Business

Pit your brains against the taxing riddles used by the world's best companies to select their staff

It is the numbers; you have got to make your numbers. Whether you are a rookie or a veteran salesperson, the immediate challenge is to make your numbers. Well, it is time to sharpen your skills; get out of the same old humdrum drill each month as you try to meet your companys sales and profit goals. ...

This volume will introduce the reader to basic topics of corporate finance. The notes will provide an integrative model that will help students evaluate projects, examine financing alternatives and assess a firm.With problems and detailed solutions at the end of each chapter, this volume will also greatly ...

Seeking Adam Smith provides a fascinating insider's explanation for why business school faculty members, including the author, bear some responsibility for the highly destructive corporate practices evident throughout the first sixteen years of the 21st century.Since the Great Recession substantial resources ...

Traditionally, innovation has been considered difficult to manage, as it occurs through contingent discoveries and inventions.

A survey of the complex and intertwined set of forces behind the various commodity markets and the interplay between these markets and the global economy. Summarizes a rich set of facts combined with in-depth analyses distillated in a nontechnical manner. Includes discussion of structural trends behind ...

There are two traditional views of the role of intellectual property (IP) within the field of innovation management: in innovation management research, as an indicator or proxy for innovation inputs or outputs, e.g. patents or licensing income; or in innovation management practice, as a means of protecting ...

Since the pioneering work scholars such as Joseph Schumpeter and Peter Drucker, the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship have evolved to become two separate and distinct disciplines. Schumpeter 1 focused on the contributions of entrepreneurial startups and smaller firms, whereas Schumpeter 2 emphasized ...

Compelling and original, this book offers a unique insight into the modern Islamic corporation, revealing how power, relationships, individual identities, gender roles, and practices - and often massive financial resources - are mobilized on behalf of Islam.

An annual survey of government performance in 30 key countries worldwide that are at a critical crossroads in determining their political future. This book provides a comparative tool for assessing government performance in the areas of civil liberties, rule of law, anticorruption and transparency, and accountability and public voice.

Looks at ways governments can promote the creation of more and better jobs in the region. This book addresses the question as to why labor market outcomes have been disappointing during the transition and suggests policy interventions to promote firms' investment, job creation and economic development.

Reveals that virtually all of the critics, as well as many supporters, have long misunderstood both the true implications of faith-based partnerships and their unique potential for advancing social justice.

An expert in entrepreneurship takes us on a journey to faraway places to meet extraordinary business people who are working in high-growth industries, disrupting markets, and forcing a universal shift in business, investment, economics, politics and society.

Sheltered for a long time within the public sector environment with high job security and professional research autonomy, defense R&D organizations faced unprecedented challenges when government support was being withdrawn and closure threatening. They needed to be led by a suitable vision in order to implement comprehensive changes...

A comprehensive guide for business people, government administrators and specialists in management methodology, Methodological School of Management details the original and applied thinking, methods and approaches established by the school in the Soviet era and still operating successfully in modern ...

In this book you will find 52 tips explaining what you should do, when you should do it and some help getting you there. Some great tips are: use social media to promote your book; share your book and always have it on hand; get those reviews!