Post Industrial Labour Markets or Globalization of Capital and the Nation State

Post-Industrial Labour Markets: Profiles of North America and Scandinavia

Author: Thomas P Boj

In nearly all OECD countries, the labour market has been in flux in recent decades. This book examines the labour markets and the institutional frameworks that condition their functioning in four different countries: Canada, the United States, Denmark and Sweden. Through a comparative study of these cases, the book discusses the nation-specific patterns that exist in a world that seems to become increasingly subject to common social and economic development.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Preface and acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The institutional framework of national labour markets	17
2	Labour movement and industrial relations	19
3	Labour law and employment regulation	51
4	The welfare state and labour market policies	77
Pt. II	Labour market outcomes and welfare regimes	97
5	Labour force and employment: age and gender differences	99
6	Towards a post-industrial service society	124
7	Occupational changes and education	147
8	Patterns of unemployment	169
9	Flexibility and employment insecurity	186
10	Wage formation, institutions and unemployment	213
Pt. III	Comparisons with other OECD countries	239
11	Post-industrial profiles: North American, Scandinavian and other Western labour markets	241
	Notes	262
	References	267
	Index	287

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Globalization of Capital and the Nation-State: Imperialism, Class Struggle, and the State in the Age of Global Capitalism

Author: Berch Berberoglu

This book provides a cogent analysis of the globalization process and the role of the imperial state in twentieth-century capitalist expansion on a world scale. It examines the development of capitalism and the capitalist state across national boundaries and traces the evolution of imperialism and inter-imperialist rivalries that have come to define the nature of the world political economy.

Executive Architect or Public Speaking for College and Career with Speechmate CD ROM 20 and Powerweb Media Enhanced Edition

Executive Architect: Transforming Designers into Leaders

Author: John E Harrigan

"We cannot continue to accept the view that when times are good we will prosper and when times are bad we will suffer. . . . We must move from a business of commissioned services to one of direct participation in all our clients' endeavors, where productive participation establishes us as trusted partners, the currency for a continuing relationship." —John E. Harrigan and Paul R. Neel

In their drive to compete effectively in the emerging world economic order, today's enterprise organizations are undergoing a period of radical redesign, restructuring, and redefinition. As they do so, they are coming to rely more and more upon design professionals to help them build their roads to the future. This means that unlimited opportunities now await the architect who can look beyond the everyday aspects of professional practice and learn as much as possible about his or her clients' worlds. But forging enduring partnerships with clients requires more than just proven design skills on the part of an architect. Today's successful architect is as much a business executive as an artist. He or she is conversant in an array of core business skills—including marketing, client relations, leadership, strategic management, and others—rarely covered in professional education programs.

Based, in large part, upon Professor John E. Harrigan's innovative executive program for architects at California Polytechnic State University, The Executive Architect fills that critical gap in professional education. In addition to schooling designers in a wide range of crucial business concepts, tools, and techniques, it provides a complete blueprint for transforming a practice from one based onthe fulfillment of commissioned services to one based on an ongoing engagement with every aspect of clients' worlds—their goals, risks, opportunities, and unique corporate cultures.

In creating this innovative guide, authors Harrigan and Neel drew on the experiences of more than a dozen of the nation's most respected executive architects, including Arthur Gensler, Charles Luckman, and Judy Rowe. Throughout the book, these industry leaders offer their insights, advice, and guidance on a wide range of topics, from leadership to benchmarking, from forming strategic partnerships to building knowledge base systems. Also featured throughout the book are numerous instructive case studies. Based on the Harvard Business School model, these studies present a broad array of successful decision-making examples.

The Executive Architect helps designers acquire the skills needed to expand beyond the boundaries of current practice and to exploit the unlimited opportunities and challenges of doing business in the new world economic order.

Table of Contents:

1	The Executive Architect	1
2	Leadership	25
3	Strategy	59
4	Client Relations	87
5	Working With Clients	125
6	Quality Of Life	183
7	Knowledge Development	255
8	Value, Performance, And Image	317
	References	363
	Name Index	367
	Subject Index	369

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Public Speaking for College and Career with Speechmate CD-ROM 2.0 and Powerweb, Media Enhanced Edition

Author: Hamilton Gregory

Prepare your students for public speaking with Hamilton Gregory’s Public Speaking for College and Career with free SpeechMate CD-ROM, Sixth Edition. With its wealth of student and work-oriented examples, this textbook teaches public speaking with a practical and accessible style.

Digital Communications or Latin Journey

Digital Communications: Design for the Real World

Author: Andy Bateman

INNOVATIVE . . . EXCITING . . . PRACTICAL

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS Design for the Real World Andy Bateman

. . . a modern approach to exploring the principles and application of data transmission

Digital Communications: Design for the Real World introduces readers to the fundamentals of digital communications through an applications-driven approach. Devised specifically to serve as a first stage text for undergraduate students, this textbook + CD package brings this exciting subject vividly to life, relating theory to real-world products and emphasizing the design choices facing professional communications engineers. Students encountering communications topics for the first time, practising engineers and managers will all appreciate the stimulating and motivational treatment of the subject.

Andy Bateman's innovative solution to the teaching and study of digital communications presents the reader with 3 routes to success . . .

1 USING THE BOOK The content focuses on digital transmission and modem design, identifying performance trade-offs, design choices and practical issues in2 USING THE CD-ROM The enclosed CD-ROM contains the same content as the book in browsable electronic form, suitable for Mac,©CD icon
implementation over real-world channels. It covers the very basics for true beginners, as well as modern developments such as channel coding and CDMA.THE BOOK FEATURES:· an applications-driven approach highlighting the key design issues· a review of basic topics such as Fourier series and relevant trigonometrical relationships· in-depth sections providing analytical detail· modern, real-world examples throughout·end-of-chapter questions, useful for self-assessmentWindows (3.1 and above) and UNIX systems. This fully-indexed electronic version provides users with quick and easy access to the information and enhanced features.THE CD FEATURES:· fully functional copy of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4TM· animated figures to aid understanding· linked cross-references for ease of exploration· hyperlinks to further information on the Web· Matlab® code, ready to run simulations· answers to problems from the printed text

3 USING THE BOOK + CD-ROM IN PARALLEL The two components of the package are completely interchangeable, providing the most flexible solution to the study, teaching and implementation of digital communications: students can easily access material for study and revision purposes; lecturers can utilise this valuable combined package in their teaching; and professional engineers can readily home in on the design parameters that are pertinent to their particular application.

Andy Bateman is currently a Director of Wireless Systems International Ltd (wsil.com). He was previously Professor of Signal Processing at the University of Bristol. His substantial real-world experience includes consultancy and training work for organizations such as the Bell Operating Company USA, British Telecom, Nokia Mobile Communications, Hewlett-Packard, the Canadian Department of Communications, Australia Telecom, Plessey Avionics, Philips and Uniden Japan. He has published 80 papers and has registered 13 patents.

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Latin Journey

Author: Robert L Bach

Latin Journey details an eight-year study of Mexican and Cuban immigrants.

Foundations of Multinational Financial Management4th Edition or Internet and Online Privacy

Foundations of Multinational Financial Management,4th Edition

Author: Alan C C Shapiro

Focused on real-life decision making in an international context, this text demystifies and simplifies multinational financial management in a clear, conceptual framework. The approach is to treat international financial management as a natural and logical extension of the principles and valuation framework provided by domestic corporate financial management to account for dimensions unique to international finance.

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This textbook provides a conceptual framework for analyzing financial decisions in multinational firms. It emphasizes broad concepts and practices rather than focusing extensively on quantitative material. All the traditional areas of corporate finance are covered from the perspective of multinational corporations; these include working capital management, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and financial structure. Shapiro teaches at the University of Southern California. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction: Multinational Enterprise and Multinational Financial Management	1
Pt. I	Environment of International Financial Management
Ch. 2	The Determination of Exchange Rates	32
Ch. 3	The International Monetary System	64
Ch. 4	The Balance of Payments and International Economic Linkages	95
Ch. 5	Country Risk Analysis	121
Ch. 6	The Foreign Exchange Market	146
Ch. 7	Currency Futures and Options Markets	168
Ch. 8	Parity Conditions in International Finance and Currency Forecasting	196
Pt. II	Foreign Exchange Risk Management
Ch. 9	Measuring Accounting Exposure	251
Ch. 10	Managing Accounting Exposure	268
Ch. 11	Measuring and Managing Economic Exposure	300
Pt. III	Financing Foreign Operations
Ch. 12	International Financing and International Financial Markets	335
Ch. 13	Special Financing and Interest Rate Risk Management Vehicles	381
Ch. 14	The Cost of Capital for Foreign Investments	400
Pt. IV	Foreign Investment Analysis
Ch. 15	International Portfolio Investment	431
Ch. 16	Corporate Strategy and Foreign Direct Investment	455
Ch. 17	Capital Budgeting for the Multinational Corporation	477
Pt. V	Multinational Working Capital Management
Ch. 18	Financing Foreign Trade	517
Ch. 19	Current Asset Management and Short-Term Financing	544
Ch. 20	Managing the Multinational Financing System	577
	Glossary	607
	Index	623

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Internet and Online Privacy: A Legal and Business Guide

Author: Andrew Frackman

Analyzing the legal issues concerning online and Internet privacy, this book covers the historical developments leading to the current state of the law and the relevant legal actions that have helped to shape it. Examined are the leading lawsuits that have asserted invasion of privacy on the Internet, the comparison of the state of the law in the United States with that of its principal trading partners around the world, and enforcement activity by the Federal Trade Commission. Also covered are proposals for new legislation and precedents for drafting a privacy policy that conforms to standards required by United States and international law.

What People Are Saying

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An objective and thoughtful study. Very useful for understanding privacy concerns and designing privacy practices in the internet world.
—General Counsel, Qwest Communications International Inc.

Debra A. Valentine
Every business person and lawyer who needs an introduction to privacy law . . . will profit from reading this book.
— Debra A. Valentine, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, formerly General Counsel Federal Trade Commission

Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare or CyberLaw

Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare: Empowering People with Other

Author: Charles H Zastrow

Zastrow's comprehensive introduction to social work and social welfare looks at today's society with a realistic view of social problems and presents students with positive strategies in the context of the core values, ethics, skills and knowledge base of today's professional social worker. Zastrow provides solid content on both theory and practice skills, interwoven within the social problems context and encourages students to think about new and realistic ways to solve problems and empower clients. Cases, exhibits, and tables help apply concepts and also help students to compare and contrast the issues.

Table of Contents:

Part I: INTRODUCTION: SOCIAL WELFARE AND SOCIAL WORK. 1. Social Welfare: Its Business, History, and Future. 2. Social Work as a Profession and a Career. 3. Generalist Social Work Practice. Part II: SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL SERVICES. 4. Poverty and Public Welfare. 5. Emotional/Behavioral Problems and Counseling. 6. Family Problems and Services to Families. 7. Sexual Orientation, Sexual Concerns, and Sex Counseling. 8. Drug Abuse and Drug Treatment Programs. 9. Crime, Juvenile Delinquency, and Correctional Services. 10. Problems in Education and School Social Work. 11. Work-Related Problems and Social Work in the Workplace. 12. Racism, Ethnocentrism, and Strategies for Advancing Social and Economic Justice. 13. Sexism and Efforts for Achieving Equality. 14. Aging and Gerontological Services. 15. Health Problems and Medical Social Services. 16. Physical and Mental Disabilities and Rehabilitation. 17. Overpopulation, Misuse of the Environment, and Family Planning. Appendix. Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers.

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CyberLaw: The Law of the Internet

Author: Jonathan Rosenoer

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the new legal issues which have arisen as a result of the explosive growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web. It covers the following topics in detail: copyright and trademark issues, defamation, privacy, liability, electronic contracts, tax issues, and the ethics of the Internet. As well as discussing the underlying legal principles which have been applied in these areas, Jonathan Rosenoer includes extensive coverage of the pertinent case law and their implications for future legal developments. Also included is a potted history of the significant legal events: from the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation through to the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Lawyers, company administrators, and professionals whose livelihoods depend on the Internet will find this the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference in this field. All those concerned with the development of this new legal frontier will appreciate its thoroughness and clarity.

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Explains legal issues arising from the growth of the Internet and the WWW, with chapters on copyright, trademark, defamation, privacy, duty of care, criminal liability, procedural issues, electronic contracts, misappropriation of information, ethics, and evidence. Discusses underlying legal principles, pertinent case law, and implications for future legal developments. Includes a chronology of significant legal events from late 1990 to early 1996. Useful for lawyers, company administrators, and others involved with the Internet. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Institute of Accounts or Macroeconomics

The Institute of Accounts: Nineteenth Century Origins of Accounting Professionalism in the United States

Author: Stephen E Loeb

This book focuses upon the Institute of Accounts (IA), an organization to which the modern United States accounting profession can trace its roots. The IA was organized in the early 1880s in New York City and, as discussed in this book, attracted a diverse membership that included some of the leading accounting thinkers of the period. The Institute of Accounts describes the association's early development, its usefulness to the needs of bookkeepers and accountants in the late nineteenth century, and its historical importance.
The book begins with a description of the origins of the organization, its goals, its membership classifications, and its professional characteristics. The authors then discuss the problems facing bookkeepers and accountants in the late nineteenth century and the usefulness of the IA in addressing the needs of its members. This is followed by consideration of how the thinking of IA leaders about the nature of accounting knowledge for many years unified the IA's membership byproviding answers not only to questions of theory and practice, but also to how this knowledge could pay a role in assisting government and business leader more effectively order a society experiencing substantial flux. The authors go on to analyze the factors leading the IA's decline after the enactment of the first CPA law. The book concludes with a consideration of the legacy of the IA.
The Institute of Accounts will be essential reading for accounting historians.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
Sect. 1	Introduction	1
Sect. 2	Origins, goals, membership, and professional characteristics	7
Sect. 3	Functionality of the IA and its role in professionalization	22
Sect. 4	The structure of accounting knowledge and the natural order of society	28
Sect. 5	Decline of the IA	43
Sect. 6	Legacy	60
	Notes	68
	References	76
	Index	103

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Macroeconomics: Principles and Policy

Author: William J Baumol

This text is well-known for using the Keynesian model in the teaching of economics; yet, in recent editions, the authors have expanded coverage of the growth model considerably to achieve more balanced coverage. The text uses the aggregate supply/ aggregate demand model as a fundamental tool for learning macroeconomics. It achieves the right level of rigor and detail, presenting complicated concepts in a relatively straightforward manner and using timely economic data. Using puzzles, issues, and well-developed examples, the authors provide a good balance of theory to application allowing you to relate the materials to your everyday life.

Exchange Rate Regimes or Finite Mathematics

Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences

Author: Atish R Ghosh

Few topics in international economics are as controversial as the choice of an exchange rate regime. Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, countries have adopted a wide variety of regimes, ranging from pure floats at one extreme to currency boards and dollarization at the other. While a vast theoretical literature explores the choice and consequences of exchange rate regimes, the abundance of possible effects makes it difficult to establish clear relationships between regimes and common macroeconomic policy targets such as inflation and growth.

This book takes a systematic look at the evidence on macroeconomic performance under alternative exchange rate regimes, drawing on the experience of some 150 member countries of the International Monetary Fund over the past thirty years. Among other questions, it asks whether pegging the exchange rate leads to lower inflation, whether floating exchange rates are associated with faster output growth, and whether pegged regimes are particularly prone to currency and other crises. The book draws on history and theory to delineate the debate and on standard statistical methods to assess the empirical evidence, and includes a CD-ROM containing the data set used.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	A Short History of the International Monetary System	5
3	The Theory of Exchange Rate Regimes	23
4	Classifying Exchange Rate Regimes	39
5	Facts and Figures	53
6	Inflation, Growth, and the Exchange Rate Regime	75
7	Macroeconomic Stabilization and the Exchange Rate Regime	107
8	Exits and Crises	149
9	Conclusions	173
	Appendix	175
	Notes	197
	References	213
	Index	229

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Finite Mathematics: An Applied Approach

Author: Abshalom Mizrahi

This solid introduction to finite mathematics is known for clarity and completeness. The text includes a thorough discussion of matrices, linear programming, probability and statistics and is filled with applied examples and exercises. Many exercises are taken directly from CPA, CMA and actuary exams.

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A revised edition of Finite Mathematics with Applications for Business and Social Science (1992). A textbook that presents the mathematics required in business and the social sciences, with emphasis on real-world applications. This edition enlarges the range of applications to include those using a graphing calculator; adds new examples, applied problems, and technology exercises; and includes a new appendix which contains examples of solving linear programming problems using the LINDO software package. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Post Colonial Transformation or Principles of Taxation for Business Investment Planning2002 Edition

Post-Colonial Transformation

Author: Bill Ashcroft

In his new book, Bill Ashcroft gives us a revolutionary view of the ways in which post-colonial societies have responded to colonial control. The most comprehensive analysis of major features of post-colonial studies ever compiled, Post-Colonial Transformation: * demonstrates how widespread the strategy of transformation has been
* investigates political and literary resistance
* examines the nature of post-colonial societies' engagement with imperial language, history, allegory, and place
* offers radical new perspectives in post-colonial theory in principles of habitation and horizonality.
Post-Colonial Transformation breaks new theoretical ground while demonstrating the relevance of a wide range of theoretical practices, and extending the exploration of topics fundamentally important to the field of post-colonial studies.

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Principles of Taxation for Business Investment Planning,2002 Edition

Author: Sally Jones

Principles of Taxation for Business and Investment Planning is a different approach to the study of taxation than the traditional tax preparation approach. This book teaches students to recognize the role taxes play in business and investment decisions. In addition,the book presents the general role of taxation and its implications across all taxpaying entities before discussing the details of specific exceptions. This approach allows students to really grasp the fundamental concepts that are the foundation for specific tax rules. The benefit is that the students will understand the framework of the tax system,even though specific tax regulations change from year to year.

The Segregated Origins of Social Security or The New Economics of Human Behaviour

The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State

Author: Mary Pool

The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between liberal and conservative forces. In The Segregated Origins of Social Security, Mary Poole challenges that basic assumption. Meticulously reconstructing the behind-the-scenes politicking that gave birth to the 1935 Social Security Act, Poole demonstrates that segregation was built into the very foundation of the welfare state because white policy makers--both liberal and conservative--shared an interest in preserving white race privilege.

Although northern white liberals were theoretically sympathetic to the plight of African Americans, Poole says, their primary aim was to save the American economy by salvaging the pride of America's "essential" white male industrial workers. The liberal framers of the Social Security Act elevated the status of Unemployment Insurance and Social Security--and the white workers they were designed to serve--by differentiating them from welfare programs, which served black workers.

Revising the standard story of the racialized politics of Roosevelt's New Deal, Poole's arguments also reshape our understanding of the role of public policy in race relations in the twentieth century, laying bare the assumptions that must be challenged if we hope to put an end to racial inequality in the twenty-first.

Table of Contents:

1	So now Mr. President, we are looking for something : African Americans, the Social Security Act, and the Great Depression	12
2	The not-so-solid South : southern democrats in Congress	28
3	Colorblind public policy : the staff of the Committee on Economic Security	61
4	Shaky ground : black and interracial organizations	97
5	Gender and the white united front : the women of the Federal Children's Bureau	140
	Conclusion : those old discriminatory practices	174

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The New Economics of Human Behaviour

Author: Mariano Tommasi

This volume views important social and political issues through the eyes of economists. Pioneered by Gary Becker, this approach asserts that all actions, whether working, playing, dating, or mating, have economic motivations and consequences, and can be analyzed using economic reasoning. Intended as an introduction to the current state of the field, the essays are informal and nontechnical, while still using up-to-date economic reasoning to illuminate such topics as crime, marriage, discrimination, immigration, fads and fashions.

Business Strategies for Satellite Systems or Marketing and Feminism

Business Strategies for Satellite Systems

Author: D K Sachdev

This unique resource combines the essentials of strategy development and project management in one integrated approach. It addresses from a management perspective all the stages involved right from mission to final operations, emphasizing the benefits of interaction at all stages. Detailed coverage of strategic choices, techniques for developing optimum architectures and infrastructures, and methods for measuring overall performance, all combine to make this book an excellent guide to business success in satellite system ventures. The book closes with a comprehensive case study of digital satellite radio systems and a prognosis for the future of satellite systems.

Table of Contents:

1	Satellite business today	1
2	Satellite business experience and lessons	11
3	Integrated business strategy process	27
4	Business strategy development	35
5	Business plans	55
6	System planning	71
7	Engineering the system	93
8	System operations	127
9	Managing for success	139
10	Digital radio systems case studies	157
11	Future evolution	187

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Marketing and Feminism: Current Issues and Research

Author: M Catterall

This volume offers the best of current scholarship on feminist perspectives in marketing. Through many stimulating and sometimes controversial discussions, it highlights and challenges assumptions about women and gender in marketing theory and practice from both historical and current contexts.

Key issues and debates include: the dark side of female consumption; women and marketing in Socialist economies; women and advertising; ecofeminism and marketing; gender, marketing, and cultural diversity; and marketing, sex, and sexuality.

Managing Health Care Demand or Designing the Total Area Network

Managing Health Care Demand

Author: Gary Montros

This practical resource explores demand management and the impact that informational technology and patient empowerment has for providers who are restructuring to meet new market pressures. A systematic method for implementation of demand management strategies is included.

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Articulates a broad new perspective on demand management, delivering a set of guidelines supported by research. The authors argue that comprehensive demand management programs will help reaffirm the best out of the physician-patient relationship, improve overall provider productivity and individual and population health, while at the same time positively impacting financial performance and long term customer retention. They explore five elements necessary to achieve this proposition, including segmentation of the population to enable mass customization, the integration of multiple channels, the integration of programs and services, and increasing opportunities for active learning. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. I	Fundamentals	1
Ch. 1	Improving Consumer Health & Demand	3
Ch. 2	The Four Domains of Demand Improvement	21
Ch. 3	Past Efforts in Utilization Management	41
Ch. 4	Why Improve Demand?	60
Ch. 5	How Well Does Demand Management Work?	72
Pt. II	Foundations	95
Ch. 6	Behavioral Foundations	97
Ch. 7	Systems Foundations	119
Ch. 8	Information Foundations	131
Ch. 9	Communications Foundations	155
Ch. 10	Developing a Strategic Foundation	168
Pt. III	Changing Behavior	199
Ch. 11	Prompting & Persuading	203
Ch. 12	Education	219
Ch. 13	Social Advocacy	235
Ch. 14	Incentives	245
Ch. 15	Marketing, Negotations & Empowerment	258
Pt. IV	Planning Programs	279
Ch. 16	Planning Demand Improvement Initiatives	281
Ch. 17	Choosing Tactics	310
Ch. 18	Deciding Who Does What	323
Ch. 19	Community-Based Initiatives	357
Ch. 20	Evaluating Demand Improvement Initiatives	370
Pt. V	Demand Improvement Applications	395
Ch. 21	Health Improvement	397
Ch. 22	Decision Improvement	435
Ch. 23	Disease Management	478
Ch. 24	Disability Management	508
Ch. 25	Final Comments	523
	Index	541
	About the Authors	556

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Designing the Total Area Network: Intranets, VPN's and Enterprise Networks Explained

Author: Steve Pretty

Tackles the many issues surrounding one of the most important assets in any company: its network. Modern networks need to be fast and effective to meet the ever-increasing need to for more information and faster communication. This text offers a clear and concise presentation of the key issues for those involved in the purchase, management, planning and implementation of communication networks. It provides the broad technical understanding required to ask the right questions, set viable plans and avoid expensive investment and deployment mistakes.

* Explains effective and practical design techniques for communication networks

* Advises how to avoid the common pitfalls associated with setting up and running a network

* Focuses on the techniques for planning and assembling network technology

* Presents numerous real examples

This is essential reading for network designers and will be recommended reading for students in computer science, electrical and electronic engineering and telecommunications courses.

Norris and Pretty tackle the many issues surrounding the design of one of the most important communication infrastructures in a company. The enterprise network needs to be fast and effective to meet an ever increasing demand for more information and communication. It provides broad technical understanding to aid those involved in the purchase, management, planning and implementation of enterprise networks. Effective and practical design techniques are explained in detail and are illustrated with real examples. It also discusses the associated pitfalls which often occur to show the reader what not to do when setting upa network.

An Introduction to Economic Dynamics or Case Studies in Organizational Communication

An Introduction to Economic Dynamics

Author: Ronald Shon

This is an examples-driven treatment of introductory economic dynamics for students with a basic familiarity of spreadsheets. Shone approaches the subject with the belief that true understanding of a subject can only be achieved by students themselves setting out a problem and manipulating it experimentally. Although all economics students now have access to spreadsheets, they are often used for little more than graphing economic data. This book encourages students to go several stages further and set up and investigate simple dynamic models. A web-site for students and instructors is included that contains an additional 100 questions for students and 100 for instructors.

Table of Contents:

	List of tables and boxes
	Preface
1	Introduction
2	Demand and supply dynamics
3	Simple Keynesian dynamics
4	Constructing trajectories in the phase plane
5	IS-LM dynamics
6	Inflation-unemployment dynamics
7	Dynamics of the firm
8	Saddles and rational expectations
9	Fiscal dynamics and the Maastricht Treaty
10	A little bit of chaos
	Brief answers to selected exercises
	Further reading
	Index

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Case Studies in Organizational Communication

Author: Beverly Davenport Sypher

Using a descriptive approach to illuminate the topic, this volume presents accounts of how organizational life is accomplished communicatively in a variety of retail, manufacturing, public service, and newspaper organizations. The cases in this book focus on the ways in which communication creates and maintains organizational realities, with some demonstrating how communication can hinder organizational functioning and others highlighting creative and positive uses of different communication practices. Providing a view of organizational life that reflects the experiences of those who have not only observed, but taken part in its functioning, this volume is unique in the breadth of issues covered, the variety of methodological choices used in gathering data, and the focus itself.

Promoting Health through Organizational Change or The Necessary Nature of Future Firms

Promoting Health through Organizational Change

Author: Harvey Skinner

This book provides students, practitioners, and health professionals with a thorough understanding of the complexities of health behavior organizations in today's world.With a framework based on the strategies of Dr. Skinner's proven Five-Step Model, Promoting Health approaches health behavior change in a comprehensive way. By bridging the gap between patients and organizations, this book teaches students and health professionals how to productively focus their energies on improvement initiatives and how to develop the practical skills necessary for effecting change.For health care students, practitioners and health professionals.

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The Necessary Nature of Future Firms: Attributes of Survivors in a Changing World

Author: George P Huber

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"George Huber makes an important contribution with profound insights on what the future firm will look like. It will be congruent with its environment. To realize opportunities from continuing advances in science and technology and environmental complexity, the successful firm in the future will be especially good at gaining environmental intelligence, learning and integrating knowledge, and being innovative and flexible. This is not a fanciful prophesy; it is a necessary logical conclusion that Huber draws from an extensive body of scientific knowledge."

         --Andrew H. Van de Ven, University of Minnesota, Past President of the Academy of
               Management, and coauthor of Organizational Change and Innovation Processes

"Huber gives a compelling account of the future landscape that many managers have to face today. Filled with solid academic research laced with real-world examples, Huber not only conveys the shape of that landscape, but also the roadmap to navigate it."

--Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Stanford University and coauthor of Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos

"This is an important book for any manager who faces a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive environment--which is to say, virtually every manager. Huber makes a cogent case for the fact that businesses will face much more dynamic and competitive environments in the future than they face today. Moreimportantly, he offers practical advice for how managers can prepare for the uncertain future they face. Clearly written and carefully grounded in the best research evidence available, this book stands head and shoulders above the many management books offering short-term fads, fashions, and therapies of the moment."

--Richard T. Mowday, University of Oregon, former President of the Academy of Management, and former Editor of the Academy of Management Journal

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Survival depends on the ability to read imminent shifts in the environment and respond accordingly. This holds true for any living system, but it is especially true for firms today.

The business environment is now changing rapidly, but will change even more rapidly in the future. Only firms that can respond to these changes will survive. It is important to know, then, how business's future landscape will look. George Huber's new book, The Necessary Nature of Future Firms, describes this landscape clearly and credibly and makes explicit the organizational attributes and management practices firms must possess to be among the ranks of the "future firms."

Advances in science and technology will continue to affect business environments, making them more complex, dynamic and competitive. Moreover, this complexity and dynamism will increase at increasing rates. As the book makes clear, successful firms will cope with or exploit these changes by increasing their capabilities for correctly interpreting threats and opportunities, making decisions, acquiring and managing knowledge, innovating, and changing while simultaneously dealing with the needs for efficiency, flexibility, and employee commitment.

The Necessary Nature of Future Firms is written for managers, especially those managing change. Professionals in a wide variety of organizational roles will find it a particularly useful reference for its foresight and as an invaluable tool in winning approval for projects and initiatives. Academics in change management, information systems, organizational science, strategy, and human resources management can draw on the book as a supplementary text or as a source for lecture materials.

References housed in endnotes rather than in the text contribute to the book's readability and ease of use, as does the accessible writing style. But for all its accessibility and reader friendliness, The Necessary Nature of Future Firms is still firmly grounded in scholarship. Hundreds of authoritative works and systematic studies specifically inform this book, as do Huber's own studies and his interviews with over 100 middle- and upper-level managers about changes in their organizations.  To add meaning and interest, the book's insights and conclusions are elaborated with real world examples.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	Preface
1	Dangerous Deficiencies	1
2	The Future Environments of Business Organizations	15
3	Sensing and Interpreting the Environment	45
4	Organizational Decision Making	77
5	Organizational Learning and Knowledge Acquisition	117
6	Leveraging Learning by Managing Knowledge	143
7	Innovation: The Integration and Exploitation of Knowledge	177
8	Dealing With the Conflicting Needs for Change, Efficiency, Flexibility, and Employee Commitment	215
9	Recapitulation: The Necessary Nature of Future Firms	257
	References	263
	Name Index	289
	Subject Index	297

Qualitative Research in Information Systems or Changing Health Care Systems and Rheumatic Disease

Qualitative Research in Information Systems (Introducing Qualitative Methods Series)

Author: Michael D Myers

Qualitative research has become a legitimate approach within the information systems community, but researchers have traditionally drawn upon material from the social sciences given the absence of a single source relevant to them. Qualitative Research in Information Systems: A Reader represents just such a volume and is both timely and relevant.

Information systems and qualitative research articles are now widely used for teaching on many upper level courses in information systems, and there is demand for a definitive collection of these readings as a basic reader and teaching text. This book expertly brings together the seminal works in the field, along with editorial introductions to assist the reader in understanding the essential principles of qualitative research.

The book is organised according to the following thematic sections:

· Part I: Overview of Qualitative Research

· Part II: Philosophical Perspectives

· Part III: Qualitative Research Methods

· Part IV: Modes of Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data

Qualitative Research in Information Systems: A Reader should become the benchmark reference point for students and researchers in information systems, management science and others involved in information technology needing to learn about qualitative research.

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Provides students and researchers in information systems (IS), management science, and others involved in information technology with a resource presenting seminal works in the field of qualitative research in information systems. Organized into four sections, contributions to the volume discuss qualitative research in IS; various philosophical perspectives in the field; qualitative research methods; and modes of analyzing and interpreting qualitative data. Some of the topics addressed include power, politics, and MIS implementation; the nature and method of interpretive case studies in IS research; a scientific methodology for MIS case studies; and information system use as a hermeneutic process. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
1	An Introduction to Qualitative Research in Information Systems	3
2	Choosing Appropriate Information Systems Research Methodologies	13
3	Power, Politics, and MIS Implementation	19
4	Studying Information Technology in Organizations: Research Approaches and Assumptions	51
5	The Case Research Strategy in Studies of Information Systems	79
6	Interpretive Case Studies in IS Research: Nature and Method	101
7	The Critical Social Theory Approach to Information Systems: Problems and Challenges	115
8	A Critical Perspective on Action Research as a Method for Information Systems Research	129
9	A Scientific Methodology for MIS Case Studies	147
10	Scholarship and Practice: the Contribution of Ethnographic Research Methods to Bridging the Gap	169
11	CASE Tools as Organizational Change: Investigating Incremental and Radical Changes in Systems Development	181
12	Information System Use as a Hermeneutic Process	225
13	Symbolism and Information Systems Development: Myth, Metaphor and Magic	241
	Bibliography	275
	Author index	299
	Subject index	307

Look this: The Transparent Cabal or Profiling Violent Crimes

Changing Health Care Systems and Rheumatic Disease

Author: Frederick J J Manning

Market forces are driving a radical restructuring of health care delivery in the United States. At the same time, more and more people are living comparatively long lives with a variety of severe chronic health conditions. Many such people are concerned about the trend toward the creation of managed care systems because their need for frequent, often complex, medical services conflicts with managed care's desires to contain costs. The fear is that people with serious chronic disorders will be excluded from or underserved by the integrated health care delivery networks now emerging. Responding to a request from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, this book reflects the results of a workshop that focused on the following questions:

• Does the model of managed care or an integrated delivery system influence the types of interventions provided to patients with chronic conditions and the clinical and health status outcomes resulting from those interventions?
• If so, are these effects quantitatively and clinically significant, as compared to the effects that other variables (e.g., income, education, ethnicity) have on patient outcomes?
• If the type of health care delivery system appears to be related to patient care and outcomes, can specific organizational, financial, or other variables be identified that account for the relationships?
• If not, what type of research should be pursued to provide the information needed about the relationship between types of health care systems and the processes and outcomes of care provided to people with serious chronic conditions?

Health Unit Coordinating or Design and Operation of Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems

Health Unit Coordinating: Expanding the Scope of Practice

Author: Madeline A Clark

This first book of its kind, this resource examines 42 different career paths available to health unit coordinators. It explores opportunities within hospital specialty units, expanding hospital roles, the larger health care industry, and clinical coding. For each specialty, it explains what responsibilities are involved and what skills are required. It also includes discussions of the relevant anatomy and physiology, frequently used medications, diagnostic procedures, treatments, equipment and supplies, and documentation. As a result, it equips readers to make informed career choices that suit their skills and interests.

Sharon K. Holmberg

Using a clear and straight forward style, this book describes the many opportunities available for people employed as health unit coordinators within healthcare delivery systems. The editors worked with the National Association of Health Unit Coordinators to locate contributors who could describe their specific roles in a variety of health delivery settings. The purpose is to provide a small compendium of actual or potential roles and opportunities for both entry-level and experienced health unit coordinators. This book is ideal for use in paraprofessional educational programs, as a guide for continuing education programs, and to help individuals analyze their skills, expand their current knowledge, and prepare for a new assignment within a health system. It will also help prepare for a job change. People responsible for developing continuing education programs will find this to be an excellent resource. It may also be a useful textbook in high schools as an introduction to the knowledge base needed for a variety of careers in healthcare. Several features make this book very attractive with broad applicability and flexibility. It is organized into four sections, each of which addresses a specific setting, including hospital special care units and non-patient areas of hospitals, community based healthcare facilities, and the more circumscribed, unique tasks of clinical coding. Each chapter is written using a clear, direct style and positive tone that encourages the reader to develop a positive attitude about the contributions to overall unit functioning that are made by a health unit coordinator. Every chapter has pictures, tables, and diagrams to enhance and add dimension tocontent. The essential knowledge base and unique procedures for each clinical area are presented briefly, as are descriptions of the equipment and supplies. In some chapters, the content may be overly detailed and out of the realm of expectation of the health unit coordinator, thereby setting a higher expectation than required. Emphasis is also placed on having good communication skills, including being able to respond empathetically to clients and family members. A brief summary of the major qualities needed to be successful and feel personally rewarded is provided at the end of each chapter. This book is unique because it is written by health unit coordinators in current practice roles, or their supervisors, giving a realistic picture of the responsibilities. The only limitations are that the chapters are somewhat uneven with regard to content detail and there are some incomplete citations in the bibliographies at the end of the chapters.

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Reviewer: Sharon K. Holmberg, PhD, RN (Indiana University School of Nursing)
Description: Using a clear and straight forward style, this book describes the many opportunities available for people employed as health unit coordinators within healthcare delivery systems. The editors worked with the National Association of Health Unit Coordinators to locate contributors who could describe their specific roles in a variety of health delivery settings.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a small compendium of actual or potential roles and opportunities for both entry-level and experienced health unit coordinators.
Audience: This book is ideal for use in paraprofessional educational programs, as a guide for continuing education programs, and to help individuals analyze their skills, expand their current knowledge, and prepare for a new assignment within a health system. It will also help prepare for a job change. People responsible for developing continuing education programs will find this to be an excellent resource. It may also be a useful textbook in high schools as an introduction to the knowledge base needed for a variety of careers in healthcare.
Features: Several features make this book very attractive with broad applicability and flexibility. It is organized into four sections, each of which addresses a specific setting, including hospital special care units and non-patient areas of hospitals, community based healthcare facilities, and the more circumscribed, unique tasks of clinical coding. Each chapter is written using a clear, direct style and positive tone that encourages the reader to develop a positive attitude about the contributions to overall unit functioning that are made by a health unit coordinator. Every chapter has pictures, tables, and diagrams to enhance and add dimension to content. The essential knowledge base and unique procedures for each clinical area are presented briefly, as are descriptions of the equipment and supplies. In some chapters, the content may be overly detailed and out of the realm of expectation of the health unit coordinator, thereby setting a higher expectation than required. Emphasis is also placed on having good communication skills, including being able to respond empathetically to clients and family members. A brief summary of the major qualities needed to be successful and feel personally rewarded is provided at the end of each chapter.
Assessment: This book is unique because it is written by health unit coordinators in current practice roles, or their supervisors, giving a realistic picture of the responsibilities. The only limitations are that the chapters are somewhat uneven with regard to content detail and there are some incomplete citations in the bibliographies at the end of the chapters.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Book about: Impounded or Future Search 2nd Edition

Design and Operation of Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems

Author: Revell

The tools of operations research (OR)--optimization, simulation, game theory, and others--are increasingly applied to the entire range of problems encountered by civil and environmental engineers. In this groundbreaking text/reference, the world's leading experts describe sophisticated OR opplications across the spectrum of environmental and civil engineering specialties, addressing problems encountered in both operation and design.

Retailing Management or Understanding Health Care Reform

Retailing Management

Author: Michael Levy

The third edition stays on top of the latest topics and developments including; changing demographics of retail marketing, the growth of new retail formats, the use of communication and information technology to enable quick response to market dynamics, the importance of customer services, the development of the vendor-retailer partnering relationships, the importance of building on employee diversity. It reflects the changing job market with the centralization of the buying function, limited jobs for buyers, and the emergence of store management positions.

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Understanding Health Care Reform

Author: Theodore R R Marmor

The reform of American medical care is the most important topic on the nation's domestic agenda and the centerpiece of the Clinton administration's plans for social policy and long-term economic development. This book, written by a preeminent analyst of medical politics and policy who is a frequent adviser to Congress, helps to clarify the current debate over the President's bill and the proposed alternatives to it. It is essential reading. Theodore Marmor, whose work has appeared in the nation's major newspapers and magazines, as well as in scholarly journals and books, here presents some of his most recent writings that illuminate the historical, political, and economic considerations behind various proposals now under debate. Marmor explains what we can and cannot expect from reform of American medicine, and he addresses the many conflicting claims about remedies for America's problems with medical costs, quality of care, and access to treatment.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	American Health Care Reform: Separating Sense from Nonsense	1
Pt. I	Medical Care Politics: Constraints on Reform	19
Ch. 2	How We Got to Where We Are: American Health Care Politics, 1970 to 1990	21
Ch. 3	Medical Care Crises and the Welfare State	31
Ch. 4	Nonprofit Organizations and Health Care	48
Ch. 5	Cutting Waste by Making Rules: Promises, Pitfalls, and Realistic Prospects	86
Ch. 6	Rationing: Painful Prescription, Inadequate Diagnosis	107
Pt. II	The Debate Over Universal Health Insurance	121
Ch. 7	American Medical Care Reform: Are We Doomed to Fail?	123
Ch. 8	Reflections on the Argument for Competition in Medical Care	139
Ch. 9	The Case for Straightforward Reform	146
Ch. 10	The Missing Alternative: How Washington Elites Pushed Single-Payer Reform Plans off the Agenda	159
Ch. 11	Hype and Hyperbole in Health Reform	170
Pt. III	Comparative Perspectives	177
Ch. 12	Patterns of Fact and Fiction in Use of the Canadian Experience	179
Ch. 13	Japan - A Sobering Lesson	195
Pt. IV	Policy Choices: Dilemmas and Decisions	203
Ch. 14	Coalition or Collision? Medicare and Health Reform	205
Ch. 15	Implementation: Making Reform Work	215
	Notes	225
	Glossary	255
	Index	271

Bound or Strategic Issues Management

Bound: Living in the Globalized World

Author: Scott Sernau

• Individual vignettes and case studies offer a refreshing twist on the globalization discussion

• Written in an accessible style engrossing to both undergraduates and the socially conscious general reader

Bound promises a stimulating and straightforward introduction to one of the most significant issues of our time: globalization. Sernau examines the background to current global interconnectedness, asking what trends and practices have ushered in this new global century. This book challenges readers to see their place in this changing planet, and to consider the necessary actions to build a more equitable, rewarding, and sustainable global society.

Table of Contents:

1	The Call of the World: Origins of the Global System	1
2	Welcome to the World: Global Structures Enfold Local Cultures	23
3	World Mart: Poverty and Prosperity in the Global Economy	51
4	Brothers and Sisters after all: Gender, Work, and Home	81
5	The New World Disorder: Culture, Conflict, and Power	107
6	World of Wonders, World of Wires: The Reach of Global Technology	133
7	Metro-Sprawl: The Making of the Global City	159
8	Tending Common Ground: The Global Environment and the Future of Humanity	191
	Bibliography	219
	Index	227

Look this: Direction basée sur le Marché :les Stratégies pour Cultiver la Valeur de Client et la Rentabilité

Strategic Issues Management: Organizations and Public Policy Challenges

Author: Michael James Palenchar

Strategic Issues Management is designed to position issues management in the strategic planning and management efforts by staff and executives. This book argues that issues management is not one of the many communication functions, but a management function that can entail use of public policy resources to achieve harmony with key publics. Issues management is vital to organizations' strategic management. It entails understanding and achieving high standards of corporate responsibility by listening to and acknowledging the soundness of key publics' opinions. The book explores the communication options that organizations can employ in their stewardship to address crucial public policy options and engage in collaborative decision making. Thus, issues management is featured as supporting strategic management, getting the organizations "house" in order, engaging in tough defense and smart offense, and monitoring opinion changes that affect public policy. In addition to these crucial topics, the book examines crisis response to advise managers on ways to lessen the chance that a crisis will become an issue. A chapter on risk communication challenges managers to engage in collaborative decision making with community leaders to reduce the chance that undue fear will translate into unnecessary regulation or legislation. Filling a void in the literature, Strategic Issues Management is a long awaited text that will be of invaluable to students and professionals in mass communication, journalism, management, and media studies.

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Heath (communications, U. of Houston) argues that issue management is not just one of many communications functions in an organization, but a management function that can entail the use of public policy resources to achieve harmony with key interest groups. He emphasizes the importance of listening to and acknowledging the soundness of the opinions of key publics in order to achieve high standards of corporate responsibility. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Economic Development and Cooperation in the Pacific Basin or New Marketing

Economic Development and Cooperation in the Pacific Basin: Trade, Investment, and Environmental Issues

Author: Hiro Le

The Pacific Basin is the most dynamic economic region of the world, and has become a model for efficient international specialization, growth, and rising living standards. This book brings together leading economic experts from around the region to appraise and distill the most important issues facing its policy makers, including trade relations, foreign investment flows, and the environment. As we stand at the threshold of the Pacific Century, the lessons this region imparts to us hold the promise of rising living standards around the world.

Books about: Hauptsache von Pharmacoeconomics

New Marketing

Author: Malcolm McDonald

The New Marketing presents a comprehensively revised blueprint for the marketing process developed by Malcolm McDonald and Hugh Wilson to address second-generation changes brought about by technological development and the associated 'information revolution'. Built around the leading concept of a value exchange with customers, it provides essential advice on how to harness the latest technology and incorporate it effectively into marketing practice.

The premise driving the new thinking in this book is that the early stand-alone experimentation with new marketing channels is over for many organizations. The key now is the total integration of new techniques and technologies within the wider marketing process. e-Commerce and CRM, for instance, no longer stand alone as something to plan for separately. Instead, the core processes of marketing need to take account of e-commerce and other IT-enabled channels such as call centres.

This development has meant important new steps in decision making for marketers, who now have to choose the channels which are most appropriate for certain tasks and how they should be integrated to maximise customer value. The book focuses on:

·
How marketing must integrate the interactive environment from the outset
·
How the choice of channels changes the offer as well as the customer contact
·
How the marketing manager's role must change

Having worked on e-commerce and CRM strategy with a range of major companies over the last four years, the authors have developed tools and frameworks to fill these gaps in traditional marketing. The New Marketing draws heavily on this direct practical experience, andoffers the ideal guide to tailoring your marketing strategy to the demands and opportunities of the 21st century marketplace.

Provides the marketing framework and tools to help you integrate traditional and e-marketing techniques Shows how to adapt your marketing role to maximize the customer value and channel advantage Written by the best selling author of Marketing Plans in collaboration with the leading e-marketing expert

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	The new marketing: drive the digital market or it will drive you	1
Ch. 2	Building the future on solid foundations: defining markets and understanding value	35
Ch. 3	Planning for market transformation: determining the value proposition	71
Ch. 4	Making the future happen: communicating and delivering value	115
Ch. 5	Staying on track: monitoring the value delivered	159
Ch. 6	Avoiding pitfalls: implementation issues	189
Ch. 7	Focusing on tomorrow's customer: future trends and the implications for marketing practice	209
	Index	223

Fundamental Managerial Accounting Concepts or Frontiers in Applied General Equilibrium Modeling

Fundamental Managerial Accounting Concepts

Author: Thomas P Edmonds

Fundamental Managerial Accounting Concepts 4e by Edmonds/Edmonds/Tsay/Olds focuses on concepts that are isolated and introduced in a logical sequence. The authors intentionally limit the scope of the material to help students build a solid foundation of the most important concepts in managerial accounting.

Fundamental Managerial Accounting Concepts 4e is organized in a distinctive way, particularly in the first six chapters. The objective is to establish a coherent, integrative framework that enables students to build knowledge in stepwise fashion. The authors’ goal is for students to understand the underlying principles of accounting, not just memorize content.

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Frontiers in Applied General Equilibrium Modeling: Essays in Honor of Herbert Scarf

Author: T N Srinivasan

This volume brings together twelve papers by many of the most prominent applied general equilibrium modelers honoring Herbert Scarf. The contributors discuss some traditional as well as more contemporary topics in the field, including non-convexities in economy-wide models, tax policy, developmental modeling and energy modeling. The book also covers a range of new approaches, conceptual issues and computational algorithms. An introductory chapter written by the editors maps out issues and scenarios for the future evolution of applied general equilibrium.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
1	Personal reflections on applied general equilibrium models	13
2	Uniqueness of equilibrium in the multicountry Ricardo model	24
3	Solving dynamic stochastic competitive general equilibrium models	45
4	Mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints : automatic reformulation and solution via constrained optimization	67
5	Nonconvexities in quantitative general equilibrium studies of business cycles	95
6	Lotteries for consumers versus lotteries for firms	119
7	Default and aggregate fluctuations in storage economies	127
8	New applications of general equilibrium to finance : default and collateral	151
9	Efficient taxation of income	173
10	Representative versus real households in the macroeconomic modeling of inequality	219
11	General equilibrium modeling for global climate change	255
12	Simulation and estimation of hedonic models	277
13	An evaluation of the performance of applied general equilibrium models on the impact of NAFTA	341
14	Decompositional analysis using numerical equilibrium models : illustrations from trade literature	378
15	The influence of computable general equilibrium models on policy	402

Leading the Revolution in Health Care or After the Washington Consensus

Leading the Revolution in Health Care: Advancing Systems, Igniting Performance

Author: Cathleen Krueger Wilson

The authors of the popular Leadership Revolution in Health Care, First Edition have completely revised their book and added all new chapters to expand the scope beyond only nursing to all patient care leaders. There are tools and insights in this leadership text that are not available in any other contemporary leadership text in health care. This book focuses specifically on health care leadership and applies the broader talents and skills to the specific concerns, issues and roles of health care leaders. Includes discussion of the impact of chaos on the management process, the impact of aging in the delivery of health care services, core competencies for successful leadership, principles of shared decision making and shared leadership, service pathways and continuum of care, share governance, team performance, accountability, action learning sets, art of systems thinking, developing models of leader performance, and more.

Anna M. McDaniel

This is the second edition of a popular 1995 book about the role of transformational leaders embedded in changing healthcare systems. This new edition includes material on conflict resolution and spirituality in the workplace not included in the first release. The purpose is to help nurses in leadership positions adapt to the rapid changes taking place in healthcare and to develop the new skills required to thrive in evolving systems. This book is a synthesis of organizational theory and practice in a nursing/healthcare context. It is intended for nurse managers experiencing or anticipating change in their role. Advanced graduate students in nursing or healthcare administration would also benefit from this book. The authors are recognized as experts in organizational change and transformational leadership, serving as consultants to many healthcare systems across the U.S. The authors describe the changes that have occurred in healthcare that drive the current "revolution." They explain the leadership competencies required to succeed in integrated systems for care delivery. A comprehensive self-assessment and plan for leadership development are particular strengths of the book. Examples of several tools used by the authors in training workshops are included in the appendixes. The authors draw heavily from content found in current organizational theory and change literature. By grounding the concepts within the healthcare system, the authors present otherwise abstract ideas in a manner accessible to nurses practicing in the "real world."

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Reviewer: Anna M. McDaniel, DNS, RN (Indiana University School of Nursing)
Description: This is the second edition of a popular 1995 book about the role of transformational leaders embedded in changing healthcare systems. This new edition includes material on conflict resolution and spirituality in the workplace not included in the first release.
Purpose: The purpose is to help nurses in leadership positions adapt to the rapid changes taking place in healthcare and to develop the new skills required to thrive in evolving systems. This book is a synthesis of organizational theory and practice in a nursing/healthcare context.
Audience: It is intended for nurse managers experiencing or anticipating change in their role. Advanced graduate students in nursing or healthcare administration would also benefit from this book. The authors are recognized as experts in organizational change and transformational leadership, serving as consultants to many healthcare systems across the U.S.
Features: The authors describe the changes that have occurred in healthcare that drive the current "revolution." They explain the leadership competencies required to succeed in integrated systems for care delivery. A comprehensive self-assessment and plan for leadership development are particular strengths of the book. Examples of several tools used by the authors in training workshops are included in the appendixes.
Assessment: The authors draw heavily from content found in current organizational theory and change literature. By grounding the concepts within the healthcare system, the authors present otherwise abstract ideas in a manner accessible to nurses practicing in the "real world."

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Revised and expanded and with a catchier subtitle than its 1985 incarnation, this volume describes the paradigm shift the authors believe is occurring in the health care field and offers managers suggestions and ideas for improving their management skills in the new environment. Updates include updated figures and new chapters on the "soul" of the workplace and on managing conflict in organizations in the midst of intense change. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

Contents: Over the Horizon: Living in the New World * Are Your Management Skills Obsolete? * Constructing Partnership in a Living System * From Illness to Life Management: Building the Point-of-Service Health System * Whole Systems Design for a Shared Leadership Organizations * Leader' s Dilemma: Slow Death or Transformation * Outcomes and Accountability: The Foundations for the Future of Health Care * The Manager as Learner: Translating Knowledge into Leadership Action * Exorcising the Bureaucracy Within: Admitting That Leaders Can Never Control Everything * Mapping the Competencies of Leadership Performance * A Crisis of Soul in the Health Care Workplace * When Push Comes to Shove: Resolving Conflict with Stakeholders * Appendixes * Index

Interesting book: Ethnicity and Globalization or India

After the Washington Consensus: Restarting Growth and Reform in Latin America

Author: John Williamson

This volume is a successor of sorts to the Institute's 1986 volume Toward Renewed Economic Growth in Latin America, which blazed the trail for the market-oriented economic reforms that were adopted in Latin America in the subsequent years. It again presents the work of a group of leading economists (*) who were asked to think about the nature of the economic policy agenda that the region should be pursuing after the better part of a decade that was punctuated by crises, achieved disappointingly slow growth, and saw no improvement in the region's highly skewed income distribution. It diagnoses the first-generation (liberalizing and stabilizing) reforms that are still lacking, the complementary second-generation (institutional) reforms that are necessary to provide the institutional infrastructure of a market economy with an egalitarian bias, and the new initiatives that are needed to crisis-proof the economies of the region to end its perpetual series of crises.

Professional Communication or Case Studies in Finance

Professional Communication: The Corporate Insider's Approach to Business C

Author: Daniel Plung

This text is oriented toward students who have a serious interest in business and professional communication. It is not intended to be in competition with textbooks targeted at the introductory course level, rather, it is written for advanced courses, MBA programs, management development, and corporate training courses. This book offers sound insights, supported by extensive research, and experience teaching corporate and academic business communication programs. The text focuses on exploring rhetorical principles as they apply to contemporary business and technical environments. Working from this perspective, the authors promote an application of the demands and dimension of communicating effectively in a corporate or technical environment. At the same time, this approach puts a proper perspective on tools and templates and strengthens the writing fundamentals.

Interesting textbook: Perfect Glass of Wine or Crust

Case Studies in Finance

Author: Robert F Bruner

Case Studies in Finance links managerial decisions to capital markets and the expectations of investors. At the core of almost all of the cases is a valuation task that requires students to look to financial markets for guidance in resolving the case problem. The focus on value helps managers understand the impact of the firm on the world around it. These cases also invite students to apply modern information technology to the analysis of managerial decisions.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Setting Some Themes
1 WARREN E. BUFFETT, 1995
2 THE FIDELITY MAGELLAN FUND, 1995
3 JEANNE MOCKARD, AT PUTNAM INVESTMENTS
4 BEN & JERRY'S HOMEMADE INC.
5 THE BATTLE FOR VALUE: FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION VS. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA INC. (ABRIDGED)
Part II: Financial Analysis and Forecasting
6 THE FINANCIAL DETECTIVE, 1996
7 THE BODY SHOP INTERNATIONAL PLC 2001: AN INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL MODELING
8 PADGETT PAPER PRODUCTS CO.
9 KOTA FIBRES LTD.
10 DEUTSCHE BRAUEREI
11 SERVERVAULT: "RELIABLE, SECURE, AND WICKED FAST"
Part III: Estimating the Cost of Capital
12 BEST PRACTICES IN ESTIMATING THE COST OF CAPITAL: SURVEY AND SYNTHESIS
13 NIKE INC.
14 COKE VS. PEPSI, 2001
15 TELETECH CORPORATION 1996
16 PAGINAS AMARELAS
Part IV: Capital Budgeting and Resource Allocation
17 THE INVESTMENT DETECTIVE
18 FONDERIA DI TORINO
19 DIAMOND CHEMICALS LTD (A)
20 DIAMOND CHEMICALS LTD (B)
21 GENZYME/GELTEX PHARMACEUTICALS JOINT VENTURE
22 EUROLAND FOODS S.A.
(and more...)

Multinational Finance or Statistical Methods in Engineering and Quality Assurance

Multinational Finance

Author: Kirt C Butler

MULTINATIONAL FINANCE provides a concise treatment of the investment and financial decisions facing the multinational corporation. The text provides a framework for evaluating the opportunities, costs and risks of multinational operations so readers can see beyond the algebra and terminology to general principles. It is distinguished by its logical organization, superior pedagogy, and clear, non-technical writing style. It includes the traditional international finance topics of foreign exchange, currency and derivatives markets, currency risk (transaction, operating and translation) management, country risk, taxation, capital structure, cost of capital, and international portfolio diversification. It also has unique chapters on multinational treasury management, options on real assets, corporate governance, asset pricing, and international portfolio management.

Booknews

Intended for MBA and advanced undergraduate classes, this text requires only an introductory course in finance. The author, a professor of finance at Michigan State U., addresses basic issues of multinational finance including foreign exchange and exchange rate determination, the multinational corporation's investment and financial decisions, derivative securities for currency risk management, and international capital markets and portfolio investment. This edition emphasizes corporate finance and includes new chapters on risk measurement and management. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. 1	Overview and Background	1
Ch. 1	An Introduction to Multinational Finance	2
Ch. 2	World Trade and the International Monetary System	29
Pt. 2	The International Financial Environment	55
Ch. 3	International Financial Markets	56
Ch. 4	Foreign Exchange, Eurocurrencies, and Currency Risk Management	87
Ch. 5	The International Parity Conditions	121
Ch. 3	Derivative Securities for Currency Risk Management	155
Ch. 6	Currency Futures and Futures Markets	156
Ch. 7	Currency Options and Options Markets	181
Ch. 8	Currency Swaps and Swaps Markets	217
Pt. 4	Managing the Risks of Multinational Operations	241
Ch. 9	The Rationale for Hedging Currency Risks	242
Ch. 10	Multinational Treasury Management	265
Ch. 11	Managing Transaction Exposure to Currency Risk	287
Ch. 12	Managing Operating Exposure to Currency Risk	313
Ch. 13	Managing Translation Exposure to Currency Risk	333
Ch. 14	Country Risk Management	357
Pt. 5	Valuation and the Structural of Multinational Operations	379
Ch. 15	Cross-Border Capital Budgeting	380
Ch. 16	Multinational Capital Structure and Cost of Capital	407
Ch. 17	Taxes and Multinational Corporate Strategy	439
Ch. 18	Real Options and Cross-Border Investment	461
Ch. 19	Corporate Governance and the International Market for Corporate Control	489
Pt. 6	International Portfolio Investment and Asset Pricing	523
Ch. 20	International Portfolio Diversification	524
Ch. 21	International Asset Pricing	561
Ch. 22	Managing an International Investment Portfolio	591
	Glossary	625
	Name Index	641
	Subject Index	647

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Statistical Methods in Engineering and Quality Assurance

Author: Peter John

Reflecting more than 30 years of teaching experience in the field, this guide provides engineers with an introduction to statistics and its applicability to engineering. Examples cover a wide range of engineering applications, including both chemical engineering and semiconductors. Among the topics featured are: quality assurance and statistics, continuous variables, hypothesis testing, comparative experiments, acceptance sampling, the analysis of variance, Taguchi and Orthogonal arrays. Tables, references and an index round out this work.