose components are consistent with the logic of both the process of globalization and the emerging properties of our time: Sustainability, democratization, equal opportunity, diversity and peace. He brings together the case for global public finance ...

Exhaustion of the dollar

its implications for global prosperity

The U.S. dollar has served as the key currency of the international economic/financial system for over fifty years. This study assesses the proposition that the series of U.S. current-account deficits over the last twenty years will shortly exhaust the capability of the ...

Frenzy

bubbles, busts and how to come out ahead

Despite all the hype, the technology bubble of the 1990s was not driven by the Internet. It was driven by innate human forces that transcend the Internet, the 1990s, the twentieth century, and the United States. Extraordinary, incalculable opportunity frequently creates bubbles. In this situation ...

Europeanization,european integration and financial services

developing theoretical frameworks and synthesising methodological approaches

This book deals with the political philosophy that underpins theories of European integration and develops an understanding of Europeanization based on downloading and up-loading. Downloading is the means by which EU policy is amalgamated with domestic legislation and institutions. Up- loading indicates the use of ...