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Hardcover. In the wake of the economic crisis, many public services are facing a challenging environment in which they receive less funding but are expected to deliver better services. Organisational Innovation in Public Services develops new theoretical models and analyses case studies to provide an important insight into how to modernise public services. Editor(s): Valkama, Pekka; Bailey, Stephen J.; Anttiroiko, Ari-Veikko. Series: Governance and Public Management. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPP; JPQB; KJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137011831
- ISBN
- 9781137011831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. This comprehensive volume tackles all aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions activity - including regional concentration of M&As at a global level, the impact of the economic crisis, and theoretical concepts and practical applications. Editor(s): Vlachos, Vasileios A.; Bitzenis, Aristidis; Papadimitriou, Pyrros. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCLF; KJVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137013309
- ISBN
- 9781137013309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.27
€ 128.27
Hardcover. Offers an innovative perspective of managerial practices adopted by multinational companies. The authors examine the challenges they face in the global environment, headquarters-subsidiaries relationships as well as partnerships and networks they form across the world. Editor(s): Mayrhofer, Ulrike. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; KJM; KJVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137023889
- ISBN
- 9781137023889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardcover. Presents research findings and theoretical developments in the International Business field, with special emphasis on the issues of internationalization, innovation and sustainability in Latin America. Editor(s): Liberman, Leonardo; Newburry, William. Series: AIB Latin America. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; KJD; KJK; KJVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137024121
- ISBN
- 9781137024121
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Hardcover. Explores new horizons in international business development and challenges existing theoretical notions and paradigms relating to the internationalization of economies and firms Editor(s): Marinov, Marin; Marinova, Svetla. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCL; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 144 x 27. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032539
- ISBN
- 9781137032539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.83
€ 128.83
Hardcover. In a world economy where rapid change is the only constant, what is the best way for business schools to prepare the leaders of tomorrow? The authors of this volume argue that a broad and rigorous education is needed; one that fuses business knowledge with arts and sciences, technology, and ethical training. Editor(s): Hardy, Gordon; Everett, Daniel L. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJB; KJM; KJP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033376
- ISBN
- 9781137033376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
Hardcover. Explores how British and Japanese firms have responded to globalization from a long-term perspective. Incorporates studies from the 18th century and sheds light on the impact of the institutional setting, the influence of government and entrepreneurs, and the weight of historical contingency in conditioning firm responses to globalization. Editor(s): Umemura, Maki; Fujioka, Rika. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPJ; JFFS; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263629
- ISBN
- 9781137263629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Combining creative biblical interpretation, Christian moral reflection, and business expertise, Finding Meaning in Business is a thoughtful and thought-provoking look at how business leaders, professionals, and students can integrate a sense of calling into their careers and into the business world as a whole. Editor(s): Okonkwo, Bartholomew C. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM1; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273666
- ISBN
- 9781137273666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. How to Make Boards Work offers a unique view of the thinking and doing of governance. The outside-in perspective offers a holistic framework highlighting how global cultural, social and political diversity impact boards of directors. The inside-out perspective emphasizes how governance and boards can effectively realize sustainable value creation. Editor(s): Kakabadse, Andrew; Berghe, Lutgart van den. Num Pages: 400 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJM; KJR; KJRD; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137275691
- ISBN
- 9781137275691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.80
€ 128.80
Hardcover. This book is an exploration into the current world of relationships in the workplace. It focuses on the ways in which organizational relationships - be they friendships, superior-subordinate relationships, negative relationships, romantic liaisons or simply membership to a social network - can influence and affect our experience of work. Editor(s): Morrison, Rachel; Cooper-Thomas, Helena. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMJ; KJU; KJWX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137280633
- ISBN
- 9781137280633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. This timely collection will be the first of its kind to focus on the practical application of the government job guarantee (JG) for both developed and developing economies. Global case studies include: United States, China, Ghana, Argentina, Ireland, Iceland, and India. Editor(s): Murray, Michael J.; Forstater, Mathew. Num Pages: 196 pages, 29 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCFM; KCG; KCS; KJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137286093
- ISBN
- 9781137286093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Social Media and Strategic Communications provides truly comprehensive and original scholarly research that exhibits the strategic implementation of social media in both advertising and public relations. Editor(s): Hendricks, John Allen; Noor Al-Deen, Hana S. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; KJSA; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137287045
- ISBN
- 9781137287045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.81
€ 138.81
Hardcover. Materiality and Space explores the importance and role of space, its relation to material objects, and how they play out in work organizations. Editor(s): De Vaujany, Francois-Xavier; Mitev, Nathalie. Series: Technology, Work and Globalization. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJM; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137304087
- ISBN
- 9781137304087
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.15
€ 130.15
Hardcover. International business (IB) research on Asian firms is on the rise, challenging conventional theories and providing opportunities for IB researchers to address several paradoxical issues such as ownership advantage and risk-returns. The book focuses on IB research in Asia and addresses some of these problems in several keys areas of IB research. Editor(s): Chan, Tsang-sing; Cui, Geng. Series: AIB Southeast Asia. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; KCL; KJK; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137307286
- ISBN
- 9781137307286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. Twenty-seven international scholars and business leaders analyse the challenges facing business ethics in China: the role of different ethical traditions, the creation of ethical corporate cultures, corruption and the lack of confidence, consumption patterns and income distribution, globalization, WTO and information technology, to name a few. Editor(s): Lu, Xiaohe; Enderle, Georges. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; KJG; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308580
- ISBN
- 9781137308580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. There are four core themes developed in this book which deal with critical issues, models, theories and frameworks. These expound understandings of patient centred care and the processes, practices and behaviours supporting its attainment: conceptions and cultures of patient-centred care, coordination, communication, innovation. Editor(s): Keating, Mary A.; McDermott, Aoife; Montgomery, Kathleen. Series: Organizational Behaviour in Health Care. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJD; KJM; KNSH; V. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308924
- ISBN
- 9781137308924
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.99
€ 193.99
Hardcover. Core-Periphery Relations and Organization Studies draws together postcolonial and indigenous thinking through the conceptual lens of core-periphery relations to advance debate in organization studies. A particular aim of this book is to broaden, deepen and critically reassert a postcolonial imagination in this domain. Editor(s): Westwood, Robert; Jack, Gavin; Khan, Farzad; Frenkel, Michal. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309044
- ISBN
- 9781137309044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardcover. Asian Inward and Outward FDI brings together both works from researchers in international business and economic geography. The book is aimed for both scholars with interest in macro and micro economic impact of new flows of FDI. Editor(s): Alvstam, Claes Goran; Dolles, Harald; Strom, Patrik. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJC; KJD; KJK; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137312204
- ISBN
- 9781137312204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Paperback. A comprehensive examination of the inability of liberal capitalism to generate the technological innovations necessary to prevent dangerous climate change. The case is made for the need for institutional evolution to drive the climate innovation, and the potential for climate innovation in an increasingly economically interconnected world. Editor(s): Harrison, Neil E.; Mikler, John. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPQB; KCN; KJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137319883
- ISBN
- 9781137319883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardcover. This book is an invaluable repository of knowledge that brings clarity to key issues and trends for practitioners, academics and students of luxury brands. It sets out to decode the luxury markets in the primary emerging markets (BRICs) and provide a rich resume of the key factors that influence the effectiveness of luxury brand strategies. Editor(s): Atwal, Glyn; Bryson, Douglas. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFT; KJD; KJK; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330529
- ISBN
- 9781137330529
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.03
€ 183.03