Business
Break Up! When Large Companies are Worth More Dead than Alive
This work offers a lively approach to the business phenomenon of the break up of multi-business companies. It argues that the case for conglomerates is unproven, and that the break up is the most dynamic of the business trends to have emerged in the 1990s.
Euro Futures
This text looks at the various options for Europe over the next 100 years, and where everybody will be heading. It offers five scenarios which include a united Europe dominating the world and prosperity for the EU core.
The Strategic Partnering Handbook
Never before has the world seemed so small, the marketplace so competitive, change more rapid and the pressure to perform so intense.
Best Practice Creativity
Many organizations today face the need to continually re-invent themselves to remain competitive. This book is designed for senior managers who need to address creativity from a strategic, rather than an individual, perspective.
The Sustainable Corporation
The authors trace the shift which has put aside the methods of the industrial age for a more flexible, dynamic and responsive approach to organizational change and management. They trace how theorists and practitioners have sought to reconcile social and managerial objectives.
Ending the Blame Culture
A study of how "blame cultures" can be turned into "gain cultures". The book draws on analysis of 200 accounts of mistakes, looks at the type of mistake, the context they were made in and how they helped learning and development.
Working in Partnership
Using the experience of practising managers, this book offers advice on developing working partnerships with customers and suppliers.
Australian Financial Markets Review 1998
This book provides an annual survey of the Australian Financial Markets for the year ending 30th June 1998.
Europe and the Japanese Challenge
This text investigates European policies towards the "Japanese Challenge" in cross-national and historical perspectives. It compares the policy response of European governments with that of the US government by contrasting case studies in three key business sectors.
Future Tense
Paul Kelly heads a team of political and social analysts to provide a snapshot of Australia on the eve of a new millennium, focusing on many of the issues left unexamined in the last Federal election.