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The effective organization

the nuts and bolts of business values

The Effective Organization explores the issues and challenges of levering information technology to respond more effectively to client needs and objectives both within a company and a market. Based on examples of successes and failures over the last decade, it provides a forum for discussion ...

Moses Maimonides

the man and his works

Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial new biography, the work of many years, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. After considering Maimonides' upbringing and education, Davidson ...

The knights hospitaller of the english langue 1460-1565

In this major contribution to the history of the crusades, O'Malley studies the establishments of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in Britain and Ireland in the later fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He examines their involvement in the society in those islands and ...

A sociology of work in Japan

Money and the rise of the modern papacy

financing the Vatican, 1850-1950

This is a pioneering study of the finances and financiers of the Vatican between 1850 and 1950. Dr Pollard, a leading historian of the modern papacy, shows how until 1929, the papacy was largely funded by #Peter#s Pence# collected from the faithful, and from ...

Law and governance in postnational Europe

compliance beyond the Nation-State

This book argues that Europeanization and globalization have led to ever-more intensive legalization at transnational level. What accounts for compliance beyond the nation-state? The authors tackle this question by comparing compliance with regulations that have been formulated in a very similar way at different levels ...

Russia in the 21st Century

the prodigal superpower

This book demonstrates that Russia intends to re-emerge as a full fledged superpower before 2010 that would challenge America and China and potentially threaten a new arms race. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this goal is easily within the Kremlin's grasp, but the cost to ...

Boards that deliver

advancing corporate governance from compliance to competitive advantage

Finally, a book that brings the vision of truly good governance down to earth. Ram Charan, expert in corporate governance and best-selling author, packs this book with useful tools and techniques to take boards and their companies to a higher level of performance. Charan puts ...

Corporate social responsability

doing the most good for your company and your cause

Today, corporations are expected to give something back to their communities in the form of charitable projects. In Corporate Social Responsibility, Philip Kotler, one of the world s foremost voices on business and marketing, and coauthor Nancy Lee explain why charity is both good P ...

Economics of industrial ecology

meterials, structural change, and spatial scales

The use of economic modeling techniques in industrial ecology research provides distinct advantages over the customary approach, which focuses on the physical description of material flows. The thirteen chapters of Economics of Industrial Ecology integrate the natural science and technological dimensions of industrial ecology with ...

Debating the Earth

the environmental politics reader

Debating the Earth brings together over 40 essential readings which illustrate the diversity of political responses to environmental issues. They are organized in a way that emphasizes the differences and debates across the various schools of thought on environmental affairs and there is a mixture ...

The politics of international trade in the Twenty-First Century

actors, issues and regional dynamics

The monetary theory of production

tradition and perspectives

Concept research in food product design and development

Bonds and bond derivatives

This book provides an introduction to bond markets and bond derivatives for students as well as for executives in commercial businesses and financial institutions. It also: *Presents the essential elements of debt instruments in an intuitive manner; *Covers updated institutional material, new sections on callable ...

Managers of innovation

insights into making innovation happen

ÍNDICE: Preface Part I: Introduction:. Innovation: Problems and Possibilities. The Current State of Knowledge about Innovation Part II: Managers' Accounts of Innovation:. From Tight Control to the Edge of Anarchy: Managing Innovation in Telecommunications. Managing Creative Workers in an Innovative Way. Contrasting Approaches to Innovation ...

Globalization and finance

The globalization of finance is widely recognised as one of the most significant features of the contemporary world. In this timely new book, Tony Porter guides students through current debates about global finance and discusses the extent to which the development of a global marketplace ...

Statistical tools for finance and insurance

How to do your dissertation in geography and related disciplines

The forces of economic growth

a time series perspective