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 …

Considered one of the first and most important ‘management gurus’, the name Belbin is synonymous with Team Role theory, a familiar concept for managers and management trainers across the world. This …

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 …

In recent years car production in the United States has undergone changes on a scale unknown since the pioneering era prior to World War One. New plants have been opened in the interior of the countr …

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 …

This book, together with Macro-control and Economic Development in China is a collection of papers written in recent years about maintaining economic growth, managing inflation, the relationship betw …