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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.

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The ideas in this volume are based on the authors' assumption that the deficit economy in which the United States finds itself will exist for the remainder of the century.

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This book focuses on the determinants of time in corporate reorientations.

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In post-socialist countries, corporate finance and transition economics scholars have often done little more than convey the received theory to transition policymakers. This volume focuses on the reverse concern: what, if anything, do the reform experiences of transition countries teach about corporate governance theory more generally

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As an increasing number of large corporations branch out into many fields of industry, public concern over the lateral extension of their power is aroused. Arguing that entry by large firms into concentrated industries may instead stimulate competition, Charles H. Berry analyzes the effect that such diversification has on corporate growth and on th

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With the continuing consolidation of corporate holdings through wave after wave of mergers and acquisitions, the ubiquitous power of major corporations is of increasing concern from both a practical and a theoretical standpoint.

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But to do so, managers need a developing country perspective on international trade agreements, international finance, foreign exchange, and national financial management.

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An in-depth discussion and analysis of corporate misconduct and its complexities. and provide practical recommendations to management for countering misconduct in their own organizations. The book is also a valuable resource for teachers and students of business ethics, management, and business-government relations.

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Provides a picture of management mobility in the corporate world, based on research on the careers of chief executive officers in a variety of industries and their socio-economic background. Issues dealt with range from early promotions versus the "late bloomer" to opportunities for women.

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The last two chapters examine closely the Delaware Valley's corporate network and multiple interlocks in the context of power structure research using the actual data base of interlocking directorates in the Delaware Valley to measure the accuracy of the three models in predicting their respective patterns.

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When managers and analysts make key decisions about an organization, they need to analyze the entire breadth of basic management functions--planning, organizing, directing, and controlling--and relate them to all the management areas, such as marketing, production, and finance.

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A challenge to traditional forecasting methods that rely strictly on econometric models, arguing that they ignore a fundamental aspect of the business cycle - human emotional responses to economic stimuli.

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Drawing detailed examples from major multinational companies, this book aims to provide practical insight into how companies approach the difficult task of responding to an increasing variety of environmental challenges.

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The core idea of corporate social responsibility, the notion that companies have a responsibility beyond legal requirements, is by now deeply embedded in the corporate cultures of the largest U.S. companies.