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Toward an Integrative Explanation of Corporate Financial Performance
Capon, Noel; Farley, John U.; Hoenig, S.
Hardback. This volume presents an understanding of corporate financial performance. The authors review both the factors that cause the financial performance of some firms to be better than others, and also those factors that influence the trajectory of firm financial performance over time. Num Pages: 405 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KFFN; KJMV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 405
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792398318
- ISBN
- 9780792398318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 202.45
€ 202.45
Nondifferentiable and Two-Level Mathematical Programming
Shimiuzu, Kiyotaka; Ishizuka, Yo; Bard, Jonat...
Hardback. Provides an exposition of the techniques that are available for optimizing complex systems and to do so in a way that unifies the theory of nondifferentiable and two-level mathematical programming. This book also points out the useful algorithms developed for solving a particular instance of two-level problem known as a static Stackelberg game. Num Pages: 470 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJT; PBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 857.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792398219
- ISBN
- 9780792398219
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 203.65
€ 203.65
Hardback. Management-oriented, this text about efficiency, quality and effectiveness contains new ideas regarding quality and efficiency-based effective management. Num Pages: 122 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 122
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792398127
- ISBN
- 9780792398127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.28
€ 130.28
Hardback. Focuses on incentive regulation and competition. This text reviews topics including price caps, incentive regulation, market structure and new regulatory technologies. Editor(s): Crew, Michael A. Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCC; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792398103
- ISBN
- 9780792398103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.93
€ 131.93
Hardback. This work focuses largely on constrained optimization. It begins with a substantial treatment of linear programming and proceeds to convex analysis, network flows, integer programming, quadratic programming, and convex optimization. Software is included implementing the algorithms studied. Editor(s): Vanderbei, Robert J. Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Num Pages: 436 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJT; PBUH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 791.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792398042
- ISBN
- 9780792398042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 258.01
€ 258.01
Review and Annotated Bibliography of Family Business Studies
. Ed(S): Sharma, Pramodita; Chrisman, James J...
Hardback. This text aims to catalogue the major empirical, theoretical, and practical articles on family business. It also features a review of the literature, a discussion of how family businesses have been defined, and agenda for future research into both family business and entrepreneurship studies. Editor(s): Sharma, Pramodita; Chrisman, James J.; Chua, Jess H. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GBCR; KJC; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397830
- ISBN
- 9780792397830
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.75
€ 199.75
Hardback. In manufacturing, queuing models are used for modeling production processes. Realistic inventory models are stochastic in nature. Stochastic models are considered in transportation and communication. This book is suitable for a graduate level course on stochastic models or as a secondary text for a graduate level course in operations research. Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science. Num Pages: 382 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJT; PBT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397809
- ISBN
- 9780792397809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 257.15
€ 257.15
Hardback. X-efficiency theory shows that protection from competitive pressures produces not only allocated market-inefficiency, but inefficiency within the firm. This book provides an understanding of X-efficiency by developing the theory, exhibiting empirical evidence, and, finally, reviewing applications of the theory. Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy. Num Pages: 167 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJU; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1000.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 167
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397687
- ISBN
- 9780792397687
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.39
€ 131.39
Hardback. How does a firm anticipate and respond to changes which occur in its environment? What is involved in planning and implementing a business strategy which allows a company to maintain and improve upon previous success? This book presents ten case studies of ten international firms and their individual approaches to the problem of strategic change. Editor(s): Sinatra, Alessandro. Num Pages: 535 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJC; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2160.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 535
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397670
- ISBN
- 9780792397670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 213.12
€ 213.12
Hardback. There is a renewed interest in scientific management and the works of F W Taylor. This book focuses on the insights and flaws in Taylor's theory of industrial organization. It explores the nature of Taylor's contributions to engineering and to factory management. It deals with the spread of scientific management throughout the world. Editor(s): Spender, J. C.; Kijne, Hugo. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJC; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397588
- ISBN
- 9780792397588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.16
€ 198.16
Hardback. This text provides a frame for deepening understanding of the consumption and portfolio selection behaviour of individuals and households. Num Pages: 448 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 807.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397557
- ISBN
- 9780792397557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 202.91
€ 202.91
Hardback. This text examines the role of technology in the delivery of health care by physicians and other health care workers, and their respective roles in the management of health care technology. Editor(s): Geisler, Eliezer; Heller, Ori. Series: Management of Medical Technology. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJ; MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397502
- ISBN
- 9780792397502
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 254.50
€ 254.50
Hardback. This work focuses on the antitrust process and how that process affects the efficiency of antitrust law enforcement. The contributors share a wide range of experiences in the antitrust process, including academia, the legal environment and both private and public sectors. Editor(s): Coate, Malcolm B.; Kleit, Andrew N. Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJU; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 559.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397311
- ISBN
- 9780792397311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.34
€ 199.34
Hardback. This text focuses on negotiation processes and how negotiation modelling frameworks and information technology can support these. A modelling framework for negotiation as a purposeful complex adaptive process is presented and computer-implemented in the first three chapters. Editor(s): Shakun, Melvin F. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJP; KJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 537.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Reprinted from GROUP DECISION AND NEGOTIATION 5:4
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397298
- ISBN
- 9780792397298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.00
€ 199.00
Hardback. Business and management education has an important impact on business practice throughout the world. This book details the long-term growth of business and management education. It examines the theoretical and empirical literatures on organizational evolution and decision making, focusing on decision making in institutions of higher education. Num Pages: 490 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KFC; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1960.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 490
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397281
- ISBN
- 9780792397281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.75
€ 143.75
Hardback. This work looks at location, scheduling and design problems which are assignment type problems with quadratic cost functions and occur in many contexts. It classifies the mathematical properties of ten such assignment type problems and addresses computationally. Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 509.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397151
- ISBN
- 9780792397151
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.62
€ 198.62
hardcover. Meta-heuristics have developed dramatically since their inception in the early 1980s. Based on the first conference on Meta-Heuristics, this title contains 41 papers on development in heuristic theory and applications. Editor(s): Osman, Ibrahim H. (University of Kent); Kelly, James P. Num Pages: 690 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KJMD; KJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 167 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1132.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Edition
- 1996th Edition
- Number of pages
- 690
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397007
- ISBN
- 9780792397007
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 376.05
€ 376.05
Hardback. Deals with an aspect of organizational effectiveness - the process of controlling the behavior of people in organizations. This monograph presents a conceptual framework for approaching these issues, and examines the role accounting can play in a successful control system. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KFC; KJMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792396994
- ISBN
- 9780792396994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 197.68
€ 197.68
Hardback. Bringing together and expanding on research on energy security that has been conducted in the past, this work examines the assessment of energy security externalities for policy purpose and the wisdom of using energy security as an argument for government intervention in energy markets. Num Pages: 152 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJU; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792396857
- ISBN
- 9780792396857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.88
€ 130.88
Hardback. Attempts to increase the awareness of macroeconomic effects of regulation by providing some descriptions of regulation's scope and channels as well as providing quantitative assessments based on technical statistical evidence. Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy. Num Pages: 146 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCB; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792396840
- ISBN
- 9780792396840
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.88
€ 130.88
Hardback. Examines research and practice in using visualization to represent optimization models, explore optimum solutions, and summarize the results of the optimization effort. This book describes how scientific visualization can enhance the representations needed for optimization. It explores applications of optimization to visualization. Series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMD; KJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 807.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792396727
- ISBN
- 9780792396727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 202.91
€ 202.91
Hardback. Presents a logic view of 0-1 integer programming problems, providing insights into the structure of problems that can lead the researcher to more effective solution techniques depending on the problem class. Series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJT; UMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1240.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792396635
- ISBN
- 9780792396635
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.98
€ 132.98
Hardback. Business is becoming more global, more competitive, and more knowledge-intensive. This book explores the pivotal factors motivating the organizational changes that are sweeping American business, with an emphasis on the global marketplace. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KJC; KJM; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1210.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792396628
- ISBN
- 9780792396628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.81
€ 132.81
Hardback. Examines a fundamental issue in the field of strategic management and organizations: how to study changes in the competitive outcomes of firms. This book develops the concept of ordinal risk and extends this concept and its associated measures to the more general framework of state-defined systems. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJC; KJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792396611
- ISBN
- 9780792396611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.58
€ 198.58