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Examining actual firm growth in several industries, with a focus on trucking, the airline industry, and the North American railroad industry, Pettus shows that a specific resource sequencing leads to higher firm growth than other sequencing patterns.

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Addresses new issues and challenges for economic growth arising from ongoing significant change in the world economy, focusing especially on technological transformation. Throughout the book, the contributors, in their analysis of both global and Korea-specific trends and prospects, place emphasis on drawing implications for policy.

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The question of why some companies succeed while others languish prompted the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta to sponsor the March 1983 conference on Growth Industries in the 1980s from which this book was derived.

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Discusses a variety of issues connected with deindustrialization and diminished competitiveness. The authors distinguish between problems that would be of real concern and those that should not. They also evaluate explanations for slow growth in aggregate productivity in the United States and its relation to slower growth in other industrialized countries.

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This volume examines the role that the service economy can play in those third world countries lacking in traditional manufacturing industries.

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Tells the story of the juggernaut research lab that underpins Microsoft's relationship with China. This work moves between Beijing and the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA, and follows the lab's emergence as a centre of excellence for Chinese computer science. It also explores the ramifications of China's technological progress.

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How the unaccountable, unmonitorable, and unchecked actions of regulators precipitated the global financial crisis; and how to reform the system.

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Containing interviews with industry experts in the US and the UK, this guide gives tips on almost every aspect of gigging. It takes you through the process of recording, from home-made demos to releasing your own finished product and radio promotion. It also explains what managers, publishers, PR people, accountants, and lawyers can do for you.

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Jonathan Garlock's Guide to the Local Assemblies of the Knights of Labor makes accessible a great deal of information necessary for understanding and evaluating the history and impact of this organization.

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A guide to the ideas of leading management thinkers. It includes ten entries which range from classic gurus such as Henry Gantt and the Gilbreth time-and-motion pioneers to the thinkers influencing 21st-century business, including Clayton Christensen, master of innovation theory, and Karen Stephenson with her insights into human networks.

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This unprecedented collection combines economic, political, and intellectual history in its analysis of economic liberalism in Latin America. The contributors consider the social bases of economic liberalism in the region and their relation to imperialism and to economic dependency.

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Tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work, the managers who employ them, the permanent employees who work beside them, and the staffing agencies who broker deals. This book illustrates how the reality of flexibility often differs substantially from its promise.

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Debunks the idea that the US can free itself from foreign energy and why it will be importing oil, natural gas, coal, gasoline, uranium and other energy commodities for decades to come. This book exposes the ethanol scam for what it is: one of the longest-running robberies of taxpayers in US history.

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This is the Spanish language version of Toward Free Trade in America . In the past 15 years, the nations of the Western Hemisphere have staged a remarkable revolution in the way they trade with their neighbors.

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More important, by reminding citizens of the democratic principle that leaders may be moral menaces as well as moral exemplars, Hail to the CEO will help protect freedom.

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Charles Swindoll brings his sensible and straightforward style to offer a deeply spiritual approach to the role of leader. Whatever the context, secular or ministerial, he demonstrates how to size up a task, organize and motivate a team, and respond to inevitable obstacles.

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Originally published: New York: American Council on Education: Macmillan Pub. Co., c1989, in series: American Council on Education/Macmillan series in higher education.

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The role of human resources is no longer limited to hiring, managing compensation, and ensuring compliance. Learn the skills HR professionals need to become key partners in leading their organizations.

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Experts examine the application of economic theory to antitrust issues in both the United States and Europe, discussing mergers, agreements, abuses of dominance, and the impact of market features.