The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Management Information Systems

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Management Information Systems
Author: Gordon B. Davis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1999-06-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780631214847

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Management Information Systems provides clear, concise, up to the minute and highly informative definitions and explanations covering the whole of the fast changing field of management information systems.

Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society

Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
Author: Robert W. Kolb
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 2593
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1412916526

This encyclopedia spans the relationships among business, ethics and society, with an emphasis on business ethics and the role of business in society.

Business: The Key Concepts

Business: The Key Concepts
Author: Mark Vernon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134526237

Here is a practical guide to the essentials of business. This book provides everything you need to know about the key concepts and terms, from accountability to zero-sum game. Everything from management, economics and finance to marketing, organizational behaviour and operations is covered in just the right amount of detail to make things clear and intelligible. Business: The Key Concepts: * is detailed yet approachable * considers new developments in business, notably eBusiness and contemporary business ethics * covers established subjects, taking an international and strategic perspective that balances theory and practice * suggests specific further reading for many concepts and also includes an extensive bibliography. Whether you're already in business and could do with a handy reference guide, or you're a student needing an introduction to the fundamentals, Business: The Key Concepts is the perfect companion.

The Social Sciences

The Social Sciences
Author: Nancy Herron
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2002-06-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

It's here: the third edition of the highly acclaimed guide to the social sciences literature! Updated and expanded, this classic comprises more than 1,500 annotated citations, offering librarians and researchers fast and easy access to some of the best and most commonly used resources in the social sciences arena. The book also serves as a standard text in universities nationwide as it gives students a comprehensive overview of must-know reference sources in both print and electronic format. Prepared by leading subject specialist librarians and arranged by discipline, the book's 12 chapters cover general social sciences, political science, economics, business, history, law and justice, anthropology, sociology, education, psychology, geography, and communication. All chapters have been revised, the essays expanded, and the annotated lists of resources have been rewritten to incorporate the latest research findings and developments.

A Reconsideration of the Theory of Non-Linear Scale Effects

A Reconsideration of the Theory of Non-Linear Scale Effects
Author: Richard G. Lipsey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2018-03-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 110856190X

The main thrust of this Element is a critical assessment of the theory and evidence concerning the sources of scale effects. It is argued that the analysis of static scale effects is important because scale effects are embedding in our world, and new technologies associated with an evolving economy often allow their exploitation when they cannot be exploited in less technically advanced and smaller economies. So, although static equilibrium theory is not a good vehicle for studying economic growth, showing how scale effects operate when output varies with given technology helps us to understand the scale effects that occur when output rises as a result of economic growth, even though that is typically driven by technological change.

Music Business

Music Business
Author: Richard Strasser
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2024-10-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1040130917

Music Business: The Key Concepts, second edition, is a comprehensive guide to the terminology commonly used in the music business today. This updated second edition responds to the music industry's increasingly digital and ever-evolving environment, with definitions from a number of relevant fields, including: general business marketing e-commerce intellectual property law economics entrepreneurship In an accessible A-Z format and fully cross-referenced throughout, this book is essential reading for music business students as well as those interested in the music industry.

Encyclopedia of American Business

Encyclopedia of American Business
Author: Rick Boulware
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1438109865

Buying, selling, budgeting, and saving are fundamental business practices that almost everyone understands on a basic level.

Corporate Citizenship and New Governance

Corporate Citizenship and New Governance
Author: Ingo Pies
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2011-07-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9400716613

This volume unites the perspective of business ethics with approaches from strategic management, economics, law, political science, and with philosophical reflections on the theory of Corporate Citizenship and New Governance. In view of the internationalization of the (global) economy and the free movement of capital, new instruments of political coordination are needed. These societal changes trigger the two closely intertwined challenges examined in this book. The first challenge relates to the role and the self-conceptualization of business firms as corporate citizens within society. Companies are increasingly expected to assume the social responsibility of helping to shape the rule-framework of globalization. The second challenge refers to the form of the engagement in local, national and international processes of governance. To more credibly and effectively tackle these challenges, corporate actors are ever more participating in rule-setting processes together with civil society organizations and the government.

The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital

The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital
Author: Alan Burton-Jones
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 718
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0191634964

Macroeconomic research on human capital - the stock of human capabilities and knowledge - has been extensively published but to date the literature has lacked a comprehensive analysis of human capital within the organization. The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital has been designed to fill that gap, providing an authoritative, inter-disciplinary, and up to date survey of relevant concepts, research areas, and applications. Specially commissioned contributions from over 40 authors reveal the importance of human capital for contemporary organizations, exploring its conceptual underpinnings, relevance to theories of the firm, implications for organizational effectiveness, interdependencies with other resources, and role in the future economy. Unlike neoclassical macroeconomic concepts of human capital, human capital in organizations is shown to be dynamic and heterogeneous, requiring new theories and management frameworks. The systemic role of human capital is explored, revealing it as the lynchpin of social, structural and other forms of intangible and tangible capital. Connections between human capital and organizational performance are investigated from HR management, procurement, alignment, value appropriation, and accounting perspectives. Links between micro and macro perspectives are provided through analyses of inter firm human capital mobility, national and regional human capital formation regimes and industry employment relations practices. This Handbook is designed for scholars and graduate students of organization and management theory, strategy, entrepreneurship, knowledge and intellectual capital, accounting, IT, HR, IR, economic sociology and cultural studies. For policy makers and practitioners it should provide an up to date guide to the nature and role of human capital in contemporary organizations and the roles that government, industry and other extra firm institutions can play in facilitating its development.