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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Drehbuchschreiben
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Vfx
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Center For Gastrointestinal Health Certificate of Need Laws
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Center For Gastrointestinal Health Outpatient Titans
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Christine Haggins Prayers for Healing and Wellbeing
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Barbarians at the Gate
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Taylor & Francis Economic Reform in Modern China
Book SynopsisIt is more than three decades since China initiated its economic reform and open-door policies. During that period, China has successfully transformed itself from an inefficient centrally-planned economy to a fast-growing market-orientated economy. To the rest of the world, China has emerged from the condition of a poor and completely isolated nation to become the most powerful engine of global economic growth. Chinaâs dynamic economic transition and development, especially its performance in the current world financial crisis, have attracted considerable worldwide interest.This new Routledge collection answers the need for a reference work to allow researchers and students to gain a better understanding of the history and development of Chinese economic reform. The gathered classic and cutting-edge scholarship covers a wide range of critical issues in the modern Chinese economy, with the particular focus on the period after 1978 when China embarked on economic reform and integration into the global economy.Economic Reform in Modern China is supplemented with a full index and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as a vital research resource.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Industrial Revolution 11
Book SynopsisThis is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period.Trade Review'Students will find this volume demanding and challenging, but their perceptions of both the Industrial Revolution controversy and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century social, economic and industrial history will emerge enlightened and their interest in the period stimulated.' Business History 'This is a textbook but one that can be read with profit by both professionals and students...Hudson frequently succeeds in neatly summarizing complex discussions. She brings her surveys of the literature right up-to-date and her knowledge of recent work is impressive...a lively and well-written text.' Economic History ReviewTable of ContentsPart 1 Writing and rewriting history: perspectives on the industrial revolution; the economy and the state; agriculture and the industrial revolution. Part 2 The industrial revolution: regions and industries; demography and labour; consumption and commerce; class and gender.
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The History Press Ltd The Most Extraordinary District in the World
Book SynopsisThe Ironbridge Gorge, a cradle of the Industrial Revolution, in the late 18th century was a magnet for writers, artists and industrial spies.
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The History Press Ltd Will Britain Make it
Book SynopsisIf you ever wondered how and why British industry and its empire collapsed, then this is the book to read!
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The History Press Ltd Ironbridge History and Guide
Book SynopsisThe Ironbridge Gorge (midway between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury) was at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. The site is best symbolised by the Iron Bridge itself, cast in Coalbrookdale and erected across the River Severn in 1779. It was immediately hailed as one of the wonders of the age. The area had already established itself as the cutting edge of technological innovation and attracted engineers such as Telford and Trevithick. In 1709 Abraham Darby I successfully adopted coke for smelting iron - after which the Coalbrookdale Company spearheaded developments in the iron industry.During the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries other companies and products became synonymous with the district: Coalport porcelain, Broseley roof tiles and clay tobacco pipes, and decorative tiles from Maws and Craven Dunnill. Using archaeological and historical evidence, the authors chart the rise and fall of the iron, clay and coal industries of Ironbridge and bring to life the communities that worked in them. They have written the definitive guide to the surviving buildings and archaeological remains, portraying the distinctive character of a string of small settlements.
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Taylor & Francis Inc Employment in Community Psychology The Diversity
Book SynopsisDiscover the first book on employment opportunities in community psychology!Employment in Community Psychology: The Diversity of Opportunity is the first psychology career reference book for undergraduate psychology majors deciding on graduate schools, for graduate students in psychology seeking employment, and for psychology faculty advising their students. This book answers the questions “What can you do with a graduate degree in community psychology?” and “Who employs community psychologists?” Employment in Community Psychology addresses these questions through examples of graduates educated in community psychology and employed in diverse applied, research, and academic settings. In Employment in Community Psychology, you will explore the diversity of community psychology employment opportunities through the stories of current graduate students, community psychologists on their first job, and psychologists who have well-establishedTable of ContentsContents Employment Opportunities in Community Research and Action Twenty Cents and a New Way of Thinking The Pinjarra Massacre Site Project: From Doctoral Student to Community Consultant Research and Evaluation Consulting Education and Employment in Rural Alaska Practicing What We Preach: Integrating Community Psychology into the Job and Search Process Community Psychology Graduate Employment in Aotearoa New Zealand The Application of Community Psychology Principles in Diverse Settings Community Research and Action in a Local United Way Organization Program Evaluation and Prevention in Child Welfare Making Dreams Come True What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been: The Career Path of a Policy-Oriented Community Psychologist Employment as a Community Psychologist in a University-Based Research Institute Building Communities with People Who Have Disabilities Breaking Fresh Ground: School-Based Primary Prevention in Korea Putting a Toe in the Water Research, Teaching, and Service in Applied, Multidisciplinary Academic Programs and in Community Organizations Diversity of Opportunity, Consensus of Experience Index Reference Notes Included
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ASQ Quality Press The FDA and Worldwide Current Good Manufacturing
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WW Norton & Co The Premonition
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.
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Bloomsbury Visual Arts Alternative Narratives in Ceramic History
Book SynopsisNeil Ewins is a Teaching Assistant at Cramlington Learning Village, UK, and Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of International Culture and Communication at Jingdezhen Ceramic University, China. He is the author of Ceramics and Globalization: Staffordshire Ceramics Made in China (Bloomsbury, 2017).
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Black Rose Books Corporate Rule
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Black Rose Books Corporate Rule: Understanding and Challenging the
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Africa World Press The Politics Of Trade And Industrial Policy In
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Rowman & Littlefield Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2022–2032
Book SynopsisThe Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is the premier, nationally recognized source for career information. Especially designed to provide valuable up-to-date information, the Handbook is great for all individuals making decisions about their future including students about to graduate from high school or college, recent graduates, individuals returning to the workforce after an absence, or anyone looking for a career change. It has been used by millions since the 1940s. The completely updated OOH reflects employment information released in September 2022. It includes information on the fastest-growing occupations, number of new jobs, and a summary of the highest-paying occupations.This Handbook contains numerous occupations profiles and includes information on: Job duties Education and training needed Median pay Important qualities for the job Licenses, certification, and registrations needed Contact information to learn more about the occupation Job outlook Special features include: Assumptions and methods used in preparing employment projections A comprehensive appendix summarizing the occupations Data for occupations not covered in detail Employment projections Glossary of terms used throughout the book Occupational information network coverage; and a detailed index
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Paddy Mo: A Biography of Dr.Patrick Moriarty
Book SynopsisThis biography charts the life of Paddy Moriarty, the Kerryborn Chief Executive of ESB, a man who revolutionized corporate life during his leadership of the largest semi-state company in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Dingle in 1926, he became one of Ireland's leading business people of the twentieth century as he transformed ESB into a world-class electricity provider and a highly efficient, commercially driven company. Having built the power infrastructure of the new State, ESB played a critical role in the revitalization of the Irish economy and, on Moriarty's watch, proceeded to assist in developing the foundations of the Celtic Tiger economy. His vision was to make ESB 'the best electricity utility in the whole world', developing the highest standards of infrastructure at home while developing an international business in the economies of North and Central America, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. Moriarty joined ESB as a clerical officer in June 1945 at the age of nineteen and quickly gained a reputation as a young man with a determined view on how business should be run. He rose rapidly through the company ranks. He was head of Research and Audit in 1961, Assistant Chief Financial Officer in 1967 and Director Personnel in 1970, before becoming Chief Executive in 1981 and Chairman ESB in 1991. The man they called Paddy Mo conducted comprehensive and difficult industrial relations negotiations with the trade unions, ensuring harmony in the workplace during the 1980s – a decade of fast-moving change, massive technological reform and associated redundancies. His interpersonal skills, as well as his business instincts, became legendary. With Taoiseach Charles Haughey he helped pioneer the North-South Erne Waterways project in a bid to revitalize border communities. He was also a significant patron of the arts, encouraging sponsorship of painters, sculptors and musicians. His wide-ranging interests included sports and horse racing, with one of the Leopardstown classics being named in his honour. A sense of family, which included his younger brother Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh the renowned GAA broadcaster and commentator, was central to his world view.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Corporate Governance Debate, 1873-1914
Book SynopsisThe downfall of Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom and other large American firms, and the resulting shockwaves in the world economy, have brought the subject of corporate governance to the forefront of business thinking. As well as new theorising on the subject, many researchers in academia, business and the public sector are turning to the events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which in many ways parallel those of today. The rise of big trusts and corporations in the USA in the late 19th century was accompanied by serious legal and ethical abuses of power by these corporations and their managers. The result was a bitter battle between the business establishment on the one hand and reforming journalists, lawyers and economists on the other, a battle which focused around a single idea: what is the purpose of the business corporation? What is its place in society? What are its duties to that society, and what are the responsibilities of its managers and owners? This set includes works by a number of major early writers on corporate governance. The books presented here capture that debate in all its variety, and the views of their authors continue to resonate today.Table of ContentsVolume 1 [462pp] D.C. Cloud, "Monopolies and the People" (1873); Volume 2 [568] Henry Demarest Lloyd, "Wealth Against Commonwealth" (1894); Volume 3 [501] Arthur Twining Hadley, "Economics: An Account of the Relations Between Private Property and Public Welfare" (1896); Volume 4 [322] John P. Davis, "Corporations", vol. 1 (1905); Volume 5 [319] John P. Davis, "Corporations", vol. 2 (1905); Volume 6 [238] Louis Brandeis, "Other People's Money and What the Bankers Do With It" (1914).
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Carnegie Publishing Ltd Business in the North West
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at the rich history of business in 'the first modern industrial district'. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Manchester area.
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Medina Publishing Ltd Surviving the Storm: The New Geopolitics of
Book SynopsisSurviving the Storm is an analysis, undertaken by the Windsor Energy Group over the past 12 years, focusing on the availability of an ample global energy supply over the next 35 to 50 years. It charts a way through the storm but warns of the many political conflicts and economic obstacles looming. With the effects of climate change and the growing damage to the Earth's atmosphere, catastrophe seems at first sight inevitable. The impact on international trade, economic growth and food supply could be critical. With a steadily rising global population and the ever-widening expectations of the billions who live in the non-OECD developing world, it is safe to assume that their global consumption of primary energy could come close to doubling within the coming years. Where is all this energy going to be found? Alternative energy is struggling hard to hang on to its tiny share of the global energy mix. Scientific research shows the dire consequences of doing nothing and the pressing need to accelerate the pace of developing much more efficient and energy-saving technology. The good news is that we have ample resources of oil, coal and gas to bridge the gap to these new technologies. However, we will have to maintain the current momentum of production of these fossil-based fuels and to invest heavily in expanding their capacity. The bad news is that we can only achieve this if we can simultaneously ensure that we can neutralise and curb their adverse impact on the atmosphere, agriculture, fisheries and urban air quality.
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LID Publishing Wonder Women: Inspiring Stories and Insightful
Book SynopsisEvery marketer knows the stories of Lord Lever and Steve Jobs, has probably read Al Ries and Jack Trout, and seen the works of Bill Bernbach and John Hegarty. What’s interesting about these ‘Masters of Marketing’ is that they are all men. In Katy Mousinho’s and Giles Lury’s Wonder Women are the stories of some of the women who have had a tremendous influence on the marketing industry, like Brownie Wise, who transformed Tupperware and Mary Wells Lawrence, who founded the advertising agency Wells, Rich, Greene. There are interviews with the co-founder of Dunnhumby, the data behind the Tesco Clubcard - Edwina Dunn OBE, Senior Vice President, Arla Foods Denmark, previously the only female country CEO in Carlsberg - Helle Muller Petersen and many more. Mousinho and Lury pull together the findings, not only to celebrate their success, but to provide insights for the future of marketing and the great marketers, women and men, to come.
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tredition Gaming Adventskalender
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Aschendorff Verlag Der Freiberger Bergbau Um 1900: Arbeit, Alltag
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Aschendorff Verlag Kohle, Koks Und Kolonie: Das Verbundbergwerk
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Walter de Gruyter Industrieökonomik
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Walter de Gruyter Tourismus: Einführung in Die
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Bod Third Party Titles Beratungskonzepte im Privatkundengeschft der
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Unternehmensmodellierung: Grundlagen, Methode und Praktiken
Book SynopsisUnternehmensmodellierung dient dazu, die wichtigsten Komponenten von Organisationen sowie deren Relationen zueinander abzubilden. Sie wird bei einer Vielzahl strategischer und operativer Aufgaben eingesetzt. In dem Buch erläutern die Autoren anhand der Methode „Kochbuch“ die Grundlagen und Einsatzwecke der Unternehmensmodellierung, insbesondere stellen sie die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf ein Unternehmen und die Analysetechniken dar. Die Konzepte und Methoden können durch genaue Vorgehensbeschreibungen unmittelbar angewendet werden.Table of ContentsEinführung.- Grundlagen der Unternehmensmodellierung.- Fallstudie.- Grundlegende Analysetechniken.- Teilmodelle der EKM-Methode.- Werkzeuge der Unternehmensmodellierung.- Die EKM-Methode in der Praxis.- Analyse von Unternehmensmodellen.- Ausblick.- Anhang.
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Examicus Publishing Basel II und seine Auswirkungen auf Banken und Kreditnehmer
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Traumjob oder Albtraum - Chefarzt m/w: Ein Rat-
Book SynopsisChefärztin und Chefarzt kann einer der am meisten zufriedenstellenden und zugleich anspruchsvollsten Berufe sein. Neben der fachlichen Expertise soll der Chefarzt (w/m) über soziale und kommunikative Kompetenz, Führungsstärke und Organisationsgeschick verfügen, um sein Team als Vorbild der Abteilung sicher und konsequent zu führen. Heute wird unter der zunehmenden Kommerzialisierung der Krankenhäuser wirtschaftliches Denken vorausgesetzt. Dies bringt Ärzte oft in ein Dilemma zwischen anreizfreier Indikationsstellung im Patienteninteresse und vorgegebenen ökonomischen Zwängen.Wie sollten sich Chefärzte (w/m) verhalten, wie ist die Zerrissenheit zwischen Patienten- und Mitarbeiterfürsorge einerseits und Wirtschaftlichkeit andererseits zu lösen?Hierzu will das Buch durch eine multiperspektivische Sichtweise erfahrener Kliniker und namhafter Autoren aus den Bereichen Ethik, Recht, Coaching und Verwaltung Antworten geben. Deshalb ist es nicht nur für Ärzte auf dem Weg zur und solche in Leitungsfunktion hilfreich, sondern auch für Klinikverwaltungen, Medizinrechtler, Berater und Patienten sowie für alle, die hinter „die Kulissen“ schauen möchten.Verantwortungsvolles Handeln im Spannungsfeld zwischen Patientenanspruch, Ökonomie und Renditeerwartung, Sozialgesetzgebung, ärztlicher Ethik und moralischer Würde. Trade Review“... Gleichzeitig gelingt es den Herausgebern durch die geschickte Auswahl der sehr differenzierten Darstellungen in den einzelnen Kapiteln, die abschließende Bewertung der im Titel gestellten Frage „Traumjob oder Albtraum“ offen zu lassen. Der Leser hat das Vergnügen, sich selbst zu entscheiden ...” (Dr. med. Erik Allemeyer, in: Der Chirurg, Heft 4, 2019)“… Die Lektüre eignet sich ... für jeden, der über den Karriereschritt in diese veränderte Welt nachdenkt - und vielleicht zögert - , als auch für bereits Betroffene als anregende und umfangreiche Quelle und Wegweiser. ... So liegt hier ein absolut empfehlenswertes Buch für eine breite Leserschaft vor.“ (Dr. Med. Erik Allemeyer, in: Der Urologe, Heft 5, Mai 2019)“... Sehr umfassend werden aus allen denkbaren Perspektiven mit viel Informationsgehalt sowohl die historischen Hintergründe, das ökonomische Umfeld, juristisches Fachwissen und zahlreiche Fallstricke für die Tätigkeit des heutigen Chefarztes aufgezeigt. ... gibt wertvolle Anregungen zur kreativen Ausgestaltung des offenbar vollkommen gewandelten Berufsbildes Chefarzt m/w ...” (Dr. med. Erik Allemeyer, in: Der Anaesthesist, Heft 9, September 2019)“... Die Lektüre eignet sich ganz entsprechend dem Titel des Buches sowohl für jeden, der über den Karriereschritt in diese veränderte Welt nachdenkt - und vielleicht zögert -, als auch für bereits Betroffene als anregende und umfangreiche Quelle und Wegweiser. ... liest dieses Buch mit großem Erkenntnisgewinn und Anregung zur Selbstreflexion. ... So liegt hier ein absolut empfehlenswertes Buch für eine breite Leserschaft vor.” (Dr. med. Erik Allemeyer, in: Medizinische Klinik - Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin, Heft 3, April 2019) “… Es ist eine sachliche Auseinandersetzung mit der Rolle des Chefarztes im modernen Krankenhaus unter den Vorgaben der heutigen Gesundheitspolitik. … werden viele Fragen wie z.B. die Kassenzulassung, Ermächtigung sowie Rechts- und Vertragsfragen diskutiert, sodass das Buch für jeden Chefarzt, aber auch für jeden Oberarzt eine ergiebige Informationsquelle darstellt, die kaum Fragen auslässt. … auch Vorstände von Krankenhäusern, Geschäftsleitungen sowie Pflegeleitungen werden von diesem Buch in hohem Maße profitieren können.” (Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wolff, in: Frauenarzt, Heft 5, Mai 2017) “... Der gute Chefarzt (w/m) ist ein Segen für jedes Krankenhaus und daher eine schützenswerte Spezies. Verwaltungsleiter haben noch nie einen Patienten geheilt! Vor allem aber sind die Politiker gefordert, sich die richtigen Berater für das Gesundheitswesen zu suchen. Deshalb ist das Buch nicht nur für Ärzteauf dem Weg in verantwortliche Positionen hilfreich, sondern es ist auch Klinikerverwaltungen, Medizinrechtlern, Beratern und politikern zu empfehlen ...” (Prof. H. H. Büttner, in: Ärzteblatt, Jg. 27, Heft 8, 2017) “… Das Buch ist allen Ärzten zu empfehlen. Klinik- und Verwaltungsleitern, Referatsleitern aber auch Politikern sollte es auf den Nachttisch gelegt werden. Auch für angehende Mediziner ist diese Lektüre wichtig, damit sie erahnen können, auf welche Herausforderungen sie sich später einlassen …” (Prof. Dr. med. habil. Hans-Egbert Schröder, in: Ärzteblatt Sachsen, Heft 3, 2017) “… Durch den multiperspektivischen und multidisziplinären Ansatz verschafft das Buch dem Leser die Sicht auf die Tätigkeit des Chefarztes nicht nur aus dem Blickwinkel erfahrener Kliniker, sondern auch von der Warte namhafter Chefarzt-Berater aus den Bereichen Ethik, Recht, Versicherung, Coaching und Verwaltung. Deshalb ist es nicht nur für leitende Krankenhausärzte hilfreich, sondern auch für Klinikverwaltungen, Medizinrechtler, Berater und Patienten sowie für alle, die hinter „die Kulissen“ schauen möchten.” (in: ArztRecht, Jg. 52, Heft 3, 2017) “… ist das Buch nicht nur für angehende Chefärzte interessant und lesenswert, sondern ebenso für langjährige Stelleninhaber, die ihren Werdegang reflektieren wollen. Es werden vielfältige Lösungsansätze zur Umorientierung und Neubesinnung auf ärztliche Professionalität vorgeschlagen. … ist es ein wertvoller Ratgeber im Spannungsfeld zwischen Patienteninteresse, Ökonomie und Renditeerwartung, Sozialgesetzgebung, ärztlicher Ethik und moralischer Würde.” (Dr. med. Marianne Schoppmeyer, in: Arzneimitteltherapie, Jg. 35, Heft 4, 2017) “... wertvolle Tipps – sowohl für angehende Chefärzte als auch für langjährige Stelleninhaber, die ihren Werdegang reflektieren wollen ...” (Dr. med. Marianne Schoppmeyer, in: ChefärzteBrief, Heft 3, 2017) “Das Werk darf im Regal keines Medizinrechtlers fehlen. … Durch den multiperspektivischen und multidisziplinären Ansatz verschafft das Buch dem Leser die Sicht auf die Tätigkeit des Chefarztes nicht nur aus dem Blickwinkel erfahrener Kliniker, sondern auch von der Warte namhafter Chefarzt-Berater aus den Bereichen Ethik, Recht, Versicherung, Coaching und Verwaltung ... nicht nur für leitende Krankenhausärzte hilfreich, sondern auch für Klinikverwaltungen, Medizinrechtler, Berater und Patienten sowie für alle, die hinter „die Kulissen“ schauen möchten.” (in: Arzt Recht, Jg. 52, Heft 3, 2017)Table of ContentsSicht der Chefärzte.- Chefarzt heute und morgen. Qualitätsmanagement für Chefärzte .- BWL für Chefärzte.- Aus Unternehmersicht.- Aus Sicht der Berater.
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GRIN Verlag Korrelationsanalyse zu MarktwertBuchVerhältnis
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Diplomica Verlag Fördermöglichkeiten für Bioenergie: Eine
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Lit Verlag Small Industry Development in Africa: Lessons
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Econobooks Digitale Transformation im Asset Management. Wie
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BIS Publishers B.V. The Service Innovation Handbook: Action-oriented
Book SynopsisThis is an action-oriented book for managers and entrepreneurs searching ways to tackle issues they face in terms of developing and delivering services. The book focuses on service organizations, but has a broad interpretation of what services are. Directed to the business world and combines inspirational text that is full of examples, with the features of a useful handbook of practical methods with associated templates. The central argument is that managers and entrepreneurs designing service offerings will benefit from using approaches and methods from design and the arts, especially at the early stages of projects. Sometimes called “design thinking” or “design innovation”, such approaches help organizations explore and create new configurations of people and things that support users, customers, staff and partners in creating value together. In short, this book argues that design and arts-based approaches are valuable to managers and entrepreneurs designing services, when uncertainty and ambiguity are high. It shows when and how to use these approaches, introduces specific methods, reviews their strengths and limitations, and finally helps managers think through what it takes to start using them in projects and within teams and develop the culture and behaviours that access the creativity they support.
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The University of Chicago Press The Institutional Revolution
Book SynopsisFew events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. This title offers an account of how dramatic changes in institutions - the formal and informal rules that govern a society - resulted from the unprecedented economic development that took place during the Industrial Revolution.Trade Review"Douglas W. Allen has written a brilliant and challenging book that puts the measurement problem in the foreground to convincingly explain the logic of pre-modern institutions-institutions that the typical modern person, until reading Allen, views as the embodiment of chaos, inefficiency, corruption, and ineptitude. The Institutional Revolution contains a wealth of historical information that anyone with an interest in history will find interesting and often delightful." -Thrainn Eggertsson, New York University"
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The University of Chicago Press Tournament of Lawyers The Transformation of the
Book SynopsisTournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law. Galanter and Palay demonstrate that much of the large firm's organizational success stems from its ability to blend the talents of experienced partners with those of energetic junior lawyers driven by a powerful incentivethe race to win the promotion-to-partner tournament. This calmly reasoned study reveals, however, that the very causes of the spiraling growth of the large law firm may lead to its undoing. Galanter and Palay pose questions and offer some answers which are certain to change the way big firm practice is regarded. To describe their work as challenging is something of an understatement: they at times delight, stimulate, frustrate and even depress the reader, but they never disappoint. Tournament of Lawyers is essential to the understanding of the business of the big law firms.Jean and Colin Fergus, New York Law Journal
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The University of Chicago Press RD Patents and Productivity National Bureau of
Book SynopsisAn essential reference for specialists in the economics of technological change.--D. G. McFertridge, Canadian Journal of Economics
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The University of Chicago Press Palma Africana
Book SynopsisIt is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist's dream. So begins Palma Africana, the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig to make sense of the contemporary moment. But to what elixir does he refer? Palm oil. Saturating everything from potato chips to nail polish, palm oil has made its way into half of the packaged goods in our supermarkets. By 2020, world production will be double what it was in 2000. In Colombia, palm oil plantations are covering over one-time cornucopias of animal, bird, and plant life. Over time, they threaten indigenous livelihoods and give rise to abusive labor conditions and major human rights violations. The list of entwined horrorsclimatic, biological, socialis long. But Taussig takes no comfort in our usual labels: habitat loss, human rights abuses, climate change. The shock of these words has passed; nowadays it is all a blur. Hence, Taussig's keen attention to words and writing throug
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The University of Chicago Press Concentrated Corporate Ownership
Book SynopsisStandard economic models assume that many small investors own firms. This is so in most large US firms, but individuals or families generally hold controlling blocks in smaller US firms and in most other countries. This work examines the economic and legal issues of concentrated ownership.
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The University of Chicago Press High Art Down Home
Book SynopsisHow do artists, collectors, dealers and curators whose lives and livelihoods are so intimately affected by the valuation of art manage to cope with such an intangible market? To answer this question, this book focuses on the localized and typical world of the St Louis art scene.
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The University of Chicago Press Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the
Book SynopsisMeasuring innovation is a challenging task, both for researchers and for national statisticians, and it is increasingly important in light of the ongoing digital revolution. National accounts and many other economic statistics were designed before the emergence of the digital economy and the growth in importance of intangible capital. They do not yet fully capture the wide range of innovative activity that is observed in modern economies. This volume examines how to measure innovation, track its effects on economic activity and on prices, and understand how it has changed the structure of production processes, labor markets, and organizational form and operation in business. The contributors explore new approaches to and data sources for measurement, such as collecting data for a particular innovation as opposed to a firm and using trademarks for tracking innovation. They also consider the connections between university-based R&D and business start-ups and the potential impacts of innoTrade Review"For those of us interested in the need to measure better—which means understanding better—the increasingly intangible economy, this is a really interesting book. It covers the waterfront from conceptual frameworks down to nitty gritty measurement questions." * Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist *"Despite their wide range, the essays in this book add up to a fascinating glimpse of an emerging new understanding of the twenty-first century economy, like a distant building taking shape as you approach it on a foggy day. They also underline the importance of research on statistics describing the economy. . . . A valuable contribution to the task of understanding the world innovation is creating." * Business Economics *Table of ContentsPrefatory NoteIntroduction Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Javier Miranda, and Daniel Sichel I. Expanding Current Measurement Frameworks1. Expanded GDP for Welfare Measurement in the Twenty-First Century Charles Hulten and Leonard I. Nakamura2. Measuring the Impact of Household Innovation Using Administrative Data Javier Miranda and Nikolas Zolas3. Innovation, Productivity Dispersion, and Productivity Growth Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John C. Haltiwanger, and Zoltan Wolf II. New Approaches and Data4. How Innovative Are Innovations? A Multidimensional, Survey-Based Approach Wesley M. Cohen, You-Na Lee, and John P. Walsh5. An Anatomy of US Firms Seeking Trademark Registration Emin M. Dinlersoz, Nathan Goldschlag, Amanda Myers, and Nikolas Zolas6. Research Experience as Human Capital in New Business Outcomes Nathan Goldschlag, Ron Jarmin, Julia Lane, and Nikolas Zolas III. Changing Structure of the Economy7. Measuring the Gig Economy: Current Knowledge and Open Issues Katharine G. Abraham, John C. Haltiwanger, Kristin Sandusky, and James R. Spletzer8. Information and Communications Technology, R&D, and Organizational Innovation: Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production Pierre Mohnen, Michael Polder, and George van Leeuwen9. Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income Dominique Guellec IV. Improving Current Measurement Frameworks10. Factor Incomes in Global Value Chains: The Role of Intangibles Wen Chen, Bart Los, and Marcel P. Timmer11. Measuring Moore’s Law: Evidence from Price, Cost, and Quality Indexes Kenneth Flamm12. Accounting for Innovations in Consumer Digital Services: IT Still Matters David Byrne and Carol Corrado13. The Rise of Cloud Computing: Minding Your Ps, Qs, and Ks David Byrne, Carol Corrado, and Daniel Sichel14. BEA Deflators for Information and Communications Technology Goods and Services: Historical Analysis and Future Plans Erich H. Strassner and David B. Wasshausen Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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The University of Chicago Press American Business and Political Power Public
Book SynopsisMost people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this work, the author sets conventional wisdom on its head. He states that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing.
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The University of Chicago Press Inside the Business Enterprise Paper Historical
Book SynopsisHow do business enterprises control their subunits? In what ways do existing paths of communication within a firm affect its ability to absorb new technology and techniques? How do American banks affect how companies operate? Do theoretical constructs correspond to actual behavior? Because business enterprises are complex institutions, these questions can prove difficult to address. All too often, firms are treated as the atoms of economics, the irreducible unit of analysis. This accessible volume, suitable for course use, looks more closely at the American firminto its internal workings and its genesis in the Gilded Age. Focusing on the crucial role of imperfect and asymmetric information in the operation of enterprises, Inside the Business Enterprise forges an innovative link between modern economic theory and recent business history.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Making America Corporate 18701920
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking study, Oliver Zunz examines how the growth of corporations changed
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