Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART ONE THE ACTION LEARNING PROGRAMME -- 1 ACTION LEARNING, Professor Reg Revans The business of learning about business -- 2 PROGRAMME OUTLINE, David Casey General description of the programme -- 3 PROGRAMME...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I COMPLEXITY, ORGANIC STRUCTURE AND INCREMENTAL INNOVATION -- 1 Industry in a New Age -- 2 Program Change and Organizational Properties: A Comparative Analysis -- 3 Size,...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I. Civilization -- II. Freedom -- III. The Worker's Point of View -- IV. The Intellectuals -- V. The Standard of Life -- VI. Riches -- VII....

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The limits and divisions of industrial capitalism -- 2 Corporatism and the New Right -- 3 Employment relationships in economic recession -- 4 From 'informal economy' to...

In dynamic investment planning the time of investment is a significant issue. By simplifying the mathematical notation, the author of this book seeks to make control theory a practical tool that can be applied to the problem of timing. The book, first published in 1977, begins with an...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Development of Small Firms, the Traditional Family and Agrarian Patterns in Italy -- 3. Trends in Small...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION: THE BEGINNING OF ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS -- 1. The science of economics -- 2. Requirements of the economist -- 3. Mistakes in early specialization -- 4. Principles first, then...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 No future? -- 2 Workshop and the world -- 3 High road or low road? -- 4 New jobs and old -- 5 Ways and means -- 6 Small wonder? -- 7 Special measures -- 8 Making the jobs go round -- 9...

First published in 1987, this is an analysis of the contemporary breakdown of political and economic systems within the Eastern European communist countries. Rather than passively following the developments of this crisis, the author seeks instead to identify the reasons for failure and to...

Alfred Marshall was anxious to do good. Intended by an Evangelical father for the vocation of clergyman, the author of the mould-shaping Principles of Economics remained to the end of his days a great preacher deeply committed to raising the tone of life. First published in 1990, Alfred...