Practical and informal, this manual clearly defines Master Data Management (MDM), a set of processes and tools that consistently define and manage the nontransactional data entities of an organization. Demonstrating how to implement MDM and how to make it complement other IT solutions, this handbook proves that MDM is a fascinating and up-and-coming approach that allows organizations to run customer-centric business operations. With chapters on data governance, MDM data domains, and customer-dat...
Environmental Security And Quality After Communism
Despite increased awareness both inside and outside the countries of the former Soviet bloc, the environmental crisis in the area has not abated since the fall of communism. In fact, the proliferation of new nations and the continuing intensification of economic problems have actually complicated the search for solutions. In this volume, scholars from East and West discuss the threats posed by environmental destruction to the quality of life, stability and security in this vast region.
Economic Approaches to Organizations and Institutions
This work offers an economic analysis of organizations and institutions. It offers perspectives from a number of viewpoints - principal and agent, the transaction cost approach, game theory, the property rights approach, the public choice/constitutional economics stance, and a number of others.
Exploiter La Valeur Du Foncier Pour Financer Les Infrastructures Urbaines (Tendances Et Orientations)
by George E. Peterson Jr.
Leasing in Development
by Matther Fletcher, Rachael Freedman, Murat Sultanov, and Umedjan Umarav
There are many countries whose leasing sectors have not contributed to development as much as others elsewhere. This manual aims to minimize this gap in progress between countries by sharing experiences on leasing development based upon leasing technical assistance activities. This should be a useful resource for useful reference throughout the world to lessors, lessees/SMES, governments, regulators, investors, legal/accounting, banks, international financial institutions and donors.
The rags to riches story of John Dewar & Sons is probably the most colourful of any whisky company, largely owing to the remarkable talents of John Dewar's two sons, John Alexander Dewar (who finished as Lord Forteviot) and his brother Thomas (who was created Lord Dewar of Homestall) - and as such provides a fascinating insight into the Scotch whisky industry during its formative and most colourful era. The Dewar's story is also a benchmark study in the history of advertising and marketing, in w...
While the name Duncan Hines is presently associated with cake mix, from the Depression to the mid-1950s, the name was most commonly associated with a series of guidebooks pointing travelers to the best restaurants, hotels/motels, and vacation destinations. These books were overwhelmingly popular, outpacing even the venerable Michelin Guide. Prior to Hines, finding good food or safe lodging was a hit-or-miss proposition: restaurants were often unsanitary and the food of poor quality. Hines was tr...
Russian Corporate Capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika
by Professor of History Thomas C Owen
Routledge Library Editions: Development Mini-Set F: Development Economics (Routledge Library Editions: Development)
by Various
Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development. Published over more than four decades these books trace the emergence of development as one of the most important contemporary issues and one of the key areas of study for modern social science. The books cover the most important themes within development and include studies of Latin America, Africa and Asia. Authors include Sir Alexander Cairncross, W. Arthur Lewis, L...
A "highly entertaining history [of] global hustling, cola wars and the marketing savvy that carved a niche for Coke in the American social psyche" (Publishers Weekly). Secret Formula follows the colorful characters who turned a relic from the patent medicine era into a company worth $80 billion. Award-winning reporter Frederick Allen's engaging account begins with Asa Candler, a nineteenth-century pharmacist in Atlanta who secured the rights to the original Coca-Cola formula and then struggled...
Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction
The offsite and modular market is continuing to grow. This book builds on the success of a number of initiatives, including formative findings from literature, research and development and practice-based evidence (success stories). It presents new thinking and direction from leading experts in the fields of: design, process, construction, engineering, manufacturing, logistics, robotics, delivery platforms, business and transformational strategies, change management, legislation, organisational l...
The History of the Standard Oil Company, Vol. II (in Two Volumes)
by Ida M Tarbell
Dam Sector Protection and Homeland Security (Homeland Security)
by Frank R. Spellman
The sixth of a new, well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Dam Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise U.S. project designers, engineers, managers, superintendents and supervisors of dams, navigation locks, levees, dikes, hurricane barriers, mine tailings and other industrial waste impoundments, and other similar water retention and water control facilities who want quick answers to complicat...
Based on unprecedented access to the corporation's archives, The Intel Trinity is the first full history of Intel Corporation--the essential company of the digital age-- told through the lives of the three most important figures in the company's history: Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove.Often hailed the "most important company in the world," Intel remains, more than four decades after its inception, a defining company of the global digital economy. The legendary inventors of the microp...
The Political Economy of the Company
Theoretical writing on the company and company law has been dominated in recent years by economics. This collection of essays by a distinguished team of authors drawn from a variety of disciplines seeks to build on the insights of this economic analysis and broaden understanding by examining the company in a wider historical,legal, political, and sociological context. Issues discussed include the attitudes of political parties in the UK to the company, the rise of the non-executive director, in...
Quo Vadis, Buchhandel? - Vom Klassischen Haendler Zum Anbieter Partizipativer Loesungen
by Dorothea Redeker