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Maucher and Malik on Management Maxims of Corporate Management – Best of Helmut Mauche's Speeches, Essays and Interviews
ISBN: HB: 9783593500256, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
356 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
They are maxims of the successful corporate leader: good managers always focus on their companies, never on themselves; good managers view themselves as being servants to, rather than masters of, the whole; and good managers run their businesses with...
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£29,50
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New Industrial Revolution Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production
ISBN: PB: 9780300197235, ISBN: HB: 9780300117776, Yale University Press, September 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 tables&charts
The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the "old economies" – the U. S. , U. K. , Germany, and Japan – are being edged out of a profitable future. Bu...
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World Without Wall Street?
ISBN: HB: 9780857420312, Seagull Books, June 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm
As the aftershocks of the latest economic meltdown reverberate throughout the world, and people organize to physically occupy the major financial centers of the West, few experts and even fewer governments have dared to consider a world without the p...
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£19,00
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Mutiny and Its Bounty Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery
ISBN: HB: 9780300170283, Yale University Press, April 2013
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Violent mutiny was common in seafaring enterprises during the Age of Discovery – so common in fact, that dealing with mutineers was an essential skill for captains and other leaders of the time. Mutinies in today's organizations are much quieter, mor...
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£49,00
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Right Corporate Governance Effective Top Management for Mastering Complexity
ISBN: HB: 9783593396958, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2012
324 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 6 colour illus.
The rapidly increasing complexity of societal systems increases the need for professionalism in management – one must be able to function reliably regardless of increasing management complexity in the twenty-first century. Malik's book is written for...
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Crisis and Control Institutional Change in Financial Market Regulation
ISBN: PB: 9783593396712, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2012
299 pp., 21.6x14 cm
In reaction to the international financial crisis of 2007, a network of social scientists from seven countries analyzed the various changes in the regulation of financial markets, and this book presents their results. The articles published herein sh...
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Political Economy of Pipelines A Century of Comparative Institutional Development
ISBN: HB: 9780226502106, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 5 line illus.
With global demand for energy poised to increase by more than half in the next three decades, the supply of safe, reliable, and reasonably priced gas and oil will continue to be of fundamental importance to modern economies. Central to this supply ar...
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Corporate Policy and Governance How Organizations Self-Organize
ISBN: PB: 9783593395456, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
356 pp., 23x15 cm, 50 colour illus.
In "Corporate Policy and Governance", Fredmund Malik offers insights into his cybernetic toolkit along with instructions for its use. He argues that businesses and other societal institutions can function "autodynamically" – in much the same fashion...
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Uncluttered Management Thinking 46 Concepts for Masterful Management
ISBN: PB: 9783593393650, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
184 pp., 22x14 cm
Management expert Fredmund Malik examines the pitfalls of unclear language in "Uncluttered Management Thinking". The use of carelessly defined terms can do a lot of damage, Malik notes, leading to bad, even risky management decisions and actions. Del...
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Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780226556741, ISBN: HB: 9780226556659, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 line illus.
The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an e...
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