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Essays on Sustainability and Management
by Runa Sarkar Annapurna ShawThis book offers a comprehensive overview of sustainability and management in India and through its insightful essays highlights the complex and multifaceted nature of sustainability as a concept. It also demonstrates the debates surrounding the concept of sustainability and its ramifications for ground-level practice in managing organisations and for public policy. The contributions from sustainability enthusiasts, practitioners from disparate fields and academics working at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, have been divided into five themes: (1) sustainability as a normative concept; (2) sustainability concept at the global level, (3) sustainability practices in Indian organisations and consumer behaviour; (4) sustainability, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility and (5) sustainability: a critique of organisational practice and government regulation. The themes reflect both new and continuing issues confronting management in the country today. Examples and in-depth studies make it relevant to the grounded reality in India. The expertise and experience of the contributors ensure that readers are left with a grasp of our current understanding of how sustainability is related to society and business, the direction this understanding will take in the future.
Essays on Wage Bargaining in Dynamic Macroeconomics (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems #689)
by Oliver ClaasThis book addresses collective bargaining in an intertemporal monetary macroeconomy of the aggregate supply–aggregate demand (AS–AD) type with overlapping generations of consumers and with a public sector. The results are presented in a unified framework with a commodity market that clears competitively. By analyzing the implications of three variants of collective bargaining – efficient bargaining in a uniform and a segmented labor market and “right-to-manage” wage bargaining – it identifies the quantity of money, price expectations, union power, and union size as the determinants of temporary equilibria. In the three scenarios, it characterizes and compares the temporary equilibria using both analytical and numerical techniques, with an emphasis on allocations, welfare, and efficiency. It also discusses the dynamic evolution under rational expectations and its steady states in nominal and real terms. Lastly, it demonstrates conditions for stability regarding a balanced monetary expansion of the economy.
Essays on a Mature Economy: Papers and Proceedings on the New Economic History of Britain 1840-1930 (Quantitative Studies In History Ser. #1522)
by Deirdre McCloskeyThese unique papers were originally read at a conference on the new economic history of Britain at Harvard in 1970, and each is accompanied by a summary of the discussion that followed it. The participants of the conference represented a broad range of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The first eleven papers deal with a variety of topics covering a period from 1840 to the 1920s. They focus on the performance of the British economy, and especially its businessmen, during the time of Britain's industrial maturity and relative decline. The papers and discussions reached a novel conclusion tha, contrary to commonly held opinion, the British economy performed well and that British businessmen were not lacking in entrepreneurial vigour compared with their German or American counterparts. But even more important for British historiography than this finding was the demonstration that economic and statistical methods can be applied successfully to the study of economic history. The papers in the concluding section discuss the origins and development of the new economic history and show that, as a substantial supplement to work along more traditional lines, its methods and application are both desirable and possible. This collection serves as an interesting report of research into a key period in British history, and also as a useful introductory account of the new economic history in the United Kingdom. This book was first published in 1971.
Essays on congruence theory in marketing: Special focus on digital products and webstores (Handel und Internationales Marketing Retailing and International Marketing)
by Robér RollinDigital products are intangible goods, mainly presented visually and acoustically to consumers in the form of videos, images, texts, and music that can be bought, downloaded, or streamed via various web stores. Their consumption primarily fulfills hedonic needs. Before purchasing, a consumer's interaction with a digital product is always mediated by technology. Therefore, consumers cannot directly judge the quality through "touch and feel" experiences. This book diminishes the ability to evaluate digital products. Therefore his thesis seeks to answer which product attributes have an impact on consumers' product evaluation, and purchase intention.
Essays on the Great Depression
by Ben S. BernankeFrom the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic economic effectsAs chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the Global Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke helped avert a greater financial disaster than the Great Depression. And he did so by drawing directly on what he had learned from years of studying the causes of the economic catastrophe of the 1930s—work for which he was later awarded the Nobel Prize. Essays on the Great Depression brings together Bernanke&’s influential work on the origins and economic lessons of the Depression, and this new edition also includes his Nobel Prize lecture.
Essays on the Great Depression
by Ben S. BernankeFrom the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic economic effectsAs chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the Global Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke helped avert a greater financial disaster than the Great Depression. And he did so by drawing directly on what he had learned from years of studying the causes of the economic catastrophe of the 1930s—work for which he was later awarded the Nobel Prize. This influential work is collected in Essays on the Great Depression, an important account of the origins of the Depression and the economic lessons it teaches.
Essays on the Historicity of Capital
by Alain HerscoviciThe methodological and epistemological problem this book studies is related to the heterogeneity of capital. Capitals are heterogeneous through time and space; at the same time, various heterogeneous capitals must be aggregated, as shown by Ricardo and Keynes. On the other hand, the value of some quantity of aggregate capital changes over time, as demonstrated by Ricardo, Keynes and Stiglitz. For this purpose, this book considers Ricardo, Keynes and Stiglitz. For each author, capital is heterogeneous: Ricardo, from his labor theory; Keynes from the change in expectations, in regard to the return of such capital; and Stiglitz from the divergences between the different groups’ expectations. Ricardo was the first author who explained why the value of capital cannot be determined independently from distribution variables and consequently why such value changes when distribution variables change — this mechanism was deepened by Sraffa and the neo-Ricardian school. Keynes, with the concept of supply price of capital, explains why such value moves in regard to long-term expectations. Finally, Stiglitz’s analysis is a complementary approach in regard to Keynes’s, insofar as he details the mechanism of speculation observed by Keynes from asymmetries of information. Keynes and Stiglitz’s approaches allow complement Ricardo’s analysis, insofar expectations are absent from Ricardo’s framework. This book argues that epistemological choices allow going beyond the traditional opposition between neo-Ricardian and post-Keynesian approaches, introducing path dependence mechanisms and an “expectational” dimension. From the moment that capital is not a constant value over time and space, it is not possible anymore to consider a well-behaved production function, which this book argues implies refuting all the neoclassical framework, from the stability of the macroeconomic equilibrium and the Marshallian market equilibrium to the convergence towards the steady state.
Essays on the Philosophy of Adam Smith: The Adam Smith Review, Volume 5: Essays Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Theory of Moral Sentiments (The\adam Smith Review Ser. #5)
by Vivienne BrownAdam Smith’s contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Review is a refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of Adam Smith’s works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings for the modern world. It is aimed at facilitating debate between scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the transdisciplinary reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape. The fifth volume of the series is a special issue to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the publication of The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Contributors to this volume include Stephen Darwall, Fonna Forman-Barzilai, Patrick Frierson, Charles L. Griswold Jr, Ryan Patrick Hanley, Alice MacLachlan, Bence Nanay, Angelica Nuzzo, D.D. Raphael, Ian Simpson Ross, Emma Rothschild, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Arby Ted Siraki and Robert Urquhart, who discuss: The phenomenology of moral life Sympathy, moral judgment and the impartial spectator Issues such as aesthetics, value, honour, resentment, praise-worthiness, cosmopolitanism and religion
Essays on: The Nature And State Of Modern Economics (Economics as Social Theory)
by Tony LawsonWhat do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? How do the central concerns of modern economists, whatever their associations or allegiances, relate to those traditionally taken up in the discipline? And how did economics arrive at its current state? These and various cognate questions and concerns are systematically pursued in this new book by Tony Lawson. The result is a collection of previously published and new papers distinguished in providing the only comprehensive and coherent account of these issues currently available. The financial crisis has not only revealed weaknesses of the capitalist economy but also highlighted just how limited and impoverished is modern academic economics. Despite the failings of the latter being more widely acknowledged now than ever, there is still an enormous amount of confusion about their source and true nature. In this collection, Tony Lawson also identifies the causes of the discipline’s failings and outlines a transformative solution to its deficiencies. Amongst other things, Lawson advocates for the adoption of a more historical and philosophical orientation to the study of economics, one that deemphasizes the current focus on mathematical modelling while maintaining a high level of analytical rigour. In so doing Lawson argues for a return to long term systematic and sustained projects, in the manner pursued by the likes of Marx, Veblen, Hayek and Keynes, concerned first and foremost with advancing our understanding of social reality. Overall, this forceful and persuasive collection represents a major intervention in the on-going debates about the nature, state and future direction of economics.
Essays: On Entrepreneurs, Innovations, Business Cycles and the Evolution of Capitalism
by Joseph A. SchumpeterOrdinarily, the word essays is invoked at great risk by authors and publishers alike. But in the case of this special collection by Joseph A. Schumpeter, the great Austrian economist who finally settled at Harvard, the scholarly world knows this particular volume as his Essays. For a less pious younger generation, a subtitle has been added describing what these essays are about.In addition to the major themes of Schumpeter's life: the place of the entrepreneur in economic development, the risks and rewards of innovation, business cycles and why they occur, and the evolution of capitalism in Europe and America, the Essays contain statements on how Schumpeter viewed his own development; they discuss how he looked at Marxism, and how he feared that economics was in danger of becoming too ideological.Several of the Essays are classics. This is the case for "The Creative Response in Economic History" in which Schumpeter makes a plea for the close cooperation between economic theory and economic history. Another is "Science and Ideology," which constitutes Schumpeter's presidential address before the American Economic Association. Finally, there is the intriguing preface to the Japanese translation of Theory of Economic Development, in which Schumpeter names Walras and Marx as his two great predecessors.Even those who treasure the original publication were irritated by the remarkably poor quality of much of the book, which reproduced everything from typewriter script to nearly unreadable, reduced double columns. These lapses have been corrected in this new edition. Here Schumpeter's Essays can finally be read with the enjoyment, no lesS than enlightenment, they deserve. The volume is alive to the basic issues of our time. The reader can look forward to intellectual insight and stimuli of the highest order.
Essel Propack: Following a Global Customer Across the World--A Profile of One of India's Pioneering Multinationals
by Nirmalya Kumar Pradipta K. Mohapatra Suj ChandrasekharThe story of Essel Propack's evolution from a one-unit company in Vasind, India, to a global leader in laminated tubes is one that demonstrates the power of a fortuitous partnership--in this case with Procter & Gamble--that evolved as most relationships do--through a series of accidents, opportunities, and mutual gains. This chapter tells the unique story of one of India's emerging multinationals. This chapter is excerpted from "India's Global Powerhouses: How They Are Taking on the World."
Essence of Professionalism: Managing Conflict of Interest
by Ashish NandaThis case argues that central to being a professional is the pledge to manage conflicts of interest such that client interest is placed foremost.
Essence of a Manager
by Krishna PillaiWhat makes a "good" manager? This is a book by a manager about managers but it is not just for managers. It is for anyone and for everyone who is interested in the way people - and not just managers - behave and function around the world. Based on actual experience the title "Essence of a Manager" is a succinct distillation of what this book is about. It is not a management manual and yet it is a map for navigation and a guide for behavior which can be valuable for practicing managers at all levels. It formulates a sound thesis to describe the qualities needed in a "good" manager and builds up from elemental qualities to develop a holistic view of a good manager. Nine fundamental attributes are proposed as being necessary and sufficient to describe a "good" manager. It is applied management philosophy for a thinking manager and deals with the fundamental drivers which lie deeper than language or culture and which control human behavior.
Essence of the PET Radiopharmaceutical Business: A Practical Guide (SpringerBriefs in Business)
by Andrea PecoraleThis book explores the organizational and operational activities of real Positron Emission Tomography (PET) radiopharmaceutical manufacturing. Centered around the author’s professional experience, this book specifically explores: (1) the selection and preservation of operational and managerial personnel; (2) the alignment of production plans to consumer needs while still achieving financial goals; and (3) the positive and negative aspects of different operation management methods for direct and third-party production. The book offers a valuable reference for hospital managers, professionals and consultants interested or involved in developing a radiopharmaceutical facility/business or personalized medicine and special productions.
Essencialismo: Aprenda a Fazer Menos mas Melhor
by Greg McKeownA solução para controlar as suas escolhas, identificar as tarefas importantes na sua vida e fazer menos, mas melhor. Desenvolvido por Greg McKeown, especialista em liderança e estratégia, o Essencialismo é a solução para controlar todas as suas escolhas, identificar as tarefas verdadeiramente importantes na sua vida e fazer menos, mas melhor. Em Essencialismo, Greg McKeown usa a experiência que obteve e as ideias que criou a partir da colaboração com os líderes de algumas das empresas mais inovadoras no mundo (Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, LinkedIn) para mostrar como é possível fazer sempre, e apenas, as coisas certas, tornando-se mais produtivo e bem-sucedido no trabalho, e ganhando tempo para a sua vida pessoal. Seguindo os conselhos simples e práticos deste livro conseguirá simplificar a sua vida, o seu pensamento e os seus objetivos, aprendendo a rejeitar as tarefas que são supérfluas e apenas o distraem do essencial. No fim, voltará a decidir por si as suas prioridades e eliminará os principais obstáculos para o êxito, tanto no trabalho como em casa. «Também sente aquela pressão implacável para experimentar todas as coisas boas da vida? Fazer todas as coisas “certas”? A realidade mostra-nos que esse não é o caminho para chegarmos aonde queremos, podendo levar-nos a investir em tantas áreas que os nossos esforços deixam de ter qualquer impacto. Greg McKeown acredita que a solução está em reduzir a vida à sua essência. Com este livro, ele irá ajudá-lo a encontrar o significado do que é essencial para a sua vida.» Daniel H. Pink, autor de Drive, Vender é Humano e A Nova Inteligência «Em Essencialismo, Greg McKeown prova, de forma sustentada, a utilidade de alcançar mais fazendo menos. Neste livro, lembra-nos que um foco claro e a capacidade de dizer “não” são fatores tão críticos quanto desvalorizados no mundo dos negócios, hoje em dia.» Jeff Weiner, ex-CEO do LinkedIn «Este livro tem a chave para a solução de um dos maiores problemas da vida: Como podemos fazer menos e ao mesmo tempo alcançar melhores resultados? Essencialismo é uma leitura intemporal e fundamental para qualquer pessoa que se sinta sobrecarregada, subaproveitada e excessivamente empenhada no trabalho — por outras palavras, para todos. Mudou a forma como penso sobre as minhas prioridades, e se mais líderes adotassem esta filosofia os nossos trabalhos e vidas seriam menos stressantes e mais produtivos. Por isso, deixe o que está a fazer e leia este livro.» Adam Grant, professor na Wharton School e autor dos bestsellers Dar e Receber, Originais e Pensar Melhor «Essencialismo é o antídoto poderoso para a loucura que se espalha atualmente, como uma praga, pelas nossas organizações e as nossas vidas. Leia as palavras de Greg McKeown com calma, pare e pense como deverá aplicar essas ideias à sua vida — depois, será capaz de fazer menos e melhor, e começará a sentir a insanidade a desaparecer.» Robert L. Sutton, professor na Universidade de Stanford
Essent: From a State Owned Utility to a Commercial Company
by Ananth Raman Elena CorsiA formerly state-owned Dutch energy utility transforms itself to compete in a dergulated environment.
Essent: From a State-Owned Utility to a Commercial Company
by Ananth Raman Elena CorsiA formerly state-owned Dutch energy utility transforms itself to compete in a dergulated environment.
Essential Analytics for Hospital Managers: A Guide to Statistical Problem Solving (SpringerBriefs in Health Care Management and Economics)
by Murray V. CalichmanThis book provides practical applications of statistical and mathematical concepts to resolve common issues in hospital management. Each chapter discusses a key component of hospital operations, such as maximizing hospital profitability through pricing optimization, forecasting facility requirements from historical data, and determining optimal patient schedules to fully utilize hospital resources in order to eliminate over-crowding in the emergency department. Structured by the degree of mathematical complexity, this professional book utilizes problem-solving methodologies ranging from basic statistical concepts (means and standard deviations) to more advanced statistics (Poisson distributions and queuing theory). Concluding with computer applications and simulations, the practical examples will help hospital managers to optimally and innovatively make use of linear programming. The book’s main goal is to make hospital personnel more aware of the benefits of management science methodologies that are not usually employed in today’s hospitals.
Essential B2B Marketing Strategies: Theories, Cases and Concepts for a Contemporary World
by Ibrahim Sirkeci Naushaba Chowdhury Pravin Balaraman Jonathan Liu Jonathan A.J. WilsonThis textbook equips readers with a clear understanding of how B2B markets have evolved in recent years, from the traditional focus on product development to more targeted approaches that focus on relationships, digitalization, innovation and sustainability. Exploring the relevant theories behind this evolution and providing an extensive understanding of contemporary marketing strategies, the book equips readers with a broad perspective of B2B marketing – the evolution, theories, concepts, and the external environment – that allows students to put theory into practice in both manufacturing and service sectors. Allowing for a holistic understanding of contemporary B2B practices, students will learn how to design a competitive marketing strategy for the current business environment. Covering key topics such as the customer journey, branding, value co-creation and servitization, and with a wide range of case studies, this is an essential text for students at both undergraduate and post-graduate level.
Essential Business Challenges: How to Understand Complexity, Address Change, and Make Better Decisions
by William B. RouseSociety seems increasingly complex, in part due to constant “breaking news,” likes, tweets, etc. Considerable change is being entertained, or at least debated. Significant decisions are required. Decision-making lately has been flawed, laced with contention, hesitancy, and poor outcomes.The author has long helped clients and sponsors to understand complexity, address needs for change, formulate plans, and make decisions to invest resources to execute these plans. His engagement with them has focused on formulating problems, devising possible solutions, and deciding which solutions merited investment.This book represents the author's reflections on these engagements, associated challenges, and typical outcomes. These stories are reports about clients' or sponsors’ problems and how he and his colleagues went about addressing these problems of complexity, change, and decision-making. The clients or customers for these services included over 100 enterprises in industry, government, and academia. Most were large, many in the US, but quite a few were in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Geography mattered in these engagements but did not dominate.The chapters in this book represent his reports on what he learned, and what he could generalize across airplanes, automobiles, banking, computers, communications, insurance, pharmaceuticals, retail, satellites, semiconductors, and telecoms, working with stakeholders from companies, agencies, and academia.
Essential Business Coaching: How To Run A Highly Successful Coaching Business (Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge)
by Averil Leimon Gladeana McMahon Francois MoscoviciDo coaches need to be psychologists, business people or both? Essential Business Coaching offers a much-needed answer to the question of what makes a good business coach. The authors draw on 60 years of combined experience to provide an in-depth review of best practice and theory. They provide a thorough examination of the changing nature of work, the need for new sources of competitive advantage and the benefits of investing in coaching. Useful ideas for further reading are found throughout, along with numerous examples of real business coaching situations. The inclusion of interviews with both corporate sponsors and individual clients provide a unique insight into what makes good coaching in practice. The combination of solid theory and abundant examples make Essential Business Coaching an invaluable tool for all business coaches as well as counsellors, psychotherapists, human resource professionals and senior managers.
Essential Business Fundamentals for the Successful Eye Care Practice
by Savak TeymoorianA compact business education that strategically incorporates 500 keywords to lay the foundation and over 50 action items to initiate meaningful advances and excel in your eye care practice today. Medical training is a difficult journey with enormous amounts of information to absorb over a short time period. The intense time commitment required during this process leaves little opportunity to study any other discipline. However, even the most intelligent and well-intentioned provider cannot care for patients if the front door of the building is closed. Simply put: A fundamental background in business is required to effectively practice medicine. Eye care professionals, which includes their ophthalmic staff, can now fill the critical gap in their education with Essential Business Fundamentals for the Successful Eye Care Practice, providing them the necessary basic tools to make and execute winning practice management decisions. Writing in a high-density format that medical professionals will be familiar with, Dr. Savak Teymoorian combines his physician training and experience as a successful ophthalmologist at Harvard Eye Associates with the knowledge acquired earning his MBA. This unique perspective allows him to provide the proper theory and execution in the business of eye care and present it in an efficient manner like that used in medical education. Each chapter is dedicated to a different subject that would routinely be taught in a masters of business administration degree, tailored specifically for eye care professionals and distilled into the most critical information for a strong foundation. Each section is further enhanced with real life examples seen in ophthalmic care showing how to properly apply business strategies and tactics to obtain the best results.Chapter topics include: Marketing Leadership Negotiations Operations Finance Ophthalmologists, optometrists, and eye care staff will appreciate Essential Business Fundamentals for the Successful Eye Care Practice for its efficient and relevant information to running an eye care practice, whether they are currently in training and want to set themselves up for success or they are already practicing and want to fill in a deficiency in their knowledge.
Essential Business Skills for Social Work Managers: Tools for Optimizing Programs and Organizations
by Andrew J. GermakMany social workers find themselves in management positions within a few years of graduating from MSW programs. Most of these jobs are in nonprofit human service organizations in which, increasingly, business acumen is necessary to maintain grants and donations, start new programs, market services to clients, supervise the finance function, and understand the external environment. This book teaches MSW students and early-stage social work management practitioners the essential business skills needed to manage programs and organizations; to improve their overall management toolkit for finding a better job or getting promoted; and, ultimately, to gain parity with other managers holding MBA degrees and working in the human service space. This text can serve as a desk reference for managers to troubleshoot various situations. It is also appropriate for social work macro practice courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as courses that cover human resource management and financial management.?
Essential Career Transition Coaching Skills (Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge)
by Caroline TalbottCareer moves (even positive ones) can be disruptive for the individual, and the psychological impact of changing roles or careers is often underestimated. Career transition coaching is a relatively new field, but one that is highly relevant in the modern world. In Essential Career Transition Coaching Skills, Caroline Talbott explores the most effective career transition coaching techniques and explains the psychology behind them. Looking at both self-motivated and enforced career changes, the book pays particular attention to the psychological processes experienced by the client, so that the coach can understand and anticipate their reactions and help them make the most successful career moves. It covers general skills, tools and techniques that can be applied to any career transition as well as more specific examples such as moving from management into leadership, aspiring business owners and career changers. Case studies illustrating the methods of experienced coaches and step-by-step guides to coaching techniques are also included. Ideal for those already experienced in general coaching and looking to specialise, as well as anyone whose job requires coaching skills, such as managers and HR professionals, this timely book provides a comprehensive guide to the whole transition cycle – from choosing a career direction or change, to making a move and adapting successfully.
Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: An A-Z Guide (A-Z Guides for Environment and Sustainability)
by Frank Biermann Thomas Hickmann Yixian Sun Carole-Anne Sénit Yi Hyun KangThis book provides a highly accessible and user-friendly overview of the essential concepts and terms related to the current global endeavour to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.With the first decade of the 15-year timespan of the 2030 Agenda now past, the SDGs show limited progress and several goals are even regressing. It is imperative that SDG implementation is accelerated until 2030 and beyond to foster transformations and set the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. The book starts with a thematic introduction to contextualize the topic and set the stage for the individual entries. It then follows an A-Z format, with over 100 entries which describe an important concept or term, using practical examples to illustrate how it connects to the overall debate about sustainable development. It offers swift introductions to key concepts and terms that are discussed and explained by scholarly and policy experts from around the world in a concise and user-friendly way.The guide is comprehensive in scope, practically oriented and focused on political and societal processes to drive change on a larger scale. With cross-references to related terms in the entries, this book will be a highly valuable resource for students and practitioners engaged with the SDGs and sustainable development more broadly.