For courses in strategy. A Practical, Skills-oriented Approach to Strategic Management In today's economy, gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage is harder than ever. Strategic Management captures the complexity of the current business environment and delivers the latest skills and concepts with unrivaled clarity, helping students develop their own cutting-edge strategy through skill-de…
This edition of 'Organizational Behavior' contains new material on responding to global and cultural diversity with discussions of globalization, workforce diversity and ethics. There is an additional chapter on leadership and expanded coverage of interpersonal and behavioural skills.
Praise for Accounting Best Practices Sixth Edition "For a comprehensive, yet easy-to-read guide to fixing those all-too-common shortcomings in your accounting department, look no further than this excellent book. Steve Bragg provides hundreds of fixes, many of them requiring surprisingly little time or cost while providing a handy guide to common implementation pitfalls . . . I would recommend …
This introductory textbook provides a thorough guide to the management of food and beverage outlets. It is illustrated in full colour and contains in-chapter activities as well as end-of-chapter summaries and revision questions to test the readers' knowledge as they progress.
Now in its sixth edition, 'Digital Marketing' provides comprehensive, practical guidance on how companies can get the most out of digital media and technology to meet their marketing goals.
The Media Handbook provides a practical introduction to the advertising media planning and buying processes. Emphasizing basic calculations and the practical realities of offering alternatives and evaluating the plan, this sixth edition reflects the critical changes in how advertising in various media is planned, bought, and sold by today¿s industry professionals. Author Helen Katz looks at th…
McQuail's Mass Communication Theory has been the benchmark for studying mass communication theory for more than 25 years. It remains the most authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the field and still offers unmatched coverage of the research literature. Fully up-to-date, this new edition includes: New boxed case studies on key research publications, familiarizing students with the cri…
Strategic Management brings conceptual frameworks to life via examples that cover products and services from companies with which students are familiar, such as Facebook, Google, Tesla, Starbucks, Apple, McDonald's, Disney, Airbnb, and Uber. Liberal use of such examples aids in making strategy relevant to students' lives and helps them internalize strategy concepts and frameworks
A Comprehensive Introduction to the Theory behind Databases Extended chapter on database architectures and the Web, covering cloud computing New Section on Data Warehousing and Temporal Databases Updated treatment to cover the latest version of the SQL standard, which was released late 2011 (SQL:2011) Extended chapter on replication and mobile databases Updated chapters on Web-DBMS integration …
With the sixteenth edition of Financial and Managerial Accounting: The Basis for Business Decisions, the Williams author team continues to be a solid foundation for students who are learning basic accounting concepts. In this revision, the authors have added to and refined the coverage of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), particularly in Chapter 15 ("Global Business and Accoun…
The guide technicians turn to for answers--tuned upto provide an advantage in today's global economy The face of investing has significantly changed in the 30 years since this book's first publication, but one essential component of the markets has not--human behavior. Whether you're trading cornerstone commodities or innovative investment products, observing how investors responded to past eve…
This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the theory (physical principles), design, and practical implementations of various sensors for scientific, industrial, and consumer applications. This latest edition focuses on the sensing technologies driven by the expanding use of sensors in mobile devices. These new miniature sensors will be described, with an emphasis on smart sen…
Turning Principle into Practice Social Marketing: Changing Behaviors for Good is the definitive textbook for the planning and implementation of programs designed to influence social change. No other text is as comprehensive and foundational when it comes to taking key marketing principles and applying them to campaigns and efforts to influence social action. Nancy R. Lee (a preeminent lecturer,…