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Taking a systems perspective, this book enables the student to make sense of business behaviour by demonstrating how interrelated business processes determine the success of an organisation.
What are the forces shaping today's business world? Understanding Business Environments provides key readings which introduce the student to the factors underlying the business environment. Including chapters by gurus such as Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall and Will Hutton, the book covers: * social forces including the social structure and long-term social change * technological factors including Information Technology and new production technologies * economic factors including the impact of macroeconomic policy and of the financial system * political factors including the legal environment and government-business relations.
A critical introduction to the workings of the market, looking particularly at the diversity of market economies, their successes and shortcomings. Alternative approaches, including Marxist and Keynesian, are also discussed.
This authoritative yet accessible book identifies the key targets for intervention through a detailed exploration of pathways and processes that give rise to health inequalities. It sets this against an examination of both local practice and the national policy context, to establish what works in health inequalities policy, how and why.--
Christine Greenhalgh explains the complex process of innovation & how it sustains the growth of firms, industries & economies, combining microeconomic & macroeconomic analysis.
This book covers the management of tourism enterprises (all tourism course are taught with a management orientation). This M & E Handbook provides an overview of corporate and functional tourism management issues using up-to-date case studies. It applies up-to-date conceptual frameworks of management theory to the tourism industry in a straightforward manner. The case studies illustrate the characteristics which differentiate tourism from manufacturing and from other service industries and illustrate the decision making aspects of tourism. It also addresses corporate and functional management issues. It is aimed at BTEC National students taking tourism, BTEC HND students taking Business and Finance (travel & tourism option) and Leisure (tourism option) and BA/BSc Business Studies and BA Hospitality Management students taking a tourism module. Undergraduate students taking a degree in tourism and postgraduate students of tourism should also find it useful.
The brand-new Bill Slider Mystery David Rogers was a doctor, handsome, charming and rich. He lived the lifestyle of a consultant, expensive clothes, top restaurants, exclusive clubs, until someone killed him in the hallway of his lovely million-plus-pound house. But when Bill Slider and his firm are thrown into the mystery, they soon discover that nothing is as it seems, for though David's girlfriends are plenty, none of them can tell Slider anything about where he worked or what exactly he did . . .
Previously published as Managerial Accounting in the Hotel and Catering Industry, this book has been substantially revised, expanded and updated in order to keep abreast of current accounting developments and their applications in the hotel, restaurant and catering industry.
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