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H I G H E R E D U C A T I O N Business & Management 2013 Resources for teaching and learning 2752 academics responded to our survey, helping us shape this catalogue to focus on Higher Education titles, with a little more emphasis on the new. Our full book list is available online, where it’s now easier to find what you want with our improved search and filter. If you’d like to be alerted to new books as they publish, sign up to our e-mail list: www.palgrave.com/mailinglist Management & Leadership Strategy Quantitative Methods & Operational Research For a complete list of titles, Human Resource Management & Employee Relations please visit www.palgrave.com * H I G H E R E D U C A T I O N Organization Studies . Business & Marketing International Business Management Operations Management 2013 IT for Business Entrepreneurship & Small Business Innovation Management K E Y T O S Y M B O L S Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility New New title IC Inspection copy available Research Methods, Study Skills and Reference Ebook Title available as an ebook Web Web resource available Banking, Finance & Accounting *Prices are correct at the time of print Our catalogues and the packaging they are delivered in are recyclable - when you have finished with this catalogue please recycle it. Printed by an ISO 14001 (Environmental Standard) accredited printer on FSC standard paper and printed using vegetable-based ink. 1 MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP Project Management Management A Problem-Based Approach A Concise Introduction Bennet P. Lientz, Richard Pettinger, Business and Management Consultant, Lecturer in Professor, UCLA Management, University College London, UK Anderson School of ‘Pettinger has captured the essentials of organizations and Management, USA management studies in this concise and highly informative ‘This extremely useful introductory text. It is thoughtful, well structured and highly handbook offers a accessible to students.’ - Claire Hookham-Williams, University of definitive list of issues Liverpool, UK extracted from a Management: A Concise Introduction has been written with the student in database of project mind - short chapters, easy identification of the key points and revision- problems... a unique friendly sections. Backed by robust academic theory with plenty of resource for project pedagogical features, it has an engaging style and is, all in all, everything a managers looking student needs to understand the subject and pass the exam. to address project problems, improve their Contents: PART I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MANAGEMENT • Preface • practice and deliver Introduction • Organisations, Managers and the Environment • Managing projects successfully.’ - Darren Dalcher, Director of in a Changing Environment • Management Ethics and Risk • The Practice of Management • PART II: the National Centre for Project Management, UK ORGANISATIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS OF MANAGEMENT • Culture and Structure • Communication • Organisation Politics • Human Resource Management • Leadership and Management • PART An ideal course text that helps students to identify, III: STRATEGY, POLICY, DIRECTION AND PRIORITIES • Strategy, Policy and Direction Marketing • Managing manage and solve problems that arise during the Operations and Projects • Financial and Quantitative Aspects of Management • Performance Management • lifecycle of projects. This problem-based approach PART IV: ENDURING PRIORITIES OF MANAGEMENT • The Management of Risk • Management and Motivation • encourages students to develop analytical and Management on a Daily Basis • Management Development • Conclusions: Managing for the Present and Future problem-solving skills and to get a more complete understanding of the factors that contribute to project success. September 2012 464pp Paperback £26.99 978-0-230-28535-4 Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION • PART II: THE LIFE OF THE PROJECT • PART III: BUSINESS PROBLEMS • IC Web PART IV: MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS • PART V: VENDOR PROBLEMS • PART VI: PROJECT PROBLEMS • PART VII: PROBLEMS RELATED TO GOVERNMENT AND CULTURE • PART VIII: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROBLEMS October 2012 528pp Paperback £41.99 978-0-230-34849-3 New IC Web 2 STRATEGY Business Strategy Global Strategic Management An Introduction 3rd edition 3rd edition Philippe Lasserre, Emeritus Professor of Strategy and Asian Business, David Campbell, INSEAD, Singapore Professor of Accounting and Corporate ‘The breadth and depth of topics covered is the best in the market in my Governance, Newcastle view. The global trends section is very strong and just what is needed University Business for this complex area of study.’ - Carolyn Richardson, Senior Lecturer, School, UK, David University of Cumbria, UK Edgar, Professor of ‘Lasserre gives strong practical advice on operational aspects of global Strategy and Business management and I love the innovative treatment of topics.’ - Sai Lan, Transformation, Peking University, China Glasgow Caledonian University, UK and Global Strategic Management takes an academically rigorous strategic George Stonehouse, and managerial approach to global issues, blending theory and Professor, Strategic practical examples to lend an insight into the impact of globalisation on Management and Dean, organisations around the world. Edinburgh Napier University Business, UK Contents: PART I: THE PROCESS OF GLOBALISATION • Globalisation of Markets and Competition • Designing Business Strategy, third edition, provides an ideal a Global Strategy • Designing a Global Organisation • Global Strategic Alliances, M&As and Assessing introduction for those approaching strategy for the Countries’ Attractiveness • Entry Strategies • PART II: MANAGING GLOBALLY • Global Marketing • Global first time. Key features include: international case Operations • Global Innovation • Cross-cultural Management • Global Human Resource Management • Global studies; chapters on current issues such as CSR, Financial Management • PART III: BROAD ISSUES IN GLOBALISATION • Emerging Global Powers • The Social emerging markets and new technologies; and guru Responsibility of the Global Firm • Global Trends • guides: bite-sized bios of key thinkers in the field. June 2012 560pp A Full Table of Contents is Available at: www.palgrave.com Paperback £39.99 978-0-230-29381-6 April 2011 392pp Ebook IC Web Paperback £39.99 978-0-230-21858-1 Ebook IC Web 3 Strategic Management in Mergers, Acquisitions & the Third Sector Strategic Alliances Roger Courtney, Understanding the Process Looking Freelance Consultant specialising in the Third Emanuel Gomes, for more? Sector Lecturer in Strategy and International Business, ‘Roger Courtney has University of Sheffield, Our complete catalogue of delivered a superb text UK, Yaakov Weber, over 23,000 titles is available at which will be vital for Chair of the Strategy and www.palgrave.com and includes: all courses looking at Entrepreneurship strategic management Department, College of issues in charities and Management, Israel, sample chapters other third sector Chris Brown, Managing full contents listings organizations. 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APPROACHES TO STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT • PART Contents: M&A and Strategic Alliances: The Basic Concepts III: STRATEGY AND THE THIRD SECTOR • PART IV: • Economic Arguments and Consequences • Understanding Simply email STRATEGIC ANALYSIS, FORMULATION, CHOICE AND the Processes: Pre-Agreement Issues • The Evaluation Process: IMPLEMENTATION • PART V: CASE STUDIES Selecting the Type of Arrangement • Choosing the Right Partner • [email protected] Executing the Transaction • Integration Management or sign up at: www.palgrave.com March 2013 352pp Paperback £39.99 978-0-230-33693-3 September 2011 344pp Follow us on Twitter: Paperback £41.99 978-0-230-28536-1 www.twitter.com/palgraveBiz New IC Web IC 4 QUANTITATIVE METHODS & OPERATIONAL RESEARCH Essential Management Science Decision-making through systems thinking Quantitative Methods For Business, Management and Finance 2nd edition Hans Daellenbach, Emeritus Professor, Donald McNickle, Senior Lecturer, 5th edition Department of Management and Shane Dye, Senior Lecturer in Management Science, all at University of Canterbury, New Zealand Les Oakshott, Senior Teaching Fellow and ‘For those wishing to understand how MS/OR work is really done, Practice Link Manager, Management Science provides an excellent introduction. 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