Management Science category: 4086 books
Management and International Review
Can Multinationals Bridge the Gap Between Global and Local?
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Multinational corporations (MNCs) are frequently pictured as being at the vanguard of global integration. They face strong incentives to maximize economies of scale in research and development, purchasing, production and marketing, and encounter low barriers in the dissemination of technologies and...
Casting the Other
The Production and Maintenance of Inequalities in Work Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Casting the Other: Maintaining Gender Inequalities in the Workplace focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations. By emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed many organizations institute the 'problem of difference', and while orgainzations pay lip-service...
Medical Office Management
Developing and Managing Systems with High Quality Customer Service
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
The present book aims to assist and guide medical doctors in any specialty to manage his/her own clinic or office, allowing a higher and better development of its team/staff and providing tools for a high quality service to patients and customers. It is devoted to be the background for any medical...
by Massimiliano Izzo
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This doctoral thesis reports on an innovative data repository offering adaptive metadata management to maximise information sharing and comprehension in multidisciplinary and geographically distributed collaborations. It approaches metadata as a fluid, loosely structured and dynamical process rather...
The Fractal Nature of Enterprise 2.0
And Other Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
To control information, to be able to gain access to constantly moving networks, to manage the permanent innovation revolution... These challenges call for a fundamental change in the enterprise. What will this new Enterprise 2.0 look like, what kind of governance will it need? This compellingly topical...
Zero Space
Moving Beyond Organizational Limits
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2002
What would happen if you could achieve business success without owning any assets, but could simply enjoy the benefits of them? What if companies were able to react instantly to changing circumstances by operating in negative time? What if you didn't need management to run your business? Zero Space...
by Thomas A. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This book focuses on the new challenges created for managers by the recent recession. Executives need to learn new skills and run companies delivering results under an entirely new set of conditions and working environments. This book analyzes these issues and provides step-by-step guidance on how...
The Energy Saving Guide
Tables for Assessing the Profitability of Energy Saving Measures with Explanatory Notes and Worked Examples
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The Energy Saving Guide: Tables for Assessing the Profitability of Energy Saving Measures with Explanatory Notes and Worked Examples describes the means of comparing investment in energy saving measures with other types of financial investment.
This book is composed of nine chapters and begins...
Strategy for Action – I
The Logic and Context of Strategic Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
The innovative and unique feature of this book is that it does not contain theoretical concept that cannot be translated into practice. The model which introduces this volume sets the stage for addressing the major phases of the strategic management process: environmental analysis, strategy formulation...
Stakeholder Theory
A Model for Strategic Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book provides an academic introduction to, and presentation and defence of stakeholder theory as a model for the strategic management of businesses and corporations, as well as of public organizations and institutions. The concept of the stakeholder is generally applied to parties that affect...
Leaders Talk Leadership
Top Executives Speak Their Minds
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2002
Leaders Talk Leadership is an impressive collection of interviews with some of the world's most respected corporate leaders and management scholars. Edited by Ashby and Miles of the preeminent executive search firm Heidrick and Struggles, this compilation of thought leadership spanning industries...
How to Speak Tech
The Non-Techie’s Guide to Key Technology Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Things you’ve done online: ordered a pizza, checked the weather, booked a hotel, and reconnected with long-lost friends. Now it’s time to find out how these things work. Vinay Trivedi peels back the mystery of the Internet, explains it all in the simplest terms, and gives you the knowledge you...
by Dhanasekharan Natarajan
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book explains the requirements of ISO 9001 for establishing quality management system (QMS) for an organization. The requirements are illustrated with examples from industries for understanding the requirements and preparing the documents of QMS with high clarity. Methods of integrating ISO 9001...
Knowledge Management
The Creative Loop
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Knowledge management is a strategic issue for companies, and international standards such as ISO recently integrate it into its requirements. However, it is still an ill-defined concept, and methodologies to implement it are not very well known. This book is the result of over twenty years of research...