The New Economic Analysis of Multinationals: An Agenda for Management, Policy and Research (New Horizons in International Business Series)

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In this seminal book, a distinguished group of experts pinpoint and rigorously analyze central topics in international business research. This volume will become a major reference tool for understanding the economics of multinational enterprise. The emphasis throughout is on a new dynamic research agenda for theory, for empirical research and for public policy.

The wide-ranging topics discussed include:

• the importance of the location of production
• market structure and multinational enterprise
• technology, productivity and the multinational firm
• multinational enterprises and developing countries
• international business and public policy issues
• analytic models.

The juxtaposition of ideas will provoke productive discussions among faculty and at conferences, and will stimulate useful new thought processes in any individual researcher. This book will be required reading for academics and scholars seeking guidance on the future research agenda for the economics of multinational enterprise.

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What my daughter will know before the "I DO.".......2001-10-23

Wow! A wonderfully bibliographed text which will assist any thesis, essay, term paper or legal presentation on the subject of women's unpaid service and poverty. This poignant, exceptionally well-written and throughly documented book is a must for many audiences:1) anyone who is preparing for divorce (despite what the income or attorney promises,2) children of divorce who want to know why the once vibrant mom can't seem to get back on top financially,3) for anyone with disabled children, 4) for any men who view women and children as people, and for any legislator/senator or policy maker/agency manager who still has a conscious, some backbone and believes that when good men are silent wickedness prospers.4) This is must reading for students of sociology, psychology, women's studies, government and policy. We are in 2001 yet millions of our own women and children are living in conditions similar to those of poverty in Charles Dicken's time. This tragic, hidden, American secret is silenced with the anti-welfare propaganda. There are many women and children who fall from prosperity to poverty despite all attempts to "pull up their bootstraps, keep their nose clean," and frugal living. For me this was a book which validated the nightmare I've lived falling from apx $300,000 annually to homelessness-even thoughy the court ordered the Doctor otherwise. This was a sanity break, as document after document verified this typical sturalization of poverty for women. It depersonalized the experience and gave me the extra boost to complete my education to fly over poverty coop to hope and resiliance. 5) This is a very valuable book for any friend recovering from economic disaster and emotional devastation of children as a result. High risk children are produced by patriarchal protection and inequality in legal representation. The greatest gift we can give our children is to respect their mother by valuing her unpaid labor and insuring food, shelter, health insurance, electricity are provided for those who give nurturing service to the nations greatest treasure- healthy, safe, confident,educated,children with compassion to make a positive difference. A most wonderful book! A tribute to all who care for the aged, work with spouses, bear and serve children. Great reading.

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Best for Beginners.......2001-09-11

I thought the 2nd edition would be more high level, as well as include RFP templates etc. However, the book is still very basic and really only appropriate for those with little to no knowledge of web site development and promotion. That should be made clearer in the desciption.

Lots of blah, blah.......2001-01-27

I was very disappointed in this book. It helped me very little when working on our iMarket Plan. There is a lot of text, but very little concrete, substantive information.

For entry-level marketers.......2000-10-16

This book may have some potential for a marketer fresh out of college but it will seem simplistic for the veteran marketer.

Very Handy Guide.......2000-05-17

The second edition of Kim Bayne's "The Internet Marketing Plan" builds on the structure of the earlier edition, and packs more punch, with updated examples, additional subsections and content more relevant to the Internet marketing scenario today. Just as traditional marketing needs a comprehensive marketing plan to succeed, The Internet Marketing Plan shows how a company's online marketing effort can be successful if it is a result of a well thought out Internet marketing plan.

The book along with the accompanying CD-ROM containing templates, spreadsheets, skeletal outlines, and website bookmarks make it an excellent starting point for a newbie in the Internet Marketing business, but it still remains a handy resource for practicing Net marketers.

Book Description

--Snag this book and CD package to learn everything you ever wanted to know and be able to do everything you need to do to create your own e-commerce Web site.

--The ideal tool for small business owners and entrepreneurs.

--CD contains a full version of GoDaddy Software's WebSite Complete version4, FREE.

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Start up your e-business instantly.......2006-02-25

Whether you are an entrepreneur looking to start an Internet business or the proprietor of a brick-and-mortal firm planning to go online, "Instant E-commerce!" serves as a good primer. Everything from planning your first e-commerce site to diagnosing and curing common Web site problems is detailed in this paperback.

Written by Kate J. Chase, who has led professional support communities on America Online and Microsoft Network, this book aims to make setting up an e-commerce site as easy as pointing, clicking, and imagining the possibilities. It is helped by the use of several conventions (e.g. margin definitions) to highlight important or interesting information.

The enclosed CD contains a full version of WebSite Complete 4 from Go Daddy Software. With this do-it-yourself software, described in detail in the book, you should be able to develop a fully functional e-commerce site without all the confusion, mystery, expense, and work the author experienced when she first started.

All the advice and software you need for e-commerce.......2002-09-06

"Instant E-commerce" is a complete text and software package that provides everything you need to get your e-commerce site up and running. The book starts with some basic concepts of E-commerce and how it differs from other web sites as well as basic instructions for getting a site up and running.

From that point on, the book not only continues to educate about E-commerce but also walks you through using the software to create a working website. The software included with the book, GoDaddy's WebSite Complete, uses templates and wizards to walk you through the creation of a complete E-commerce site. Without any knowledge of HTML coding you can create a site with credit card processing, shopping carts, hit counters, scrolling marquees, and even catalogues. The book even walks you through the process of establishing a merchant account so you can immediately verify credit card purchases.

The last part of the book covers how to manage the site after you have it up and running. This includes tracking shipping, gathering statistics, making changes, and common problems and how to solve them.

Of course my usual caveat about websites applies here - Just because you can do something does not mean that you should. Although it can be used to put up a very nice website, the software has enough bells, whistles, images, backgrounds, etc. that you can easily put up a terrible website. The problem is that too many people want to include everything they can onto their site. As a result it becomes an unmanageable mess. If you are serious about putting up an E-commerce site then you owe it to yourself to also pick up a book on good page design such as "Web Pages that Suck" or "Son of Web Pages that Suck".

Book Description

This detailed look at IBM’s software products for e-business enables IBM users to gain a fundamental understanding of e-business architecture, where IBM software products fit into that architecture, and where to go to get more information. The main products and platforms for development tools and components, application server software, and secure network and management software are described. This book also distinguishes between two or more IBM software products that appear to serve the same purpose but really have different applications. Key products covered include DB2, Web Sphere, Lotus Domino, and Tivoli. This replaces 1885068581.

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This detailed look at IBM's software products for e-business enables IBM users to gain a fundamental understanding of e-business architecture, where IBM software products fit into that architecture, and where to go to get more information. The main products and platforms for development tools and components, application server software, and secure network and management software are described. This book also distinguishes between two or more IBM software products that appear to serve the same purpose but really have different applications. Key products covered include DB2, Web Sphere, Lotus Domino, and Tivoli.

Customer Reviews:

great job by a great lady.......2001-07-06

Technical, easy to read, it has alot of good information. Good job.

Instant Advantage.com Winning Strategies for the Online Economy

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Interesting, useful, and informative
Using InstantAdvantage To Your Advantage
Instant Advantage.com
Very Compaq Centric
very nice book

Instant Advantage.com Winning Strategies for the Online Economy
Steve Kirchoff , and Stephen Mendonca
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0130179086

Book Description

Anxious about success in the new Online Economy? Learn to focus your business on the new imperatives of speed, agility, and customer relationships, using the power of the Internet.

Companies around the world are struggling to define the balance between the latest Web-based marketing techniques and the tried-and-true "back-end" capabilities of customer fulfillment. Where does your business stand is this regard?

Been thinking about how to integrate your IT requirements with the company's business priorities? This is the primary theme of Instant Advantage.com, a guidebook on the challenges and practices of e-commerce and e-business for today's IT and business managers in any industry.

Customer Reviews:

Interesting, useful, and informative.......2000-12-07

At a time when the global economy is changing so rapidly, a book like this is extremely helpful in synthesizing information about the emerging face of e-commerce. Economists, CEOs, and small business owners will all find this book very useful and informative. Instant Advantage.com presents a very straightforward summary of what it takes to succeed in this new marketplace, and its accounts of the real-world experiences of successful businesses are very instructive. Anyone with even the slightest interest in e-business would consider this a must-read.

Using InstantAdvantage To Your Advantage.......2000-10-11

As a technical writer and editor, I wade through many many technical documents each week. In InstantAdvantage, I found the pertinent facts about e-Commerce easy to locate, easy to understand, and easy to apply. I highly recommend this book to any individual or company wishing to implement a smooth e-Commerce business application.

Instant Advantage.com.......2000-10-09

Review by Dan Wise, Bandera, Texas

Instant Advantage.com Strategies for the Online Economy

By Steve Kirchoff and Stephen Mendonca

Finally, a book for business decision-makers about e-commerce that avoids the hype and hysteria of so many of the current books covering the same ground. Instant Advantage.com is a provocative book with the basic tenet that the world economy has changed forever with the introduction, assimilation and immediate exploitation of the Internet for business. To survive in today's new economy, a company must not only adapt, it must reinvent and align itself with the forces that are driving the global marketplace.

There are, thankfully, no get-rich-quick promises or doomsday prophecies in the book. Instead, Kirchoff and Mendonca present a reasoned and rational thesis that Instant Advantage may be achieved by those who understand the new rules of engagement, who can embrace change as opportunity, whose enterprises are customer-centric, and who create value by optimizing the supply chain and by building new alliances. They note the huge risks involved in reinventing the enterprise-risks that are superseded only by the risks of not reinventing the enterprise.

The authors describe the firestorm that swept international markets in April, 2,000, which consumed $2.1 trillion in NASDAQ stock values, left corporate managements shaken and investors not knowing where to turn. The book proves once again that, no matter what the touchstone is--in this case, the digital economy--companies that ignore the axioms of sound business practices do so at their own peril. New rules of engagement are required by the online economy, but they don't replace the classic concepts of successful business: product, price, promotion and place--or channel synergy--as well as customer service and fulfillment.

What is required for survival in the new economy is an appropriate balance between established business practices and the implementation of today's Information Technology. The central theme of Instant Advantage.com is that the successful integration of IT and business will create the real business winners of tomorrow.

Although rich in business theory and market savvy, this is fundamentally a practical how-to book for the corporate executive who wants to compete effectively in the new digital economy. Put simply, InstantAdvantage.com: Strategies for the Online Economy, lays out key concepts of how to plan for success in a digital economy, where the winners are those who are capable of constantly creating Instant Advantage for customers, themselves and their partners in times of tumult and rapid change.

Very Compaq Centric.......2000-07-25

This book is very Compaq biased. Some of the text reads like a marketing glossy from Compaq: "Compaq was the first to announce new products that can....". This statement would be fine if it was part of a survey of vendor offerings, but to be presented as a sole opinion is disgraceful. There is no indication on the cover or otherwise prominently displayed on the book that this book is laced with Compaq ads. They should be paying me to read this book, for I am certainly not the biggest fan of Compaq products. On a more positive note, there is some decent advice on how to structure your business for internet commerce.

very nice book.......2000-06-26

it is very very nice book and thanks for that

Instant Attorney's Click-Wrap License Agreement

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Instant Attorney's Click-Wrap License Agreement
Brian D. Spross
Manufacturer: BooksOnStuff
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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Book Description

If you are selling (or giving away) downloadable software on the web, it's important to make sure all of your bases are covered. Instant Attorney's Click-Wrap License Agreement will help you to do just that. Instant Attorney has written a customizable agreement that you can require your customers to accept before they download your software.

Instant Attorney's Click-Wrap License Agreement is written in plain English that is easy for non-legal minds to understand. The agreement includes standard language for use, use restrictions, reverse engineering, ownership, disclaimer of warranty, limitation of liability, confidentiality, severability, governing law, and more.

Instant Attorney contract templates are the next generation in e-books. All Instant Attorney templates come with customizable fields that would be virtually impossible to include in a physical book. E-books are finally allowing their users to do things that were unimaginable with regular books. Like all Instant Attorney documents, the Click-Wrap License Agreement is exceptionally easy to use. Page three of the document provides fields to customize your company name, the software's name, the license fee, the # of permitted installation locations per license, and even the state whose laws and courts will govern the agreement. After this information is entered, the relevant fields in the actual click-wrap license agreement are automatically populated. The document also includes a license to use the agreement for your business use.

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Apocalypse Soon.(advent of Internet threatens to undermine local builders as mega builders gain instant access to raw demographic, zoning and other data): An article from: Builder

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Apocalypse Soon.(advent of Internet threatens to undermine local builders as mega builders gain instant access to raw demographic, zoning and other data): An article from: Builder
Matthew Power
Manufacturer: Hanley-Wood, Inc.
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The X-Economy: Profiting from Instant Commerce

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Well thought out
Get up to Date
Insightful!
The new economy - explained at last.
Forward Thinking

The X-Economy: Profiting from Instant Commerce
Thomas Koulopoulos
Manufacturer: Texere
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

Today, an unprecedented amount of capital fuels higher and higher levels of innovation and entrepreneurism. Organizations are struggling to acquire survival skills as trade evolves in all dimensions: speed, magnitude, diversity and intricacy. Just as Newton?s view of the world gave way to Einstein?s relativity which then made room for Bohr?s quantum mechanics, so we need to replace our 18th century views of business to make way for new models of understanding the interactions of the markets. This crucible is the Echange economy, an environment that will radically alter the skills we and our organizations will need to survive in the coming years.

Customer Reviews:

Well thought out.......2003-01-07

Don't mistake this book for just another Internet book.
It's well though out from a business perspective.
If you are in some way responsible for your company's
business and IT strategy, you should read this book.

Get up to Date.......2002-11-12

This book will bring you up to date on some of the cutting edge things that companies are doing to make their businesses more efficient and to create entirely new businesses. It involves the Internet, of course. It would be nice if they could have gone into more detail, but that would have taken a much larger book.

Insightful!.......2002-03-23

With the fervor of evangelists, over-caffeniated cheerleaders, or breathy Amway sales mavens, Koulopoulos and Palmer introduce us to the X-economy, the business-to-business online marketplace emerging today, and according to the authors, certain to take over this and other galaxies tomorrow. The nuts and bolts of this book could've been easily presented in a magazine article instead, leaving the book-length presentation feeling a bit padded. Nevertheless, we from getAbstract recommend this book to anyone curious about what comes after the New Economy.

The new economy - explained at last........2001-07-28

Tom and Nathaniel have managed to explain the "confused topic of the decade" in ration and clear terms. The themes in this book will keep businesses humming for many years. A must read.

Forward Thinking.......2001-07-11

A must read for all skeptics out there who say that B2B is dead....Palmer and Koulopoulos provide an astute analysis of the driving forces shaping today's digital economy. Providing insight into the interrelationships and dependencies that exist within eBusiness, the authors clearly demonstrate the way in which organizations and individuals will need to evolve in order to capitalize the eXchange economy.

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Worked for me....

A must-have for the start-up businessman

Financing the Small Business: A Complete Guide to Obtaining Bank Loans and All Other Types of Financing
Robert Sisson
Manufacturer: Adam Media Corp.
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Binding: Paperback

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Customer Reviews:

Worked for me...........2004-11-06

After reading this book, I was armed with financial know-how that helped me in acquiring a loan for $750,000 to purchase a commercial property (my first business loan with terms of 1% over prime for 20 years!). I utilized examples/forms given in the book, asked pertinent questions to bankers, used the "7 C's", and concentrated on what the lender needed from me.
I recommend this book to anyone wanting a better understanding of how to finance your first small business with conventional resources.

A must-have for the start-up businessman.......2003-06-16

Robert Sisson shows without a doubt that he has extensive knowledge of the commercial loan industry. In this book he shares his knowledge with you in detail.
The first ten chapters deal with how banks operate and how to get loans from them. You end up with a new understanding of what it takes to get a loan from an otherwise hard to approach institute.
The balance of the book discusses all of the other sources of financing, and the pro's and con's of each.
If you are starting or already own a business, this book is a great primer, and a reference that you will use constantly. It is full of valuable links and sage advise that you can't afford to pass on when you are looking for business financing.

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