Science business

the promise, the reality, and the future of biotech

Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform up to expectations - despite all its promise? In "Science Business", Gary P. Pisano answers this question by providing an incisive critique of the industry. Pisano not only reveals the underlying causes of biotech's problems; he offers ...

The life cycle of entrepreneurial ventures

The "Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures" discusses topical issues in entrepreneurship organized around the various stages of venture creation, development and performance. The book is arranged in several parts, dealing with the pre-start stage, followed by venture creation, financing ventures, venture development, and venture performance ...

¡Quiero ser empresario!

doce entrevistas para conocer las competencias clave

El 89% del total de empleo generado en España se crea en empresas pequeñas y medianas, según datos de la OCDE. Estos datos alientan a los gobiernos a potenciar el espíritu emprendedor y establecer ayudas para aquellos que quieran ser empresarios. ¿Pero cuál es ese ...

Innovation and entrepreneurship

practice and principles

This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures ...

Handbook of research on family business

The "Handbook of Research on Family Business" provides a comprehensive first port of call for those wishing to survey progress in the theory and practice of family business research. In response to the extensive growth of family business as a topic of academic inquiry, the ...

The man behind the microchip

Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now, in The Man Behind the Microchip, Leslie ...

Entrepreneurship and small business

The new edition of this successful text synthesizes good management practice for students and encourages and develops entrepreneurial skills. Clearly structured and accessibly presented, the comprehensive coverage includes accounting control and decision-making as well as chapters on family businesses, corporate, international and social entrepreneurship. Mini ...

Expertos en franquicias

Esta edición muestra un amplio abanico de temas de actualidad tratados desde diferentes puntos de vista: tendencias, aspectos legales, tecnologías, relaciones con los medios de comunicación# cubriendo todas las necesidades del ámbito de la franquicia desde la visión de profesionales que conocen en profundidad el ...

Open business models

how to thrive in the new innovation landscape

In his landmark book "Open Innovation", Henry Chesbrough demonstrated that because useful knowledge is no longer concentrated in a few large organisations, business leaders must adopt a new, "open" model of innovation. Using this model, companies look outside their boundaries for ideas and intellectual property ...

Handbook of family business and family business consultation

a global perspective

Written by consultants and academics for consultants in this fairly new field, This collection of 21 interrelated essays and case studies examines the structure of family businesses, how they operate, and how consultants work for them in the new global economy. Topics include the impact ...

Wal-Mart

the face of Twenty-First-Century capitalism

Edited by one of the nation#s preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart#s business operations, its social effects, and its role in the U.S. and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a spring ...

Global dimensions of corporate governance

Corporate governance is the hot topic of the new millennium. There has been a growing demand from executives, students, consultants, and researchers for books that systematically illuminate how multinational corporations (MNCs) should deal with global shareholders and other stakeholders. As firms globalise, their corporate governance ...

The embedded corporation

corporate governance and employment relations in Japan and the United States

Is there one best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance between shareholders, executives, and employees? These questions are being vigorously debated as layoffs, scandals, and restructurings rattle companies around the world. The common assumption is that globalization is merging ...

Fundamentals of financial accounting

E-Success is the name for the brand new CDs produced by CIMA Publishing for students taking CIMAs new Certificate in Business Accounting. The Certificate is announced in March 06 and computer based assessments (CBA) start from Autumn 2006. This CD which includes all the CBA ...

Fundamentals of management accounting

"E-Success" is the name for the brand new CDs produced by CIMA Publishing for students taking CIMAs new Certificate in Business Accounting. The Certificate is announced in March 06 and computer based assessments (CBA) start from Autumn 2006. These CDs simulate the CBA with questions ...

Contratos mercantiles más frecuentes en la empresa

Muchos son los abogados dedicados al asesoramiento de empresas bien externa, bien internamente. Este libro aborda el estudio de una serie de contratos mercantiles seleccionados por el autor por su especial incidencia en el mundo de la empresa. La obra estudia contrato por contrato, su ...

El Zen de la empresa

soluciones sencillas para un mundo complicado

En las corporaciones surgen diariamente dificultades y encrucijadas que exigen un grado de sentido común nada común en realidad. Por otra parte, los automatismos desarrollados por los trabajadores promueven la unidireccionalidad, una inercia lenta y pesada que excluye valiosas alternativas para optimizar la marcha de ...

Optimizar la vida

claves para reconocer la felicidad

Esa felicidad que tanto buscamos parece un pez raro y escurridizo. ¿No será que nos cruzamos con ella más a menudo de lo que pensamos sin reconocerla? El cerebro responde al entorno con oleadas de transmisores que producen placer, dolor o ansiedad. Nos enamoramos, nos ...

Rome, Inc.

the rise and fall of the first multinational corporation

A history of the Roman Empire as a prototype of the multinational corporation? Likening Rome's development to that of a modern global company, forever seeking new markets and ruthless ways to squeeze out its competitors, Stanley Bing - whose satirical business books are as savagely ...

The history of company

the development of the business corporation 1700-1914

The company is core to the development of the last 300 years. This two-part collection of rare texts explores the changing economic, social and political role of the Anglo-American firm. Focusing on its formative development between the later seventeenth and the early twentieth centuries, the ...