Stanford University: 1318 books
Harboring Data
Information Security, Law, and the Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
As identity theft and corporate data vulnerability continue to escalate, corporations must protect both the valuable consumer data they collect and their own intangible assets. Both Congress and the states have passed laws to improve practices, but the rate of data loss persists unabated and companies...
Learning From the Global Financial Crisis
Creatively, Reliably, and Sustainably
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
This book is motivated by the simple hope that the cloud of the global financial crisis may yet have a silver lining—that political leaders, economists, and management scholars might seize this opportunity to reflect critically on the assumptions, practices, and infrastructures that have precipitated...
Beyond Great Powers and Hegemons
Why Secondary States Support, Follow, or Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
This book adds a new dimension to the discussion of the relationship between the great powers and the weaker states that align with them—or not. Previous studies have focused on the role of the larger (or super) power and how it manages its relationships with other states, or on how great or major...
BRICS or Bust?
Escaping the Middle-Income Trap
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Once among the fastest developing economies, growth has slowed or stalled in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. What policies can governments enact to jump-start the rise of these middle-income countries? Hartmut Elsenhans and Salvatore Babones argue that economic catch-up requires investment...
The Economics of Business Valuation
Towards a Value Functional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
For decades, the market, asset, and income approaches to business valuation have taken center stage in the assessment of the firm. This book brings to light an expanded valuation toolkit, consisting of nine well-defined valuation principles hailing from the fields of economics, finance, accounting,...
Achieving Strategic Excellence
An Assessment of Human Resource Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2006
This is the Center for Effective Organizations’s (CEO) fourth national study of the human resources (HR) function in large corporations. It is the only long-term national study of this important function. Like the previous studies, it focuses on measuring whether the HR function is changing and...
Achieving Excellence in Human Resources Management
An Assessment of Human Resource Functions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Achieving Excellence in Human Resources Management: An Assessment of Human Resource Functions is the Center for Effective Organizations' (CEO) fifth study of human resources in large corporations. The only long-term analysis of its kind, this text compares data from CEO's earlier studies to data collected...
Effective Human Resource Management
A Global Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Effective Human Resource Management is the Center for Effective Organizations' (CEO) sixth report of a fifteen-year study of HR management in today's organizations. The only long-term analysis of its kind, this book compares the findings from CEO's earlier studies to new data collected in 2010. Edward...
Global Trends in Human Resource Management
A Twenty-Year Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Since 1995, USC's Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) has conducted the definitive longitudinal study of the human resource management function in organizations. By analyzing new data every three years since then, the Center has been able to consistently chart changes in how HR is organized and...
Human Resource Excellence
An Assessment of Strategies and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
As a field, human resources has been slow to evolve, despite a great need and opportunity for change. Human Resource Excellence delivers the newest findings about what makes HR successful and how it can add value to today's organizations. Tracing changes in a global sample of firms across the US,...
Hard Times
Leadership in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Leadership has never played a more prominent role in America's national discourse, and yet our opinions of leaders are at all-time lows. Private sector leaders are widely seen as greedy to the point of being corrupt. Public sector leaders are viewed as incompetent to the point of being inept. And,...
Collaborative Evaluations
Step-by-Step, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Collaborative Evaluations: Step-by-Step, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide for evaluators who aim to master collaborative practice. Liliana Rodríguez-Campos and Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez present their Model for Collaborative Evaluations (MCE) with its six major components: identify the situation,...
Collective Action and Exchange
A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
In Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive political economy text aimed at advanced undergraduates in economics and graduate students in the social sciences. The text utilizes collective action as a unifying...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Interest in nuclear energy has surged in recent years, yet there are risks that accompany the global diffusion of nuclear power—especially the possibility that the spread of nuclear energy will facilitate nuclear weapons proliferation. In this book, leading experts analyze the tradeoffs associated...