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Organizational Design in Business
Author Carrie Foster
This book offers an alternative to the industrial revolutionary paradigm of organization that we still live and work with today and instead argues that the environmental and economic complexity of the digital age require an evolutionary leap in the purpose, design,....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Economics of Sustainable Development
Author Anup Sinha , Runa Sarkar
We attempt to sensitize the business practitioner and the public-policy planner, as well as students of business management and the social sciences, to the concept of sustainable development in an easily comprehensible manner. This book analyzes sustainable develop....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Econometrics for Daily Lives, Volume I
Author Tam Bang Vu
Econometrics for Daily Lives helps you collect data and analyze the relationship among numerous factors facing you in your everyday activities. This first volume comprises two parts. Part I reviews basic statistics and introduces the most elementary topics in econo....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Major Sociocultural Trends Shaping the Contemporary World
Author K.H. Yeganeh
The current volume offers a concise and analytical portrait of the contemporary world. The author encompasses concepts and theories from multiple disciplines notably sociology, anthropology, international relations, and economics to examine the major sociocultural ....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Analyzing Multidimensional Well-Being
Author Satya R. Chakravarty
“An indispensable reference for all researchers interested in the measurement of social welfare. . .”—François Bourguignon, Emeritus Professor at Paris School of Economics, Former Chief Economist of the World Bank. “. . .a detailed, insightful, and pedagogical pre....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Marine Tourism, Climate Change, and Resilience in the Caribbean, Volume II
Author Samantha Hogenson , Martha Honey , Kreg Ettenger
As the nations of the Caribbean respond to the emerging effects of climate change and prepare for those to come, tourism has the potential to either worsen or mitigate these impacts. In this book we look specifically at marine recreation and how its various sectors....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Author Carrie Foster
What if organization's pursued something other than an economic agenda? It may appear on the surface that this is a na•ve question, but it is a fundamental question about the role of organizations in our society. Why has the capitalist profit and neo-liber....
Release Date 2017/11 -
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
Author Tim O'Reilly
Silicon Valley's leading intellectual and the founder of O'Reilly Media explores the upside and the potential downsides of our future—what he calls the "next economy."Tim O'Reilly's genius is to identify and explain emerging technologies with world shaking pote....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Grow Your Global Markets: A Handbook for Successful Market Entry
Author Raymond A. Hopkins
Use this comprehensive primer to simplify exporting, discover exportable products and services, and determine and select the best target market entry alternative while ensuring that you get paid. US small- to medium-size business owners (SMEs with less than 500 emp....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Economics and the Environment, 8th Edition
Author Stephen Polasky , Eban S. Goodstein
TRY (FREE for 14 days), OR RENT this title: www.wileystudentchoice.com Climate change has morphed from an environmental problem into a challenge to civilization itself. As CO2 levels have continued to rise, the 8th Edition of this book is now more relevant than eve....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Author John Hope Bryant
True power in this world comes from economic independence, but too many people have too much month left at the end of their money. John Hope Bryant, founder and CEO of Operation HOPE, illuminates the path toward liberation that is hiding in plain sight. His me....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Tips & Tricks for Excel-Based Financial Modeling, Volume II
Author M.A. Mian
The purpose of this work is to show some advanced concepts related to Excel based financial modelling. Microsoft Excel™ is a very powerful tool and most of the time we do not utilize its full potential. Of course, any advanced concepts require the basic knowl....
Release Date 2017/07 -
The Accelerating TechnOnomic Medium ('ATOM')
Author Kartik Gada
The accelerating pace and diffusion of technological change has taken control of an ever-growing fraction of the world economy. This fraction is being assimilated into a different set of economic fundamentals, such as the rapid and exponential price deflation inher....
Release Date 2017/06 -
Compensation as a Strategic Asset
Author Coral L. Rice , August J. Aquila
Everyone wants to work at a successful firm where the rewards are both financial and professional. What makes the top firms successful is not merely superior execution, though that's a good place to start, what makes them stand out is excellence at hiring and kee....
Release Date 2017/05 -
A Practitioner's Guide to Asset Allocation
Author Harry M. Markowitz , David Turkington , Mark P. Kritzman , William Kinlaw
The authors' goal in writing this book is twofold: to describe several important innovations that address key challenges to asset allocation and to dispel certain fallacies about asset allocation. Section I covers the fundamentals of asset allocation, section II pr....
Release Date 2017/05 -
International Economics, Second Edition
Author Paul Torelli
Today’s news media displays an intense fascination with the global economy—and for good reason. The degree of worldwide economic integration is unprecedented. Rising globalization has lifted living standards and reduced poverty, while foreign markets an....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Author Scott D Miller
Changing demographics, impending changes in taxation, and challenging economic conditions have made ESOPs a creative strategy to ensure organization survival and success. This publication defines issues that must be fully considered before installing an ESOP, and h....
Release Date 2017/05 -
The Corporate Implications of Longer Lives
Author Andrew Scott , Lynda Gratton
Across the world, people today are living longer. Whether it is in the United States, China, or Rwanda, average human life expectancy has increased over the past few decades. There is growing awareness that increasing longevity will have major implications for how....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Environmental Economics and Sustainability
Author Siqi Zheng , Brian Chi-ang Lin
Environmental Economics and Sustainability presents a collection of peer-reviewed research articles contributed by international experts that reveal the current state of our knowledge in the field of environmental economics.Presents the latest research results on a....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Deconstructing Management Maxims, Volume II
Author Kevin Wayne
A contrarian challenge to the status quo, this book vigorously champions healthy skepticism in management theory and practice. Several common management maxims — often taken for granted as truisms — are examined and debunked with evidence-ba....
Release Date 2017/02 -
ReMaking History, Volume 3, 1st Edition
Author William Gurstelle
Makers of the Modern World is the third volume of William Gurstelle's unique, hands-on journey through history. Each chapter examines a remarkable character from the past, one of the people whose insights and inventions helped create our modern world. What sets th....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Doing Business in Russia, Volume I
Author Anatoly Zhuplev
Russia is a major economy and important power in the global political-economic landscape. Following the dissolution of the USSR, Russia has become a premier global marketplace despite remaining enigmatic and challenging. The book serves as a concise guide in unders....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Doing Business in Russia, Volume II
Author Anatoly Zhuplev
Russia is a major economy and important power in the global political-economic landscape. Following the dissolution of the USSR, Russia has become a premier global marketplace despite remaining enigmatic and challenging. The book serves as a concise guide in unders....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Industrial Applications of Renewable Plastics
Author Michel Biron
Industrial Applications of Renewable Plastics: Environmental, Technological, and Economic Advances provides practical information to help engineers and materials scientists deploy renewable plastics in the plastics market. It explores the uses, possibilities, and p....
Release Date 2016/11 -
ReMaking History, Volume 2, 1st Edition
Author William Gurstelle
Industrial Revolutionaries is the second volume in William Gurstelle's unique exploration of history's great inventors. Each chapter revisits the life and times of one of the forward-thinking revolutionaries who helped create the world we live in. You will not on....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Engendered Economics: Incorporating Diversity into Political Economy
Author William Fraher , Heather Boushey , Ellen Mutari
This book provides an overview of current developments within feminist political economy, including reformulations of economic theory, historical and empirical research on the economic roles and status of women and people of color, as well as proposals for broadeni....
Release Date 2016/09 -
The Modern Caribbean Economy, Volume I
Author Debbie A. Mohammed , Nikolaos Karagiannis
Caribbean economies have been faced with mounting challenges arising from the increasing pace of economic globalization. The financial crisis of 2007 further exacerbated economic instability due to high foreign debt, lack of competitiveness, declining productivity,....
Release Date 2016/09 -
The Modern Caribbean Economy, Volume II
Author Debbie A. Mohammed , Nikolaos Karagiannis
Caribbean economies have been faced with mounting challenges arising from the increasing pace of economic globalization. The financial crisis of 2007 further exacerbated economic instability due to high foreign debt, lack of competitiveness, declining productivity,....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Author Peter Antonioni , Manzur Rashid , Dan Richards
Analyze long-run economic growth, deficits, and inflationExamine business cycles and monetary and fiscal policiesExplore indicators such as unemploymentMake sense of macroeconomics Macroeconomics helps us understand important things about our economy and, more impo....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Author Alan Wilson
A world model: economies, trade, migration, security and development aid.This bookprovides the analytical capability to understand and explore the dynamics of globalisation. It is anchored in economic input-output models of over 200 countries and their relationship....
Release Date 2016/07