General Business: Books & eBooks

This comprehensive resource explores hundreds of topics in management theory and application, from balance sheets to virtual organizations. Perfect for students, business owners, and entrepreneurs as well as marketing professionals and general researchers studying business and economics, this respected resource features more than 300 detailed essays. Essays include cross-references to allow users to quickly access information and explore related concepts.

The work consists of detailed essays covering 33 nations that can be classified as emerging markets, as well as highlighting 1-3 industry profiles under each nation. Each profile includes an overview snapshot, the markets or industry's organization and structure, its history and development, trends and long-term outlook, and a bibliography for further reading.

Responsible Innovation. For some, this expression is only an oxymoron or, worse, a means of masking with a sheet of virtue economic practices that would otherwise appear selfish and self-interested. For others, theorists and actors of innovation, this expression represents a formidable lever of action and a rich conceptual source from which to draw new ways of innovating. By taking up some debates on CSR, most of which are foreign to the current authors of responsible innovation, this book examines the various justifications that CSR brings in order to convince economic players, subject to powerful market forces, of their responsible commitment. But these are not enough. The book also explores the specific contribution of the concept of responsible innovation to coping with the technological, social and political breakthroughs generated by innovation, and is based on philosophical resources such as the ethics of virtue and the ethics of "care."

As business and society is an inherently multi-disciplinary scholarly area, the book will draw from work in areas outside of business and management, such as psychology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, economics and other related fields, as well as the natural sciences, education, and other professional areas of study.

Business partnerships are vital to the US economy yet their failure rate is alarming: 70% of them don't make it. Dr. Lehavi is leading the charge to reverse this statistic. As a business partnership relationship coach, she intimately knows the impact that these partnerships have on cofounders, employees, customers, families, local communities, and global markets. Business partnership essentials walks you through every phase of the process--from choosing the right partner and operating your business on a daily basis, all the way through to exit and planning for the unexpected.