Author: Alan G. McQuilla
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: locally, globally
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 1998-06-23
List price: $65.50
ISBN-10: 0761811265
ISBN-13: 9780761811268
Globally and Locally tackles the economic difficulties of succeeding in a world that is increasingly global while surviving on the local level. It brings together the ideas of several scholars on the political and economic strategies to follow in the modern global market. The editors examine the United States, Scotland, and Japan on the corporate, community, and regional levels and make recommendations to improve the present economic structures without completely replacing them. Each concept focuses on the unique goal of charting a "middle path" that binds theory with practice, culture with na
Author: Robert A. Taft
Publisher: South-Western Educational Pub
Keywords: globally, business, growing
Number of Pages: 297
Published: 2005-03-14
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0324203039
ISBN-13: 9780324203035
The global business climate is changing. Global companies want a physical presence in their markets but face greater risks in being positioned globally. The need for greater global access is driving M&As, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, while new cash flow problems are prompting many companies to consider international licensing agreements. This new reality has put a premium on international business negotiations and business arrangements — putting pressure on professionals to be well versed in these areas. Written by a respected authority in international business, Growing
Author: Sherif Kamel
Publisher: Irm Press
Keywords: technology, information, globally, managing
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 193177742X
ISBN-13: 9781931777421
As the world economy becomes more interdependent and competition for business continues to be more globally oriented, it has become necessary to address the issues of IT management from a broader global focus. Information technology is not only the enabler of the global marketplace but also a potential solution base for achieving global competitive advantage. The transfer of IT worldwide will be met with many technological barriers and managerial challenges. As global networks and electronic communication become a way of life for business, the management of these emerging technologies worldwid
Author: Michalle E. Mor Barak
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: workplace, inclusive, globally, diversity, managing
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $67.95
ISBN-10: 0761927735
ISBN-13: 9780761927730
Managing Diversity provides an original and comprehensive text that is useful for teaching, organizational development, and scholarship. Successful management of an increasingly diverse workforce is today among the most important global challenges that corporate leaders, human resource managers, and management consultants face. Worldwide, immigration, worker migration (guest workers), and gender and ethnic differences continue to dramatically change the composition of the work environment. Workforce diversity is not a transient phenomenon - it is today’s reality and it is here to stay. H
Author: Anthony Woodiwiss
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Keywords: globally, glasshouse, work, rights, human, making
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-06-02
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 1904385087
ISBN-13: 9781904385080
This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights,and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being the defining aspect of many peoples lives and a central concern of sociology.
Author: A Blackstone
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: account, management, strategic, art, globally, locally, manage
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1994-08-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0786303301
ISBN-13: 9780786303304
This book addresses the factors that make managing the account relationship different from territory management and offers tools to help the account manager measure success of position within the account. Ideally suited for organizations with an account-focused sales force selling complex products to global accounts, this unique guide outlines how a team approach can be used to successfully sell at all levels of the customer’s business strategy and use that strategy to maintain the account while leveraging new opportunities; address the factors that make managing an account different fro
Author: Roger King
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: regulation, rankings, organizations, globally, universities, governing
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2009-08-09
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 1847207391
ISBN-13: 9781847207395
Roger King examines how universities, as increasingly autonomous organizations, are subject to forms of global governance that rely particularly on private and peer-processes rather than legal command and compliance. The book explores the growing influence of global regulatory governance - governmental and private - on universities and national higher education systems. It considers processes of purposeful standardization, normative internalization and markets as solutions for coordination and collective action problems, as well as hierarchical command. A range of university systems, world mod
