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E-Content: Technologies and Perspectives for the European Market
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 354025093X |
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Technologies develop rapidly and reach hurricane levels of velocity but quality E-Content and innovative applications lag behind. This book addresses the question how content industries change within a digital environment and what role information and communication technologies play in transforming the competitive landscape. The authors argue that post-industrial societies tend to pay substantial amounts for equipment and gadgets but invest far too little in the quality of the content. As a result, much effort is and has to be spent on the enhancement of E-Content. The contributions give an elaborate overview of:- the specifics, challenges and prospects of content in the network economy; - market developments of digital media services; - paid content business models; - impacts on scientific publishing; - developments in the field of E-Learning; - the interplay between technology and content with the example of interactive digital TV; - the mobile games market; - emerging new cross media markets; - the need to enhance the usability of websites and mobile applications; - how digital applications might be used to capture and store our personal experiences. A final chapter shows the prospects of the European E-Content market and gives an overview of valuable initiatives and resources dealing with the topic of E-Content.
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International Business Economics: A European Perspective (Longman Modular Texts in Business and Economics)
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0582305802 |
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International Strategic Marketing: A European Perspective
J.B. McCall Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 041531416X |
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A new leading textbook on international marketing, this comprehensive text provides an in-depth appreciation of the theory and practice of its subject from a European perspective, while considering the role of Europe within global marketing.
The book uses case studies to develop an understanding of international marketing principles for firms operating in Europe, including MNCs, SMEs and firms in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods market, as well as examples from both the industrial market and the service industries. It also covers the global marketing opportunities in Far Eastern markets and the third world, and the many developments within the European Union and the Single European Market. With a comprehensive subject approach, this book helps readers develop an understanding of marketing firms in Europe that is firmly based in illustrative examples.
There is an online lecturer website to accompany this textbook.
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Marketing in Europe: The Experience of Small and Medium European Food and Drink Firms (Perspectives on Europe Series)
John Nicholls , Malcom Sargent , Jacques Viaene , Anne De Craene , Maria Teresa De Noronha Vaz , and Margaret Loseby Manufacturer: Avebury ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1859721419 |
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Marketing Strategies for the New Europe: A North American Perspective for 1992
John K., Jr. Ryans , and Pradeep A. Rau Manufacturer: Amer Marketing Assn ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0877572038 |
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Perspectives on Marketing Management: 1993 (Perspectives on Marketing Management)
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0471938270 |
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The Biotech Investor: How to Profit from the Coming Boom in Biotechnology
Tom Abate Manufacturer: Owl Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0805075089 |
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In The Biotech Investor, San Francisco Chronicle biotechnology reporter Tom Abate explains the science, finances, time horizon, and technological and commercial potential of this burgeoning industry. Abate provides guidelines for assessing company leadership, easy-to-digest reports from the labs, and indispensable investor tools and metrics. He shares strategies for - tracking the effect of breaking news and the NASDAQ - anticipating drug trial announcements and FDAapprovals - assessing the potential market, patent rights, and distribution deals for a drug He looks beyond medicine to biotech-related opportunities in everything from agriculture to jean manufacturing to software development. The Biotech Investor is the comprehensive, expert source for successful and intelligent investing in one of the twenty-first century's most promising industries.Customer Reviews:
Biotech Investor.......2007-01-09
Well structured and interesting.......2003-09-17
Tom Abate is a good writer and knows his subject. I thought this book was written in a guarded, pragmatic way that suits the reader's purpose (presumably investment). The dustjacket shouts of a 'coming boom' but the author can be forgiven for what is basically puffery. Abate is clearly arguing for a period of drawn out growth fuelled by demographics and accelerating technical progress - not an imminent goldrush.
I gained a number of insights I consider valuable:
-An understanding of the mechanism of FDA approval and how companies manage themselves around it.
-The fluid business models of existing companies.
-The way in which institutional fund managers seem to advocate active trading over a 'buy and hold' approach to biotech portfolios (this surprised me).
Timely, relevant and convincingly argued. I'd probably buy another book by this author.
A strong dose of reality to the often hype driven sector.......2003-04-24
Who this book is for:
-Independent investors willing to spend a lot of time doing research
-People looking for a current industry overview
-Job seekers
The Good:
-Extremely well written
-Up to Date (as of spring 2003)
-Knowledgeable - several small tidbits of data pay for the book by themselves
The Bad:
-Will quickly go out of date. For example the Appendix contains a list of firm websites and market caps; Market Caps change - companies disappear.
-Not enough FDA information. This should have been a separate chapter covering the FDA approval process in detail as well as other countries' processes.
-Too much basic investment advice: firm valuation/free cash flow/ portfolio theory / investor risk profile. Other books do a better, more thorough job of this.
-No bibliography
I gave it 5 stars because if you are going to invest in biotech the book will more than pay for itself.
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Moscow Madness: Crime, Corruption, and One Man's Pursuit of Profit in the New Russia
Timothy Harper Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0070267006 |
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Moscow Madness is an exciting tale about the insanity of doing business behind the old Iron Curtain. Timothy Harper tells the true story of Richard Grajirena, an American who sets up a Miller Beer distribution company in Moscow. Russia was thirsty for his beer, but Grajirena becomes overwhelmed by the craziness of doing business there in the early 1990s. In Russia's evolving capitalism, he discovers, "it is almost impossible for small businesses to survive the pressure of contradictory laws and regulations, bureaucracy and criminals."Grajirena, a former world-class yachtsman, wanted to become rich in post-Communist Russia. Instead, he gets victimized by the black market, corrupt customs agents, wild swings in currency-exchange rates, skyrocketing taxes and fees, and the Russian mob. His business collapses after he refuses to pay outright bribes or deal with organized crime. Harper writes, "Grajirena was astonished and frightened by the reach of the 'mafiya' and the gang lords relying on thugs who were happy to commit casual mayhem for a few American dollars. They used violence and intimidation to turn central Moscow into a version of gangland Chicago in the Capone era." Released 10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this book offers some excellent insights for investors and others interested in Russia's struggle with free enterprise. --Dan Ring
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Lessons here for Investors.......2004-01-03
The book has many lessons for the investor. The first being, don't leave your circle of competence. Here was someone who had a lot of expertise in the sailmaking world, from a U.S. business perspective, but no expertise it appeared in Beer distribution or in actually basing business overseas.
The second big lesson for the investor is - don't put your money into something until you see something concrete. Mr Grajirena seems to have made much of his money drawing a salary from schemes that have no sales! Much of his time appeared to be spent travelling to Russia on a vague hope of some outcome ( the set-up of EuroHealth ).
It is interesting to note where Miller Beer is now with regards Russia. Miller Brewing has been sold to South African Breweries ( how many people know that Miller Genuine Draft is now NOT American owned ? ), and Miller Beer sold in Russia is now made in Russia. SAB has bought up old East European breweries, and refurbished them. SAB is now the world second largest brewer. Someone made money in Moscow.
What comes through in the book is the level of arrogance of many Americans doing business overseas. An example of this in the book is when specifications are delivered in inches not metric. The American answer to the Russian complaint is that the Russians built a space programme copying, so why can't they change these measurements this time ?
But the book does have the imagination running with " what if " possibilities when the Miller brand becomes established in Moscow. What if they had operated within their working capital and kept to a more reasonable business plan ? What if they had kept their expenses to a minimum from the outset ? What if they had properly organised their finances and had enough equity raised ?
By all means read this book for insight into Russian business. But consider also the largely unconscious window it gives us into how Americans see the world ( as a subsidiary of USA Inc ).
A Good Read!.......2001-04-18
New Innocents Abroad.......2001-02-26
Embellishment of one's foreign adventures goes back to times earlier than Marco Polo or even Homer. But what is remarkable about this book is that it is actually more honest, plausible, and conventional that juicy tag lines and excerpts on its cover. It is a story of some business successes and mishaps, cultural discoveries and misunderstandings, under the titillating wrap of crime, corruption and debauchery. Many of such stories could happen elsewhere, almost all of them - in any country during big transformation.
What about the omnipresent "mafiya" and "roofs"? Contrary to widespread perception and come-ons of the book cover, one can find that Mr. Grajirena (the book protagonist) and his company weren't threatened by "mafiya". A couple of times they considered doing business - on their own initiative - with shady-looking characters, and eventually declined. Most of the talk about "mafiya" in the book is a collection of keg party gossips and third-hand accounts. This doesn't mean that "mafiya" and corruption didn't exist - there were (and still are) plenty of them; it just wasn't completely unavoidable.
It is a common knowledge that many western businessmen trying to do business in Moscow during 90's were in constant danger for their lives, right? Actually, statistics tells a different story. The only relatively high-profile American businessman killed in Moscow in a whole decade was Paul Tatum - co-owner of a luxury hotel complex. Tatum adopted "mafiosi" style more enthusiastically than any "New Russians", surrounding himself with thuggish bodyguards and miniskirted bimbos, and swam in chaos and corruption like fish in the water. Even many of his fellow American expats said they saw it coming.
A few years ago I witnessed (in US) an attempt to make a payment in a Russian-American business deal with a suitcase of dollars (the only time I've seen a suitcase full of cash in my life). No, it wasn't a stereotypical group of heavyset Russian "biznismeny" flashing piles of cash to the consternation of their American partners. Americans were the ones who brought the suitcase. The deal was in fact was totally legitimate, and neither side had any connections with organized crime How did they come up with this idea? Probably read too many stories about business in Russia, which supposedly operated only on bags of green banknotes.
The book details the story of Rick Grajirena, a renowned yachtsman, who previously ran a modestly successful business related to his sailing hobby. Nothing in his resume, however, suggested he should excel in selling beer in Moscow. In starting a business in a foreign country it would be helpful to have a thorough knowledge of either a country or a business itself. Grajirena didn't know much about either Russia or beer wholesaling. This is not an absolute prerequisite, but neither did he show enough concentration, jumping for a while from one project to another. Miller beer distribution came up only by chance, after dabbling in some other semi-serious ventures without particular focus or expertise. Why did he feel entitled to success?
Probably it had to do with the general atmosphere of the times. Many westerners in early 90's were attracted by a combination of the "new frontier" thrill, sense of self-important mission of "converting heathens", and expectation of easy buck along the line "these Russians are so clueless about business and capitalism, anybody barely able to operate a hot-dog stand should be raking in money". If this was ever true at all, it was quickly becoming less so as market reforms took hold.
In 1990 one could ride in a taxi around Moscow for half a day for just a pack of "Marlboro". It would be stupid to assume this will persist forever - and such attitude seems to be one of the causes of the First Republic eventual failure. In early 90's selling something with American brand name was easy. But the market rapidly matured. Hundreds of new consumer goods were appearing each month. The previous assumption that any western-made product will be snapped up instantly was no longer true. Prices, rents and salaries rapidly increased in dollar terms. In the beer market competition become very tough, with many foreign and new domestic entries available. Some problems they encountered were related to Miller Brewery itself. Once a large shipment of beer froze because Miller neglected to put it in insulated packaging.
As the company, after many successful months, encountered difficulties (stemming, as evident in the book, primarily from increased competition, and only to some extent due to red tape, chaotic regulations or corruption) they invited American consultants to make recommendations for improvements. Author then pours scorn on these consultants - they seemed to lack credentials they claimed. Ironically, some of their advices seem quite reasonable. Basically their suggestion was for Mr. Grajirena to behave less like an arrogant colonialist expecting almost to be carried on stretchers by obedient servants.
There is a story at the end of the book about young American lawyers - a "golden couple" with "bright future". The girl came to work in Moscow, was excited by its wild atmosphere and went into clubbing, drugs and promiscuity, left her husband, became addicted and even reportedly attempted a suicide. A stern warning - don't even dare to think that "bright future" can be anything other than working 80-hours week on some mind-numbing legalese and returning at night to a trophy home in a prestigious suburb. For many such wisdom will suffice, some others will still find more places around the world for adventure and "madness".
Miller Time? Nyet'.........2000-07-25
The former Soviet Union and now several of the Former Republics always have fascinated me. As I have come to know some of its citizens I am less fascinated, but I am more interested, less perplexed, and find the future of these Countries great "what if" scenarios. A better-posited question might be when? Western Capitalists have found the hard way that just because the new name is "The Former Soviet Union" that does not mean 3 generations of dysfunctional Soviet practices disappear. The idea that generations that have grown up under Central Planning, artificial markets, and the rest of the elements that create a fictional economy are going to adopt and practice Capitalism instantly is absurd...former barriers fall, but they do not disappear, as many western investors were to learn, they were just replaced with new obstacles.
I have nothing but respect for Mr. Rick Grajirena. To even attempt what he did is beyond the level of risk that 99% of American Businesses have taken or will ever take. His business did not just have the exposure of failing, he put himself at personal risk, and that is not something a Silicon Valley start up faces. In Silicon Valley a roof keeps out the weather, in the case of this businessman it keeps you alive. For in the Moscow he chose to do business with, a roof has nothing to do with a building.
I think Mr. Grajirena is one of the world's great optimists, and a man who defines perseverance. Unfortunately these attributes are not what business is about in Russia or many of The Former Republics...The natural and human resources that are part of the former USSR are literally amazing. The wealth that could be created across the 14 time zones would be unprecedented... There are the predators and the prey. This is worse as these are not Countries without Governments; rather the Governments are the largest Predators of all.
Breaking something is easy, but if you consider it took the better part of the 20th Century to damage these Countries, what is the most optimistic time period for them to be reassembled?
I shared his pain...........2000-05-29
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International Financial Reporting: A Comparative International Survey of Accounting Requirements and Practices in 30 Countries
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0312422024 |
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Lepers and Lunacy: An American in Vietnam
Manufacturer: Imprint Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1588988996 Release Date: 2003-04-15 |
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Ken Herrmann, Jr., a Vietnam War veteran, has written a book about Vietnam, Lepers and Lunacy: An American in Vietnam Today that is a unique and fascinating account of a war veteran who returned to Vietnam, only to discover that he had never really left. It is a gripping and true story of a both personal and professional struggle. This book gives new meaning to the old adage; "Those who invade Vietnam never leave."Customer Reviews:
Vietnam Veteran Returns to Nam to Wage Peace.......2006-06-06
Lepers & Lunacy.......2006-01-25
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Land in African Agrarian Systems
Thomas J. Bassett Manufacturer: Univ of Wisconsin Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0299136140 |
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Land Tenure, Technological Change And Resource Use: Transformation Processes In African Agrarian Systems
Michael Kirk Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3631300379 |
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The land tenure crisis has reached Africa, leading to insecure tenancy, landlessness, resource rights conflicts and less investment in appropriate agricultural technology. This study analyzes the interrelation between land tenure and technological change and their contributions to sustainable agrarian and rural development. The research approach is based on New Institutional Economics and interdisciplinary fieldwork in Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Sudan. In summary, the emerging informal, non-registered private tenure systems neither have impeded technological change nor have they been an obstacle to access to credit whereas common property has been severely eroded and undermined by institutional and technological change. However, these dynamics actually give African nations an opportunity to start or to proceed with far reaching institutional and legal reforms and the re-formulation of a coherent land policy.
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Land in African Agrarian Systems. (book reviews): An article from: The Geographical Review
Ezekiel Kalipeni Manufacturer: American Geographical Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00092Z50O Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on October 1, 1994. The length of the article is 909 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Cream - Disraeli Gears*
Cream Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0793516471 |
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Matching folio to the classic album. 10 songs, including: Strange Brew * The Sunshine Of Your Love * Dance The Night Away * and more. Blue Condition Dance The Night Away Outside Woman Blues Strange Brew Sunshine Of Your Love Swlabr Take It Back Tales Of Brave Ulysses We're Going Wrong World Of Pain
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Disraeli Gears: Cream (Classic Rock Series)
John A. Platt Manufacturer: Schirmer Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0825671760 |
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Disraeli Gears was a landmark album in the history of rock. The group Cream was made up of the power trio of Eric Clapton on guitar, Jack Bruce on bass, and Ginger Baker on drums. This album, their second, launched their US career with songs such as Strange Brew and Sunshine of Your Love. Includes interviews with all participants and first-hand accounts of their early concerts and recordings.John Platt, a club manager and writer in the late 1960s in London when Cream was first performing, produced a Cream box set for Polydor Records. He lives in New York City.Customer Reviews:
Cream of The Crop.......2001-03-21
A must for any Cream fan!.......1999-05-07
As a big Jack Bruce fan, I found myself reinforced with what I always believed: Jack was THE driving force behind the band and had more of his influence been allowed to develop, their survival may have been prolonged.
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Cream
Disraeli Gears Manufacturer: ATCO ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000W7XZF8 |
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Disraeli Gears
Cream Cdumg B000333102 Manufacturer: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: 630879015X |
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Say It With Music: A Story About Irving Berlin (Creative Minds Biographies)
Thomas Streissguth Manufacturer: Carolrhoda Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0876148100 |
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Say It with Music: A Story about Irving Berlin
Manufacturer: Lerner Classroom ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0822550369 |
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