Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival...

1. The Market Economy in China’s Reform -- 2. Countries on the Way to Power: The Rise of Great Powers -- 3. Economics and the Rise of China’s Economy -- 4. Inflation and Asset Bubbles from Unsustainable Growth Patterns -- 5. “The Man Who Does Not Think Far Ahead Will Have Troubles Near at...

Introduction -- Opening of the Vietnamese economy: Achievements and challenges -- Public administration reform: Efforts and reality -- From state to market: Evolving ownership and corporate governance in Vietnam -- Labour and special economic zones -- Vietnamese political economy in an East...

Exploring the Way to China’s Modernization -- Four Major Reforms in China since the Modern Times -- Achievements of Reform: Development, Transition, and Globalization -- Experience from China’s Reform -- Three Stages of China’s Economic Institutional Transition -- The Origin of the...

This book tries to integrate the different arrangements devised in the MTS for small and large NMEs into one analytical framework and explores two sets of rules (GATT/WTO-minus and GATT/WTO-plus) along three historical stages (shaping, weakening and strengthening). The focal point of this book...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. About ‘Strategy for Existing Geography and Business’ -- Chapter 2. Business Model -- Chapter 3. Strategy Blueprint -- Chapter 4. Financial Plan -- Part 2. About ‘Strategy for New Geographies and/or Businesses’ and ‘Strategy & Execution’ -- Chapter...

1. Learning from Ancient Greek Philosophy -- 2. Aristotle and the Function of Management Consultants -- 3. Aristotle and Management Consultants’ Ethical Obligations -- 4. Aristotle and Ethical Choices of Clients -- 5. Plato and the Ethics of Management Consultancy Interventions -- 6....

Marius Schramböhmer zeigt detailliert die Bedeutung der Professional Service Firms (PSF), spezifischer noch der Unternehmensberatungen und des Subtypus der Managementberatung auf. Dabei adressiert er die auf die Branche einwirkenden Kräfte und die hieraus resultierenden Veränderungen der...

This book traces the emergence and development of the relationship between management consultancies and the British state. It seeks to answer three questions: why were management consultants brought into the machinery of the state; how has state power been impacted by bringing profit-seeking...