This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to...

Businesses today operate in a more complex and turbulent environment and face intense competition. To be successful, businesses must intelligently understand and deal with their changing environment and market. In this book, Hashem Aghazadeh introduces marketology as a market-related system that...

Are the day-to-day pressures of your business preventing your organization from reaching its full potential? If you are spending the bulk of your time and energy streamlining your operations - squeezing more output from your resources, shaving costs, or pressing for speed - you are risking your...

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