How is your career going? Do you get the respect and recognition you deserve and sail through corporate life sans any obstacle to impede your ascension up the corporate ladder? Or does the office jungle sometimes threaten to overwhelm you? If you want to improve your efficiency or profitability...

This book offers material for strategic thinking featuring contributions from key figures in Europe, the US and Asia. The focus of the book expands from economic to legal issues, bankruptcy and safety and security. The carefully selected papers offer a thorough and structured analysis of major...

`This body of knowlege should be of interest to human resource management specialists. ...[and] to those who are interested in developing their knowledge and understanding of corporate learning and what a learning organisations is. Indeed, [it]... will appeal ...to academics as it offers a...

Intro -- CONTESTING AGRICULTURE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- CHRONOLOGY -- 1. Introduction -- The Setting -- Methodology -- 2. Identities -- PART I: The Communist Period -- 3. The History of Collectivization in Agriculture -- 4. The LPG --...

This edited collection examines the impact of privatisation and the lessons to be learnt from it for the purpose of regulatory reform. The contributors analyse the benefits and losses of privatisation in a variety of countries from economic, legal and consumer perspectives and address...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the influence of top management team diversity on academic excellence in universities. Academic excellence is conceptualized as successfully gaining funds for inter-organizational research collaborations, interdisciplinary graduate schools and...