2004 Praeger Publishers

Salazar-Carrillo (economics, Florida International U.) and West (economics, U. of Miami and Florida International U.) study the role of the Venezuelan oil industry as a source of growth and the degree of success it has ...

2003 Praeger Publishers

Pooler (urban and population geography, U. of Saskatchwan, Saskatoon) takes a look into the 21st-century world of shopping a world that does not work by the old rules and principles that have shaped our image ...

2003 Praeger Publishers

Economic matters entered a new phase of importance in the wake of the Cold War. Concerns within development-assistance efforts to the Third World have also shifted. The current macro-environment of development has been accompanied by ...

2003 Praeger Publishers

Gina Vega's perspectives, supported by exhaustive research and fascinating insights, provide an important contribution to our understanding of what will come to be recognixed as one of the most significant social developments of the 20th ...

2003 Praeger Publishers

Leadership is fundamentally different from management, but traditional leadership skills were based on an ill-fitting, management-oriented model. When leadership is recognized as a discrete professional specialty, new techniques and methods are needed to operationalize the ...

2003 Praeger Publishers

Provides the reader with a remarkable analysis of the challenges that the new 'information-related' technologies present in today's world. Manuel Hinds, an eminent Latin American policymaker in his own right, describes the difficulties of our ...

2003 Praeger Publishers

This breakthrough analysis of several advanced, exceptionally productive, and motivating organizational cultures is based on interviews with employees--from shop floor workers to CEOs--to discover precisely what makes them so effective. These positive case studies, illuminated ...

2003 Praeger Publishers

Brown and Ruhl, both with considerable experience in the non-profit world, present a combined text and reference. The first part includes case studies and end-of-chapter reviews to support discussion of what's involved in producing mission-driven ...

2003 Praeger Publishers

Strategy--and the planning that created it--has too often failed to deliver its promised results. The reasons for this failure are many and varied, but include an over-reliance on the "next big thing" in strategic methodology, ...

2003 Praeger Publishers

Competitive intelligence (CI) is now becoming a mature profession. With that maturation comes the need to develop and understand the how's and why's of managing CI, as distinguished from understanding how CI works. There is ...

2003 Praeger Publishers

This book is as important for employers, human resource managers, and outplacement specialists as it is for employees. Just as employees need to be aware of their rights and options, employers need to understand the ...

2003 Praeger Publishers

Important lessons in economic policy in developing nations are provided here as contributors evaluate the effectiveness of various domestic scenarios and the recommendations of international organizations such as the World Bank

2003 Praeger Publishers

Demonstrates how and why wealth and growth materialize when financial markets unify by adopting a common currency. European monetary unification has produced a 15 trillion dollar windfall to its member nations that is rarely discussed ...

2003 Praeger Publishers

Arguing that a moral case for banning gambling is untenable in a liberal democratic society, Collins (Director, Center for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, U. of Salford, UK) advocates alternative means of handling ...