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This is the state-of-the-art, international handbook for a field of inquiry that is still emergent and yet occupies a central position in contemporary management and organization theory. Mark Easterby-Smith and Marjorie Lyles have drawn together in their authoritative reference work original essays from the leading scholars in organizational learning and knowledge management around the world.Not least in importance is the linkage they make between these two adjacent areas: learning and knowledge are often debated separately despite their close relationship. In this volume leading scholars from the fields of organizational learning, the learning organization, knowledge management and organizational knowledge, examine the issues and debates, as well as the processes and management implications, that are key to each of these approaches. The resulting set of essays offers researchers and students an invaluable guide.Tracing the roots of learning and knowledge debates across the disciplines of economics, psychology, and social theory, and charting the key contributions scholars have made, this is a major, in-depth overview which all scholars of organizational learning and knowledge management will need on their shelves.

The Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management [A book review from: International Journal of Information Management]

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The Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management [A book review from: International Journal of Information Management]
C. Apostolou
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000P6OO9M

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This digital document is a journal article from International Journal of Information Management, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

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BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
MARK LYLES, MARJORIE A. EASTERBY-SMITH
Manufacturer: BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5CQAY

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BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
EASTERBY-SMITH Lyles
Manufacturer: BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5GO9S

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For students and practitioners alike, Fundamentals of Agribusiness Finance is a concise, handy guide, complete with a glossary of terms and an index. The text presents clear, direct explanations of basic concepts and procedures that the successful agribusiness operator must know.Starting with an overview of domestic and international trends, the text moves through the basics of loans such as mortgages and deeds of trust, the time value of money, interest, discounting, calculations and amortization, refinancing, cash budgeting, and graphing loans. Capital budgeting, leases, taxes, financial statements, and statement analysis are included. Formulas are provided for figuring liquidity, solvency, profitability, and repayment capacity. Risk is characteristic of agribusiness, but the risk management outlined here provides some security in an unpredictable environment. The lending industry is the focus of the final chapters.While useful as a guide, the text was designed for teaching. Outlines begin each chapter, and study questions and problems complete each chapter. Key terms are highlighted in the text and defined in the glossary.

Fundamentals of Agribusiness Finance. (Books Reviewed). (book review) : An article from: American Journal of Agricultural Economics

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Fundamentals of Agribusiness Finance. (Books Reviewed). (book review) : An article from: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Dee Von Bailey
Manufacturer: American Agricultural Economics Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009FSIMS
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from American Journal of Agricultural Economics, published by American Agricultural Economics Association on August 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1007 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: Fundamentals of Agribusiness Finance. (Books Reviewed). (book review)
Author: Dee Von Bailey
Publication: American Journal of Agricultural Economics (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2002
Publisher: American Agricultural Economics Association
Volume: 84 Issue: 3 Page: 874(2)

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This book describes techniques that allow the measurement of arbitrary velocity gradient components in fluids with high spatial and temporal resolution, e.g. turbulent fluids. The techniques are based on the properties of scattered laser light. The book gives a detailed and rigorous treatment of the physical and mathematical background in a pedagogical presentation accessible to students in physics and engineering. From both the theoretical and experimental points of view, four different schemes are discussed in detail; the schemes differ in the way the velocity of the moving pattern of the scattered laser light is measured.

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Advances in Free Radical Chemistry
G. H. Williams
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Textbook Binding
ASIN: 0120170019

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Advances in Free-Radical Chemistry, Volume I.
G.H. (ed) Williams
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ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M45ISS

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Advances in Free-Radical Chemistry: Volume II
G. H. Williams
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KO20FY

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Advances in Free-Radical Chemistry: Volume III
G. H. Williams
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KO20JK

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Advances in Free Radical Chemistry Volume 1
G H Williams
Manufacturer: LOGOS PRESS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q9SZSY

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The influence of male gender cultures on men, women, and institutions is tacitly accepted, but its effect on women in senior management positions and their creativity is little acknowledged. In a climate of corporate change in which traditional institutions, hierarchies, and working practices face pressure to adapt, the role of the innovator and the new manger from outside established hierarchies can become an important catalyst. Based on research into the public sector, Challenging Women offers a radical reassessment of organizational forces for change, the barriers encountered, and the role of "challenging women": senior women managers who are faced with the task of transforming their organizations. The implications of the study go far beyond the public sector to embrace the experience of women managers in organizations everywhere. Much has been written about women at work, the "glass ceiling", and discriminatory employment practices. This study is seminal in the linkage it makes between gender, innovation, and organizational transformation. Challenging Women provides new evidence for understanding and analyzing organizational change in the context of the gender culture at work. Policymakers, as well as students of organizational behavior and management, public sector reform, and gender studies, will find this essential reading.

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The high profile leaps and falls of the share prices of dot.com enterprises have highlighted not only the enormous opportunities but also the perils of starting an e-business. Kick-Starter.com is the definitive guide by Andersen Consulting and other leading Internet experts to setting up a European Internet business and includes advice on finding a unique business concept as well as marketing, technical, financia, and legal aspects and a sample business plan.

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Way out of date!.......2003-09-01

This is so out of date it doesn't seem relevent anymore. There are so many buzz phrases and catch words I get the feeling as if this is written by an office executive. Good at getting the money but without the understanding of day to day details of technology. It would be of use to let us readers know where the technology stands and where it will take us to in the near future. An attempt but I have wasted my money this time I fear!

Kick-starter.com; the Definitive European Internet Start-up Guide.

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Kick-starter.com; the Definitive European Internet Start-up Guide.
Stephen Harpin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OV6N1A

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Surveying the times in which the extraordinarily popular poet Catullus thrived—ca. 84–54 B.C., the golden days of the Roman Republic—Aubrey Burl reconstructs the life of a man who epitomized an era. Catullus demonstrated a genius for the epigram, as well as the lyric, for heartfelt love songs and moving elegies. Nor did Catullus leave himself out of his pungent, spare, ironic, and superbly crafted verses, reflecting not only his personal temperament but also his perceived values, and often disparages, in a Rome increasingly beset by civil war, moral laxity, and social unrest. This book takes Catullus from his native Verona, where he grew up in wealth and influence, to Rome and to fame. A well-liked, sociable man, he entertained his friends in the lavish fashion of his day while he amused and shocked his public with urbane poetic trifles. He intrigued his public with love poems addressed to Lesbia—in reality, a married woman named Clodia—with whom he had a tempestuous affair. Though brilliant by any standard, these intimate lyrics would not save Catullus from centuries of obscurity, although they would eventually emerge in a lone third generation copy of a book in the fourteenth century, in his hometown of Verona.

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Written on Napkins.......2007-01-01

This is a very disappointing work. Even given the paucity of biographical data on Catullus, a good "life and times" work could have been written about this poet at the nexus of some of the most intense political and sexual intrigue ever.

This is not that book. It reads like it was written one paragraph a day: it's repetitive, meandering, unstructured, and riddled with generalities, unsubstantiated "everybody knows" opinions in lieu of scholarship and a few outright whoppers of historical errors.

I've never gone to the trouble of posting a bad review before, but this book is so dreadful that I feel obligated to post a warning to others.

The author's approach to the sexuality at the heart of Catullus's work is equally muddled, occasionally viewing sexuality from the Roman perspective but often veering off into the perjorative language of a bookish, sexist erotophobia.

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No company is built to last, argues world-renowned manufacturing guru Richard J. Schonberger. After sixteen years of prosperity, he shows, nearly 75 percent of the world's most admired manufacturing companies have slipped badly from their peaks in 1995. In this devastating indictment of current manufacturing practices, Schonberger submits a four-part revolutionary plan to solve the manufacturing crisis for good.

From his statistically reliable database of 500 top global manufacturers, Schonberger finds that by the critical worldwide standard of lean production -- shedding inventories -- General Motors, General Electric, Toyota, and other world leaders have stopped improving. He presents powerful evidence that in recent years record profits have covered up waste and weakness. Clearly a lack of will to renew and recover from the natural tendency toward regression and erosion, it is more than a matter of garden-variety complacency -- devastating as that is in this new era of global hypercompetition. Schonberger asserts that the inclination of industry leaders to engage in stock hyping to gain a quick fix from the dot-com explosion has distracted attention from "the basics" of world-class excellence. Among other villains contributing to the crisis, Schonberger contends, are newly hired managers with no trial-by-fire experience; bad equipment, systems, and job design; and retention of unprofitable customers and anachronistic command-and-control managerial hierarchies.

What to do? Just as he introduced the legendary "just-in-time" framework to the West in the 1980s, Schonberger prescribes strong medicine to cure our current malaise. Find your blind spots, he says. Roll confusing, time-sapping initiatives into a master program that is immune from "the flavor of the month." Put lean into heavy-handed control systems. Develop products and standardize processes at "home base" for ease of migrating volume production anywhere in the world.

Timely and essential, Let's Fix It! will be warmly welcomed by the legions of Schonberger readers and every manufacturing manager who believes passionately in continuous improvement.

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It's about time.......2002-01-23

Schonberger opened the door to Japanese manufacturing techniques almost twenty years ago. Now, he looks at the primary indicator of mfg. performance - inventories - and proves how our early Just-in-time and Lean improvements gave way to bad practices and inventory growth. Using his data base of several hundred companies, he shows which ones fell down, which ones gained ground, and what needs fixing. An important piece for a confused and painful time in industry.

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Tourism and National Parks Issues and Implications Edited by Richard W. Butler, Professor of Tourism, School of Management Studies, University of Surrey, UK and Stephen W. Boyd, Senior Lecturer in the Geography Division, Staffordshire University, UK. National Parks have played a significant role as tourist attractions in many countries since their establishment in the nineteenth century. In some countries they are the major set of tourist attractions and the foundation of small but often important tourism industries. Despite this, the relationship between tourism and national parks is not always a satisfactory one, and there is often considerable and vocal opposition to the continuance, and particularly expansion of, tourism in many national parks. The key focus of this book is the special relationship between national parks and tourism - how national park systems relate to tourism in a variety of contexts - from the historical development through to the role that they play today. International contributions from leading thinkers in the area raise issues such as, park origins and functions, management issues and future problems. Contributors: Kay Booth and David Simmons, Lincoln University, New Zealand Stephen Boyd, Staffordshire University, UK Richard Butler, University of Surrey, UK Carolyn Cresswell, Consultant, UK Phillip Dearden, University of Victoria, Canada Harold Goodwin, International Centre for Protected Landscapes, University of Greenwich, UK C. Michael Hall, Otago University, New Zealand Robert Lilieholm and Lisa Romney, Utah State University, USA Fergus Maclaren, Consultant, Canada John Marsh, Trent University, Canada J. Gordon Nelson, University of Waterloo, Canada Sanjay Nepal, University of Bern, Switzerland Gavin Parker and Neil Ravenscroft, University of Surrey, UK Douglas Pearce, Victoria University, New Zealand Philippa Sowman, Statistics New Zealand, New Zealand Dallen Timothy, Bowling Green State University, USA Jerry Vaske, Maureen Donnelly and Doug Whittaker, Colorado State University, USA David Weaver, Griffith University, Australia

TOURISM & NATIONAL PARKS - ISSUES & IMPLICATIONS

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TOURISM & NATIONAL PARKS - ISSUES & IMPLICATIONS
BUTLER
Manufacturer: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5DBSA

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The 'IT Productivity Paradox' is the concept that, despite massive investment and resourcing by companies and organizations worldwide in their IT systems, there still seems to be little pay-off. Information systems can no longer be viewed as a support service for a business - information technology now has a lead role to play in the strategic planning processes of any organization. As we move further and further into a technology-based working environment, a critical question is how the value of IT can be measured and evaluated. This book brings together a group of the most eminent academic and practitioner thinkers in the area, to consolidate what we know about best IT evaluation practice in a comprehensive and integrated manner, and also provide new ways forward. The key to understanding the productivity paradox is the methods of IT measurement used. Improved measurement can not only reveal that IT has often been more productive than is believed, but can also focus in on ways in which benefits can be improved across the IT systems life-cycle. Critical areas where improved assessment is essential include development, and better risk analysis; sourcing, including IT outsourcing; and infrastructure, including transforming an organization's IT architecture. The authors also take a look at stakeholder interests as a part of the overall evaluation process. Contributors to this volume have been selected not only for their status in the IS field generally, but also for their reputation in the IT evaluation area. As this topic gains increasing prominence as IT expenditure continues to increase, this book will be an invaluable reference for academics and practitioners alike in the areas of information systems, IT evaluation and assessment and IT management.

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Must read to understand current IT investment strategies.......1999-08-07

This excellent compendium of current thought on the topic of information technology (IT) investment justification from recognized experts in the field, edited by well regarded researchers on the topic, is a must read for any academic or executive trying to understand the intricacies and nuances of the payback of using IT. While the book is primarily academic in nature, it will enlighten anyone grappling with the multiple dimensions of understanding the challenge of IT investment. The editors bring a blend of academic rigor from Oxford University, and practical aspects from Lucidius Management Technologies to the writing. The readership level is appropriate for graduate students, researchers and faculty, but may be a bit dense for practitioners without a background in formal research methodologies. The bibliographies at the end of each chapter are excellent sources of information. The studies presented are global in scope, and range from case studies to research evaluation conducted in the 1990's. Highly recommended for an update or an introduction to a thorny issue that will only continue to exacerbate as the price tags and organizational dependency on computers grow.

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