Business strategies for sustainable development

The concept of sustainable development has received growing recognition, but it is a new idea for many business executives. For most, the concept remains abstract and theoretical. Protecting an organization’s capital base is a well-accepted business principle. Yet organizations do not generally recognize the possibility of extending this notion to the world’s natural and human resource…

Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage in Family Businesses in Ghana: Th…

The business strategy perspective argues that achieving competitive advantage hinges on pursing a coherent competitive strategy. Family businesses are also said to manifest a strong desire to develop enduring and committed social relationships with external stakeholders. Nevertheless, there has been relatively little attention devoted to the business strategic activities of family businesses an…

Innovative Business Practices

This chapter proposes a theoretical analysis framework to highlight the challenge of the knowledge transfer between headquarter and subsidiaries and how the intra-organisational hybridization could overcome the limits of the top-down transfer. By highlighting the added value of local subsidiaries, this chapter focuses on the features of the knowledge hybridization as a new managerial practice t…

BUSINESS BUILDER 1 HOW TO DEVELOP AND USE A BUSINESS PLAN

For any business to be successful, it must be started and operated with a clear understanding of its customers, its internal strengths, its competitive environment, and a vision of how it will evolve to compete in the future. A business also needs money to start, to operate, and to grow. By expending the effort to develop a comprehensive business plan, you will have a powerful tool for attracti…

Business Development Management

The speed of change in virtually all industries has increased exponentially over the past decades – and conventional wisdom proves that the trend will continue. In this fast-paced global business environment, the ability to possess fact- based strategic foresight, deliver systematic exploration of new growth opportunities and to institutionalise a continuous drive to improve internal business…

Business Development for the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industry

What is ‘business development’? This is usually the first question I have to answer whenever I’m asked what I do for a living by people outside the pharmaceutical industry. The answers I try to give are oen tailored to the audience and what they are likely to quickly understand from their own experience. However, as few people have any idea that such a role exists beyond some hazy idea …

From Strategy to Business Models and to Tactics

The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to “the logic of the firm, the way it operates and how it creates value for its stakeholders.” On the surface, this notion appears to be similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual framework to separate and relate business model and strategy. Business model, we argue, is a reflection of the firm’s realized s…

The Exhaustion of the Dollar

When a person has been working in an area of economics for over thirty years, he will have acquired intellectual debts. It is important then that I acknowledge some friends and colleagues whose wisdom and lore have helped me get some understanding of balance-of-payments adjustment and the international financial system. Many of these colleagues are people who are dissatisfied with some aspects,…

SAMPLE STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN

Pipedream.com, Inc. will create the first Internet Sports Entertainment Network offering sports programming along with clothing and equipment. Recognizing that a vital aspect of selling merchandise online is to provide compelling entertainment content to inspire sales. The company’s unique content will showcase the new and exciting Entertainment and all the products, events, services and adv…

Developing Relationships in Business Networks

This book is the first to apply the network approach to the analysis of business relationships in a global context. Drawing on a wide variety of international case. studies, a `network approach' is developed, giving rise to far-reaching theoretical and practical managerial insights and a different way of conceptualizing companies within markets. New angles emerge on traditional problems of busi…

RETHINKING SOVEREIGN DEBT 

Sovereign debt markets have demonstrated incredible resil- ience despite a century of dramatic political and economic up- heaval. Among the most remarkable aspects of the contemporary debt regime is the degree to which expectations of borrowers remain rela- tively uniform even in the face of such major shifts. These basic expecta- tions resolve into one background rule: sovereign borrowers mus…

Foundations of Business 

How do you define success? For some, success is a high-paying job, promotions, and financial security. For others, success is finding a rewarding balance between work and personal time. Regardless of how you define success or what your personal goals are, we wrote this text with one purpose: To help you succeed not only in today’s competitive business world, but also in your personal life. A…

Cleaner-Energy Investments

Clean energy is the flavor of the times. With a view to bringing the phrase closer to reality, I would prefer to refer to it in relative terms as Cleaner Energy. Investors have had divergent views of the sector: from being a genuine business opportunity, especially when attractive preferential tariffs are on offer, to a peripheral activity that helped “green wash” other business operations.…

ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE for Non-Specialists

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Mastering SQL Queries for SAP Business One

This book has been created to serve the needs of many SAP Business One users. If you have a chance to browse the SAP business One website between mid-2008 and mid-2011, you will find that my name is always on the top contributor's list. I have solved many SQL Query related problems faced by many users, and some such users have asked me to write a blog or wiki page on the topic. However, the su…

Activiti 5.x Business Process Management Beginner's Guide

Activiti is a lightweight, open source workflow and a Business Process Management (BPM) platform distributed under the Apache license. It can also be clustered and managed on a Cloud environment. It is the best platform to build BPM for people-to-people communication. It can be used very easily in every Java environment. It supports all aspects of BPM in the full context of software development…

Appcelerator Titanium Business Application Development Cookbook

The demand for mobile apps by business enterprises has never been greater. While meeting this demand is becoming increasingly business critical, the complexities of development are amplified by the explosion in devices and platforms. Mobile JavaScript frameworks have been available since the start of the smartphone revolution and is the perfect platform to meet these challenges. Recognizing the…

Online Social and Business Networking Communities

The ability to send and retrieve information over the Web using traditional and ubiquitous computing methods has changed the way we work and live. Web portals, as content aggregates, act as gateways to pertinent and up- to-date information. Social networking portals are a recent development, allow- ing a user to create and maintain a network of close friends or business associ- ates for social …

Professional/Business Networking

"When it comes to looking for a job, it's not what you know, it's who you know." Well, there are a couple of major problems with that nugget of wisdom: If you know a lot of people, but they are not aware of (a) the collection of skills, experience and talent you offer or (b) the types of employment you are seeking, they can’t help you. If you know a lot of people, but you don’t h…

WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers

Blogging has been a part of the web landscape for over a decade now. From personal journals to big corporate marketing, the medium has matured to become a ubiquitous mode of live communication. The power of blogging has been recognized by the business community, and canny marketers view it as a powerful weapon in their digital arsenal. If blogging is done well, it can bring myriad benefits to b…

Organizational Theory

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Windows® Small Business Server 2011

When local area networks (LANs) first appeared in the business world, their primary functions were to share files and printers. These are still critical ap- plications for most business networks, but networks are able to provide many other functions as well. Virtually all business owners want to provide their users with access to the Internet and email, but they must be able to do so securely. …

ACCELERATING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION THROUGH IT INNOVATION

In today’s data-driven business environment, it’s become achingly clear that no company will thrive without agility, speed and, perhaps most of all, innovation. Agility allows a company to change direction in response to shifting market conditions. Speed lets it change quickly. And innovation gives enterprises the ability to disrupt the industry by bringing new processes, products and servi…

Business.com Guide to Fleet Telematics Systems

The term telematics combines the words telecommunications and informatics. Telematics is an integration of wireless communications, vehicle monitoring systems and location tracking devices. At a simple level, telematics may involve using GPS to track vehicles in a fleet. But today, the most sophisticated telematics systems can be used to intervene when a truck driver is going too fast, followin…

The Basics of Business Models

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An Introduction to Business Reasearch Methods

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2nd Edition

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THE REAL BUSINESS OF REAL BUSINESS

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Experience the Business Value: The Novell ZENworks Suite

There may have been a time when a collection of stand-alone endpoint management and security products and solutions made sense. But as IT environments grow more complex and diverse, IT service requirements rise, and users become more mobile and demanding, businesses are embracing more unified and complete solutions that can help them take back control of their unmanageable environments.

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SMALL BUSINESS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Owning and operating a small business is a continuous uphill battle. You’re fighting the big guys to keep your business alive, tackling new obstacles each day, and staying busy trying to make your business successful. Knowing this, many people tend to focus on the percentage of small businesses that close shop each year, but it’s actually more valuable as a business owner to look at the oth…

Wisdom of Crowds TM Business Intelligence Market Study

I’ve been focused on Business Intelligence for nearly a quarter of a century and I’ve never been more excited about the industry than today. However, opportunities come with new challenges and this research is designed to help navigate those challenges. Back in 1993, I first used the term information Democracy to envision a time when every user would have access to timely, relevant and ac…