This book combines management and organizational behavior. It is intended for students to learn how to be effective performers within an organizatoin, both individually and on teams. Because organizational behavior skills are students' dominant need under this assumption, about two-thirds of the book's content is anchored in traditional and emergent OB subjects, while one-third focuses on issues and practices that every manager needs to know.

Management & Organizational Behavior with PowerWeb

Business & Money

Hunsaker, Phillip L.

Cook, Curtis

Management & Leadership

McGraw/Hill/Irwin

Competitive intelligence and analysis are essential elements of any business' marketing strategy in today's competitive marketplace. In order to understand the business environment and make effective business decisions, you must gather and analyze information on your customers, suppliers, distributors and retailers as well as your competitors. Competitive Intelligence will show you, from an international perspective, how to plan, prepare and implement an efficient CI system. Advice is provided on time-saving, avoiding information overload, vital technological assistance, internet and electronic databases, setting up an Intelligence Library, data mining, budget constraints and legal considerations.

Competitive Intelligence: A Guide to Your Organization's Survival

Cook, Michelle

Biography & History

Kogan Page.

* Highlights the hazards facing intellectual property protection in the information age.* IBM estimates profits from licensing technologies in 2000 were $1.5 billion.* US pharma industries estimate losses of $500 million a year due to poor patent protection.* International in its scope, includes international enforcement mechanisms* Uses case studies and examples to support the text.The value of today's businesses is in the collective knowledge and innovation of their employees and leaders. Consequently, intellectual property (IP) protection has become the focus of considerable legal and regulatory attention, at both national and international levels. This exploration of the rapid development of IP in the global economy reveals theft, piracy and infringements of IP rights at every level, from the state to the individual. Curtis Cook examines the less desirable players on the world stage, why they choose to defy the law, how the rest of the world is responding, and how you can survive and thrive in this environment.On the way he looks at the way that intellectual property rights have rapidly expanded in the last 100 years, how intellectual assets have become the new wealth, how global IP enforcers are losing the battle to protect intellectual property against rogue nations, why intellectual property at cyberspeed is a different game, and how the intellectual property regime is being undermined.Fully international in its scope and subject matter, ""Patents, Profits and Power"" highlights the hazards facing intellectual property protection in the information age. Packed with international case studies and examples, this unique title will prove an invaluable source for anyone who creates forprofit... or power.

Patents, Profits and Power: How Intellectual Property Rules the Global Economy

Computers & Technology

* Highlights the hazards facing intellectual property protection in the information age.

Kogan Page Business Books

This collection of essays is a timely exploration of the progress of Aboriginal rights movements in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Contributors compare the situations in Canada and Mexico, in both of which demands by Aboriginal people for political autonomy and sovereignty are increasing, and explore why there is little corresponding activity in the United States. The essays address problems of constructing new political arrangements, practical questions about the viability of multiple governments within one political system, and epistemological questions about recognizing and understanding the "other." Contents One Continent, Three Styles: The Canadian Experience in North American Perspective -- Juan D. Lindau and Curtis Cook; A Just Relationship Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Peoples of Canada -- James Tully (University of Victoria); Indigenous Movements and Politics in Mexico and Latin America -- Rodolfo Stavenhagen (Colegio de Mexico); Rights and Self-Government for Canada?s Aboriginal Peoples -- C.E.S. Franks (Queen's); Liberalism's Last Stand: Aboriginal Sovereignty and Minority Rights -- Dale Turner (Dartmouth); First Nations and the Derivation of Canada's Underlying Title: Comparing Perspectives on Legal Ideology -- Michael Asch; Quebec?s Conceptions of Aboriginal Rights -- Andrée Lajoie, Hugues Melaçon, Guy Rocher (Université de Montréal) and Richard Janda (McGill), The Revolution of the New Commons -- Gustavo Esteva (Instituto de la Naturaleza y la Sociedad de Oaxaca); Indian Policy: Canada and the United States Compared -- C.E.S. Franks.

Aboriginal Rights and Self-Government: The Canadian and Mexican Experience in North American Perspective (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Lindau, Juan

Politics & Government

McGill Queens Univ

The Blossoming of Beau

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Independently published

Twenty years after being swept out of MI6 in a feminist upheaval, James Brand, clandestine agent, spy and assassin, bottoms out. Reckless drinking, womanizing, and gambling have left him broke, alone and suffering from crisis-stage alcoholism. However, his skills still fetch a high premium in the lucrative and murky world of government-contracted private espionage. He is dispatched to Saddam Hussein's Baghdad to abduct a Russian physicist and salvage an American aerospace corporation's investment in a high-level missile defense system. The mission does not go smoothly.

Brand on the Rocks: Private Lies of Privatized Spies (#27?)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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