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Regions, Globalization, and the Knowledge-Based Economy
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0198295367 |
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What are the links between the impact of increasing globalization and the advent of the knowledge economy on the spatial distribution of economic activity? How can we explain the paradox of growing trans-nationalization of the production of goods and services and the tendency for certain kinds of activityDSparticularly knowledge intensive activities - to be concentrated or clustered in one place? In this changing environment how do firms make decisions about location, and the development and deployment of their distinctive capabilities? These are some of the important questions addressed in this volume by a team of leading international scholars looking at these dynamics in broad scope. The book presents different disciplinary approaches to the knowledge economy viewed from an international perspective, and includes detailed case analysis of its impact in different parts of the world. It moves between the supra- national macro region and the micro cluster, as well as looking at associated infrastructural and policy responses. This is a rich and informative book that attempts to explain some of the key dynamics and characteristics of the new global economy. It will be essential reading for academics in business, economics, geography and political science wanting to get to grips with current thinking and developments.
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Regions, Globalization, and the Knowledge-Based Economy
John H. Dunning Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OKY0BQ |
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Life at the Edge of Chaos: Creating the Quantum Organization
Mark D. Youngblood Manufacturer: Perceval Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1889847402 |
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This breakthrough book provides practical applications of how to transform companies to operate on the "edge of chaos" based on the principles of living, self-organizing systems.Customer Reviews:
Great organization building book, but not related to Chaos.......2003-06-26
The reason I only give it 4-star is because I can't find a strong link between all these great lessons and Chaos/Complexity/Quantum. I think all these lessons exist everywhere in all great organization building book.
Net, I recommend this book to anyone who are interested in organization building, but not about Chaos/complexity theory, etc.
Some good insights in a miasma of thought........1999-08-14
A GREAT book & a must-read for anyone in business today........1999-04-22
This isn't a good book: it is a GREAT book. And, it is a must-read for anyone doing business on the bridge into the 21st Century.
Mark Youngblood has done a masterful job of simply and succinctly helping us understand the promise of ever-present, fast-paced, and dynamic change in our businesses. Encouraging us to transcend the limitations of Newtonian organizations, he brings tangible application to what it means to lead and work in a quantum one. He offers the promise that when we learn to embrace with the fluidity of chaos that we will be both more effective and enjoy our lives and work more. His examples are simple and direct and bring crystal clarity to the concepts he presents.
My personal copy is always near at hand, well-marked with dog-eared pages, sticky notes, and a long list of page reference notations in the back. When readers show up at my book signing with books that look like this, I know they have been well used...and my copy Life at the Edge of Chaos has indeed been well used. I can't recommend this book too highly.
Courageous steps to create non-toxic organizations........1998-01-15
practical marriage of mgt, theory & quantum principles.......1997-12-11
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Land Husbandry: A Framework for Soil and Water Conservation
T. F. Shaxson , N. W. Hudson , David W. Sanders , E. Roose , and W. C. Moldenhauer Manufacturer: Soil & Water Conservation Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0935734201 |
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Mammal Species of the World : A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2-volume set
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0801882214 |
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Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World is the classic reference book on the taxonomic classification and distribution of the more than 5400 species of mammals that exist today. The third edition includes detailed information on nomenclature and, for the first time, common names. Each concise entry covers type locality, distribution, synonyms, and major reference sources. The systematic arrangement of information indicates evolutionary relationships at both the ordinal and the family level. This indispensable reference work belongs in public and academic libraries throughout the world and on the shelf of every biologist who works with mammals.
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Good Product.......2006-03-16
a mammalogist bible.......2001-10-22
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The Physiological Ecology of Vertebrates: A View from Energetics (Comstock Books)
Brian K. Mcnab Manufacturer: Cornell University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0801439132 |
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Best Easy Day Hikes Colorado Springs
Tracy Salcedo Manufacturer: Falcon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1560448539 |
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best easy day hikes colorado springs.......2000-07-13
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A Writer's Guide to Powerful Paragraphs
Victor C. Pellegrino Manufacturer: Maui Arthoughts Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0945045050 |
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Plan and avoid rewrites........2007-01-04
Excellent, and nothing quite like it.......2004-05-26
For aspiring authors of all ages & backgrounds.......2003-02-14
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How to paint with acrylic, casein, watercolors, tempera, gouach and oils (Walter T. Foster "How to draw" books)
Eugene M Frandzen Manufacturer: Foster Art Service ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007H3HL0 |
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Painting With Tempera: How to Paint and Draw
Paige Henson Manufacturer: Rourke Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1571033114 |
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Customer Relationship Management Systems Handbook
Duane E. Sharp Manufacturer: AUERBACH ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0849311438 |
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The concept of customer relationship management (CRM) has grown from the loosely defined methodology of using customer transactions for developing profiles on customers to the well-defined business process of using sophisticated tools and analytical processes for managing each customer on an individual basis. CRM integrates e-mail and the PDA with the day planner, electronic scheduler, client database, and a number of other business management tools so you can create a single point from which to manage customer relationships. The Customer Relationship Management Systems Handbook provides a complete and detailed analysis of CRM, its origins, rationale, implementation strategies, core technologies, and benefits. The author takes readers through the evolution of CRM- from its early beginning as a tool for better managing and utilizing vast amounts of customer transaction data acquired in day-to-day transactions to today's sophisticated data warehouse-based systems. The text was researched, formatted, and written for IS professionals who need a full understanding of what is involved in the successful development and implementation of a CRM. To highlight the significant benefits of implementing CRM strategies, the book provides examples of successful CRM implementations from a broad range of business sectors. These implementations, presented in a case study format, demonstrate implementation processes, appropriate technologies, and vendor solutions that work. Wherever possible, illustrations are used to enhance the textual presentation. The complete analysis of CRM provided in the Customer Relationship Management Systems Handbook will enable you to accomplish what many businesses fail to do-put the customer first.
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Blend of business and technical with more focus on technical.......2002-08-25
For the more technically inclined reader the detailed discussions of data warehousing, data mining and analytical tools and techniques are accurate and up-to-date. I especially liked the focus on data quality, which is a much larger issue than many suspect. I also liked the 12-stage CRM strategy that is given.
Overall, this is an excellent book for IT professionals who need to understand the high level technical issues, as well as the business ramifications of implementing and supporting a CRM system. For IT management and business professionals I prefer "The CRM Handbook" by Jill Dyché, which explains much of the technical material in business terms, and takes a stronger business perspective. However, that reflects my personal preferences and opinion - the bottom line is this book does an excellent job of covering the full spectrum of CRM and does so in easy to understand language.
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Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics: A Special Issue of International Organization
Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0262611449 |
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Over the last thirty years, international political economy and international relations have become increasingly sophisticated, both empirically and theoretically. Realist, liberal, and constructivist theorists have developed research programs that yield new insights into some of the most perplexing areas of international politics: the interplay between conflict and cooperation, the impact of domestic political structures on foreign policy, the role of institutions, and the influence of worldviews and causal beliefs on decision-making. In exploring these developments, this book also considers them from the perspectives of security studies, organization theory, and economics.Customer Reviews:
outstanding collection of essays by top IR/IPE theorists.......2004-08-13
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Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New
Robert A. Pastor Manufacturer: Peterson Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0881323284 |
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"The United States, Canada, and Mexico need to modernize our relationship if we want the 21St Century to improve on the past. The three countries of North America already have a larger market than the European Union, but we have not begun to explore our potential as a diverse community. Robert Pastor's book offers a wealth of new ideas and proposals for constructing a North American Community and lifting all of the people of the entire continent"The Mexican peso crisis struck in late December 1994, coinciding with a new Mexican administration and the end of the first year of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The crisis poignantly highlighted the success and the inadequacy of the treaty-success in the expansion of trade and capital flows, and inadequacy in institutional capacity. The Canadian, Mexican, and US governments defined the agreement so narrowly that they failed to devise a mechanism that could monitor, anticipate, plan, or even respond to such a serious problem. The new president of Mexico, Vicente Fox Quesada, has boldly proposed transforming the free trade area into a common market like Europe's. This has evoked lukewarm responses from the Bush and Chrétien administrations, which have not yet developed ways to cope with the new problems stemming from accelerated social and economic integration or to take advantage of North America's opportunities.
In this visionary study, Robert A. Pastor seizes Fox's idea and maps out the paths toward making it a reality. He analyzes NAFTA's success and shortcomings, extracts lessons from the European Union's 40 years of reducing disparities between rich and poor countries, and proposes ways that NAFTA can adapt and incorporate those lessons. The centerpiece of the book is a detailed proposal and specific recommendations for new institutions and "North American policies," including plans for infrastructure and transportation, immigration and customs, a unified currency, and projects aimed to lift the poorer regions. The author addresses issues of sovereignty and national interest and concludes with a look ahead toward a Free Trade Area of the Americas.
This book is the first of its kind to propose a detailed approach to a North American Community - different from the European Common Market but drawing lessons from its experience. It will be of considerable interest for policymakers in the region as well as researchers and students of international political economy, world trade, and foreign affairs.
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This makes me sick!!!.......2006-07-13
Traitor to US Sovereignty, Constitution, Supreme Court.......2006-07-13
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The EU, the WTO and the NAFTA: Towards a Common Law of International Trade? (Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law)
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0198298749 |
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The starting point of this book is the coexistence of the overlapping regimes of the WTO, the EU and the NAFTA. On this basis it explores the emergence of a nascent Common Law of International Trade. This exploration is rooted in three phenomena: Firstly, the fact that the very same regulatory measure may come simultaneously within the jurisdictional reach of more than one trade regime and may even be adjudicated simultaneously. Some regimes offer alternatives. The NAFTA, for example, offers GATT dispute resolution as an option for many of its own disputes. Secondly, convergence in the material law of the disparate international trade regimes. This, of course, is the heart of the emergent Common Law. Thirdly, the strengthening of private parties in all regimes. Once a preserve of the EU, the NAFTA allows private party dispute resolution of different types in relation to various matters and in the case of the WTO, although it is still an intergovernmental preserve, private actors are learning to manipulate the system. This volume, built on a recent series of courses at the Academy of European Law, is a reflection of this conviction. The various contributions deal with discrete areas in the double sense of the international trading system but each placing considerable emphasis on the interlocking nature of the various components of that system. It is our conviction that this is the appropriate way to understand and to teach this branch of the law.
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Toward a New Security Architecture in the Americas: The Strategic Implications of the Ftaa (Csis Significant Issues Series)
Patrice M. Franko Manufacturer: Center for Strategic & International Studies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0892063661 |
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Toward Free Trade in the Americas
Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 081570089X |
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In the past fifteen years, the nations of the Western Hemisphere have experienced nothing less than a revolution in the way they trade with their neighbors. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean began to liberalize their trade and investment regimes and to implement market-oriented reforms aimed at promoting a more open and dynamic pattern of integration into the world economy. Along with North America, Latin America and the Caribbean have negotiated modern trade agreements that go beyond the elimination of tariffs and nontariff barriers in goods to include provisions on services, investment, intellectual property, government procurement, and dispute settlement. They also have entered into deeper and wider forms of integration at the subregional level. A natural but also unprecedented step along the path toward greater economic interdependence in the hemisphere came about when the leaders of the thirty-four democrat! ically elected governments of the region agreed to start working toward the establishment of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) at their First Summit held in Miami in December 1994 and to launch the FTAA negotiations at the Second Summit of the Americas, which took place in Santiago, Chile in April 1998.This book takes stock of the remarkable progress to date in advancing free trade in the Americas. It examines trade flows within subregional groups and between members of these different arrangements. Contributors describe the main characteristics of the trade arrangements signed between countries of the hemisphere and explore the development of trade rules in these arrangements. Finally, the book details recent advances in the construction of the FTAA.
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The FTAA process.......2001-08-21
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A free trade area of the Americas: Toward integrating regional trade policies (CRS report for Congress)
J. F Hornbeck Manufacturer: Congressional Research Service, The Library of Congress ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006QQV92 |
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Making Free Trade Work in the Americas (Toward Seamless Borders, No 1)
Manufacturer: Natl Center for Interamerican Free ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1564250245 |
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A primer on the elements essential to the success of harmonizing free trade law throughout the Western Hemisphere. Scholarly work related to NAFTA, trade, investment.
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The rocky road toward hemispheric economic integration: A regional backgrounder with attention to the future (Research report)
Joseph Grunwald Manufacturer: Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006OYPX8 |
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Toward a sustainable FTAA: Does Latin America meet the necessary financial preconditions? (Working paper series / Institute for International Economics)
Liliana Rojas-SuaÌrez Manufacturer: Institute for International Economics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006S0KXS |
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Toward free trade with Latin America, (Foreign policy reports)
Constant Southworth Manufacturer: Foreign Policy Association, Incorporated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007GUS1S |
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Towards free trade in the western hemisphere: The FTAA process and the technical support of the Inter-American Development Bank (Working paper series ; 217)
Enrique V Iglesias Manufacturer: Integration and Regional Programs Dept., Inter-American Development Bank ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006QRVAU |
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The Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement: The Global Impact
Jeffrey J. Schott Manufacturer: Institute for International Economics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0881320730 |
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