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41. Knowledge and Innovation in Business and Industry

    The Importance of Using Others

    Edited by Håkan Håkansson, Alexandra Waluszewski

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    Provocative and reflective, this volume on the notion of knowledge and innovation in the business industry provides readers with a holistic approach to the subject of ‘knowledge’. Structuring their arguments around four case studies of innovation within four entirely different contexts, Håkansson...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
42. Multinationals, Globalisation and Indigenous Firms in China

    By Chunhang Liu

    Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

    This book considers the impact of multinational companies in China on the Chinese economy and on indigenous firms in China. It shows how the global business environment has undergone profound changes since the early 1990s, leading to an explosion of merger and acquisitions activity and consequent...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
43. Narrating the Management Guru

    In Search of Tom Peters

    By David Collins

    Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

    David Collins, a well respected scholar of management gurus proves a critical reappraisal of the very influential work of Tom Peters. This volume examines his key works and reviews his detractors, offering an analysis of his contributions to the field of management that goes beyond the simple...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
44. A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century

    An Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes and Problems

    Edited by Rien T. Segers

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

    Many people in the West portray Japan as being fixed in its ways, and unable to change, and consequently risking national decline and international loss of prestige. However, in fact, Japan is at present in a significant transition period, comparable to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 or the period...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
45. Knowledge and Innovation

    A Comparative Study of the USA, the UK and Japan

    By Helen Brown

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    This new book presents case studies from the US, the UK and Japan. Packed full of vignettes from cases studies and subscribing to a socio-cultural approach rather than the often tacit assumption that knowledge and ‘technology transfer’ is a logistical problem, this excellent volume illuminates the...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
46. International Business in China

    Understanding the Global Economic Crisis

    Edited by Robert Taylor

    This book deals with a number of contentious issues in Chinese management as China emerges as a global economic player, with a greater role in international business during a global economic crisis. This step is in tandem with an economically driven foreign policy. Since the 1980s, Chinese...

    Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
47. The Zeronauts

    Breaking the Sustainability Barrier

    By John Elkington

    A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as our species broke the Sound Barrier during the 1940s and 1950s, a new breed of innovator, entrepreneur, and investor is lining up to break the...

    Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
48. New Horizons in Arts, Heritage, Nonprofit and Social Marketing

    Edited by Roger Bennett, Finola Kerrigan, Daragh O'Reilly

    Series: Key Issues in Marketing Management

    Arts, heritage, non-profit and social marketing today comprise key components of the contemporary marketing management scene. Governments, charities and voluntary sector organisations throughout the world are increasingly involved in the development of marketing campaigns, and more and more of...

    Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
49. The Dynamics of Organizational Collapse

    The Case of Barings Bank

    By Helga Drummond

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

    The collapse of Barings’ Bank was a commercial catastrophe that resonated worldwide, showing what kind of secrets can lie behind an apparently successful organization. Following Nick Leeson’s arrest and subsequent conviction for fraud, investment banks anxiously reviewed their risk management...

    Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
50. A History of Entrepreneurship

    By Robert F Hébert, Albert N. Link

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    This book establishes a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a more wholesome perspective to contemporary writings and teachings on entrepreneurship. It focuses on the nature and role of the entrepreneur, and of entrepreneurship, as revealed in...

    Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge