Business Ethics and Common Sense or Managing Elites

Business Ethics and Common Sense

Author: Robert W W McGe

Many business ethics books take a basically collectivist approach to the subject. They speak in terms of collective rights and interests, the public interest, social justice, the greatest good for the greatest number, and so forth. If individualism is mentioned at all, it is mentioned disparagingly. This book takes a different approach. While some of the contributors to this volume take the more popular collectivist approach, many of them do not. Thus, this book offers a more balanced presentation of business ethics than that found in most books on the subject.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
I	Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics
1	Teaching Business Ethics in an Academic Environment of Mistrust	3
2	Selfishness, Exploitation, and the Profit Motive	19
3	Capitalism and Morality: The Role of Practical Reason	31
4	Business: Myth and Morality	45
5	Ayn Rand's Objectivist Ethics as the Foundation of Business Ethics	67
6	What Is the Public Interest?	89
II	Relationships between the Corporation and Outsiders
7	Are Anticompetitive Practices Unethical?	101
8	To Whom Does the Corporation Owe a Duty?	115
9	Corporate Social Responsibility	137
10	Business Environmental Ethics	153
III	Responsibilities of the Corporation to Insiders
11	Ethical Issues in Acquisitions and Mergers	167
12	Ethics and Affirmative Action - A Managerial Approach	187
13	Ethical Behavior in Labor Relations	197
14	Insider Trading	219
IV	Responsibilities of Employees and the Corporation
15	Conflicts of Interest	233
16	Ethical Dilemmas of Management Accountants	251
17	The Ethics of Computer Activities	271
18	Codes of Ethics	283
	Index	295
	About the Editor and Contributors	301

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Managing Elites: Socialization in Law and Business Schools

Author: Debra J Schleef

How does one become a member of an elite profession? Managing Elites examines how elites-in-training contest, rationalize, and ultimately embrace their dominant positions in society. Using interviews with law and MBA students, the author shows that becoming elite is not a straightforward process without tensions. Successful socialization outcomes--employment in large corporate law firms or prominent investment banks and consulting firms--require both accomodation iandi resistance to ideologies about achievement and meritocracy.

Handbook of Work and Health Psychology or Technical Managers Handbook

Handbook of Work and Health Psychology

Author: Marc J Schabracq

Workplace health is now recognised as having major legal, financial and efficiency implications for organizations. Psychologists are increasingly called on as consultants or in house facilitators to help design work processes, assess and counsel individuals and advise on change management.
The second edition of this handbook offers a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date survey of the field with a focus on the applied aspects of work and health psychology.
An unrivalled source of knowledge and references in the field, for students and academics, this edition also reflects the need to relate research to effective and realistic interventions in the workplace.

• Editors are outstanding leaders in their fields
• Focuses on linking research to practice
• Over 50ew chapters. New topics include Coping, The Psychological Contract and Health, Assessment and Measurement of Stress and Well-Being, the Effects of Change, and chapters of Conflict and Communication

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Technical Manager's Handbook: A Survival Guide

Author: Melvin Silverman

'The Technical Manager's Handbook' serves as a valuable, cross-method reference to scientists, researchers, engineers, and students who are currently, or are soon to be involved in technical management operations. Managers and would-be managers in quality assurance, manufacturing, administration, and computer manufacturing will also benefit from this volumes accessible and practical exploration.

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Interprets the latest management theories and techniques and suggests how to use them and integrate them in the development of individual management styles. Includes material on dealing with international firms; TQM and ISO 9000; information systems; CAD management; ethics; motivation; and team structures, with chapter summaries, case studies, and questions. For researcher, engineers, and students involved in technical management operations, and managers in quality assurance, manufacturing, administrations, and computer manufacturing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Author
Ch. 1	Technical Management: Who and What We Are	1
Ch. 2	The Manager: Dealing with Yourself - The Most Important Individual	31
Ch. 3	Beginning: Building Your Own Model/Theory	65
Ch. 4	The Whole Organization Design: A Little History, Many Models	85
Ch. 5	The Model Components	115
Ch. 6	People - Basic Building Blocks Concerning Motivation	135
Ch. 7	Putting Theory to Work: Motivation Prescribed	195
Ch. 8	Structures: Description and Prescription Semi-permanent Teams: Functions and Survival Today	217
Ch. 9	Prescriptions for Structures: Temporary Teams	257
Ch. 10	Technology: How We Do Things, Techniques and Systems	307
Ch. 11	Leadership and Ethics: Holding It All Together	349
Ch. 12	Repetitive Decision Systems: Information: Tell Me What's Happening in the Organization	393
Ch. 13	Costs and Measurement: What Do I Need as a Manager?	427
Ch. 14	Getting Things Changed	449
Ch. 15	Speculation on Future Uses and Personal Thoughts	483
	Index	497

Profiles in Entrepreneurship or Business Concepts for English Practice

Profiles in Entrepreneurship: Leaving More Than Footprints

Author: David C Nelson

Profiles in Entrepreneurship showcases success through the experiences of 29 highly successful entrepreneurs in their own words. Learn about topics like opportunity recognition, risk assessment, leadership, and how to compensate for limited resources from the first-hand accounts of leaders like Herb Kelleher, Red McCombs, and Katie Brickman Harvey. Each profile includes a look at their driving motivation, tactics, and strategies, highlights of their professional experiences, and a question and answer session. Also included is 2 hours of video--where the profiled entrepreneurs discuss their experiences as if they were addressing your own class. Profiles in Entrepreneurship provides the real-world experience and wisdom in a way that both engages and informs.

Table of Contents:

1. Sam Barshop, Barshop & Oles Company, Inc. 2. Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines 3. Ray Benson, Bandleader, Asleep at the Wheel 4. Stacey Bishkin, BBH Exhibits, Inc. 5. Randi Shade, Charitygift.com 6. Heriberto Guerra, Jr., SBC Communications, Inc. 7. Robert F. McDermott, USAA 8. Richard E. Tankerson, Carver Academy via Metropolitan Transit Authority 9. Jim Kozlowski, Texas Growth Fund & TGF Management Corp. 10. Walter Embrey, Embrey Development Company 11. C. Patrick Oles, Jr., Barshop & Oles Company, Inc. 12. Lowell Lebermann, Centex Beverage, Inc. 13. Nelson Wolff, Sun Harvest Foods 14. Katie Brickman Harvey, KG Brickman, Inc. 15. Charles E. Amato, Southwest Business Corporation/Employees Life Holding Company 16. Steve Hicks, AMFM, Inc. 17. Ian Fisher, Builders First Source 18. Gary Woods, McCombs Enterprises 19. Jan A. Lehman, Lehman McLeskey 20. Thomas Meredith, Dell Ventures 21. Jesse Luxton, Former President, CEO National Picture and Frame 22. Bob Marbut, Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. 23. Sonny Melendrez, Radio Personality 24. Peter Holt, The Holt Companies 25. Todd Maclin, Chase Bank 26. H.B. Zachry, Jr., H.B. Zachry Company 27. Bobby Inman, Venture Capitalist 28. Lionel Sosa, Media Consultant 29. Red McCombs, McCombs Automotive/Minnesota Vikings

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Business Concepts for English Practice

Author: Barbara Tolley Dowling

This book is a business-oriented English text with both an academic and an applied focus. It is intended for intermediate to advanced students of English who have an academic and/or professional interest in business. For students with little or no business terms are defined in the glossary. Those with experience in the business world and advanced language proficiency will be able to move more quickly through the readings and on to move more quickly through the readings and on to the application exercises and task-based activities.

Making Globalization or Consumer Behavior

Making Globalization

Author: Robert J Holton

This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new to the topic. It deals even-handedly with all the various dimensions of globalization--political, economic, social and cultural--and particularly draws attention to the role of people in processes of globalization. The book's historical dimension and its multicultural focus ensure that globalization is shown neither to be an inexorable process nor one that can be equated simply with Westernization.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	When did globalization begin?	28
3	Global patterning : systems, structures, fields, networks, Webs, and flows	55
4	Globalization and the transformation of space, and time	81
5	Global, national, regional, and local : competing or inter-dependent?	105
6	Global civil society	132
7	Globalization and its discontents	159
8	The making of globalization : puzzles and prospects	185

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Consumer Behavior

Author: James F Engel

This text contains diverse and balanced coverage of consumer behavior research in theory and application from some of the pioneering authors in this field. Ideal for one-term courses in consumer behavior offered by both marketing and psychology departments. This was the first text to integrate behavioral science with the decision orientation of the business school.

Keys to Engineering Success or Price Theory and Applications

Keys to Engineering Success

Author: Carol Carter

The variety of paths afforded an engineering student—academically and personally—can be both exciting and overwhelming. Required course work can seem sometimes irrelevant or, at the very least, extraordinarily difficult. Keys to Engineering Success offers an upfront description of what engineering is, skills needed to succeed, and information about what career opportunities are available upon graduation. Profiles of engineering professionals, and personal stories about a variety of people who have gone through an engineering program, offer inspiration and encouragement in pursuing academic and professional excellence.

Table of Contents:

1. What Is Engineering?
2. Where to Get Help When You Need It.
3. Individual Realities.
4. Goal Setting and Time Management.
5. Critical and Creative Thinking.
6. Reading and Study Skills.
7. Note-Taking and Writing.
8. Listening, Memory, and Test Taking.
9. Relating to Others.
10. Managing Career and Money.
11. Changing With the Future.
Appendix A. Types of Engineers.
Appendix B. Web Resources.
Index.

Book review: Financial Accounting or Basics

Price Theory and Applications

Author: Landsburg

By the successful author of "The Armchair Economist" (a popular trade book that explains basic economics to the general public), this book makes intermediate microeconomics fun and intellectually challenging. The writing style provides an exceptionally friendly and application-rich presentation, combined with a rigorous and careful development of microeconomics theory. All of the standard topics of intermediate price theory are included, as well as many innovative topics, such as alternative normative criteria, efficient asset markets, contestable markets, antitrust law, human capital, demand for public goods, and more. A unique unifying theme of social welfare is used throughout. The inclusion of higher-level mathematics is minimal.

Cost Accounting for Managerial Planning Decision Making and Control 5e or Substance Abuse in the WorkPlace

Cost Accounting for Managerial Planning, Decision Making and Control, 5e

Author: Andrew Schiff

This text is intended for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in cost accounting at both the basic and advanced levels. It provides complete, concise and clearly written discussions of topics commonly included in a basic course, with an in-depth treatment of selected topics more appropriate for a course in advanced cost accounting. Modular coverage of these topics enables the instructor to present a greater amount of core material in a limited time, while adapting the text to his or her own preferences for course content. By emphasizing the differing uses for cost accounting information, the text makes the student an intelligent provider, user, and interpreter of this information. This strategy is evident in each chapter, as basic concepts are presented and then illustrated with examples and a wide variety of end-of-chapter assignments.

Table of Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The Role of Cost Accounting
2. Cost Accounting Objectives and Cost Classifications
3. Cost Estimation
4. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
5. Traditional Product Cost Systems: Job Order Cost Systems
6. Traditional Product Cost Systems: Process Cost Systems
7. Cost Allocation
8. Activity Based Costing Systems and Activity Based Management
9. Profit Planning and the Master Budget
10. Standard Costs and Control
11. Flexible Budgets, Overhead Control, and Variance Investigation Decisions
12. Variable Costing
13. Approaches to Special Managerial Decisions
14. Inventory Management
15. Measuring, Reporting, and Controlling Product Quality Costs
16. Capital Budgeting Decisions
17. Responsibility Accounting and Performance Reporting
18. Divisional Performance Measurement

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Substance Abuse in the Workplace

Author: Reginald L Campbell

Substance Abuse in the Workplace makes a valuable contribution tothe national movement to help stem the tide of drug abuse. The book begins with the history of substance abuse, continues with a discussion of how the human body functions normally or under the influence of chemicals, and follows with a toxicological description of the more common chemicals abused today in America.

It discusses ways to help the abuser through identification and assistance programs and also covers the laws involved.

The broad audience for Substance Abuse in the Workplace is includes middle and upper management, labor leaders, industrial hygienists, safety personnel, and workers.

Principles of Microeconomics or The Professional Musicians Legal Companion

Principles of Microeconomics

Author: Karl E Cas

's hardbound Principles of Economics text. This fourth edition contains more international material, and coverage of health-care reform, immigration, urban problems, new trade treaties, and transitional economies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Table of Contents:

Part 1: Introduction to Economics

Ch. 1: The Scope and Method of Economics

Ch. 2: The Economic Problem: Scarcity and Choice

Ch. 3: Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium

Ch. 4: Demand and Supply Applications

Ch. 5: Elasticity

Part 2: The Market System: Choices Made by Households and Firms

Ch. 6: Household Behavior and Consumer Choice

Ch. 7: The Production Process: The Behavior of Profit-Maximizing Firms

Ch. 8: Short-Run Costs and Output Decisions

Ch. 9: Long-Run Costs and Output Decisions

Ch. 10: Input Demand: The Labor and Land Markets

Ch. 11: Input Demand: The Capital Market and the Investment Decision

Ch. 12: General Equilibrium and the Efficiency of Perfect Competition

Part 3: Market Imperfections and the Role of Government

Ch. 13: Monopoly and Antitrust Policy

Ch. 14: Oligopoly

Ch. 15: Monopolistic Competition

Ch. 16: Externalities, Public Goods, and Social Choice

Ch. 17: Uncertainty and Asymmetric Information

Ch. 18: Income Distribution and Poverty

Ch. 19: Public Finance: The Economics of Taxation

Part 4: The World Economy

Ch. 20: International Trade, Comparative Advantage, and Protectionism

Ch. 21: Economic Growth in Developing and Transitional Economies

 

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The Professional Musician's Legal Companion

Author: Michael Aczon

Do you find the legal aspects of the music business daunting? Are you seeking recording contracts or other business relationships, but you have financial concerns over the costs of attorneys? Have you, like many musicians, had a bad experience or bad impression of entertainment attorneys? If you're ready to address these issues and embrace the responsibility of your career, let this guide be your legal companion. By taking the time to become well informed and prepared, you'll be able to work better with an attorney to suit your style and specific needs. In an effort to get to the core of the legal issues without confusing you, this book is very straightforward. You'll get an introduction to all the legal subjects you should know and how to deal with attorneys. You'll gain an understanding of the four main contracts used in the music business— recording artist, songwriter, artist management, and performance— which are explained in simple, easy-to-comprehend terms. Furthermore, you'll get guidance on how to make the experience with your current attorney, or future attorney, more fruitful, and more time- and cost-effective. With more than 20 years in this business, interacting with many musicians both personally and professionally, Michael A. Aczon shares the many lessons he's learned and takes you on a journey to a better legal understanding of the entertainment industry and your music career.

From Product Description to Cost or The Structure of Womens Nonprofit Organizations

From Product Description to Cost: A Practical Approach: Volume 1 the Parametric Approach

Author: Pierre Foussier

Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a very powerful and cost effective technique. Unfortunately, this technique is often misunderstood and rejected by many potential users for whom it could be a beneficial tool. The development of an agreement on how to use it and how to recognise its limitations is a major benefit to the cost estimating community.

From Product Description to Cost: A Practical Approach:

presents different ways of parametrically forecasting costs, and the advantages and disadvantages of these methods by using real examples from the mechanical, software and building industries;

discusses most of the mathematical procedures which are useful for parametrically forecasting costs;

introduces the judgement needed to audit the ways in which these forecasting techniques are used, firstly as a process, and secondly as a tool to generate estimates.

Volume 1: The Parametric Approach contains four parts. Over the course of this volume, cost estimating is introduced; the preparation of data before utilization is discussed; the basic concepts of 'general' cost estimating models are examined; the use of cost models is considered and finally, risk analysis (as it can be used during parametric cost estimating) is introduced.

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The Structure of Women's Nonprofit Organizations

Author: Rebecca L Bordt

In the decades since the women's movement first called for new collective, nonhierarchical modes of organization, have distinctly "feminist" organizational structures evolved? Focusing on women's nonprofit organizations founded in New York City between 1967 and 1988, Rebecca Bordt describes what these organizations look like structurally and explains why they have adopted a particular form.

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Bordt (sociology, U. of Notre Dame) describes the organizational structure of women's nonprofit organizations and uses organizational theory to explain why they adopt a particular form. She presents results of a study of 30 women's nonprofit organizations established in the years 1967-88 in New York City. She concludes that the majority of these groups are hybrid organizations and that as such, their structure is best predicted by a set of factors that differ from those that predict the form of bureaucracies and collectives. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
I	The debate about organizational form in the contemporary women's movement	9
II	What do women's nonprofits look like?	15
III	Rarely bureaucracies or collectives: a typology of women's nonprofits in New York City	35
IV	Why do women's nonprofits look the way they do?	49
V	Conclusion	77
	Appendix: Methodology	83
	Notes	99
	References	103
	Index	111

Cases in Business Ethics or China in the World Market

Cases in Business Ethics (Ivey Casebook Series)

Author: David J Sharp

The Ivey Casebooks Series is a co-publishing partnership between SAGE Publications and the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario. Due to their popularity in more than 60 countries, approximately 200 new cases are added to the Ivey School of Business library each year. Each of the casebooks comes equipped with Instructor's Resources on CD-ROM. These affordable collections will not only help students connect to real-world situations, but will benefit corporations seeking continued education in the field as well.  

Cases in Business Ethics provides the opportunity for students not only to discuss the application of ethical theories in managerial situations, but also to apply judgment and make decisions in a real-world context. This collection of cases focuses on business decision- making, and includes both short and long, more complex cases that highlight the practicalities of business practice and ethical theory. A beneficial feature of Cases in Business Ethics is the variety of ways in which the cases can be organized to fit the course curriculum. The instructor's resources on CD-ROM includes detailed 6-10 page casenotes for each case, preparation questions for students to review before class, discussion questions, and suggested further readings.   

The IVEY Casebook Series
Cases in Business Ethics
Cases in Entrepreneurship
Cases in Gender & Diversity in Organizations
Cases in Operations Management
Cases in Organizational Behavior
Cases in the Environment of Business
Cases inAlliance Management
Mergers and Acquitisions: Text and Cases

Table of Contents:

Introduction to the Ivey Casebook Series - Paul W. Beamish
Preface
Introduction
1. Ethics of the Firm's Relationship With Its Shareholders
Northeastern Mutual Life: Preparing for Employee Terminations
Enron Corp.
Acme Hardware
Fardo Industries Inc.
The Ontario Capital Group
The Jeffrey Verde Account
2. Ethics of the Relationship Between the Firm and Its Customers
Hayward & Guzman: Disposable Contact Lenses
Cruickshank, Garth & Romano
Grandview Excavators Ltd.
Peter Farber (A)
3. Ethics of the Firm's Relationship With Its Employees
Matt Moreau's Dilemma
Coastal Uniforms
CXP Publishing Inc. (A)
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce: Digital Employee Privacy
Stamford Machine Corporation: Allegations of Racism
4. Ethical Issues in International Business
Siam Canadian Foods Co., Ltd.
NES China: Business Ethics (A)
N.K.Builders and Contractors-India
Citibank Mexico Team: The Salinas Accounts
Bank of Nova Scotia (Brady Subpoena) (A)
Yahoo v. Survivors of the Holocaust
Talisman Energy Inc.
5. Ethical Issues in Business Policy and Strategy
Biovail Corporation (A)
Enron - What Went Wrong
OrangeWerks: A Question of Ethics
www.centralmba.com
Ethics Management at Imperial Oil Ltd.
6. Corporate Social Responsibility
AWC Inc.: The Ventilation Dilemma
Ethical Funds - The Stevensons' Debate
The Rent-to-Own Industry
Pembina Pipeline Corporation
7. Individual Ethics in the Corporation
Jane Lennox
Simon Donato: Deciding on a Course of Action
TALFI-Sudbury Canada
Winston Liu, Bookman
WestWood Securities (A)
Harrison-Lockington (A)
Graham Stewart - General Manager (A)
John McCulloch - United Beef Packers
Stephen Zhang's Opportunity
Tanya Silk
About the Editor

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China in the World Market: Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era

Author: Thomas Gale Moor

Thomas G. Moore examines the role of the outside world as a source of change in post-Mao China. Based on extensive documentary and interview material, the book adds the Chinese case to a long tradition of country-based studies by political economists, historians, and area specialists that have chronicled the experiences of developing countries as they enter specific industrial markets in the world economy. This book will be timely and provocative reading for anyone concerned with the nature of China's deepening participation in the world economy and its consequences for the country's development prospects, internal reforms, and foreign policy.

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Moore (political science, U. of Cincinnati) studies the impact of outside economic forces on the reform and restructuring of Chinese businesses in the period following Deng Xiaoping's institution of the Open Door policy. He argues that industry-specific trade regimes have had a profound impact on the Chinese economy, disrupting state interventionism and promoting reform. Contrary to many analysts, he contends that China has benefited from protectionist trade regimes in such industries as textiles and shipbuilding. China's economy, while relatively open to free trade environments, also has a strong domestic filter that helps its industries compete. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Inefficient Stock Market or Global Development Finance 2004

The Inefficient Stock Market: What Pays Off and Why

Author: Robert A Haugen

Sparked with wit and humor, this clever and insightful book provides clear evidence that the stock market is inefficient. In the author's view, models based on rational economic behavior cannot explain important aspects of market behavior. The book tackles important issues in today's financial market in a highly conversational and entertaining manner that will appeal to most readers. Chapter topics include: estimating expected return with the theories of modern finance, estimating portfolio risk and expected return with ad hoc factor models, payoffs to the five families, predicting future stock returns with the expected-return factor model, super stocks and stupid stocks, the international results, the topography of the stock market, the positive payoffs to cheapness and profitability, the negative payoff to risk, and the forces behind the technical payoffs to price-history. For anyone who wants to learn more about today's financial markets.

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Global Development Finance 2004: The Changing Face of Finance: Analysis and Statistical Appendix

Author: World Bank Group

The external financing environment facing developing countries has brightened. In 2003, as global growth gained momentum, prices for key commodities rose, financial markets recovered, interest rates remained low, and private capital flows to developing countries increased to $200 billion -- their highest level in five years. Harnessing these gains to promote long-term investment and growth is the key theme of Global Development Finance 2004. Much of the developing world still has difficulty accessing the international capital markets. International investment in developing-country infrastructure has declined dramatically since 1997 and -- with the exception of trade finance -- private capital flows remain heavily concentrated in specific countries and regions. Although official aid flows have increased, they remain well below the levels required to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

In several developing countries, there has been a large scale build-up in official reserves, much of which has been invested in the financial markets of advanced economies, especially the United States -- epitomizing the diverse landscape of contemporary development finance, as well as intricate linkages between exchange rates, trade and capital flows, and the growing interdependence between developed and developing countries. Global Development Finance 2004, I: Analysis and Summary Tables is the World Bank's annual review of recent trends in and prospects for financial flows to developing countries. It highlights sources of vulnerability and risk in the recovery in private flows, notably the likely increases in interest rates in the advanced economies, volatility in major currencies and financial markets stemming from large global current-account imbalances, and fears of policy slippages in macroeconomic management in developing countries. It also contains the World Bank's assessment of the global outlook in light of the recent economic recovery.

Global Development Finance 2004, II: Summary and Country Tables includes a comprehensive set of tables of data for 136 countries that report under the World Bank Debtor Reporting System, as well as summary data for regions and income groups. It contains data on total external debt stocks and flows, aggregates, and key debt ratios, and provides a detailed, country-by-country picture of debt. Global Development Finance 2004 debt data are also available on CD-ROM, with more than 200 historical time series from 1970 to 2002, and country group estimates for 2003. With analysis and data spanning from short-term trade to long-term infrastructure finance, Global Development Finance 2004 is unique in its breadth of coverage of the issues related to international development finance. By providing a comprehensive review of recent trends in and prospects for all development-related flows (including debt, equity, official aid, and workers' remittances), Global Development Finance 2004 enables government officials, economists, investors, financial consultants, academics, and policymakers in the development community to better understand, manage, and promote the key challenge of financing development in today's globalized environment.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	xi
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Selected Abbreviations	xv
	Overview and Policy Messages: Harnessing Cyclical Gains for Development	3
Chapter 1	The Global Upturn and the Need for Adjustment	13
	Adjustment, recovery, and imbalances in the high-income countries	15
	Developing countries: a favorable outlook, but risks remain	20
	Regional prospects	25
	Advanced-economy policies and the outlook for development finance	33
	Note	34
	References	34
Chapter 2	Private Debt Finance for Developing Countries	37
	Conditions affecting the supply of funds	38
	Conditions affecting the demand for funds	41
	Ongoing structural change in financing	44
	Bond flows responded strongly to the external environment and domestic conditions	45
	Bank lending picked up	52
	Progress in reforming the international financial architecture	58
	Prospects for private debt flows	63
	Notes	63
	References	64
Annex	Commercial Debt Restructuring	65
Chapter 3	Shifting Forms of Equity Finance for Developing Countries	77
	Trends in FDI flows in 2003	78
	The shifting composition of FDI toward services	82
	Trends in portfolio equity flows to developing countries	90
	Why portfolio equity flows are so much smaller than FDI and debt flows	94
	Prospects for 2004-2005	96
Annex A	FDI Forecasting Model	100
Annex B	Top 25 International Equity Deals in 2003	101
	Notes	102
	References	103
Chapter 4	The Changing Landscape for Official Flows	107
	Recent trends in official flows	108
	Prospects for a rise in official aid	110
	Strategic considerations and aid flows	113
	Progress in raising aid effectiveness	115
	The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative	119
	The growing importance of international civil society in development	119
	Notes	123
	References	124
Chapter 5	Financing Developing Countries' Trade	127
	Evolution in the sources, magnitude, and methods of trade finance	128
	Access of less creditworthy borrowers to trade finance	137
	Trade finance in times of crisis	140
	Notes	144
	References	145
Chapter 6	The Challenge of Financing Infrastructure in Developing Countries	149
	The changing balance between the public and private sectors	151
	Recent developments in private external financing	154
	Unlocking the potential of the global capital markets	161
	Notes	165
	References	166
Appendix A	Enhancing the Developmental Effect of Workers' Remittances to Developing Countries	169
Appendix B	Summary Statistical Tables	175
	Tables
1	Net capital flows to developing countries, 1997-2003	4
2	Net private capital flows to developing countries, 1997-2003	8
1.1	Global outlook in summary, 2002-2006	14
1.2	Financing of U.S. current account deficit, 1999-2003	18
1.3	Export revenues of developing countries, 2000-06	22
1.4	Developing-country growth, 1991-2006	24
1.5	Growth in Europe and Central Asia, 1991-2006	25
1.6	Growth in South Asia, 1991-2006	27
1.7	Growth in East Asia and Pacific, 1991-2006	28
1.8	Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1991-2006	29
1.9	Growth in the Middle East and North Africa, 1991-2006	30
1.10	Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1991-2006	33
2.1	Net debt flows to developing countries by region, 2000-03	37
2.2	Gross market-based debt flows to developing countries, 2000-03	38
2.3	Declining severity of contagion over time	40
2.4	Selected indicators of debt burden, 1997-2003	44
2.5	Net bank flows to developing countries, 2001-03	52
2.6	Average spreads on medium- and long-term announced loans, 1999-2003	53

Romancing the Clock or Microsoft Office 2003

Romancing the Clock (NetEffect Series)

Author: Marvin Karlins

The NetEffect series is your one source for hands-on, appliedbooks for business “soft skills” training courses. The books in the NetEffect series are written by authors with experience in education and industry and contain real-world information and advice to help readers develop the skills they need to succeed in today's workplace. The books are supported by leader's guides, Companion Websites, free JWA Videos, and (selected titles) self-paced exercise guides. Topics covered include: Choosing a career, time management, interpersonal relationships and avoiding pitfalls. This book is of interest to anyone in the workforce.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Author
	What My Doctor's Appointment Taught Me About Time Management	1
1	Don't Accumulate Possessions That Create More Hassle Than Joy	5
2	Money Is Time: Use It to Purchase Positives and Sell "Shoelaces" in Your Life	15
3	Prune Your Interpersonal Relationships	24
4	Give the Green Face Syndrome the Red Light	29
5	Don't Get Down on Your Luck	35
6	Choose a Career As If a Third of Your Life Depended on It: It Does	43
7	Revel in the Journey or Skip the Trip!	57
8	Don't Always Put Off Until Tomorrow What You Can Enjoy Today	62
9	Avoid the Pitfalls of Perfectionism	66
10	Pursue a Healthy Lifestyle: It Enhances Joyful Living	71
11	When You Must Do Battle ... Pick Your Fights with Care	87
12	A Metaphor to Live By	98
	Index	103

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Microsoft Office 2003, Vol. 2

Author: Stephen Haag

The I-Series leads the student through clear, error-free, and unambiguous steps to accomplish tasks that produce a finished document, work sheet or database table. The approach is not simply results-oriented; teaching how to accomplish a task is not enough for complete understanding and mastery. Prior to introducing steps, the authors discuss why each step is important and what roll all the steps play in the overall plan for creating a document, workbook or database. The I-Series Applications textbooks strongly emphasize that students learn and master applications skills by being actively engaged by doing.

Public Management Reform or International Economics

Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis

Author: Christopher Pollitt

Since its publication in 2000, Public Management Reform has established itself as the standard text in the field, presenting a comparative analysis of recent changes in Public Management and Public Administration in a range of countries in Europe, North America and Australasia. This completely rewritten second edition radically expands, develops and updates the original.
Two countries have been added to the comparison (making twelve countries in all) and a much fuller treatment has been provided of the European Commission (including a commentary on the recent reforms led by Vice-President Kinnock). Empirical data has been brought up to date, so as to cover many key developments of the last few years. The theoretical framework of the book has been further developed, including a challenging new interpretation of the trends in continental Europe, which are seen here as markedly different from the Anglo-American style 'New Public Management".
This second edition provides an unparalleled synthesis of developments in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the UK, the USA and the European Commission. It is organized in an integrated format, within an overall theoretical framework that identifies the main pressures for and trajectories of, change. It includes a multi-dimensional analysis of the results of reform, and a chapter reflecting on the dynamic relationship between management reform and politics. Extensive appendices provide an in valuable information resource for students.

Table of Contents:

1	The nature of public management reform	6
2	Problems and responses : a model of public management reform	24
3	Many houses : types of politico-administrative regime	39
4	Trajectories of modernization and reform	65
5	Results : through a glass darkly	103
6	Politics and management	143
7	Trade-offs, balances, limits, dilemmas, contradictions, and paradoxes	159
8	Reflections : management and governance	182
App. A	The socio-economic context	203
App. B	Country files	210

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International Economics

Author: Peter H Lindert

This classic text has sold well for over 35 years because it covers all the conventional areas of international economics in an easy-to-understand manner. The 12th edition has been thoroughly revised and it continues to be accessible, flexible, and interesting to economics and business majors alike. Like earlier editions, it also places international economics events within an historical framework. The overall treatment continues to be intuitive rather than mathematical and is strongly oriented towards policy.

Home Health Redesign or Human Relations

Home Health Redesign: A Proactive Approach to Managed Care

Author: Barbara Stover Gingerich

Home Health Redesign introduces home health providers to integrated care delivery systems and shows how to capture and control costs and outcomes, how to deal with staffing issues, and how to gain accreditation from all relevant organizations, including the National Council for Quality Assurance. Changes in documentation, information management, and marketing and billing are addressed. Implementation issues, maintaining the restructured organization, and quality assessment and improvement strategies such as benchmarking are covered. An abundance of practical tools, such as tracking tools, orientation outlines, job descriptions, and examples of documentation and competency assessment and performance tools support the text.

Joan C. Murphy

This book outlines in detail the reengineering process for a home care agency in order that it remain competitive in the present and in future markets. They use the concepts of leaders in the field, Hammer and Champy, who have advised other corporations. The authors define the principles and concepts of the reengineering process for home care agencies. The readers have access to tools to remain fiscally accountable to both the agency mission and the community. According to the authors, and I agree, the book is intended for all persons employed in home health care, including those from acute care. It is also appropriate for nursing, management, and business students with an interest in home care. The authors provide many tools that can be used for the process. The references are timely and useful. The many tables and charts enhance the text. The authors take on the challenge of inspiring and motivating the readers to a higher level of accountability for the agency. They accomplish this by pointing out that home care as we knew it is gone and that to remain competitive and survive one must change. The content is presented in an understandable format. The reader is left with the realization that change is needed and has the tools available to undertake that process. The book is a must for home care providers who want to help create our future.

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Reviewer: Joan C. Murphy, EdD, MS, NP (Utica College of Syracuse University)
Description: This book outlines in detail the reengineering process for a home care agency in order that it remain competitive in the present and in future markets. They use the concepts of leaders in the field, Hammer and Champy, who have advised other corporations.
Purpose: The authors define the principles and concepts of the reengineering process for home care agencies. The readers have access to tools to remain fiscally accountable to both the agency mission and the community.
Audience: According to the authors, and I agree, the book is intended for all persons employed in home health care, including those from acute care. It is also appropriate for nursing, management, and business students with an interest in home care.
Features: The authors provide many tools that can be used for the process. The references are timely and useful. The many tables and charts enhance the text.
Assessment: The authors take on the challenge of inspiring and motivating the readers to a higher level of accountability for the agency. They accomplish this by pointing out that home care as we knew it is gone and that to remain competitive and survive one must change. The content is presented in an understandable format. The reader is left with the realization that change is needed and has the tools available to undertake that process. The book is a must for home care providers who want to help create our future.

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Human Relations: Interpersonal, Job-Oriented Skills

Author: Andrew J DuBrin

Designed to help readers enhance their interpersonal skills in the workplace, this book explores a blend of current and traditional interpersonal concepts—and features a heavy emphasis on skill development and self-assessment through an extensive variety of skill-building suggestions, exercises, and cases related to specific topics. Meets federal SCANS requirements. Addresses a full range of contemporary topics, including: the triarchic theory of intelligence and multiple intelligences; metacomunication; cross-functional teams and virtual teams; self-efficacy as it contributes to motivation; the integration of information technology into interpersonal skill development; improving cross-cultural relations; helping others grow and develop (including dealing with difficult people); 360-degree feedback; the integration of information technology into interpersonal skill development; and the modern career path. For anyone interested in developing or improving their interpersonal skills in the workplace.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	A Framework for Interpersonal Skill Training	1
Ch. 2	Understanding Individual Differences	13
Ch. 3	Interpersonal Communications	35
Ch. 4	Resolving Conflicts with Others	59
Ch. 5	Developing Teamwork Skills	83
Ch. 6	Group Problem Solving	105
Ch. 7	Cross-Cultural Relations and Diversity	123
Ch. 8	Becoming an Effective Leader	145
Ch. 9	Motivating Others	165
Ch. 10	Helping Others Develop and Grow	185
Ch. 11	Positive Political Skills	207
Ch. 12	Customer Satisfaction Skills	227
Ch. 13	Enhancing Ethical Behavior	247
	Glossary	265
	References	271
	Index	277

Microeconomics or The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Marketing

Microeconomics: With Xtra! Access Card

Author: Roger A Arnold

Offering a unique blend of solid theoretical content and student accessibility, this text: 1) covers all the basics of microeconomics, 2) gives student a clear idea of how economists think about the world, 3) stresses the key concepts in economics, and 4) is extremely rich in intriguing applications that convey the prevalence of economics in everyday life. By applying economics to phenomenon that students are familiar with and interested in, this book demonstrates like no other text how economic analysis can be applied to virtually anything of interest, thus helping students develop true economic intuition. Additional student-oriented features include a unique active-learning format, an emphasis on developing economic analysis skills, and an outstanding visual program for exhibits and graphs.

Table of Contents:

AN INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS. PART ONE: ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE OF SCARCITY. 1. What Economics is About. Appendix A: Working with Diagrams. 2. Trade, Tradeoffs, and Economics Systems. 3. Supply, Demand, and Price: The Theory. 4. Applications of Supply and Demand: Explaining and Predicting Market and Nonmarket Behavior. MICROECONOMICS. PART TWO: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS. 5. Elasticity. 6. The Logic of Consumer Choice. Appendix B: Budget Constraint and Indifference Curve Analysis. 7. The Firm. 8. Production and Costs. PART THREE: PRODUCT MARKETS AND POLICIES. 9. Perfect Competition. 10. Monopoly. 11. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly. 12. Government and Product Markets: Antitrust and Regulation. 13. Agriculture: Farmers' Problems, Government Policies, and Unintended Effects. PART FOUR: FACTOR MARKETS AND RELATED ISSUES. 14. Factor Markets: With Emphasis on the Labor Market. 15. Wages, Unions, and Labor. 16. The Distribution of Income and Poverty. 17. Interest, Rent, and Profit. PART FIVE: MARKET FAILURE AND PUBLIC CHOICE. 18. Market Failure: Externalities, Public Goods, and Asymmetric Information. 19. Public Choice: Economic Theory Applied to Politics. THE WORLD ECONOMY. PART SIX: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: THEORY AND POLICY. 20. International Trade. 21. International Finance. 22. International Economic Development.

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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Marketing

Author:

In the dynamic field of marketing, new terms, concepts, and techniques are emerging everyday. Keeping track of them is very difficult, if not impossible. This dictionary serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding marketing, its lexicon, and their usage. Marketing is discussed in all its dimensions, going beyond just the meaning of words to their etymology, nuances, and current significance.

This invaluable reference tool covers more than 5,000 terms, concepts, theories, methods and techniques from the fields of:

• General marketing
• Consumer behavior
• Advertising
• Sales promotion
• Sales management
• Retailing
• International marketing
• E-marketing
• Services marketing

Examples, illustrations, figures, and charts have been provided in order to better explain some of the terms. Lucidly written, this encyclopaedic dictionary will serve as a source of ready reference for all those in the area of marketing including students, research scholars, teachers, managers and marketing consultants.

Critical Issues in Business Conduct or Wireless and Mobile Data Networks

Critical Issues in Business Conduct: Legal, Ethical, and Social Challenges for the 1990s

Author: Walter W W Manley

Critical Issues in Business Conduct addresses the legal, ethical, and social issues that will dominate business in the 1990s. From the impact of AIDS and problems of drug and alcohol in the workplace to financial accounting, employee rights, and sexual harassment, the book explores topical issues arising from the relationship between business organizations and their external constituencies as well as those that characterize relationships between firms and their own managers, employees, directors, and shareholders. The aim throughout is to provide practical guidelines for dealing with the most critical business conduct issues facing managers and executives today.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Robert H. Stovall
Foreword by Governor LeRoy Collins
Introduction
A Manager's Overview
Balancing Employer and Employee Rights and Responsibilities
Drugs, Alcoholism, AIDS, and Genetics in the Workplace
Preventing Sexual and Nonsexual Harassment in the Work Environment
Equal Employment Opportunity and Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex, Race, Age, and Disability
Workplace Safety, Consumer Protection and Product Quality
Protecting the Firm's Proprietary and Confidential Information
Marketing and Advertising Issues for the 1990s
Financial Accounting and Reporting: Duties of Accountants and Firms
Computer-Based Information Systems
Business Dealings and Relationships: Truthfulness, Integrity, and Deception
Insider Trading and Securities Laws
Fundamental Honesty, Law Compliance, Fair Competition and the Antitrust Laws
International Business Relationships and Practices
Bibliography
Index

Book review: Pilaf Pozole and Pad Thai or Bread Reflections and Family Distractions

Wireless and Mobile Data Networks

Author: Aftab Ahmad

Wireless and Mobile Data Networks provides a single point of knowledge about wireless data technologies, including:
* Comprehensive easy-to understand resource on wireless data technologies
* Includes wireless media, data transmission via cellular networks, and network security
* Provides a single point of knowledge about wireless data
* Focuses on wireless data networks, wireless channels, wireless local networks, wide area cellular networks and wireless network security

An Instructor Support FTP site is available from the Wiley editorial department.

The Principles of Scientific Management or Transforming Fundraising

The Principles of Scientific Management

Author: Frederick Winslow Taylor

The basis of modern organization and decision theory, this influential essay has motivated administrators and students of managerial technique for more than 80 years. The author discusses eliminating inefficiency through a system based on principles applicable to individual and collective activities. A ground-breaking, and still-inspiring work.

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<:st>Reprint of Taylor's classic 1911 work on industrial management/engineering with a new introduction and an article from magazine of October, 1992. Cited in . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Transforming Fundraising: A Practical Guide to Evaluating and Strengthening Fundraising to Grow with Change

Author: Judith E Nichols

"You've got to read this book! You'll learn what to do, when to do it, and exactly how to go about it. A useful, practical tool to help any CEO or development officer position an organization for growth and success."
--Karen SAndelback, executive director, American Kidney Fund
"Candor is a missing commodity in many of today's dialogues. Judy Nichols' wisdom and sharp insights make this book a refreshing guide to honest organizational self-evaluation."
--Jeannie Thompson, fund raising consultant and member, board of directors of the International Fund Raising Group In this practical and straightforward guide, Judith E. Nichols, an internationally renowned fundraising expert, introduces a proven method of fundraising evaluation: the Development Assessment Process. This formula will fundamentally transform the way nonprofit organizations approach evaluation and help them improve fund raising strategies to not only achieve their mission, but to keep pace with a changing world.
Nichols' revolutionary Development Assessment Process is a unique evaluation tool that combines traditional internal evaluation practices with a method for appraising shifting philanthropic and demographic trAnds. Proven successful in a wide variety of nonprofit organizations, this innovative process creates opportunities for open dialogue among audiences inside and outside the organization, encourages useful feedback, and provides practical recommAndations that can be seamlessly incorporated into current operations. Transforming Fundraising walks readers step by step through the process of evaluating current fundraising programs, assessing their potential for improvement, and planning forchange.
Readers will also find a real-life, in-depth case that clearly demonstrates--from the first step through the last--how the Development Assessment Process works. Written in clear, accessible language and designed to be a hands-on guide and workbook, Transforming Fundraising is filled with easy-to-use worksheets, checklists, exhibits, and a resource guide. By using Nichols' groundbreaking Development Assessment Process, nonprofit organizations--of all sizes--will dramatically increase their fundraising results.

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Introduces a method of fundraising evaluation designed to transform the way nonprofit organizations approach evaluation and help them improve fundraising strategies. This method combines traditional internal evaluation practices with a method for appraising shifting philanthropic and demographic trends. Walks through each step of the process of evaluating current programs. Includes an on-going case, and a wealth of worksheets, checklists, and planning aids. The author has 20 years of experience in helping nonprofits understand the impact of changing demographics on fundraising. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dragon in a Three Piece Suit or Contested Frontiers in Amazonia

Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China

Author: Doug Guthri

Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit is an innovative sociological examination of what is perhaps the main engine of economic reform in China, the large industrial firm. Doug Guthrie, who spent more than a year in Shanghai studying firms, interviewing managers, and gathering data on firms' performance and practices, provides the first detailed account of how these firms have been radically transformed since the mid-1980s.

Guthrie shows that Chinese firms are increasingly imitating foreign firms in response both to growing contact with international investors and to being cut adrift from state support. Many firms, for example, are now less likely to use informal hiring practices, more likely to have formal grievance filing procedures, and more likely to respect international institutions, such as the Chinese International Arbitration Commission. Guthrie argues that these findings support the de-linking of Western trade policy from human rights, since it is clear that economic engagement leads to constructive reform. Yet Guthrie also warns that reform in China is not a process of inevitable Westernization or of managers behaving as rational, profit-maximizing agents. Old habits, China's powerful state administration, and the hierarchy of the former command economy will continue to have profound effects on how firms act and how they adjust to change.

With its combination of rigorous argument and uniquely rich detail, this book gives us the most complete picture yet of Chinese economic reform at the crucial level of the industrial firm.

What People Are Saying

Craig Calhoun
Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit brings state-of-the-art institutional analysis together with a brilliant empirical study of the real world of economic reforms in China. Combining fieldwork, interviews, and unique quantitative data sources, Guthrie offers the clearest account available of how China's reforms translate into concrete organizational practices. His study is among the best at illuminating how markets and firms work in transitional economies.

Barry Naughton
Guthrie brings new insights and fresh perspectives to the study of organizational change in China during the process of economic reform. The book is exceptionally well written and moves easily between organizational theory and 'big questions,' on the one hand, and the particularities of Chinese experience on the other.

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Contested Frontiers in Amazonia

Author: Marianne Schmink

An interdisciplinary analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern portion of the state of Pará. The authors show how deforestation, settlement patterns, and the intensity of rural violence were outcomes of the competition for resources among social groups such as ranchers, peasants, loggers, Indians, goldminers, rubber farmers, bureaucrats, and investors, all of whom were capable of mobilizing varying degrees of power.

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Probably the most detailed of the recent spate of accounts of conflict and resistance in the Amazon, based on the authors' 15 years of research in the field. This interdisciplinary analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern portion of the state of Para, shows how deforestation, settlement patterns, and the intensity of rural violence were outcomes of the competition for resources among social groups capable of mobilizing varying degrees of power. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Business or The New Political Economy of Development

Business: Library Edition

Author: William Prid

This best-selling introductory survey text provides comprehensive coverage ofall functional areas within the field including management, marketing, accounting, economics, finance, law, and computer information systems. The Seventh Edition integrates an appealing design, innovative features, and extensive revisions to remain both accessible and relevant. Topical issues such as entrepreneurship, gender and diversity, change, social responsibility, and the growth of technology are included throughout to prepare students for today's business environment.

The pedagogical framework continually reinforces the material, and places abstract concepts into a practical context. The combination of chapter-opening cases involving well-known companies, end-of-chapter discussions which reference these cases, Spotlights that provide a visual snapshot of factual data, and actual advertisements allows students to understand the material's real-world application. To maintain the length of past editions, sections addressing Risk Management and Insurance have been moved to the appendix, while the appendices on law and government have been merged together. The inexpensive, flexible looseleaf format allows students to organize the material according to their individual needs and class schedule.

• New! E-business issues appear in various discussions, features, and examples throughout including Chapter 4, Navigating the World of E-Business.
• New! Each chapter contains a Using the Internet box, highlighting web sites that address pertinent concepts, companies, or topics.
• New! End-of-part cases feature a video segment, encouraging students to applylearned knowledge in reality-based activities.
• New! A US News and World Report Career Guide accompanies each text, and compiles career-related information and appropriate articles from the magazine including Charting Your Own Course and Flip-of-the-coin Jobs.
• New! The extensive technology package includes several study aids such as a set of 4 Audio CD-ROMs and the Real Deal CD-ROM.

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The New Political Economy of Development: Globalization, Imperialism, Hegemony

Author: Ray Kiely

This major new text analyzes changes and continuities in the current international order and their implications for understanding international development in the 21st century. The author assesses the extent and impact of globalization as well as the emergence of a more aggressive unilateralist and militarist stance by the United States and the debates this has provoked on hegemony, empire and imperialism. He offers a careful rebuttal of mainstream thinking on development and globalization while also challenging some key arguments of its radical critics.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements     viii
Introduction     1
Defining globalization     2
Defining imperialism     6
Defining hegemony     7
Defining development     9
Globalization as a win-win situation: diffusing development     13
Globalization as a zero-sum game: development as underdevelopment     16
Globalization as uneven development     18
The structure of the book     25
Capitalist Expansion and Imperialism     27
The origins of capitalist development     27
Periodizing international capitalist development     30
Conclusions: three fallacies and the legacy of imperialism     39
Post-1945 Capitalism and Development     42
The post-war international settlement: Bretton Woods and the Cold War     42
The post-war boom     47
Development and the 'Third World'     49
Conclusion     57
The End of the Post-war Boom and Capitalist Restructuring     59
The end of the post-war boom     59
The US state and capitalist restructuring     63
Neo-liberalism and the developing world     67
Conclusion     73
Globalization and Contemporary Imperialism:Theoretical Debates     76
Defining globalization     76
Globalization, transnational capitalism and empire     87
Globalization, US hegemony and the 'new imperialism'     92
Conclusion     105
Cosmopolitanism, Globalization and Global Governance     106
Cosmopolitanism and global governance     106
The United Nations, universal rights and humanitarian intervention     109
The WTO and global economic governance     116
Civil society and the state in the international system     122
Conclusion     128
Globalization, Poverty and the Contemporary World Economy     131
Poverty reduction?     131
Market friendly policies, growth and poverty reduction     137
Neo-liberalism and the myth of global convergence     143
Conclusion: states, neo-liberalism and globalization     157
Globalization, neo-liberalism and the State     160
The state and globalization     161
From the developmental state to market friendly intervention     169
Reconstructing rogue and failed states     173
Beyond technocracy: the limitations of (neo-)liberal and statist perspectives on development     176
Conclusion: states, neo-liberalism and globalization     191
Globalization, Regionalism and Hegemony     193
US hegemony: strengthening or in decline?     193
The East Asian challenge     195
Europe: a progressive alternative?     216
US hegemony re-assessed     223
Conclusion: neo-liberalism, regionalism and development     227
Resisting Globalization?     230
Imperialism and anti-imperialism in the era of globalization     231
Islam and Islamism     236
Social movements: agents of post-development?     244
Global justice and anti-globalization     247
Conclusion     257
Conclusions     259
Revisiting globalization     259
Revisiting imperialism     260
Revisiting hegemony     262
Revisiting development     264
Notes     269
Further Reading     278
References     290
Index     325

Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market or The Social Construction of Free Trade

Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market: Evidence from the Census SARs on Occupational Segregation and Labour Mobility, Part-Time Work and Student Jobs, Homework and Self-Employment

Author: Catherine Hakim

This important study presents the results of the first analysis of labor market data from Britain's new SARs, drawing comparisons with research results for the USA and for Western European countries. The author fully examines several relevant phenomena, such as: a new and distinctive category of integrated occupations, employing men and women equally in highly qualified work; the diversification of part-time work; the emergence of a new category of marginal jobs; and the expansion of student jobs. This book also provides an excellent introductory guide for future SAR users.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	List of Cases
	Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	Profiles of Integrated and Segregated Occupations	26
3	Occupational Segregation, Social Stratification, and the Pay Gap	66
4	Women with Discontinuous Employment Histories	86
5	A Differentiated Part-Time Workforce: Marginal Jobs, Half-Time Jobs, and Reduced Hours Jobs	102
6	Working Students: Students in Full-Time Education with Full-Time and Part-Time Jobs	145
7	Homework and Travel to Work Patterns	178
8	Small Firms and the Solo Self-Employed	200
9	The Drug Dealers: A Case Study of Pharmacy, an Integrated Occupation	221
10	Conclusions	235
Annex A	Labour Market Data in the 1991 Census 1% and 2% SARs	251
Annex B	1991 Census 10% Sample Data on Occupational Structure and Sex Ratios	266
Annex C	The International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO88): Occupational Sex Ratios and Part-Time Work Rates by Type of Occupation	284
	Bibliography	291
	Author Index	311
	Subject Index	316

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The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and Mercosur

Author: Francesco G Duina

This book offers a compelling new interpretation of the proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the end of the twentieth century. Challenging the widespread assumption that RTAs should be seen as fundamentally similar economic initiatives to pursue free trade, Francesco Duina proposes that the world is reorganizing itself into regions that are highly distinctive and enduring. With evidence from Europe, North America, and South America, he challenges our understanding of globalization, the nature of markets, and the spread of neoliberalism.

The pursuit of free trade is a profoundly social process and, as such, a unique endeavor wherever it takes place. In an unprecedented comparative analysis, the book offers striking evidence of differences in the legal architectures erected to standardize the worldview of market participants and the reaction of key societal organizations--interest groups, businesses, and national administrations--to a broader marketplace. The author gives special attention to developments in three key areas of economic life: women in the workplace, the dairy industry, and labor rights. With its bold and original approach and its impressive range of data, The Social Construction of Free Trade represents a major advance in the growing fields of economic sociology and comparative regional integration.

The Geography of the Canadian North or Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts

The Geography of the Canadian North: Issues and Challenges

Author: Robert M Bon

This text looks at the dual relationship of the Canadian north as both resource frontier and homeland of many Aboriginal groups. Since the last edition of this text, many changes have occurred, raising the possibility that both the frontier and homeland concepts can become a northern reality. These concepts are coherently presented throughout the book and brought to the fore in the concluding chapter.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Preface
1	Northern Perceptions	1
2	The Physical Base	16
3	The Historical Background	44
4	Population Geography	79
5	Resource Development	102
6	Megaprojects in Northern Development	134
7	Environmental Impact of Resource Projects	159
8	Aboriginal Economy and Society	186
9	Looking to the Future	213
	Appendices	227
	Glossary	232
	Index	242

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Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts

Author: Thomas P Edmonds

The Enhanced Cartridge is developed to help you get your course up and running with much less time and effort. The content, enhanced with more assignments and more study materials than a standard cartridge, is pre-populated into appropriate chapters and content categories. Now there’s not a need to cut and paste our content into your course – it’s already there! But, you can still choose to hide content we provide and add your own – just as you have before in WebCT and Blackboard.

Careers Professional Development for Reatailing and Apparel Merchandising or Underwriting 101

Careers! Professional Development for Reatailing and Apparel Merchandising

Author: V Ann Paulins

This book and CD-ROM combination is designed to provide students and aspiring professionals with realistic information about careers in the retailing and apparel merchandising industry. With its focus on preparing students for careers in their chosen field, Careers! Professional Development for Retailing and Apparel Merchandising will help students explore their options, develop portfolios and r‚sum‚s, prepare for job interviews, complete internships, and negotiate the transition from student to professional.

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Underwriting 101: Selling College Radio

Author: Shyrl L Plum

This media sales primer serves as a step-by-step manual to assist students in attaining sales proficiency and confidence. The author employs a practical, hands-on approach, enabling readers to develop valuable professional and interpersonal skills and to improve their options for obtaining sales positions. Underwriting 101 covers the activities involved in sales work, such as developing sales kits and presentations, handling objections, writing proposals, closing, and preparing underwriting announcements. Role-playing, sales promotion, résumé preparation, and interviewing are also covered.

Special features include:

*materials needed to teach the 15 week course, including a syllabus, calls schedule, positioning worksheet, sample proposals, sample résumé, sample cover letter, and course evaluation;
*comments from former students who have secured sales positions upon completion of the course;
*underwriting announcement guidelines for FCC conformation; and
*a guide to Internet research tools for sales presentation enhancement.

Intended for upper-level students in radio or broadcast sales courses, Underwriting 101 will be useful to sales instructors with or without sales experience. It is also appropriate for use in college radio stations, as a resource for sales departments.

Competitive Strategy for Media Firms Strategic and Brand Management in Changing Media Markets or New Geography of Global Income Inequality

Competitive Strategy for Media Firms Strategic and Brand Management in Changing Media Markets

Author: Sylvia M Chan Olmsted

Competitive Strategy for Media Firms introduces the concepts and analytical frameworks of strategic and brand management, and illustrates how they can be adapted according to the characteristics of distinct media products. Working from the premise that all media firms must strategize in response to the continuing evolution of new media, author Sylvia M. Chan-Olmsted offers applications of common business approaches to the products and components of the electronic media industry, and provides empirical examinations of broadcast, multichannel media, enhanced television, broadband communications, and global media conglomerate markets.

This insightful and timely volume provides a thorough review of current concepts and industry practices, and serves as an essential primer for the application of business models in media contexts. As a realistic and integrated approach to media industry studies, this volume has much to offer researchers, scholars, and graduate students in media economics and management, and will be an important reference for industry practitioners.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction : enter the arena of strategic media management	1
2	A primer in strategic management for media firms	13
3	A primer in corporate and international strategy for media firms	38
4	A primer in brand management for media firms	57
5	Strategy and competition in the new broadcast industries	76
6	Strategy and competition in the multichannel media industry	106
7	Strategy and competition in the enhanced television market	136
8	Strategy and competition in the broadband communications market	160
9	Strategy and competition of global media conglomerates	179
10	Conclusions	203

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New Geography of Global Income Inequality

Author: Glenn Firebaugh

The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarizing the worldwide distribution of income. But as the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and is now heading downward because of declining income inequality across nations. Furthermore, as income inequality declines across nations, it is rising within nations (though not as rapidly as it is declining across nations). Firebaugh claims that this historic transition represents a new geography of global income inequality in the twenty-first century.

This book documents the new geography, describes its causes, and explains why other analysts have missed one of the defining features of our era-a transition in inequality that is reducing the importance of where a person is born in determining his or her future well-being.

Wireless Networks or Lecturers on Economic and Financial Sector Reforms in India

Wireless Networks

Author: P Nicopolitidis

Wireless is a term used to describe telecommunications in which electromagnetic waves (rather than some form of wire) carry the signal over part or all of the communication path and the network is the totality of switches, transmission links and terminals used for the generation, handling and receiving of telecoms traffic.
Wireless networks are rapidly evolving, and are playing an increasing role in the lives of people throughout the world and ever-larger numbers of people are relying on the technology directly or indirectly.

The area of wireless communications is an extremely rich field for research, due to the difficulties posed by the wireless medium and the increasing demand for better and cheaper services. As the wireless market evolves, it is likely to increase in size and possibly integrate with other wireless technologies, in order to offer support for mobile computing applications, of perceived performance equal to those of wired communication networks.
Wireless Networks aims to provide an excellent introductory text covering the wireless technological alternatives offered today. It will include old analog cellular systems, current second generation (2G) systems architectures supporting voice and data transfer and also the upcoming world of third generation mobile networks. Moreover, the book features modern wireless technology topics, such as Wireless Local Loops (WLL), Wireless LANs, Wireless ATM and Personal Area Networks (such as Bluetooth).
* Provides an easy to use reference which presents a clear set of technologies per chapter
* Features modern wireless technology topics, such as Wireless Local Loops (WLL), Wireless LANs, Wireless ATM, PersonalArea Networks (such as Bluetooth) and Ad-hoc wireless networks
* Progresses through the developments of first, second, third, fourth generation cellular systems and beyond
* Includes helpful simulation examples and examples of algorithms and systems Essential reading for Senior undergraduate and graduate students studying computer science, telecommunications and engineering, engineers and researchers in the field of wireless communications and technical managers and consultants.

New interesting book: Contabilidad:Textos y Casos

Lecturers on Economic and Financial Sector Reforms in India

Author: YV V Reddy

These lectures by YV Reddy were delivered in various parts of India on banking, financial sector, external sector, fiscal and public policy in the context of economic reforms.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	Autonomy of the Central Bank : changing contours in India	11
3	Choice between single and multiple regulators of the financial system	26
4	Developments in monetary policy and financial markets	45
5	Future of rural banking	65
6	Issues and challenges in the development of debt market in India	83
7	Credit rating : changing perspectives	101
8	Operationalizing capital account liberalization : the Indian experience	121
9	Globalization and challenges for South Asia	137
10	Issues in implementing international financial standards and codes	158
11	Fiscal and monetary policy interface : recent developments in India	175
12	Fiscal reforms at the state level : review and prospects	187
13	Reviving confidence in the Indian economy	199
14	Indian agriculture and reform : concerns, issues and agenda	214
15	Economists and public policy	224