Fair trade for all : how trade can promote development

Stiglitz, Joseph E. & Charlton, Andrew, 1978-

Argues that the world trade system needs radical reform, and proposes a radical new economic model, which would open up markets and allow developing nations to help themselves out of poverty.

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How to write a marketing plan

John Westwood

"Takes you through all the essential stages, including: carrying out a marketing audit; setting objectives and the strategies to achieve them; devising budgets; and writing and implementing the plan." - cover.

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The Global Competitiveness Report, 2007/2008

World Economic Forum

"Provides users with a comprehensive dataset on a broad array of competitinveness indicators for a large number of industrialized and developing economies." - cover.

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Measuring the benefits of entrepreneurship at different levels of analysis(journal article)
by Belinda Luke, Martie-Louise Verreynne and Kate Kearins
from Journal of Management & Organization, Vol. 13 No. 4, Nov 1, 2007, pp. 312-330
"This paper presents a suggested framework for future research designs to examine the benefits of entrepreneurship, both non-financial and financial. Based on a review of the literature and using contextual exemplars throughout the paper with an Australia and New Zealand focus, we identify a range of benefits from entrepreneurship at the various levels of analysis (e.g. individual, organizational, national). From a non-financial perspective such benefits include independence, autonomy, competitive advantage, increased market share, employment and increased standards of living. From a financial perspective, entrepreneurship's benefits include enhanced remuneration or rent from revenue, profits, cash flow, return on investment and increases in GDP - specific financial measures to be expressed in clear financial terms. The suggested framework represents both an initial step towards the measurement of entrepreneurship's financial benefits and a valuable starting point for the development of a theory of the non-financial and financial benefits of entrepreneurship."

Why should anyone be led by you? : what it takes to be an authentic leader [book]

Authors: Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones

Provides "practical advice on how veteran and aspiring leaders can learn to: Improve their ability to read and shape context; Recognize when and where to make compromises; Identify communication channels that work; [and] Understand and deliver on what followers need." - cover.

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Winning ventures : 14 principles of high growth businesses [book]

Author: Tom McKaskill

Explains the key principles necessary for high growth ventures, which include finding a new way of delivering an existing product or service, having an easily identified ideal customer, and having a business with above industry average gross margins.

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The New business road test : what entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan [book]

Author: John W. Mullins

"Shows you how to avoid the obvious mistakes that everyone else makes. It shows you how to assess market opportunities. It also shows entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial teams how to assess honestly the capabilities they themselves bring to the table." - publisher website.

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The Cult of the market : economic fundamentalism and its discontents [book]

Author: Lee Boldeman

Examines the way that economic fundamentalism influences current public policy and argues that its dominance has forced out other world views.

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Gerry Robinson’s riskthinkers guide : the breakthrough book on risk management [book]

Gerry Robinson

How to "align the thinking of the board, management and key employees on the issues of corporate governance, risk management and compliance", and "implement the risk management process quickly." - page 1.

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How to Get Real About Strategic Planning(journal article)

by Stephanie Overby

from CIO, Feb 2008, pp.22-28

"Everyone agrees that having a strategic plan for IT is a good thing but most CIOs approach the process with fear and loathing. In fact, the majority of CIOs (and the enterprises they work for) are faking it when it comes to strategic planning. Isn’t it time we all got real?"

Meeting the Challenge of Technology-driven Change wihin an Institutional Context: The Greek Case(journal article)
by Sophia Philippidou, Christos Tarantilis, Eric Soderquist, Maria Karageorgiou and Gregory Prastacos
from Public Administration (OnlineEarly Articles)
"Propelled by the driving forces of globalization and technology explosion, public institutions face the challenge of rapid and discontinuous change. Such change has come to undermine the relevance of traditional approaches on how an institution should be managed. We analyse a technology-driven change effort, the implementation of an Integrated Information System (IIS), that unfolds within the boundaries of the institutional context of the Hellenic Parliament. The purpose of our research, which reports on a qualitative field study, is to explore and understand how the particularities of technology-driven change on the one hand, and institutional change on the other, can be integrated, paying particular attention to how the different actors involved in the process interact and affect the unfolding of such a change effort."

Examining the Nature and Significance of Leadership in Government Organizations(journal article)
by Tracey Trottier, Montgomery Van Wart, XiaoHu Wang
from Public Administration Review, Vol.68 No.2, 2008, pp.319–333
"Though the mainstream organizational literature has advanced in the last 20 years with the integration of transformational and distributed leadership theories, as well as genuine attempts at comprehensive models, the public sector literature has lagged, especially in utilizing large-scale empirical studies. This study takes advantage of a very large government data set to test the utility of one of the best known theories, the "full range" leadership theory of Bernard Bass. It addresses three important research questions: How inclusive is Bass’s operational definition of leadership? How much of an impact do Bass’s leadership competencies have on follower satisfaction? Finally, how important is transformational leadership compared to transactional leadership in government settings?"

Measuring Street Cleanliness: A Comparison of New York City’s Scorecard and Results from a Citizen Survey(journal article)

by Gregg G. Van Ryzin, Stephen Immerwahr, Stan Altman

from Public Administration Review, Vol.68 No.2, 2008, pp.295–303.

"Public administrators at the local level often rely on citizen surveys to measure the outcomes or accomplishments of their service delivery efforts. However, many remain skeptical about the value of survey-based measures of local government performance, in large part because of the low empirical correlation between objective and subjective performance measures reported in the literature. Using data from New York City’s street cleanliness scorecard, a well-established outcome measure, combined with responses from more than 4,000 respondents to a citizen survey, the authors find a clear and consistent correlation between the scorecard and citizen ratings of street cleanliness in their neighborhoods. These results demonstrate that citizen judgments about government performance can correspond closely with more objectively measured outcomes—and that citizen surveys can provide valid and useful performance measures, at least for some local government services."

Transparency and sustainability of the public balance sheet: perspectives from APEC(journal article)
by Tom Dickson and Alva Lim
from Economic Roundup, Spring 2007.
"This article is based on the paper prepared for the 2007 APEC Finance Ministers’ Process. Good fiscal risk management is identified as a policy priority in the Hanoi Medium Term Agenda, agreed by APEC Finance Ministers in 2006. The article raises issues for discussion and provides an overview of emerging practices in the area of fiscal sustainability. The paper
concludes by summarising key principles drawn from these practices. Achieving economic and social objectives depends on managing risks to fiscal sustainability. This paper aims to facilitate discussion on appropriate ways to enhance fiscal transparency and sustainability by managing key risks from off-balance sheet government activities."

Dinosaurs beware(journal article)
by Deborah Tarrant
from Management Today, Jan Feb 2008, pp.12-16
"Today's challenge for all levels of business to embrace the new sustainability world order is ignored at their peril. This includes developing leading solutions against those far-sighted competitors taking us into a new age."

Green tape(journal article)
by Darren Baguley
from Management Today, Jan Feb 2008, pp.24-27
"Does the ratcheting up of environmental standards mean a new era in green tape for SMEs?"

A revolution in healthcare: Medicine meets the marketplace(journal article)
by Fred Hansen
from Institute of Public Affairs Review, Vol. 59 Issue 4, Jan 2008, pp. 42-45
"With competition nearly absent and with unchecked increases in demand over the last two decades, health markets in industrialised countries are undergoing intense change at tsunami-like speed, responding to levels of health expenditure that are growing twice as fast as the economy at large. This article looks at where healthcare markets are heading due to the quality and state of government run health services."

Challenges Confronting Economic Policy Advisers(journal article)
by Ken Henry
from Public Policy, Vol.2 No.2, 2007, pp. 89 - 98
"For the most part, the work of the public service involves the implementation of government policy decisions and the administration of programs. But the public service also provides policy advice to governments."

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How to organise & operate a small business in Australia : how to turn ideas into success

John English

Covers preparing for self-employment, developing a business strategy, marketing strategies, financial management and introduces the IDEAS system to identify business opportunities with genuine commercial potential.

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The Australian franchising handbook

Richard Evans

Provides advice for those considering becoming a franchisee, such selecting a franchise opportunity that’s right for you, complying with the rules and regulations, and the importance of having an exit strategy.

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