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Author : Calvin M. Boardman,Alan N. Sandomir,Harris Sondak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business
ISBN : 0997117184
Author : Calvin Boardman,Alan Sandomir,Harris Sondak
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781071945810
Now published by Sage Foundations of Business Thought, Ninth Edition presents the writings of great contemporary and historical thinkers in an effort to develop the conceptual foundation for commercial activity in general and the ideals of accounting, finance, management, marketing, and operations/production in particular. This unique approach of using classical works of authorship reinforces the importance of clear, critical, and integrative thinking. Since 1993, many thousands of students across the United States have been introduced to the world of commerce and business through a process that makes business concepts at once understandable and intimately personal. Business is presented as a series of human connections designed to address the personal needs and wants of individuals based on sets of values and codes of ethics that guide our thoughts and actions in a market setting. Business techniques and tools may change over time but the essential goals and concepts of commercial activity remain unchanged across both geography and time. Inspired by a four volume set of books produced by the Harvard Business School in 1962, entitled The World of Business, this course and the book upon which it rests present the writings of great contemporary and historical thinkers in order to develop the conceptual foundation for commercial activity in general and the ideals of accounting, finance, management, marketing and operations/production in particular. This unique approach of using classical works of authorship reinforces the importance of clear, critical and integrative thinking. These works first outline the motivations for the development of commercial activity and, then, present the fundamental elements important to the foundation of a commercial society. These foundational concepts are followed by sections devoted to the various functional areas of business, again introduced by classical works that have both passed the test of time and provide unique insights into each of the areas. Faculty are provided with detailed instructions on methods of relating the material to contemporary business concepts and practice. While this roadmap provides structure for the material, faculty are encouraged to take advantage of their individual specialization and creativity. This could end up being one of the most enjoyable courses a faculty member will teach. Students are encouraged to be critical of the readings, of the concepts and, most particularly, their own notions about business and, at the same time, open to new ideas, the thoughts of others and the opportunities for personal growth. Through careful reading of the text, participating in classroom discussions, expanding knowledge through individual research and by writing position papers on contemporary business topics, this course has the potential to be one of the most impactful undergraduate or graduate courses students will take in their college career.
Author : Calvin M. Boardman,Alan N. Sandomir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Business
ISBN : 0536598045
Author : Calvin M. Boardman,Pearson Custom Publishing,Alan N. Sandomir
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Business
ISBN : 0536024456
Author : Przemyslaw Rotengruber
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643910608
Seeking an ethical formula that would prove useful for evaluating actions and events occurring in the sphere of business and economics, the author focuses on dialogue. The need for dialogue is justified by the fact that interlocutors share a conviction that the relationship between them is valuable. Although the manner for assessing business experiences in the proposed formula is narrowed down to the interactive criterion of fairness, this criterion is sufficient for enabling partners to agree, or for them to reach a consensus. It reveals to them the ethically and praxeologically destructive effects of refusing to exchange information about their own accomplishments and plans and, sometimes, the consequences of refusing to accept responsibility for the process of others taking on the role of business partners.
Author : Jean-Etienne Joullié,Robert Spillane
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781793630162
The book's premise is that the theories taught in management schools are based on unacknowledged philosophical perspectives that are significant not so much for what they explain, but for what they assume. Rarely made explicit, these perspectives cannot be reconciled, with the result that the study of management has been dominated by contradictions and internecine intellectual warfare. However, the ability critically to analyze these diverse perspectives is essential to practicing and aspiring managers if they are to evaluate expert opinion. Moreover, since management is primarily an exercise in communication, managing is impossible in the darkness of an imprecise language, in the absence of moral references, or in the senseless outline of a world without intellectual foundations. Managing is a prime example of applied philosophy.
Author : D.G. Brian Jones,Mark Tadajewski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317295952
The study and teaching of marketing as a university subject is generally understood to have originated in America during the early 20th century emerging as an applied branch of economics. This book tells a different story describing the influence of the German Historical School on institutional economists and economic historians who pioneered the study of marketing in America and Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing from archival materials at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard Business School, and the University of Birmingham, this book documents the early intellectual genealogy of marketing science and traces the ideas that early American and British economists borrowed from German scholars to study and teach marketing. Early marketing scholars both in America and Britain openly credited the German School, and its ideology based on social welfare and distributive justice was a strong motivation for many institutional economists who studied marketing in America, predating the modern macro-marketing school by many decades. Challenging many traditional beliefs, this book provides an authoritative new narrative of the origins of marketing thought. It will be of great interest to educators, scholars and advanced students with an interest in marketing theory and history, and in the history of economic thought.
Author : Stephen J. Skripak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997920114
(Black & White version) Fundamentals of Business was created for Virginia Tech's MGT 1104 Foundations of Business through a collaboration between the Pamplin College of Business and Virginia Tech Libraries. This book is freely available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/70961 It is licensed with a Creative Commons-NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license.
Author : Marie-Laure Djelic,Radu Vranceanu
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782542558
Exploring the ethical foundations of the different subfields of managerial thought, this book brings a thoroughly new light on the issue of sustainability and responsibility in management theory and practice.
Author : Paul H. Rigby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4450599
Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521807074
This insightful and wide-ranging volume traces the genesis of international intellectual thought, connecting international and global history with intellectual history.
Author : Barbara F. Gentile,Benjamin O. Miller
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015073622311
"Through carefully selected and extensively annotated original sources, Foundations of Psychological Thought: A History of Psychology deals with some of the most important issues and ideas in the history of psychological thought. Defining questions such as "How do we distinguish between normal and abnormal behavior?" and "How much of our behavior is biologically determined?" are posed throughout the book."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Nada R. Sanders,John D. Wood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118441046
Foundations of Sustainable Business is designed to introduce future business leaders to the most important social and environmental issues of our generation. From the perspectives of a business thought-leader and a public interest policy expert, the text provides a comprehensive, balanced introduction to sustainable business that integrates sustainable policies into all core business functions, including leadership, finance, accounting, risk management, marketing, supply chain management, and operations. Presenting sustainability as a strategic priority for all aspects of business, the text clearly defines all key concepts and shows how social, economic, and environmental trends are interconnected and relevant to corporate strategy. While the text provides an honest look at climate change, human trafficking, and environmental issues such as water shortage and ecosystem health, all normative guidance is based on traditional business value propositions, taking into account cost, risk, strategy, marketing potential, and operational feasibility. Additionally, the text offers a variety of pedagogical tools in each chapter to provide an engaging, qualitative-based learning process. Each chapter ends with original cases with focused questions that test comprehension of concepts. With in-chapter discussion questions, illustrative diagrams, ethical dilemmas, managerial insights, links to fascinating TED Talk videos, and on-point Harvard Business Review cases, Foundations of Sustainable Business is user-friendly for instructors and accessible to students.
Author : Haim Kilov,Ken Baclavski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789401727402
"In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. " Roger Bacon (1214?-1294?) "Mathematics-the art and science of effective reasoning. " E. W. Dijkstra, 1976 "A person who had studied at a good mathematical school can do anything. " Ye. Bunimovich, 2000 This is the third book published by Kluwer based on the very successful OOPSLA workshops on behavioral semantics (the first two books were published in 1996 [KH 1996] and 1999 [KRS 1999]). These workshops fostered precise and explicit specifications of business and system semantics, independently of any (possible) realization. Some progress has been made in these areas, both in academia and in industry. At the same time, in too many cases only lip service to elegant specifica tions of semantics has been provided, and as a result the systems we build or buy are all too often not what they are supposed to be. We used to live with that, and quite often users relied on human intermediaries to "sort the things out. " This approach worked perfectly well for a long time.
Author : Gavin Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134302727
This volume is an excellent addition to Routledge’s Studies in Small Business series. In this extended and novel entrepreneurial analysis of small firm inception and growth, a leading authority in the field develops a new kind of ‘micro-micro’ analysis, applying rigorous methods from economics, accounting and finance to gain a deeper understanding of micro-firms. Reid examines performance, hierarchy, capital structure, monitoring and control, flexibility, innovation and information systems. Using statistical, econometric and qualitative methods of empirical research, Foundations of Small Business Enterprise tracks and analyses the evolution of 150 small firms from their early years through to maturity. This title will appeal to a wide range of students, specialists and practitioners in economics, accounting and finance.