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Our Business, Management, and Accounting titles are essential reading for students and professionals, and cover a range of foundational and advanced topics across actuarial science, quantitative assets management and investment modelling, business venturing, business law, and human resource management, among other topics

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    • Agile Development and Business Goals

      • 1st Edition
      • June 4, 2010
      • Bill Holtsnider + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Agile Development and Business Goals: The Six-Week Solution is a guide for the software development process, which can be challenging, difficult, and time-consuming. This process, called the “Agile” process, is unique, and it features several aspects that distinguish it from the classical methods of software development. The book offers readers information about the design, implementation, and management of the different methods of creating world-class software. The book discusses the various reasons that the development of software is a difficult process, and it addresses how software development sometimes fails and why it seldom aligns with business needs. It further examines the risk associated with software creation and the different ways to mitigate them. This book is relevant to software development managers responsible for creating quality software products, and managing software development teams.

    • Takeover Activity, Valuation Estimates and Merger Gains

      • 1st Edition
      • March 8, 2010
      • Bjørn Espen Eckbo
      • English
      • eBook
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      A selection of republished corporate finance articles and book chapters that can serve as an advanced corporate finance supplementary text for courses that use no textbooks. Combining convenience and an affordable price with retypeset pages and a high-quality index, the 600 pages of volume one, Takeover Activity, Valuation Estimates and Merger Gains, focus on classical issues such as the existence and source of merger waves, empirical estimates of takeover announcement returns and the division of takeover gains between bidders and targets, and tests for potential sources of takeover gains (primarily involving estimation of industry wealth effects of takeovers), introducing students to modern scientific evidence about corporate takeovers. Including an index and new introduction, this volume will simplify and facilitate students’ interaction with new concepts and applications.

    • Scientific Publishing

      • 1st Edition
      • January 20, 2010
      • Hans Roosendaal + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • Hardback
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      Scientific Publishing addresses the issue of business models in scientific publishing and how these relate to the research process (e.g. support or inhibit this process). The researcher is taken as the starting point for the considerations to arrive at a comprehensive description of the publishing process as an integral part of the research process. The properties of different business models are tested against this description, allowing an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of these models in supporting the research process.

    • Mergers and Acquisitions Basics

      • 1st Edition
      • September 23, 2010
      • Donald DePamphilis
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Mergers and Acquisitions Basics: All You Need to Know provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of mergers and acquisitions. Key concepts discussed include M&As as change agents in the context of corporate restructuring; legal structures and strategies employed in corporate restructuring; takeover strategies and the impact on corporate governance; takeover defenses; and players who make mergers and acquisitions happen. The book also covers developing a business plan and the tools used to evaluate, display, and communicate information to key constituencies both inside and outside the corporation; the acquisition planning process; the negotiation, integration planning, and closing phases; financing transactions; and M&A post-merger integration.This book is written for buyers and sellers of businesses, financial analysts, chief executive officers, chief financial officers, operating managers, investment bankers, and portfolio managers. Others who may have an interest include bank lending officers, venture capitalists, government regulators, human resource managers, entrepreneurs, and board members. The book may also be used as a companion or supplemental text for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, business strategy, management, governance, and entrepreneurship.

    • The Multi-Dimensions of Industrial Relations in the Asian Knowledge-Based Economies

      • 1st Edition
      • June 10, 2010
      • Sununta Siengthai + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • Hardback
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      This collection of work by leading scholars investigates the impact of the globalization process on some selected Asian economies and societies. With particular focus on the role of institutional factors such as labour unions or workers’ associations, case studies are presented on labour-management relations at the workplace that have evolved to cope with globalization. The cases describe labour institutions in the society as a social force that acts as a catalyst for societal democracy and for industrial democracy at the workplace. These cases provide descriptions of the changes in the management’s stance and approaches towards labour unions in the selected countries as well as at the organizational level over the last three decades when much of the industrialization process has occurred in Asia.

    • Implementation of Changes in Chinese Organizations

      • 1st Edition
      • March 30, 2009
      • Ruth Alas
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      There are no commonly accepted theories of change that have been developed for China or countries in transition. This book is an attempt to bridge that gap and provide a model which takes into account the specifics of organizational changes in Chinese organizations. It looks at various aspects of change implementation in Chinese organizations, including the types, the process, the readiness to change, and ethical issues.

    • Cruise to Success

      • 1st Edition
      • January 30, 2009
      • Loreen Phillips
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Cruise to Success is a hands-on guide and handbook to create a library marketing campaign. Examples and step-by-step instructions assist both the novice and expert in presenting a campaign to attract the campus community to the library’s resources.

    • The Transformation of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in Vietnam

      • 1st Edition
      • May 15, 2009
      • Anne Vo
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      This essential reference reviews recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management and union relations in a sample of multi national companies (MNCs) and local firms in Vietnam. It addresses the transfer of human resources management (HRM) systems across borders and the transformation of HRM practices in Vietnam in the context of a developing and transitional economy. The book extensively examines the attraction of younger generations to HRM systems in developing countries, the ‘brain drain’ phenomenon and the local firms potentially losing commercial competitiveness in their own country. The book also reviews the catalyst role of MCNs in the management of human resources.

    • Guerilla Capitalism

      • 1st Edition
      • March 9, 2009
      • Lan Nguyen
      • English
      Aimed at globalising companies, institutional investors, business researchers, students and practitioners. Guerilla Capitalism analyses the nature of the business system and behaviour of state owned enterprises in Vietnam. Written by an expert author, the book is based on first hand case studies containing full and frank interviews with local managers on the country’s business culture. It thus provides those seeking to do business in Vietnam with an unparalleled insight into how and why its businesses in general, and state owned enterprises in particular, are structured and managed, a topic about which little has been previously written. The book also presents researchers and students with a comprehensive, societal approach to the study of organisational behaviour, and offers a distinctive interpretation of the common problems of state owned enterprises in transitional economies that goes beyond the traditional economic explanation.

    • A Study Of Performance Measurement In The Outsourcing Decision

      • 1st Edition
      • May 28, 2009
      • Ronan McIvor + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Outsourcing is a key issue for many organisations having moved from the contracting out of peripheral activities such as cleaning to more critical areas such as design and marketing. This report is for managers and people in finance and accounting functions and takes a practical approach in developing a framework and then applying this framework in an actual organisation which makes it easier for practitioners to understand.

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