Iraq

from sumer to post-Saddam

Management risk

the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle

The author outlines the reasons why management risk must be examined within the perspective of each company's business challenges. He suggests there is a synergy between shareholder value and business ethics. He also underlines the importance of honesty, the risks associated with short-sighted management ...

Who pays for bank insolvency?

How to avoid taxpayers paying for bank failures and banking crises? This book provides a proposal and a critique by twelve independent experts. It is addressed particularly to the threat posed in Europe by having large international banks, a history of bailouts and limited means ...

Learning to be employable

new agendas on work,responsability and learning in a globalizing world

This book explores the powerful global discourse of employability in labour markets and how it is expressed in local worklife practice. This is key to understanding contemporary changes in the workings of labour markets and highlights changes in ideas regarding responsibility and learning. The book ...

Strategic management

Reflecting the challenges of formulating, implementing and monitoring strategy in practice, White's contemporary text discusses differing theories and approaches in the context of real-world experience. Readers are encouraged to conceptualize and generalize business problems and to confront philosophical issues without losing sight of practical ...

Working the street

what you need to know about life on Wall Street

Written by a former Managing Director at Merrill Lynch, Working the Street is the resource for readers hoping to build a successful career on Wall Street. It is not a 'how-to' career book or a job guide. It doesn't tell the reader who to ...

E-business

E-Business provides a balanced, holistic overview of the phenomenon of e-business and its role in transforming organizations. It takes a world- wide perspective and discusses the impact of ICT (information and communication technology) within both the private and public sectors. A strong underpinning in systems ...

The challenge of international business

This book focuses on the study of International business and more specifically 'Is the international business research agenda running out of steam?' After laying down this challenge, Buckley presents three theoretical developments, which point to ways forward for the agenda. He includes empirical evidence on ...

Explaining and forecasting the US federal funds rate

a monetary policy model for the US

This book has been written as a practical guide for finance markets professionals to explain US monetary policy and to make forecasts of future interest rate levels. Aimed at market players, familiar with US policy instruments, Explaining and Forecasting the US Federal Funds Rate will ...

Mentoring

a Henley review of best practice

In the last few years there has been a big expansion in the range of applications of mentoring in business and in the scope of particular schemes in specific organizations. This book draws upon valuable case study material and includes advice on best practice from ...

Strategic thinking in tactical times

The premise of the book is to provide insight into new ways through which corporations create and execute strategies. It is the result of a 24-hour intensive workshop that brought together over twenty strategy practitioners from multiple industries. They were asked to consider the proposition ...

Culture and positioninig as determinants of strategy

personality and the business organization

Strategic positioning is the assertion of an organizations personality on decisions of how and where to compete, it determines competitive position in the market place and differentiates the offering to the market. Operational positioning is an exercise in communication that concentrates on perception and image ...

Investing in corporate bonds and credit risk

Investing in Corporate Bonds and Credit Risk is a valuable tool for any corporate bond investor. All the most recent developments and strategies in investment in corporate bonds are analyzed included with qualitative and quantitative approaches. A complete and up-to-date investment process is developed through ...

Financial management

Financial Management is the ideal course text for business and management undergraduates and MBA students taking an introductory module in Financial Management. The concise yet thorough style of the book makes it highly accessible for students coming to the subject for the first time. This ...

Entrepeneurship

context,vision and planning

Entrepreneurship: Context, Vision & Planning enables final year undergraduate and postgraduate students to successfully blend their existing knowledge and skills to create a new enterprise to pursue an opportunity. A comprehensive outline of the historical development of the topic and its underpinnings in history, economics, law ...

Cars, carriers of regionalism?

This highly topical book brings together some of the world's leading specialists on the global car industry who discuss the ins and outs of the faster lane of regionalism at a time that the world is reassessing the ins and outs of globalization. It ...

Contemporary strategic management

Contemporary Strategic Management identifies, outlines and develops the body of skills, knowledge and expertise that is needed by managers in all senior positions within public and private organizations. Covering analysis and choice, implementation and the development of strategic management from a managerial perspective, the text ...

Key concepts in accounting and finance

Accounting and finance underpin much business activity,providing valuable decisioin-making tools.Accounting provides the primary means of examining,recording,analysis and assessing performance and quatifying the financial data of a business.Finance is a broader church which adderesses issues such as investment,the securities markets ...

Key concepts in business practice

Business practice is a broad area study and encompasses aspects of all business-related disciplines.Business practice refers to the administration,the planning,the coordination,monitoring and control of a buisness operation.It also seeks to identify the very best of business practice and apply it ...

Key concepts in human resource management

The sheer complexity of human resource management has given rise to a new discipline,which requires the systematic training of personnel professional.Coping with the profusion of terms,jargon,legislation and procedures can be a hard task for practitioners and an even greater challenge for ...