Business

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Human Resource Management in the Public Sector

Edited by Rona S. Beattie, Stephen P. Osborne

HRM is a core element public service organizations, whose employees are often their most valuable resource. This outstanding book tackles the subject head on, bringing...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46425-3 (Routledge)

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Public Service Improvement

Policies, progress and prospects

Edited by Martin Steve

This is an excellent new contribution to current academic and policy debates, and will be of great interest internationally to all students, researchers, public sector...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46410-9 (Routledge)

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Sport Tourism

Edited by Heather J. Gibson

The study of sport tourism is on the cusp of moving from a descriptive phase of research into an analytical phase. Consequently, many academics and graduate...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46418-5 (Routledge)

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Intellectual Property and Innovation Management in Small Firms

Edited by Robert Blackburn

Intellectual property protection is increasingly becoming a central issue for businesses. This book provides a wealth of original research on intellectual property management in small...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43981-7 (Routledge)

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The Entrepreneur in Microeconomic Theory

Disappearance and Explanaition

By Humberto Barreto

Throughout the history of economic thought, the entrepreneur a wide variety of roles. Once cast as a fundamental agent in production, distribution and growth theories,...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44149-0 (Routledge)

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Global Capitalism at Bay

By John Dunning

In this collection of his latest essays, John H. Dunning - renowned authority in international business - elaborates his theories on the current situation of...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43964-0 (Routledge)

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Public-Private Partnerships

Theory and Practice in International Perspective

By Stephen Osborne

Public-Private partnerships are an increasing aspect of the delivery of public policies and services across the world. This book is the first to draw upon...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43962-6 (Routledge)

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The Management of Intangibles

The Organisation's Most Valuable Assets

By Ahmed Bounfour

The subject of Intangibles and knowledge management is becoming increasingly significant, particularly in the realms of finance, marketing and strategy. Intangibles are the nebulous but...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43979-4 (Routledge)

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Human Resource Development in Small Organisations

Research and Practice

Edited by Graham Beaver, Jim Stewart

In its description and analysis of the current context of research and practice of HRD in small organizations, this collection of essays provides a comprehensive...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43987-9 (Routledge)

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Management Theory

A Critical and Reflexive Reading

By Nanette Monin

Narrative approaches to organisation and management studies are very much in vogue. Offering a new challenge to management scholarship, Management Theory: A Critical and Reflexive...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43988-6 (Routledge)

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Marketing and Social Construction

Exploring the Rhetorics of Managed Consumption

By Chris Hackley

Marketing is at the centre of the business education boom: a million or more people worldwide are studying the subject at any one time. Yet...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43969-5 (Routledge)

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Transnational Corporations

Fragmentation amidst Integration

By Grazia Ietto-Gillies

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in international production worldwide, accompanied by considerable changes in its geographical structure. This volume examines the role of...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43971-8 (Routledge)

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Resources, Technology and Strategy

Edited by Nicolai Foss, Paul L. Robertson

Resources, Technology and Strategy brings together contributors from Europe, North America and Asia to consider the strategic relationship between technology and other resources, such as...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43960-2 (Routledge)

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Marketing, Morality and the Natural Environment

By Andrew Crane

This volume provides a new look at marketing, and in particular the move to establish ostensibly 'green' marketing. Presenting evidence from extensive case studies, these...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43961-9 (Routledge)

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The Changing Culture of a Factory

Edited by Elliott Jaques

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43455-3 (Routledge)

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Imagining Marketing

Art, Aesthetics and the Avant-Garde

Edited by Stephen Brown, Anthony Patterson

Imagination is a word that is widely used by marketing practitioners but rarely examined by marketing academics. This neglect is largely due to the imagination's...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43968-8 (Routledge)

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The Foundations of Management Knowledge

Edited by Paul Jeffcutt

This volume brings together a group of leading academics from Europe, North America and Australasia to address a question of considerable contemporary concern: the nature...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43984-8 (Routledge)

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Mark to Market Accounting

'True North' in Financial Reporting

By Walter P. Schuetze Edited by Peter W. Wolnizer

This Volume, edited by Peter W. Wolnizer, Professor of Accounting at the University of Sydney, makes available the collected writings of Walter P. Scheutze, a...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43985-5 (Routledge)

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Information Society and the Workplace

Spaces, Boundaries and Agency

Edited by Jeff Hearn, Tuula Heiskanen

Much has been written on the grand prospects for "Information Society"; much less on what this might mean in everyday terms. So what do we...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43986-2 (Routledge)

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Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions

International Perspectives

Edited by Fiona Colgan, Sue Ledwith

The pressures of globalization and diversity are increasingly requiring organizations to rethink their priorities and methods. In this collection, leading researchers examine the debates and...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43976-3 (Routledge)

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Enterprise and Culture

By Colin Gray

Enterprise and Culture is a uniquely wide-ranging, insightful and well-informed critical evaluation of the economic and social project of creating an enterprise culture.
Colin Gray argues...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43958-9 (Routledge)

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Information Warfare in Business

Strategies of Control and Resistance in the Network Society

By Iain Munro

Information Warfare in Business provides a significant and interesting perspective on the concept of the network organization. It illustrates the relations between information technology and...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43990-9 (Routledge)

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Business Clusters

An International Perspective

By Martin Perry

Clusters of specialized businesses are being promoted around the world, aided by high-profile examples such as Silicon Valley.

Using evidence from high- and low-income economies,...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43991-6 (Routledge)

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The Corporation

Growth, Diversification and Mergers

By Dennis Mueller

This book reviews the theory of the firm and the large modern corporation. Examining the process of entrepreneurial capitalism in which firms come into existence,...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77111-5 (Routledge)

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An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm

By Frederic Sautet

This original, provocative work makes a thorough and comprehensive enquiry into the relationship that exists between firms and markets, with separate, in-depth examinations of both...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77108-5 (Routledge)

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The Economics of Innovation, New Technologies and Structural Change

By Cristiano Antonelli

The ongoing process of revising and rethinking the foundations of economic theory leads to great complexities and contradictions at the heart of economics. ‘Economics of...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40643-7 (Routledge)

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Economies of Network Industries

By Hans Werner Gottinger

Hans Göttinger examines different types of network industries such as railways, telecommunications and new media, and the economics thereof. An accent on history is something...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40644-4 (Routledge)

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Entrepreneurship

A New Perspective

By Thomas Grebel

The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing. Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40647-5 (Routledge)

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Towards a Competence Theory of the Firm

Edited by Nicolai Foss, Christian Knudsen

This book explores a new theory of the firm produced through an exchange between management theory and economics. In the process economics is seen to...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40702-1 (Routledge)

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