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In viewing business people's lack of voice on moral convictions as a moral silence, deafness and blindness, this work argues that the practice of ethics is a form of communication. It focuses on the factors that stifle communication and contains numerous case studies from business life.

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Critics and defenders of multinational corporations often agree that the activities of multinationals are creating a powerful global market that is rendering national borders obsolete. The authors of this book, however, argue that such expectations commonly rest on a myth.

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Explores myths surrounding the global consumption of oil. This book lays out an environmentally and geopolitically responsible path for the petroleum industry and its customers.

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The Washington financier who first proposed creation of a trust fund to retire the national debt has written a book outlining a new plan that would prevent Congress from raiding the fund to supplement the cost of regular government programs.

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From the impact of rising gas prices to debates over free trade agreements, the workings of the economy remain a mystery to most, even as the demands on our economic resources increase.

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Dr Douglas assesses the success of the Lottery's regulation against the objectives set out in the enabling legislation: the upholding of the Lottery's propriety, the protection of the players, and the maximizing of the funds to be applied to the good causes.

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Riahi-Belkaoui argues that the multidivisional organizational structure is far superior to the standard, functional form of corporate organization.

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Riahi-Belkaoui's contingency approach to disclosure adequacy identifies determinants based on cultural, linguistic, political, civil, economic and demographic relativisms, on legal and tax relativisms and even on religious relativism.

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This text offers a "fly-on-the-wall" perspective of the executive-level activities of five chief information officers operating in five industries: utilities; manufacturing; government agency; insurance; and university. The text covers topics such as meetings, mail, phone calls and travel.

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What are the sources of the well-known differences in the performance of capitalist and socialist economic systems Peter Murrell argues that the Schumpeterian model has far more power to answer this question than does the neoclassical theory generally used for that purpose. The neoclassical theory focuses on the absence of a price system and the i

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This text examines the characteristics of environments that give rise to political risk, explores the relationship between low economic growth and high political risk, and differentiates between definitions and forecasting models of political risk.

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The twenty-first-century telecommunications landscape is radically different from the one that prevailed as recently as the last decade of the twentieth century. This book presents the kind of fundamental rethinking needed to bring communications policy in line with technological advances.

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This book will help all businesspeople and advertising managers understand why the electronic media must be the major player in all business advertising in order to maximize return on advertising investment and why the newspaper must be deemphasized in the complex matrix of the media mix.

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This work proposes a new American economic Community as a response to the rise of the European Community and the increasing domination of the Asian market by Japan.

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The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act forced radical change on all U.S. public corporations: The board must now hold sessions without management, key committees have tough new independence rules, and all board members now face an unavoidable legal responsibility to provide truly independent oversight of the corporation.

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The author clarifies the mutually constructive relationship between transnational and the modernizing Peruvian state, showing how the state maintains this relationship while simultaneously nurturing the new class. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previous

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The massive depression of the 1930's detonated the crisis between harsh reality and the vision of material abundance and economic security created by the American industrial order. Amid widespread poverty there was increasing concentration of economic power and loss of individual initiative. Professor Hawley traces the pattern of this conflict. He

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Shows how computers are changing the employment landscape and how the right kinds of education can ease the transition to the new job market. This book tells stories of people at work - a high-end financial advisor, a customer service representative, a pair of successful chefs, a cardiologist, and an automotive mechanic.