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Rapid changes in management worldwide have clearly challenged the ability of academics to make courses in international management relevant. One of the best ways to enrich courses is to supplement textbook material with recent articles and case studies.
Readings and Cases in International Management: A Cross-Cultural Perspective is a compilation of contemporary readings and case studies that focus on managing global organizations. Intended as a companion to editor David C. Thomas'
Essentials of International Management: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (SAGE, 2001), great care has been taken to select readings that do not duplicate, but supplement, material typically contained in texts on this topic. The readings and cases in this book are organized around three major themes: the basis for understanding the influence of culture on international management, the key roles that international managers play, and the important challenges that these managers face.
Designed to represent a broad geographic scope, this integrative volume includes
- An explanation of how culture influences individual managers
- Methods to systematically describe cultural differences
- Fundamental principles that influence cross-cultural interactions
- An examination of managers as communicators, negotiators, change agents, and organization builders
- Procedures for designing effective organizational structures
Readings and Cases in International Management: A Cross-Cultural Perspective presents ways to maximize the positive effects of cultural diversity while minimizing the negative consequences. An index of key terms, teaching notes, and a quick reference guide are provided to facilitate learning in a seperate instructor's manual.
Developed as a supplement for advanced international management texts, this is also an excellent primary text for courses in organizational behavior, management, and international business.
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Based on her research of 800 biotechnology companies and 3,200 biotechnology executives, Harvard Business School professor Monica Higgins discovered that one firm–Baxter–was the breeding ground for today’s most successful biotechnology ventures. This phenomena of one organization spawning an industry has also been seen in the high-tech (Hewlett-Packard) and semiconductor industries (Fairchild). However, until now there has been no suitable explanation of why and how these organizations were able to create the next generation of industry leaders. Career Imprints shows why Baxter was so successful in spawning senior executives and offers an understanding of what it takes for an organization to produce leaders that will dominate an industry for years to come. In this important book, Higgins shows that an organization’s "career imprint"¾the result of company systems, structure, strategy, and culture¾that employees take with them throughout their careers is the key to creating great leaders. By understanding these factors, staff, human resource executives, and CEOs can analyze their own organization’s career imprint and develop leaders.
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"Based on her research of 800 biotechnology companies and 3,200 biotechnology executives, Harvard Business School professor Monica Higgins discovered that one firm–Baxter–was the breeding ground for today’s most successful biotechnology ventures. This phenomena of one organization spawning an industry has also been seen in the high-tech (Hewlett-Packard) and semiconductor industries (Fairchild). However, until now there has been no suitable explanation of why and how these organizations were able to create the next generation of industry leaders. Career Imprints shows why Baxter was so successful in spawning senior executives and offers an understanding of what it takes for an organization to produce leaders that will dominate an industry for years to come. In this important book, Higgins shows that an organization’s ""career imprint""¾the result of company systems, structure, strategy, and culture¾that employees take with them throughout their careers is the key to creating great leaders. By understanding these factors, staff, human resource executives, and CEOs can analyze their own organization’s career imprint and develop leaders. "
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Ground-breaking addition to the management literature.......2005-04-26
"Career Imprints" provides an insightful, interesting, well-researched look into how our earliest organizational experiences produce the tacit knowledge of "what work is" that we carry with us throughout our professional lives. Higgins' fascinating chronicle of the Baxter Boys' overwhelming influence on the development of the biotech industry shows how the right career imprint at the right time creates a strong strand of cultural DNA that flourishes and propagates to generate a new breed of industry leaders. Higgins' discerning discussion of the interplay between organizational culture and personal career trajectories makes this a book worth reading - not only to help us all better understand and map our own careers, but also to help HR professionals think systematically about designing appropriate career imprints to instill in our own workforces. This wonderful book is a ground-breaking addition to the management literature - a must read!!
Transforming an industry through people.......2005-04-20
How can one organization transform an entire industry? This fascinating book suggests a new answer -- by spawning a generation of leaders with a distinctive approach to management, who use that approach to start up successful companies in the same industry. Professor Higgins' argument suggests some interesting questions too. For example, why would an organization want to spawn a generation of leaders whose start-ups could potentially challenge and surpass its own success? This book is extremely thought-provoking and will lead you to look with a fresh eye at the industries you are most familiar with. While the argument is grounded in the biotech industry, the implications go far beyond.
A Must Read!!!.......2005-04-16
I never write reviews but I feel compelled because I was so impressed with this body of knowledge.
Professor and now author Higgins offers up explanations of why and how one company is able to consistently churn out their industries future leaders. She shows and proves why Baxter has been so successful in growing their executives and shows us what an organization needs to produce winners and leaders.
A great, must read for all industries.
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Categorical data are quantified as either nominal variables--distinguishing different groups, for example, based on socio-economic status, education, and political persuasion--or ordinal variables--distinguishing levels of interest, such as the preferred politician or the preferred type of punishment for committing burglary. This new book is a collection of up-to-date studies on modern categorical data analysis methods, emphasizing their application to relevant and interesting data sets.
This volume concentrates on latent class analysis and item response theory. These methods use latent variables to explain the relationships among observed categorical variables. Latent class analysis yields the classification of a group of respondents according to their pattern of scores on the categorical variables. This provides insight into the mechanisms producing the data and allows the estimation of factor structures and regression models conditional on the latent class structure. Item response theory leads to the identification of one or more ordinal or interval scales. In psychological and educational testing these scales are used for individual measurement of abilities and personality traits.
The focus of this volume is applied. After a method is explained, the potential of the method for analyzing categorical data is illustrated by means of a real data example to show how it can be used effectively for solving a real data problem. These methods are accessible to researchers not trained explicitly in applied statistics. This volume appeals to researchers and advanced students in the social and behavioral sciences, including social, developmental, organizational, clinical and health psychologists, sociologists, educational and marketing researchers, and political scientists. In addition, it is of interest to those who collect data on categorical variables and are faced with the problem of how to analyze such variables--among themselves or in relation to metric variables.
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New Approaches to Data Analysis.......2005-01-25
New Developments in Categorical Data Analysis for the Social & Behavioral Science by L. Andries Van Der Ark, Marcel A. Croon, Klaas Sijtsma (Quantitative Methodology Series: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) Almost all research in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, marketing, criminology, and medicine deals with the analysis of categorical data. Categorical data are quantified as either nominal variables-distinguishing different groups, for example, based on socio-economic status, education, and political persuasion-or ordinal variables-distinguishing levels of interest, such as the preferred politician for President or the preferred type of punishment for committing burglary. New Developments in Categorical Data Analysis for the Social and Behavioral Sciences is a collection of up-to-date studies on modern categorical data analysis methods, emphasizing their application to relevant and interesting data sets.
A prominent breakthrough in categorical data analysis are latent variable models. This volume concentrates on two such classes of models-latent class analysis and item response theory. These methods use latent variables to explain the relationships among observed categorical variables. Latent class analysis yields the classification of a group of respondents according to their pattern of scores on the categorical variables. This provides insight into the mechanisms producing the data and allows the estimation of factor structures and regression models conditional on the latent class structure. Item response theory leads to the identification of one or more ordinal or interval scales. In psychological and educational testing these scales are used for individual measurement of abilities and personality traits. Item response theory has been extended to also deal with, for example, hierarchical data structures and cognitive theories explaining performance on tests.
Excerpt: The focus of this volume is applied. After a method is explained, the potential of the method for analyzing categorical data is illustrated by means of a real data example to show how it can be used effectively for solving a real data problem. These methods are accessible to researchers not trained explicitly in applied statistics. This volume appeals to researchers and advanced students in the social and behavioral sciences, including social, developmental, organizational, clinical and health psychologists, sociologists, educational and marketing researchers, and political scientists. In addition, it is of interest to those who collect data on categorical variables and are faced with the problem of how to analyze such variables-among themselves or in relation to metric variables.
Almost all research in the social and behavioral sciences, and also in eco¬nomic and marketing research, criminological research, and social medical research deals with the analysis of categorical data. Categorical data are quantified as either nominal or ordinal variables. This volume is a collec¬tion of up-to-date studies on modern categorical data analysis methods, emphasizing their application to relevant and interesting data sets.
Different scores on nominal variables distinguish groups. Examples known to everyone are gender, socioeconomic status, education, religion, and political persuasion. Other examples, perhaps less well known, are the type of solution strategy used by a child to solve a mental problem in an intelligence test and different educational training programs used to teach language skills to eight-year old pupils. Because nominal scores only identify groups, calculations must use this information but no more; thus, addition and multiplication of such scores lead to meaningless results.
Different scores on ordinal variables distinguish levels of interest, but differences between such numbers hold no additional information. Such scores are rank numbers or transformations of rank numbers. Examples are the ordering of types of education according to level of sophistication, the choice of most preferred politician to run for president, the preference for type of punishment in response to burglary without using violence, and the degree in which someone who recently underwent surgery rates his or her daily quality of life as expressed on an ordered rating scale.
Originally, the analysis of categorical data was restricted to counting frequencies, collecting them in cross tables, and determining the strength of the relationship between variables. Nowadays, a powerful collection of statistical methods is available that enables the researcher to exhaust his or her categorical data in ways that seemed illusory only one or two decades ago.
A prominent breakthrough in categorical data analysis is the devel¬opment and use of latent variable models. This volume concentrates on two such classes of models, latent class analysis and item response theory. These methods assume latent variables to explain the relationships among observed categorical variables. Roughly, if the latent variable is also cate¬gorical the method is called latent class analysis and if it is continuous the method is called item response theory.
Latent class analysis basically yields the classification of a group of re¬spondents according to their most likely pattern of scores on the categorical variables. Not only does this provide insight into the mechanisms producing the data, but modern latent class analysis also allows for the estimation of, for example, factor structures and regression models conditional on the la-tent class structure. Item response theory leads to the identification of one or more ordinal or interval scales. In psychological and educational testing these scales are used for individual measurement of abilities and person¬ality traits. Item response theory has been extended to also deal with, for example, hierarchical data structures and cognitive theories explaining performance on tests.
These developments are truly exiting because they enable us to get so much more out of our data than was ever dreamt of before. In fact, when realizing the potential of modern days statistical machinery one is tempted to dig up all those data sets collected not-so-long ago and re-analyze them with the latent class analysis and item response theory methods we now have at our disposal. To give the reader some flavor of these methods, the focus of most contributions in this volume has been kept applied; that is, after a method is explained, the potential of the method for analyzing categorical data is illustrated by means of a real data example. The purpose is to explain methods at a level that is accessible to researchers not trained explicitly in applied statistics and then show how it can be used effectively for solving a real data problem.
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Stonechats: A Guide to the Genus "Saxicola" (Helm Identification Guides)
Ewan Urquhart
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This book is the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of the fourteen members of the genus Saxicola—the stonechats and bushchats. The group is distributed throughout the Old World and includes some familiar and widespread species as well as island endemics and extreme rarities. These charismatic birds are eye-catching in both appearance and behavior but are often hard to identify. The text details all aspects of identification, including plumages, voice, behavior, seasonal movements, and distribution. There are also discussions about issues of speciation and racial variation within the genus, based on new DNA research to assess taxonomic relationships within the group, as well as explanations of conservation issues affecting the group. The book presents an impressive collection of photographs and line drawings, accompanied by an exceptionally beautiful set of thirteen color plates that show each species in a variety of plumages.
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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 682 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: Stonechats: a guide to the genus Saxicola.(Book Review)
Author: David Brewer
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Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: 115
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Build the Strongest Boat Possible
Metal boats can deal with hazards like ice and coral that would rip apart a fiberglass or wooden hull; many long-distance cruisers choose a metal boat for just that reason. But they are not mass-produced; the only way to get one is to build it yourself or have it custom-built. Bruce Roberts-Goodson has been designing and building metal boats for more than three decades, and in The Complete Guide to Metal Boats he tells you all you need to know to start building the boat of your dreams.
- How to build or refurbish hulls, decks, and superstructures
- How to prevent corrosion
- Building from plans or precut kits
- Sample designs for sail- and powerboats
This updated and expanded new edition also gives you a bonus CD with many study plans and 1,500 kit-assembly photos—the equivalent of a shop manual for metal boat building.
"This book is for anyone contemplating building or owning a metal boat. For solid, common-sense advice based on broad experience, the guide lives up to its name."—Chesapeake Bay Magazine
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Metal Boats, Third Edition.......2005-12-02
This third edition compares in more detail the choices of boats and materials, steel, alluminium and copper-nickel, suitable designs for sail and powerboats, building from plans or pre-cut kits, corrosion prevention, mechanical and electrical installations and much, much more. It comes with a bonus CD of sample study plans and many photos of boats in build. It is essential reading/reference for anyone who owns, intends to own, is building, thinking of building or just plain interested in metal boats. A 'must have' book!
The Complete Guide to Metal Boats, Third Edition .......2005-12-02
Being a joint owner of a steel spray for 10 years, I was delighted to read Bruce's new book. It is full of photos and information, and I recommend this book to anybody, owning, buying or contemplating building their own steel boat
Want to build a metal boat?.......2005-12-02
This book will be an invaluable asset to anyone who is serious or even in the dream stages of building a metal boat. Bruce has touched on all the issues that will arise, from conception to launch, in steel or aluminum, and has made the process straight forword and understandable for all. Good job Bruce!
Tim Christensen
Christensen Yachts Ltd.
The best book I have read on steel and aluminium boats........2005-12-01
If you are serious about building or refurbishing a steel or aluminium boat then this book is indispensable. It is in plain English and has lots of photographs and illustrations covering everything from the basics of metal boatbuilding to painting and electrics.
Interested in steel or aluminum boat building? This book is worth its weight in gold........2005-11-30
If you are contemplating building a metal boat or interested in the building process this is the book to get. Clearly illustrates all the steps required with many detailed photos of the entire building procedure.
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Great tool for Sign Language Teachers!!.......1999-10-27
I am a Sign Language instructor and this book comes in handy all the time as a fun way for students to practice fingerspelling and understanding signs. I bought this book for myself at first, but it has definately come in handy in other situations. The puzzles are fun and not too challenging to my students and they absolutely love it.
A fun and interactive way for learning sign language vocabul.......1998-11-05
This wonderful sign language puzzle book helps to assist people who are working at expanding their knowledge of sign language. It has many fun puzzles, word finds and vocabulary building exercises that helps students to practice signs they already may know or to learn new signs. I have used this book as a way to reinforce material taught in my adult education classroom. I recommend this book for anyone who has a need to practice sign language, yet, does not always have an opportunity to sign with another person.
Thanks Ms. Riekehoff for another wonderful sign language book!
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For impulsive Aries, dancing on the table in a Vegas lounge, or intuitive Pisces, who are all about the vibe, this is the perfect way to play "What's your sign?" without losing that hipster edge. The book features 12 new paintings by Shag — beatnik chicks, cool dudes, and other typical denizens of Shag's retro world — each based on a zodiac sign and printed on a two-page spread, along with two to four pages of witty text and artwork.
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Cute Little Book!.......2007-01-09
This is a fun little book! The Josh Agle art is great!
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