Melinda Smale 
Farmers Gene Banks and Crop Breeding: Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat Maize and Rice [PDF ebook] 

This research monograph presents an inter-disciplinary study of the impact, and current status, of applications of complexity-related concepts in the early stages of development of Agile Project Mana …

The follow-up to the acclaimed Organizations in the Computer Age this book, originally published in 1996,  reveals that since computers had become increasingly linked in networks which span the …

Forestry Economics introduces students and practitioners to the economics of managing forests and forest enterprises. The book adopts the approach of managerial economics textbooks and applies this t …

What isn’t management and why doesn’t it matter? This compelling book leads the reader away from the stories told by managers and management theories to show the secret history of the field. In chara …

The topic of workplace bullying and abuse gained considerable public and media attention during 2013 when the scandal of events at the BBC was unveiled following an enquiry led by Dinah Rose QC. The …

In what ways do the actions and economic behavior of today”s multinational corporations resemble the functioning and processes of the old command economics of the Soviet Union? By ignoring questions …

In Understanding and Negotiating EPC Contracts, Volume 1, Howard M. Steinberg presents a practical and comprehensive guide to understanding virtually every aspect of engineering, procurement and cons …

This book demonstrates to managers the strategic significance of intra-organizational social networks. It argues that strategic management is embedded in the complexity of social relations that shape …

The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing.  Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network dynamics which discus …

This collection of essential data on eleven Asian economies outlines new trends and highlighting increasing differences between developed and developing countries. The book features a detailed analys …