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Business Textbooks | Banking, Finance and
Accountancy Textbooks
Business and
Management Books for Professionals
Professional Business and
Management Research Texts
Finance and Capital Market Series
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Business
Textbooks
With an expanding list from some of the best authors in their field
Palgrave's aim is to provide the best in Business Textbooks. Below
is a selection of featured titles within this subject area, to browse a full list of
titles click here.
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Quantitative
Methods for Business, Management and Finance
2nd Edition
Louise
Swift and Sally
Piff
A comprehensive, student-focused textbook designed primarily for
undergraduate business students taking an introductory course on
quantitative methods. Starting with no assumptions about students'
knowledge the authors use numerous examples, checkpoints and assessments
to encourage 'learning by doing' and provides support for students of
all abilities.
This edition provides additional contextual information, includes a new
chapter on decision-making, incorporates the use of SPSS in addition to
Excel, and offers an expanded set of companion web resources for
students and lecturers.
Paperback
May 2005
1403935289
£29.99
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Management Control
Theories,
Issues and Performance
Anthony
J. Berry, Jane
Broadbent and David
Otley
This is a new edition
of the same authors' Management Control: Theories, Issues and
Practices. The book provides undergraduate and postgraduate students
of management control, together with interested practitioners, with a
thoroughly contemporary overview of the area. Whilst the core of the
original book is retained, new chapters are added on knowledge
management, risk and control in Networks.
Paperback
April 2005
1403935351
£27.99
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Researching
Business and Management
A
Roadmap For Success
Harvey
Maylor and Kate
Blackmon
This is an introductory text on the process of research in business
and management. It will enable undergraduate, taught postgraduates and
MBA students to develop the skills to carry out rigorous research,
using a structured approach to the research process from defining the
research question, through the selection of methods, to producing a
final report. The authors' style is friendly and supportive,
occasionally humorous, and they acknowledge the chaos, uncertainty and
sometimes complexity inherent in research projects. Research
methodologies are explained with great clarity, relating theory to
practice throughout. There is a comprehensive website to accompany
this text including both lecturer and student resources.
Paperback
April 2005
0333964071
£29.99
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Participation
and Democracy at Work
Essays in Honour of Harvie
Ramsay
Jeff
Hyman, Paul
Thompson and
Bill
Harley
Employee participation is a dynamic and contested area of
organisational behaviour, attracting continuing academic, practitioner
and policy interest and debate. This book will bring together a fresh,
critical and comparative perspective on the full range of participation
practices, drawing on the work of leading scholars in the field. It is intended
to honour the work of Harvie Ramsay, who died tragically in 2001 and who
was a pioneering writer on participation and democracy in this field.
Paperback
March 2005
1403900043
£25.99
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Project
Management
A
Strategic Planning Approach
Paul Gardiner
Project
Management is designed to appeal
to undergraduate and postgraduate students studying project management
on a business degree. It provides a comprehensive overview of project
management practice, while carefully balancing the unique aspects of
project management curricula with the more general business skills,
including quality, risk, teams, and leadership. The text includes a wide
range of cases to connect the academic principles and the complexity of
real-life projects. The text is also supported by web-based multiple
choice questions, as well as in-text exercises and examples to
illustrate the concepts and ideas throughout the book
Paperback
January 2005
0333982223
£28.99
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Leadership
Limits
and Possibilities
Keith
Grint
Leadership provides a critical review and analysis of the
key components of leadership. Against an historical backdrop, the text
explores the foundations of good leadership, the relationship between
leaders and subordinates and the role leaders play in the dynamics of
organisational life. Taking a critical perspective, this text is an
ideal course companion for undergraduate and MBA students studying
leadership.
Paperback
January 2005
0333963873
£25.99
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Operations Management
Terry Hill
Operations Management presents Terry Hill's vision of how
operations can deliver real competitive advantage for organizations.
Drawing on his extensive industrial and consultancy experience, Hill
balances the strategic role of the operations manager with day-to-day
management tasks, and shows how each step and decision in operations
is affected by market needs and wants.
Operations Management:
- Provides detailed consideration of service delivery system design,
with a dedicated chapter on the subject
- Introduces the importance of people management from the beginning
- Provides expanded discussion of operations strategy and market
linkage, ERP, and supply chain issues including e-procurement
- Demonstrates operations in the 'real world' with over 100
mini-cases, plus detailed long case studies at the end of the book to
encourage critical analysis
- Offers a range of companion materials for lecturers and students
Lecturers who adopt the second edition of Terry Hill's Operations
Management text may obtain a hard copy Instructor's Manual to
support their teaching. It contains:
An introduction to the second edition of the main text.
A teaching note for each of the 31 long case studies included in the
book.
A note when using the exercises 'Claymore Construction Group' and
'Network Analysis Exercises'.
Paperback
November 2004
1403934665
£34.99
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International
Human Resource Management
A
Critical Text
Hugh Scullion and Margaret
Linehan
International Human Resource Management
provides a critical
assessment of contemporary international HRM. Written by leading
international scholars, this text explores the challenges confronting
organizations as they seek to develop effective resourcing strategies
in a global environment. International Human Resource Management
is an excellent companion text for upper level undergraduate,
postgraduates and MBA students studying international or comparative
HRM.
Paperback
January 2005
0333741390
£25.99
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If you would like further
information regarding these titles or any other related text please contact Pooja Talwar
at p.talwar@palgrave.com
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