Intro -- Fundraising Principles and Practice -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Authors -- 1 Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector -- Objectives -- Introduction -- A "Third" Sector -- A Tax-Based Definition -- A Structural-Operational Definition -- Size and...

Over the past decade, foreign direct investment (FDI) around the world has nearly tripled, and with this surge have come dramatic shifts in FDI flows. In Foreign Direct Investment, distinguished economists look at changes in FDI, including historical trends, specific country experiences,...

Intro -- TITLE PAGE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND EXHIBITS -- Figures -- Exhibits -- PREFACE -- SCOPE -- AUDIENCE -- OVERVIEW OF THE CONTENTS -- COMPANION STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKBOOKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR THE FIFTH EDITION -- THE AUTHOR -- PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF...

Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes the first truly...

How do business enterprises control their subunits? In what ways do existing paths of communication within a firm affect its ability to absorb new technology and techniques? How do American banks affect how companies operate? Do theoretical constructs correspond to actual behavior? Because...

The distribution of income, the rate of pay raises, and the mobility of employees is crucial to understanding labor economics. Although research abounds on the distribution of wages across individuals in the economy, wage differentials within firms remain a mystery to economists. The first...

Tax policy debates-and reforms-depend heavily on estimates of how alternative tax rules would affect behavior. Yet there is considerable controversy about the key empirical links among tax rates, household decisions, and revenue collections. The nine papers in this volume exploit the substantial...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Social Risks of the Dot-Com Era -- Risk Is Social -- Work Is Riskier -- Framing Risk -- Defining Venture Labor -- Venture Labor in the Internet Industry -- Methods -- Overview of the Book -- Why Risk Matters -- Chapter 2. The...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Technology, Innovation, and Productivity in the Information Age -- 2 Measuring the Information Economy -- 3 IT's Contributions to Productivity and Economic Growth -- 4 Business Practices That Enhance Productivity -- 5 Organizational...

Blue Skies is the first complete history of cable television, the most influential technology affecting the lives of almost every American. Author Patrick Parsons writes about the early days of cable -- they go back farther than most people know -- and the pioneers in the last half of the...