A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.

This book explores the political and economic issues currently challenging EU member states. It analyses and explains how its own economic, and political, relationships have been critically influenced by fierce competition from its rivals in other major global economies, as well as by the...

Development of Production Management- from Site to Network Optimisation -- A Model for Network Design -- Clarification of the Initial Strategic Situation -- The Network Configuration -- Network Coordination -- Analysis and Design of Networks in Practice -- Outlook and Summary.

Personalführung und Personalführungselemente -- Führungsverhalten und die Anforderungen des Wandels -- Führungskonzeptionen zur Steuerung des Führungsverhaltens -- Case Study eines Industrieunternehmens.

Chapter 1. Globalization of Indian Industries: How to move forward? -- Chapter 2. Infrastructure, ICT and Firms’ Productivity and Efficiency: An Application to the Indian Manufacturing -- Chapter 3. R&D spillovers across the supply chain: Evidence from the Indian automobile industry -- Chapter...

This book describes, in a precise but practical way, the most recent principles and techniques of project management, at the highest international standards, with a fully company-wide, process-based, multi-project approach. It is unique because of the integration of project management...

Introduction -- Review of the Literature on Strategy Cascading, Context, and Leadership -- Research Design and Data Collection -- The Relevance of Organizational Context to Strategy Cascading -- The Effect of Leadership on Strategy Cascading -- Assessment of Strategy Cascading Quality and...

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...

In the first book of its kind, Turnbull traces the development and implementation of actuarial ideas, from the conception of Equitable Life in the mid-18th century to the start of the 21stcentury. This book analyses the historical development of British actuarial thought in each of its three...

The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines....