(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

People's basic values are shaped by major changes in environmental conditions, such as scarcity of resources and hostility in the political and socioeconomic system.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

In this new approach to a comparative text in public management, Randall Baker examines how, why, and to what extent the public sector around the world has shared in the management revolution.

(Hardback)

These expert case studies focus on ways in which a variety of innovative local economic development programs have been implemented in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

In this major new work, Michael J. Moore and W. Kip Viscusi explore the question, "How are workers compensated for exposing themselves to the risk of physical injury while on the job" The authors detail the diverse nature of labor market responses to job risks and the important role played by compensation-for-risk mechanisms. Following an overview

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Designed to assist practitioners in developing interview procedures for their organizations, this work shows how competence-based human resource management techniques can be applied to employment interviews.

(Hardback)

According to Stahl and Bounds, companies need to structure themselves around net customer value--what the customer receives minus what the customer sacrifices. The book shows how organizations that focus on net customer value will ultimately enjoy more profits, market share, and customer loyalty than those based on short-term financial results.

(Paperback)

How to harness, manipulate, and master the power of the Internet - and beat the competition - using the strategies Netscape used to launch itself to the top of the virtual kingdom.

(Hardback)

An explanation of how Taiwan's remarkable economic growth happened. Using the Global Commodity Chains perspective and applying it to Taiwan's information technology industry, the author illuminates not just the outcomes of development processes but the processes themselves.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

This volume offers a conceptual approach to the study of competition as a dynamic process. It critically examines the dynamic character of modern competition, appraises the inadequacies of equilibrium theory, and suggests a new approach to the study and interpretation of competitive activities in the economy.

(Paperback)

Over the last two decades, the conventional approach to business strategy has become frustratingly complex. Here is a new and simplified approach to strategy which cuts through the fog, by one of America's leading economists and business professors.

(Paperback)

Joseph Bowring places the dual economy in a historical context and analyzes the evolution of core and periphery competition. He also refines the dual economy hypothesis and provides strong new empirical support for it. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available pre

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

This study synthesizes and summarizes the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence that suggest that competition works remarkably well to reduce costs and improve efficiency and innovation, even in an arena where competition has typically been ignored--government-financed services.

(Hardback)

Considers the possible effects of competition in the natural gas pipeline industry. Contrary to government reports, the study concludes that federal regulation is no longer needed to limit the power of pipeline suppliers, but that potential entry by nearby suppliers should promote competition.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Campbell presents a new approach to cost system design that combines the strengths of two competing conceptual approaches to designing product cost systems that support decision-making - activity-based costing, and the theory of constraints.

(Hardback)

This book explores which kind of competitive moves and countermoves have been taken by mobile phone vendors like Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and Apple, as well as emerging rivals from developing countries, to defend their competitive position over the industry life cycle, and which factors have driven these actions.