Winner, Governor General's Award for PoetryShortlisted, Governor General's Award for TranslationAn elegant testimony to the beautiful and the good, Serge Patrice Thibodeau's One pays homage to the vibrancy and vigor of life, backdropped against the precarious immediacy of the everyday. From the tiny trunk of opening lines taken from Paul Valery, Thibodeau unpacks a vision of human consciousness that exists in a state of singular wonder, creating a universe that is at once faithful and ever-changing like the tidal bore -- the landscape of mascaret. Thibodeau boldly blends anecdotes, pop-ups, leitmotifs, ecological awareness, and the inner world in variations on the theme of wholeness.

Knitting is a booming pastime, enjoying a resurgence of interest, spawning books, movies, a brisk online trade in wool and knitted goods -- even trade fairs. In Canada, Cottage Craft has long held a strong reputation for its fine wool, dyed to the palette of the local landscape, and the fine craftsmanship of the women who weave and knit its quality materials. Behind Cottage Craft is the story of a woman of vision and remarkable resolve. Grace Helen Mowat looked upon traditional rural crafts -- knitting, weaving, and rug hooking -- as cash crops for the straitened farm women of Charlotte County, New Brunswick. In 1911, unmarried and with limited means, she commissioned a handful of St. Andrews women to make rugs according to her designs, which were then sent to Montreal. The Arts and Crafts movement was in full swing -- the rugs sold quickly. This is the story of how Grace Helen Mowat built Cottage Craft into a burgeoning home-grown business that continues to attract customers the world over.

From its earliest flights in 1926, carrying mail and occasionally a solo passenger to Chicago, to its acquisition by Delta in 2010, Northwest Airlines soared to the heights of technological achievement and business innovation--and sunk to the depths of employee discord, passenger dissatisfaction, and financial bankruptcy. Its story, rich in singular successes and failures, also has the sweep of the history of American business in the twentieth century. "Non-Stop: A Turbulent History of Northwest Airlines" captures both the broad context and the intriguing details as it weaves together the accounts of individuals who gave the airline its unique character: from founder Lewis Brittin and pioneering female executive "Rosie" Stein to the CEOs who saw the company through its glory days and its final tumultuous decade.

What was it like to pilot a crippled airliner, to be in the vanguard of the new profession of stewardess, to ride in the cabin of a luxurious Stratocruiser for the first time? These are the experiences that come alive as Jack El-Hai follows Northwest from its humble beginnings to its triumph as the envy of the airline industry and then ultimately to its decline into what aggrieved passengers and employees called "Northworst."

"Non-Stop" hits the airline's high points (such as its contributions during World War II and the Korean War) and the low--D. B. Cooper's parachute getaway from a Northwest airliner in 1971 and a terrorist's disruption of the airline's last year. Touching on everything from airline food and advertising to smoking regulations and labor relations, the story of Northwest Airlines encapsulates the profound changes to business, travel, and culture that marked the twentieth century.

Lego is one of the world's best-loved and most familiar brands, adored by generations of children. What is less well known, though, is how close this iconic company came to total collapse in 2003 before staging an astonishing recovery.

Brick by Brick is the compelling story of a Danish family-owned company that enjoyed decades of success before its inability to keep in step with a rapidly changing market brought it crashing to earth. It's also the story of an extraordinary turn-around. As disaster stared them in the face, the management of Lego embarked on an audacious and innovative plan to turn their fortunes around, and then painstakingly implemented it. Today, the company is riding high once again, and enjoying results that are the envy of their competitors.

Granted unprecedented access to every part of the Lego Group, the authors of Brick by Brick not only chart each twist in the company's story but explain precisely what went wrong and how it was fixed. Their clear-sighted analysis will prove invaluable to all those who want to understand how companies can not only ride the storm of change, but benefit from it.

If the current economic malaise accomplishes nothing else, it should help awaken us all to the realization that our country has been on a path of self-destructive behavior for several decades--a reversal of the progressive path that had made major gains in economic and political equality for a large majority of the U.S. population starting in the 1870s. It is John McDermott's purpose in this ambitious book to explain why that reversal happened, how society has changed in dramatic ways since the 1960s, and what we can do to reverse this downward spiral.

In Part 1 he endeavors to lay out the overall narrative of change from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing how a novel social structure came to be developed around corporate America to form what he calls "corporate society." Part 2 analyzes what the nature of this corporate society is, how it is a special type of "fabricated" structure, and why it came to dominate society generally, eventually including the government and university systems, which themselves became increasingly corporatized. The aim of Part 3 is to outline a path of reform that can, if all its parts can be integrated sufficiently to be effective, put us on the path to restarting the progressive movement.

Is a lively and captivating history of the formative years of the American fur trade, the period in which the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, with its corps of trappers and traders, grew to be "the greatest name in the mountains."

Doktorarbeit / Dissertation aus dem Jahr 1993 im Fachbereich BWL - Rechnungswesen, Bilanzierung, Steuern, Note: 1,0, Leopold-Franzens-Universitat Innsbruck (Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultat), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Problemstellung: Betrachtet man die im Statistischen Jahrbuch der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in toto publizierten Bilanzen und Erfolgsrechnungen der grossen Kapitalgesellschaften, so ergibt sich fur das Jahr 1989 ein aggregierter Jahresuberschuss von 19.739 Mio. DM bei einer Bilanzsumme von 861.386 Mio. DM. Somit betrug der durchschnittliche Jahresuberschuss der grossen Kapitalgesellschaften bezogen auf die Bilanzsumme 2,29%. Hieraus ergibt sich die Fragestellung, inwieweit durch den Einsatz des jahresabschlusspolitischen Instrumentariums die im Hinblick auf die Realisierung jahresabschlusspolitischer Ziele zentrale Grosse des Jahresuberschusses beeinflusst werden kann. Rechnerisch wurde eine erfolgswirksame Verminderung (Erhohung) der Summe aller Aktiva, bei gleichzeitiger erfolgswirksamer Erhohung (Verminderung) der Summe aller Passiva ohne Eigenkapital] um jeweils 1,14% ausreichen, um den ausgewiesenen Jahresuberschuss auf Null zu reduzieren (zu verdoppeln). Zur Beantwortung der obigen Fragestellung wird im betriebswirtschaftlichen Schrifttum uberwiegend die sachverhaltsabbildende Jahresabschlusspolitik untersucht, wahrend sich die Untersuchung der sachverhaltsgestaltenden Jahresabschlusspolitik oftmals darin erschopft, lediglich auf deren Existenz hinzuweisen, ggf. unter Hinzufugung einiger Beispiele, oder ohne weitere Begrundung die sachverhaltsabbildende Jahresabschlusspolitik in den Mittelpunkt des wissenschaftlichen Interesses zu stellen. Die geringe Beachtung sachverhaltsgestaltender Massnahmen als Mittel der Jahresabschlusspolitik steht in deutlichem Gegensatz zu der Bedeutung, die derartigen Gestaltungen in der betrieblichen Praxis zugemessen wird. Darauf wird im Schrifttum vor allem von Vertretern des Beru

Die Branche der Abfallwirtschaft befindet sich im Umbruch. Tradierte Rahmenbedingungen werden durch eine veranderte, dem Umweltschutz- und Nachhaltigkeitsgedanken verpflichtete Gesetzgebung neu definiert. Unternehmen, denen es gelingt, ihre Geschaftsmodelle an bereits eingetretene Veranderungen anzupassen und auf absehbare Veranderungen aktiv zu reagieren, werden aus der Phase des Umbruchs gestarkt hervorgehen. Die notwendigen strategischen Anpassungen fallen in den Aufgabenbereich des strategischen Planungs- und Steuerungsprozesses. An diesem Punkt setzt diese Arbeit mit der Zielsetzung an, ein fur den Strategieprozess abfallwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen geeignetes Steuerungsinstrumentarium zu entwickeln. Die Umsetzung erfolgt durch Entwicklung einer branchenspezifischen Balanced Scorecard.

An ambitious and shocking expose of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world's automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world's rubber. But only one percent of the world's rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation's explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company turned to a tiny West African nation, Liberia, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic. Empire of Rubber tells a sweeping story of capitalism, racial exploitation, and environmental devastation, as Firestone transformed Liberia into America's rubber empire. Historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman scoured remote archives to unearth a history of promises unfulfilled for the vast numbers of Liberians who toiled on rubber plantations built on taken land. Mitman reveals a history of racial segregation and medical experimentation that reflected Jim Crow America-on African soil. As Firestone reaped fortunes, wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few elites, fostering widespread inequalities that fed unrest, rebellions and, eventually, civil war. A riveting narrative of ecology and disease, of commerce and science, and of racial politics and political maneuvering, Empire of Rubber uncovers the hidden story of a corporate empire whose tentacles reach into the present.

Founded by Robert M. Savini in 1933, Astor Pictures Corporation distributed hundreds of films in its 32 years of production. The company distributed over 150 first run features in addition to the numerous re-releases for which it became famous. Astor had great success in the fields of horror and western movies and was a pioneer in African-American film productions. While under Savini's management, Astor and its subsidiaries were highly successful, but after his death in 1956 the company was sold, leading to eventual bankruptcy and closure. This volume provides the first in-depth look at Astor Pictures Corporation with thorough coverage of its releases, including diverse titles like La Dolce Vita and Frankenstein's Daughter.

The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town's biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realise that he can never arrest Lancaster's real problems.

A compelling argument for a new set of attitudes toward human capital to sharpen our competitive edge and to fuel the creative sparks in any environment This timely book challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation, and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentalities are stifling innovation in many regions and companies. Lobel asks how innovators, entrepreneurs, research teams, and every one of us who experiences the occasional spark of creativity can triumph in today's innovation ecosystems. In every industry and every market, battles to recruit, retain, train, energize, and motivate the best people are fierce. From Facebook to Google, Coca-Cola to Intel, JetBlue to Mattel, Lobel uncovers specific factors that produce winners or losers in the talent wars. Combining original behavioral experiments with sharp observations of contemporary battles over ideas, secrets, and skill, Lobel identifies motivation, relationships, and mobility as the most important ingredients for successful innovation. Yet many companies embrace a control mentality-relying more on patents, copyright, branding, espionage, and aggressive restrictions of their own talent and secrets than on creative energies that are waiting to be unleashed. Lobel presents a set of positive changes in corporate strategies, industry norms, regional policies, and national laws that will incentivize talent flow, creativity, and growth. This vital and exciting reading reveals why everyone wins when talent is set free.

Women are taking the lead in today's workforce. They hold half of America's jobs, 51% of supervisory and managerial positions, and nearly 60% of all college degrees. A woman starts a business in the U.S. every 60 seconds. Without women, the U.S. economy would be 25% smaller than it is today. Women Lead is an in-depth examination of women's role in today's workplace. Drawing on interviews with nearly 200 women leaders, and survey responses from more than 3000 male and female managers, the book explains 21st-century career trends and provides practical advice to help women excel in the new world of work. Readers will discover facts, figures, and real-life stories about leadership, education, and career planning, and learn how women are using negotiation, networking, and other collaborative practices to lead their organizations into the future.

Surfing the Edge of Chaos is a brilliant, powerful, and practical book about the parallels between business and nature—two fields that feature nonstop battles between the forces of tradition and the forces of transformation. It offers a bold new way of thinking about and responding to the personal and strategic challenges everyone in business faces these days.

Die Arbeit gibt einen UEberblick uber den Verlauf der Enteignung von "Nazi- und Kriegsverbrechern" im Land Brandenburg nach SMAD-Befehl Nr. 124 vom 30. Oktober 1945 bis zur UEberfuhrung der Vermoegenswerte in Volkseigentum 1949/50. Sie erlautert die gesetzlichen Grundlagen und ihre damaligen Auslegungen sowie die verwaltungsmassigen Ablaufe in den brandenburgischen Behoerden. Beleuchtet werden unter anderem die Bildung, Aufgaben und Arbeitsweise der Kommissionen fur Sequestrierung und Beschlagnahme und des Amtes zum Schutze des Volkseigentums. Die abschliessende Quellenedition gibt einen Einblick in den widerspruchlichen Prozess der Durchsetzung der Enteignungen.