Over the past few decades the political systems in advanced industrial societies have sailed through turbulent times. The globalization and liberalization of markets – driven in part by a revolution in communication technologies – coincided with an unprecedented mobility of capital, goods and services as well as increasing dependence of national polities on political and economic processes beyond their immediate control.

The author argues that power in organizations has negative and counter-productive effects: management should be based on self-guidance and maximizing each individual’s creative resources.

This book draws together literature from the fields of strategy, management and innovation to examine the importance of a firm’s national base at a sectoral level in an era of globalization.

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.

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.

It is often said that business is people. The bestselling author, Adrian Furnham, draws upon psychological reflections to present a critical and challenging account of perceived wisdom and management fads.

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.