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Ethics in Investment Banking
by John N. Reynolds Edmund NewellThe financial crisis focused unprecedented attention on ethics in investment banking. This book develops an ethical framework to assess and manage investment banking ethics and provides a guide to high profile concerns as well as day to day ethical challenges.
The Politics of Tourism Development: Booms and Busts in Ireland
by A. O'BrienMoving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism.
Financing Long-Term Care in Europe: Institutions, Markets and Models
by Joan Costa-Font and Christophe CourbageForecasts predict that those in need of long-term care in Europe will double in the next 50 years. This book offers a full understanding of the institutional responses and mechanisms in place to finance old age and provides analysis of demand and supply factors underpinning the development of financial instruments to cover long-term care in Europe.
Success in Six Cups of Coffee: How Smart Networking Conquers Hidden Obstacles
by P. BethencourtCan it be that in order to reach the investor you need for your new venture, or to find the employer who will give you the chance of a lifetime, you only need to have six cups of coffee? Research tells us there is an average of six intermediate people that form an invisible chain between you and the person who will help you succeed.
The Future of Employment Relations: New Paradigms, New Developments (Elgar Original Reference Ser.)
by Adrian Wilkinson Keith TownsendEPUB
Strategic Management and Public Service Performance
by R. Andrews G. Boyne J. Law R. WalkerStrategic management makes a difference to the performance of public organizations. This book demonstrates that the most appropriate response is 'it all depends': on which aspects of strategy content and processes are pursued together, and how these are combined with organizational structure and the technical and institutional environment
The Life Cyclists: Fisher, Keynes, Modigliani and Friedman (Great Minds in Finance)
by C. ReadRead addresses the contributions of significant individuals to our understanding of financial decisions and markets. Great financial theorists created the basis for what we now know as personal finance and this volume describes four great minds in finance that forever established the role of the rate of return and life cycle decision-making.
Globalization, Hegemony and the Future of the City of London
by L. TalaniThis book gives a detailed account of the primacy of the City of London, both as a domestic actor and as a global financial centre. It focuses on whether the hegemonic position of the City of London can be threatened by the globalization process and how this relates to its role as an international money laundering centre.
Simply Seven: Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business (IE Business Publishing)
by E. Schlie J. Rheinboldt N. WaeschePublished as part of Palgrave Macmillan's IE Business Publishing Series, Simply Seven is a practical guide to Internet business for students, entrepreneurs and executives. The book presents a practical blueprint created to get entrepreneurs and executives started on finding the right Internet business model for their web site.
Review of Management Accounting Research
by Magdy G. Abdel-KaderA comprehensive review of contemporary research in management accounting. Provides a thorough critical analysis of recent issues published in the management accounting literature and identifies gaps for future research in each issue reviewed.
Governance Ecosystems: CSR in the Latin American Mining Sector (International Political Economy Series)
by Julia Sagebien and Nicole Marie LindsayThe authors explore the complex dynamics of mining and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Latin America, including a reflection on the African continent, presenting arguments and case studies based on new research on a set of urgent and emerging questions surrounding mining, development and sustainability.
The Stock-Flow Consistent Approach: Selected Writings of Wynne Godley
by Marc LavoieSelected essays from the eminent economist, Wynne Godley, tracing the development of his work and illuminating the key theories and models that made his name. Essays focus not only on the stock-flow coherent approach, but also lay out Godley's views about the European Union and the stability of its monetary policy.
Business Schools Under Fire: Humanistic Management Education as the Way Forward (Humanism in Business Series)
by Wolfgang Amann and Michael Pirson and Claus Dierkmeier and Ernst von Kimakowitz and Heiko SpitzeckIn a time of instability trust in managers is low. Management education is being scrutinized for its impact on society and business schools have been considered as 'silent partners in corporate crime' This book outlines how business schools can get out of the line of fire by presenting the cornerstones of a humanistic business education.
International Negotiation in China and India: A Comparison of the Emerging Business Giants
by R. Kumar V. WormNegotiation is an important managerial skill. The ability to negotiate across cultures becomes even more challenging due to differences in institutional practices. This book explores how the institutional environment in India and China shapes their negotiating behaviour.
Changing Work and Community Identities in European Regions: Perspectives on the Past and Present (Identity Studies in the Social Sciences)
by John Kirk Sylvie Contrepois Steve JefferysThis book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe, opening the way to a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how work helps shape new identities.
Strategy, Value and Risk: The Real Options Approach (Finance and Capital Markets Series)
by J. RogersUpdated and revised, this second edition applies advanced financial analytics within a strategic framework that recognizes an environment where sustainable competitive advantage is a progressively more difficult task. Real Options offer the link to value and the strategic opportunities that lie in an increasingly dynamic landscape
How Ireland Voted 2011: The Full Story of Ireland's Earthquake Election
by Michael Gallagher and Michael MarshThe collapse of the Irish 'Celtic Tiger' economy, in the wake of a banking disaster, provoked a joint EU/IMF rescue plan in late 2010. The election that followed saw Europe's most successful ever party lose more than half of its vote and almost three quarters of its seats. This book provides the definitive analysis of an electoral earthquake.
Future Work: How Businesses Can Adapt and Thrive In The New World Of Work
by A. Maitland P. ThomsonThe way we work is changing in the Internet age. The new majority of the workforce, women, Generation Y, the over-50s, as well as growing numbers of men share a need for greater control and choice about where, how and when they work. This is a guide to the skills you will need and the challenges you will face in the 21st century world of work.
Fighting Financial Fires: An IMF Insider Account
by Onno de Beaufort WijnholdsA topical insider view of causes and consequences of financial crises since the Mexican collapse of 1995. The book includes a detailed exploration of recent and ongoing firestorms, including the near meltdown of the global financial system and the euro crisis and suggests ways to save the international financial and monetary system.
Where Have All the Senior Women Gone?: 9 Critical Job Assignments for Women Leaders
by Ines WichertEssential career guidance for corporate women with talent and ambition and advice for HR leaders on managing a diverse workforce; it sets out nine job assignments that every woman should have on her CV in order to lay the way for promotion and progression and insights into the lessons learned by the top senior women (and men) in business.
Leadership: All You Need To Know
by David Pendleton Adrian FurnhamLeadership successes and failures are in the media every day. We are in a global political and financial crisis which is changing how we think about our lives and our futures. The authors present a leadership model for the future which creates the right conditions for people to thrive, individually and collectively, and achieve significant goals.
Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies (Frontiers of Globalization)
by Boike RehbeinThis volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism.
Competitive Strategies: Managing the Present, Imagining the Future (Bocconi on Management)
by E. Valdani A. ArboreThis book proposes a new framework to effectively manage both offensive and defensive marketing strategies. It reinterprets the competitive challenge as a circular journey, that is, an endless sequence of three competitive "seasons." The authors call them the games of movement, imitation, and position.
Organizational Misbehaviour in the Workplace: Narratives of Dignity and Resistance
by Jan Ch KarlssonPeople need dignity and autonomy at work. If they are denied this, there will be a strong tendency to resist working conditions and misbehave at work. This book presents and analyses stories about people's resistance in working life that make us reflect upon how employees are treated at work and consequences thereof.
Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship and the Common Good: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
by Carole Bonanni, François Lépineux and Julia RoloffAn exploration of the interplay between social responsibility, entrepreneurship and the common good which is organized into four sections: business and the common good; educating responsible entrepreneurs; corporate social responsibility (CSR) challenges and the common good; and CSR and entrepreneurship in emerging economies