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To understand international joint ventures (IJV) creation and management one has to know how cross-border firms actually decide to form and operate a new company jointly.

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Those in management positions who seek to understand how to better motivate their employees and better serve their customers will find the answers they are searching for in these pages.

Managers will relearn nearly everything they have been taught about the profession of management.

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While the emphasis is on working with an audio-visual professional, Worth also includes do-it-yourself tips for readers who want to keep the project in-house.

Selecting slides, video, film or multimedia is one of the first choices to make.

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The author of this text lays out the special requirements that must be satisfied if acquisitions or joint ventures are to succeed. He discusses the resources and preparation that are needed before an acquisition or joint venture should even be started.

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For organizational and personal change to happen and be sustainable, there must first be a system of thought balanced against action.

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Olmstead writes from an open systems perspectivea viewpoint of organizations that adapt quickly to turbulent, uncertain business environmentsoffering an integrated, understandable, and highly practical way to analyze, assess, and improve organization performance.

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Do science and technology create value for society and the economy, and how might one go about measuring it Can we be certain that there are benefits Eliezer Geisler argues that there are benefits, and that they outweigh in value the negative impacts that inevitably accompany them.

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Bringing together an internationally known group of scholars of management and accounting under the editorial direction of Yuji Ijiri, this volume explores new approaches to the science of management. Together the essays provide a rigorous foundation for further creativity and innovation in actual management practice and management of science.

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Small is beautiful--but how small is small, and what practical steps can we take to achieve its beauty In Creative Compartments, Gerard Fairtlough draws on his wide experience and on a profound analysis of the operation and interaction of small organizations.

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Creative problem solving (CPS) is a six-step process designed to help people systematically resolve nonroutine, ambiguous types of problems.

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Styles of effective leadership in the much-admired research arm of Japanese organizations are examined for the first time in this scientifically validated study of research and development units.

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Analyses the major changes taking place in Japanese government and business and describes the new openings and opportunities these changes present for U.S. firms.

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Designed as a convenient, clearly written, and comprehensive desktop reference for executives and managers, Critical Issues in Business Conduct addresses the legal, ethical, and social issues that will dominate business in the 1990s.

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The most influential researchers and writers in the field of HRD outline the ideas and issues that will dominate theory and practice

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This review of the literature dealing with management in business in selected countries, and how management is affected by the culture and values of that country attempts to establish a baseline and methodology for developing further empirical studies.

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Here, the views of a diverse range of well-known academic researchers, industry leaders, and public policy experts have been brought together to show how knowledge and knowledge management perspectives vary across different cultures, in different contexts, using different processes for different purposes.

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This innovative book offers help to managers and firms as they deal with cross-cultural issues in their operations. While the problems are crucial for internationally operating business firms, domestically operating firms are also beginning to encounter critical cross-cultural problems.

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Now in paperback, this is the new guide to revitalizing the world of work from David Whyte--"a poet who works in the land of the bottom line" ("The New York Times"). The book shows how poetry and practicality reinforce each other to give every aspect of readers lives meaning and direction.

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Jeff Howe coined the word 'Crowdsourcing' in a 2006 article for Wired magazine to describe the way in which the Internet has broken down traditional employer/employee relationships to create vibrant new enterprises that are 'staffed' by informal, often large gatherings of enthusiasts.

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CSR and Sustainability promotes the need for social responsibility and sustainability and highlights their link with the big issues of society. It shows how science and positive thinking by humankind can prevent oft-vouched disasters due to human rights violation, global warming, growing income inequality (relative poverty), racism, gender discrimination and continuing absolute poverty.