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Explore the best business and economics books, including top entrepreneur reads, finance essentials, and foundational texts. Browse our online bookstore for bestsellers and highly recommended books in business and economics.
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Performance Management in Healthcare: From Key Performance Indicators to Balanced ScorecardPerformance management, often referred to as process management, is a strategy that can be used to achieve an optimum mix of quality, safety, patient satisfaction and solvency. The basis of performance management is the effective use of resources, as measured by quantifying processes and...
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Contemporary Issues in Law and EconomicsLaw and economics is the field of study devoted to understanding laws and legal institutions using the tools of economic theory. This growing subject has become a mainstream area of study in both law schools and economics departments and this book explores the "law...
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Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive AdvantageMany senior executives talk about information as one of their most important assets, but few behave as if it is. They report to the board on the health of their workforce, their financials, their customers, and their partnerships, but rarely the health of their...
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Advanced Theory and Practice in Sport MarketingEffective marketing is essential for any successful sport organization, from elite international teams to local leagues. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Advanced Theory and Practice in Sport Marketing is still the only text to introduce key theory and best practice...
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Innovation and EntrepreneurshipHow can management be developed to create the greatest wealth for society as a whole? This is the question Peter Drucker sets out to answer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. A brilliant, mould-breaking attack on management orthodoxy it is one of Drucker's most important books,...
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Economics of Development: Theory and EvidenceThis classic, bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of development economics. The 10th edition of Tony Thirlwall's book, now co-written with Penélope Pacheco-López, provides a clear, comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the theory of development economics and the experience of developing...
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Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a ScienceEconomic Methodology explores the status and character of economics as a social science and introduces students to philosophical issues underlying modern science. Approaching the subject as philosophy of science for economists, the authors use the historical developments in philosophy of science to frame this...
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The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and ProfitWith the rise of the Internet, many pundits predicted that middlemen would disappear. But that hasn't happened. Far from killing the middleman, the Internet has generated a thriving new breed. In The Middleman Economy, Silicon Valley-based reporter Marina Krakovsky elucidates the six essential roles...
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Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab StatesThis book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Situating the Gulf within the evolution of capitalism at a global scale, it presents a novel theoretical interpretation of this important region of the Middle East...
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The Manager's Dilemma: Balancing the Inverse Equation of Increasing Demands and Shrinking ResourcesThis groundbreaking book provides a framework and set of key concepts enabling leaders to exert their influence over the difficult choices and competing priorities they confront. Compelling stories and vivid case studies help to deliver a serious game plan to any leader who is...
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Profit from Science: Solving Business Problems Using Data, Math, and the Scientific ProcessIn Profit From Science, author George Danner presents solutions to the big problems that modern business face solutions that are grounded in logic and empiricism. This book instructs business leaders in how to add the discipline and technical precision of the scientific method to...
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Dance, Consumerism, and SpiritualityDance has proliferated in movies, television, Internet, and retail spaces while the spiritual power of dance has also been linked with mass consumption. Walter marries the cultural studies of dance and the religious aspects of dance in an exploration of consumption rituals, including rituals...
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Do Less Better: The Power of Strategic Sacrifice in a Complex WorldDo Less Better teaches leaders how to recognize the complexity and inefficiencies within their businesses and reveals how they can simplify and streamline through specialization and sacrifice. According to Bell, a company's willingness to focus on a particular vision or identity ensures viability and...
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Doing More with Less: Measuring, Analyzing and Improving Performance in the Not-For-Profit and Government SectorsWritten in an accessible and practical style, Doing More With Less 2nd edition addresses the efficiency drive using models, tools, and ideas more commonly found in the corporate world. This fully updated edition also includes case studies from Audit Scotland, Belfast City Council, FBI,...
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Soft Systems Thinking, Methodology and the Management of ChangeWhat is Soft Systems Methodology? How can it help make sense of complex business scenarios, providing solutions to challenging problems? Soft Systems Thinking, Methodology and the Management of Change identifies the challenges encountered by practitioners of SSM and provides the means of overcoming them....
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Vintage Marketing Differentiation: The Origins of Marketing and Branding Strategies1. Origins of Today's Marketing & Branding Strategies.- 2. The Marketing Differentiation Process.- 3. Vintage Marketing Differentiation Categories and Groupings.- 4. Promotion.- 5. Pricing.- 6. Place.- 7. Perception.- 8. Vintage Marketing Differentiation Applied Today.Author: Robert L. Williams Jr, Helena A. WilliamsPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 03/25/2017Pages:...
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Trading Thalesians: What the Ancient World Can Teach Us about Trading TodayThis book mixes history on the ancient world with investment ideas for traders involved in financial markets today. It goes through ideas such as measuring risk, whether investors should try to outperform the market, Black Swans and ways of creating appropriate investment targets. It...
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The Assets Perspective: The Rise of Asset Building and Its Impact on Social PolicyThe economy's struggles to overcome the lingering effects of the Great Recession presented unique but essential questions.The book considers a full range of data which considers how this recent experience has impacted households, providing a thorough and contemporary treatment of how the assets perspective...
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The Executive Guide to Enterprise Risk ManagementAn executive level guide to implementing or extending an enterprise risk management (ERM) framework in an organization. Avoiding complex modeling topics, and unnecessary theory, this book cuts to the heart of the topic, describing what ERM is, why it is important, what constitutes ERM...
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Liquidity Risk: Managing Funding and Asset RiskLiquidity Management is now a core consideration for banks and other financial institutions following the collapse of numerous well-known banks in 2007-8. This timely new edition will provide practical guidance on liquidity risk and its management - now mandatory under new regulation.Author: E. BanksPublisher:...
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