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Ron Harris is professor of legal history and former dean of law at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Industrializing English Law.
A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporation
Before the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was mostly conducted in short segments along the Silk Route and Indian Ocean. Business was organized in family firms,...
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In this book, the reasons why organizations and corporate bodies fail are, explored. In addition, a new seminal work on organizational homeostasis that will prevent business failures and ensure that businesses survive, thrive and prosper is, presented. The concept of this new orthodoxy will be selectively, applied to different sectors of the economy so that scholars, students, business consultants, corporate leaders, corporate managers, business owners,...
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The most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in business today: achieving dramatic performance improvements. This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance.
Michael Hammer and James Champy have updated and revised their milestone work for the New Economy they helped...
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In order to satisfy the heightened demands of today's more powerful consumer, corporations from Wal-Mart to GE are undergoing an evolutionary transformation in the way they do business-from their operations and strategies to their relationships with customers and communities. In this timely book, two top branding experts team up with a highly regarded specialist in corporate culture and a leading global search consultant to illustrate how the most...
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According the United States Small Business Administration s most recently released date, there are more than 9 million small businesses in the United States and almost 250,000 new ones started every year. Of those new businesses, half will fail in the first 12 months and part of that failure is due to the lack of information about how to start and develop that business. Without the right legal form of business, you may end up paying too much in taxes,...
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A Valuable Meeting and Procedural Reference for Business Corporations, Boards, and Shareholders.
This handy and valuable reference book bridges a large informational gap for those who are preparing for, leading, and attending board of directors and shareholders business corporation meetings. The author simultaneously draws upon the three principal sources of meeting authority on the subject including
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This book is about providing a comprehensive framework for understanding business ethics and corporate governance.
As internal doubts persist on whether an individual adheres to business ethics and corporate policies, readers need to utilize this book in order to develop moral reasoning by demonstrating the moral entity consideration principle.
This is vital in terms of coping with an internationalized business environment where human resources...
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Transforming Towards Life orients change agents, policy makers, activists, business leaders, ecologists, economists, and thoughtful people everywhere to the values and practices needed to build a world where all can flourish, where 'all' includes all humanity and all of life's beings.
It provides an in-depth understanding of what it will take, especially in the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic and the burgeoning climate emergency, to transform...
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Progress of corporate history since the industrial revolution has been an enormous growth in freedom of enterprise, economic prosperity, innovation, technical, and intellectual advancement but it has also been, stoking the passions of greed, a slow and sure decay of morality, and social order culminating in high unemployment and Occupy Wall Street movements.
Business enterprise is a profound thought of good intentions towards the society, which sets...
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This book explores business ethics as applied in a modern context including data management, corporate social responsibility, media ethics, and government ethics.
Ethics are not the same as morals. They are contextual and apply to specific relationships. This work explores business ethics as applied in a modern context including data management, corporate social responsibility, media ethics, and government ethics. Drawing on the work of philosophers,...
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Grappling with the Gray offers a collection of case studies, real and hypothetical, intended to ignite thoughtful consideration of ethical dilemmas in our personal and professional lives.
Simply stated, a business culture driven by profits at the expense of values is destined to fail. Research shows that companies ranked highest for ethics grow faster than companies that aren't. Work environments are more pleasant. Employees are more satisfied, engaged,...
12) Successful Cybersecurity Professionals: How To Change Your Behavior to Protect Your Organization
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This book provides a unique perspective into the mindset of psychology and cybersecurity.
It presents a view of incorporating the latest research in cybersecurity and behavior. The newest cybersecurity challenge is not just understanding cybercriminals' behavior, but our behavior as well, and to realize that some of behaviors could lead us in making bad cybersecurity decisions.
By using models and literature rooted in psychology and comparing those...
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This book covers the subject of economic damages and its role in insurance claims, lawsuits, and injunctions against businesses.
Businesses exist to provide goods and services to customers, and in doing so, they take risks. Among these risks is the chance of losing money in lawsuits filed by customers, employees, and others negatively impacted by the business. Insurance provides some protection against these liabilities, but lawsuits still take their...
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Corporations are expanding their performance to both financial economic performance (ESP) and non-financial environmental, ethical, social and governance (EESG) sustainability performance to effectively achieve their objective of creating shared value for all stakeholders. Companies are now adopting the mission of profit-with purpose by shifting their goals to create shareholder value while fulfilling their social, environmental and governance responsibilities.
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Using his experiences of life in the corporate jungle, K.F. Dochartaigh has produced a survival manual that assists and guides the reader on how best to navigate corporate pitfalls and avoid being 'trapped'.
The book fuses three separate but intertwined disciplines of the animal kingdom, the guerrilla battlefield, and the corporate world to help establish patterns of behavior and to understand the motivations that drive each action.
All three areas...
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Organized crimes (e.g., weapons trafficking, drug distribution, white collar crime) persist globally due primarily to the power of modern information and communication technology (e.g., computer-based networks in the open and dark webs) to facilitate organization and the enhanced liquidity provided by electronic transfers (in effect, e-capital) to distribute criminal proceeds in the same covert and high-speed manner used by the so-called legitimate...
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This book examines how consumers are protected on the online marketplace in the context of ASEAN countries.
While many sectors have been badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, eRetailing is one of the booming sectors during this period. Actually, the eRetailing sector was already booming even before the global pandemic. Although eRetailing offers many opportunities for businesses and consumers, there are several issues associated with e-consumer...
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This book describes methods to transform existing business by using digitized trust that is industrialized at scale.
Executives, consultants, and strategists are wondering how to participate in the blockchain economy. They are wondering whether new business models that will emerge because of this novel technology will disrupt theirs or whether they will ignore their businesses and create completely different models. In this book I answer all those...
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Business Sustainability Factors of Performance, Risk, and Disclosure examines sustainability factors of performance, risk and disclosure. The five dimensions of sustainability performance are economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental (EGSEE).
Business sustainability is advancing from the greenwashing and branding to, very recently, business imperative as shareholders demand, regulators require, and companies report their sustainability...
20) Muddy Boots Leadership: Real Life Stories and Personal Examples of Good, Bad, and Unexpected Results
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285 military "leadership situations" and the actions leaders have taken, and some real surprises. Emphasis on practical applications of leadership, coupled with real-life vignettes add the real spark to the leadership lessons learned and relearned by each generation of America's warriors. Applicable to business, corporate, and organizational leadership.