Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship: Managing and Financing Ventures in the Global Economy

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This casebook helps entrepreneurial managers, and those who finance them, make sensible resource acquisition and investment decisions. One of its primary competitive advantages is the strong international context, as there are many global opportunities for investment and growth. These cases will help future managers and entrepreneurs identify opportunities in a global context. The cases also show how to assess which countries represent the best places to start a business, how to assemble the necessary resources, how to adapt locally and execute for success, and much more.

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This book is way overpriced.......2005-03-29

I can't believe the nerve of the publisher charging what they do for material written by grad students. To add insult to injury, they didn't even bother re-setting the typography or images. Tables are disconnected from the text and the graphics are horrible.

I had to buy this book for an entrepreneurship class. Do not buy this book as a reference for Finance or Entrepreneurship. It is a bound collection of student papers. The graphics are horrible, usually badly enlarged clip art or newspaper-quality pictures. It is very difficult to find any information in the book (like relevant cases) because there is no index and the table of contents is after 12 pages of advertisment and boasting by the "author".

If your professor requires this book, well, I'm sorry. If you're looking for a reference book, you'd be better off picking one at random.

Making, Moving and Managing: The New World of Ancient Economies, 323-31 B.C.

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Making, Moving and Managing: The New World of Ancient Economies, 323-31 B.C.

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This volume of essays approaches the issues involved in the study of ancient economies in terms of their active components - the producers, the organisers, and the transporters. By taking a closer look at how these elements interacted, the contributors have reconstituted the elements of economic behaviour in the ancient world, to show how institutional mechanisms (money supply; the encouragement of city foundations; markets; royal palaces) created frameworks within which goods (oil and wine, cereals, perfumes, ceramics) and services were exchanged. Each chapter engages with the theoretical and material aspects of one of these topics in an original way. The result is an up-to-date approach to ancient economies, which attempts to bridge the gap between the micro scale of small independent communities and the macro scale of territorial powers.

Managing in the New Economy (Harvard Business Review Book Series.)

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Helps Readers Make Sense of the New Economy
Heavy on Managing, Light on New Economy

Managing in the New Economy (Harvard Business Review Book Series.)

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As the Harvard Business Review's strategy editor, Joan Magretta has helped readers to see beyond the hype that surrounds the much-discussed but frequently misunderstood "new economy." Her work with the world's most influential business thinkers and executives has shaped our understanding of the practical issues of leadership, organization, and strategy that every manager must confront in this emerging era. Now, Magretta selects some of the most perceptive articles and interviews from the Review in a collection that will help readers make sense of the new managerial agenda.

With its balanced coverage, Managing in the New Economy helps us sort out what is truly new about the new economy and what endures from the old. The articles are organized around important managerial issues, revealing how the dynamics shaping the new economy are changing both managers' priorities and the tools they use to make decisions. Part I addresses the principal issues of strategy, analysis, and competition. In Part II, Magretta turns our attention to the new realities of leadership and organization. Part III brings these issues to life as three CEOs describe how their organizations are tackling the challenges of managing in the new economy.

With renowned contributors--from writers such as Michael Porter, C.K. Prahalad, and Peter Drucker to business leaders such as Michael Dell--this invaluable collection explores the new mind-set executives in every industry must embrace in order to keep pace with the trends in technology, networks, knowledge, and globalization that are shaping the new economy. A Harvard Business Review Book.

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Helps Readers Make Sense of the New Economy.......2000-01-12

As the Harvard Business Review's strategy editor, Joan Magretta helped readers to see beyond the hype that surrounds the much discussed but frequently misunderstood "new economy". Her work with the world's most influential business thinkers and executives has shaped our understanding of the practical issues of leadership, organization, and strategy that every manager must confront in this emerging era. Now, Magretta selects some of the most perceptive articles and interviews from the Review in a collection that will help readers make sense of the new managerial agenda.

With its balance coverage, Managing in the New Economy helps us sort out what is truly new about the new economy and what endures from the old. The articles are organized around important managerial issues, revealing how the dynamics shaping the new economy are changing both manager's priorities and the tools they use to make decisions. Part 1 addresses the principal issues of strategy, analysis and competition. In Part II, Magretta turns our attention to the new realities of leadership and organization. Part III brings these issues to life as three CEO's describe how their organizations are tackling the challenges of managing in the new economy.

With renowned contributors-from writers such as Michael Porter, C.K Prahalad, and Peter Drucker to business leaders such as Michael Dell-this invaluable collection explores the new mind-set executives in every industry must embrace in order to keep pace with the trends in technology, networks, knowledge, and globalization that are shaping the new economy.

Joan Magretta is a writer and consultant based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was the Harvard Business Review's strategy editor from 1995-1999, and the winner of the 1998 McKinsey award for the best HBR article of the year. Prior to joining HBR, she was a partner at the management consulting firm of Bain & Co.

Reviewed by Azlan Adnan. Formerly Business Development Manager with KPMG, Azlan is currently Managing Partner of Azlan & Koh Knowledge and Professional Management Group, an education and management consulting practice based in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysian Borneo. He holds a Master's degree in International Business and Management from the Westminster Business School in London.

Heavy on Managing, Light on New Economy.......1999-12-29

While the title, Managing in the New Economy, portends an insight into New Economy thinking, the book does not deliver. It is basically divided into 3 parts: Competition and Strategy, Leadership and Organization, and Ideas at Work. There are several excellent articles that will help any business person in their day-to-day dealings with the New Economy: (1) Strategy and the New Economics of Information, (2) The Dawn of the E-Lance Economy, (3) The Power of Virtual Integration and (4) Fast, Global and Entrepreneurial: Supply Chain Management, Hong Kong Style. These articles deal with the issues facing the business world today, focusing on the exhilarating opportunities that have been swept onto the landscape by the New Economy. While the other articles are enlightening (at times), most of them seem out of place (i.e. Global Sustainability? ) in this book. The Peter Drucker article, however, while not linked directly to the New Economy, provides an extremely good assessment of executive leadership for tomorrow. It is an easy read, but disappointing considering the editorial review.

Managing Innovation, Second Edition: New Technology, New Products, and New Services in a Global Economy

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Managing Innovation, Second Edition: New Technology, New Products, and New Services in a Global Economy
John E. Ettlie
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ASIN: 075067895X

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Managing Innovation: New Technology, New Products, and New Services in a Global Economy, 2nd Edition is devoted to providing a better understanding and better management of all of the causes and consequences of change that have technological implications in and around our global organizations. This text is a unique, original contribution and represents a significant alternative to the collection of chapters written by others.

The second edition has new cases with a few classics from the first edition that have been retained in response to reader feedback. The key subjects that are included have been significantly updated and treated in greater depth. The number of chapters has been reduced from 12 to 10 so it is easy to adapt to almost any course or training on the subject in any discipline or to any audience.

This exceptionally informative book provides a broad perspective on how technological change can be effectively managed in modern organizations. The text explains the conceptual frameworks supported by new and original case studies for start-up companies like Askmen.com, the complex challenges of managing international technology-based companies like NexPress (a joint venture of Kodak and Heidelberg) in the digital printing industry, and corporate sustainability using innovative new product technologies illustrated by the case of Evinrudes launch of the E-tec® outboard motor.

John E. Ettlie's three decades in the field of innovation as an instructor and researcher bring an exceptional perspective to this subject. His text is unique in its discussion of how technology has transformed the service sector. Few books on technology make the distinction between new offerings in manufacturing and the service sector which is emphasized in this text.

* New and original case studies: Gillette Sensor Razor, HP Inkjet, IBM, Kodak Single Use Camera, Denver International Airport, Microsoft, Honda
* Contains feedback from classroom testing and focuses intently on teaching the subject at the MBA level

Quantum Leap: Tools for Managing Companies in the New Economy

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Quantum Leap: Tools for Managing Companies in the New Economy
Jacques Chaize
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ASIN: 0333928989

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Globalization, networking, and new communications technology mean that traditionally-oriented companies are being replaced by new, nonlinear, "hypertext" structures. However, for many, these are still a mystery. Based on his extensive practical experience as CEO of a multinational industrial group, Jacques Chaize provides simple tools enabling all readers to better understand and live with the hypertext corporation and feel ready to take the leap into the future.

21st Century Business: Managing and Working in the New Digital Economy

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A practical guide to 21st century, but not easy to read...
The business world as it is today and will be tomorrow

21st Century Business: Managing and Working in the New Digital Economy
James W. Cortada
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Manage all the changes driving your business in the 21st century!

In a time of unremitting, accelerating technological change, James W. Cortada offers a calm, intelligent path through the wilderness, helping managers understand the big picture and successfully manage the transition to the Internet economy. Cortada shows how to get past the hype associated with innovation, and leverage the best of the new technologies — without abandoning management fundamentals that are more important today than ever.

Management

How the fundamentals of management will — and won't — apply in the 21st century

Knowledge

Master today's best practices for creating a learning organization

Internet

Leverage the Internet to build smarter, more efficient supply and value chains

Work

Understand how the new economy transforms work — and workers

Strategy

Choose a new future for your company — high-level approaches and step-by-step tasks

21st Century Business demonstrates how to manage and work as your firm transforms itself from an Industrial Age enterprise to a 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS, presenting street-wise strategies, guidelines, examples, and tips every manager can start using today. It's a masterful guide to what is changing, how to live in both worlds, and where your future sources of profit and personal success will come from.

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As Oracle Corporation reminds us in their slogan: "the Internet Changes Everything". Or as Buick said in its advertising a couple of years ago: "This isn't your father's Buick". The world of work and managing has changed dramatically over the past decade,

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A practical guide to 21st century, but not easy to read..........2002-11-05

It is the first time I'm reading a book from James W. Cortada and I can say that it was not an easy reading for me. The author is writing in the preface "The chapters help to catalog and rationalize the changes underway and how work must be done", but too much use of cataloguing and rationalizing is harmful for the reader who is losing his way in all the firsts, seconds, thirds, etc. at quite every page. It makes difficult to follow the thinking of the author.

Main idea developed in 21st century business is that change "is occurring more in an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary manner" and that "we must manage in an environment rooted in the past and yet stepping forward into a new future." This duality gives possibilities to build our future on past sound well chosen practices even if some "old knowledge and practices increasingly are competitive disadvantages as firms move from the Second Industrial Age into portions of the new Information Age."

James W. Cortada is showing us that the Information Age is more than technology and that managers need to understand that the sources of profit are changing. They need to understand how profits are made and to understand the effects of globalization and digitization within a context of emerging political realities. Information is becoming an important part of a new value proposition and must be leveraged by developing networks, learning organizations, and knowledge-workers.

Based on the evolution concept the author develops how to use best practices, benchmarking and process management approaches to give us the assets to understand how waves of change work and to create a virtuous circle for developing learning organizations.

But learning organizations are networks of knowledge workers, which are increasing in number with the emergence of information-based economy. That means that knowledge management is becoming an important part of a manager's job. To understand that knowledge management is operating within a business ecology, which can be described as an environment of enablers, inhibitors, and drivers is crucial to be able to leverage knowledge to generate profits in business or efficiencies and quality of performance in governments.

The use of Internet, which is a low-cost way of moving information around has a big impact on knowledge management, but also on work organization by enabling collaboration and alliances without constraints of space and time. This allows closer partnerships with suppliers, customers and even competitors, making organizations' traditional boundaries more flexible. But Internet is also an interactive tool with the impact on organizations moving from Second Industrial Age mass production to Information Age mass customization, when not made-to-order.

"The most important use of Internet today is in the fundamental redesign of supply chains", which "are making it possible to squeeze out inefficiencies, improving productivity while allowing firms to connect in new ways to suppliers and customers." The author is sharing with us IBM's interesting practical experience in this field.

The final chapter is showing us how we can manage the change to enter in the New Digital Economy, because "we have more control over the future of our enterprises than we realize."

This book is finally replacing the move to the "New Economy" in a context we are leaving in, and wants to convince us that we already have many tools in our hands to enter properly the Information Age. Some Great Reading at the end of the book consolidates the evolution approach demonstrated by giving us roots in the past literature.

The business world as it is today and will be tomorrow.......2001-01-20

I found this to be an insightful read with lots of ideas to ponder. Cortada hits on several hot buttons of the new economy--technology, continuous training and best practices, knowledge workers and knowledge management, the Internet, and supply chain management. He makes the important distinction that the changes going on today represent more than just technology. He talks about the search for the new value proposition, globabilization, how to leverage knowledge workers, the preeminence of the supply chain, and lots more. His book is not just descriptive. In several chapters he includes an "implications and actions" section that is very helpful in thinking about "what now?" The book also includes useful diagrams to illustrate his points.

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How effective are regional and interregional institutions in managing Asia’s increasingly complex economic and security ties? This question is currently the subject of intense debate among both academics and policymakers. Based on an innovative approach to analyzing institutional design, this path-breaking book provides a rich theoretical and empirical analysis of trends in Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia. In particular, it shows how three major shocks—the end of the Cold War, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the 9/11 attacks—have challenged Asia’s long-standing trade and security order and generated a new set of institutional structures for coping with regional dynamics. Whereas the original postwar trade and security order revolved around bilateral alliance structures, global economic and security institutions, and long-standing corporate and ethnic networks, the new institutional environment in Asia is manifested by the proliferation of preferential trading arrangements and security dialogues, both official and unofficial, formal and informal, bilateral and minilateral. Asia’s New Institutional Architecture brings together a multinational group of specialists on Asian trade and security to provide a theoretically grounded analysis of historical and current developments in the region. The book will be must reading for those interested in examining future trends for Asia and its relations with the world.

Confidence and Changes Managing Social Protection in the New Millennium (Eiss/Kluwer Law International Series, Number 5)

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Confidence and Changes Managing Social Protection in the New Millennium (Eiss/Kluwer Law International Series, Number 5)
Danny Pieters
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The idea of "competitive flexibility" fostered by open market economics has deeply eroded the established social security systems of the developed nations. The confidence of wage-earners, who depend on an administrative "safety net" to protect them from loss of income, has virtually disappeared. Social exclusion and poverty have become inescapable threats for the average worker. It was to tackle this enormously important issue that the European Institute of Social Security (EISS), a leading multidisciplinary research group dedicated to exploring the frontiers of social security, met in June 2000 in Goteborg in Sweden. Twenty members of the Institute prepared papers for delivery at the conference, all of which are now printed in this book. These papers -- all of them meticulously researched studies of the most sensitive and far-reaching problems in the current crisis of confidence in social security systems -- include discussion of such elements as the following: + the shift in emphasis from compensation for loss of income to a more preventive approach based on income security; + measures against social exclusion enacted by the European Union; + the meaning of the term "employability" as revealed in EU Member States' National Action Plans (NAPs); + the growing pressure on beneficiaries to "perform" rather than "conform"; + the interplay in international law between human rights and social security; + labour market participation according to gender and educational level; + labour market participation among families with young children; + the promise of a "federal" social security system in Europe; and + objective standards vs. "moral hazard" in labour market insurance. Various reform initiatives (including the controversial debate on private sector funding) are also covered, making Confidence and Changes the most wide-ranging and provocative book on the subject available today to policymakers, academics, researchers and business people. This is a collective work of great value for the current and future determination of social security management systems, not only in Europe but throughout the world.

Managing in a Five Dimension Economy: Ven Matrix Architectures for New Organizations

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Managing in a Five Dimension Economy: Ven Matrix Architectures for New Organizations
G. D. Venerable
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This volume offers a unique approach to understanding and managing today's organizations as they are governed by mathematical and scientific systems that underly evolutionary biology. This opens the prospect of managing by an organizational model that incorporates those same systems and principles, and gives us a powerful new way to view both the organization and the market it serves. The Ven Matrix Architecture is the newest systems approach to "seeing the terrain of a system" and its marketplace. All this is in a "five dimension economy, a digital internetworked, trans-planetary system of competing markets that mimics the behavior of a globally extended bacterial colony." Were it not for the author's impeccable credentials one might raise an eyebrow at all this, but Venerable has the academic background and practical corporate experience to make us take what he says seriously. The result is a fascinating work for executives throughout the organization and for their academic colleagues. The essence of Venerable's argument is that the "evolution" of a five dimension economy--the sort of economy we have now--is driven by a collective group consciousness, made up of the world's producers, consumers, and their governments. Venerable takes a view parallel to this in looking at organizations. He calls it the Ven Matrix of a system and describes it as an interactive paradigm for dealing with the change and uncertainty inherent in any five dimension economy. Moreover, by modeling the organization as a living system, one can dramatically improve one's competitive position. Such a model, combined with the Ven Matrix systems approach explained here, enables us to see the entire terrain in which our organizations function but with a third dimension, depth added to the others. Among the special features of this book is an expression of deeply abstract issues in a language and style that will be readily accessible to most college graduates. Well illustrated with figures, tables, and explanatory diagrams, the book also provides readers with a Ven Matrix worksheet to copy and use in the course of doing quick assessments of the condition and needs of any organization, department, or project.

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Managing in the New Economy
Andre A. De Waal , and Morel Fourman
Manufacturer: Show Business Software Ltd
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ASIN: 095378200X
Release Date: 2000-01-10

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