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The interplay between a company's purpose, business processes, and people take center place as California-based consultant Fletcher and Taplin (sociology, management, and international studies, Wake Forest U.) explore how business organizations, and to some extent societies and individuals, evolve o

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Understanding the Consumer looks at consumer or buyer behaviour from a psychological perspective and psychological themes that cross different areas are highlighted.

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An introduction to the UK economy. Peter Curwen and his team of experts apply economic analysis to the UK economy.

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Understanding United States Government Growth develops and tests alternative explanations of government growth since World War II.

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Integrates insights from the fields of management and social psychology to identify the sources of workplace violence and offer readers practical strategies for preventing it, protecting themselves and their employees from it, and reacting swiftly and effectively when it happens.

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Tucker presents guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good.

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In this book, interrelationships between more than 40 recent catastrophic events are explored, discussing failures of structures and machines, information technology, regulatory agencies, security designs, and more.

The world is full of wonderful products and services that occasionally disappoint and even harm us.

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Documents and explains the remarkable resilience of emerging market nations in East Asia and Latin America when faced with the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. This title suggests that these countries' resistance to the initial financial contagion is a tribute to financial-sector reforms undertaken over the past two decades.

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A challenge to contemporary development and economic policy that will be of interest to economists, public policy makers, the international business community, and social activists.

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This companion workbook to "The Back of the Napkin" helps readers put Roam's principles into practice with step-by-step guidelines. It's filled with case studies, do-it-yourself exercises, and plenty of blank space for drawing.

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Presents a unified theory of economic growth since the dawn of civilization. This title provides a comprehensive overview of the three phases of the development process. It analyzes the Malthusian theory and its empirical support. It examines theories of demographic transition and their empirical significance.

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Clothing serves as a system of signs that helps to order social interaction by identifying and locating individuals and groups within society.

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Housework and domestic service have become popular topics within the scholarly community. She systematically examines the psychology and nature of domestic work, union rejection of domestic laborers, employers' opposition to organization, and the frequent disagreements among the domestics themselves.

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The present volume considers a wide range of policy questions, analyzed by a variey of experts in the field, and is organized in four parts: a brief introduction considering the current policy climate for unions; and, finally, political strategy and democratic politics.

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This is a broad assessment of the institutional health of the 28 major national unions in the United States.

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Unionism in the United States was quite successful during and after World War II, especially during the "golden years" of American capitalism (1947-73) as workers' wages increased quite dramatically in a number of industries. This book outlines major changes which helps unions and enables US labor movement to regain some of its strength.

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This unique volume provides a survey of U.S. business history in a chronological framework.

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This pioneering work provides an index to over 1,700 biographies of prominent U.S. entrepreneurs, innovators and company executives published in over 120 biographical collected works which are identified, examined, and indexed here.

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An analysis of the complex economic relationship between the United States and Latin America during the 1980s and into the 1990s. The essays demonstrate how the latent tensions among sometimes conflicting US policy goals have been exacerbated by the economic crises of Latin America in the 1980s.