Alliances have come of age. In the last ten years, they have gone from being a peripheral tool of management, used mostly to enter restricted overseas markets, to a centerpiece of corporate strategy and competitive advantage. Today, many companies have portfolios of twenty or more alliances?and some have more than a hundred. Because of this, it is now common to see alliances account for 20?50 p…

This book addresses the social aspects of KM (Knowledge Management) that are largely ignored in the literature. Using various social science perspectives, the authors provide critical analyses of KM in higher education, with an emphasis on unintended consequences and future implications. The objectives of this book are to examine the strengths and weaknesses of KM, and to provide examples of th…

The term ?multimedia? has become something of a catch-all phrase for a large array of new communication technologies and qualifies without doubt as one of the buzzwords of the past decade, along with similarly fashionable phrases like ?cyberspace? and ?virtual reality?. A wealth of literature is rapidly accumulating on multimedia developments, particularly in popular and ?how to? genres, and on…

Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Consultants (2nd ed.) is about facilitating these and other organizational changes. But this book is not about just any type of organizational change: rather, it focuses on planned, systematic, and educationally oriented change that is carried out for organizational improvement. The book is about organization development (OD). Organization develo…

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This book offering a review of the research and current issues that affect GLBT (Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) people, this book also details specific practice suggestions in each chapter. Thus, practitioners who read this text should be able to develop a theoretical, empirical knowledge base about GLBT people and the issues that affect their psychosocial well-being, as well as practice …

Sourcing Strategy: Principles, Policy and Design is written for of sourcing, whether he or she is a business studies major, administrator, an executive in private enterprise, or an aspiring Sourcing Strategy is aimed at satisfying the need for an management book on strategic sourcing policy and designs, based theoretical principles. It assumes no more than awareness from the he or she must unde…

The CFO as Business Integrator has a simple, but ambitious goal: to serve as an implementation guide for the CFO?s new finance integration agenda. In our many months of researching this book, we?ve found that executives feel both confused by integration technology and driven to pursue the tantalizing benefits it offers. They want to move from complexity to simplicity, but need a clear integrati…

I acknowledge with gratitude the support that I received for my research during 1999/2000, when I held a fellowship at the International Center for Economic Research (ICER, Turin), as well as the continuous support that I received from the Institut pour le Management de la Recherche et de l?Innovation (IMRI) at the University Paris Dauphine. I am particularly grateful to Valérie Fleurette and …

The twentieth century was undoubtedly the era of democratization and concomitant development of more scientific and sophisticated forms of public relations, particularly in the United States and countries of Western Europe. The 1990s also was the decade of globalization because of the founding of the World Trade Organization and the formation of many regional and trans-region blocs such as NAFT…