Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
Working Knowledge
Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their "property," or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that...
Reshaping Markets
Economic Governance, the Global Financial Crisis and Liberal Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Set against the origins and consequences of the global financial crisis, this timely book offers an enriching and revealing narrative of the role that the state plays in regulating markets. Focusing on core areas of private law such as corporate, labour and banking law, the contributors offer a conceptual...
Company Meetings and Resolutions
Law, Practice, and Procedure
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This new edition is the only work solely dedicated to the law of company meetings of solvent public and private companies. The new edition is written by an author team of great authority who have specialized in Company Law throughout their careers. The second edition brings the analysis of the law...
A History of the Book in America
Volume 5: The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. During this period factors such as the expansion of government, the growth of higher education, the climate of the Cold War, globalization,...
Development Derailed
Calgary and the CPR , 1962–64
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In June of 1962, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced a proposal to redevelop part of its reserved land in the heart of downtown Calgary. In an effort to bolster its waning revenues and to redefine its urban presence, the CPR proposed a multimillion dollar development project that included retail,...
Tupperware
The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
From Wonder Bowls to Ice-Tup molds to Party Susans, Tupperware has become an icon of suburban living. Tracing the fortunes of Earl Tupper's polyethylene containers from early design to global distribution, Alison J. Clarke explains how Tupperware tapped into potent commercial and social forces, becoming...
East-West Business Collaboration (Routledge Revivals)
The Challenge of Governance in Post-Socialist Enterprises
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Corporate governance is an area of key importance for students of comparative management and international business. This is particularly relevant in analyses of the post-socialist economies of the East, where both governments and enterprises have undergone major structural transformation. This title...
A Better Way to Build
A History of the Pankow Companies
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
While architects have been the subject of many scholarly studies, we know very little about the companies that built the structures they designed. This book is a study in business history as well as civil engineering and construction management. It details the contributions that Charles J. Pankow,...
Social Enterprise Law
Trust, Public Benefit and Capital Markets
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Social enterprises represent a new kind of venture, dedicated to pursuing profits for owners and benefits for society. Social Enterprise Law provides tools that will allow them to raise the capital they need to flourish. Social Enterprise Law weaves innovation in contract and corporate governance...
Edizione
The Story of the Benetton Holding Company 1986-Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
A corporate history of the innovative Benetton Holding Company, Edizione follows the early days of the family-owned brand, through governance and structure changes, mass distribution, infrastructure and network growth, to wider views for the future.
In the late 1980s, as a world-class, multi-national...
by Martha Holoubek Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Once a main-street shopfront dispensing tonics and extracts, Morris & Dickson Co. now competes with major players in the pharmaceutical distribution industry. Since 1841 presents an in-depth case study of a family business that has weathered wars, fires, recessions, and the sudden death of four chief...
Allianz
The Company History 1890-2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
On February 5, 1890, the First District Royal Court of Prussia in Berlin entered a new enter prise into the corporate trade register: the „Allianz Versicherungs-Aktien-Gesellschaft“. 125 years later, Allianz is one of the largest international financial services prividers. This book tells the...
A New Brand of Business
Charles Coolidge Parlin, Curtis Publishing Company, and the Origins of Market Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Charles Coolidge Parlin was considered by many to be the founder of market research. Working for the dominant Curtis Publishing Company, he revolutionized the industry by providing added value to advertisers through information about the racial, ethnic, and regional biases of readers and consumers....
The Derivative Action in Asia
A Comparative and Functional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
This in-depth comparative examination of the derivative action in Asia provides a framework for analysing its function, history and practical application and examines in detail how derivative actions law works in practice in seven important Asian jurisdictions (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea,...