1999 Vermont Business Directory: The Ultimate Sales and Credit Tool (Vermont Business Directory, 1999)

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A directory of virtually every business in the state! In depth information on each business location. You can use our premier database to find new customers and grow your sales and profits. You can create your own direct mail campaigns. Our information is simply the best for telephone sales or research; we make millions of phone calls every year to verify our information. Our credit rating codes can help you evaluate probable credit worthiness for small trade accounts, qualify prospects, and manage financial risk. You can analyze your competition, plan your next sales and marketing campaign, or establish new sales territories.

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The essential ready reference for today's inclusive classrooms and schools!

Health Problems in the Classroom PreK–6 is the essential resource for today’s inclusive classroom, providing concise and practical facts about common health problems, chronic illnesses, and disabilities encountered every day by teachers, teacher aides, and school administrators. This comprehensive, easy-to-use guide includes detailed information on:

Signs and symptoms, primary groups affected, attendance guidelines, and medications
Communications with parents and caregivers
Family and community issues
Peer relationships, self-esteem, and stigma
Important policies for classroom health procedures such as hand washing, immunizations, and more
Specific procedures for coping with cuts and abrasions, allergic reactions, casts, tube feedings, and all "911" medical emergencies

Find coverage of: Asthma, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Fever, Head Lice, Influenza, Mononucleosis, Pink Eye, Poisoning, Spider Bites, Strep Throat, Toothache, Vision Problems, and more than 120 other health problems in one comprehensive guide.

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A Companion to Economic Forecasting provides an accessible and comprehensive account of recent developments in economic forecasting. Each of the chapters has been specially written by an expert in the field, bringing together a range of contrasting approaches and views. Forecasting is a practical venture, so many of the chapters are aimed at practitioners and nonspecialists.This book surveys a field that has expanded rapidly in recent years. There are no other up-to-date treatments that survey forecasting in a single volume. The Companion provides a comprehensive account of the leading approaches and modeling strategies that are routinely employed. An extensive editorial overview places the contributions in context, and shows their interconnections and commonalities.

The Practice of Business Statistics Companion Chapter 13: Time Series Forecasting

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The Practice of Business Statistics Companion Chapter 13: Time Series Forecasting
David S. Moore , George P. McCabe , William M. Duckworth , and Stanley L. Sclove
Manufacturer: W. H. Freeman
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0716796260

COMPANION BUILDING MATERIAL (HLDGS) LTD: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis

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COMPANION BUILDING MATERIAL (HLDGS) LTD: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis
Icon Group Ltd. , and Icon Group Ltd.
Manufacturer: Icon Group International
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0597363560

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Are the combined human resources at COMPANION BUILDING MATERIAL (HLDGS) LTD productive? There is no absolute answer to this question. This report considers the extent to which the company's labor deployment indicators differ from global benchmarks. In this report we consider forecasts of differences between labor ratios and the resulting return on this human investment compared to global benchmarks; the estimation of such differences is commonly called a "gap analysis." What is the ratio of short-term and long-term assets to employee? What are typical capital-labor ratios? How different are these ratios to companies serving the same link in the value chain? What are the average sales and net profits per employee compared to global benchmarks? These and over 50 other indicators of labor productivity are considered in this report. The report does so by going beyond traditional analyses by considering companies competing in the same or similar industrial classification at a global level. The goal of this report, therefore, is to assist consultants, human resource managers, strategic planners, and corporate officers in gauging estimates of a company's human resource indicators compared to firms competing or participating in the same economic sector, at the global level. This report is not about whether a particular company or industry has performed well or poorly in the past or will do so in the future. With the globalization of markets, greater foreign competition, and the reduction of entry barriers, it becomes all the more important to benchmark a company's human resource indicators against other firms on a worldwide basis. Doing so, however, is not an obvious task. First, one needs to find firms competing in the same sector, but not necessarily competing directly with the company in local markets. These firms should not be perceived, therefore, to be direct competitors to the company in question, but simply those that have been classified by various sources (e.g. EDGAR or similar foreign filings), as competing to serve customers in the same link of the value chain, or broad industrial classification, as identified by SIC, NAICS or similar codes. Second, given the international nature of the task, one needs to control for exchange rate volatility. Finally, one needs use comparable financial standards. This report overcomes these issues and gives full human resources benchmarks vis-a-vis worldwide competitors who are present in the same narrow industrial classification. Benchmarks cover labor-asset ratios, labor-liability ratios, and labor-income ratios. Since our reports are printed on demand, the statistics reported are for the latest quarter and are the most up to date available (4 updates are produced each year). Each report provides over 100 statistics and 40 graphs to the reader. This reports is on COMPANION BUILDING MATERIAL (HLDGS) LTD, WANCHAI, Hong Kong.

The 1986 ISER MAP economic database: Data sources and derivations : a companion to the printed tables (ISER working paper)

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The 1986 ISER MAP economic database: Data sources and derivations : a companion to the printed tables (ISER working paper)
Oliver Scott Goldsmith
Manufacturer: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska, Anchorage
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B000730GVI

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A Companion to Economic Forecasting
Clements Hendry
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing (UK)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N59JSQ

The ISER MAP economic database data sources and derivations: A companion to the printed tables

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The ISER MAP economic database data sources and derivations: A companion to the printed tables
Oliver Scott Goldsmith
Manufacturer: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B000734L64

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"This book is a great demonstration of this powerful approach and how it can make a meaningful difference in any type of business. It takes a dedicated engineering approach to implement, but the payback in customer satisfaction and growth is dramatic."
—Lou Giuliano, chairman, president, and CEO, ITT Industries

No other single volume presents the full breadth of founding beliefs behind the successful engineering practices used by today's leading companies. Helpful to companies in both manufacturing and service industries, Taguchi's Quality Engineering Handbook provides accessible material on such topics as:

Quality loss function
On-line quality engineering
Signal-to-noise ratio
Robust engineering
Design of experiments (known as the "Taguchi method")
Mahalanobis–Taguchi Systems (MTS)
and more.

Prize or Award

AAP Awards for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing, 2006

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Three words Excellent Excellent and Excellent.......2007-07-12

Really Good book. Book is written very consciously keeping all aspect of most promising but controversial topic.

AWESOME BOOK!!! SIMPLY GREAT!.......2005-10-18

well, if you are like me, always busy, and trying to find new answers to unknown problems using taguchi or other quality engineering problems, THIS IS YOUR BOOK!! this book has great cases, applicable to MANY INDUSTRIES!! it is like my Bible, i tried to sell it once, and simply BROKE MY HEART and I COULD NOT!!

This book, is an excellent job, I WISHED ONLY I WISHED!!! that my tractor or my previous car (CHEVY) was designed using REAL ROBUST DESIGN METHODS BY TAGUCHI, in that way, I would not need to go to the repair shop every now and then... :=), enjoy guys, it is simply a MASTER PIECE! considering that I worked for a japanese company as well, this book is great!!! BUY IT you won't regret it... if you love this stuff as much as I DO!! Regards Marco Sisfontes, Phd, NYC.

The Qiuality Engineering Manual.......2005-01-24

The handbook gives the true foundation for the supply of quality products or services. It focuses on the design of the product and it's need to perform correctly in the customer's use environment.

The thing I really like is the inclusion of case studies. The addition of actual applications enhances the understanding of the theory presented in the first part of the book. The case studies are also good thought starters for your applications.

Taguchi Methods: On-Line Production (Taguchi Methods Series)

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Taguchi Methods: On-Line Production (Taguchi Methods Series)
Genichi Taguchi
Manufacturer: Irwin Professional Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0941243176

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Everything in the call center industry seems to be expanding-contact channels, customer, and employee expectations, technology options and the overall role of the call center. While the ICMI's Pocket Guide to Call Center Management Terms may be diminutive in nature, it can have a big impact on the knowledge, eloquence and insight of those working in this dynamic profession.

With a comprehensive-though compact-guide to just about every industry acronym, as well as concise definitions of every term a manager or supervisor should know, The Pocket Guide aims to promote consistency and clarity in the way that call center professional worldwide communicate, cooperate, and strive to understand this exciting field.

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An excelent help for call center professionals.......2006-12-28

I have a 10-year experience in the Call Center Industry. However, like many other Call center professionals, I find it quite difficult to fully understand the wide variety of technical terms used within the Industry.
This is a cheap, very reliable little dictionary that makes the difference every day at work - you can take it everywhere and it presents a full explanation of the most important Call center management terms.
There is a full-size version from the same authors "ICMI's Call Center Management Dictionary: The Essential Reference for Contact Center, Help Desk and Customer Care Professionals", but I haven't ordered it. Congratulations to ICMI and Brad Cleveland.

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The Bank of England's tercentenary (July 1994), coming as it does with the future status of the Bank a subject of much discussion, is an apposite moment to offer an overview of the Bank's history as a whole. Obviously there have been several detailed histories of the Bank, but this collection of essays is the first attempt to identify the most important themes of the institution's history and put them in a long-term perspective. The main pieces will deal with the Bank's relations with government, its impact on the British economy, its role in international central banking, its position in the City of London, and its changing composition and management. In addition, in a piece likely to cause considerable interest, the Deputy Governor (Rupert Pennant Rea) will be looking at all these themes in a contemporary light and offering some thoughts about the Bank's future. Added value is given by two main appendices: a detailed chronology of the Bank's history; and a comprehensive listing of its governors, directors, and senior officials. In sum, this is a book that meets a clear intellectual need, while also being extremely convenient for those unwilling or unable to embark on the circa 2600 pages of the three main official histories. Contributors: D. Kynaston, A. Cairncross, P. Cottrell, R. Roberts, E. Hennessy, R. Pennant Rea,

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Mapping a Winning Training Approach (High-Impact Training Series)
Joe B. Wilson
Manufacturer: Pfeiffer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Measuring the Impact of Training: A Practical Guide to Calculating Measurable Results (High-Impact Training Series)

ASIN: 0787950998

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Learn how to turn a set of needs and objectives into powerful training results by linking outcome measure to organizational goals and designing and evaluating appropriate training strategies.

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This digital document is an article from Doors and Hardware, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1345 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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Title: How to do referrals the right way.(businessbuzz)(Interview)
Author: John R. Graham
Publication: Doors and Hardware (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 70 Issue: 6 Page: 62(3)

Article Type: Interview

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It's Not About Rate: The Right Way To Get A Mortgage

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Excellent Guide For First Time Homebuyers

It's Not About Rate: The Right Way To Get A Mortgage
Richard Cohen
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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Binding: Paperback

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Mortgage Ripoffs and Money Savers: An Industry Insider Explains How to Save Thousands on Your Mortgage or Re-Fi

ASIN: 1425991785

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Although it is normal for homebuyers to feel a little nervous and apprehensive during the mortgage process, getting a loan to buy a house doesn't have to feel like a 440-foot bungee jump. In It's Not About Rate: The Right Way to Get a Mortgage, Richard Cohen writes about how the loan process can be understandable, uncomplicted, and smooth. He demonstrates why interest rate is only one of many factors that a borrower should consider. He explains how to differentiate between "come-ons" and sincere proposals and how to use the pre-approval process to leverage buying power.

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Excellent Guide For First Time Homebuyers.......2007-05-25

My journey to being a homeowner started with Richard's book. Based on a review I read on a Washington State real estate blog, I brought a copy. Richard is a mortgage banker, but he writes like a regular human. No fancy pants mumbo jumbo or obscure loanspeak.

The style is direct, non-technical and plain. I like it.

And the content of the book gives you some basis for picking a loan officer and some sophistication in how loans work and how they can be compared.

It's a wonderful place to begin learning about mortgage and well worth the modest price. I have also read David Reed's Mortgage Confidential, which is very good and covers some topics in greater detail. Still, an hour invested in reading this little book will pay the house-hunting novice quite well for the trouble. Try it. You'll like it.

Left behind: if best-selling end-times author Tim LaHaye has his way, church-state separation will be ...: An article from: Church & State

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Left behind: if best-selling end-times author Tim LaHaye has his way, church-state separation will be ...: An article from: Church & State
Rob Boston
Manufacturer: Americans United for Separation of Church and State
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Church & State, published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State on February 1, 2002. The length of the article is 4584 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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Title: Left behind: if best-selling end-times author Tim LaHaye has his way, church-state separation will be ...
Author: Rob Boston
Publication: Church & State (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2002
Publisher: Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Volume: 55 Issue: 2 Page: 8(6)

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Selling the Right Way!
Brooke Quigg , and Bern Wisner
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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How to Win Friends & Influence People

ASIN: 0136136540

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Salesmanship provides the practical, hands- on skills necessary for success in personal selling. Focusing entire chapters on the separate skills that are critical in sales, the book leads readers through the entire selling process. The book devotes entire chapters to individual aspects of successful sales such as personality, image, attitude, rules of persuasion, and personal time management and provides knowledge readers can actually use. The book also includes a unique chapter on Creating a Professional Image created with the aid of a prominent image consultant that is not found in any other book on selling. It also provides practical day-to-day information on building a prospect profile and learning the state of a prospect's decision. An essential reference book for any sales professional.

750 Best Selling E-Books - With Free Resale Rights

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750 Best Selling E-Books - With Free Resale Rights

Manufacturer: iGotSecrets.com
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Binding: CD-ROM

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ASIN: B000FNGGPA

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750 of the Internets Best Selling E-Books that Come with Resale Rights.

Some books include Acne Removal in 3 Days // Perfect Eyesight in 30 Days // Quit Smoking the easy way // Grow taller with Hypnosis // Penis Enlargement books (4) // The.3.Most.Powerful.Ways.to.Achieve.ANYTHING // A Guide For Creative Thinking // How To Have The Best Sex Humanly Possible // How to Naturally Increase your Height // Seven Lies that Persuade Powerful Results // Much Much More.

Most e-books are not worth the paper they are written on, some are absolute scams, some actually work for some people. These are a collection of books I bought over the course of my life. Individually you could get these books for .99 cents each, maybe cheaper, but this could be the ultimate resource for all you bookworms out there.

Key contact development: An inexpensive way for small trade book publishers to accomplish effective publicity, field selling, and subsidiary rights marketing : a monograph

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Key contact development: An inexpensive way for small trade book publishers to accomplish effective publicity, field selling, and subsidiary rights marketing : a monograph
John Huenefeld
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Selling on EBay the Right Way
Sharon DeCoster
Manufacturer: Lulu.com
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1411656229

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This book is a complete guide to selling on eBay. It goes over the basics from setting up your accounts and keeping your them safe to setting up your auctions step-by-step and maximizing them to the fullest potential. I go over each component of an auction so seller's can understand how to make each component of an auction work harder to maximize their profits and cut down on fees. I strive to make sure each seller understands how eBay works to keep themselves safe and in the profit margin. I have also included actual online screenshots to help sellers better understand the listing process step-by-step as well as actual e-mails from fraudulent people to keep your accounts safe.

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Selling the Right Way!
Brooke, Wisner, Bern Quigg
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OITZ2W

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Large, mature companies always become trapped at some point in the declining stages of what has become known as the corporate life cycle. Historically this barrier to continued growth has been, and is still, as unavoidable as death and taxes.

In Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller, Joel Shulman, a leading researcher on entrepreneurship, teams up with Thomas T. Stallkamp, one of the world's most effective executives, to introduce a powerful new growth model for corporate America (based on 4 years of research at Babson College and Harvard University) that can enable corporations to break through this barrier to growth by utilizing a new breakthrough business model called the Strategic Entrepreneurial Unit (SEU). Shulman and Stallkamp demonstrate how to build new employee/entrepreneur-led startups within the corporation--entities that can take on new market opportunities and deliver startup-level growth. This is the first book to provide practical methods for actually identifying, creating, and implementing smaller units within large organizations to enable continued, rapid growth beyond the predictable barriers of the corporate life cycle.

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Highly Recommended!.......2004-06-30

"Bigger is not always better" sounds right, but the patina of sweat on executive foreheads in boardrooms worldwide stems from the mandatory requirement to increase short-term revenues constantly in ever greater amounts. The problem with the corporate fixation on bigness is that size often brings a less desirable quality: unresponsiveness. That helps explain why the lifespan of the average Fortune 500 corporation is about 50 years. Now comes author Joel M. Shulman to suggest a mechanism your company can use to avoid that burnout lifecycle. In a sophisticated book targeted to tactical thinkers, he proposes that you consider the Strategic Entrepreneurial Unit (SEU). He explains that establishing a diverse portfolio of small-scale entrepreneurial enterprises within a parent organization can help convert a large, unwieldy corporation into a more enterprising, forward-looking company. And, then, he tells you how. This capably written, insightful manual is very soundly based on practical business realities and experience. We recommend it highly to business strategists and executives who guide the long-term well being of their companies.

Growth the way it should be.......2003-12-09

Getting Bigger mixes the best of the past with the hope for the future. The results form a harmonic combination that is likely to influence corporate horizontal expansion strategies for the years to come. The author presents corporate venture arms in simple language and in a revolutionary light. Shulman speaks of a new breed of corporate venture arms (named Strategic Entrepreneurial Units) without the obligatory `harvest' period, designating them as the key to providing continued flexibility and expansion to corporate America as well as small town America. The author hits it dead on the head with Strategic Entrepreneurial Units and shines as one of America's elite financial minds.

Daniel Dalet
The International Bank of Miami, N.A.

The Future Path of Business Growth.......2003-12-08

For anyone involved in all areas of business, going into business, planning to expand their own business, or growing a corporate company, this book is essential. Joel Shulman presents a successful formula for business growth through Strategic Entrepreneurial Units, which combine the entrepreneurial will with corporate know-how and capital to form a working growth model. I highly recommend this book for those who want to understand and apply a modern and effective business growth strategy.

Move over Jim Collins.......2003-11-26

This book really tells you what you need to know about the BEST way for big businesses to grow. AND it's engaging and easy to read. I read it on the flight between London and New York, and recommended it to my friends on both sides of the Atlantic. The last time I was this excited about a book was when Jim Collins came out with BUILT TO LAST. This book belongs in the same league with Collins (and Christensen's) books! The "Strategic Entrepreneurial Unit" is going to be of interest to entrepreneurs and executives from big companies.

A very innovative book!.......2003-11-23

This is a very good book. It flowed well and had a number of innovative perspectives. Anyone who is currently working for a large business or who someday wants to work with a large business should definitely read this book.

GETTING BIGGER BY GROWING SMALLER: A NEW GROWTH MODEL FOR CORPORATE AMERICA

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GETTING BIGGER BY GROWING SMALLER: A NEW GROWTH MODEL FOR CORPORATE AMERICA

Manufacturer: Financial Times Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River, NJ
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IA6NNK

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The Social and Cognitive Impacts of E-Commerce on Modern Organizations includes articles addressing the social, cultural, organizational, and cognitive impacts of e-commerce technologies and advances on organizations around the world. Looking specifically at the impacts of electronic commerce on consumer behavior, as well as the impact of e-commerce on organizational behavior, development, and management in organizations. This important new book aims to expand the overall body of knowledge regarding the human aspects of electronic commerce technologies and utilization in modern organizations and to assist researchers and practitioners to devise more effective systems for managing the human side of e-commerce.

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