Author: Gerrie LimPublisher:
ISBN: 9789810510336
Category : Male prostitution
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Author: Brian GriffithsThe Invisible Link
Author: Michael Y. YoshinoPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262240253
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A sogo shosha is like no other type of company. "The Invisible Link "provides a systematic and well-balanced description that covers virtually all aspects of sogo shosha operations, from finance to personnel.The sogo shosha is not defined by the products it handles or even by the services it performs, for it offers a broad and changing array of goods and functions. Its business goals are equally elusive, for maximization of profits from each transaction is clearly not the major goal, at either the operating or philosophical level. The sogo shosha could be broadly defined as a large, diversified, multinational enterprise engaged primarily in trading. Yet it is a uniquely Japanese business operation whose structural and strategic dynamics have no close counterparts in North America and Europe.There are only nine sogo shosha in Japan - six of them of major significance - and the largest employs fewer than 15,000. Among them, they handle about one-half of all of Japan's exports and imports. The sogo shosha typically deal in bulk in products that are highly standardized and technologically unsophisticated - raw materials, commodities, intermediary products. A large sogo shosha will finance, develop, manufacture and/or carry over 20,000 different items, "from noodles to missiles" as one slogan has it."The Invisible Link "gives detailed coverage to such topics as historical evolution of the sogo shosha, strategic responses and competitive dynamics, culture and organization, administrative structures and processes, human resource systems, career outcomes, interunit and interfirm coordination, sectional and network organization, and emerging challenges as the nature of the Japanese economy changes.M. Y Yoshino is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Two of his books, "Japan's Managerial System" and "The Japanese Marketing System," were published by The MIT Press. Thomas B. Lifson is an Associate in the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University.
The Invisible Hand?
Author: Bas van BavelPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191017671
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The Invisible Hand? offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists and economic historians, by showing that 'factor markets' and the economies dominated by them — the market economies — are not modern, but have existed at various times in the past. They rise, stagnate, and decline; and consist of very different combinations of institutions embedded in very different societies. These market economies create flexibility and high mobility in the exchange of land, labour, and capital, and initially they generate economic growth, although they also build on existing social structures, as well as existing exchange and allocation systems. The dynamism that results from the rise of factor markets leads to the rise of new market elites who accumulate land and capital, and use wage labour extensively to make their wealth profitable. In the long term, this creates social polarization and a decline of average welfare. As these new elites gradually translate their economic wealth into political leverage, it also creates institutional sclerosis, and finally makes these markets stagnate or decline again. This process is analysed across the three major, pre-industrial examples of successful market economies in western Eurasia: Iraq in the early Middle Ages, Italy in the high Middle Ages, and the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, and then parallels drawn to England and the United States in the modern period. These areas successively saw a rapid rise of factor markets and the associated dynamism, followed by stagnation, which enables an in-depth investigation of the causes and results of this process.
Invisible
Author: James PattersonPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031640540X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Read the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller Invisible, then continue the series with Unsolved. Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence he can't afford to ignore. More murders are reported by the day--and they're all inexplicable. No motives, no murder weapons, no suspects. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes? INVISIBLE is James Patterson's scariest, most chilling thriller yet.
The Invisible Hand
Author: Adam SmithPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141963352
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Adam Smith’s landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an ‘invisible hand’. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Author: JapanSelling the Invisible
Author: Harry BeckwithPublisher: Business Plus
ISBN: 0759521522
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
SELLING THE INVISIBLE is a succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them. SELLING THE INVISIBLE covers service marketing from start to finish. Filled with wonderful insights and written in a roll-up-your-sleeves, jargon-free, accessible style, such as: Greatness May Get You Nowhere Focus Groups Don'ts The More You Say, the Less People Hear & Seeing the Forest Around the Falling Trees.
Author: 统一的贸易经济学
Author: Beizhan LiuPublisher: Beizhan Liu
ISBN: 1794796231
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
作者在这本论著中首创性地提出了统一的贸易经济学的理论体系。这一理论体系目前共包含约27个理论。统一的贸易经济学将各个层次经济系统的贸易关系的理论统一了起来，使其不仅可以应用于区域经济贸易，国际贸易，还可以推广应用到微观经济系统。统一的贸易经济学也实现了备战学派所主张的对经济现实的可触摸性和可计算性。统一的贸易经济学较为全面地分析了区域经济贸易的各种特性，并建立起较为完整的具有独创性的区域经济贸易评价体系。 这本书中的很多理论和思想都是很崭新的，其中所包含的创新概念或具有创新内容的概念有：贸易系统，贸易主体，贸易客体，本地贸易产品/服务/利润，本地国际化贸易产品/服务/利润，本地国际化贸易回归产品/服务/利润，进口/出口/类别性/双边性/双区分/总体性/跨境性贸易指标，贸易差额强度，贸易差额强度落差，贸易竞争系数，贸易和谐系数，贸易交换系数，贸易相关系数，贸易竞争力指数，贸易成本，贸易收入，贸易效率，贸易利润，贸易利润比率，贸易回头率，贸易召回率，贸易折返率，流通性贸易泡沫总量（总值），流通性贸易泡沫度，社会性经济泡沫度（贸易），社会性经济泡沫量（贸易），贸易参与度，贸易市场需求量，贸易市场需求度，产能缺口，区域外供应能力，贸易能力，贸易能力缺口，贸易能力实现率，过剩贸易能力比率，过剩出口贸易能力比率，进口贸易能力缺口比率，评估指标对，评估指标集合，贸易优势集合/序列，趋势性汇率波动，汇率性贸易成本/收入/利润，汇率性贸易成本比率/收入比率/利润比率，经济势能水平（贸易），经济势能容量（贸易），环境经济代价（贸易），经济绿色势能（贸易），关税收入，关税成本，贸易管理团队规模社会性比率，贸易管理团队规模就业性比率，贸易成果性管理消耗比，贸易成本性管理消耗比，贸易管理团队的人均管理成本，管理团队人均贸易收入，管理团队人均关税收入，贸易指标增速，贸易指标变异度，贸易特性指标序列（贸易结构），贸易集中度，贸易安全特性指标，区域经济贸易双核算体系，区域经济贸易比例指标，贸易经济比重（域外依赖度），等等。统一的贸易经济学必将成为我们共有的航行在太空中的宇宙飞船的国际贸易体系的理论基础。 这本论著对于那些对贸易经济研究，贸易经济管理，贸易财务管理，区域经济等感兴趣的人士应该是一本比较好的开拓思维的读本。对于从事和希望从事贸易经济研究工作，政府工作或经济管理工作的人士也是比较有意义的。
