HUIBERT J. DE VRIES holds a MSc. degree in Business Administration (with honors) and a BSc. degree in International Business Administration, both from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Huibert studied the web browser industry over 2 years focusing on aspects relating to standards-setting processes and Open Source Software. Huibert is currently Business Intelligence Manager at Philips Healthcare in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

In any organization, risk plays a huge role in the success or failure of any business endeavour. Measuring and managing risk is a difficult and often complicated task and the global financial crisis of the late noughties can be traced to a worldwide deficiency in risk management regimes. One of the problems in understanding how best to manage risk is a lack of detailed examples of real world practice.

Small Business E-Commerce Management uses both published research and real-world case studies to provide students with an understanding of the key aspects of managing e-commerce processes within small firms.

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.