Development Growth category: 1653 books
Design Thinking for Business
A Handbook for Design Thinking in Wicked Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
The book provides ways to introduce design thinking into enterprises. It provides guidelines to engage stakeholders by showing how spontaneous discussions can lead to creativity and ideas for innovation, and providing guidelines on the tools and visualizations needed to describe and build on these ideas,...
ISD From The Ground Up, 4th Edition
A No-Nonsense Approach to Instructional Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Don’t leave course design to trial and error.
Is trial and error a key pathway to instructional systems design (ISD)? Does success come only to experienced designers with expert instincts? Prior to the 2000 publication of ISD From the Ground Up, it certainly appeared that way to instructional...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2002
This timely and well-written collection explores the impact of economic reforms in developing and transitional economies across the world. In a first of its kind, this book examines such issues as:* in-depth, cross-regional analysis of the pressures for global integration* labour costs and their determinants: crucial factors in the success of econo
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Various theories have been put forward as to why business and industry develops in clusters and despite good work being carried out on path dependence and dynamics, this is still very much an emerging topic in the social sciences. To date, no overarching theoretical framework has been developed to...
Management
A Developing Country Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The global business world appears to be changing and there is an ever greater focus on developing countries. This change in the international business environment is not reflected in the range of management textbooks currently available, as most are written from a developed country perspective
This...
Cyberconnecting
The Three Lenses of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The ability of organisations to cyberconnect is becoming increasingly important for superior performance. Cyberconnecting: The Three Lenses of Diversity by Dr Priya E. Abraham explains how to establish connections across technological, cultural and social boundaries, mirrored in organisations succeeding...
Retail Marketing Strategy
Delivering Shopper Delight
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Basing shopper marketing strategy on customer insights is what differentiates market leading retail brands from weaker competitors. Many retail organizations lack business development and strategic departments that collect experiences, set benchmarks and create models and manuals. Retail Marketing...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
This excellent new book contains contributions from a number of leading experts and is the result of the UNU/WIDER project on globalization and low-income countries. The discussion focuses in on how to harness globalization for the benefit of present day marginalized countries and enhance their meaningful participation in the globalization process.
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2016
Comparing Regulatory Good Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2016 provides a tool for policy makers to identify and analyze legal barriers for the business of agriculture and to quantify transaction costs of dealing with government regulations. Building on an earlier progress report published in November 2014, this volume presents...
South Asia's Turn
Policies to Boost Competitiveness and Create the Next Export Powerhouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
South Asia has a huge need to create more and better jobs for a growing population †“ especially in the manufacturing industries where it is underperforming as compared to East Asia. The report examines three critical and relatively understudied drivers of competitiveness: -Economies of agglomeration:...
Universities, Cities and Regions
Loci for Knowledge and Innovation Creation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Regions and cities are the natural loci where knowledge is created, and where it can be easily turned into a commercial product. Regions are territories where, under certain socio-economic conditions, a strong sense of belonging and mutual trust develops the ability to transform information and inventions...
by Andrew Barkley, Paul W. Barkley
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its second edition, showcases the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, agribusiness, international trade, natural resource and other sectors.
The field of agricultural economics...
Leadership and the City
Power, strategy and networks in the making of knowledge cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The 21st century has been dominated by an almost compulsive race to find new pathways for city development. As cities seek to regenerate via the knowledge-based economy, now more than ever dynamic leadership is required order to navigate new and complex challenges while building community. This book...
Learning to be Capitalists
Entrepreneurs in Vietnam's Transition Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Why have some countries been able to escape the usual dead end of international development efforts and build explosively growing capitalist economies? Based on years of fieldwork, this book provides a detailed account of the first generation of entrepreneurs in Vietnam in comparison to those in other...