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Go it Alone
Greensted, R. [June 2007]
One of the major challenges facing a wannabe entrepreneur is to actually make the decision to enter the entrepreneurial world. In this book, Richard Greensted challenges the reader to think over and over again before making the move into the world of a micro-entrepreneur.
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Our contributors review new publications in the areas of business, strategy and management in the digital economy
Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult Problems  Stuart L. Hart [January 2009]
Decision Making & Problem Solving Strategies  Adair, John [December 2008]
Measure What Matters to Customers Using Key Predictive Indicators  Ronald Baker [September 2008]
Sumantra Ghoshal on Management: A Force for Good  Julian Birkinshaw and Gita Piramal [April 2008]
The Individualized Corporation. A Fundamentally New Approach to Management  Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett [March 2008]
Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation  Andrew, J., & Harold, S. [February 2008]
The Age of Turbulence  Greenspan, A. [January 2008]
Family Businesses: The Essentials  Leach, P. [December 2007]
The Future of Management  Hamel, G. [November 2007]
Science Business: the Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech  Pisano, G. [October 2007]
Entrepreneurship: The Way Ahead   Welsch, H.P. [October 2007]
Fast Second - How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets  Markides, C., and Geroski, P. [September 2007]
Competition and Growth – Reconciling Theory and Evidence   Aghion, P. and Griffith, R. [August 2007]
Mergers and acquisitions: the innovation impact  Cassiman B. and Colombo, M. [July 2007]
Go it Alone   Greensted, R. [June 2007]
Black Gold. The New Frontiers in Oil for Investors  George Orwel [May 2007]
Innovation and entrepreneurship in biotechnology, an international perspective  Hine, D., & Kapeleris, J. [April 2007]
Small giants: companies that choose to be great instead of big  Burlingham, Bo [March 2007]
Cooperative strategy: managing alliances, networks and joint ventures  Child, J., Faulkner, D., & Tallman, S. [February 2007]
Manager's guide to competitive marketing strategies  Paley, Norton [January 2007]
Creative strategy in direct & interactive marketing  Jones, Susan K. [January 2007]
Media promotion & marketing for broadcasting, cable & the internet  Eastman, S.T., Ferguson, D.A., Klein, R.A. [December 2006]
Blue ocean strategy: how to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant  Kim, W.C and Mauborgne, R. [November 2006]
Organizational strategy, structure, and process  Miles, R.E. and Snow, C.C. [November 2006]
Simply better: winning and keeping customers by delivering what matters most  Barwise, Patrick and Meehan, Sean [October 2006]
The age of oil: the mythology, history and future of the world's most controversial resource  Maugeri, Leonardo [September 2006]
Collaborative entrepreneurship: how communities of networked firms use continuous innovation to create economic wealth  Miles, R.E., Miles, G. and Snow, C.C. [September 2006]
Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award 2006  [August 2006]
Managing to collaborate: the theory and practice of collaborative advantage  Huxham, C., Vangen, S. [July 2006]
The corporation: the pathological pursuit of profit and power  Bakan, J. [May 2006]
From knowledge to intelligence: creating competitive advantage in the next economy  Rothberg, H.N., Erickson, G.S., Gilad, B. [April 2006]
Strategy bites back: it is a lot more, and less, than you ever imagined  Mintzberg, Henry [February 2006]
Fischer Black and the revolutionary idea of finance  Mehrling, Perry [January 2006]
My life as a quant: reflections on physics and finance  Derman, Emanuel [December 2005]
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything  Levitt, Steven D., Dubner, Stephen J. [October 2005]
Berry-AMA Book Prize 2005. Winners announced!  [October 2005]
Confessions of an economic hit man  Perkins, John [October 2005]
Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award 2005.
Winner announced!
  [November 2005]
And the money kept rolling in (and out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the bankrupting of Argentina  Blustein, Paul [September 2005]
The chastening: inside the crisis that rocked the global financial system and humbled the IMF  Blustein, Paul [August 2005]
The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid: eradicating poverty through profits  Prahalad, C.K. [July 2005]
Managers not MBAS: a hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development  Mintzberg, H. [June 2005]
Paradox of choice: why less is more  Schwartz, Barry [May 2005]
Strategy: how to shape the future of business  Nicholson, N., Houlder, D. [April 2005]
The naked truth: a working woman's manifesto on business and what really matters  Heffernan, M. [March 2005]
Global and transnational business: strategy and management  Stonehouse, G., Campbell, D., Hamill, J., Purdie, A. [February 2005]
Ruthless execution: what business leaders do when their companies hit the wall  Hartman, Amir [November 2004]
Shut up and listen: the truth about how to communicate at work  Theobald, T., Cooper, C.L. [October 2004]
Six Sigma fundamentals: a complete guide to the system, methods and tools  Stamatis, D.H. [October 2004]
Strategy - process, content, context: an international perspective  De Wit, B., Meyer, R. [September 2004]
Sustainable strategic management  Stead, W.R., Garner Stead, J. [September 2004]
Marketing strategy and competitive positioning  Hooley, G., Saunders, J., Piercy, N. [August 2004]
How organizations learn: managing the search for knowledge  Starkey, K., Tempest, S., McKinlay, A. [August 2004]
Practical strategy: structured tools and techniques  Coyle, R.G. [May 2004]
The new strategic management: organization, competition and competence  Sanchez, R., Heene, A. [May 2004]
Exploring strategic change  Balogun, J., Hope Hailey, V. [May 2004]
Strategic entrepreneurship  Wickham, P.A. [May 2004]
Breakthrough: how great companies set outrageous objectives and achieve them  Davidson, W.H. (Bill). [April 2004]
Marketing strategies: a twenty-first century approach  Ranchhod, A. [April 2004]
The character of a corporation: how your company's culture can make or break your business  Goffee, R., Jones, G. [April 2004]
Strategy and performance: achieving competitive advantage in the global marketplace  Ghobadian, A., O'Regan, N., Gallear, D., Viney, H. [March 2003]
The great unravelling: from boom to bust in three scandalous years  Krugman, P. [February 2004]
The future of knowledge: increasing prosperity through value networks  Allee, V. [February 2004]
Digital defense: what you should know about protecting your company's assets  Parenty, T. [January 2004]
Building global biobrands: taking biotechnology to market  Simon, F., Kotler, P. [January 2004]
Marketing mistakes and successes  Hartley, R.F. [January 2004]
Marketing research for managers  Crouch,S., Housden, M. [December 2003]
Leading in turbulent times: managing in the new world of work  Burke, R.J., Cooper, C.L. (eds.) [December 2003]
Knowledge Management (international edition)  Awad, E.M., Ghaziri, H.M. [December 2003]
Lateral marketing: new techniques for finding breakthrough ideas  Kotler, P., Trias de Bes, F. [November 2003]
Business models: a strategic management approach  Afuah, A. [November 2003]
The competitive advantage of common sense: using the power you already have  O'Connell, F. [November 2003]
The fusion manager  Heller, R. [October 2003]
What's the big idea? Creating and capitalizing on the best management thinking  Davenport, T.H., Prusak, L. [October 2003]
Winning behavior: what the smartest most successful companies do differently  Bacon, T.R., Pugh, D.G. [October 2003]
Serious play: how the world's best companies simulate to innovate  Schrage, M. [October 2003]
Stealing time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin and the collapse of AOL Time Warner  Klein, A. [September 2003]
The corporate aftershock: the public policy lessons after the collapse of Enron and other major corporations  Culp, C.L., Niskanen, W.A. [September 2003]
Practice what you preach: what managers must do to create a high-achievement culture  Maister, D.H. [September 2003]
Essentials of marketing research  Proctor, T. [August 2003]
Marketing research: an integrated approach  Wilson, A. [August 2003]
'Unaccountable' and 'The number'  Brewster, M. / Berenson, A. [August 2003]
Essentials of business research (international edition)  Hair, J.F. jr., Babin, B., Money, A.H., Samouel, P. [August 2003]
The new business road test: what entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan  Mullins, J.W. [August 2003]
The Blackwell handbook of organizational learning and knowledge management  Easterby-Smith, M., Lyles, M.A. (eds.) [July 2003]
The seven-day weekend: finding the work/life balance  Semler, R. [July 2003]
Research methods for business: a skill building approach  Sekaran, U. [July 2003]
Business research methods  Cooper, D.R., Schindler, P.S. [July 2003]
Competitive intelligence: acquiring and using corporate intelligence and counter-intelligence  Bernhardt, D. [July 2003]
The new knowledge management: complexity, learning and sustainable innovation  McElroy, M.W. [June 2003]
Sharing expertise: beyond knowledge management  Ackerman, M.S., Pipek, V., Wulf, V. (editors) [June 2003]
Research methods for business students  Saunders, M., Lewis, P., Thornhill, A. [June 2003]
Inventuring: why big companies must think small  Buckland, W., Hatcher, A., Birkinshaw, J. [June 2003]
Confessions of a venture capitalist: inside the high stakes world of start-up financing   Quindlen, R. [June 2003]
Boardroom education  Syrett, M., Lammiman, J. [June 2003]
New ideas about new ideas: insights on creativity from the world's leading innovators  White, S.P. (with Wright, G.P.) [June 2003]
The interactive strategy workout: analyze and develop the fitness of your business   Levicki, C. [May 2003]
Customize the brand: make it more desirable - and profitable  Nilsen, T.H. [May 2003]
The innovation wave: meeting the corporate challenge  von Stamm, B. [April 2003]
Organizational innovations  Clark, P. [April 2003]
Unshrink yourself, other people, business, the world  McKeown, M. [April 2003]
Working with Americans: how to build profitable business relationships  Stewart-Allen, A., Denslow, L. [March 2003]
Momentum: how companies become unstoppable market forces  Ricci, R., Volkmann, J. [March 2003]
Geeks and geezers: how era, values and defining moments shape leaders  Bennis, W.G., Thomas, R.J. [February 2003]
The set-up-to-fail syndrome: how good managers cause great people to fail  Manzoni, J.-F., Barsoux, J.-L. [January 2003]
The real Warren Buffett: managing capital, leading people  O'Laughlin, J. [December 2002]
Irresistable forces: the business legacy of Napster and the growth of the internet  Merriden, T. [December 2002]
Recreating strategy  Cummings, S. [November 2002]
Out of the box: strategies for achieving profits today and growth tomorrow through web services  Hagel, J. [November 2002]
Aligning the stars: how to succeed when professionals drive results  Lorsch, J.W., Tierney, T.J. [October 2002]
Redefining the corporation: stakeholder management and organizational wealth  Post, J.E., Preston, L.E., Sachs, S. [October 2002]
Boo hoo: $135 million, 18 months: a dot.com story from concept to catastrophe  Malmsten, E., Portanger, E., Drazin, C. [September 2002]
Entrepreneurship and small business  Burns, P. [September 2002]
P2P: how peer to peer technology is revolutionizing the way we do business  Fattah, H.M. [August 2002]
The 11 immutable laws of internet branding  Ries, A., Ries, L. [May 2002]
The bright stuff: how innovative people and technology can make the old economy new  de Meyer, A., Dutta, S., Srivastava, S. [May 2002]
R&D strategy and organization: managing technical change in dynamic contexts  Chiesa, V. [April 2002]
Gonzo marketing: winning through worst practices  Locke, C. [March 2002]
Smart luck and the seven other qualities of great entrepreneurs  Davidson, A. [February 2002]
Where the butterfly alights: the global location of e-work  Huws, U., Jagger, N., Bates, P. [February 2002]
20/20 foresight: crafting strategy in an uncertain world  Courtney, H. [March 2002]
Branding @ the digital age  Meyers, H., Gerstman, R. (eds.) [January 2002]
Managing risk and resolving crisis  Waite, W. (Bill) (ed.) [January 2002]
Leading with soul: an uncommon journey of spirit  Bolman, L.G., Deal, T.E. [November 2001]
Reframing business: when the map changes the landscape  Normann, R. [November 2001]
The psychology of money: an investment manager's guide to beating the market   Ware, J. [November 2001]
Company analysis: determining strategic capability  Jenster, P., Hussey, D. [November 2001]
Both sides of the coin: the arguments for the Euro and European Monetary Union: [and] the arguments against the Euro and European Monetary Union  Huhne, C., Forder, J. [August 2001]
The attention economy: understanding the new currency of business  Davenport, T.H., [August 2001]
Virtual integration: information technology: the enabler in globalization  Ericsson, D. et al. [August 2001]
Corporate voodoo: principles for business mavericks and magicians  Carayol, R., Firth, D. [August 2001]
Leading at dotcom speed: using new economy rules to invigorate old economy companies  Capodagli, W. (Bill), Jackson, L. [July 2001]
The internet supply chain: impact on accounting and logistics  Chorafas, D. [July 2001]
Innovation: breakthrough ideas at 3M, DuPont, GE, Pfizer and Rubbermaid  Kanter, R.M., Kao, J., Wiersema, F. (executive editors) [July 2001]
E-marketing handbook: an indispensable guide to marketing your products and services on the internet  Haig, M. [June 2001]
Cluetrain manifesto: the end of business as usual  Levine, R., Locke, C., Searls, D., Weinberger, D. [June 2001]
Competitive knowledge management  Bahra, N. [June 2001]
The internet economy: access, taxes and market structure  Wiseman, A. [June 2001]
Knowledge management: classic and contemporary works  Morey, D., Maybury, M., Thuraisingham, B. [June 2001]
Counter-intuitive marketing: achieve great results using uncommon sense   Clancy, K.J., Krieg, P.C. [June 2001]
Connexity: responsibility, freedom, business and power in the new century  Mulgan, G. [April 2001]
Perfect m-commerce  Morris, S., Dickinson, P. [April 2001]
eBusiness essentials: technology and network requirements for mobile and online markets  Norris, M., West, S. [April 2001]
Writing the new economy  Middleton, J. [April 2001]
Surfing the edge of chaos  Pascale, R., Millemann, M., Gioja, L. [November 2000]
Super searchers do business: the online secrets of top business researchers  Bates, M.E. [September 2000]
Mining for gold on the internet: how to find investment and financial information on the Internet  Bates, M.E. [July 2000]