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Incomplete Revolutions: Success and Failures of Capitalist Transition Strategies in Post-communist Economies
by Adam ZwassThis volume focuses on the role of privatization strategies, contrasting the outcomes of the voucher plans with outright sale of state assets (including to foreign investors). The author considers the record of newly emerging banking and financial systems.
Incomplete Streets: Processes, practices, and possibilities (Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series)
by Julian Agyeman Stephen ZavestoskiThe ‘Complete Streets' concept and movement in urban planning and policy has been hailed by many as a revolution that aims to challenge the auto-normative paradigm by reversing the broader effects of an urban form shaped by the logic of keeping automobiles moving. By enabling safe access for all users, Complete Streets promise to make cities more walkable and livable and at the same time more sustainable. This book problematizes the Complete Streets concept by suggesting that streets should not be thought of as merely physical spaces, but as symbolic and social spaces. When important social and symbolic narratives are missing from the discourse and practice of Complete Streets, what actually results are incomplete streets. The volume questions whether the ways in which complete streets narratives, policies, plans and efforts are envisioned and implemented might be systematically reproducing many of the urban spatial and social inequalities and injustices that have characterized cities for the last century or more. From critiques of a "mobility bias" rooted in the neoliberal foundations of the Complete Streets concept, to concerns about resulting environmental gentrification, the chapters in Incomplete Streets variously call for planning processes that give voice to the historically marginalized and, more broadly, that approach streets as dynamic, fluid and public social places. This interdisciplinary book is aimed at students, researchers and professionals in the fields of urban geography, environmental studies, urban planning and policy, transportation planning, and urban sociology.
Incorporate Your Business
by Anthony MancusoIncorporate Your Business lays out everything you need to know about corporate laws and regulations in your state, clearly explaining: .why and when to incorporate .how to prepare and file articles of incorporation, prepare bylaws and corporate records, and issue stock .what you need to know about corporate taxation, including distribution of stock and stock options .whether or not to elect S corporation tax status .how to incorporate an existing business Plus, you can save thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees by incorporating a business yourself Incorporate Your Business guides you through each step. In the end, your business will enjoy a number of advantages, including: Limited Liability Incorporating your business limits personal liability for business debts this means owners are not normally financially liable for business debts and court judgments. Tax Advantages You can split business income between yourself and your corporation, thereby lowering income taxes. Access to Capital Corporations have better access to private venture capital than any other type of business. They are also well positioned to raise capital by selling shares to the public. Employee Perks The owners of a corporation who work for the business are treated as employees. They can take advantage of tax deductible, corporate paid benefits such as: .pension plans .stock option and stock bonus plans .medical expense reimbursement .term life insurance coverage Incorporate Your Business provides the forms you need, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, stock certificates and resolutions. This edition is revised and updated to cover all changes in state, federal, and tax law. Additionally, the 50 state appendix found in previous editions has been redesigned for ease of use, including updated information on all 50 states' corporate filing offices, securities offices, and corporate law statues. Forms are available to download at nolo.com
Incorporate Your Business: A Step-by-Step Guide to Forming a Corporation in Any State
by Anthony MancusoForm a corporation in any state, quickly and easily. Forming a corporation has many advantages, including limiting your personal liability. With the step-by-step instructions in this book, the process is straightforward and easy to accomplish. Incorporate Your Business clearly explains how to form a corporation in any state. It includes all the sample forms and information you need to prepare articles of incorporation and bylaws. It also fully discusses the advantages and tax consequences of incorporating your business, including: Limited liability Business owners limit their personal liability by incorporating, because they aren’t responsible for business debts and court judgments. Tax advantages Especially for smaller businesses, the ability to split income between yourself and your corporation can significantly lower your overall tax burden. Employee perks Owners of a corporation who also work for it can take advantage of significant financial benefits like equity plans, stock options, corporation-paid insurance, and more. Incorporate Your Business provides the forms you need, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, stock certificates and resolutions. This new edition is revised and updated to cover all changes in state, federal, and tax law.
Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire
by Aaron CayerBy the end of the twentieth century, US architecture and engineering firms held more capital than entire countries, employed more people than were housed in most cities, and rented offices in more nations than comprised the UN. Within them, architects were designing not single buildings but urban systems, including the multinational infrastructures, legal codes, and financial mechanisms on which those systems came to depend. However, despite the extraordinary power of these architects, their histories remain shrouded in myth and concealed—by design. This forensic analysis traces a history of architects at one such firm, AECOM, as they assembled their own multinational corporation and embedded themselves in the operations of American empire after World War II, shielding themselves from the instabilities of a postwar political economy. Incorporating Architects reveals how architects, through their businesses more than their drawings or buildings, modulated the political economy, gripped the reins of their profession, and produced the global injustices that define our neoliberal present.
Incorporating Market Information into the Construction of the Fan Chart
by Prakash Kannan Selim ElekdagA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Incorporating Purpose: The New Legal Foundations for the Corporation and its Management (Elements in Corporate Governance)
by Blanche Segrestin Kevin Levillain Armand HatchuelIn this Element, emerging legal forms of purpose-driven corporations are analyzed, revealing two important insights. First, within the traditional corporate law, a purpose is neither protected nor enforceable over time. While companies can have goals beyond profit, these are controlled by shareholders, who also appoint corporate managers. To protect social or environmental ambitions, especially during shareholder changes, a legal commitment from the company is essential. Second, these new legal forms highlight the need to redefine the corporation's legal foundations. In an era when management decisions impact entire populations and the planet, the law inadequately conceptualizes the conditions necessary for responsible management. The Element argues that embedding a purpose in the constitution of corporations can provide these new legal foundations. Ultimately, the Element suggests that purpose provides a unified theoretical framework for understanding the variety of corporate legal forms and for discussing their respective potentials and limitations in holding corporations accountable in the face of upcoming transitions.
Incorporating Sustainability in Management Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach
by Kenneth Amaeshi Judy N. Muthuri Chris OgbechieResponding to the pressing need of business schools to incorporate sustainability thinking into their curricula, this new book offers fresh thinking on how to achieve this in practical terms. Structured on a typical MBA programme, each chapter explores how sustainability thinking can be integrated into existing subject areas. Rather than being prescriptive, the chapters provide opportunities to reflect on successes as well as challenges associated with embedding sustainability into MBA courses. Contributors explore the employability implications of sustainability and how these are reflected in course designs, pedagogy and assessments. Filling an important gap in current literature, Incorporating Sustainability in Management Education provides important support to Higher Education Institutes who must quickly adapt to this desired change in business school curricula.
Incorporating Your Business For Dummies
by The Company CorporationIf you’re a business owner, incorporation can help you protect your personal assets and cut down your tax bill. But all the paperwork and legalese can make incorporation seem like more trouble than it’s worth. Incorporating Your Business For Dummies offers all the savvy tips you need to get incorporated — starting today! Whether your business is big or small, incorporating isn’t as simple as it could be. This handy reference makes incorporation make sense, and guides you through the process step by step. From handling the mountain of paperwork to getting back to business once you’re finished, Incorporating Your Business For Dummies offers a wealth of helpful advice on these and many more topics: Knowing whether or not incorporation can help you Choosing the type of entity that will work best for your business Dealing with shareholders and shareholder agreements Transferring money and assets in or out of the corporation Documenting corporate actions and maintaining compliance Finding the right attorney, accountant, tax advisor, and other professionals Written by the experts at The Company Corporation, who handle more than 100,000 incorporations every year, this helpful book offers the kind of advice you can only get from professionals — but in a user-friendly, lingo-free format. Whether you just want a little help with the paperwork, or don’t even know what a corporation is, you’ll find everything you need to know: What limited liability means Corporate statutes, bylaws, and articles Choosing directors and assigning duties The benefits of S corporation status Deciding where to incorporate Registering corporate names and domain names Balancing equity versus debt Understanding shareholder rights Getting your financial information in order Hiring a professional to help with corporate compliance If you want step-by-step help on setting up your corporation, dealing with the paperwork, and getting off on the right foot, Incorporating Your Business For Dummies is the only resource you need. Packed with the kind of tips and advice you’ll find nowhere else, it’s the uncomplicated way to get incorporated.
Increase Innovation Productivity: Building the Right Systems and Structures to Make Innovation Repeatable--Even in Tough Times
by Scott D. AnthonyHistorically, companies have had innovation batting averages that wouldn't qualify them for a cellar-dwelling baseball team. Improving the innovation success rate is a pressing challenge, especially in tough times. This chapter discusses how companies can improve the productivity of efforts to create new products, services, and processes by developing strategies, structures, and processes to improve their innovation batting average. It describes how to get ready for innovation, details a simple process to create booming new growth businesses, and provides guidance for how to embed innovation capabilities within the organization. This chapter was originally published as chapter 4 of "The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times."
Increase Urgency: Creating a Climate for Change
by Dan S. CohenTo bring about significant change, an organization needs significantly more than the usual effort and commitment from its people. Creating a clear sense of urgency around the needed change is crucial to gaining cooperation and sustaining the momentum of change. This chapter provides a practical, hands-on guide to help you tackle the challenges of generating a shared sense of urgency. Worksheets and diagnostic tools are included.
Increase Urgency: Toward Successful Large-Scale Change
by John P. Kotter Dan S. CohenIn successful change efforts, the first step is making sure sufficient people act with sufficient urgency. Without enough urgency, large-scale change can become an exercise in pushing a gigantic boulder up a very tall mountain.
Increasing Effectiveness of The Community College Financial Model
by Rosalind Latiner Raby Edward J. Valeau Stewart E. Sutin Daniel DerricoThisbook seeks to explore thematic and pragmatic applications of financing the community college to help facilitate educational reform, to assist efforts related to internationalization, and to create systemic support systems to maintain the mission.
Increasing Formality and Productivity of Bolivian Firms
by The World BankBolivia's informal economic sector is the largest in Latin America and has been attributed to many factors including the burden of regulations, the weakness of public institutions, and the lack of perceived benefits to formality. 'Increasing Formality and Productivity of Bolivian Firms' presents fresh qualitative and quantitative analyses to help understand the reasons why firms are informal and the impact of formalization on their profitability, in order to better inform appropriate policies. A crucial finding of the study is that the impact of tax registration on profitability depends on firm size and the ability to issue tax receipts. The smallest and largest firms have lower profits as a result of tax registration because their cost of formalizing exceeds benefits. The study concludes by recommending policy priorities to increase the benefits of formalization through information, training, access to credit and markets, and business support. Longer-term policy recommendations include simplifying formalization, regulatory, and taxation procedures and reducing their costs, as well as measures to boost the productivity of small and micro firms.
Increasing Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: The United Kingdom in 2011 (A)
by Jenny Sanford Iris Bohnet John BeshearsIncreasing Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: The United Kingdom in 2011 (A) by John Beshears, Iris Bohnet and Jenny Sanford
Increasing Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: The United Kingdom in 2011 (B)
by Jenny Sanford Iris Bohnet John BeshearsSupplement
Increasing Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: The United Kingdom in 2011 (B)
by Jenny Sanford Iris Bohnet John BeshearsSupplement
Increasing Learning & Development's Impact through Accreditation: How to drive-up training quality, employee satisfaction, and ROI
by William J. Rothwell Sandra L. Williams Aileen G. ZaballeroThis book provides a guide to the process of accrediting training programs, sets out how to achieve consistent measurement of the results of training, and explains why accreditation is critical for capturing and developing today’s workers’ skills, aiding retention, and boosting strategic organizational credibility with millennials. Workplace and executive training is a multi-billion dollar industry and yet an enormous percentage of that budget is spent on programs that have never been rigorously examined to ensure that they are fit for purpose and deliver value for the money. If you’re signing off on that budget, or asking your people to spend time on training programs, shouldn’t that concern you? Training accreditation offers vital quality assurance, ensures global consistency of results and delivers accountability for learning and performance outcomes. Apart from delivering better results and greater ROI, organizations can differentiate themselves from their competitors in the employment marketplace by offering accredited proprietary training. After all, digital natives, and indeed all of today’s most talented potential employees, expect (and increasingly demand) the high quality, engaging and transferable employee development that only accredited programs can deliver. Aligning with the standards set by the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET) – today’s premier accreditation body for training programs – the authors offer principles for quality program structure, delivery, and improvement needed to achieve accreditation. They share practices used by high quality training program managers today, covering business alignment and program administration along with the planning, design, delivery and evaluation of learning systems.
Increasing Management Relevance and Competitiveness: Proceedings of the 2nd Global Conference on Business, Management and Entrepreneurship (GC-BME 2017), August 9, 2017, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
by Ade Gafar Abdullah Badri Munir Sukoco Rahmat Heru Setianto Nidya Ayu Arina Asep Bayu Nandiyanto Ratih HurriyatiIncreasing Management Relevance and Competitiveness contains the papers presented at the Global Conference on Business, Management and Entrepreneurship (the 2nd GC-BME 2017), Surabaya, Indonesia on the 9th of August, 2017. The book covers 7 topics: 1. Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and Human Resources Management2. Innovation, Operations and Supply Chain Management3. Marketing Management4. Financial Management and Accounting5. Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, and Contemporary Issues6. Green Business7. Management and Economics Education.
Increasing Motorcycle Conspicuity: Design and Assessment of Interventions to Enhance Rider Safety (Human Factors, Simulation and Performance Assessment)
by Michael G. Lenné Lars RößgerIt’s a widely recognised trend that powered-two-wheelers' (PTWs) use has been steadily increasing and is projected to increase further. While providing benefits to the community in the form of reduced traffic congestion and environmental benefits, the risks to PTW riders remain and visibility will always be a key issue. Increasing Motorcycle Conspicuity aims to illustrate how driving simulation, field studies and laboratory experiments can be used to improve rider safety through the design and evaluation of a range of safety measures. The book outlines the factors that contribute to PTW visibility and detection by car drivers, and presents case studies to illustrate how the various methods can be used to explore the contribution of these factors. The final chapter of the book highlights the utility of a simulation-based approach to improving PTW safety and discusses this method’s future applications. The case studies collected within the volume cover phases of the design of conspicuity treatments and provide a broad spectrum of empirical strategies for assessing the interventions. The book is most directly relevant to researchers and applied scientists from the fields of traffic/transportation psychology and human factors, as well as to practitioners from the traffic safety sector.
Increasing Productivity and Reliability by Investing in Health Care: Create Value by Improving Conditions for Your Low-Level Workers
by Jody HeymannEmployers have been called the "new gatekeepers" of health care and health in recognition of the crucial importance of working conditions. This chapter brings together a decade and a half of research on the relationship between working conditions and health to demonstrate the economic benefits of investing in the health of your workers. Not only will you decrease absenteeism and improve performance among your workers, you can improve your ability to attract and retain key personnel, inspire greater employee allegiance, and improve the public image of the company. There are important challenges to creating and maintaining a successful relationship between work and health, both fiscal and organizational, but this chapter will guide you through the approaches that have worked for companies all over the world. Beyond just health care and insurance, you will learn about successful alternative approaches to fill in the gaps-like in-office health and safety programs, free on-site clinics, and mental health services. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 3 of "Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder: Creating Value by Investing in Your Workforce."
Increasing Returns and the New World of Business
by W. Brian ArthurOur understanding of how markets and businesses operate is based on the assumption of diminishing returns: products or companies that get ahead in a market eventually run into limitations so that a predictable equilibrium of prices and market shares is reached. The theory was valid for the bulk-processing, smokestack economy of Alfred Marshall's day. But in this century, Western economies have gone from processing resources to processing information, from the application of raw energy to the application of ideas. The mechanisms that determine economic behavior have also shifted--from diminishing returns to increasing returns. Increasing returns are the tendency for that which is ahead to get further ahead and for that which is losing advantage to lose further advantage. If a product gets ahead, increasing returns can magnify the advantage, and the product can go on to lock in the market.
Increasing True Urgency: One Strategy and Four Tactics
by John P. KotterUnderlying the urgent behavior that makes organizations succeed in a turbulent world is not only a set of thoughts-there must also be a set of feelings, a compulsive desire to move, and win, now. This chapter outlines several tactics for increasing urgency and winning the hearts, along with the minds, of those involved in a change effort.
Increasing Your Influence at Work All-In-One For Dummies
by Dummies PressGet ahead in the workplace by influencing others Influence is a timeless topic for business leaders and others in positions of power, but the world has evolved to the point where everyone needs these skills. No matter your job, role, rank, or function, if you want to get things done you need to know how to influence up, down, across, and outside the organization. Increasing Your Influence at Work All-in-One For Dummies shows you how to contribute more fully to important decisions, resolve conflicts more easily, lead and manage more effectively, and much more. Plus, you'll discover how to develop the most important attributes necessary for influence—trustworthiness, reliability, and assertiveness—and find out how to move beyond. Includes easy-to-apply information for influencing managers, peers, and subordinates Shows you how to build trust with your co-workers and cultivate reliability through consistency and being personal Illustrates how influencing others in the office helps you enjoy a greater measure of control over your work life Helps you advance your career more rapidly than others No matter who you are, where you work, or what your professional goals are, achieving more influence in the workplace is critical for success.
Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
by Caitlin ZaloomHow the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is one of the defining features of middle-class life in America today. At kitchen tables all across the country, parents agonize over whether to burden their children with loans or to sacrifice their own financial security by taking out a second mortgage or draining their retirement savings. Indebted takes readers into the homes of middle-class families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life.Caitlin Zaloom gained the confidence of numerous parents and their college-age children, who talked candidly with her about stressful and intensely personal financial matters that are usually kept private. In this remarkable book, Zaloom describes the profound moral conflicts for parents as they try to honor what they see as their highest parental duty—providing their children with opportunity—and shows how parents and students alike are forced to take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off. What emerges is a troubling portrait of an American middle class fettered by the "student finance complex"—the bewildering labyrinth of government-sponsored institutions, profit-seeking firms, and university offices that collect information on household earnings and assets, assess family needs, and decide who is eligible for aid and who is not.Superbly written and unflinchingly honest, Indebted breaks through the culture of silence surrounding the student debt crisis, revealing the unspoken costs of sending our kids to college.