Cross-Cultural Aspects of Tourism and Hospitality is the first textbook to offer students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners a comprehensive guide to the influence of culture on service providers as well as on customers, affecting both the supply and the demand sides of the industry – organisational behaviour, and human resource management, and marketing and consumer behaviour. Given the need for delivering superior customer value, understanding different cultures from both demand and s...
Stressing verbal logic rather than mathematics, Israel M. Kirzner provides at once a thorough critique of contemporary price theory, an essay on the theory of entrepreneurship, and an essay on the theory of competition. Competition and Entrepreneurship offers a new appraisal of quality competition, of selling effort, and of the fundamental weaknesses of contemporary welfare economics. Kirzner's book establishes a theory of the market and the price system which differs from orthodox price theory....
Energy has always been and important ingredient for the economic and social progress of human society, although the form in which energy is used has undergone a phenomenal change. Energy security relates to economic security in the context of energy decision making. In modern society, energy has become more global in nature. The ever-increasing integration of energy markets across the globe spreads the security concern from one sector and country to another. The papers in this volume deal with l...
W H Ferguson Early Nebraska (Garland Studies in Intrepreneurship)
by Gibson
A History of the Dublin University Press 1734-1976
by Vincent Kinane
In this book the author deals with every aspect of the production process of the Dublin University Press: the building and equipment; the personnel and working conditions; the policy and finance; and the output and its publication. He has also set the history of the Press in the context of the Dublin printing and publishing trade of the day. Founded in 1734 Dublin University Press is the oldest printing and publishing house in Ireland, its history linked intimately to the scholarly and intellect...
Investieren in Volatilitat. Studien und Empirische Untersuchungen
by Andreas Friedrich
Jungle Oil; the Search for Venezuela's Hidden Treasure
by Myrick 1922- Land
Future Telco (Management for Professionals)
This book examines the extensive changes in markets, technologies and value chains that telecommunication companies are currently confronted with. It analyzes the crossroads they have reached and the choices that now need to be made - to be a bit pipe or a trendsetter of digitalization. Based on an analysis of the key challenges for telcos, the book derives future market scenarios and puts forward recommendations for how they can successfully position themselves. It proposes a framework based on...