Gold Nuggets Galore provides distilled advice on how to behave in business in the form of easy-to-remember sayings and short sentences that will enable you to focus and communicate effectively.
Relearning is a book about learning and the process of relearning. How are the process of learning in all its complexity and the claim of surplus thinking to be understood and described?Three pairs of conceptions are brought forward to high-light a general model for learning: Feedback-feedforward, Habitus-reflection, Exuberance-toil.These conceptions are brought into a dynamic interaction which ends up in a general model of learning. The autho...
The overall themes of this book are past and present changes in European cooperation. Two such changes were at the top of the agenda in the summer of 2004: the Eastern enlargement and the constitutional treaty. A way to interpret these changes is to look at them as manifestations of the two core concepts, 'diversity' and 'unity'. The combination of the concept of unity with the apparently contrasting notion of diversity - the two extremes of a...
This book seeks to understand precisely how current organizations are governed, based on the analysis of three managerial reforms: the implementation of marketing practices in the banking sector, project management, and the management of competences in the field of HRM.
Speed of production, of information flow, of capital moving through deregulated financial and trading systems is apparently ubiquitous, as indeed is its seemingly inexorable increase in the consequently ever shorter here and now that we inhabit. But with so much going on, and going on so quickly, how can it all or can any of it be attended to? This volume assembles a range of thoughtful contributors who have bent their minds to deploy a range ...
The design of an effective global value chain is a major challenge to company managers of today. Just think of the managerial difficulties in configuring the value chain so that shifting comparative advantages of developed and developing countries are utilized optimally - and at the same time making these geographically dispersed value chain activities work together in concerted action. The book gives a good snapshot of where Danish companies ...
At the end of the Second World War in 1945, the countries of Western Europe found themselves at a crossroads regarding Europe's future. How should they react to the challenges posed by the peace, by Germany's defeat, and by the newly won freedom? How shou
This book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of power relations within a heavily bureaucratized organization attempting to introduce post-bureaucratic structures, policies, and systems. The organization in question, the New South Wales Police Service, was rife with corruption. Postbureaucratic reform was seen as a means of enhancing social control through the facilitation of democracy. Despite institutional...
A rewriting is suggested. Opening up to influences from philosophy, literature and cultural studies, Hjorth takes us to an alternative way of thinking and thus practicing entrepreneurship. Through this rewriting our engagement with entrepreneurship is in
The book aims to present recent studies by researchers working in the field of consumption, advertising and media in relation to children. The purpose is to shed light on the relationship between consumer behavior, advertising and communication in general with a special focus on children and adolescents.
Knowledge management buzzes around as the best way for organizations to gain and sustain competitive advantage in the knowledge-based economy. During recent years, the number of books, articles, seminars and conferences on knowledge management has increased dramatically - leaving it even more difficult to understand what knowledge management is, and how to actually practice it. Furthermore, knowledge management combines the fluffiness of knowl...
Branding and Advertising presents a wide spectre of recent studies and works in the fields of branding, advertising and communication effects. This book presents a series of interesting papers related to advertising and branding.
The book teaches international operations concepts which are being employed by leading organizations to secure and sustain competitive advantage in the 21st Century marketplace.
Packed with insights and practical hints this book is an indispensable tool for everybody doing business with China. The authors have a combined record of more than 60 years personal experience in China. Their candid language goes right to the heart of the matter.
Creativity has become a central concept in trying to understand the contemporary economy. It is a universally accepted strategic asset and a key issue in developing economic policy. But at the same time, this lauding of the creative economy raises many qu
This book provides a multi-disciplinary discussion of the concept of mentality, its relevance, and its interconnection with culture, past and present, on the one hand, and cognition and mental frames on the other. Organized in four parts, the book offers insights gained from applying particular perspectives, such as: Part One ~ Towards an Understanding of Mentality and Its Foundations (historiography and linguistics) Part Two ~ Fundamentals of...
