Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts on...

Biographical note: Stephen R. Barley is Charles M. Pigott Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford's School of Engineering. Gideon Kunda is Associate Professor in the Department of Labor Studies at Tel Aviv...

Students of management are nearly unanimous (as are managers themselves) in believing that the contemporary business corporation is in a period of dizzying change. This book represents the first time that leading experts in sociology, law, economics, and management studies have been assembled in...

In this major reinterpretation of the evolution of the American corporation, Mark Roe convincingly demonstrates that the ownership structure of large U.S. firms owes its distinctive character as much to politics as to economics and technology. His provocative examination addresses essential...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Starkman, Dean -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Bad Business -- 1. The Dark Lord of Coal Country. Rolling Stone / Goodell, Jeff -- 2. Missing Milly Dowler's Voicemail Was Hacked by News of the World. The Guardian / Davies, Nick / Hill, Amelia -- 3....

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Starkman, Dean -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. On the Ground -- 1. The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class / Tietz, Jeff -- 2. The Great American Foreclosure Story / Kiel, Paul -- Part II. Bad Medicine -- 3. Bad to the Bone: A Medical Horror...

Presents a new research program that is transforming the study of international trade. Until a few years ago, models of international trade did not recognize the heterogeneity of firms and exporters, and could not provide good explanations of international production networks. Now such models...

Stories of predatory lending practices and the reckless destruction of the environment by greedy corporations dominate the news, suggesting that, in business, ethics and profit are incompatible pursuits. Yet some of the worst lenders are now bankrupt, and Toyota has enjoyed phenomenal success by...

More than 30 leading scholars and finance practitioners discuss the theory and practice of using enterprise-risk management (ERM) to increase corporate values. ERM is the corporate-wide effort to manage the right-hand side of the balance sheet¿a firm's total liability structure-in ways that...