Global Business is changing at an ever-faster rate. This has been paralleled by an unprecedented growth of activity at undergraduate and graduate levels of study. Covering the key disciplines within business and management studies, this series makes available collections of the most important literature within the field. Each set has a strong international focus and is supplemented with a substantial introduction and thorough index.
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By Simon Peck, Paul Temple
August 02, 2002
This set maps articles from the four main fields that influence the study of mergers and acquisitions: economics, finance, strategic management and human resource management, and encompasses a range of further perspectives. With a multidisciplinary approach, these volumes integrate the main fields ...
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By David Faulkner
June 14, 2002
Whilst there are a wide number of competing definitions of strategy there is a consensus about its importance and about its ability to determine whether a company succeeds or fails.This is the most comprehensive collection to date on all aspects of strategy.The collection:* explores different ...
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By Alan M. Rugman
April 05, 2002
The exceptional growth in the level of international business has been one of the most dramatic features of the last fifty years; in the early twenty-first century virtually all business transactions involve transnationals at some point in the value chain. This comprehensive four volume set ...
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By Stephen P. Osborne
December 29, 2001
Since the 1980s, the public sector throughout the Western industrialized world, the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and South East Asia has undergone major changes. The main thrust of these changes has been to bring public sector management practices closer to ...
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By Gordon Foxall
December 14, 2001
Reprinting key writings on different aspects of consumer psychology, from the theoretical to the empirical, this major work skilfully guides the reader through the material, making it a fantastic analysis of consumer behaviour....
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By John Kelly
November 09, 2001
Until recently, the study of industrial relations centred around trade unions, collective bargaining and strikes - often in the manufacturing industry. Union decline and de-industrialization in the advanced capitalist world have raised major issues about the relevance of this focus. As a result, ...
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By Alan Malachowski
October 12, 2001
It is no longer possible for modern companies to ignore the ethical or social implications of their business practice. Controversy surrounding such issues as the environment, rewards to senior managers and international labour standards have made business ethics front-page news and helped the ...
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By Michael Baker
March 27, 2001
Parallel to the continuing growth of interest in marketing has developed a concern for the history of marketing thought and for the evolution of marketing theory. This concern is mirrored by the introduction of many courses at both undergraduate and graduate level which address these topics. ...
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By University of Warwick's Organizational Behaviour Staff
January 05, 2001
Edited by ten academics at the University of Warwick Business School, this collection represents some of the best work within organization studies:Volume 1: Modes of Management seeks to invert conventional approaches to managingVolume 2: Objectivity and Others focuses upon issues of ...
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By D.J. Storey
September 20, 2000
In developed economies more than ninety-nine percent of enterprises are small. In the EU there are as many people employed in businesses with more than 500 workers. Small firms are therefore highly important in terms of employment and in many countries are becoming more important in terms of job ...
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By Patrick Dawson, Ian McLoughlin, Ian Mcloughlin, David Preece
August 04, 2000
An authoritative collection of the leading critical and contemporary writings published in the field of technology and organizations, this set spans a key fifty-year period. The volumes take the reader from the first and most influential papers from the early 1950s, through to recent publications ...
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By John Richard Edwards
June 05, 2000
The History of Accounting has been constructed from 68 items previously published between 1971 and 1998, representing the key works of 72 leading authors. The set is designed for a number of applications which include: a range of readings suitable for graduate and postgraduate courses on accounting...