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This work presents 12 volatile ethical issues facing the music industry. Real-life examples depict both sides of each controversy, and there are primary sources and a list of resources. Among the controversies covered is the growing oligopoly of a few multinational music companies.

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Despite conflicting belief systems and other divisive problems, people can still learn from each other to create new knowledge. This challenging new book asserts that business conversations can be seen as social experiences through which we discover new ways of seeing the world, destroying the barriers between us.

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Anna Kassulke provides a penetrating scrutiny of the most globally important concept of our time: money.

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The result of an eight-year, international research study, this volume examines the methods used to promote occupational safety and health in the automotive industries of the United States, West Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Kenya.

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International trade liberalization historically has taken many organizational forms--unilateral, bilateral, minilateral, and multilateral. Given the proliferation of normative views about which of these should be pursued, economists and political scientists have devoted surprisingly little attention to the reasons for the observed variation in the

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Managing Cooperatives in the Global Economy offers both theoretical arguments and practical insights into how the value-based cooperative model of business provides an effective institutional mechanism for addressing the development challenges in todays competitive economy in different countries across the globe.

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A history of the photocopier offers a portrait of reserved physics graduate Chester Carlson, who invented the copier to ease his job as a patent clerk and who saw his marketing efforts daunted by numerous rejections, before the head of Xerox research recognized the machine's potential.

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Grounded in cognitive, affective, and behavioral elements, speech anxiety is a serious problem for a large number of people and has been found to affect career development as well as academic performance.

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Nearly half of the Third World debt, or about $400 million, is owed by Latin America. How this has come about and what it means for Latin America's future are the subjects of twelve essays by experts on the Latin American debt problem.

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An introductory text on copyright law for editors, authors and publishers working with text and pictures, including guidance on economic rights for freelance writers, and how to manage content posted online.

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Can every allocation in the core of an economy be decentralized by a suitably chosen price system Werner Hildenbrand shows that the answer is yes if the economy has "many" participating agents and if the influence of every individual agent on collective actions is "negligible." To give a general and precise definition of economics with this proper

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Internal and external advocacy is a complex communication process, with many interwoven purposes, methods, and expected (or unexpected) outcomes. This work examines advocacy processes by looking at corporate rhetoric, corporate cultures and the hidden sources inherent in both.

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While covering many traditional areas of finance and accounting, this innovative, comprehensive treatment of asset management brings together for the first time in one volume vital information on profitability, risk, working capital and cash management, portfolio management, accounts receivable and inventory management, and capital budgeting.

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In todays tumultuous business environment, managers want guidance in the form of a timely theme, a unique and memorable metaphor, and outside-the-box thinking. Thats precisely what Corporate Canaries delivers.

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Employees are attracted to companies that have a good community reputation.

Just as successful companies need to be a supplier of choice, an employer of choice, and an investor of choice, they now have to become a neighbor of choice.

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Employees are attracted to companies that have a good community reputation.

Just as successful companies need to be a supplier of choice, an employer of choice, and an investor of choice, they now have to become a neighbor of choice.

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Having published three earlier books on corporate misbehavior and having received two grants from the U.S. Department of Justice to make specific corporate studies, Clinard is well-qualified to bring insight, experience, and unblinking scrutiny to what he describes as a story that must be told.

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Most quality management programs focus on the tools that can be employed to improve quality, but the long-term results of these efforts have been mixed.

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For junior and senior managers alike, Deal and Kennedy offer guidelines for diagnosing the state of one's own corporate culture and for using the power of culture to wield significant influence on how business gets done.

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Written by experienced author and subject expert Paul Burns, the 5th edition of this bestselling textbook provides an engaging and comprehensive overview of corporate entrepreneurship.

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This work explores how organizations are built to fail, arguing that personnel often serve individual rather than organizational interests; consequently the organization is likely inadvertently pursue self-destructive goals. The book also outlines possible solutions.