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Money at its uses in the Ancient Greek World

Jews in a graeco-roman world

Apuleius

a latin sophist

International relations since 1945

a global history

Competitive advantage

creating and sustaining superior performance

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into 'activities', or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage. Now an essential part ...

Competitive strategy

techniques for analyzing industries and competitors

Electrifying in its simplicity - like all great breakthroughs - COMPETITIVE STRATEGY captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Author Michael Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies - lowest cost, differentiation, and focus - which bring structure ...

Hedge fund of funds investing

an investor's guide

Hedge funds have rightly gained the attention of private and institutional investors in recent years, proving themselves as useful portfolio diversifiers and preservers of wealth while greatly dispelling their reputation as an "unsafe" investment. Yet investors attempting to navigate in the field of hedge funds ...

Dynamics stochastic optimization

This volume considers optimal stochastic decision processes from the viewpoint of stochastic programming. It focuses on theoretical properties and on approximate or numerical solution techniques for time-dependent optimization problems with random parameters (multistage stochastic programs, optimal stochastic decision processes). Methods for finding approximate solutions of ...

The role of multinational enterprises in globalization

This book offers a framework for analyzing the increased economic integration of countries which is mainly driven by multinational enterprises. They compete with other companies from different countries on many markets and through various channels. The book starts by discussing the stylized facts of the ...

The internationalisation of young high-tehc firms

an empirical analysis in Germany and the United Kindom

The huge economic and social impact of high-tech industries on the fortunes of nation states has been widely recognised in recent years. Therefore, government policies encouraging the creation of new technology-based firms have become a priority in virtually all advanced economies. One factor underpinning the ...

Globalization of financial markets

causes of incomplete integration and consequences for economic policy

The internationalization of financial markets is one of the focal points in the discussion about recent globalization trends. These discussions suggest that capital can move freely between countries. However, there is ample evidence that national borders do matter and that there are many implicit and ...

Pure economics loss

Today, pure economic loss is probably one of the main problems in expanding tort law. In some countries, it is associated with uncontrollable and unforeseeable floods of claims to which there may be no end. In this book, leading authors shed light on the subject ...

Understanding competitive advantage

the importance of strategic congruence and integrated control

This book is about competitive advantage and how it is created at the company level. Our theoretical starting point is that the alignment of strategies and control systems affects the firm's chances of successfully positioning itself in its chosen area of competition. The firm ...

Cognitive economics

an interdisplicinary approach

The social sciences study knowing subjects and their interactions. A "cognitive turn", based on cognitive science, has the potential to enrich these sciences considerably. Cognitive economics belongs within this movement of the social sciences. It aims to take into account the cognitive processes of individuals ...

Business intelligence techniques

a perspective from accounting and finance

Modern businesses generate huge volumes of accounting data on a daily basis. The recent advancements in information technology have given organizations the ability to capture and store these data in an efficient and effective manner. However, there is a widening gap between this data storage ...

O mundo dos magistrados

a evoluçao da organizaçao e do auto-governo judiciário

Le bonheur de Spinoza

suivi de Etude sur le spinozisme de Michel Henry

Medieval families

perspectives on marriage, household, and children

During the past 30 years, the study of medieval families has emerged as a focus of discussion in European history. Largely unexplored in professional publications and teaching curricula until the 1970s, family history is now accepted as an aspect of medieval history essential to the ...

Souls in dispute

converso identities in Iberia and the jewish diaspora, 1580-1700

The Second Wold War