Global Trade Strategies: Interacting with Trade Institutions and Businesses

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Developing global business strategies in today’s competitive and disruptive environment calls for greater interaction between the business sector and government.
Among the instruments available today are various market analytic tools. These tools coupled with new business models not only provide a competitive edge but also becomes a necessity to survive in the global ever changing trade environment.
This book concerns everyone dealing with market selection, market strategies, and trade policy. The reader will be able to develop global strategies based on trade information and trade flows analysis. An analysis of the most competitive countries in world trade shows the importance of pro-business policies, access to modern infrastructures, investment in research, and increased productivity.
The authors explain how to design practical strategies in a global context, greater competition and uncertainty due to the introduction of new business models.

Successful Recruitment : How to Recruit the Right People For Your Business

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Successful Recruitment provides the practical guidance and knowledge needed to recruit the right people, avoiding the many pitfalls that can arise in the recruitment process. It begins by identifying why recruitment is so often unsuccessful, leading to time, money, and energy being wasted in recruiting people who lack the attributes required to succeed in your organization. It then sets out how to put in place an effective recruitment process, by:
‧ Planning the process.
‧ Laying firm foundations, ensuring that job descriptions, person specifications, and application forms are fit for purpose.
‧ Ensuring that advertising is targeted to reach the right applicants.
‧ Sifting and shortlisting to ensure that the right candidates are selected for interview.
‧ Developing the knowledge, skills and processes to ensure that interviews enable you to accurately assess the candidate’s ability to do the job.
‧ Effectively utilizing other assessment methods alongside the interview.
‧ Concluding the process properly and ensuring that the right candidate is appointed.
‧ Effectively inducting the successful candidate into your organization.
The author pays particular attention to the recruitment interview, explaining three different approaches to interviewing and the key skills required to conduct an effective interview, as well as considers some of the specific issues involved in recruiting internationally. The book concludes by considering the future trends and innovations which will affect how recruiting is handled over the next decade.

The Economics of Online Gaming: A Player’s Introduction to Economic Thinking

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This book is made from the connections that the author saw when he compared his experience inside a video game with what he learned through a formal study of economic theory. Set in the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) of Eternal Lands, it follows the true story of Mr. Mind, a gamer who builds a business inside the game world that he calls RICH. This business grows from a small start-up to an unregulated natural monopoly that abuses its market power by intentionally losing money to drive competitors out of business. RICH becomes so influential that it breaks the market process with a unique case of regulatory capture. Through this story, the book demonstrates how economic thinking is absorbed by experimenting inside an online video game.
The Economics of Online Gaming covers basic economic concepts, unique economic issues, and general economic themes. Each of these topics begins with the context of a story and continues with an explanation of the economic theory behind it, finishing with a relevant real-world connection. It supports economic theory in an emotional way that cannot be shared through math or charts or graphs. Appendix B provides a comprehensive outline of ideas for teaching and discussion in each chapter.

Risk Management for Nonprofit Organizations

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This book positions risk management as a key element in successfully managing a nonprofit organization. Risk management in nonprofits has several unique characteristics that distinguish it from risk management in for-profit organizations. The authors present and explain specifically tailored strategies and tactics for risk management in nonprofits.
Risk Management for Nonprofit Organizations is a straightforward, yet comprehensive guide that can be used to easily communicate effective risk management ideas among the various stakeholders who comprise a nonprofit organization. This is a book that can be used to educate and inform nonprofit professionals as well as the nonprofessional volunteers who are so critical to the operations of many nonprofits. It is a tool that will enhance both understanding and communication of risk management principles.
Written in clear, jargon-free language, it is a resource that can be read by board members, professional nonprofit managers, volunteers, and other stakeholders of the nonprofit organization. As a tool for building a common appreciation and understanding of risk management, this book has the potential to become a valuable asset for the nonprofit organization.

A Profile of the Furniture Manufacturing Industry, Second Edition

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The furniture industry serves as an indicator for the changing state of American manufacturing. A brief history of U.S. furniture manufacturing creates the context for continuing geographic shifts among Asian locations, foreign ownership impacts and global market considerations, as well as the demands of three significant domestic market demographics.
The furniture industry is separated into its various parts from wood to metal, home to institutional markets. Government actions including tariffs, health, and environmental regulations are also considered. Based on numerous interviews and site visits, strategies of corporate survivors in the face of mergers, and emergence of new players are profiled to indicate practices for increasing adaptive capacity and marketing the appeal of “made here”.
This book highlights the role of global networks, lean and green production methods, customized quality versus price competitiveness, online outreach along with showroom access, labor issues, and related factors that continue to compel location shifts and extensions.

Small Business Management: A Road Map for Survival During Crisis

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This book gives us a holistic description of all paragons involved in small business operations during crisis years and suggests the necessary steps that need to be taken to help them overcome their problems. The author clearly demonstrates the crisis implications to small businesses by using personal research and real-life examples in addition to a big bibliography from renowned academics. The book contains useful and practical information for small business owners, entrepreneurs from all industries, business students, academics and strategists, and business coaches and can be used as a road map during turbulent periods for small business in all industries.
The text covers the topic from different approaches, giving a bird’s-eye view of contemporary trends and new approaches. Several concepts like risk management, blue ocean strategy, and turnaround management are discussed, in order to create a crystal clear understanding of why there is no such thing as dead end for small businesses—even under the worst possible situations—and how businesses can achieve sustainable development and grow.
This book was inspired by the significant problems that small and medium enterprises faced during the last huge global financial crisis.

Projects, Programs, and Portfolios in Strategic Organizational Transformation

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Projects are a part of everyday life in an organization. However, the management of projects by an organization during substantial transformation is less certain in both practice and study. An awareness of how to manage increasingly complex projects, and collections of projects, to achieve the benefits of organizational transformation becomes ever more crucial in the implementation of new strategies.
This book illustrates how the traditional practice of project management advances to handle the more complex problems inherent to strategic transformation. The linkages among projects, operations, and the foundations of an organization provide a perspective of how an organization pursues the difficult changes required of comprehensive transformation.

Native American Entrepreneurs

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Native American entrepreneurs are important contributors to the American economy and social landscape. Faced with numerous challenges, many Native American entrepreneurs have learned to transcend tough obstacles, leverage resources, and strategically pursue opportunities to achieve business success. This book captures the entrepreneurial stories and mindsets of contemporary Native Americans.
Native Americans tend to view entrepreneurial perspectives uniquely. One Native American entrepreneur was asked this question, “If you could give advice to young Native American entrepreneurs or other young people thinking about starting a business, what would be the most important consideration and why?” She replied:
Don’t be afraid to fail. One thing I have learned about entrepreneurship is to dream big and you might not always succeed, but if you don’t, you can always try again. I think it comes from growing up with parents who lived in poverty. They always told me that they knew what rock bottom looked like and the worst that could happen was that they’d end up back there, but the best thing that could happen was that they would succeed.
This book highlights unique stories and insightful analysis on the Native American psyche and the pathways in which they can find entrepreneurial success.

Advancing Talent Development: Steps Toward a T-Model Infused Undergraduate Education

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Talent development is key to organizations keeping pace with today’s rapidly changing workplace. Companies require talent that possesses discipline and systems mastery, combined with an ability to handle cross-functional, multicultural teams, projects, and assignments. Yet, colleges and universities face challenges in preparing students across all the competency dimensions employers demand.
The T-model configures academic and professional development in a way that allows institutions to provide students with a solid foundation, built through rich academic and co-curricular experiences so they can adapt to the evolving workplace. In this volume, readers are introduced to the dynamics of the workplace that generate the need for T-professionals. Representatives from different segments of higher education share how they infuse the T-model across the curriculum, and industry professionals offer insights on the necessity to grow as a T, once new graduates enter the workforce.

Predictive Medicine: Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Healthcare Business Strategy

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Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other new technologies are ready to revolutionize the healthcare industry. But if we want them to achieve their full potential, we’ll need leaders who understand these new tools.
Predictive Medicine makes AI more accessible for healthcare practitioners without shying away from complex topics and controversial subject matter. It’s a call-to-action for a new generation of health leaders and a roadmap to a brighter future.