The exceptional manager

making the difference

Most businesses face the choice of either competing on the 'low road' of cost, or the 'high road' of innovation and value. Much the same goes for national economies and the UK is no exception. But how do businesses - and the people who manage them ...

El contrato de trabajo en la hostelería

encuadramiento y peculiariadades

ÍNDICE: Abreviaturas.- Prólogo.- PRIMERA PARTE: COORDENADAS OBJETIVAS Y SUBJETIVAS. Cap.1. Delimitación objetiva. a) Los entornos institucionales y empresariales. Cap.2. Delimitación subjetiva. a) El sujeto trabajador. b) El sujeto empleador.- SEGUNDA PARTE: SISTEMA DE RELACIONES LABORALES. Cap.3. La contratación laboral. Cap.4. El ...

Cycle representations of Markov processes

This book is a prototype providing new insight into Markovian dependence via the cycle decompositions. It presents a systematic account of a class of stochastic processes known as cycle (or circuit) processes - so-called because they may be defined by directed cycles. These processes have special ...

Strategy, economic organization, and the knowledge economy

the coordination of firms and resources

The rise of the knowledge economy has far-reaching implications for the nature of economic organization as well as firm strategy. Not surprisingly, thinking in management studies as well as in economics has been profoundly affected by these changes. Thus, management thinking in particular has been ...

Handbook mortgage backed securities

Frank J. Fabozzi is one of the world's foremost authorities on fixed income securities and derivative instruments, and the author or editor of dozens of widely acclaimed fixed income books, including The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities, which sold more than 25,000 copies ...

Panel data econometrics

theoretical contributions and empirical applications

Panel data econometrics has evolved rapidly over the last decade. Dynamic panel data estimation, non-linear panel data methods and the phenomenal growth in non-stationary panel data econometrics makes this an exciting area of research in econometrics. The 11th international conference on panel data held at ...

Revolutionary wealth

Revolutinary Wealth is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first-century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. Thus they write here about everything ...

High-tech entrepreneurship

managing innovation variety and uncertainty

High-tech businesses form a crucial part of entrepreneurial activity - in some ways representing very typical examples of entrepreneurship, yet in some ways representing quite different challenges. The uncertainty in innovation and advanced technology makes it difficult to use conventional economic planning models, and also means ...

International trade and business

law, policy and ethics

International trade and business law courses are offered by most law schools and business departments. An increasing number of practising lawyers are required to provide expert advice on international business practices and export trade law. This book is an ideal sourcebook for students ans practitioners ...

Sovereign default risk valuation

implications of debt crises and bond restructurings

The J curve

a new way to understand why nations rise and fall

Locate nations on the J Curve - left for authoritarian, right for democratic. Then figure out how to force those on the left to open their societies, rather than encouraging them to shut them tighter by further isolating them. The West's isolation of Kim Jong-il ...

Democracy and political culture in Eastern Europe

Eds. Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Dieter Fuchs, Jan Zielonka. What is the relationship between democracy and political culture in countries undergoing major systemic change? Have subjective political orientations of citizens been important in shaping the development of democracy in central and eastern Europe after the fall of ...

Designing world class corporate strategies

value creating roles for corporate centres

Designing World Class Corporate Strategies considers the key role of corporate centres within very large, primarily multi-business organisations. At present, these corporate centres are under attack as not creating and value and merely adding cost to their groups. The authors have developed a corporate configurations ...

The regional multinationals

MNEs and "global" strategic management

Although many firms label themselves 'global', very few can back this up with truly global sales and operations. In The Regional Multinationals Alan Rugman examines first-hand data from multinationals and finds that most multinationals are strongly regional, with international operations in their home regions of ...

Population issues in social choice theory, welfare economics, and ethic

This book presents an exploration of the idea of the common or social good, extended so that alternatives with different populations can be ranked. The approach is, in the main, welfarist, basing rankings on the well-being, broadly conceived, of those who are alive (or ever ...

Global capital markets

integration, crisis, and growth

This book presents an economic survey of international capital mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. The authors examine the theory and empirical evidence surrounding the fall and rise of integration in the world market. A discussion of institutional developments focuses on capital ...

Lobbying in the European Union

A compact pocket guide explaining the different types of lobbies, the decision-making system within the EU, as well as outlining the most opportune times for lobbying during the decision-making process. Contact details of some seven hundred trade associations and NGOs involved in lobbying are also ...

Economics of environmental conservation

This fully updated and comprehensively revised edition of a classic text concentrates on the economics of conserving the living environment. It begins by covering the ethical foundations and basic economic paradigms' essential for understanding and assessing ecological economics. General strategies for global environmental conservation, policies ...

Innovation happens elsewhere

open source as business strategy

It's a plain fact: regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative people outside your organization than inside. Open source offers the possibility of bringing more innovation into your business by building a creative community ...

The committed enterprise

making vision, values, and branding work

It is easier to describe vision and values than implement them. However this updated paperback edition of The Committed Enterprise shows how to achieve success by understanding the needs of stakeholders and maximising them. It details the Seven Best Practices for making vision and values ...