Corporate Entrepreneurship: Top Managers and New Business Creation

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Vijay Sathe examines how top managers--corporate executives, division general managers and the division's top management team members--influence corporate entrepreneurship, specifically new business creation in a corporate division. Corporate Entrepreneurship takes the reader into the real world of top managers to explore a relatively uncharted territory in a systematic and comprehensive way. The business realities, the management culture, the corporate philosophy, the organizational politics, the personalities, and the personal agendas of the people at the top are vividly portrayed in these pages. New business creation is innately difficult and it does not help that top managers are insufficiently educated and trained for it. This book offers both a theory of corporate entrepreneurship based on the real-world experience of top managers and practical advice on how to manage it for better results. Vijay Sathe is Professor of Management in The Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He has published numerous journal articles and three other books: Controller Involvement in Management (Prentice Hall, 1982), Culture and Related Corporate Realities (Irwin, 1985), and a co-authored book, Organization (Third Edition, Irwin, 1992). Sathe has taught in MBA and executive education programs in the United States and Europe. He has also consulted with government agencies, not-for-profit organizations, and private and public companies around the globe.

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Great practical book - Good job Vijay !.......2004-01-30

This is a very interesting book with tons of practical examples and situations from the four companies the author studied. It's a great book about the organizational culture, strategies and personalities that encourage corporate entrepreneurship. It could be a valuable tool to any company engaged in new business / new product development.

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This book argues that the viability of many observed market and non-market interventions in agricultural products worldwide depends considerably on the underlying behaviour of the relevant commodity markets. Many of these policies have had distortive impacts, resulting in much discussion and controversy in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of trade negotiations.

Agricultural Commodity Markets and Trade: New Approaches to Analyzing Market Structure and Instability

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Agricultural Commodity Markets and Trade: New Approaches to Analyzing Market Structure and Instability

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Agricultural Instability in China, 1931-1990: Weather, Technology, and Institutions (Studies on Contemporary China)

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Agricultural Instability in China, 1931-1990: Weather, Technology, and Institutions (Studies on Contemporary China)
Y. Y. Kueh
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China is particularly dependent upon her agricultural surplus for financing her ambitious industrialization programme, but the performance of the agricultural sector of the economy has been extremely unstable throughout the twentieth century. Professor Kueh provides a scholarly and authoritative account of this vital part of the Chinese economy during the period 1931-1990, based upon detailed statistical data and other sources of material. Professor Kueh has achieved a unique analysis of the interrelationships between natural, economic, and institutional factors, which lie at the heart of China's agricultural performance. He describes policy changes, technological advances, and natural factors such as climactic conditions, and distinguishes the effect of each factor in the varying level of agricultural production. The strength of this book lies not only in its collection and analysis of data but in the innovative methodological process used, including the construction of a `weather index', which will be invaluable not only for Chinese studies scholars but also for those wishing to undertake similar work for other countries.

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AGRICULTURAL MARKET LIBERALIZATION AND INSTABILITY OF DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL MARKETS: THE CASE OF THE CAP.(Statistical Data Included): An article from: American Journal of Agricultural Economics

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AGRICULTURAL MARKET LIBERALIZATION AND INSTABILITY OF DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL MARKETS: THE CASE OF THE CAP.(Statistical Data Included): An article from: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Roland Herrmann , Stanley R. Thompson , and Wolfgang Gohout
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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, 2000. The length of the article is 5217 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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Instability of Agricultural Commodity Markets (Agricultural products and markets)

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Instability of Agricultural Commodity Markets (Agricultural products and markets)
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Current issues in agricultural finance: Inflation, risk, and financial instabilities (A.E. res)

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Current issues in agricultural finance: Inflation, risk, and financial instabilities (A.E. res)
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The impact of export instability on the US corn and livestock markets: An econometric analysis (Cornell University. College of Agriculture. Dept. of Agricultural Economics. A.E. Res)

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The impact of export instability on the US corn and livestock markets: An econometric analysis (Cornell University. College of Agriculture. Dept. of Agricultural Economics. A.E. Res)
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Instability and flexible response in international agricultural policy (Staff paper / Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota)

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North of Scotland College of Agriculture. Bulletin
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Paradise lost

A GOOD SCIENCE WHODUNIT

Will the politicans vanquish the scientists?

A clear case of sides...

Science and the Politics of Science

The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
Daniel J. Kevles
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In a perfect world, science wouldn't be done by human beings, since despite our best efforts, we aren't truly objective about anything. When personality and emotion inevitably get mixed up with science, sparks can fly. The most notorious such conflagration in recent times was The Baltimore Case, a decade-long dispute between supposedly objective scientists that resulted in excruciating trials, sensational headlines, and damaged careers and lives. Historian Daniel Kevles tells the story of the accusations of fraud leveled by Margot O'Toole toward her colleagues, Thereza Imanishi-Kari and Nobel Prize-winner David Baltimore. Kevles first explains the controversial experimental results and the paper published outlining them. O'Toole was unable to reproduce the results of Imanishi-Kari and accused her of falsifying data, also implicating the high-profile Baltimore, coauthor of the original paper. In the following years, all participants in the investigation were subjected to dehumanizing, humiliating scrutiny--including a congressional inquiry not unlike a mini-witch-hunt--and nasty comments gleefully reported by a media eager for a big scientific scandal. Kevles comes down on the side of the self-admittedly sloppy Imanishi-Kari (who was officially exonerated in 1996) and Baltimore, painting O'Toole as a well-motivated but overenthusiastic watchdog manipulated by embarrassingly eager investigators. This book is a valuable lesson in how uneasily humanity and science share the laboratory. Even our best and brightest can be brought low by jealousy, carelessness, and deception. --Therese Littleton

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David Baltimore won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1975. Known as a wunderkind in the field of immunology, he rose quickly through the ranks of the scientific community to become the president of the distinguished Rockefeller University. Less than a year and a half later, Baltimore resigned from his presidency, citing the personal toll of fighting a long battle over an allegedly fraudulent paper he had collaborated on in 1986 while at MIT. From the beginning, the Baltimore case provided a moveable feast for those eager to hold science more accountable to the public that subsidizes its research. Did Baltimore stonewall a legitimate government inquiry? Or was he the victim of witch hunters? The Baltimore Case tells the complete story of this complex affair, reminding us how important the issues of government oversight and scientific integrity have become in a culture in which increasingly complicated technology widens the divide between scientists and society.

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Paradise lost.......2006-02-04

There used to be a time when those occupying certain hallowed positions could do no wrong, and this included academia and business. However, recent events in the business world have confirmed that the top of the pyramid can and does crumble under the weight of wrong doings. An example is the ENRON case. Another, the Huttenback case (UC Santa Barbabra). I am an admirer of scientists who spend days without sleep in the lab trying to get some elusive result or photo, and when they do, or think they do, trivialities such as data records are forgotten. However, reproducibility -- which is the buzz word in many of these cases, needs to be defined.

If I drop my glass of champagne, can it be reproduced? I challenge anyone to reproduce the exact number of fragments and their shapes. However, as engineers know, the statistical parameters can be reasonably ascertained over many experiments.

Now if data is supposed to be forged, this can also be determined using sampling theory. In the Iwanishi Kari-Baltimore case, this test was not applied. I wrote to Nature about it in 1992 but they did not publish my letter. The so called fraudulent data can still be tested ( it was published if I recall in Nature among many heated letters).

Regarding breaking of samples I have also experienced accusations of being unscientific when challenged to reproduce the data.( Method of preparation was not mentioned if I recall). I published a paper on polymethylmethacrylate fracture where I attempted to correlate structure with breaking strengths. Some ignoramuses challenged it and brought in the attorney general of a southern state to try to ruin my career. I republished the paper in another international journal. I later learned that the protagonist of this piece had obtained a NIH grant mentioning some of the earlier results. When informed of the facts, NIH did not take notice of this. Earlier when the "Reproducers" were asked to appear at an inquiry to confront me, they did not do so. They had even asked me to apply for a Dupont grant.

A GOOD SCIENCE WHODUNIT.......2005-11-14

For me The Baltimore Case was edifying and a pleasure to read. I recommend it highly to anyone like myself who followed desultorily the media's presentation of the proceedings before the Congressional Subcommittee as putting "Science on Trial," but without any grasp of the underlying science. And I agree with the previous reviewers' conclusion that the book is too long although I attribute its length to the author's commitment to thoroughness.

I finished The Baltimore Case feeling I'd learned a lot about viral research in an academic setting, the role of personality conflicts in this research, and the editorial practices of scientific journals like Cell. (Excuse me for not saying more about the political, scientific, and personal disputes that the book so fascinatingly details, but to my mind they are commendably covered in the other reviews.) I especially admired the author's sustained treatment of the central story as a murder mystery with no murderer and everyone the victims, as well as his clear presentation of the underlying scientific facts. Professor Kevles did a very impressive job.

Will the politicans vanquish the scientists?.......2003-04-29

As an engineer by training and profession, this book really makes my blood boil. It's basically the true story of some scientists at MIT who publish a paper on immunology. A student of one of the professors challenges that some of the data in the paper was faked, and an epic of Phyrric proportions ensues.

In the 10 years that this book covers, scientific careers are ruined, researchers are vilified in the media and in the court of public opinion, and (most troubling of all to me) our elected officials engage in a witch hunt of completely innocent scientists. In particular, Senator John Dingell (Michigan) and his staff are revealed as complete devils; the author has thoroughly documented and footnoted the evidence in the case, so there is really little doubt that Mr. Dingell is as pernicious as he is portrayed in this book. Unfortunately, Mr. Dingell is still a senator to this day and no doubt is still out "to get" the scientists involved. Fortunately for science (and society), history has proven the scientists involved innocent and they have all been restored to preeminent positions in the scientific community.

Be forewarned that this is quite a tomb, weighing in at hundreds of pages of meaty scientific and political reading. At times, I contemplated giving up on it, but as the story unfolded, I wanted to see just how far this tragic comedy would unfold. The subject matter (immunology) is far removed from the layperson and I found myself at times not understanding the concepts fully. Luckily, this book is more about the sociopolitical ramifications of the science, and thus not understanding the science does not detract from the novel.

A clear case of sides..........2002-02-11

If ever there was a clear case of people choosing sides based on what they believe a priori, this is it. While some authors (Judy Sarasohm for example) followed this case from both sides, Kevles obviously entered the discussion with a judgement to be excused. The case of Imanishi-Kari v. O' Toole is one that should have be decided in science, by scientists. But the intervention and face-saving by David Baltimore caused this case to linger half a decade beyond it's merit.

This book wends its way through the facts of the case in 512 pages, but prejudges it's view from page 1. Science isn't the question; in the original paper, the Tufts review, the MIT review, the NIH review or the Secret Service investigation.

Rather, the intent is clear from the beginning, politics has no place in science, except when practiced by Nobel laureates.

Read "Science On Trial" as well, to see an honest (but admittedly poor) author explain the entire case, instead of a biased view decrying the proper research.

Science and the Politics of Science.......2001-12-01

Kevles has written a masterful account of the Baltimore Case (Imanishi-Kari Case might be better). I can only second the glowing reviews already on this page. A few things that might interest the general reader: at the time of this book's publication, Baltimore-bashing was practically a national sport among scientists. Kevles set out to write a balanced account, and he has done so-- it is a good job all around, as Yale recognized when it gave him an endowed chair recently (Caltech's loss, alas!). Information subsequent to its publication only enhances Baltimore's stature. Unfortunately, like the French Dreyfus case that it resembled at times, too many prominent people said too many harsh things about Baltimore that they cannot retract. Contrary to at least one of the editorial reviewers, it is clear now that Kevles was too hard on Baltimore and company, but so many people attacked Baltimore(Nature's Maddox, Paul Doty, Jim Watson, W.Gilbert, J Darnell, G. Blobel, and a whole nascent federal bureaucracy, inter alia) that these contemporary anti-Dreyfusards will never be refuted. Be that as it may, read this account to get a detailed study of how scientists and government can go wrong, all while trying to do the right thing.

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The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of areas known to be involved in mammalian vision. It has also seen a far greater understanding of the importance of reciprocal connections, intrinsic connections, structure-specific modules and modules which span different structures, as well as the introduction of parallel processing models within the thalamocortical and corticocortical streams.

The body of knowledge has become so vast, and is growing so rapidly, that periodic updates are essential even for experts in the field. This volume is based on a satellite meeting of an international group of researchers. It emphasizes the most current information regarding midbrain and extrastriate mechanisms underlying vision and visually-guided behavior. The book also places these data into the larger context of how interrelated components of the visual system function to produce coherent visual experiences and behavior. New research findings are presented that are unavailable elsewhere, as well as reviews and broad perspectives in which existing data from multiple sources are brought together in order to help understand the structure and function of extrageniculostriate visual areas.

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This golf book is designed to benefit all golfers, from beginners just learning the game, to the more advanced golfers who wish to fine-tune their skills. Focus is placed on the fundamentals, featuring both simple and complex drills, and readers will learn how to practice successfully in both indoor and outdoor environments. For golf instructors and golf enthusiasts.

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Skill Building for Beginning Golf
M. RhondaNichols, Robert W. Folio
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Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader is the most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the language, literature, philosophy, history, and religion of premodern China. Rigorously and extensively field-tested and fine-tuned for years in classroom settings by three members of the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton University, it sets a new standard for the field.

Volume 1 contains 40 selections from texts written between the fifth century B.C. and the first century A.D., during which the classical Chinese language was fully developed and standardized. These passages, which express key themes in Chinese humor, wit, wisdom, moral conviction, and political ideals, are arranged in the order of complexity of the grammatical patterns they exemplify. Uniquely, each text is translated into both modern Chinese and English. Volume 2 contains a detailed glossary of unfamiliar terms and names found in Volume 1, and Volume 3 features detailed grammatical analyses, in which every sentence in the main texts is fully diagrammed to show the grammatical relations between their various parts.

Four supplementary volumes--an introduction to grammar, readings in poetry and prose, selected historical texts, and selected philosophical texts--will also be available for use in conjunction with the main, three-volume set. There are corresponding exercises for all the reading texts in the Basic Reader and in the supplementary volumes to review and reinforce classroom learning.

With Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader, Naiying Yuan, Haitao Tang, and James Geiss provide the definitive new resource for students and instructors of classical Chinese language or culture, one whose impact will be lasting.

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Please Read Before Purchase.......2007-09-20

I don't know how many of these people that wrote their reviews for this book actually bought the book at amazon. I bought the book, and found out it's only the TEXT! If you want the real "A Basic Reader in THREE VOLUMES" I suggest you buy it from a third party dealer. I got it from BCD Books at amazon because they actually sell the 3 volumes as one unit. If you want to learn classical chinese, this is what you'll need.

"Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader Text" <- Volume 1
"Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader Glossaries" <- Volume 2
"Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader Analyses" <- Volume 3

The book advertised here on amazon as "Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader in Three Volumes" is ONLY VOLUME ONE, the Text. I don't know why the heck they advertised it the way they did, it is very misleading. Please be warned, don't have simply the text sent to your house and regret x_x like I did and had to buy it again.

Excellent for self-guided study.......2006-10-02

This set of volumes is the best I have found for someone who wants to study Classical Chinese on his own. The text analysis is very thorough, and offers a great way of becoming familiar with real Chinese sentence structure.
There are no introductory information on how to look up characters, but any character book for beginners will help you become familiar with counting strokes and recognizing radicals in a very short time - this difficulty should not be over-estimated. Actually, the texts are transliterated into PinYin 100%, so you can look up characters by sound even if you do not know how to handle radicals and strokes.
Since this textbook is detailed, it takes time to work through it; on the other hand, if you devote some time to it every day, you will make progress and you do not risk finding yourself outpaced by the book. The only drawback is the three-volume format - you need to have a large desk so you can keep all three volumes (and maybe a notebook and a dictionary) open in front of you! Actually, it would be really good if the quality of the Chinese fonts could be improved too - they are not very crisp, which makes it hard to count strokes sometimes.
There is a companion volume with poetry samples, too. This is again very well done. It contains very little in the way of grammar explanations, but texts and vocabulary are presented in one volume (so this is what I bring with me when I am travelling :-) ).

Good introduction, not advanced enough.......2006-02-09

I used this book in preparation to jump into a more advanced classical Chinese class, and though the explanations it had were very useful (and I must add I am near-fluent in modern Mandarin, so it appealed in that way to me because it helped me understand things in both languages, giving me a backup in case one explanation wasn't thurough enough), I felt that even though I had gone through about 30 chapters, when I went into the other class I felt I had not really been given a challenging set of works to learn from. If you are looking for a simple approach, I would reccomend this book, if you are looking for an ambitious approach, I might look elsewhere.

Introduction to Wenyan.......2005-07-31

I've never seen such a detailed analysis of senteces and structures in any book teaching grammar, which makes it very suitable for a self-learner of this mesmerizing language like myself. Inluded in the glossaries are both english and modern chinese translations, which makes it useful for comparing the classic and modern written language. But there are a couple of problems with this book, including the numerous typos in english, and worse, in the pinyin transcriptions; the bad printing, especially the fonts. The map over ancient map of China is incomprehensible. The glossaries are not totally complete (though if you have a basic understanding of modern chinese this will be no problem); a worse problem is that there's no index to the characters.

All in all, despite its flaws, I would warmly recommend this series.

Great book, bad proofreading.......2004-12-14

I'm a self-taught student of Classical Chinese (yes, I know that isn't really possible, but I'm doing it anyway <g>), so this book is a very important resource. What I would hope to see in the second edition is:

1. An index listing of all glossary items in the back of the glossaries volume organized by four-corner lookup order (sijiao) and with Pinyin and Radical indexes.

2. Answers to selected exercises for self-taught students like myself.

3. Less reliance on Modern Chinese. I know it's traditional to study Mandarin first, then move on to Classical, but some oddballs like me are interested in the Classics only, and not modern speech and literature.

4. Princeton is a big university, hire a proofreader. The text is full of glaring typos in English. I'm not qualified to find typos in the Chinese, but even there I've found editing errors.

Even with all these minor flaws, this is an important and valuable book, which is why I gave it five stars, warts and all.

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Of the just shaping of letters: From the Applied geometry of Albrecht Durer, book III
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