Rethinking the Company

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Titles of related interest
Wake Up and Shake Up Your Company R Koch and A Campbell
Corporate... Tovább

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The Financial Times/Pitman Publishing Series
The Financial r//?/^^/?!!!!!^!!! Publishing series is designed to meet the needs of business managers in the 1990s and beyond. The books provide authoritative coverage of a wide range of both general and functional management subjects by the leading business academics and experts from practices throughout Europe.
The series carries a strong European emphasis, reflecting the management realities of the 1990s. The themes are diverse, but all the books are united by their quality of analysis, topicality and incisive style.
Designed for use specifically by senior and middle managers, the focus of the list is on management, marketing and financial subjects.
The combined strengths of the Financial Times and Pitman Publishing will ensure a list of consistent quality and topicality appropriate for a rapidly evolving competitive environment.
Titles of related interest
Wake Up and Shake Up Your Company R Koch and A Campbell
Corporate Responsibility
The Editors
Thomas Clarke has taught at Nottingham Business School, the University of St Andrews, and is Visiting Professor at FGV Business School, Sao Paulo Brazil, and the European Foundation for Management Development China-Europe Management Institute. He has published widely on privatisation and advanced production strategies, and is on the editorial board of a number of management journals. For five years he was the chair of a film and video production company. Presently he is DBM Professor of Corporate Governance at Leeds Business School and is preparing a guide for company directors.
Elaine Monkhouse obtained a first class honours degree in management science at the University of Warwick business school. She was employed at BT working on the corporate response to privatisation. She moved on to the Stock Exchange working on information systems and organisational change, l^oth pre and post Big Bang. She then ran several small lousinesses in Yorkshire. Now she is Senior Lecturer in strategic management at Leeds Business School, and is conducting research on innovation, industrial investment and new measures of company performance.
PITMAN PUBLISHING
Rethinking the Company
Companies today face unprecedented challenges - the accelerating pace of economic change; increasing global competition; rapid technological innovation and insistent environmental concerns.
Rethinkiiig the Company offers a practical yet far-reaching account of the forces shaping business in the next century. It will be essential reading for anyone who needs to keep abreast of current management thinking and understand the likely shape of business in the 21st Century.
The book:
• outlines concisely the central elements on the business horizon of the 21st century
• investigates different international modes of corporate governance, definitions of the role of business and measures of business success
• examines the impact of environmental, legal and political pressures on corporate activity
• discusses the knowledge, competencies and skills required from future company directors to meet the needs of enterprises in the future
• explores various corporate strategies including technological development, alliances, innovations and networks
• discusses the implications of further internationalisation of business activity, the influence of international finance, and the prospects for
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