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  • Technology Infrastructure

    Edited by Cristiano Antonelli, Albert N. Link, Stan Metcalfe ...
    Technology infrastructure supports the design, deployment and use of both individual technology-based components and the systems of such components that form the knowledge-based economy. As such, it plays a central role in the innovation process and in the promotion of the diffusion of technologies. Thus, it is an important element contributing to the operation of innovation systems and innovation ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Barriers to Growth in Small Firms

    Edited by John Barber, Stan Metcalfe, Mike Porteous ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Small Business
    This book, originally published in 1989, studies both the growth and the barriers to growth of small firms. It examines market and industrial structures, also the role of investment institutions and their handling of small business accounts. There are chapters on management attitudes and ability considered as a potential barrier to development, and other problems such as lack of finance and of a ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Theories of Economic and Technological Change

    Present Status and Future Prospects

    Edited by (Pier) Paolo Saviotti, Stan Metcalfe ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Economics and Business of Technology
    Recently, evolutionary theories of economic and technological change have attracted a considerable amount of attention which reflects the problems encountered by mainstream analysis of dynamic phenomena and quantitative change. This book, originally published in 1991, develops the debate and draws on the concepts of evolutionary biology, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, systems and organization ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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    The Crisis in our Boardrooms: Developing the Crucial Skills of the Competent Director

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    As a Chinese proverb says 'The fish rots from the head' and so it is with businesses and other organisations - the buck starts and stops in the boardroom. This third edition of Bob Garratt's bestselling book that highlights the importance of effective corporate governance has been extensively updated following the corporate scandals of the early 2000s - Enron, WorldCom, Tyco - and the abysmal ... Read more

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  • This Idea Must Die

    Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 17 - Edge Question Series
    The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a ... Read more

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  • The Systems View of Life

    A Unifying Vision

    by Pier Luigi Luisi, Fritjof Capra ...
    Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • A Cooperative Species

    Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution

    by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis ...
    A thought-provoking scientific exploration of the evolutionary origins of human cooperation.Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to help close ... Read more

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  • The Ethical Capitalist: How to Make Business Work Better for Society

    by Julian Richer ...
    ____________****______*A road-map for a kinder, fairer capitalism that is fit for the 21st century*Financial Times Book of the Month‘The founder of Richer Sounds is one of the finest entrepreneurs we have.’ Archie Norman, chairman of Marks & Spencer____________****______Capitalism has lost its way.<... ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

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  • Diversity and Complexity

    by Scott E. Page ...
    Series series Primers in Complex Systems
    This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for ... Read more

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  • Managing the Modern Law Firm

    New Challenges, New Perspectives

    Edited by Laura Empson ...
    The last ten years have been a period of extraordinary change for law firms. The rapid growth of corporate law firms and the emergence of global mega-firms such as Clifford Chance, Linklaters, and Freshfields, have strained the traditional partnership model of management. Some managers of law firms are appalled at the creeping 'corporatism' that they fear may result. However a growing number ... Read more

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  • Laboratory Life

    The Construction of Scientific Facts

    by Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar ...
    This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too ... Read more

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  • Why Women Mean Business

    Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution

    by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Alison Maitland ...
    WOMEN MEAN BUSINESS“...gives example after example of the price that we all pay for a situation in which ‘women may hold the keys but men still control the locks’.”The Times“What’s especially valuable is the authors’ analysis of where companies go wrong in managing women...that’s how it will help women in the workplace.”Harvard Business Review“Lays out the importance of retaining ... ... Read more

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