wiley sep 1994 (38 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash discuss the implications of 'reflexive modernization' for social and cultural theory today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on the syllabus of the Institute of Export and the author's extensive practical and teaching experience in the area, this book offers a comprehensive guide to the issues involved in assessing export markets. The book lays out in a clear and authoritative manner the central aspects of:

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on the syllabus of the Institute of Export and the author's long experience of all aspects of export management and training, this book will how all areas of export practice can be integrated. The emphasis throughout is on profitable export management, covering the core topics of:

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic 'reform' and 'adjustment'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The aim of this path-breaking new text is to blend the relevant aspects of business policy and industrial economics to provide students with a powerful new framework for understanding how company strategy relates to the markets in which comanies operate. By bringing these two key areas together for the first time in a textbook, it provides a better understanding of the factors which influence a firm's choice of strategy and the market consequences of such strategic choices. The book provides an exceptionally clear overview: . \* How companies decide on which businesses and markets to operate in, and the competitive strategies they can adopt to succeed. \* A description of the key features of markets and how they function, including supply and demand, market structure, buyer behaviour and others. \* The need to understand that business strategy is concerned with the formulation of long term plans which have economic, organisational, marketing and financial dimensions. Carefully tested in wide course use by the authors, the approach that Companies and Markets takes will allow students of business studies and industrial economics to see the fundamental importance of markets to understanding the competitive and corporate strategies of businesses.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a concise and authoritative guide to all current procedures regarding the movement of goods internationally.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world s most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know.'-Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through numerous examples, illustrates how trainers and managers can work together to combine and implement systems technology with just-in-time and just-enough learning strategies that produce and sustain measurable, consistently effective results. Provides step-by-step guidance and hands-on tools for implementing each stage of the process-from goal setting to follow-up and maintanence-and includes a comprehensive checklist for conducting an organizational training audit and getting started.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This revised edition of the classic 1982 work draws on the latest research to show how groups can function more effectively to achieve the full potential of group work. For leaders and group supervisors as well as members of teams, boards, task forces, and other groups.'Zander's authority is established and highly respected.the book is well-written and readable.'--Choice.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seamless Government tells how to re-engineer government agencies to meet the needs of its customers 'seamlessly' that is, in a smooth, effortless, responsive manner. The author details a step-by-step approach for re-engineering in all levels of government, explaining how to assess, design, and implement radical changes in the way government does business-and how to overcome resistance along the way. 'Full of fresh insights and illuminating examples. For readers outside the government, it will be a valuable guide to the ongoing struggle to improve the performance of public bureaucracies. For those inside the government (or other large organizations), it will be an indispensable how-to manual.'-James Fallows, Washington editor, The Atlantic Monthly.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As American society becomes increasingly diverse and public issues more complex, the traditional community problem-solving methods have come up short. Working together successfully today requires a profound shift in our conception of how change is created, and an equally profound shift in our conception of leadership. Collaborative Leadership is designed to help citizens and civic leaders bring together diverse community members in efforts that lead to real, measurable change in the lives of communities.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'It's impossible to read this book without reflecting on your own teaching style. Heimlich and Norland have achieveed a rare blAnd of theory and practice in producing a book that sheds new light on teaching adults.' -Susan Imel, director, ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Self-described 'intellectual terrorist' Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important and provocative writers of the contemporary era. Widely acclaimed as the prophet to postmodernity, he has famously announced the disappearance of the subject, political economy, meaning, truth, the social, and the real in contemporary social formations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book, now available in paperback, concerns the everyday private and public lives of the citizens of ancient Rome. Drawing on a broad selection of contemporary sources, the author examines the institutions, actions and rituals of day to day life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Critical Acclaim for Clinical Behavior Therapy 'This book will be helpful not only to those who regard this [cognitive-behavior therapy] as their primary orientation, but to anyone who wants to be a complete therapist.' --Allen Frances, MD Duke University Medical Center 'This classic text was a distinct favorite among the students enrolled in my clinical assessment and treatment courses. I hope the updated edition will be read by graduate students in clinical and counseling psychology, social workers, and all mental health professionals who wish to be truly effective therapists.' --Arnold A. Lazarus, PhD Rutgers University ' particularly innovative and impressive. Their lucid description of cognitive variables broadens the range of interventions available to the behavioral practitioner.' --Sheldon Rose, PhD University of Wisconsin School of Social Work 'A classic--updated. I recommend it not only for behavior therapists but for any clinical practitioner of any profession who is looking for procedures that work.' --Joel Fischer, DSW University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Published in association with the Strategic Management Society, The Wiley Strategic Management Series aims to illustrate the 'best in global strategic management' for academics, business practitioners and consultants. This book addresses the theme of core competence and the processes and issues involved in managing core competence. It is an interesting and effective integration of strategic perspectives that exemplify many of the most important issues facing strategic management, both now and in the future. The contributions present the premise that corporate strategy should place technology, skill and synergy ahead of cash flow and control. Contributors Maurizio Barbeschi Richard Klavens Ilse Bogaert Jeremy Klein William C. Bogner Rudy Martens Vittorio Chiesa Richard P. Rumelt Michael Crawford Bernard L. Simonin Francesco De Leo Howard Thomas Richard Hall Dennis Turner Gary Hamel André Van Cauwenbergh Aimé Heene Paul Verdin Duane A. Helleloid Peter Williamson Peter Hiscocks Beverly C. Winterscheid.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over the last forty years, Stafford Beer has published a steady stream of books and papers in which he has applied cybernetic science to organizational problems. In all of these he has explained underlying principles and developed new theories and recorded a great variety of practical applications. He has now invented and demonstrated Team Syntegrity. Syntegrity is a powerful invention in the organization of normative, directional, and strategic planning, and other creative decision processes. The underlying model is a regular icosahedron (20 sides). This has 30 edges, each of which represents a person. An internal network of interactions is created by a set of protocols. A group organized like this is an ultimate statement of participatory democracy, since each role is indistinguishable from any other. There is no hierarchy, no top, no bottom, no sideways. Beer illustrates how continued dynamic interaction between persons causes ideas and resolutions to hum around the sphere, which reverberates into a kind of group consciousness. Mathematical analysis of the structure shows how the process is determined by the even spread of synergy. The aim of the book is to provide managers and their advisors with a new planning method that captures the native genius of the organization in a non-political and non-hierarchical way. The book includes an enquiry into Beer's concept of recursive consciousness, based on this model, that is relevant to both neurocybernetics and the social systems sciences.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A SUPERB STUDENT TEXT. . . AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL OF THE TRADE FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an account of the lives of the families and the servants of the British country house from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the onset of the Great War. It is a pioneering history based on contemporary records, diaries, private and public autobiographies, and on the childhood recollections of living descendants. Never before have the intimacies of life above and below stairs been depicted with such clarity and vividness.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A practical, up-to-date introduction on truss analysis, application and design. Describes the influence of trusses on design development as well as the means for design and detailing of truss construction utilizing contemporary building technologies. Illustrations include both historical and recent uses of trusses.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Changes in the economy have put pressure on today's managers to compress the development and manufacturing cycles of their new products. In their quest to meet this challenge, many managers have found Quality Function Deployment (QFD) a very effective technique, but they want to take it further. Advanced QFD was written for QFD practitioners who want to enhance the power of their practice. Designed for use as both a reference book and a training manual, this book's goal, in the words of its author, is 'to infuse value thinking into practitioners of QFD . to take the reader beyond the basics and into the world of planning'. After a review of basic principles and techniques of QFD, Advanced QFD demonstrates how to incorporate modern planning techniques, Value Engineering, and Technological Forecasting methods - topics that are not even discussed in other books about QFD. It shows readers how to apply new methods and combinations of techniques, based on true industrial experience, to their own design problems.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While innovation may be the lifeblood of technology based industry, it does not guarantee success to the individual firm within it. The ability to bring useful and desirable products to market in a timely, cost-effective fashion requires the unique talents of managers armed with an arsenal of modern principles and methodologies specifically geared to the technology invention and innovation process. But even in technology based firms, many managers have only scant technical background, while scientists and engineers may have little or no management training. And courses on managing technology based firms are currently taught only in a meager handful of universities. This book grew out of Michael J. C. Martin's experiences developing and teaching courses in managing technological innovation-entrepreneurship to business, engineering, and science students. It provides a dynamic framework within which managers from virtually any professional background can develop efficient, highly productive work systems guaranteed to maximize a high-tech firm's competitive edge. Throughout, the emphasis is on leveraging a company's strategic advantage. To that end, the author provides a host of 'battle-tested' tools of the trade, including technology development programs, industry- and market-specific strategic plans, R&D project planning techniques, socioeconomic forecasting and market analysis techniques, and techniques for matching company capabilities with customer and product demands. All of the tools and techniques presented are applicable to the development of a broad range of products, from small high-tech consumer goods to large and complex systems such as aircraft and heavy weapons technology. Anindispensable survival tool in today's hypercompetitive international high-tech marketplace, Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Technology Based Firms is must reading for industrial engineers, project managers, and R&D managers.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Developing Safety Training Programs teaches safety training from the perspective of a safety professional. It is also the first book to incorporate the concept of Job Safety Analysis as a foundation concept. Students will get a thorough understanding of the content of safety training programs, how to select the best pre-developed training aids, and how to write original lesson plans, hands-on practicals, and other instructional material.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Your complete resource on heat pipe operation, behavior, performance characteristics, and limitations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Employee relations, food and liquor liability, partron civil rights, and federal regulations are all subjects that concern hospitality operators, who know that preventing legal problems is the best way to keep profits from being siphoned off by expensive legal hassles. This book gives readers an opportunity to look at hospitality operations from a legal standpoint and to develop management strategies to prevent legal problems.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first comprehensive guide to designing highly usable, fully integrated computer-based information systems Traditional human-computer interaction (HCI) and system design models have proven too narrow to adequately assess user needs and to design usable and efficient computer-based information support systems. Taking modeling concepts from engineering, psychology, cognitive science, information science, and computer science, cognitive systems engineering (CSE) provides a much broader, more dynamic framework. This book is the first comprehensive guide to the emerging new field of cognitive systems engineering. Throughout, the emphasis is on powerful analytical techniques that enhance the systems designer's ability to see the 'big picture,' and to design for all crucial aspects of human-work interaction. Applicable to highly structured technical systems such as process plants, as well as less structured user-driven systems like libraries, these analytical techniques form the basis for the design and design evaluation guidelines that make up the bulk of this book. The authors also provide a chapter-length case history in which they chronicle the success of their approach when applied to a full-scale software design project.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This up-to-date account brings together results previously scattered throughout the literature as well as new material in the area of function theory. The focus is on describing some of what has been learned thus far about the structure of the de Branges-Rovnyak spaces and their function-theoretic connections.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This widely-used textbook provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of digital systems testing and testable design.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The most comprehensive design reference available on remediation techniques, waste disposal methods and various waste containment systems. Covers several important new issues such as the regulatory structure of RCRA Subtitles C and D; subsurface flow and transport of contaminants; liner systems, leachate collection and removal systems for landfills; and seismic stability analysis of landfills. Describes new waste stabilization technologies including the process of converting non-solid toxic waste into inert solids.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Comprehensive, authoritative, practical--an essential guide to the design and operation of telecommunication networks The past decade has seen what can only be described as an evolutionary leap in the field of telecommunication networks. The penetration of data networks, the emergence of the integrated services digital network (ISDN) and Broadband ISDN, and the development of fast packet switching, are just some of the dramatic developments that have emerged over the past few years alone. This book was designed to function as a practical introduction to the core concepts, techniques, and methodologies underlying each of these developments and common to the design and operation of all forms of existing telecommunications networks. Key topics covered include: