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Value-based human resource strategy

developing your HR consultancy role

Many HR managers are trying to become more of a consultant than an HR administrator. This book Using case studies including Marks and Spencer, Dyson and BT, it demonstrates how HR strategey can be positioned and implemented to generate real shareholder value. Featuring extensive summaries ...

Crisis management in the tourism industry

Understanding effects of crises on the tourism industry and how businesses can prepare and succeed in these times Written by one of the world#s leading experts from the World Tourism Organisation Global coverage and perspective with cases and examples from the UK, Australia and ...

The theory of search games and rendezvous

Search Theory is one of the classic methodological disciplines in operations research and applied mathematics. It deals with the problem faced by a searcher who wishes to minimize the time required to find a hidden object. Traditionally, the target of the search is assigned to ...

Legal opinions in international transactions

Model law decisions

cases applying the UNCITRAL model law on international commercial arbitration (1985-2001)

Por amor a la verdad

El testamento vital y literario del autor de los cipreses creen en Dios

Entrepreneurial wage dynamics in the knowledge economy

This title challenges the conclusions that link entrepreneurship to lower employee compensation. This challenge is based on theories of entrepreneurship, which view the role of small firms as existing in a dynamic context rather than a static framework. The evolutionary theory of entrepreneurship views the ...

Contributions to modern econometrics

from data analysis to economic policy

The field of econometrics has gone through remarkable changes during the last decades of the 20th century - the earlier focus on testing macroeconomic theories has been widened considerably. It has turned into a discipline concerned with the development and application of statistical methods for any ...

La columna de la muerte

el avance del ejército franquista de Sevilla a Badajoz

Espinosa reconstruye lo ocurrido durante el verano del 36 siguiendo la ruta de las fuerzas de Franco por tierras extremeñas.Con documentación inédita, sus resultados ponen fin a numerosos tópicos heredados del franquismo

General equilibrium foundations of finance

structure of incomplete markets models

The purpose of this text is to give a sound economic foundation of finance based on the general equilibrium model with incomplete markets which embodies the famous CAPM as an important special case. This goal is achieved by giving reasonable restrictions on the agents' characteristics ...

Technology, growth and the labor market

In the late-20th and early-21st centuries, economic prognosticators have pondered whether the US economy has entered a new era. This "new economy" is generally characterized as having technological innovations that have raised productivity and, accordingly, removed pricing power from the world's producers on a ...

Quantitative models for performance evaluation and benchmarking

data development analysis with spreadsheets and DEA Excel solver

It is difficult to evaluate an organization's performance when there are multiple inputs and multiple outputs to the system. The difficulties are further enhanced when the relationships between the inputs and the outputs are complex and involve unknown tradeoffs. This work introduces DEA as ...

Asset pricing

discrete time approach

The theory of asset pricing has grown markedly more sophisticated since the early 1980s, with the application of powerful mathematical tools such as probability theory, stochastic processes and numerical analysis. The main goal of this text is to provide a systematic exposition, with practical applications ...

Innovations in governmental accounting

The purpose of this book is to present an updated overview of what, in the contributors' opinions, are the most useful and innovative international experiences in governmental accounting, reporting and control. The text presents a perspective on the contemporary state and foreseeable evolution of international ...

Dynamic models of advertising competition

The dynamic modelling and analysis of advertising competition continues to be a topic of importance to scholars and practitioners. The second edition of this text reviews empirical and analytical research on the topic and extends the research through analytical and numerical investigation. Three types of ...

Market response models

econometric and time series analysis

A guide to the use of market response models for planning and forecasting. The text can serve as a text for graduate students in marketing, as a guide for marketing scientists and as a handbook for marketing professionals. In each case the purpose has been ...

Tiempo cíclico y gnosis ismailí

La patria dels humans

Història del socialisme català

Commercio internazionale sostenible?

Wto e Unione Europea

La critica al processo di globalizzazione del commercio internazionale e alle istituzioni che lo governano si fa, politicamente, sempre più serrata, ma di rado dispone degli strumenti giuridici necessari ad una completa comprensione del problema. In una serie di lucide analisi gli autori passano in ...

The Christian world

a social and cultural history of Christianity

The Christian World is a superbly illustrated survey of Christianity#s role in the history of European civilization. The authors, all leading scholars in their fields, have interpreted Christianity in its widest sense, emphasising its social and cultural impact and exploring the religious life of ...