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Author : Algis Budrys
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 9781291455274
Consists of book reviews and essays written for The magazine of fantasy and science fiction.
Author : Andrea Colli,Abe De Jong,Martin Jes Iversen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135754518
This book addresses the evolution of the strategies, structures, ownership patterns and performances of large European corporations since the early 1960s. The authors study large and small countries, in order to understand how the process of economic integration has affected the patterns of growth and the structural characteristics of the largest firms. Drawing both on extensive databases and on case studies, the contributions in this volume address the peculiar specificities of large firms in different national contexts, adopting a longitudinal, long term perspective. This volume delivers the first results of an international, collective research effort undertaken by several national teams. The 'Mapping Corporate Europe' project aims to provide a detailed account of the structural traits of the European Corporation in a framework which includes (i) a chronological analysis over 50 years, starting with the Rome treaty in 1957; (ii) geographical extension beyond previous analyses for France, Germany and the UK, by including smaller countries; (iii) firms from other industries in addition to manufacturing companies; and (iv) attention to internationalisation of European firms. These analyses form the basis of a rich description of the developments of large European corporations over the past five decades, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. This book was originally published as a special issue of Business History.
Author : David Langford
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326299828
Fifteen interviews in which David Langford -- winner of 29 Hugo Awards -- questions other science fiction and fantasy notables: Stephen Baxter, Kristen Britain, John Clute and John Grant, John Clute solo, George Hay, Tom Holt, Terry Pratchett with Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart, Terry Pratchett solo (twice), Christopher Priest, Alastair Reynolds, John Sladek, Bob Shaw, Kevin Smith, and Ian Watson. CROSSTALK collects all these conversations for the first time in book form.
Author : Morten Jerven
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191004193
How do we measure African economic performance? This volume studies how growth is measured in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia and challenges commonly held beliefs of African economic performance. The volume offers a reconsideration of economic growth in Africa in three respects. First, it shows that the focus has been on average economic growth and that there has been no failure of economic growth. In particular the gains made in the 1960s and 1970s have been neglected. Second, it emphasizes that for many countries the decline in economic growth in the 1980s was overstated, as was the improvement in economic growth in the 1990s. The coverage of economic activities in GDP measures is incomplete. In the 1980s many economic activities were increasingly missed in the official records thus the decline in the 1980s was overestimated (resulting from declining coverage) and the increase in the 1990s was overestimated (resulting from increasing coverage). The third important reconsideration is that there is no clear association between economic growth and orthodox economic policies. This is counter to the mainstream interpretation, and suggests that the importance of sound economic policies has been overstated, and that the importance of the external economic conditions have been understated in the prevailing explanation of African economic performance.
Author : Stephen G. Brooks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400841301
Scholars and statesmen have debated the influence of international commerce on war and peace for thousands of years. Over the centuries, analysts have generally treated the questions "Does international commerce influence security?" and "Do trade flows influence security?" as synonymous. In Producing Security, Stephen Brooks maintains that such an overarching focus on the security implications of trade once made sense but no longer does. Trade is no longer the primary means of organizing international economic transactions; rather, where and how multinational corporations (MNCs) organize their international production activities is now the key integrating force of global commerce. MNC strategies have changed in a variety of fundamental ways over the past three decades, Brooks argues, resulting in an increased geographic dispersion of production across borders. The author shows that the globalization of production has led to a series of shifts in the global security environment. It has a differential effect on security relations, in part because it does not encompass all countries and industries to the same extent. The book's findings indicate that the geographic dispersion of MNC production acts as a significant force for peace among the great powers. The author concludes that there is no basis for optimism that the globalization of production will promote peace elsewhere in the world. Indeed, he finds that it has a net negative influence on security relations among developing countries.
Author : R. Jha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230520318
This volume brings together frontline research on the prospects for rapid economic development in South Asia by leading academics and public policy experts. It reviews recent macroeconomic performance in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and examines three emergent challenges for the Indian economy: devising a policy response to climate change, attaining the millennium development goals and restructuring state level finances. The book then analyzes financial sector reforms and development of information and communications technology (ICT) firms and privatization policy in India and the South Asian approach to free trade arrangements and multilateral trade. It studies issues related to foreign perceptions of South Asian development including governance and foreign direct investment flows into India and Nepal. Finally the book studies the impact of the structural composition of economic growth on poverty in India, the evolution of inequality in India and elements of a strategy for poverty reduction in South Asia.
Author : Patria de Lancer Julnes,Marc Holzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317462897
This volume in the "ASPA Classics" series compiles the most influential contributions to the theory and practice of performance measurement that have been published in various journals affiliated with the American Society for Public Administration. The book includes major sections of original text along with the readings, and provides students and practitioners with a handy reference source for theory development and practice improvement in performance measurement. The coverage is broad, including methods and techniques for developing effective performance measurement systems, building performance-based management systems, and sustaining performance-based budgeting. The articles are all classics in the field that have endured the test of time and are considered 'must reads' on performance measurement.
Author : Karl W. Wöber
Publisher : CABI
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-12
Category : Benchmarking (Management)
ISBN : 0851997562
offers methodological framework for answering key benchmarking questionsonly substantial work covering this topicworld-wide coverage and usageBenchmarking is a buzzword of the last decade that describes a method for comparing different companies, by measuring various data, performance and goals. This book focuses on the methodological aspects of the right selection of benchmarking partners.
Author : Dr. Akshai Aggrawal
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312374164
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B5147322
Author : K. Saranto,P. Flatley Brennan,H.-A. Park
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781607504436
The proceedings of the 10th International Nursing Informatics Congress (NI2009) offers a wide range of scientific knowledge to be disseminated among nurses, administrators, physicians or informaticians irrespective of whether they are clinicians, teachers, researchers or students. The variation of papers follow the advances in health information technology, although certain important topics such as ethics, education, management and clinical practice applications remain. The proceedings follows the ten themes of the conference programme: clinical workflow and human interface; consumer health informatics and personal health records; health information technology; terminology, standards and NMDS’s; patient preferences and quality of care; patient safety; evidence based practice and decision support; consumer and professional education; strategies and methods for HIT training and national eHealth initiatives across the globe.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Geology
ISBN : MINN:31951P010578050
Author : S C Moon,H Ikeda
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814603768
This proceedings volume contains 52 technical research papers on multidatabases, distributed DB, multimedia DB, object-oriented DB, real-time DB, temporal DB, deductive DB, and intelligent user interface. Some industrial papers are also included.
Author : United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2662 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : UOM:39015034741572
Author : Patrick T. Harker,Stavros A. Zenios
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521777674
The efficient operation of financial intermediaries--banks, insurance and pension fund firms, government agencies and so on--is instrumental for the efficient functioning of the financial system and the fueling of the economies of the twenty-first century. But what drives the performance of these institutions in today's global environment? In this volume, world-renowned scholars bring their expertise to bear on the issues. Primary among them are the definition and measurement of efficiency of a financial institution, benchmarks of efficiency, identification of the drivers of performance and measurement of their effects on efficiency, the impact of financial innovation and information technologies on performance, the effects of process design, human resource management policies, as well as others.