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  • Contradictions of Employee Involvement in Organizational Change
    George M Kandathil / George M. Kandathil / George MKandathil
    This monograph narrates the decade-long struggle of workers, unions, and management in transforming one of the largest ailing family-owned jute businesses in India, into a sustainable worker-owned and governed cooperative. It focuses on the variation in the three groups’ involvement in the transformation. It begins with the employees’ struggles in taking over the business, dese...
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    125,17 €

  • The Billionaire’s Apprentice
    Anita Raghavan
    Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn. Citigroup, PepsiCo and Mastercard are just a handful of the Fortune 500 companies led by a group known as the "Twice Blessed." Yet little is known about how these Indian emigres (and children of emigres) rose through the ranks. Until ...
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    34,77 €

  • The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank
    Harold James
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    136,43 €

  • Leadership Lessons from History
    M.D. MBA Maestro Jr.
    This is a book that you can read in one sitting. This also is a book that you will not soon forget. One part history lesson and one part storytelling, it combines humor and personal experiences to reveal how even the best of leaders and managers can flub up-or excel! Don’t you make the same mistakes! Although intended for physicians new to leadership roles in this age of team-o...
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    19,88 €

  • Sahara
    Tamal Bandyopadhyay
    FEATURES EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with SUBRATA ROYEVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SUBRATA ROY AND SAHARA INDIA PARIWAR, BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASKSahara: The Untold Story is based on painstaking research to demystify Indias most secretive and largely unlisted conglomerate, the Sahara India Pariwar. It also delves into the groups ongoing legal battle with the market regulator.Entrepr...
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    21,48 €

  • Lumber Baron of the Comstock Lode
    Jack Harpster
    Was Duane L. Bliss a business genius or a despoiler of natural resources? This is one of the major themes in this first-ever biography of one of the Pacific West's great entrepreneurial geniuses.During the glory days of Nevada's Comstock era, from 1859 into the early 1890s, Duane L. Bliss's Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company was the largest supplier of timber and lumber to...
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    24,90 €

  • ECOLOGY OF CHINESE PRIVATE ENTERPRISES, THE
    Christer Ljungwall / Guangwen He / Xingyuan Feng
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    200,68 €

  • Televisionaries
    Marc L Tayer
    Televisionaries is the captivating inside story of the digital television revolution, featuring the engineers, entrepreneurs, and media titans who made it happen.During the 1980s, conventional wisdom held that 'Japan Inc.' would become the leading economic power, with its new HDTV technology dominating the next generation of consumer electronics. In response, European countries...
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    23,90 €

  • Corporate Growth and Diversification
    Charles Horace Berry
    As an increasing number of large corporations branch out into many fields of industry, public concern over the lateral extension of their power is aroused. Arguing that entry by large firms into concentrated industries may instead stimulate competition, Charles H. Berry analyzes the effect that such diversification has on corporate growth and on the structure and functioning of...
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    47,54 €

  • Exits, Voices and Social Investment
    Keith Dowding / Peter John
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    38,41 €

  • The Brass
    Robert Philip Wright
    The Brass is the story of the birth and growth of a world-famous public house, the Horse Brass Pub in Portland, Oregon. This authentic pub, with deep British roots, became the cathedral of Oregon’s craft beer revolution and its publican, Don Younger, the archbishop. It is a warm place with real British soul where good companionship is the order of the day and the best beer on e...
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    12,91 €

  • Working Knowledge
    Catherine L. Fisk / Catherine LFisk
    Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their 'property,' or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today’s economy, however, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that businesses retain legal ownership of employee-generated intellectual property. In Working...
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    50,72 €

  • Creating Consumers
    Carolyn M. Goldstein / Carolyn MGoldstein
    Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. At the same moment, American families began to consume many more goods and services than they produced. To guide women in this transition, professional home economists had two major goals: to teach women to assume their new roles as modern consumers ...
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    60,37 €

  • The Evolution of Finance Capitalism
    George W. Edwards / George WEdwards
    2014 Reprint of Original 1938 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Edwards provides a detailed, interesting and well documented account of the development of a security capitalism whose outstanding characteristics are considered to the separation of the owner of securities from the management of enterprise and the...
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    27,36 €

  • London Citizens in 1651
    John Cudworth Whitebrook / W. Whitebrook / WWhitebrook
    Originally published in 1910, this work contains details of the various companies and their tradesmen operating in London in 1651. The following passage is part of the introduction:’The signatures contained in Harleian. M. S. 4778, are those of various of the members of twenty-two City Companies. They constitute a list earlier than any similar record of London merchants and tra...
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    13,71 €

  • The Principles of Scientific Management
    Frederick Winslow Taylor
    Frederick Winslow Taylor was an early advocate for applying ’scientific’ principles to the management of men, machines, and factories. Few realize, though, the the ’Efficiency Movement’ that he helped foment extended well beyond the factory floor. ’Efficiency’ clubs sprung up throughout the United States, and the movement found fertile soil elsewhere in the world, as well. Thes...
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    11,07 €

  • A Life Worth Living
    Michael Smurfit
    A Life Worth Living tells the story of Michael Smurfit and the company he built. From humble beginnings, through years of hard work, it documents the Smurfit Group’s seemingly inexorable growth, the challenges faced and overcome, and the many deals that continually doubled the size of the business every three or four years. It shows Michael’s ’logical opportunism’ in action, an...
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    21,49 €

  • Fortune’s Fool
    Fred Goodman
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    18,02 €

  • Boy Kings
    Katherine Losse
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    14,66 €

  • When Good Companies Go Bad
    Donald Beachler / Thomas Shevory
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    88,84 €

  • Wild Company
    Mel Ziegler / Patricia Ziegler
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    13,89 €

  • The Globalization of Wal-Mart
    Ellen Israel Rosen
    THE GLOBALIZATION OF WAL-MART is the only book that details Wal-Mart’s expansion around the world, and its methods for exploiting its workers. Covering more than 15 countries, world-wide, from North America to Europe, South America, Central America, Africa, and Asia, Professor Rosen reveals both how Wal-Mart has succeeded in becoming the largest retail multi-national corporatio...
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    16,37 €

  • Bill Gates
    Michael Becraft
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    56,43 €

  • The Cowboy and the Canal
    Carlisle / J. M. Carlisle
    Within a richly layered context, The Cowboy and the Canal probes the intrigue behind Roosevelt's decision to purchase the expiring concession, rotting machinery, and dilapidated buildings from the bankrupt French Panama Canal Company and dig the interoceanic canal in Panama instead of the favored site, Nicaragua. Drawing from primary sources-newspaper stories, editorials, polit...
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    24,09 €

  • The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry
    Kathryn Steen
    Prior to 1914, Germany dominated the worldwide production of synthetic organic dyes and pharmaceuticals like aspirin. When World War I disrupted the supply of German chemicals to the United States, American entrepreneurs responded to the shortages and high prices by trying to manufacture chemicals domestically. Learning the complex science and industry, however, posed a serious...
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    60,42 €

  • How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy
    Sarah S. Elkind / Sarah SElkind
    Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over federal politics.Los Angeles’s struggles with oil drilling, air pollution, flooding, and water and power supplies expose the ...
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    47,89 €

  • Sacred Ground
    Jeff Appelquist
    In Sacred Ground, Jeff Appelquist takes us on an amazing journey of exploration and discovery to the Gettysburg and Little Bighorn battlefields. By studying these momentous events through the lens of individual leadership and team dynamics, we see that the stories from history are fascinating, the parallels to today are memorable, and the principles of leadership enduring.Histo...
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    21,16 €

  • A History of the Book in America
    Volume Two of A History of the Book in America documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic.Between 1790 and 1840 printing and publishing expanded, and literate publics provided a ready market for novels, almanacs, newspapers, tracts, and periodicals. Government, business, and reform drove the dissemination of print. Through laws and ...
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    83,34 €

  • A History of the Book in America
    The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. During this period factors such as the expansion of government, the growth of higher education, the climate of the Cold War, globalization, and the development of multimedia and digital technologies influenced the pat...
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    69,31 €

  • A History of the Book in America
    Volume 3 of A History of the Book in America narrates the emergence of a national book trade in the nineteenth century, as changes in manufacturing, distribution, and publishing conditioned, and were conditioned by, the evolving practices of authors and readers. Chapters trace the ascent of the 'industrial book--a manufactured product arising from the gradual adoption of new pr...
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    69,62 €