According to Slywotzky, "value migration" is the flow of economic and shareholder value away from an increasingly outmoded business design toward others that are better equipped to create utility for customers and profit for the company. This book describes the skills that managers will need to identify value shifts in their own industries and to craft the key moves that will determine their ab…
The Blue Economy is a design theory initiated by Gunter Pauli which he developed over the last 30 years. The name for his concept The Blue Economy was brought into life with the book The Blue Economy 10 years 100 innovations - 100 million jobs. It was written by Gunter Pauli after 16 years of experiences and more than 50 successful initiatives and projects all over the world as founder and dire…
This book is one of the major outcomes of the Searching for Peace in Asia Pacific project of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP). Numerous individuals and organizations from the Asia Pacific region, Europe. the United States, and Canada provided their advice, insights, and support in shaping the project, participated in workshops and seminars, gave feedback on draft texts, contri…
In this book, Ross develops a broad theoretical explanation for cross-cultural conflict, claiming that both social-cultural interests and psychocultural dispositions must be taken into account to explain why some societies are especially prone to conflict and others are more peaceful.
This book marks a milestone in peace research. The insightful review of the early development of the field of conflict resolution brings a much-needed perspective on the challenges presented by late twentieth-century conflicts. The authors provide a complex and highly differentiated view of today's international collectivity, in which no one set of actors or perspectives predominates. The analy…
This unique collection of comparable case studies addresses the need to assess modes of conflict resolution in a larger sociocultural context with attention to varying approaches and cultural perspectives. Editors Avruch, Black, and Scimecca, together with other anthropologists and sociologists, propose and test different propositions, while looking toward a general theory of conflict and confl…
The book examines ASEAN's mechanisms in managing challenges and threats to regional security. Its extensive analyses of the ASEAN story of managing regional security cover the different phases of ASEAN's development as a regional organization and explore the perceptible changes that have occurred in regional mechanisms of conflict management. The book also examines the roles of relevant actors …
Michael Hugos presents the core concepts and techniques of supply chain management in a clear, concise, and easily readable style for those desiring an introduction to the subject or for those wanting to refine their understanding and application of supply chain issues. The case studies and executive insights are very useful in illustrating how to effectively employ supply chains to enable comp…
The nation's top management guru offers advice to executives for thriving in the global business environment of the future, covering such topics as team building, cutting costs in retail, changes in the U.S. economy, and doing business in Japan. Contents: 1. Management 2. The information based organization 3. The economy 4. The society.
Negeri Bahari Indonesia menawarkan begitu banyak kekayaan sumber daya laut termasuk barang dan jasa kelautan, yang jika dikelola dan kembangkan dengan arif dan bijaksanan serta berwawasan lingkungan tentunya bisa bermanfaat untuk menyehatkan, mencerdaskan, menegakkan keadilan dan menyejahterakan rakyat Indonesia, bahkan dunia. Ragam kekayaan kelautan memberi pencerahan bagi kejayaan bangsa dan …