Women in Medieval English Society or Innovation New Technologies

Women in Medieval English Society

Author: Mavis E Mat

This book presents a concise and accessible introduction to the various issues and debates surrounding women and their position in medieval society. Professor Mate examines the role women played in the economy, clarifies legal provisions for women and highlights the importance of class, as well as gender, in determining marriage and opportunities.

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Mate (medieval history, U. of Oregon) begins her introduction: "More has been written about medieval women in the last fifteen years than in the previous one hundred and fifty." Here she looks at the ways in which historians have seen the position of women in medieval society from the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the 15th century. She focuses on legal rights, women's contribution to the economy, and political and religious power, as well as changes over time, and the existence or non-existence of a "golden age." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Innovation, New Technologies: Financial Crisis, Corporate Reform and Institutional Transition, Vol. 14

Author: Cristiano Antonelli

This authoritative book from Cristiano Antonelli provides a systematic account of recent advances in the economics of innovation. By integrating this account with the economics of technological change, the book elaborates an understanding of the effects of the introduction of new technologies.
The innovation economics community will appreciate this excellent, comprehensive account, provided by a respected expert, and it is also a book that must be read by all those with an interest in Economic Theory.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction
Pt. I	The building blocks	1
2	Shifting heuristics in the economics of innovation	3
3	The retrieval of the economics of technological change	38
Pt. II	Innovation and structural change	47
4	Composition effects: the direction of technological change and the context of its introduction	49
5	New technologies and structural change: constraints and inducements to innovation	64
6	Industrial dynamics and technological change	81
7	The dynamics of factors markets and technological change	94
8	Product innovation and barriers to entry	107
9	Relative prices and international competition in the global economy	118
10	Feedbacks, path-dependence and evolution	127
Pt. III	Applications and implications	131
11	Understanding the economics of new information and communication technology in the global economy	133
12	Policy implications: a European perspective	145
13	Conclusions	151
	Notes	167
	Bibliography	172
	Index	185

Strategic Management of Teams or Communications Network Test and Measurement Handbook

Strategic Management of Teams

Author: David I Cleland

STRATEGIC Management of TEAMS

"Those companies that learn the secrets of creating cross-functional teams are winning the battle for global market share and profits. Those that don't are losing out."—BusinessWeek

It's no secret that alternative teams are increasingly recognized as a highly effective means to improve quality and operational efficiency, decentralize authority, and motivate workers at every level of an organization. Less well understood, and rarely touched upon in the literature, is the fact that cross-functional teams are highly versatile strategic resources and key elements in the design and execution of strategic management initiatives.

In this book, noted author, scholar, and authority on team management, David Cleland, demonstrates that alternative, cross-functional teams are both critical to the management of change within an organization and building blocks in the design and execution of product/service and process strategy. He explores specific aspects of strategic team management and provides clear, concise recommendations on the design and implementation of team-based strategy.

Topics of particular interest include:

• Identification and discussion of alternative uses for teams in dealing with product/service and process changes within the organizations
• Using teams to encourage cross-functional and cross-organizational focus in the use of enterprise resources
• How teams can enable everyone in the enterprise to participate in the design, development, and implementation of strategies that will make the organization more competitive
• How the strategic use of teams changes organizational culture
• Coping with the negativeaspects of teams
• How the use of teams has created "Teamocracy"—an organizational design driven by operational and strategic teams

Strategic Management of Teams is must reading for managers in industry, government service, or any large organization that must adapt continually to technological, economic, and social change. It is also an indispensable resource for students in industrial engineering, technology management, and business administration who wish to enter the job market armed with the very latest in management skills.

This eye-opening book reveals the enormous potential of alternative, cross-functional teams as forces for change within an organization and as building blocks in the design and execution of competitive strategy. It gives managers the tools, techniques, and information they need to integrate teams into the overall strategic plan of the organization.

Author David Cleland looks at teams from the point of view of a manager who envisions using teams as strategic devices in dealing with change. He explains how to determine whether and which teams should be put in place and how to make the most of them. He explains:

• How to prepare the enterprise for the creation of teams and prepare team players for their new roles in facilitating change within the organization
• How teams can sharpen the enterprise's competitive edge—and how managerial roles must change to allow this to happen
• Specific team functions: reengineering through teams; self-managed production teams; benchmarking; concurrent engineering teams; sundry teams; and more
• The positive and negative impact of teams on corporate culture
• Results that teams have achieved for organizations that have implemented them

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Communications Network Test and Measurement Handbook

Author: Clyde F Coombs

As digital communications networks grow in use and size throughout the world, the need for accurate, reliable test and measurement procedures has increased tremendously. This unique handbook provides the only comprehensive coverage of all the methodologies, data, and reference material necessary to master network instrumentation. In this single encyclopedic resource, engineers will discover how to apply all the test, measurement, and monitoring tools critical to network performance. The success of this richly illustrated handbook is further assured by its authorship—Clyde Coombs is the preeminent editor of electronics handbooks, with a 30 year track record of best sellers.

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A handbook on the measurements and testing tools required in all phases of the life cycle of a communications network. The editors combine the work of 26 contributors to look at topics such as digital and analog performance testing, PDH networks, testing to verify T1 or CEPT-E1 circuits, ISDN architecture and operation, deployment of ATM-based services, synchronous byte-interleaved multiplexing, cellular measurement strategies, fiber optic network elements, network test instrumentation, and LAN management and performance monitoring. The book also includes background information on the technologies and applications of communications networks so that the information on testing and measurement is properly contextualized. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Introduction Network Technologies and Performance.

Part II: Network Test and Measurement.

Development Studies or Mergers and Acquisitions

Development Studies: A Reader

Author: Stuart Corbridg

Contains approximately 30 representative and exciting articles by leading academics in the field on the nature of contemporary developmental issues. Using the 'development debate' as its organizing theme, this accessible work discusses such topics as theories and models of development, survival strategies and the weapons of the weak and new directions including democratization, environmental sustainability and citizenship.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Preface and Prospectus
	World Map
Sect. 1	Thinking about Development
	Editor's Introduction	1
1	Non-Economic Barriers to Economic Development	17
2	The Development of Underdevelopment	27
3	Marxism and Development of Sociology: Interpreting the Impasse	37
4	The Misconceptions of "Development Economics"	56
5	Development Planning	64
Sect. 2	Agrarian Change and Rural Development
	Editor's Introduction	78
6	Food and Freedom	90
7	"Unimodal" and "Bimodal" Strategies of Agrarian Change	109
8	Does the "Depressor" Still Work? Agrarian Structure and Development in India	121
9	Governments and Agricultural Markets in Africa	147
10	Rural Poverty Unobserved: The Six Biases	164
Sect. 3	How Poor People Survive: The Weapons of the Weak
	Editor's Introduction	174
11	The Consequences of Reproductive Failure	185
12	The Woodfuel Problem	200
13	The Creation of a Labour Surplus in Surat District, Gujarat, India	216
14	Manufacturing Dissent: Work, Gender and the Politics of Meaning in a Peasant Society	224
15	Radical Opposition Parties and Squatters Movements in Pinochet's Chile	239
Sect. 4	Urbanization and Industrialization
	Editor's Introduction	256
16	Urban Bias and the Myths of Urbanisation	269
17	Latin America's Urban Poor: Shanty Dwellers or Renters of Rooms?	279
18	Foreword to 'The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World' by Hernando de Soto	288
19	Transnational Corporations: Dominance and Dependency in the World Economy	296
20	Lessons from East Asia	309
Sect. 5	The Global Political Economy
	Editor's Introduction	328
21	Of Coconuts and Kings: The Political Economy of an Export Crop	339
22	Foreign Aid: Central Component of World Development?	359
23	Structural Adjustment: A Survey of the Issues and Options	368
Sect. 6	New Directions in Development Studies
	Editor's Introduction	383
24	Infrastructure for Development	393
25	Environment, Development and Politics: Capital Accumulation and the Livestock Sector in Eastern Amazonia	400
26	Governance, Democracy and Development in the Third World	427
27	Everyday Violence: Bodies, Death, and Silence	438
	Index	448

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Mergers and Acquisitions

Author: Thomas Lee Hazen

This law school casebook focuses on the corporate and securities laws relating to corporate combinations. Coverage also extends to tax, antitrust, and financial issues. Cases and other materials are followed by informative notes and questions. It is organized to make it easy for you to omit or rearrange material to adapt the book to your particular teaching approach. Designed for use in either as a stand-alone text or as the basic source material for projects, problems, or writing assignments to supplement the traditional case method. The book is suitable for use for either a two or three credit hour course.

Designing Managing and Improving Operations or Running NonProfit Organizations

Designing, Managing and Improving Operations

Author: David M Upton

A collection of action and implementation-oriented cases focused on improving the operations of a business unit. Focuses on the individual operating unit in both manufacturing and services. Addresses the design, management and improvement of the fundamental building blocks of operations— operations processes. Looks at the systems used to coordinate processes, focusing on the use and management of information technology as part of such systems. For those in production and/or operations management.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Introduction
1	Designing, Managing and Improving Operations Processes	1
1	The Cummins Engine Company: Starting Up "B" Crankshaft: Manufacturing at the San Luis Potosi Plant	23
2	Display Technologies Incorporated	34
3	Corning Glass Works: The Z-Glass Project	50
4	Deutsche Allgemeinversicherung	63
	A Note on Constructing and Using Process Control Charts	71
5	Massachusetts General Hospital: CABG Surgery	83
6	Solagen: Process Improvement in the Manufacture of Gelatin at Kodak	100
7	McDonald's Corporation	114
	What Really Makes Factories Flexible?	131
8	Stermon Mills Incorporated	142
2	Operations Systems and Information Technology	155
9	John Crane UK Limited: The CAD-CAM Link	171
10	The Cybertech Project (A)	189
11	Motorola, Inc.: Bandit Pager Project (Abridged)	207
12	FASTech Integration Inc.	220
	Must CIM Be Justified by Faith Alone?	232
13	EG&G Rotron Division	242
	Getting Control of Just-in-Time	253
14	Digital Equipment Corporation: The Endpoint Model (A)	262
	A Note on Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPH)	273
15	Vandelay Industries, Inc.	278
16	Kanebo Ltd.	289
17	Deere & Company (A): The Computer-Aided Manufacturing Services Division (Abridged)	299
18	AeroTech Service Group, Inc.	310
	The Real Virtual Factory	320
	The Coordination of Global Manufacturing	332
3	Designing and Implementing Operations Improvement Strategies	341
19	Integron Incorporated: The Integrated Components Division (ICD)	363
20	A Measure of Delight: The Pursuit of Quality at AT&T Universal Card Services (A)	377
21	Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery	394
22	Samsung Heavy Industries: The Koje Shipyard	410
	Why (and How) to Take a Plant Tour	422
23	HMS Thetis and Apollo XIII	432
24	PPG: Developing a Self-Directed Work Force (A)	450
	A Note on High-Commitment Work Systems	464
25	Vickers Incorporated: Omaha Plant	472
26	Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group	488
27	Pacific Dunlop China (A): Beijing	498
28	Micom Caribe (A)	512

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Running NonProfit Organizations: Fifteen Essential Steps and Concepts for Board Members and Management

Author: Herbert Heaton

Today there are over one and a half million nonprofit organizations. What are their missions? How can they rigorously assure their productivity and performance quality? What should board members and managers do? This book helps board members and managers of nonprofit organizations sketch their roles and fill them effectively. It puts practical ideas, drawn from experience and observation, into a conceptual framework. Fifteen essential steps and concepts are presented as priority projects to be taken in order--like steps in a stairway.

Economics for the Twenty First Century or Domesday Book and beyond

Economics for the Twenty-First Century: The Economics of the Economist-Fox

Author: Andrew M M Kamarck

"Isaiah Berlin, in his famous essay, identified the chasm that exists between those thinkers or 'hedgehogs', who relate everything to a single system, and 'foxes' who see the world as too complex to be captured by any single universal absolute. The emphasis in twentieth-century economics on technical virtuosity in manipulating mathematics tended to turn students into such 'hedgehogs'. To be effective, economics must take into consideration the complexity of human beings and the contextual, institutional, social and historical factors at play in the economy. Like the fox, today's economist must be resourceful and intuitive." This book greatly increases the range of tools at the economist's disposal. It draws extensively on the knowledge and experience of other disciplines, providing the current generation with unprecedented flexibility in the practical application of their study.

Charles Kindleberger

Economics for the Twenty-first Century is an eloquent call for moving beyond self-interest based on markets and producing equilibrium to a more complex analysis. This would include sociology with cultural differences and regard for others, government that included not only bureaucrats (also found in corporations), but people devoted to the public interest, geography explaining how the tropics and especially sub-Sahara Africa suffer from lack of winter with its creative destruction of disease-bearing parasites, and much more. Kamarck brings to the analysis experience in World War II, the Marshall Plan, World Bank (twenty-eight years), the Harvard Institute for International Development, and wide scholarship. It is strongly recommended for those who think economics is a science like physics, the outcomes of which are predictable.

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Domesday Book and Beyond

Author: FW William Maitland

In an extended foreword, specially prepared for this new impression, J.C. Holt asserts categorically "that Domesday Book and Beyond remains the greatest single book on English medieval history." Its lucidity, subtlety, compass, and (remarkably) statistical facility stand quite unsurpassed and, as Professor Holt demonstrates, many of the arguments that have dominated English medieval scholarship during the ensuing ninety years stem directly from Maitland's own hypotheses and conclusions.

Table of Contents:

Foreword; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Essay I. Domesday Book:

1. Plan of the survey;
2. The Serfs;
3. The Villeins;
4. The Sokemen;
5. Sake and Soke;
6. The manor;
7. Manor and vill;
8. The feudal superstructure;
9. The boroughs; Essay II. England Before the Conquest:
10. Book-land and the land-book;
11. Book-land and folk-land;
12. Sake and Soke;
13. Book-land and loan-land;
14. The growth of seignorial power;
15. The village community; Essay III. The Hide:
16. Measures and fields;
17. Domesday statistics;
18. Beyond domesday.

More or The Global Economy and International Financing

More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America

Author: Robert M Collins

James Carville famously reminded Bill Clinton throughout 1992 that "it's the economy, stupid." Yet, for the last forty years, historians of modern America have ignored the economy to focus on cultural, social, and political themes, from the birth of modern feminism to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now a scholar has stepped forward to place the economy back in its rightful place, at the center of his historical narrative.
In More, Robert M. Collins reexamines the history of the United States from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, focusing on the federal government's determined pursuit of economic growth. After tracing the emergence of growth as a priority during FDR's presidency, Collins explores the record of successive administrations, highlighting both their success in fostering growth and its partisan uses. Collins reveals that the obsession with growth appears not only as a matter of policy, but as an expression of Cold War ideology--both a means to pay for the arms build-up and proof of the superiority of the United States' market economy. But under Johnson, this enthusiasm sparked a crisis: spending on Vietnam unleashed runaway inflation, while the nation struggled with the moral consequences of its prosperity, reflected in books such as John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. More continues up to the end of the 1990s, as Collins explains the real impact of Reagan's policies and astutely assesses Clinton's "disciplined growthmanship," which combined deficit reduction and a relaxed but watchful monetary policy by the Federal Reserve.
Writing with eloquence and analytical clarity, Robert M. Collins offers a startlinglynew framework for understanding the history of postwar America.

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Americans have not always embraced economic growth, nor has the U.S. economy grown consistently through the 20th century. But overall, Collins's wonderfully illuminating, engrossing analysis illustrates, through the century there was a move toward endorsing increasingly exuberant expansion. Looking at history through the lens of economic growth, Collins puts postwar American society in a whole new perspective. A professor of history at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Collins tells the story of American economic growth as it waxed and waned and waxed again from the New Deal through the Clinton administration. Early on, he argues, many Americans questioned whether growth was possible or even desirable in a mature capitalist economy. WWII, however, set the country's economic engine in motion, and after WWII, "growthmanship" gained speed, reaching an apex in Kennedy and Johnson's "growth liberalism." Economic expansion backslid between 1973 and 1985, as heavy government investment in Vietnam and the Great Society programs led to rapid inflation; price stability took priority. Nixon's "progressive conservativism" unsuccessfully tried to rekindle enthusiasm for robust economic growth by linking it to streamlined government and the moral rejuvenation of America. In the mid-1980s, Reagan's supply-side tactics succeeded in stealing the growth issue from the Democrats, repackaging it and recasting the GOP as the party of economic growth. Only then did Americans seemingly overcome their ambivalence about abundance. More recently, Clinton's eclectic and pragmatic approach to sustaining growth has put limits on it. Brilliantly original, this study demonstrates how different groups--from liberals to Cold Warriors--used economic growth to further their own ends, sometimes with disastrous or unforeseen consequences. (Apr.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

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The Global Economy and International Financing

Author: Henri L L Beenhakker

Interactions between global corporations and global governance demand that today's corporate executives and policymakers have clear understanding of macroeconomic issues and their effects on international finance and corporate management. Beenhakker bridges the gap between macroeconomics and international finance and shows how strategic management, national government policies, and the international public sector are all related, often in subtle ways. With numerous examples and illustrations, plus a clearly defined and usable conceptual framework, he provides executives in multinational corporations with the techniques and procedures they need for effective decision making in this newly configured international business environment.

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Beenhakker (New York Institute of Finance) presents and analyzes current information on such topics as foreign exchange markets, international trade, international capital flows, balance-of-payments policy, determinants of interest rates, financial crises, managing foreign exchange exposure, and financing from a global perspective. Appendixes feature case studies, interest tables for discrete compounding, credit rating agencies, probability tables, and second- generation risk management products. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Foreign Exchange Markets
International trade
International Capital Flows
Balance-of-Payments Policy
Determinants of Interest Rates
Financial Crises: Insights from East Asia
Managing Foreign Exchange Exposure
Financing from a Global Perspective
Appendix 1: Water Supply Project (Case Study)
Appendix 2: Interest Tables for Discrete Compounding
Appendix 3: Arcadian Telecom (Case Study)
Appendix 4: Credit Rating Agencies
Appendix 5: Cash Flow Analysis (Case Study)
Appendix 6: Probability of a Value of Z=[P -E(P)]/ (sigma) Being Smaller than the Values Tabulated in the Margins
Appendix 7: Development of a New Subsidiary (Case Study)
Appendix 8: Second-Generation Currency Risk Management Products
Index

Chocolate on Trial or The Econometric Analysis of Transition Data

Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business

Author: Lowell J Satr

At the turn of the twentieth century Cadbury Bros. Ltd. was a successful Quaker-owned chocolate manufacturer in Birmingham, England, celebrated for its model village, modern factory, and concern for employees. In 1901, Cadbury learned that its cocoa beans purchased from Portuguese-owned plantations on the island of Sao Tome off West Africa were produced by slave labor. Chocolate on Trial: Cadbury, Slavery and the Economics of Virtue in Imperial Britain gives a lively and highly readable account of the events surrounding the libel trial in which Cadbury sued the London Standard, following the newspaper's accusation that the firm was hypocritical in its use of slave-grown cocoa. As compelling now as at the turn of the previous century, the issues probed by Lowell J. Satre give invaluable historical background to contemporary issues of business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and globalization. The story Satre tells illuminates what a stubbornly persistent institution slavery was and shows how Cadbury, a company with a well-regarded brand name and logo, endured ethical dilemmas and challenges to its record for social responsibility. Chocolate on Trial brings to life the age-old conflict between economic interests and the value of human life.

Table of Contents:

1	Henry W. Nevinson and modern slavery	1
2	The firm of Cadbury and the world of slave labor	13
3	Portugal and West Africa	33
4	Evidence amassed	53
5	Joseph Burtt's report	73
6	Careful steps and concern - or dragging feet and hypocrisy?	100
7	Defending reputations	124
8	Cadbury Bros., Ltd. v. The Standard Newspaper, Ltd.	149
9	The verdict	175
10	Humanitarians, the foreign office, and Portugal, 1910-1914	183
11	The aftermath	208

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The Econometric Analysis of Transition Data

Author: Tony Lancaster

This book presents statistical methods for analysis of the duration of events. The primary focus is on models for single-spell data, events in which individual agents are observed for a single duration. Some attention is also given to multiple-spell data. The first part of the book covers model specification, including both structural and reduced form models and models with and without neglected heterogeneity. The book next deals with likelihood based inference about such models, with sections on full and semiparametric specification. A final section treats graphical and numerical methods of specification testing. This is the first published exposition of current econometric methods for the study of duration data.

Transformations of Capitalism or Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics

Transformations of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and the State in the Modern Times

Author: Harry F Ed F Dahms

A diverse, complex, and stable, yet volatile system, capitalism has undergone fundamental transformations over the past century. Entrepreneurial capitalism has become increasingly managerial and corporate in nature. No longer dominated by industrial production, capitalist economies are now geared toward supplying services and toward integrating the working class into capitalist society. Individual companies have given rise to complex relationships between state, economy, and multinational corporations.

Focusing on the structural shifts in advanced political economies, this volume brings to light trends that occur "below" the surface of economic activity. The essays identify the basic patterns of those transformations and their implications--social, political, and economic--for contemporary and future capitalisms.

Contributors: Walter Adams, Raymond Aron, Joseph Bensman, Adolph A. Berle, Jr., Fred L. Block, Barry Bluestone, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Neil Fligstein, John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Gilpin, Bennett Harrison, Gerald K. Helleiner, Bill Jordon, John Maynard Keynes, Charles P. Kindleberger, Joyce Kolko, Gardiner C. Means, Claus Offe, Karl Polanyi, Joseph Schumpeter, Barbara Stallings, Wolfgang Streeck, Thorstein Veblen, Arthur J. Vidich, John Zysman.

Table of Contents:

	Series Preface
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The Rise of "Big Business": Industrial Society between Economic Concentration and Finance Capitalism
1	The Role of Business in the United States: A Historical Survey (1972)	33
2	The Industrial System of the New Order: Business vs. Manufacturing (1923)	51
3	The Concentration of Economic Power (1932)	66
4	Industrial Society: On the Convergence of Capitalism and Socialism (1961)	86
Pt. II	Laissez-faire in Decline: from the Great Depression into the Post-war Era
5	The End of Laissez-faire (1926)	101
6	An Explanation of the 1929 Depression (1973)	121
7	Our Obsolete Market Mentality (1947)	137
8	Capitalism in the Postwar World (1943)	151
Pt. III	The Golden Age of Capitalism: Large Corporations and the Regulatory State
9	The Technostructure, the Industrial System and the State (1967)	167
10	The Military-industrial Complex and the New Industrial State (1968)	184
11	Planning, Corporatism, and the Capitalist State (1985)	201
12	Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State (1981)	222
Pt. IV	Restructuring Business, Labor, and Government: Deindustrialization, Entrepreneurialism, and the Decline of Labor
13	Closed Plants, Lost Jobs: Consequences of Deindustrialization (1982)	239
14	Toward a Policy Agenda for Competitiveness (1987)	257
15	Restructuring and the Working Class (1988)	274
16	The Social Construction of Efficiency (1990)	296
Pt. V	Multinational Corporations Prepare the Global Economy: The Integration of Markets and the Erosion of the Nation-State
17	The International Monetary Order in Crisis (1977)	317
18	American Society Since the Golden Age of Capitalism (1987)	342
19	The Multinational Corporations and International Production (1987)	364
20	The New Global Economy: Problems and Prospects (1990)	385
21	Capitalisms in Conflict? The United States, Europe, and Japan in the Post-Cold War World (1995)	398
	Epilog	416
	Acknowledgments	433
	Notes on the Contributors	436
	Index of Names	443
	Index of Subjects	449

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Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics: Rationality, Games, and Strategic Behaviour, Vol. 2

Author: Kaushik Basu

The rise of game theory around the middle of the twentieth century has profoundly affected the way economic theory is practiced. The present book is a collection of Kaushik Basu's papers on game theory and, more generally, strategic analysis. It includes papers in both pure and applied theory.

Evaluation with Power or Natural Attenuation of Fuels and Chlorinated Solvents in the Subsurface

Evaluation with Power: A New Approach to Organizational Effectiveness, Empowerment, and Excellence

Author: Sandra Trice Gray

Evaluation with Power becomes more important in the social sector every day. Donors no longer reward good intentions, they reward results. This book can help social sector leaders manage for the mission and measure results.
— Frances Hesselbein, president and CEO, Peter F. Drucker Foundation
Evaluation with Power transforms evaluation into a powerful tool nonprofits can use to help their organizations progress and change in ways that lead to greater achievement of mission. Building on THE INDEPENDENT SECTOR'S ongoing research on evaluation, it is a practical, comprehensive handbook for turning program, process, and organizational evaluation into a positive learning experience that connects performance to mission. The book focuses on the needs of the nonprofit and reveals the sort of evaluation that is most appropriate to and helpful for nonprofits.
Leading experts from a wide range of show how to use evaluation in key organizational areas, including program design, human resource management, information systems, volunteers, and more.

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A practical handbook on evaluation for nonprofit professionals, showing how to connect performance to mission with organizational programs and process evaluation. Part I covers aspects of making evaluation a useful management tool, such as empowering staff for evaluation, the board's role in evaluation, volunteer contributions to evaluation, and using client feedback. Part II contains information on using ongoing evaluation to strengthen key areas such as program outcomes, human resource management, resource development, and information management. Other subjects include adapting evaluation to the organizational culture, and using outside evaluators. Includes sample forms. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Natural Attenuation of Fuels and Chlorinated Solvents in the Subsurface

Author: Todd H Wiedemeier

The first comprehensive guide to one of today's most innovative approaches to environmental contamination Natural attenuation is gaining increasing attention as a nonintrusive, cost-effective alternative to standard remediation techniques for environmental contamination. This landmark work presents the first in-depth examination of the theory, mechanisms, and application of natural attenuation. Written by four internationally recognized leaders in this approach, the book describes both biotic and abiotic natural attenuation processes, focusing on two of the environmental contaminants most frequently encountered in groundwater—fuels and chlorinated solvents. The authors draw on a wealth of combined experience to detail successful techniques for simulating natural attenuation processes and predicting their effectiveness in the field. They also show how natural attenuation works in the real world, using numerous examples and case studies from a wide range of leading-edge projects nationwide involving fuel hydrocarbons and chlorinated solvents. Finally, they discuss the evaluation and assessment of natural attenuation and explore the design of long-term monitoring programs.

An indispensable reference for anyone working in environmental remediation, Natural Attenuation of Fuels and Chlorinated Solvents in the Subsurface is essential reading for scientists and engineers in a range of industries, as well as state and federal environmental regulators, and professors and graduate students in environmental or chemical engineering.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Overview of Natural Attenuation	1
2	Attenuation of Source Zones and Formation of Plumes	27
3	Abiotic Processes of Natural Attenuation	118
4	Overview of Intrinsic Bioremediation	162
5	Intrinsic Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons	189
6	Intrinsic Bioremediation of Chlorinated Solvents	241
7	Evaluating Natural Attenuation	298
8	Modeling Natural Attenuation	361
9	Case Studies: Fuel Hydrocarbons	446
10	Case Studies: Chlorinated Solvents	516
11	Design of Long-Term Monitoring Programs	564
App. A	Geochemical and Physical Data	581
App. B	RBCA Chemical Database	593
	Index	605

The Philosophic Consultant or Leisure Travel

The Philosophic Consultant: Revolutionizing Organizations with Ideas

Author: Peter Koestenbaum

In The Philosophic Consultant, acclaimed business consultant, philosopher, and author Peter Koestenbaum links deep insights of philosophy with practical business issues. Throughout this one-of-a-kind resource, Koestenbaum shows consultants and human resource practitioners how they can foster philosophical leadership within their organizations to positively affect the business environment. The book promises tangible results— credibility, trust, and thoughtful attention— and demonstrates how to apply philosophy, share knowledge with others, and use this newfound thoughtfulness to achieve bottom-line results.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
Pt. 1	Context
Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Your Heroic Journey	13
Pt. 2	The Diamond at a Glance
Ch. 3	The Change Agent's Diamond	41
Ch. 4	The Diamond at Work	63
Ch. 5	Secrets of Implementation	83
Pt. 3	The Main Body of the Leadership Mind: Four Intelligence Tools
Ch. 6	Ethics	107
Ch. 7	Empathy	121
Ch. 8	Principle and Duty in Business	137
Ch. 9	What Is Courage?	157
Ch. 10	Freedom: The Structure of the Experience	171
Ch. 11	The Resistance to Courage	187
Ch. 12	A Bad Decision? A Case Study in Leadership Coaching	195
Ch. 13	Courage as My-Body	207
Ch. 14	Pain and the Tragic Sense of Life: The Phoenix Factor	223
Ch. 15	Reality: The Zone that Gives No Quarter	237
Ch. 16	Image: Multiple Perspectives	257
Ch. 17	Vision	277
Ch. 18	Genius: Ways to Expand Visioning	299
Pt. 4	The Main Body of the Leadership Mind: Two Mastery Tools
Ch. 19	Polarity	335
Ch. 20	Greatness	365
Pt. 5	Appendices: Using the Total Diamond
App. A	The Magic Matrix	371
	App. B: Mastery Resources	387
	Bibliography	425
	About the Author	427
	Index	429

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Leisure Travel: Making It a Growth Market...Again!

Author: Stanley C Plog

The author, a leading travel industry expert, has spent 25 years compiling data for this book. Beginning with an overview of the leisure travel market, he then presents a psychologically based allocentrism-psychocentrism framework that explains why people do or do not travel, their various types of vacations, expectations and sources of dissatisfaction. Also included are numerous ways in which hotels, tour operators, airlines, travel agencies, car rentals, food services and other businesses can protect themselves during down swings and even prosper.

Managerial Accounting or Intersubjectivity in Economics

Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment

Author: Ronald W Hilton

Known for its balance of managerial accounting topics in a variety of business segments-manufacturing,retail,nonprofit and service-industry settings-and noted by for its lively presentation,this highly successful text provides thorough coverage of all major topics found in the managerial accounting course. Traditional managerial accounting material along with up-to-date and emerging topics are covered throughout using a step-by-step presentation punctuated with numerous graphs,tables,exhibits,and photographs. Each chapter of the text is built around a major,chapter-length illustration based on real-world companies are utilized throughout the text to demonstrate key points and highlight important concepts. Using these elements-a modern,interesting and clear presentation along with major chapter-length illustrations-author Ronald Hilton has also designed a modular text,one that allows instructors great flexibility in the ordering of topics and coverage.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. 1	Fundamentals and Cost Accumulation Systems	1
Ch. 1	Managerial Accounting: An Overview	3
Ch. 2	Basic Cost Terms and Concepts	29
Ch. 3	Job-Order Costing Systems	71
Ch. 4	Process Costing and Hybrid Product-Costing Systems	133
Ch. 5	Cost Management Systems for the New Manufacturing Environment	191
Pt. 2	Planning and Control Systems	261
Ch. 6	Cost Behavior and Estimation	263
Ch. 7	Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis	317
Ch. 8	Budgeting: Profit Planning and Control Systems	373
Ch. 9	Standard Costing and Performance Measures for the New Manufacturing Environment	445
Ch. 10	Flexible Budgets and Control of Overhead Costs	501
Ch. 11	Responsibility Accounting and Income Reporting	553
Ch. 12	Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing	603
Pt. 3	Using Accounting Information in Making Decisions	649
Ch. 13	Decision Making: Relevant Costs and Benefits	651
Ch. 14	Cost Analysis and Pricing Decisions	717
Ch. 15	Capital Expenditure Decisions: An Introduction	765
Ch. 16	Further Aspects of Capital Expenditure Decisions	811
Pt. 4	Selected Topics for Further Study	861
Ch. 17	Cost Allocation: A Closer Look	863
Ch. 18	Analyzing Financial Statements	895
Ch. 19	Preparing the Statement of Cash Flows	939
	Glossary	G-1
	Indexes	I-1

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Intersubjectivity in Economics: Agents and Structures

Author: E Fullbrook

Traditional economics treats the defining subjective properties of economic agents (tastes, preferences, demands, goals and perceptions) as if they are determined independently of individual and collective relations with other agents. This collection of essays reflects the increasingly common view that economics cannot continue to disregard all economic phenomena inconsistent with this conception.
The volume is especially concerned with the idea of intersubjective influences on market outcomes. A team of expert international contributors have been brought together to address the question of intersubjectivity from a variety of perspectives. Using methods of description and analysis they explore the structures and effects of concrete interdependencies between individual subjectivities engaged in economic activity, and develop conceptual and analytical tools for this task. Many of the essays are interdisciplinary in scope and in addition to economics the book should provide valuable lessons in psychology,sociology, social theory, philosophy, political science and history.

Corporate Governance or Transnational Civil Society

Corporate Governance: Law, Theory and Policy

Author: Thomas W Joo

This volume collects recent scholarship on the law of corporate governance. It explores the application of legal doctrine and theory to policy issues such as corporate social responsibility, executive compensation, corporate criminality, federalism, and ethics. Corporate Governance: Law, Theory and Policy puts these issues in the context of recent developments such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the wave of corporate scandals and failures exemplified by the failure of Enron Corporation.

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Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction

Author: L David Brown

Due to the past decade's increasing impact of civil society networks and campaigns on global policy, the transnational civil society has become a continually emerging phenomenon. Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction provides a clear and accessible introduction to the history, characteristics, and achievements of influential transnational civil society networks, coalitions, and movements.

Providing perspectives from both developing and industrialized countries, editors Srilatha Batliwala and L. David Brown create the impetus for an in-depth analysis of the forces that have shaped social movements such as globalism, economic and political power structures, and organization by non-state actors. The contributors are globally experienced activist-scholars and reflective practitioners presently engaged in these issues. Together these sources form a comprehensive introduction to civil transnationalism through the synthesis of diverse positions as the contributors raise ideas and discussion on social transformation.

For students, practitioners, and activist alike, Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction offers comprehensible descriptions of transnational initiatives working toward effective and sustainable solutions to problems involving the environment, human rights, women's rights, and economic justice.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1.  Introduction: Why Transnational Civil Society Matters

The Politics of Labor in a Global Age or Ethical Issues in Business

The Politics of Labor in a Global Age: Continuity and Change in Late-Industrializing and Post-Socialist Economies

Author: Rudra Sil

One of the first works to analyze and compare recent shifts in patterns of industrial relations across late-industrializing and post-socialist economies, this volume features original, timely essays on distinct responses to common economic pressures associated with "globalization." The authors reveal that globalization has weakened organized labor, yet they explain that distinct labor institutions persist despite similar economic adjustment measures.

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Ethical Issues in Business

Author: Michael Boylan

This collection provides students in Business Ethics courses a comprehensive overview of the major areas of ethical theories and issues, including employer-employee relations, consumer affairs, business and government, and international affairs.

Table of Contents:

PART I: ETHICAL THEORY. 1. Virtue Ethics. 2. Intuitionism. 3. Utilitarianism. 4. Deontology. PART II: EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS. 5. Privacy. 6. Affirmative Action. 7. Whistle Blowing. 8. Working Conditions. PART III: CONSUMER ISSUES. 9. Health Care. 10. Advertising. 11. The Consumer. 12. The Environment. PART IV: GOVERNMENT ISSUES. 13. Regulation. 14. The Government's Role in Economic Justice. PART V: INTERNATIONAL ISSUES. 15. Bribery. 16. Multi-National Corporations.

Making a Market or Control and Security of E Commerce

Making a Market: The Institutional Transformation of an African Society

Author: Jean Ensminger

In Making a Market, Jean Ensminger analyzes the process by which the market was introduced into the economy of a group of Kenyan pastoralists. Professor Ensminger employs new institutional economic analysis to assess the impact of new market institutions on production and distribution, with particular emphasis on the effect of institutions on decreasing transaction costs over time. This study traces the effects of increasing commercialization on the economic well-being of individual households, rich and poor alike, over considerable time and analyzes the process by which institutions themselves are transformed as a market economy develops. This case study points out the importance of understanding the roles of ideology and bargaining power--in addition to pure economic forces, such as changing relative prices--in shaping market institutions.

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Control and Security of E-Commerce

Author: Gordon Edward Smith

• Explores the components of e-commerce (including EDI).
• Shows the risks involved when using an e-commerce system.
• Provides controls for protecting an e-commerce site (e.g., securing financial transactions and confidential transactions).
• Provides COSO compliant audit approach.
• Provides risk/control tables and checklists.
• Technical topics are discussed in simple user-friendly language.

Dr. James B. Hansen

The essence of information security is all about people, processes, and controls. The heart of successful security is not pure technology. The key is a team of well-trained employees who are prepared to use technology as a tool to implement and manage effective IT controls. Gordon Smith’s important book is a quality follow-up to his first book dealing with a control assessment approach to network auditing. It is an outstanding presentation of what is important in implementing and managing IT controls. It simply belongs in the library of every IT manager, internal auditor, and security specialist. (Vice President of Security Services, DynTek, Inc.)

Professor Michael Davis

Gordon Smith’s latest book leads the field again. Based upon understandable theory and loads of real-world audit experience, Control and Security of E-Commerce will help you identify, isolate, and inoculate your company from today’s ever-present e-commerce perils. Don’t just ‘trust’ that your security is OK—use this book to make sure! (Graziadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University)

Dr. Jagdish S. Gangolly

Control and Security of E-Commerce is an invaluable book for practicing information systems professionals. Its unique informal and conversational style of writing is a pleasure to read. The war stories make the reading exciting for an area that is technical and often considered rather dry. The end-of-chapter guidelines for action are a treasure-trove of information. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in e-commerce security. (Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Accounting Programs, University at Albany, State University of New York)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
	E-Commerce Results in Business Globalization	4
Ch. 2	Legal Issues Related to E-Commerce	11
	E-Commerce in the Courtroom	14
	Legal Agreements in Support of E-Commerce	19
	Risk/Control Table	24
	Audit Checklist	27
Ch. 3	Information Security: Overview	31
	Specific Threats to E-Commerce	35
	Cryptography and Encryption	39
	Symmetric Cryptosystems	39
	Asymmetric Cryptosystems	43
	Key Management and Transfer Techniques	43
	Digital Signatures and Other Authentication Techniques	46
	Risk/Control Table	48
	Audit and Security Checklist	52
Ch. 4	Certificates and Nonrepudiation	57
	Certificates	57
	Nonrepudiation: Requirement for Internet Business	63
	Risk/Control Table	67
	Audit and Security Checklist	71
Ch. 5	Protecting the E-Commerce Environment	73
	Protecting the Internet Zone	73
	Protecting the Extranet Zone	82
	Protecting the Intranet	88
	Business Continuance: Keeping the Web Site Accessible	89
	Risk/Control Summary	93
	Audit and Security Checklist	106
Ch. 6	Protecting E-Commerce Data	111
	Securing Confidential Data	113
	Securing the UNIX Environment	115
	Securing the Windows Server Environment	118
	Data-Related Risk/Control Table	124
	Checklists for Protecting the Data	137
	Checklists for UNIX Systems	138
	Checklists for Windows Systems	140
	Checklists for Network Issues	141
Ch. 7	Auditing an E-Commerce Application	143
	Sales and Invoicing Function Audit Guide	145
	Index	225

The Limits of Lockean Rights in Property or Assembly Automation

The Limits of Lockean Rights in Property

Author: Gopal Sreenivasan

This book discusses Locke's theory of property from both a critical and an interpretative standpoint. The author first develops a comprehensive interpretation of Locke's argument for the legitimacy of private property, and then examines the extent to which the argument is really serviceable in defense of that institution. He contends that a purified version of Locke's argument--one that adheres consistently to the logic of Locke's text while excluding considerations extraneous to his logic--actually does establish the legitimacy of a form of private property. This version, which is both defensible in contemporary, secular terms and is, essentially, egalitarian, should provoke a reassessment of the nature of Locke's relevance to contemporary discussions of distributive justice.


"The book is clear and focused; the argument is compact; relevant secondary literature is respectfully treated."--Political Theory

"...an excellent text for an upper level or graduate seminar on Lockean political philosophy, or on the philosophical foundations of property rights. It has the virtue of being short and readable. It is creative in the theory of property developed out of key elements of Locke's work, and scholarly in its careful examination of Lockean texts."--Teaching Philosophy

"...this work provides a meticulous account of Locke's theory in such a way that it becomes more relevant to the ideals of secular modernity."--The Review of Metaphysics

"The book is clearly written and tightly argued."--Ethics

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Assembly Automation: A Management Handbook

Author: Frank J Riley

Success in automatic assembly design and operation comes from an awareness and sensitivity to a multitude of small design details, and only Frank Riley could pack so much knowledge and experience into a practical and authoritative guide to the selection and application of automatic assembly machinery. A vast amount of practical information about all aspects of automated assembly can be found in this important revised edition. 320 pp. Pub: 3/96.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Why Automatic Assembly
Ch. 2	Product Design for Automatic Assembly
Ch. 3	Selecting the Assembly Machine System
Ch. 4	The Role of the Control System
Ch. 5	Feeding and Transfer of Parts
Ch. 6	Integrating Fabrication and Packaging Operations with Assembly
Ch. 7	Joining and Fastening
Ch. 8	Inspection, Gauging, and Functional Testing
Ch. 9	Meeting Government Regulations
Ch. 10	Systems Procurement
Ch. 11	Machine Acceptance and Installation
Ch. 12	The Production Audit
Ch. 13	Automated Assembly in the 21st Century

The Cultures of Work Organizations or I Series

The Cultures of Work Organizations

Author: Harrison M Tric

This is the first, most comprehensive integration and synthesis of the growing literature on the cultures of work organizations. It offers a cultural perspective that is compatible with mainstream theories of organizations, while drawing upon the literatures in sociology, anthropology, organizations, communications, education, public administration, management, and business to illustrate the major components of work-related cultures. It will benefit professionals who are consultants, trainers, organizational development agents, and literate managers.

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I-Series: MS Office XP -- Volume I

Author: Stephen Haag

The I-Series Applications textbooks strongly emphasize that students learn and master applications skills by being actively engaged- by doing. These texts have been written with clear,error-free,and unambiguous steps to accomplish tasks that lead to a finished document,worksheet or database table. The authors made the decision that teaching "how" to accomplish some task is not enough for complete understanding and mastery. Prior to introducing steps,the authors discuss why the steps students are about to experience are important and what role the steps play in the overall plan for creating a document,workbook or database.

Industrial Ecology and the Automobile or Securities Regulation Cases and Analysis 2005

Industrial Ecology and the Automobile

Author: Thomas E E Graedel

FEATURES:

• Shows that an industrial system must be viewed not in isolation from its surrounding systems, but in concert with them.
• Outlines a systems view in which one seeks to optimize the total materials cycle — from materials to components and whole products, through obsolescence and disposal.
• Focuses on resources, energy, and capital as factors to be optimized.
• Explores various experiences encountered by the automobile industry in designing an automobile with the environment in mind. Considers:
• What choices are desirable?
• Which decisions work?
• Which are difficult to implement?
• Where is more research needed?
• Places automobiles in the context of broad societal structures — economics, psychology, culture.
• Provides historical perspectives on the evolution of the automobile and the evolution of the automotive infrastructure. (Chs. 4, 5) Considers:
• Road network development, maintenance and repair.
• Petroleum exploration, recovery, and delivery network.
• The automobile as a facilitator of urban sprawl.
• Discusses the many steps and factors to be considered in designing for environment:
• Choosing materials. (Ch. 6)
• Energy consumption. (Ch. 7)
• Environmental impacts during manufacture. (Ch. 8)
• Environmental interactions during product use. (Ch. 9)
• Design for recycling. (Ch. 10)
• Surveys global trends affecting the automobile, the transportationinfrastructure, and the society of the next quarter-century.
• Contains Matrix Evaluation Guidelines and Checklists. (Appendix A)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. I	Automobiles and Societal Structures
1	Humanity on the Move	1
2	Industrial Ecology	8
3	Culture, Psychology, and the Automobile	26
4	Automotive Technology as a System	37
Pt. II	Historical Perspectives
5	The Evolution of the Automobile	47
6	The Evolution of the Automotive Infrastructure	62
Pt. III	Design for Environment
7	Choosing Materials	77
8	Environmental Interactions During Manufacture	93
9	Energy Consumption	109
10	Environmental Interactions During Product Use	125
11	Design for Recycling	147
12	How Green is the Automobile and Its Infrastructure?	162
Pt. IV	Future Prospects
13	The Future of the Automobile and Its Infrastructure	193
14	Epilogue	217
App. A	Environmentally-Responsible Product Matrix	219
App. B	Conversion Factors and Units of Measurement	236
	Index	238

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Securities Regulation, Cases and Analysis 2005 (University Casebook Series)

Author: Stephen J Choi

Securities Regulation: Cases and Analysis includes detailed coverage of the SEC's 2005 Public Offering Reforms and seeks to make both securities markets and securities regulation accessible and manageable, helping students to master the basic principles and structure of securities regulation and enabling them to begin their careers as corporate lawyers with confidence. Each chapter begins with a brief essay laying out the economics of the subject of the chapter. Securities markets are all about money, so an understanding of the economic incentives of the various actors is essential to an understanding of the effects of the regulatory regime.

Understanding and Implementing ISO 9000 and Other ISO Standards or Working Papers for Use with Managerial Accounting

Understanding and Implementing ISO 9000 and Other ISO Standards

Author: David Goetsch

Understanding and Implementing ISO 9000:2000, Second Edition, presents information on the newly updated ISO 9000:2000 standards. The text serves as a practical teaching resource and a how-to guide, appropriate for both traditional classroom and workshop environments. It provides a step-by-step model for understanding the year 2000 version of the ISO 9000 standard and its supporting documents, and for implementation and registration to the standard.

Features of this text include:

• Clear, easy-to-follow explanations of the standards and related concepts
• Case studies that apply the concepts to real-world situations
• End-of-chapter summaries, lists of key terms, and review questions that support the user's comprehension of the material
• Appendices of information that relate to the study and application of the standard, including a comprehensive checklist that will assist organizations in assessing their readiness for registration

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Working Papers for Use with Managerial Accounting

Author: Ray H H Garrison

This study aid contains forms that help students organize their solutions to homework problems.

Financial Accounting and Reporting or Making Strategy Happen

Financial Accounting and Reporting

Author: Nathan M Bisk

Study with the same materials used by these gold medal winners who achieved the highest scores in the nation on recent CPA exams.

• Pass the CPA exam with our famous Solutions Approach
• Four volumes with complete, current and extensive coverage of all topics to match the four sections of the CPA examination
• Comprehensive coverage of the new exam content specifications
• How to take the exam, answer questions, and write effective essays for maximum points
• Diagnostic Exam to test your knowledge and strategies to prepare for the exam
• Getting Started worksheets to help you develop your training plan
• Detailed summaries, plus correct and incorrect answer explanations not available from the AICPA
• Free Update Supplements

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Making Strategy Happen

Author: Arnold S Judson

Strategic business plans, the key to gaining and sustaining competitive advantage in an increasingly turbulent and complex world, are useless until successfully implemented. Yet managements' failures in execution are far more common than their successes. This book explains in a practical, down-to-earth way how management can ensure successful implementation of its business strategy and achieve desired outcomes both in the marketplace and inside the organization.
The new edition of this bestselling primer contains an extensive, entirely new chapter on strategic management, further elaboration of recommended processes, and many additional international examples.

Table of Contents:

Preface.
Part I: Great Plans do not Happy Outcomes Make: .
1. The Implementation Issue.
2. Why Strategies Fail.
3. Strategic Management.
4. The Anatomy of Implementation.
Part II: New Uses for an Old Vehicle:.
5. Driving Strategy Implementation with Operating Plans.
6. Setting the Stage.
Part III: Three Cornerstone Analyses: .
7. Targeting High-Leverage Improvement Opportunities.
8. Setting the Right Priorities and Objectives.
9. Assessing Capabilities for Success.
Part IV: Formulating an Agreed Plan:.
10. Establishing Direction and Focus.
11. Specifying the Work Required.
Part V: Ensuring Implementation Success: .
12. Tracking Implementation Progress.
13. Sustaining Momentum and Focus.
14. Making Strategy Happen.
Appendices. .
1. Sample Operating Systems Characteristics.
2. High-Leverage Targets of Opportunity (Prioritized)>.
3. Organization and Management Readiness Assessment Questionnaire.
4. Generic Strategy Options.
5. An Example of a List of Issues to be Addressed by a Strategy.
6. Some typical Obstacles to Successful Stratagy Implementation.
7. Examples of Action Programs.
8. Examples of Tailored Measurement Packages.
Notes.
Index.

An Economic Analysis of the Family or Intermediate Accounting

An Economic Analysis of the Family

Author: John F Ermisch

What do economists have to say about behavior within the context of the family? This book improves our understanding of how families and markets interact, why important aspects of families have been changing in recent decades, and how families respond to, and are affected by, public policy. It covers a broader range of topics with more consistency than have previous studies, including all major theoretical developments in the field over the past decade. John Ermisch builds his analysis on the premise that the standard analytical methods of microeconomics can help us understand resource allocation and the distribution of welfare within the family.

Families are dynamic institutions--and so the author uses these same methods to study family formation and dissolution (including marriage, fertility, and divorce) and household formation, as well as intergenerational transfers, household production and investment, and bargaining between family members. He also shows how economic theories of the family can help guide and structure empirical analyses of demographic and related phenomena, such as labor supply, child support, and returns to education. Examples of studies that apply the theory are provided throughout the book.

The most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to an increasingly dynamic area of research, one with important implications for public policy, An Economic Analysis of the Family will be a valuable resource for advanced students of microeconomics and also for students and researchers in sociology, psychology, and other social sciences.

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Intermediate Accounting, Vol. 1

Author: Donald E Kieso

Keeping its finger on the pulse of the profession, the new twelfth edition update of this bestselling book effectively prepares readers for their accounting futures. They'll find the latest information in the field, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act legislation as well as proven tips for passing the computerized CPA exam. Reflecting the demands for entry-level accountants, the focus of this book is on fostering critical thinking skills, reducing emphasis on memorization and encouraging more analysis and interpretation by requiring use of technology tools, spreadsheets and databases. It integrates numerous examples from real corporations throughout the chapters to clearly demonstrate how accounting principles and techniques are applied in practice.

Booknews

The new, enhanced edition of a standard text includes substantial new content and new pedagogical features. Coverage begins with a chapter on financial accounting and accounting standards and continues through 24 chapters covering such topics as income statement and related information; balance sheet and statement of cash flows; valuation of inventories; depreciations, impairments, and depletion; intangible assets; long-term liabilities; income taxes; and pensions and postretirement benefits; among other topics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Tomorrow's accountants won't be just number crunchers; they'll be communicators, consultants, and decision makers. This Tenth Edition is specifically designed to help you fill those rolls. With the Digital Tool CD-ROM (packaged free with this text), you'll have access to skill-building aids that will help you prepare for professional practice.

Wiring for Wireless Sites or Punishment for Profit

Wiring for Wireless Sites

Author: Ira Wiesenfeld

Wiring for Wireless Sites is one of only a handful of concise, yet highly technical information resources devoted exclusively to teaching readers the ins and outs of installing equipment in a wireless site. A "go to" resource for site planning engineers and technicians, as well as professionals already in the radio and wireless installation and maintenance business, this book virtually eliminates hours of time linking generic electrical/electronic circuit theory to manufacturer-specific descriptions of cables before moving on to actual installation. Comprehensive coverage spans the spectrum, from equipment layout and wiring through grounding and lighting protection. Helpful learning aids are also included in every chapter to guide readers to new levels of expertise.

Booknews

This resource offers information on installing equipment in a wireless site, for site planning engineers and technicians as well as professionals already in the radio and wireless installation and maintenance business. The book links generic electrical/electronic circuit theory to manufacturer-specific descriptions of cables, then moves on to actual installation, with coverage spanning equipment layout and wiring through grounding and lighting protection. Each chapter includes safety precautions, specific procedures and guidelines for testing and documentation, and objectives, summaries, and review questions. The author is a licensed professional engineer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Punishment for Profit: Private Prisons/Public Concerns

Author: David Shichor

"Shichor, a recognized American criminologist, has provided a thoughtful, comprehensive, issue-directed investigation into the privatization solution. . . . An excellent resource for policy makers and those knowledgeable about corrections." --J. H. Larson in Choice "In this comprehensive study of the privatization of correctional institutions, David Shichor provides a much-needed critical analysis and evaluation of the privatization movement in corrections today. After presenting a lucid historical overview, the author discusses in separate chapters the conceptual, legal, economic, qualitative, and management issues involved in privatizing prisons. . . . The book deserves to be widely read because of its clarity, comprehensiveness, and relevance." --Matthew Kanjirathinkal in Corrections Today "David Shichor, a recognized American criminologist, has provided a thoughtful, comprehensive, issue-directed investigation into the privatization solution. . . . Each issue is systematically reviewed, allowing readers to relate it to the perspective, central thesis, and to other issues. Shichor then uses empirical program information and evaluations to test elements of basic privatization. . . . Good bibliography. An excellent resource for policy makers and those knowledgeable about corrections." --Choice Presenting a systematic and complete review of the literature on privatization of prisons, Punishment for Profit raises some fundamental questions about who we are as a society. Moving beyond the comfort zone of more pragmatic discussions, David Shichor examines some serious ethical, legal, political, and theoretical considerations regarding a clientele that is not only viewed asundesirable but also vulnerable to social and political manipulation. Acknowledging the need to synthesize both research and "gut feeling" in order to formulate a thoughtful opinion on such an important topic, the author encourages evaluation of basic issues such as: What are the functions of state and government? What are the limits of civil liberties? What are the bonds holding members of society together? Researchers, academicians, policy makers, correctional officers, and advanced students will find Punishment for Profit thought provoking and an excellent resource for continued efforts to resolve this critical issue facing the national community. "Although there is no question where the author comes down on the matter of privatizing prisons, readers seeking a full view of what is known and thought about this important public policy issue should be pleased to have before them a full and fair portrayal of every matter of importance on the issue: the historical record, legal issues, management concerns, expense data, monitoring matters, and outcome measures, the last concerned with whether private operations show a better result than the present system in terms of reform of inmates." --from the Foreword by Gilbert Geis

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Shichor (criminal justice, California State U., San Bernardino) offers a review of the literature on privatization of prisons, of interest to researchers, policymakers, correctional officers, and advanced students. He raises fundamental questions about the functions of state and government, the limits of civil liberties, and the relevance of a utilitarian approach to punishment and social control, and discusses the history of private prisons, empirical evaluations of private correctional facilities, and legal, economic, and quality issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	A Historical Review of Private Prisons	19
3	Conceptual and Theoretical Issues	45
4	Legal Issues	78
5	Contract and Monitoring Issues	111
6	Economic Issues	135
7	Quality Issues	166
8	Management and Personnel Issues	189
9	Empirical Evaluations of Private Correctional Facilities	210
10	Further Considerations	233
	References	262
	Index	283
	About the Author	295