In today's global village, every manager is a global manager. Even if your business is putatively 'local', with no sales abroad, you still probably face competitors in other countries. Smartonomics</strong> provides global managers with a simple, powerful set of macroeconomic tools, which have been...

Successful innovation-the key to competitive growth and profit-rests on disciplined management of the innovation process, from idea inception to customer service. This book answers, first, the key questions: Why innovate? What to innovate? How to innovate? and Who innovates? It then provides ten...

When the structure of tax revenues–the proportion of revenues earned by income, consumption and wealth taxes–is treated as a pure public good, a useful framework emerges for analyzing interrelationships among taxpayers' preferences, tax structure and tax reform. The...

Foran objective function, how should each argument be assigned itsappropriate role in the change of the objective function, whenthe arguments are interrelated? In this paper, it is shown thatthe commonly used approaches may lead to results contradictoryto straightforward economic reasoning, and...

Increasingly, researchers and policymakers alike recognize that innovations are generated by complex and dynamic national ecosystems that include government, industry, universities and schools. Because these systems differ by country and are strongly influenced by culture, effective policy and...