Development & Growth 11

Innovation Strategy for the Knowledge Economy is intended for managers who have practiced the best of quality and re-engineering management techniques and are ready to transform their organizations ……続きを見る

`The authors should be congratulated for not only offering an excellent tour de force of cutting-edge work in social network analysis, but also charting some new possible territories for future orga……続きを見る

This book looks at two-stage industrial cluster theory and new innovation models in view of IT-ization and servitization of products. The formation of industrial clusters such as export processing z……続きを見る

The biggest, most important issue in business today--becoming digital--touches not only traditional enterprises but the most avant-garde of Internet companies as well. Old-economy companies must tak……続きを見る

Glenn Erickson is a business-owner in Clearwater Florida. He has owned several businesses throughout his life, most of which failed. He has examined each of those failures and learned why they went ……続きを見る

Executive Power arms readers with effective, fast-acting techniques that show them, step-by-step, how to get what they need before they and their companies pay a heavy toll for lack of it. This book……続きを見る

In recent decades an extensive array of changes and innovations have taken place in and across work organizations and networks of organizations and workers, facilitated by new technologies and techn……続きを見る

An independent evaluation of the World Bank??s extensive support to developing countries on trade issues between 1987 and 2004. The study assesses the development effectiveness of World Bank trade-r……続きを見る

Using India as a case study, this well-written, concise book covers everything one needs to know to understand how a country becomes internationally competitive. Showing that reforms that pertain to……続きを見る

New computer and communications technologies have acted as the catalyst for a revolution in the way goods are produced and services delivered, leading to profound changes in the way work is organize……続きを見る

The Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries have drastically restructured Europe’s trade architecture towards the third worl……続きを見る

Why isn’t everyone creative? Why doesn’t education foster more ingenuity? Why is expertise often the enemy of innovation? Bestselling creativity expert Michael Michalko shows that in every ?eld of e……続きを見る

This book is the essential guide for managers wishing to implement the benefits of Intellectual Capital thinking in their companies or divisions. It serves as an easily accessible introduction to th……続きを見る

Improvements in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have brought about a sea change in the ways in which most people in the industrialized world work. In many organizations the ability……続きを見る

This comprehensive volume introduces the nature and the impact of the new information and communication technologies on business and society. Emphasizing the global impact, it draws upon examples fr……続きを見る

Understanding the failure points in strategic partnering is more important today than ever before, only because the commercial world is using this business model to solve global crisis capitalism pr……続きを見る

'Social innovation’ can be simply defined as the new ideas and initiatives that make it possible to meet our society’s challenges in areas such as the environment, education, employment, culture, he……続きを見る

There is much debate as to how companies carry out their activities in the context of new information and communication technologies influencing organizations to decentralize and develop new manager……続きを見る

The book tells the story of three cavemen that found an apple tree and their struggle to overcome the challenges imposed by nature to convert it into a reliable source of food for their tribe. This ……続きを見る

Winner of the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Quality Improvement -From the Shingo judges: This work has an extremely widespread application as the tools, techniques, and methods described are at a l……続きを見る

First published in 1976, this book deals with contemporary tensions between the West and the Third World, caused by hunger, malnutrition and poverty, perpetuated by an imbalance in the distribution ……続きを見る

A proven therapeutic method that channels workplace anxiety into powerful, confident performance Millions of people are afraid of work. The situations they fear may be different-public speaking (e.g……続きを見る

This book argues that intellectual property (IP) management development and innovation are fundamental to economic development , especially in newly emerging economies which often hold vast reserves……続きを見る

Best Practice: Process Innovation Management highlights best practice in innovation by bringing together practitioners and researchers in this field. This book presents contributions from leading ac……続きを見る

Part 1 of The Executive Summary shows you a technique that will have you smashing targets like an adrenalin fueled downhill ride and not an uphill struggle. You're an owner/manager or senior exec in……続きを見る

Inspired by the principles developed in the "Service Profit Chain", Mike Hohnen takes you through each of the steps needed to create an outstanding service business. We live in a world of abundance ……続きを見る

Using a cutting-edge structure, where a current description of the service sector and up-to-date case studies are compared and contrasted with innovative activity in manufacturing, this book contrib……続きを見る

Research on the international transfer of technology in economics and management literature has primarily focused on the role of countries and that of companies, in particular multinational enterpri……続きを見る

Marketing guru Philip Kotler and global marketing strategist Milton Kotler show you how to survive rough economic waters With the developed world facing slow economic growth, successfully competing ……続きを見る

International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries, has enormous economic, social and cultural implications in both origin and destination countries. Using original rese……続きを見る