Financial Products provides a step-by-step guide to some of the most important ideas in financial mathematics. It describes and explains interest rates, disc......
Strategic decisions deal with the long-term direction of the firm and its main activities, usually the responsibility of the top managers in an organization.......
Research in strategy has shifted significantly towards strategy as something organizations have, rather than strategy as something that managers do. The acti......
Everybody knows that digital technology has revolutionised our economy and our lifestyles. But how many of us really understand the drivers behind the techno......
The capability approach developed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has become an important new paradigm in thinking about development. However, despite its theo......
In today's turbulent business environment, leaders must begin to think more broadly about what a corporation is and how it can create a richer future. With t......
This book surveys the prospects for regional monetary integration in various parts of the world. Beginning with a brief review of the theory of optimal curre......
If poor individuals have always been with us, societies have not always seen the poor as a distinct social group. But within the Roman world, from at least t......
With the rise of China in the world economy, investors from all over the world are moving to explore business opportunities in this market. Managing internat......
More and more people believe we must quickly wean ourselves from fossil fuels - oil, natural gas and coal - to save the planet from environmental catastrophe......
Debates about the consequences for work practices posed by the rapidly growing transnationalization of business have become increasingly central to managemen......
What effects do racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination have on the functioning of organizations? Is there a way of managing organizations such that......
The third edition of Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis surveys the contributions that economic analysis has made to our understanding of why mul......
Introduces the increasingly popular Bayesian approach to statistics to graduates and advanced undergraduates. In contrast to the long-standing frequentist ap......
Organizations can no longer afford to assume that the ideal employee is male, full-time, and free from responsibilities outside work. As the percentage of wo......
A number of major blockades, including the Continental System in the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, and World Wars I and II, in ad......
Management consultancy is a key sector in the economic change toward a service and knowledge economy. This book explains the mechanisms of the management con......
An analysis of the performance of JapanâÂÂs economic and political institutions from late 1970s to 2007. The authors explain how JapanâÂÂs flawed response to......
A major new history of economic regimes and economic performance throughout the twentieth century. Ivan T. Berend looks at the historic development of the tw......
Japan's innovators and entrepreneurs are a real success story against the odds, surviving recession in the 1990s to prosper in today's competitive business e......