Applying the concept of historical waves originally propounded by Alvin Toffler in The Third Wave, Herman Maynard and Susan Mehrtens look toward the next century and foresee a 'fourth wave,' an era of integration and responsibility far beyond Toffler's revolutionary description of third-wave postindustrial society. Whether we attain this stage of global well-being, however, will depend on how well our business institutions adapt and change. The Fourth...

In 1956 Brian Canfield got his first job at the BC Telephone Company as an apprentice installer. He was just out of high school, only eighteen years old, a local kid born and raised in New Westminster, and he took to this new opportunity like he would to any new opportunity in his career: with passion and wonder and huge commitment. Over a career spanning almost six decades, Canfield rose through the ranks of BC Tel, first in technical roles where...

Die populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung zeigt erstmals die Auswirkungen der Verdrängungs- und Enteignungspolitik der sowjetischen Besatzungsmacht und des SED-Regimes für die Familienunternehmenslandschaft in Ostdeutschland bis heute auf. Die staatsdirigistischen Eingriffe führten zum einen zur Abwanderung von Betrieben in den Westen. Zum anderen zeigten sich nun erst recht Resilienz, Einfallsreichtum und Beharrlichkeit der verbleibenden Familienunternehmer*innen. Nach...

Cómo la nueva clase dominante de grandes inversores y tecnólogos ha vencido en el siglo XXI al viejo orden mundial de empresarios y políticos. Este libro recorre un periodo que se inaugura con la conquista de América y la creación de los primeros colosos empresariales y llega hasta nuestros días. Durante todo este tiempo, el poder ha estado marcado por la connivencia entre los dirigentes de las grandes empresas y el Estado, cuyo símbolo más...

In this groundbreaking pamphlet, based on testimony he delivered before Congress, Ralph Nader describes how corporations are picking our pockets, and what we can do to stop them. While the United States continues to experience unprecedented cuts in social service programs and millions of Americans go without health insurance, massive corporations continue to reap huge sums of taxpayer money through "corporate welfare"-corporate subsidies, bailouts,...

From a swampy forest, Hancock County grew to a hub of agriculture, industry and culture. The promise of free fuel and land brought numerous factories to Findlay. One, the Dalzell, Gilmore & Leighton Glass Company, left a lasting legacy of collectible glassware. The need to drain fields and presence of a ready supply of clay encouraged the growth of brick and tile factories in Rawson, Arlington, McComb and Findlay. Entertainment and culture arrived...

While architects have been the subject of many scholarly studies, we know very little about the companies that built the structures they designed. This book is a study in business history as well as civil engineering and construction management. It details the contributions that Charles J. Pankow, a 1947 graduate of Purdue University, and his firm have made as builders of large, often concrete, commercial structures since the company's foundation...

From acclaimed novelist and cultural historian Ruth Brandon comes a captivating dual biography of the legendary founders of the cosmetics industry, Helena Rubinstein and Eugène Schueller, creator of L'Oréal. Brandon's gripping and sometimes disturbing story of gender, power, and politics stretches back from the darkest days of World War II, to the emergence of the modern fashion and makeup industries, with magazines such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan...

A HISTORY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN LONDON. With the rise of urban communities came the need to create a system for the regulation of the interaction both social and material between the various interests at play in densely populated communities, in order to maintain order and prevent friction between those interests. In a totalitarian system such as a monarchy or dictatorship, this regulation was imposed by the monarch or dictator. The earliest recorded...

This book is meant as a collection of success stories achieved by various organizations based in the Incheon area. It is of great significance in that it is possible to grasp the success factors of Korean management by examining the meaning of managerial leadership and management philosophy, starting from the region and growing up to being recognized in the global market and achieving results. In this respect, the collection of "K-Management Blossoming...