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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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    • Security Leader Insights for Business Continuity

      • 1st Edition
      • September 11, 2014
      • Phil Hopkins
      • English
      • Paperback
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      How do you, as a busy security executive or manager, stay current with evolving issues, familiarize yourself with the successful practices of your peers, and transfer this information to build a knowledgeable, skilled workforce the times now demand? With Security Leader Insights for Business Continuity, a collection of timeless leadership best practices featuring insights from some of the nation’s most successful security practitioners, you can.This book can be used as a quick and effective resource to bring your security staff up to speed on security’s role in business continuity. Instead of re-inventing the wheel when faced with a new challenge, these proven practices and principles will allow you to execute with confidence knowing that your peers have done so with success. It includes chapters on the business resiliency and emergency preparedness, leading during a crisis, corporate social responsibility, and the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Certification Program.Security Leader Insights for Business Continuity is a part of Elsevier’s Security Executive Council Risk Management Portfolio, a collection of real-world solutions and "how-to" guidelines that equip executives, practitioners, and educators with proven information for successful security and risk management programs.

    • Libraries and Public Perception

      • 1st Edition
      • August 18, 2014
      • Anna Galluzzi
      • English
      • Paperback
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      What is the future of libraries? This question is frequently posed, with widespread research into the social and economic impact of libraries. Newspapers play an important role in forming public perceptions, but how do newspapers present libraries, their past, present and future? Nobody has yet taken the press to task on the quantity and quality of articles on libraries, however Libraries and Public Perception does just this, through comparative textual analysis of newspapers in Europe. After a comprehensive and useful introductory chapter, the book consists of the following five chapters: Wondering about the future of libraries; Measuring the value of libraries; Libraries in the newspapers; Contemporary challenges and public perception; Which library model from the newspapers: a synthesis.

    • MIT Project Athena

      • 1st Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • Bozzano G Luisa
      • English
      • Paperback
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      A hands-on account of the design, implementation, and performance of Project Athena.Based on thousands of pages of reports and the author's own experience, this important book lets you in on the design, implementation, and performance of Project Athena - now a production system of networked workstations that is replacing time-sharing (which MIT also pioneered) as the preferred model of computing at MIT. The book is organized in four parts, covering management, pedagogy, technology, and administration. Appendixes describe deployment of Project Athena systems at five other schools, provide guidelines for installation, and recommend end-user policies.

    • Smart Security: Understanding and Contributing to the Business

      • 1st Edition
      • September 4, 2014
      • J. David Quilter
      • English
      • eBook
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      Smart Security: Understanding and Contributing to the Business is a video presentation. Length: 68 minutes.In Smart Security: Understanding and Contributing to the Business, presenter J. David Quilter demonstrates the benefits of how a fully integrated security program increases business profits and delivers smart security practices at the same time. The presentation does away with the misconception that security is only an expense. In fact, a well-integrated security program can protect business interests, thereby enhancing productivity and net income. Quilter covers cost analysis and security measures and metrics, along with how to demonstrate return on investment and leverage executive leadership. The practices and tools discussed in this presentation will reduce business losses and help improve security and operations.Smart Security: Understanding and Contributing to the Business is a part of Elsevier’s Security Executive Council Risk Management Portfolio, a collection of real world solutions and "how-to" guidelines that equip executives, practitioners, and educators with proven information for successful security and risk management programs.

    • Strategic Networks

      • 1st Edition
      • May 12, 2014
      • J. C. Jarillo
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Strategic Networks: Creating the Borderless Organization focuses on the principles, methodologies, and approaches involved in the creation of borderless organizations. The book first underscores competition and cooperation and the ways to organize a business system. Discussions focus on organization as a way to meet strategic demands, vertical integration and subcontracting, intrinsic profitability of different activities, disadvantages of vertical integration, and guidelines for decision-making on vertical integration. The monograph then examines over-subcontracting, strategic network, and essence of a strategic network. Topics include generating trust, how to reduce transaction costs, competition and cooperation, subcontracting in the automobile industry, advantages of shops, manufacturing and selling activities, and network organization. The publication explores international considerations, including cost of the activities and costs of coordination in international business, vertical integration and subcontracting across borders, and coordinating efficiently across borders. The book is a valuable source of information for researchers interested in the establishment of borderless organizations.

    • Business Continuity State of the Industry Report

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2014
      • Herbert J. Mattord + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      In the Business Continuity State of the Industry Report, authors Herbert Mattord and Michael Whitman provide a comprehensive overview of recent research and news related to business continuity programs. Using the most recent surveys, reports, and research data available, the authors provide an objective analysis of the state of business continuity today. The report covers events that have shaped the industry, including natural, economic, and technological disasters; the perspective of business continuity from top management executives; business continuity job descriptions and compensation data; the legal and regulatory environment; and emerging trends. It brings together what fragmented bits of information are currently available into one easy-to-read document. The Business Continuity State of the Industry Report is a part of Elsevier’s Security Executive Council Risk Management Portfolio, a collection of real world solutions and "how-to" guidelines that equip executives, practitioners, and educators with proven information for successful security and risk management programs.

    • Cost Accounting

      • 2nd Edition
      • May 21, 2014
      • Mark Lee Inman
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Cost Accounting, Second Edition covers information and terminologies that prepare students for the final Level of the Accounting Technicians examinations, and the Level 1 Cost Accounting paper for the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. The book provides definitions of terms associated with cost and costing and discusses the environment and uses of cost accounting. The text identifies the basic elements of cost accounting and how some of the elements are drawn into the procedures, with focus on materials and conversion cost. The types of costing methods, the typical costing systems, the basic mechanics of process costing, and the impact of losses and gains and work-in-progress are also considered. The book discusses marginal and standard costing, budget, and variance analysis, which is the essential mechanics of the operation of standard costing. The book also apprises cost accounting system, integrated accounts, and the presentation of cost accounting information. The last part of the book aims to review the communications constraints and desires put upon the accountant and to go into the mechanics of report writing. The book will be invaluable to certified accountants, management accountants, and non-mathematical students taking accounting subjects.

    • Technology Entrepreneurship

      • 2nd Edition
      • August 12, 2014
      • Thomas N. Duening + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The focus of this book is on technology ventures — how they start, operate, and sometimes exit profitably. In short, it covers all the elements required to launch a successful technology company, including discussion of cutting-edge trends such as "entrepreneurial method" and "lean startup," emphasis on the ideation process and development of an effective business plan, coverage of product and market development, intellectual property, structuring your venture, raising capital, sales and marketing, people management, and even strategies for exiting your venture. This is not another armchair book about entrepreneurship. It’s a working guide for engineers and scientists who want to actually be entrepreneurs.

    • Accounting Education for the 21st Century

      • 1st Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • Jane O. Burns + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Accounting practice, whether in business or government, is more dynamic, more complex, and addresses a wider array of issues than it did as little as five years ago. Significant and rapid social, political, technological and economic changes are taking place in the world economy and it is increasingly recognised that accountants in all countries play a key role in the process of economic development.Accounti... education is undergoing a thorough review on a worldwide basis and major developments are taking place to produce quality accounting education that can keep pace with dramatic world change.This book provides an up-to-date view of the state of accounting education throughout the world and focusses on the global challenges facing accounting education as we approch the millenium.

    • Formal Theories of Politics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 20
      • June 28, 2014
      • P. E. Johnson
      • English
      • eBook
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      Formal Theories of Politics demonstrates the role of formal mathematical models in political science, and aims to convey a sense of the questions and methods which govern the political science research agenda. While there is still much interest in empirical patterns of voting behaviour and public opinion data, there has been substantial growth in emphasis on mathematical theory as a technique for the derivation of testable hypotheses. Topics discussed include: optimal candidate strategies and equilibria in competitive elections; voting agendas and parliamentary procedure in the multidimensional events; revolution, repression and inequality as outputs of dynamics systems. The mathematical techniques are widely varied, including game theory, functional analysis, differential equations, expert systems, stochastic processes and statistical models.

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