Corporate social responsibility : bottom-line issue or public relations exercise? / Lord Tim Clement-Jones -- Corporate citizenship as part of the business model / Geoffrey Bush -- Legislation, litigation, activism and threats / Stuart Thomson -- Measuring corporate social responsibility / Will...

Managing in an age of modularity / Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark -- Fast, global, and entrepreneurial : supply chain management, Hong Kong style : an interview with Victor Fung / Joan Magretta -- How Chrysler created an American Keiretsu / Jeffrey H. Dyer -- The power of trust in...

"According to Value Driven Management, companies that want to survive and prosper in today's globalized economy need to do more than single-mindedly pursue the transient economic value represented by increased quarterly profits, high stock prices, and shareholder wealth. Instead, they must...

Figures; Tables; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Development and trends in supply chain management; 2 New directions in logistics; 3 Future trends in supply chain management management; 4 Agile supply chain operating environments environments; 5 Time compression in the supply chain supply chain; 6...

Why training is not enough -- What is human performance enhancement (HPE)? -- Transforming a training department into a human performance enhancement (HPE) department -- Analyzing what is happening -- Envisioning what should be happening -- Clarifying present and future performance gaps --...

The role of learning, training and development in organizations -- The identification of learning, training and development needs -- The planning and designing of learning, training and development -- Delivering learning, training and development -- Assessment and evaluation of learning,...