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  • Legal Knowledge in Organizations

    A Source of Strategic and Competitive Advantage

    by Robert C. Bird ...
    This work offers a step-by-step guide on how to utilize the law as a source of value in organizations. Robert C. Bird demonstrates how legal knowledge can be a valuable asset for firms, providing them with a sustainable competitive advantage that is difficult for rivals to imitate. Bird presents a five-part framework that outlines how firms can use legal knowledge in competitive markets and how ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • The Tyranny of Metrics

    by Jerry Z. Muller ...
    How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government—and the quality of our livesToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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  • The Practitioner's Guide to Governance as Leadership

    Building High-Performing Nonprofit Boards

    by Cathy A. Trower ...
    THE PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO GOVERNANCE AS LEADERSHIPThe Practitioner’s Guide to Governance as Leadership offers a resource that shows how to achieve excellence and peak performance in the boardroom by putting into practice the groundbreaking model that was introduced in the book, Governance as Leadership. This proven model of effective governance explores how to attain proficiency in three ... Read more

    $67.00 USD

  • The Decision to Trust

    How Leaders Create High-Trust Organizations

    by Robert F. Hurley ...
    A proven model to create high-performing, high-trust organizationsGlobally, there has been a decline in trust over the past few decades, and only a third of Americans believe they can trust the government, big business, and large institutions. In The Decision to Trust, Robert Hurley explains how this new culture of cynicism and distrust creates many problems, and why it is almost impossible to ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • The Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management, Volume 1

    Short Entries

    by Robert K. Prescott ...
    The three volumes in The Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management offer a comprehensive review of the essential issues and most important information available on the topic. Each volume in the encyclopedia contains contributions from some of the most celebrated names in the field of human resource management (HRM) and addresses the myriad challenges faced by today's human resource professionals ... Read more

    $154.00 USD

  • Psychological Contracts in Organizations

    Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreements

    by Denise M. Rousseau ...
    Recipient of the George Terry Book Award sponsored by the Academy of Management "The incredible number of specific illustrations embedded in this text is a great asset. The book will be a good read for a potentially wide academic audience of professors and students (especially in psychology and business schools), anybody interested in contracts in the nonlegal sense, and for ′thinking managers′ ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Feminine Capital

    Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs

    by Barbara Orser, Catherine Elliott ...
    Today, there are over 200,000,000 women business owners around the world. Many of these entrepreneurs are not doing business as usual, nor are they simply leaning in. Rather, they are tapping into feminine capital—the unique skills and sensibilities that they have cultivated as women—to create enviable successes.Drawing on four decades of award-winning research, Feminine Capital reveals how women ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Personalized Law

    Different Rules for Different People

    by Omri Ben-Shahar, Ariel Porat ...
    We live in a world of one-size-fits-all law. People are different, but the laws that govern them are uniform. “Personalized Law”---rules that vary person by person---will change that. Here is a vision of a brave new world, where each person is bound by their own personally-tailored law. “Reasonable person” standards would be replaced by a multitude of personalized commands, each individual with ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Innovation in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors

    A Public Solutions Handbook

    Edited by Patria De Lancer Julnes, Ed Gibson ...
    Series series The Public Solutions Handbook Series
    In the organizational context, the word "innovation" is often associated with private sector organizations, which are often perceived as more agile, adaptable, and able to withstand change than government agencies and nonprofit organizations. But the reality is that, while they may struggle, public and nonprofit organizations do innovate. These organizations must find ways to use shrinking ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Corporate Social Strategy

    Stakeholder Engagement and Competitive Advantage

    by Bryan W. Husted, David Bruce Allen ...
    Can good-will be good business? Firms are increasingly called upon to address matters such as poverty and human rights violations. The demand for corporate social responsibility (CSR) is directed mainly at top management in multinational corporations who are reminded that, in addition to helping to make the world a better place, their commitment to social action will be rewarded by lasting ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Adcreep

    The Case Against Modern Marketing

    by Mark Bartholomew ...
    Advertising is everywhere. By some estimates, the average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements each day. Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"—modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime—has come, transforming not just our purchasing decisions, but our relationships, our sense of self, and the way we navigate all spaces, public ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Questioning the Entrepreneurial State

    Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy

    Edited by Karl Wennberg, Christian Sandström ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have made the authorities to increasingly turn inward and use ethnocentrism, protectionism, and top-down approaches to guide policy on trade, competition, and industrial development. The continuing aftereffects of such policies range from the rise and seeming success of authoritarian states, rise of populist and protectionist trends, and evolving ... Read more

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