Development Growth category: 1653 books
by José Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Artistic and cultural organisations – especially those working as non-profit organisations - are experiencing increasing pressure to become more business-minded and to achieve economic sustainability. While ‘business models’ and related terms, largely used in the corporate sector, are more and...
The Age of Intelligent Cities
Smart Environments and Innovation-for-all Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008). Together these books examine intelligent cities as environments of innovation and collaborative...
by Jean-Louis Racine
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Standards are everywhere, yet go mostly unnoticed. They define how products, processes, and people interact, assessing these entities' features and performance and signaling their level of quality and reliability. They can convey important benefits to trade, productivity, and technological progress and...
100 Great Leading Well Ideas
from successful leaders and managers from around the world
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In this latest addition to the highly successful 100 Great Ideas series, readers will find a comprehensive guide for a leader or a developing leader to make a step change in their effectiveness. The book addresses the question 'What is the step change I need to make to be leading well at the next...
by David Boje
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2001
`The book is a unique and excellent introduction to postmodern narrative analyses' - Organization Studies
`[This book] should succeed in putting the
metaphorical cat amongst just about every metaphorical pigeon that might
imaginably take flight within the organization and communication...
by Francis W. Wolek
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Tax payers got a really good deal on investment in USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Most ARS projects successfully pay off for food processors, farmers, and the general public. ARS scientists are highly respected members of Interactive Communities governing agriculture. These communities...
It’S Nothing Personal It’S Only Business
An Academic Research and Study Exploring the Calamitous and Far-Reaching Degeneration of American Business Today!
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Today in America, we are no longer the worlds largest market economy. If anything, the only thing greatest about the American economy is the amount of money we owe to other countries. Politicians and activists portray big government as essential to safeguard the common good. There is no question we...
Globalisation of R&D and Technology Markets
Consequences for National Innovation Policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
On the threshold of the 21st century, an intensive debate about globalisation of R&D and technology markets is of crucial importance. Globalisation will carry on changing the framework for company strategies and subsequently for public policies.
These conference proceedings contain the papers...
Beyond Basketballs
The New Revolutionary Way to Build a Successful Business in a Post-Product World
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
The New Revolutionary Way To Build A Successful Business In A Post-Product World
If you are trying to build a successful business in todays economy, read this book. Authored by Bill Bishop, one of the worlds leading business coaches to entrepreneurial companies, this book outlines a new, revolutionary...
Knowledge, Innovation and Internationalisation
Essays in Honour of Cesare Imbriani
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
As firms increasingly rely on knowledge as a key factor for innovation, the ability to innovate is increasingly perceived as a key asset for being competitive in international markets. This new volume argues that innovation, knowledge and internationalisation should be viewed as tightly related concepts....
by Glenn L Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Glenn Erickson is a business-owner in Clearwater Florida. He has owned several businesses throughout his life, most of which failed. He has examined each of those failures and learned why they went under. From those earlier lessons, he now owns a successful technology-based business that had continued...
by Dusan Djukich
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times is Dusan Djukich's highly anticipated introduction to his potent world of straight-line coaching. Within these pages he dramatically unveils exactly what it takes to live a powerful and effective life both personally...
by Sayantan Chakravarty
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
The story of global Indians all over the world with special contributions from prominent NRIs and PIOs in a monthly format
Project Success
Critical Factors and Behaviours
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The issue of what defines project success (or failure) is complex and often elusive, and dependent on the perceptions of different stakeholders. In this enlightening book Emanuel Camilleri examines the key factors bearing on perceived success or failure. This book is not just about project management,...