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For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the United States, capitalism seems like an initiative that serves only to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few hereditary oligarchies. As A History of Corporate Governance around the World shows, neither conception is wrong.
In this volume, some of the brightest minds in the field of economics present new empirical research that suggests that each side of the debate has something to offer the other. Free enterprise and well-developed financial systems are proven to produce growth in those countries that have them. But research also suggests that in some other capitalist countries, arrangements truly do concentrate corporate ownership in the hands of a few wealthy families.
A History of Corporate Governance around the World provides historical studies of the patterns of corporate governance in several countries-including the large industrial economies of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States; larger developing economies like China and India; and alternative models like those of the Netherlands and Sweden.
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Winner of the Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award 2002
'Goold and Campbell, leading thinkers on corporate-level strategy, have turned their attention to corporate-level organization design. They bring a rigor to this topic that will help managers wrestling with multiple reporting dimensions, decentralization and cross-unit co-ordination.' Professor Gary Hamel, London Business School. Author of Competing for the Future and Leading the Revolution.
'Campbell and Goold are renowned for discovering entirely new and useful dimensions to seemingly familiar business issues. This book is another shining example. It allows executives to replace politics and personality as the rationales for an organizational design with clear, effective logic and experience.' Thomas H. Davenport, Director, Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. Author of Process Innovation and Working Knowledge.
'A "must read" for managers and consultants. Redesigning the organization is the most powerful and fastest means for aligning decisions and behavior with strategic objectives. Goold and Campbell provide the best and most comprehensive framework for developing and testing the validity of an organizational structure I have seen in recent years. Based on years of research and experience they offer clear principles and a process to guide managers in the many design decisions and trade-offs involved in developing a more effective organization.' Professor Michael Beer, Harvard Business School. Author of The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal.
'Books on organization design tend to fall into one of two categories: those that provide interesting concepts but not help on how to implement them and those that are full of check lists on implementation, based on sterile and over-simplified ideas. Michael Goold and Andrew Campbell have written perhaps the finest example of an exception I have ever seen - a very practical book, with detailed guidelines on implementation, yet based on a rich and sophisticated understanding of the real challenges of organization design. It will be of immense use to all careful readers.' Professor Sumantra Ghoshal, London Business School. Author of The Individualized Corporation and Managing Across Borders.
'As companies search for all sources of competitive advantage, many are discovering that the ability to organize and execute complex strategies is an important one. Campbell and Goold have again provided us with a good process through which leaders can give organizing its deserved focus.' Professor Jay Galbraith, author of Designing the Global Corporation.
'Campbell and Goold bring much needed clarity and precision to the language of organizational design and show how this can help managers avoid the misunderstandings and differing interpretations that frequently undermine new organization structures.' Paul Coombes, Director, Organization Practice Area, McKinsey Company.
'Organization change is close to the top of many companies' agendas. Goold and Campbell's book equips you with ideas and frameworks to take on the journey. The real-world examples help make it both pragmatic and readable.' Steve Russell, Chief Executive, The Boots Company plc.
'An impressive work. The taxonomy of organizational units and organigram symbols will be especially useful to managers working on structures.' Philip Sadler, Patron, The Centre for Tomorrow's Company. Author of The Seamless Organization.
'Incredibly relevant in helping to pull together a complicated structure based around the dimensions of channels, products, customers and geography - immensely clear and valuable.' David Roberts, Chief Executive, Personal Financial Services, Barclays plc.
'A welcome breakthrough in designing more effective corporate organization structures. The nine design tests of Goold and Campbell are a valuable addition to an otherwise sparse toolkit.' Jim Haymaker, Vice President, Strategy Business Development, Cargill Inc.
Winner of the Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award 2002
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Organization Structure that Follows Strategy of the Firm.......2004-05-22
There are many books on organizational design written by experts in organizational design. However, structure of an organization should follow the chosen strategy. This book by Goold and Campbell is rare in that it is written by higly credible team of Goold and Campbell, both experts in the field of corporate strategy. This is most rigorous book on connecting structure of an organization to strategy of the firm. It provides excellent frameworks of analysis. It is as if Good and Campbell have "done a Michael Porter" on the issue of organization design!
At a minimum the authors have brought to the subject of organization design the sort of rigor that we are familiar with in the strategy field. An excellent addition to the field!
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Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape
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The growing popularity of the broad, landscape-scale approach to forest management represents a dramatic shift from the traditional, stand-based focus on timber production. Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape responds to the increasing need of forest policy developers, planners, and managers for an integrated, comprehensive perspective on ecological landscapes.
The book examines the "big picture" of ecological patterns and processes through a case study of the vast managed forest region in Ontario. The contributors synthesize current landscape ecological knowledge of this area and look at gaps and future research directions from several points of view: spatial patterns, ecological functions and processes, natural disturbances, and ecological responses to disturbance. They also discuss the integration of landscape ecological knowledge into policies of forest management policies, particularly with respect to Ontario's legislative goals of forest sustainability.
Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape is the first book to describe the landscape ecology of a continuously forested landscape in a comprehensive manner. It is written for instructors and students in forest management, wildlife ecology, and landscape ecology, and for forest managers, planners, and policy developers in North America.
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A Fisherman's Guide to Maine tells you precisely where, when, and how to catch game fish in Maine. From migrating stiped bass along the south coast to native brook trout in the North Woods, this book provides visiting and resident anglers with all the information they need. Both veterans and novices will benefit from the author's knowledge of aquatic biology and his years of fishing experience throughout Maine. Among the valuable information in this book: --Comprehensive coverage of the entire state includes a map of each major fishing region. --Each chapter offers a fascinating historical overview and profile of a local fishing personality. --The text covers salmon, trout, bass, pike, panfish, and saltwater species. --The author discusses both fly-fishing and spin-fishing techniques that work. --Each section provides specific trip-planning information, driving/hiking directions, and descriptions of access points. The author is donating half his profits from this book to a nonprofit conservation fund he established called Land for Future Maine Fisheries. Down East Books is also donating a percentage of profits to this fund. The money will be used to purchase land and obtain easements in areas that surround critical fish habitat.
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Authoritative guide to Maine waters........2007-02-11
Really enjoyable fly fishing guide for those who love Maine, or are planning a trip to different regions. 154 pages, plenty of black & white photos throughout, with excellent color photos in the middle. One-page maps for each region add value. 95% of content is fly fishing for trout and salmon, and the only thing missing is more about smallmouth bass fishing with spin-casting tackle.
Plan a successful and challenging itinerary.......2004-07-17
With each individual chapter including a profile of a local angling personality who is an expert on that particular region, A Fisherman's Guide To Maine covers eight distinct fishing regions including: Southern Maine; Rangeley Lakes Regions; Kennebec River; Moosehead Lake Region; Down East; Penobscot River; North Woods; and Aroostook County. A lifelong fisherman and biologist/entomologist, Kevin Tracewski reveals not only the best places to fish, but how to get to them, as well as what techniques and tackle to use. If you have an opportunity to fish the waters of Maine, then pack along a copy of A Fisherman's Guide To Maine to help you plan a successful and challenging itinerary.
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A great palce to start.......2000-07-04
Jim Richardson is now seen on the weekly syndicated TV series "Classic Car Garage" where he dispenses similar tips on restoring a classic car. Unlike some other authors, Jim approaches each segment with the genuine enthusiasm, experience, and credibility that only he can offer. Upon reading this book, you'll come away with useful knowledge, valuable tips learned from experience, and the feeling that you've known Jim for years as a trusted friend. I highly recommend it!
Good overview for restoring classic cars.......1999-02-14
Jim Richardson, seen on the syndicated "My Classic Car" series writes a good overview of restoring cars. He covers how to choose a specific car and teh steps necessary for a bsic restoration. Of course a car nut will still want to read a more definitive book for their car but this is a good first step
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One Matchless Time is a sympathetic, sweeping evocation of the life and work of William Faulkner. It has been three decades since Joseph Blotner published his massive, two–volume biography. Since then, a great deal of new material has turned up––for example, Faulkner's revealing early letters to his parents and late letters to Joan Williams, one of several young lovers who came into his life in the final decades. Parini, who has taught Faulkner to undergraduates at Dartmouth and Middlebury for nearly thirty years, brings vividly to life Faulkner's complex fictional world in the context of his life, using the one to illuminate the other. His Faulkner is an immensely gifted, obsessive artist plagued by alcoholism and a bad marriage, but someone who rose above his limitations to become a figure of major importance on the stage of world literature.
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"The time is right for a biography like Jay Parini's One Matchless Time . . . Mr. Parini is especially attuned to Faulkner's development as a writer . . . [This is] a balanced explication of the work through what details Faulkner left behind . . . By thoughtfully steering readers from the life back to the work, he encourages us to explore the sprawling, vine–covered manse of the man's fiction for ourselves." – Wall Street Journal
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Still Waiting.......2006-02-20
After 4 decades of reading and studying Faulkner, I believe Parini's book gets us closer to taking the measure of the man; but I wonder if even Parini realises what a true genius Faulkner was. I want some scholar to say finally that he's not only America's greatest writer (of all time), but the finest writer in English that the 20th century produced. The literary criticism here is a bit hit and miss, but mostly hits. The current literary fads and obsessions at times tend to dilute the focus on Faulkner's achievement, but this could have been a lot worse. In general, Faulkner scholarship has yet to rise to the level of quality of Faulkner himself. The one notable exception is Cleanth Brooks' WILLIAM FAULKNER: THE YOKNAPATAWPHA COUNTRY, which after over 40 years is still the most distinguished, best written, most level-headed, and downright brilliant exploration of the Yoknapatawpha novels.
One Matchless Time is time spent with Southern genius Wm. Faulkner.......2005-08-11
William Faulkner was a genius! The 1949 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature was a complex man, He was "a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Faulkner was a great artist but a troubled human being. He was an alcoholic, womanizer (several affairs followed his marriage to the troubled Estelle Oldham), lier
(such as his wild tales of his spurious adventures as a flier in the World War I RAF!), poor husband, prodigal son of the rich soil of his Mississippi birthplace.
Faulkner was more! He was the creator of Yoknapatawhpa county
bringing to the realm of world literature such characters as
Flemn Snopes, the Bundren and Compson families, Temple Drake,
Joe Christmas and so many more. Along with Balzac and Dickens he was the creator of a whole world of fictional life in what he
called his "postage stamp sized landscape."
Joseph Blotner has written the best book on FAulkner but I would use this fine work by Parini if I was teaching an English
class on the great "Dixie Epress" from Oxford.
Though an academic, Jay Parini does a good job in summarizing the complex novels; relating the life of FAulkner and putting this material down in an easy to read style free of pyschobabble.
I enjoyed this fine book especially the details on Faulkner's
complicated family history in Mississippi which was dominated
by the memory of his great-grandfather Colonel Falkner.
If you need to know a lot about Faulkner in a short space of time turn to Parini. Well done!
One matchless eternity.......2005-05-09
This briskly paced biography of Faulkner summons the image of the man very well, and brings some resonance to the extraordinary period from 1928 to the nineteen forties when the inspiration to create a mysterious world in a series of masterworks overtook this shambling southerner breaking out of the initial conditions of his birth. The gestation of the first novels then sudden appearance of Sound and the Fury is one of the great literary tales of the twentieth century, and the extant vision is of the Golgotha of a lost and passing world, no sentimentality needed for this tragic view, of the peculiar and flawed society of the South after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Faulkner's work echoes this ominous mood in his matchless evocation and cathartic cutting to the core of the unconscious of that world and summons, next to Moby Dick, the tragic genre to the telling of the tale of the American Dream.
Well Done!.......2005-03-15
What was William Faulkner doing when he wrote THE SOUND AND THE FURY, LIGHT IN AUGUST, THE HAMLET, ABSALOM, ABSALOM! and GO DOWN, MOSES? In this fascinating biography, Professor Parini tells you, as his narrative moves from Faulkner's life to his work and back again, describing this great writer`s personal and historical world while analyzing his demanding oeuvre.
How did Faulkner acquire his estate, Rowan Oak, after only modest sales for his first books? How did his ultimately lucrative connection to Hollywood affect his work? The answers to such questions are in this thorough, but not long, book. On this level, this biography is a feast for Faulkner fans.
Even so, this biography has a maddening quality. In particular, this reader was blind-sided as Faulkner, without any preparation by the author, recited complete Shakespearean sonnets at a dinner party, acknowledged his love of French literature, or spoke French. These incidents obviously capture influences on Faulkner's artistic sensibility. Yet, they are never really built into the experience of the historical man and artist that Parini describes.
Faulkner, in addition, was obviously well-read. Yet Parini never discusses what Faulkner was reading, when he was reading it, and how the reading affected him. For an isolated and struggling writer, his reading-though hard to pin down-had to be an important influence and inspiration. In my opinion, occasional references to his reading would have been interesting. But as it is, this biography shows Faulkner in his most creative period without any such literary interests or precursors. In ONE MATCHLESS Time, he is either working madly or on an alcoholic binge.
A Sad Life And One Filled With Integrity.......2005-01-16
Parini does his best work investigating the early days of Faulkner and putting them into a social, specifically Southern, context, but unlike Blotner he manages to enlarge that context into the whole space of American modernism. He makes you feel Faulkner's yearning to be accepted as part of an international avant-garde, and yet at the same time he didn't want that, he wanted, like his grandfather, to be a writer revered by his peers down home. Parini does enough with the "gay male friends" theme to warrant further scholarly investigation into gay modernist Southern art and literature, though such a topic doesn't necessarily depemd on the weight of Faulkner's name for it to be interesting in and of itself. And how about his friendship with Bil and Helen Baird and the whole puppeteering thing, I could read about this forever.
About the women in Faulkner's life, Parini stumbles a little. I don't think he makes Estelle, Jill, Meta Carpenter, Jean Stein or Joan Williams as interesting as Blotner did. They all kind of converge into an foggy enemy figure, like Judy and Madeleine in Hitchcock's VERTIGO--maybe this was Parini's intention (to paint his hero as a victim of sexual obsession), but the truth is that all of these women were very different characters, and in my opinion still the best book written about Faulkner is the wonderful A LOVING GENTLEMAN, Meta Carpenter Wilde's very moving memoir of her love affair with W. Faulkner. That said, I admire Parini's book and the skill with which it comes together. It makes you want to re-read some of the neglected books, I especially like his defense of the cobbled-together 50s collection BIG WOODS. The truth is I could read a new Faulkner biography every year, they're all pretty good and this one, as the newest, deserves the attention of all of us.
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