- The Alliance Revolution
- Benjamin Gomes-Casseres
- Alliances among firms are increasingly changing the way business is conducted, particularly in the global, high-technology sector. The reasons are clear: companies must pool their capabilities to succeed in ever more complex and rapidly changing businesses. But the consequences for managers and for the economy have so far been underestimated. In this new book, Benjamin Gomes-Casseres presents the first detailed account of the new world of business alliances and shows how collaboration has become integral to modern competition.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Architects of Affluence
- Thomas Havens
- The interrelated Seibu and Saison enterprise groups have shaped Japanese consumer culture and made the Tsutsumi family fabulously rich. Beginning with the colorful founder, Yasujiro Tsutsumi, Thomas Havens traces the family's fortunes through the rise of its various companies.
- Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1996
- Contrived Competition
- Richard Vietor
- This book explains and tells the stories of how four major firms--American Airlines, El Paso Natural Gas, AT&T, and Bank America--and their respective managements were challenged by the deregulation of markets starting in the late 1970s.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- Effective Management of Social Enterprises
- Editorial coordination by Social Enterprise Knowledge Network SEKN
- Edited by James E. Austin
- Edited by Roberto Gutierrez
- Edited by Enrique Ogliastri
- Edited by Ezequiel Reficco
- Based on the results of a two-year research process on how social and business organizations in Ibero-America achieve superior social performance, Seeking Success in Social Enterprise presents the most comprehensive and in-depth analysis of such practices ever undertaken in this region. This practitioner-oriented book also enriches the literature on organizational performance, social enterprise, and corporate social responsibility. It aims to enable social and business leaders to gain a greater understanding of how to achieve high performance in terms of social value creation.
- Paperback 2006
- Innovation Corrupted
- Malcolm S. Salter
- In contrast to the time-line narratives of previous books on Enron that offer interesting but largely unsystematic insight into individual actions and organizational processes, Innovation Corrupted pursues a more methodical analysis of the causes and lessons of Enron’s collapse.
- Hardcover 2008