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The recent stock market bubble of the late 1990s and subsequent crash has made people more aware of the need to conduct practical financial analysis. Practical financial economics, i.e., the...

Good managers do not simply get things done--they do the right things. They are ethical. Through an examination of the work of Charles S. Peirce, the American philosopher who coined the term...

Shoplifiting is the single largest crime impacting U.S. retail merchants with annual losses over $21 billion and with merchants spending hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent it. To add insult...

Principled leadership is the art of applying ethical business values, and business diplomacy is the means of doing it. London shows that principled leadership and business diplomacy not only provide...

With more than 200 million people online and their numbers on the rise, growing also is a perceived threat to personal privacy. A trend toward consumer protective legislation is developing in Europe...

Many individuals studying problem solving consider creativity a special type of problem solving. On the other hand, many individuals studying creativity view problem solving as a special type of...

Confrontation may be one way of settling environmental disputes but is there another, perhaps better, way? Stern and Hicks say yes--through the process of collaboration. They give executives the...

The test of any performance system is how well it affects behavior. The systems described herein have a profound impact on the behavior of managers throughout financial depositories in areas such as...

Complying with environmental protection laws need not punch a hole in a firm's bottom line. Smith shows that compliance can be profitable. He provides corporate executives with easily accessed data...

Progress in Communication Sciences, Volume 12Author: William D. RichardsPublisher: PraegerPublication Date: Jan 01, 1993Number of Pages: 300 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

This volume focuses on persuasion and the structure and analysis of persuasive communication. It brings together contributions from scholars from a variety of backgrounds in communication sciences...

This is the 14th volume in a series that compiles research from a wide spectrum of disciplines, offering reviews of the areas that fall within the rubrics of information and communication science, as...

Progress in Communication Sciences, Volume 15: Advances in TelecommunicationsAuthor: UnknownPublisher: PraegerPublication Date: May 18, 1999Number of Pages: 268 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

Trade secrets are valuable. Executives know that, but do they also know how easily they can be stolen? Marketing expert Michael Budden thinks not. The departure of unhappy employees, sabotage by...

As businesses learn more about competitive intelligence (CI) and how to use it, the ferocity of competition rises to a new level. Naturally, people will seek ways to protect themselves and their...

Few managers of African organizations are trained in managing people. They may be technically proficient in their jobs, but there is a prevailing certainty that because they have lived among other...

Public Library Youth Services: A Public Policy ApproachAuthor: Holly G. WillettPublisher: PraegerPublication Date: Jan 01, 1995Number of Pages: 1 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Drawing upon experts in Asian economics, public management, law, and the physical and political sciences from leading universities around the world, the editors of this unusual volume examine the...

Although competitive intelligence and contemporary marketing research evolved from different intellectual traditions, both are indebted to qualitative methods of research and analysis. Walle shows...

Between 1970 and 1997, the nation's railroads engaged in corporate mergers in an effort to stem the decline of the industry's market base, increase low return on investments, and counter the...

Why do people in a business negotiation settle for less than each of them could and should receive? Two rational players face off in an economic game. Each pursues interests as conventional theory...

Callaway aims at the front-line executive and manager and drives home the point that there are no standard solutions to management problems, simply because management circumstances are never alike...

This solid anthology makes a fine start at the effort in its title, IReclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In R. Like most good beginnings, it succeeds first by clarifying the...

As dissatisfaction with the current status of school mathematics grows worldwide, educators and professionals alike are calling for reforms and instructional changes. Yet, significant changes can...

This book examines the use of language in face-to-face encounters between some university students and their academic counselors. It describes the role language plays in shaping institutional role...

With much of the Asian Miracle destroyed and much of the Western world's awe for Asian ways of management dissipated, organizations there are changing with such speed that most of our knowledge about...

This collection of speeches and essays, written between 1998 and 2001, addresses major issues relating to higher education and the leadership and administration of its institutions. The role of (and...

This book addresses how computers affect people's everyday lives. Using actual situations and problems that people have encountered with current software applications, this book offers academics ways...

This book addresses how computers affect people's everyday lives. Using actual situations and problems that people have encountered with current software applications, this book offers academics ways...

This book is for professors, administrators, government officials, and every part of global society that has a stake in higher education or the problems faced by humanity today. It is also for...