Business, Management and Accounting

This book brings together a team of internationally renowned secialists to document and evaluate the economic impact of several countries' offset policies...

This important book explores the threats and challenges to regional security in three areas: Nato, the Mediterranean, and in the sub-Saharan countries - namely southern Africa...

The articles in this volume address the fact and use of economic power in the American economy. The institutional economists' perspective exhibited here reflects a century-long focus on and concern with economic power begun by Thorstein Veblen. This volume presents a new generation of institutionali..

Performance is why organizations exist. Through performance organizations meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders as defined by their mission, goals and objectives. This is true for all organizations. Complexity theory, a tool used to examine the nature of dynamic systems like organizat..

Performance is why organizations exist. Through performance organizations meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders as defined by their mission, goals and objectives. This is true for all organizations. Complexity theory, a tool used to examine the nature of dynamic systems like organizat..

This book considers the emergence and development of modern retailing from an historical and management perspective in the period 1750-1950...

The Evolution of Management Theory..

Investigates the history of management theory in terms of four interdependent, history-shaping forces such as: socioeconomic thinking; technological development; organizational size; and, marketplace pressures. This book shows not only how management has become as much of an art as a science, but al..

David Hatherly rethinks accounting in the light of the financial crisis which exposed its limitations. Financial institutions reported increasing profits and healthy balance sheets whilst their business models undermined their own financial health and the economy. Accounts failed to provide feedback..

The Foundations of Organizational Evil..

The Foundations of Organizational Evil..

In this extended and novel entrepreneurial analysis of small firm inception and growth, a leading authority in the field develops a new kind of ‘micro-micro’ analysis, applying rigorous methods from economics, accounting and finance to gain a deeper understanding of micro-firms, examining performanc..