Driving Your Company's Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value is a step-by-step book presenting a valuation-oriented methodology that helps companies maximize shareholder value. It offers clear, concise, and concrete methods for management to create and preserve value, complete with case study applications. In an easy-to-read format, it brings together the aspects of the Financial Accounting S…

Organizational Crisis Management: The Human Factor offers theoretical background and practical strategies for responding to workplace crises. Responding to a paradigm that focuses on the operational aspects of continuity to the detriment of human factors, this volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the unavoidable yet often complex reactions of workforces to a wide array of organizati…

There is a long-standing tradition of research that highlights the importance of differences in the organizational and technological capabilities of firms and their effect on economic performance. This book expands on this theme by exploring the role of knowledge and innovation in firm strategy and industrial change. Underlying the volume is the belief that firms have distinctive methods of ope…

This book is a practical master-class in how to manage both yourself and others to provide a team that is motivated, creative and high-performing. Internationally recognised as a writer, teacher and consultant, Professor John Adair has written 27 books and numerous articles on leadership and management development: this is the distillation of a career's thought and practice into one book. The b…

Is your nonprofit organization ready for increased scrutiny, reporting requirements, regulations, and increased expectations from donors? This combination reference/workbook prepares you and shows you how Sarbanes-Oxley best practices can benefit your organization. It includes: * A structured description of Sarbanes-Oxley and its implications for nonprofits * Detailed discussions on governance,…

This book will help you realize the benefits of good organizational skills. The advice here will help you become more organized so that you will get the most out of your school, work, and personal time. The following are some of the topics covered in this book: 1. Building time-management skills that will teach you to prioritize, be on time, and have more time. 2. Creating an effective to-do li…

Three issues shape the current debate on asset management: the restructuring of the management process to integrate new investment products, the necessity to reform pension schemes, and the achievement of a globally coordinated regulatory framework. These challenging tasks benefit from objective guidance by scientifically substantiated asset management standards. The current discussion's main f…

E-Business Strategy, Sourcing and Governance is based on the premise that it is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a modern business or public organization without at least some knowledge of the planning, use, control and benefits of information technology. Managers need to have an understanding of strategy development for IS/IT that covers e-business strategy, sourcing of service, and gov…

In the past three decades, businesses have made staggering investments in technology to increase their productivity and efficiency. The technological infrastructure of these companies has become increasingly sophisticated and complex. Most companies today are extremely dependent on their technological infrastructure. Operating without it is like trying to run a business without a telephone or e…

The book has a global perspective and will play a significant part in assisting the sustainable development of all coastal nations around the world. Moreover, the coast plays an important part in the lives of many people living in the Asia-Pacific Region, with over two-thirds of its 3.2 billion people living within the coastal zone. As a result, I believe the book has particular value to this r…