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Drawing on the world of scholarship and from personal experience, Robert A. Katzmann examines governance in judicial-congressional relations. After identifying problems, he offers ways to improve understanding between the two branches.

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For practitioners, this text provides an easy-to-understand approach to strategic planning and execution.

The general recipe for achieving an intended outcome is equal parts of the following: clear vision and mission, a practical strategic plan, daily activities linked to the mission, and unified commitment to the plan.

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This volume offers a framework for formulating an economic development plan for a local community. Stating that planning often focuses on job creation at the expense of long-term goals, the authors emphasize the secondary and long-term effects of local development activities.

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To understand international joint ventures (IJV) creation and management one has to know how cross-border firms actually decide to form and operate a new company jointly.

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Those in management positions who seek to understand how to better motivate their employees and better serve their customers will find the answers they are searching for in these pages.

Managers will relearn nearly everything they have been taught about the profession of management.

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Promoting competition has been a leading theme of public policy over the past 30 years. In the United States, the movement began in the 1970s with efforts to rewrite the rules for aviation, trucking, and telecommunications.

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While the emphasis is on working with an audio-visual professional, Worth also includes do-it-yourself tips for readers who want to keep the project in-house.

Selecting slides, video, film or multimedia is one of the first choices to make.

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The author of this text lays out the special requirements that must be satisfied if acquisitions or joint ventures are to succeed. He discusses the resources and preparation that are needed before an acquisition or joint venture should even be started.

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For organizational and personal change to happen and be sustainable, there must first be a system of thought balanced against action.

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Olmstead writes from an open systems perspectivea viewpoint of organizations that adapt quickly to turbulent, uncertain business environmentsoffering an integrated, understandable, and highly practical way to analyze, assess, and improve organization performance.

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Do science and technology create value for society and the economy, and how might one go about measuring it Can we be certain that there are benefits Eliezer Geisler argues that there are benefits, and that they outweigh in value the negative impacts that inevitably accompany them.

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Bringing together an internationally known group of scholars of management and accounting under the editorial direction of Yuji Ijiri, this volume explores new approaches to the science of management. Together the essays provide a rigorous foundation for further creativity and innovation in actual management practice and management of science.

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This book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in capitalism by opening new pathways for creative practices that can become influential. This analysis includes contributions from a variety of fields that will be of interest to both academics and all those who recognize themselves as "creative" in their professional practice.

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Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decision makers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable. Employing original data produced through both quantitative and qualitative research, this title provides an understanding of how art works as an engine for transforming communities.

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Small is beautiful--but how small is small, and what practical steps can we take to achieve its beauty In Creative Compartments, Gerard Fairtlough draws on his wide experience and on a profound analysis of the operation and interaction of small organizations.

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Provides an insider's look into how creative presentations impact the introduction or sale of fashion and other products at the trade and consumer levels. The entire spectrum of professionals who use creative presentations is covered. Forms of presentations discussed range from visual boards to couture and pret-a-porter fashion shows.

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Creative problem solving (CPS) is a six-step process designed to help people systematically resolve nonroutine, ambiguous types of problems.

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Styles of effective leadership in the much-admired research arm of Japanese organizations are examined for the first time in this scientifically validated study of research and development units.

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Credit risk is today one of the most intensely studied topics in quantitative finance. This book provides an introduction and overview for readers who seek an up-to-date reference to the central problems of the field and to the tools currently used to analyze them. The book is aimed at researchers and students in finance, at quantitative analysts i

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Offers a treatment of the conceptual, practical, and empirical foundations for credit risk pricing and risk measurement. This book models credit risk for the purpose of measuring portfolio risk and pricing defaultable bonds, credit derivatives, and other securities exposed to credit risk. It is intended as a resource for researchers and students.

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He concludes that crime reporting neither serves the functions nor has the negative effects that are often attributed to it.

Lotz discusses the functions and dysfunctions of crime reporting, the ideological biases of crime news, and the balance between coverage of explosive events and the less dramatic news of courts and prisons.