As leaders and organizations struggle to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage, the challenges that they face inevitably are dependent upon ...

What does it take to find oil in an area where many have tried, but failed? What does it take to design buildings that become prize-winning cultura...

Thrown into the surreal world of American business, Professor Ray Pendleton must try to make sense out of chaos -- if he is to survive. Nothing in ...

In this delightful, quick-to-read, business-management allegory, Donna M Genett, Ph.D., uses an entertaining narrative about identical cousins, Jam...

A better understanding of how immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy is important. Few studies have examined how immigrant entrepreneurs contrib...

This book provides the much needed international dimension on the payoffs of information technology investments. The bulk of the research on the im...

Major technological advances in the last few years have increased our knowledge of the role that genetics has in occupational diseases and our unde...

Businesses are quickly integrating new telecom services into their business plans. Broadband connects entrepreneurs to millions to distant customer...

Closely linked to the concepts of growth and globalisation is the increasing recognition being given to the importance of the workplace as a site o...

Now in its third edition, In the News is the standard Canadian textbook on media relations, used across the country. The authors provide an introdu...

Kristina Bekenova presents a collection of interviews with fifteen emerging African leaders, musicians, poets, artists, doctors, environmentalists,...

Independent federal agencies are subject to the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA). Because they fall outside of presidential authority, however, ind...

Divided in two sections, this book is based on the authors' 40 years of close involvement with India, including two expatriate assignments and deca...

The purpose of this book is to explore the ways that industries, under the pressures of global competition, balance sustained industrial competitiv...

The quality of infrastructure services is key to the production and trade of goods and services, contributing to the productivity and competitivene...

Innovation continues to drive economic development and business competitiveness. In the past centuries, innovation has been focused around national...

The purpose of this book is to investigate the innovative process in engineering of consulting firms as a knowledge-intensive service sector. Extan...

This book examines the extent to which product innovations stem from small, young firms versus large, established firms by analysing the patenting ...

Problem-solving is an important part of our lives. Dialectical Networking Thinking (DNT) is a soft-systems methodology aimed at complex problem-sol...

To sustain competitiveness in today's highly local and global markets, an organization needs to excel in all its key dimensions. The world is facin...

This book investigates various drivers of innovation within small businesses, as well as the role that innovation plays in creating value in small ...

Based on thorough studies of several European business schools this book shows that the formation of the content is a complex issue that only can b...