Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) have recently re-emerged as a potential source of support and stability for the world economy, and this volume looks at the history of SDRs as well as the changing roles of the United States and the International Monetary Fund and the nature of the relationship between them.

Drawing on the work of Jurgen Habermas’s social theory for the critical study of management, organization and employment, this book proposes a new definition of legitimate corporate action; based on Habermas’s principles of communicative rationality and discourse ethics.

This volume is an excellent addition to Routledge’s Studies in Small Business series. In this extended and novel entrepreneurial analysis of small firm inception and growth, a leading authority in the field develops a new kind of ‘micro-micro’ analysis, applying rigorous methods from economics, accounting and finance to gain a deeper understanding of micro-firms.

‘The book is an important tool for academics and practitioners who wish to develop an understanding of marketing as practised by firms within an international context.’ – Journal of International Marketing and Marketing Research

This book investigates strategy formulation by comparing military & Business practices. It assesses whether the strategy process in the business field also prevails in the military context.

The first edition of this book was published in 2001 by Routledge and was the first academic text on the important new emerging field of NGO management. Revealing the distinctive organizational challenges faced by NGOs this second edition provides a fully updated and revised text that will prove invaluable to all those studying or working in NGOs, the voluntary sector or development studies.

The practice and perceptions of Japanese management are undergoing fundamental change. This book sets out to identify the essential currents of change and explain how and why these impinge on the experience of managers in Japan.

Originally published as The Irwin Yearbook of Convertible Securities, in 1995 by Irwin Professional Publishing. This edition updates and expands statistical and performance data and adds a discussion of non-U.S. convertible securities.