A Course for Business Studies and Economics Students
This best selling course has been thoroughly revised to meet the needs of today's business and economics students. The English for Business Studies Third edition Teacher's Book offers thorough guidance and support for teachers using the course. It also includes four assessment tests to help teachers keep track of students' progress. The English for Business Studies Student's Book and the Audio CDs are available separately.
Based upon the most extensive early banking archive known to survive, this book is the first major study of Stuart banking since R. D. Richards's The Early History of Banking in England (1928). It traces the origins and growth of banking from the late sixteenth century to the 1720s through two generations of a scriveners' bank established in 1638 by Robert Abbott, and perpetuated by his nephew, Robert Clayton, and John Morris. With deposits from landowners' rents and stock sales these bankers practised as moneylenders and money-brokers for another sector of the gentry needing capital to offset the effects of the Great Rebellion and an agricultural depression. After 1660 Clayton and Morris integrated mortgage security into banking practice. This study examines the elaborate stages of land assessment and legal change which enabled bankers to offer large-scale, long-term securities to their clients, a pattern followed later by other banks such as Childs, Hoares, Martins and Coutts.
During the 1680s certain changes occurred in the Old Jewry organization
suggesting that the bank was never the same again. The first blow was Morris's
death in 1682, when Clayton lost his partner and closest friend. In his will Morris
provided for his nieces and nephews and made smaller bequests to his servants.
All his remaining capital and interest in his investments made with Clayton went
to his surviving partner. 1 Morris's death by itself left little impact on the capital of
the bank, ...
The Short Introduction to Strategic Management provides an authoritative yet accessible account of strategic management and its contemporary challenges. It explains the roots and key rationales of the strategy field, discussing common models, tools and practices, to provide a complete overview of conventional analytical techniques in strategic management. Andersen extends the discussion to consider dynamic strategy making and how it can enable organizations to respond effectively to turbulent and unpredictable global business environments. There is a specific focus on multinational corporate strategy issues relevant to organizations operating across multiple international markets. Written in a clear and direct style, it will appeal to students and practising managers and executives alike.
Learning points n Discuss how strategy happens n See strategy as managing a
portfolio of projects n Strategy formed through a pattern of decisions and actions
n Link strategy formation to corporate entrepreneurship n Form the background
for an integrative model Once the future strategic path has been staked out in the
strategy formulation process, the next logical step in a rational analytical
approach to strategy making is to ensure that the necessary actions are carried
out to make ...
There is now widespread agreement that innovation holds the key to future economic and social prosperity in developed countries. Experts studying contemporary capitalism also agree that the battle against unemployment and relocations can only be won through innovation. But what kind of innovation is required and what is the best way to manage, steer and organize it? Grounded on experiences of innovative firms and based on recent design theories, this book argues that instead of relying on traditional R&D and project management techniques, the strategic management of innovation must be based on innovative design activities. It analyses and explains new management principles and techniques that deal with these activities, including innovation fields, lineages, C-K (Concept-Knowledge) diagrams and design spaces. The book is ideal for advanced courses in innovation management in industrial design schools, business schools, engineering schools, as well as managers looking to improve their practice.
management? Throughout this book we have described the key tools and
organizing principles for innovative design. In this conclusion, we would like to
bring the central themes into focus with a rapid overview of the main stages in our
research itinerary. A few questions will serve as a thread and help understand
the overall implications of our findings. How can we explain the emergence of
RID in the long history of management? What does it tell us about how
companies will be ...
Strategic management: Historical aspects and contemporary perspectives
Introduction Strategic management is a high—level management construct that is
well defined and understood by most executives, strategic leaders, strategists,
practitioners, and business scholars. It initially focused on strategic leadership,
business policies, and long-range planning. It evolved from the poorly articulated management constructs involving business policy during the 19505 and earlier to
the more ...
Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping to leave behind a way of seeing in which only 'bad' women could be sexual. She reads James's transitional fictions of the 1890s as explorations of how disabling and distorting ideals of women's goodness and purity were learned and perpetuated within English and American cultural processes. These explorations, Hadley argues, liberate James to write the great heterosexual love affairs of the late novels, with their emphasis on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are central to James's ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure class society.
These explorations, Hadley argues, liberate James to write the great heterosexual love affairs of the late novels, with their emphasis on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are central to James's ambitious enterprise to represent ...
This photocopiable resource is packed with a range of ready-to-use IELTS exam practice activities. The lively discussions and role plays that accompany them turn each IELTS task-type into a stimulating lesson. The book is organised by paper type, giving teachers a flexible resource that they can tailor to their students' specific needs.
The lively discussions and role plays that accompany them turn each IELTS task-type into a stimulating lesson. The book is organised by paper type, giving teachers a flexible resource that they can tailor to their students' specific needs.
Examination Papers from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
Contains 4 authentic IELTS papers from Cambridge ESOL, providing the most authentic exam practice available. Cambridge IELTS 6 provides students with an excellent opportunity to familiarise themselves with IELTS and to practise examination techniques using authentic test material prepared by Cambridge ESOL. An introduction to the different modules is included in each book, together with an explanation of the scoring system used by Cambridge ESOL. A comprehensive section of answers and tapescripts makes the material ideal for self-study. The pack contains the Student's Book with answers plus two audio CDs, which provide all the recorded material required for students to practise the tasks in the Listening papers.
The pack contains the Student's Book with answers plus two audio CDs, which provide all the recorded material required for students to practise the tasks in the Listening papers.
