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Your Career Game: How Game Theory Can Help You Achieve Your Professional GoalsYour Career Game demonstrates how game theory can help readers to understand and proactively take charge of their career strategy. Authors Nathan Bennett and Stephen A. Miles teach readers to manage the interdependencies and interconnectedness among coworkers, managers, and others in a manner that...
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Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive AdvantageWe are in the midst of a sea-change. In years past, corporate social responsibility may have been seen as a feather in a corporation's cap but, today, ecological and social pressures require a new type of business response. In Embedded Sustainability, authors Chris Laszlo...
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CQ: Developing Cultural Intelligence at WorkThis book explains to those living and working in another country how to identify and develop their Cultural Intelligence, or CQ. Cultural intelligence is an outsider's natural ability to interpret and respond to unfamiliar cultural signals in an appropriate manner. CQ is distinguished by...
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Enduring Success: What We Can Learn from the History of Outstanding CorporationsEnduring Success addresses a key question in business today: How can companies succeed over time? To learn the source of enduring greatness, author Christian Stadler directed a team of eight researchers in a six-year study of some of Europe's oldest and most stellar companies,...
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Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political EconomyIn Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive political economy text aimed at advanced undergraduates in economics and graduate students in the social sciences. The text utilizes collective action as a unifying concept, arguing...
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Corporate Culture: The Ultimate Strategic AssetOrganizational culture is a quiet, but driving, influence on our perception of a company, whether as a consumer or as an employee. For instance, we know Southwest Airlines as laid back and friendly. We think of Google as innovative. To almost every well-known company...
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Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence Across the Taiwan Strait and BeyondWhy is it that political conflict between countries sometimes undermines commerce between those states, and yet at other times it seems to have little or no effect on cross-border economic flows? The question is an important one, yet, while numerous studies have considered how...
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Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing GoodIn Sustainable Value, Chris Laszlo illustrates how the competitive strategies of some of the world's largest businesses are changing as their leaders begin to take on a number of the world's most important social, environmental, and economic issues. Part I of the book is...
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The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American PoliticsTax cuts are such a pervasive feature of the American political landscape that the political establishment rarely questions them. Since 2001, Congress has abolished the tax on inherited wealth and passed a major income tax cut every year, including two of the three largest...
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Smile Southern California, You're the Center of the Universe: The Economy and People of a Global RegionThirty-five years ago, a billboard announced to the world: Smile Los Angeles! You're the Center of the Universe. Hyperbolic at the time, today, this exaggeration comes close to reality. While Southern California is not at the literal center of the universe, it is nevertheless...
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Managing as DesigningManaging as Designing explores the design attitude, a new focus for analysis and decision making for managers that draws on examples of decision making and leadership in architecture, art, and design. Based on a series of conference papers given at the opening of the...
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Innovations in Pension Fund ManagementWhether you are a pension plan sponsor rethinking investment objectives or conducting an asset allocation study, an investor interested in evaluating asset-liability value-at-risk, or an investor who wants the latest techniques to evaluate investment management skills, Innovations in Pension Fund Management gives state-of-the-art guidance...
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Cultural Intelligence: Individual Interactions Across CulturesIn a global market where international teams, initiatives, and joint ventures are increasingly common, it is extremely important for people to integrate themselves quickly in new cultures. Effective strategies for selecting and training people on global perspectives are critical for managing businesses. Current theories...
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Triumph of Ethernet: Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN StandardOne of the most important elements in the computer revolution has been agreement on technological standards. The advances in communication allowed by millions of computers connecting over various networks are based on these networks sharing a common language. This book tells the complete story...
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Dynamics of Rules: Change in Written Organizational CodesWritten rules in formal organizations are distinctive elements of organizational history; they shape organizational change and are in turn shaped by it. These rules are created, revised, and eliminated in ways that leave historical traces, and they have a visibility and durability that elude...
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Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and CultureIn this book, the authors set forth a new model of globalization that lays claims to supersede existing models, and then use this model to assess the way the processes of globalization have operated in different historic periods in respect to political organization, military...
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The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary JapanFunerary practices have long been a classic topic of anthropological inquiry, which has tended to focus on death rituals as expressions and reinforcers of community ties and values. In this book, the author looks at funerals as an urban business, based on her fieldwork...
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Improving Organizational Effectiveness Through Transformational LeadershipHow can managers bring about optimum performance from the individuals in their organizations? What leadership techniques produce the most effective organizations? This book examines the theory and practice of the dynamic and innovative style of transformational leadership. The transformational leader encourages followers by acting...
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Understanding Performance Appraisal: Social, Organizational, and Goal-Based PerspectivesA social-psychological model of organizational appraisal processes which emphasizes the goals pursued by raters, ratees and other users of performance appraisal is described in this book. The authors suggest ways in which this goal-oriented perspective might be applied in developing, implementing and evaluating performance...
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Tests of Significance 4An elementary introduction to significance testing, this paper provides a conceptual and logical basis for understanding these tests. Author: Ramon E. HenkelPublisher: Sage Publications, IncPublished: 09/01/1976Pages: 92Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.21dISBN: 9780803906525
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