Corporate History category: 769 books
Co-Charismatic Leadership
Critical Perspectives on Spirituality, Ethics and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Current theories of leadership, spirituality and ethics are inadequate for the global, rapidly changing and complex environment in which leaders work today. Emerging from this book’s critical analysis comes a new theory of leadership: co-charismatic leadership. This does not mean leadership focused...
Technological Innovation in Retail Finance
International Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
This edited volume offers a new and original approach to the study of technological change in retail finance. Documenting developments in the US alongside case studies from Mexico and Europe, Technological Innovation in Retail Finance addresses the variety of financial institutions that populated...
by Marianne Howard, Bradley Harris, Joshua Ruff
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Nestled amidst a major commuter train line, a state highway, and picture-perfect views of the Long Island Sound and Nissequogue River, Kings Park balances its small-town feel with an excitingly diverse community vibrancy. Kings Park emerged in the late 19th century as the product of a utopian-inspired...
by Gregory S. Carpenter, Gary F. Gebhardt, John F. Sherry Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Based on a multi-year study with several large companies, Resurgence reveals how some of the most interesting and notable brands in the world have managed to stage remarkably successful comebacks following periods of decline. The core of this book is a smart, simple four-part framework for reinvention,...
by Joel Whitaker
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
A long-time businessman and business journalist, Joel Whitaker has created a memorable tale of an American family entrepreneurship at its best that flows along at a good clip and with elegant simplicity, with plenty of delightful drolleries along the way. Readers will discover the secret behind Maker's Mark's success and what they will see if they visit the distillery.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This edited book addresses two critical issues in international management: building trust and managing boundary spanning activities between international business partners. The duel-process of internationalization of multinational corporations (MNCs), through globalisation and regionalisation, has...
Foundations of Scenario Planning
The Story of Pierre Wack
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Pierre Wack was head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch / Shell Oil in London for just over ten years. He died in 1997. He was a pioneer of what we know today as scenario planning – an alternative and complement to strategic planning.
Scenarios explore a variety of possible futures for examining...
by Matthew Grisafe
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Having built A/V Programming Associates Inc. from the ground up, CEO Matthew Grisafe has learned a lot of lessons not only about his industry, but also about the keys to running a successful business. In this second edition of Our Code, Grisafe reflects on the early days of his company, the various...
Talent Wants to Be Free
Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Winners, Losers & Microsoft
Competition and Antitrust in High Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Few issues in high technology are as divisive as the current debate over competition, innovation, and antitrust. Analyzing famous examples of economic “lock-in” by dominant corporations of supposedly inferior products, this book makes the case that free markets in high technology industry deliver...
Collaborative Advantage
Winning through Extended Enterprise Supplier Networks
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2000
Why has Chrysler been twice as profitable as GM and Ford during the 1990s even though it is a much smaller company with plants that are less efficient than Ford's? Why does Toyota continue to have substantial productivity and quality advantages long after knowledge of the Toyota Production System...
Family Multinationals
Entrepreneurship, Governance, and Pathways to Internationalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In contrast to widespread assessments that family enterprises lack sufficient resources and capabilities to go global, many family companies are competing successfully in an increasingly globalized business environment. Worldwide, a large number of thriving multinationals are still family-owned and/or...
by Leander Jackie Grogan
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Un libro perfecto para los programas de estudio universitarios sobre solución de problemas empresariales y planeamiento estratégico para pequeñas empresas.
«Equivocaciones de las empresas nuevas: No cometas el mismo error» trata sobre un tema del que nadie quiere hablar… el fracaso. Calma....
The Google Way
How One Company Is Revolutionizing Management As We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Shortly after World War I, Ford and GM created the large modern corporation, with its financial and statistical controls, mass production, and assembly lines. In the 1980s, Toyota stood out for combining quality with continuous refinement. Today, Google is reinventing business yet again—the way...