Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Small Business: You Are a Very Big Part of America -- We're in Your Corner -- Seismic Events -- The Small Business Revolution -- Leader to Leader -- You May Be Thinking This -- Companion Site -- You Are Part of a...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Current Economy -- 1 Regulating -- 2 Representing -- 3 Optimizing -- 4 Protesting -- Epilogue: Techno-Economics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S --...

Cover -- Retail Supply Chain Management -- Contents -- Preface -- Authors -- Section I THE RETAIL SUPPLY CHAIN -- 1 Defining the Retail Supply Chain -- 1.1 More Than Stores -- 1.2 Defining Supply Chain and Supply Chain Management -- 1.3 The Importance of Customer Segments -- 1.4 Adding Value...

From lobbyists such as Jack Abramoff, to corporate executives, like Enron's Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, recent scandals dealing with politics and government have focused only on men at the top. But do these high-profile men accurately represent the gendered make up of corporate-government...

Focused on the region as a whole and drawing from archives in Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Guyana, St. Kitts, Antigua, the U.S. and U.K., this book details the region's impact on the U.S. (particularly on Jim Crow), as it charts the British Empire's retreat in the face of a challenge from Washington

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"This book examines current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight the limitations of these theories. Instead a model emerges of contemporary political economies developing in incremental but cumulatively transformative processes"--Provided by publisher

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