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Decision Making: Cognitive Models and Explanations (Frontiers of Cognitive Science #Vol. 1)
by Rob Ranyard W. Ray Crozier Ola SvensonThis book offers an exciting new collection of recent research on the actual processes that humans use when making decisions in their everyday lives and in business situations. The contributors use cognitive psychological techniques to break down the constituent processes and set them in their social context. The contributors are from many different countries and draw upon a wide range of techniques, making this book a valuable resource to cognitive psychologists in applied settings, economists and managers.
Decision Making as a Learning Activity
by Arie De GeusEvery act of decision making is a learning process. This chapter describes the elements of learning and how understanding the learning process can benefit your company.
Deconstructing Public Relations: Public Relations Criticism (Routledge Communication Series)
by Thomas J. MickeyThis volume provides a critical look at public relations practice, utilizing case studies from public relations, advertising, and marketing to illustrate the deconstruction and analysis of public relations campaigns. Author Thomas J. Mickey uses a cultural studies approach and demonstrates how it can be used as a critical theory for public relations practice, offering real-world examples to support his argument. Through the interpretive act of deconstruction, this book serves to challenge the myth of public relations as an objective "science," allowing the social importance of public relations to be redefined and encouraging public relations to take a fuller place in the interdisciplinary study of text and knowledge. Intended for public relations scholars and students in public relations cases/campaigns, public relations criticism, and media studies courses, Deconstructing Public Relations: Public Relations Criticism demystifies the act of deconstruction and shows how it can give insight into the theory and practice of public relations.
Defining Problems and Opportunities: A Foundation for Success
by Charles A. O'Reilly Michael L. TushmanThis chapter introduces the fundamental building blocks of winning through innovation--setting a unit's strategy, objectives, and vision and clarifying crucial performance and opportunity gaps.
Dell Computers (A): Field Service for Corporate Clients
by Frances X. Frei Corey Hajim Amy C. EdmondsonExplores the highly successful PC and low-end server manufacturer's entry into the large-scale server market in the United States. A key difference of this new market is the intense service element required to support the larger hardware. Specifically, the industry standard is to have a technician onsite with a required part within four hours of problem diagnosis. This type of service presents a problem for Dell, as its potential customers are widely dispersed throughout the United States. Should Dell create an in-house field service team to ensure service quality and maintain control of its customer relationships or outsource the field service to a third-party provider? Complicating the issue is the presence of IBM, the biggest player in the large-scale server market.
Dell--New Horizons
by Marie Bell V. Kasturi RanganFounded in 1984, Dell Corp. has achieved phenomenal growth, and by 2000 had topped $25 billion in sales and over $2 billion in net income. In the 4th quarter of 2000, however, the PC industry's average 30-year growth rate crashed to a negative 10%. Dell must make difficult decisions on how to sustain its profitability in light of its broad product portfolio--PCs, workstations, and servers on storage products for a broad cross section of customers in the United States and worldwide. Should it stay the course or fundamentally change strategy?
Democracy
by Rawi AbdelalSurveys scholarship on democracy and democratization. Describes the relationship between democracy and the environment of business, including capitalist economic institutions, economic growth, economic reform, and international relations.
Design Management Case Studies
by David Hands Jack Ingram Robert JerrardFirst Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Developing Countries in the Gatt Legal System
by Robert E. HudecIn this reissued edition of the classic work Developing Countries in the GATT Legal System, Robert E. Hudec's clear insight on the situation of developing countries within the international trade system is once again made available. Hudec is regarded as one of the most prominent commentators on the evolution of the current international trade regime, and this long out-of-print book offers his analysis of the dynamics playing out between developed and developing nations. A significant contribution when the book was first published, this work continues to serve as a thoughtful and important guide to how current and future trade policy must seriously adapt to the demands of the developing world. This new edition includes a new introduction by J. Michael Finger that examines Hudec's work to understand how the GATT got into its current historical-institutional predicament and the lasting impact of his work on current research on international trade systems.
Developing the Talent You Have: Strategies for Training and Development
by Harvard Business Review PressWhile many companies consider employee training a good investment, others question how the organization benefits if employees move on and take that training elsewhere. Encouraging employee training and development, this chapter describes several cost-effective methods of doing it while retaining the most competent individuals.
The Deviant's Advantage: How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets
by Ryan Mathews Watts WackerBusiness consultants Mathews and Wacker argue that all new ideas are seen as deviant at their beginnings. They suggest that there is a linear process by which deviant ideas enter the mainstream and that by analyzing that process entrepreneurs can take advantage of profit-making opportunities that others might miss. They sprinkle their advice with pop-cultural references. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Devotions for Debtors
by Kristen Johnson IngramGetting out of debt, and staying out, is more than a financial formula--it's a daily choice that you can make. Filled with one hundred and twenty devotions that will help you break the habits that lead to debt and Scriptural passages to meet the very real needs of this difficult journey, Devotions for Debtors is a handy, helpful guide to learning to live within your means. Meditations address such topics as gift-giving temptation, the joys of no-money fun, and how to ask God for help dealing with the rollercoaster of emotions debt can bring on. Each devotion also includes thoughts for further reflection and exercises that may inspire you to pursue wellness in other areas of your life as well. An inspired, practical guide to changing your life, Devotions for Debtors is here to help.
Dictionary of Property and Construction Law
by J. Rostron Robert Hardy-Pickering Laura Tatham Linda WrightThis is a new dictionary which provides a clear and concise explanation of terms used in land, property and construction law and management. The four key areas of coverage are: planning/construction law, land law, equity/trusts and finance and administration. It will be a useful reference for property and building professionals and a personal purchase for students of property and construction law on building, construction management, estate management and law courses.Jack Rostron is an experienced author and editor whose 1997 Spon title Sick Building Syndrome has been well received and widely reviewed. His co-authors contribute the necessary specialist knowledge from their respective fields of teaching and legal practice.
Digital Aboriginal: Instinctive, Nomadic, and Ever-Changing
by Mikela Tarlow Philip TarlowThe Aborigine's view of the world suggests that all things are interconnected. Every relationship in turn influences every other relationship. Along these same lines, this book reveals how the modern-day business world organizes this unlimited range of possibilities and how readers can reorganize and redirect business plans merely by shifting marketing beliefs.
Dimensional Fund Advisors, 2002
by Randolph B. CohenDimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an investment management firm that prides itself on basing its investment strategies on sound academic research. Many of the best-known finance research papers of the past two decades (especially those by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French, who work closely with DFA) have led to DFA investment strategies. DFA began as a small-stock fund, attempting to take advantage of the "size affect" (excess performance of small stocks) that had been discovered by a number of academic researchers. Later, DFA added "value" strategies to its mix of offerings. After academic research documented superior performance by value stocks in a multitude of countries, DFA began to create a variety of international value-stock and small-stock investment funds. The company was highly successful, despite missing out on the great 1990s growth-stock boom. DFA's assets under management grew from $8 billion to $40 billion between 1991 and 2002. With value stocks having performed well in the first two years of the new decade, DFA is experiencing continued growth of its investor base and is now seeking new areas in which it can add value for investors while continuing to claim to have no special "stock-picking" ability.
Dimensions of Change: Examining the Different Types and Approaches
by Harvard Business Review PressUnderstanding the types of change programs and approaches that organizations use is critical to managing a change initiative effectively. This chapter provides an overview of the different approaches and their effects on business performance.
Direct Marketing in Practice (Marketing Ser.)
by Brian Thomas Matthew HousdenDirect Marketing in Practice is a practical manual for all managers and marketers getting to grips with the powerful techniques available to skilled direct marketers. The book shows how to:· Plan a direct marketing campaign· Integrate new technology with conventional direct marketing practice· Maximise the impact, efficiency and return on investment of your activites· Evaluate the success of a campaign - and improve on it next time!Accessible and illuminating, each chapter in the book includes review questions and exercises to help you practice what you have learnt. In addition, the authors have used their considerable experience in the field to assemble many examples of best practice worldwide. These place the theory in a practical, real-world context, and demonstrate what a dramatic effect direct marketing can have on sales and profitability.Those contemplating or starting a career in direct marketing will find Direct Marketing in Practice an invaluable guide to contemporary practice. It is essential reading for all undergraduate students of marketing and business, as well of those undertaking professional examinations in this area.
Disclosure and Concealment in Consumer Insurance Contracts
by Julie-Ann TarrThis book provides an in-depth examination of the theoretical,legal, social and economic foundations to disclosure and concealment of information in relation to the formation of consumer insurance contracts. A comparative treatment of this issue is undertaken with particular attention given to the judicial and legislative approaches adopted in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand. It will be relevant to those researching and studying insurance law, all legal practitioners involved with the formation of consumer insurance contracts and non-legal practitioners working within the field of insurance.
Diversity in Engineering: Managing the Workforce of the Future
by National Academy of Engineering Staff Diversity in the Engineering Workforce CommitteeThis report contains fifteen presentations from a workshop on best practices in managing diversity, hosted by the NAE Committee on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce on October 29-30, 2001. NAE (National Academy of Engineering) president William Wulf, IBM vice-president Nicholas Donofrio, and Ford vice-president James Padilla address the business case for diversity, and representatives of leading engineering employers discuss how to increase the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women and underrepresented minorities in engineering careers. Other speakers focus on mentoring, globalization, affirmative action backlash, and dealing with lawsuits. Corporate engineering and human resources managers attended the workshop and discussed diversity issues faced by corporations that employ engineers. Summaries of the discussions are also included in the report.
The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States
by Jacob S. HackerYou see someone smoking a cigarette and say,“Smoking is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are a bad person because you smoke. ” You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, “Obesity is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are lazy, unsightly, or weak of will. ” You see a woman bottle-feeding an infant and say,“Breastfeeding is better for that child's health,” when what you mean is that the woman must be a bad parent. You see the smokers, the overeaters, the bottle-feeders, and affirm your own health in the process. In these and countless other instances, the perception of your own health depends in part on your value judgments about others, and appealing to health allows for a set of moral assumptions to fly stealthily under the radar. Against Health argues that health is a concept, a norm, and a set of bodily practices whose ideological work is often rendered invisible by the assumption that it is a monolithic, universal good. And, that disparities in the incidence and prevalence of disease are closely linked to disparities in income and social support. To be clear, the book's stand against health is not a stand against the authenticity of people's attempts to ward off suffering. Against Health instead claims that individual strivings for health are, in some instances, rendered more difficult by the ways in which health is culturally configured and socially sustained. The book intervenes into current political debates about health in two ways. First, Against Health compellingly unpacks the divergent cultural meanings of health and explores the ideologies involved in its construction. Second, the authors present strategies for moving forward. They ask, what new possibilities and alliances arise? What new forms of activism or coalition can we create? What are our prospects for well-being? In short, what have we got if we ain't got health? Against Health ultimately argues that the conversations doctors, patients, politicians, activists, consumers, and policymakers have about health are enriched by recognizing that, when talking about health, they are not all talking about the same thing. And, that articulating the disparate valences of “health” can lead to deeper, more productive, and indeed more healthy interactions about our bodies.
DK Essential Managers: Global Management (DK Essential Managers)
by Terence BrakeOrganizations from every part of the world are reaching out beyond their domestic markets to become international players. Not only is this very demanding on the businesses themselves, but it also creates a challenge for individual managers who must cope with working across geographic and cultural borders. Managing Globally teaches you how to succeed in this new world. It provides clear systems and approaches to help you manage global networks and teams, and it examines the skills needed for dealing with different cultures. Practical advice, including 101 concise tips, helps you to achieve the best results for you and your team. Finally, a self-assessment exercise enables you to evaluate your global management skills. The Essential Manager guides have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self-improvement available.
DK Essential Managers: Balancing Work and Life (DK Essential Managers)
by Ben Renshaw Robert HoldenThis practical guide will help you manage your career and your personal life to achieve both success and happiness. It balances detail and accessibility to make for a read that is concise as well as comprehensive.Written by Robert Holden, a psychologist and stress expert, and Ben Renshaw, a leadership coach and therapist. They are co-directors of The Happiness Project, and each have authored several books, including Holden's Be Happy and Crenshaw's Lead. Part of the DK Essential Managers series. Packed with essential tips for today's competitive business world, these efficient guidebooks are ideal for anyone interested in improving their business skills. Concise treatment of dozens of techniques, skills, and methods make Essential Managers the most accessible guide to business available.
DK Essential Managers: Influencing People (DK Essential Managers)
by John Eaton Roy JohnsonThe ability to form mutually respectful relationships with others and to succeed in getting your ideas heard is a vital element of being a good manager. Having influence enables you to gain support and commitment for your proposals, and therefore increase your potential for success. Influencing People will help you build your communication skills, improve your ability to engage the interest and cooperation of others, and develop an authoritative and reliable reputation. Practical advice, including 101 concise tips, shows you how to develop influential attitudes and becomes someone to whom colleagues will look for advice and leadership. Finally, a self-assessment test at the end of the content enables you to evaluate your skills as an influencer. DK's bestselling Essential Managers books are ideal for managers at every level. These concise references demonstrate the techniques and skills that are useful in any work environment, making this series the most accessible single-subject business guides on the market.
DK Essential Managers: Managing Your Career (DK Essential Managers)
by Rebecca TeeIf you don&’t control your career, your career controls you. The ability to maintain a dynamic career path and develop a portfolio of skills and achievements is a must for managers. Managing Your Career shows you how to build on past experience and maximize opportunities to achieve success and fulfillment in your working life. From reviewing your current situation to exploring career options, monitoring development, and handling crises and change, all the key aspects of effective career planning are covered. With 101 practical tips scattered throughout, and self-assessment exercises that enable you to evaluate how well you have managed your career to date, this is an invaluable pocket reference for every ambitious manager. DK's bestselling Essential Managers books are ideal for managers at every level. These concise references demonstrate the techniques and skills that are useful in any work environment, making this series the most accessible single-subject business guides on the market.
DK Essential Managers: Putting Customers First (DK Essential Managers)
by Andy Bruce Ken LangdonDK's best-selling Essential Managers series are ideal for managers at every level. These compact references demonstrate the techniques and skills that are useful in any work environment, making this series the most accessible single-subject business guides on the market.