Palgrave Macmillan: 11161 books
The Early Computer Industry
Limitations of Scale and Scope
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Uses case studies to explore why large scale electronics failed to win a leadership position in the early computer industry and why IBM, a firm with a heritage in the business machines industry, succeeded. The cases cover both the US and the UK industry focusing on electronics giants GE, RCA, English Electric, EMI and Ferranti.
Analyzing Event Statistics in Corporate Finance
Methodologies, Evidences, and Critiques
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Analyzing Event Statistics in Corporate Finance provides new alternative methodologies to increase accuracy when performing statistical tests for event studies within corporate finance. In contrast to conventional surveys or literature reviews, Jeng focuses on various methodological defects or deficiencies...
A Flow-of-Funds Perspective on the Financial Crisis Volume II
Macroeconomic Imbalances and Risks to Financial Stability
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Based on the crisis experience, the book offers an overview of lessons for macrofinancial analysis and financial stability. It illustrates the interlinkages between the financial side and the real side of the economy and highlights the role of balance sheet variables and sectoral balance sheet positions in the evolution of the financial crisis.
The Triple Crisis of Western Capitalism
Democracy, Banking, and Currency
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Tillmann C. Lauk discusses law-making at the European level and argues that problems with EU legislation, banking regulation and currency debasement are due to a lack of democratic control. He insists on the need for radical reform both of banking and of international money and makes an important contribution to the debate on the future of finance.
Housing Finance Systems
Market Failures and Government Failures
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The term 'housing crisis' has recently been associated with rising foreclosure rates and tottering financial institutions, particularly in the US and Europe. However, in many emerging countries, the housing crisis is about urban poverty, unplanned settlements, overcrowded slums and homelessness.
The Financial Crisis
Origins and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The 2008 financial crisis poses three fundamental questions for economists and policy makers; understanding the origins of the crisis, understanding the consequences of this crisis for the world economy, and finally understanding why the 2008 financial crisis is not as serious as the 1929 crisis....
Somebody in Charge
A Solution to Recessions?
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
This book asks a fundamental question, that is, whether "somebody in charge" could have prevented or solved the problem leading up to our current financial crisis. This book explores and answers that question from a scholarly and academic economic viewpoint.
Best Inclusion Practices
LGBT Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Aims to increase awareness about the specific circumstances of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) diversity. Based on a wide array of literature this volume provides a global vision of this reality, explaining the evolution of homosexuality during history and reasons why it has been considered a sin, an illness and a crime.
by L. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
This new book will provide an extensive analysis of the role of the Federal Reserve in contributing to the crisis through its low interest-rate policy during 2002-2006, and in dealing with the crisis under Bernanke with his aggressive and innovative policies implemented in the wake of the Lehman collapse in September 2008.
Communicating Climate Change
The Path Forward
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book asks and answers the question of what communication research and other social sciences can offer that will help the global community to address climate change by identifying the conditions that can persuade audiences and encourage collective action on climate.
While scientists often...
Diversity Intelligence
Integrating Diversity Intelligence alongside Intellectual, Emotional, and Cultural Intelligence for Leadership and Career Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book analyzes the emerging concept of diversity intelligence, which values the differences in employees without attempting to make everyone alike. Organization leaders need diversity intelligence to better interact with the changing demographics in America and the global economy, by embracing...
Social Innovation
Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important themes in social innovation: strategies and logics, performance measurement and governance, and finally, sustainability and the environment.
The Independent Director
The Non-Executive Director’s Guide to Effective Board Presence
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Non-executive directors play a very important role in modern business. Providing a rare emphasis on 'soft skills', culture and relationship building, this comprehensive guide offers a unique insight into what it's actually like to be a non-executive director, backed up by global case studies, research and interviews.
The End of the Performance Review
A New Approach to Appraising Employee Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
A thoroughly tested, distinctive alternative to the appraisal process that draws on well-established principles of organizational behavior. Based around Tim Baker's '5 Conversations' approach, and with a timely focus on fostering innovation, this book is practical and easy to use – featuring case studies, interviews and useful templates.