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While characteristically 'Austrian' themes such as
entrepreneurship, economic calculation, tacit knowledge and the
temporal structure of capital are clearly relevant to the business
firm, Austrian economists have said relatively little about
management, organization, and strategy. This innovative book
features 12 chapters that all seek to advance the understanding of
these issues by drawing on Austrian ideas. Building on existing
research in transaction cost economics, agency theory, evolutionary
economics and the resource-based theory of the firm, the authors
cover a wide range of theoretical and applied topics. These include
knowledge management, authority and hierarchy, modularity,
corporate restructuring, telecommunications regulation and
competitive advantage. They clearly show how Austrian ideas can
usefully engage, challenge and extend more mainstream perspectives
on economic organization. There are many books on Austrian
economics and many more on the theory of the firm, but virtually
none that integrate these two bodies of literature. Scholars of
Austrian economics and academics interested in strategy,
organization and the theory of the firm will draw great value from
this insightful book.
As business struggles to adapt to a rapidly changing world,
managers are bombarded with a bewildering array of schemes for how
to be a boss and make an organization tick. It's tempting to be
seduced by futurist fantasies where every company has the culture
of a startup, and where employees in wacky, whimsical office
settings, liberated from hierarchies and bosses that oppress them,
are the foundation for breakthrough performance. "Get real," warn
Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein. These fads ironically lead to
micromanaging and, often, to disaster. Companies and societies,
they show, need authority and hierarchy to coordinate work,
including creative work. And, counterintuitively, Foss and Klein
illustrate how the creative use of authority and hierarchy helps
companies to be more agile and flexible, enabling educated,
motivated people and teams to thrive. And not a moment too soon:
Foss and Klein provide evidence that global challenges such as the
proliferation of artificial intelligence, economic disruption,
empowered knowledge workers, and black swan events such as the
pandemic actually make hierarchy and the job of the manager more
important than ever.
From the bestselling author of Wild Hope - a beautiful book for
Advent. Open a window each day of Advent onto the natural world.
Here are twenty-five fresh images of the foundational truth that
lies beneath and within the Christ story. In twenty-five portraits
depicting how wild animals of the northern hemisphere ingeniously
adapt when darkness and cold descend, we see and hear as if for the
first time the ancient wisdom of Advent: The dark is not an end but
the way a new beginning comes. Short, daily reflections that paint
vivid, poetic images of familiar animals, paired with charming
original wood-cuts, will engage both children and adults. Anyone
who does not want to be caught, again, in the consumer hype of "the
holiday season" but rather to be taken up into the eternal truth
the natural world reveals will welcome this book.
"Mollison's Blood Transfusion in Clinical Medicine" is an icon in
the field of transfusion and the first edition was published in
1951. The book arose from the concept of the transfusionist, as
both scientist and expert consultant. For many years, this text has
provided the primary, and often the sole, reference for detailed
information and practical experience in blood transfusion. The book
is completely revised and updated throughout to include the latest
advances and developments in the field.
This book provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and
thought-provoking examination of the ethical issues encountered by
accountants working in the industry, public practice, nonprofit
service, and government. Gordon Klein s, Ethics in Accounting: A
Decision-Making Approach, helps students understand all topics
commonly prescribed by state Boards of Accountancy regarding ethics
literacy. Ethics in Accounting can be utilized in either a one-term
or two-term course in Accounting Ethics. A contemporary focus
immerses readers in real world ethical questions with recent
trending topics such as celebrity privacy, basketball
point-shaving, auditor inside trading, and online dating. Woven
into chapters are tax-related issues that address fraud, cheating,
confidentiality, contingent fees and auditor independence. Duties
arising in more commonplace roles as internal auditors, external
auditors, and tax practitioners are, of course, examined as well.
The international symposia on blood transfusion in Groningen have
taken place without interruption since 1976. Each year Dr.
Smit-Sibinga and his team have not only organized a meeting on
timely topics in blood transfusion, but also succeeded in
attracting prominent chairmen and speakers. The subject of the 24th
Symposium was Molecular Biology in Blood Transfusion and it was
chaired by Dr. Harvey G. Klein, National Institutes of Health, USA.
In this book of proceedings an extraordinary range of subjects is
covered, including diagnostic aspects, virology, quality control,
cell and protein processing as well as a section on new horizons in
clinical medicine.
`Not too long ago it was possible to be familiar with all of the
important works and latest developments in transaction cost
economics. That that is no longer the case is a testament to the
intellectual appeal and empirical success of the transaction cost
approach. For newcomers, the entries in this volume, by some of
TCE's most knowledgeable and eloquent contributors, offer an
excellent introduction to the issues, methods, discoveries, and
debates in the field; for veterans, the volume provides a highly
valuable resource for catching on newest research.' - Scott E.
Masten, University of Michigan School of Business, US Since its
emergence in the 1970s, transaction cost economics (TCE) has become
a leading approach in the research on contracts, firm organization
and strategy, antitrust, marketing, inter-firm collaboration and
entrepreneurship. With contributions by leading scholars in
economics, law and business administration - including Oliver E.
Williamson, recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics for his
development of the transaction cost approach - this volume reviews
the latest developments in TCE and applies them to contemporary
theoretical and empirical problems. Beginning with an introductory
essay by the editors, the book covers precursors and influences,
core concepts, applications, alternatives and critiques. The
contributing authors describe, extend and assess the transaction
cost approach to economic organization, and examine the role of TCE
in the larger legal, economic, and managerial literatures on
organizations and institutions. An original and comprehensive
volume, the Companion introduces the novice and informs the
specialist about TCE's fundamental elements, recent controversies
and new developments. An accessible and astute delineation of how
transaction cost economics offers important and unique insights
into key organizational, managerial and societal issues of our day,
the Companion will be of particular interest to practitioners of
business law and antitrust, corporate executives and management
consultants. Additionally, academic researchers, scholars and
students of economics, business and law will find it an invaluable
reference.
From the bestselling author of All Creation Waits - a beautiful
book for Lent. Pangolins and polar bears, olms, lemurs, and
leopards. We share this planet with creatures magnificent,
delicate, intricate-and now vanishing at a faster rate than at any
other time in Earth's history. Spend Lent with twenty-five of these
endangered animals. Vivid descriptions of the miracle of each
creature and the peril it faces will fill readers with wonder and
grief at what these animals suffer on a planet shaped by human
choices. Their true and difficult stories will wake readers to a
greater compassion-which is what Lent, meaning "springtime," has
always been for. These stories also wake in us a wild hope that
from all this death and ruin something new could rise. The promise
of Lent is that something new will rise. In fact, as these stories
attest, our hope, though wild, is not impossible and is already
loose in the world. "Wild Hope is the only book whose table of
contents alone gave me chills. Here's the deal: the living world,
life on planet Earth, is sacred. Author Gayle Boss yearns to show
us that we live in a miracle. And she succeeds in showing us that
we are not alone on this holy planet. This is a beautifully
elegant, deeply excellent book, pursued by grace on every page, in
every stunning illustration." -Carl Safina, ecologist, NYT
bestselling author of Beyond Words and Becoming Wild; MacArthur
Fellow and founder of The Safina Center
In growing numbers, archeologists are specializing in the analysis
of excavated animal bones as clues to the environment and behavior
of ancient peoples. This pathbreaking work provides a detailed
discussion of the outstanding issues and methods of bone studies
that will interest zooarcheologists as well as paleontologists who
focus on reconstructing ecologies from bones. Because large samples
of bones from archeological sites require tedious and
time-consuming analysis, the authors also offer a set of computer
programs that will greatly simplify the bone specialist's job.
After setting forth the interpretive framework that governs their
use of numbers in faunal analysis, Richard G. Klein and Kathryn
Cruz-Uribe survey various measures of taxonomic abundance, review
methods for estimating the sex and age composition of a fossil
species sample, and then give examples to show how these measures
and sex/age profiles can provide useful information about the past.
In the second part of their book, the authors present the computer
programs used to calculate and analyze each numerical measure or
count discussed in the earlier chapters. These elegant and original
programs, written in BASIC, can easily be used by anyone with a
microcomputer or with access to large mainframe computers.
Learn how to understand normal body functions before learning about
the mechanisms of veterinary disease. Cunningham's Textbook of
Veterinary Physiology, 6th Edition approaches this vast subject in
a practical, user-friendly way that helps you grasp key concepts
and learn how they relate to clinical practice. From cell
physiology to body system function to homeostasis and immune
function, this comprehensive text provides the solid foundation
needed before advancing in the veterinary curriculum. Expanded
resources on the companion Evolve website include state-of-the-art
3D animations, practice tests, a glossary, and Clinical
Correlations. Clinical Correlations boxes present case studies that
illustrate how to apply physiology principles and concepts to the
diagnosis and treatment of veterinary patients. Practice questions
at the end of each chapter test your understanding of what you've
just read and provide valuable review for exams. Â Key Points
at the beginning of each chapter introduce new concepts and help
you prepare for exams. Full-color format highlights helpful
information and enhances learning with a wealth of illustrations
that visually depict specific functions and conditions. NEW!
Updated animations added that are relevant to content. NEW! New
contributors lend their unique perspective and expertise to the
content.
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Fabiana G Klein; Photographs by Adriano R Hultmann; Illustrated by Silvana A Spina
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Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ Interpres Clinicus Ludwig G. Klein, Albrecht von Haller
Medical; Pathology; Medical / Pathology
Have you ever wanted to know how modern digital communications
systems work? Find out with this step-by-step guide to building a
complete digital radio that includes every element of a typical,
real-world communication system. Chapter by chapter, you will
create a MATLAB realization of the various pieces of the system,
exploring the key ideas along the way, as well as analyzing and
assessing the performance of each component. Then, in the final
chapters, you will discover how all the parts fit together and
interact as you build the complete receiver. In addition to
coverage of crucial issues, such as timing, carrier recovery and
equalization, the text contains over 400 practical exercises,
providing invaluable preparation for industry, where wireless
communications and software radio are becoming increasingly
important. A variety of extra resources are also provided online,
including lecture slides and a solutions manual for instructors.
LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com.
Entrepreneurship is a hot topic in academic, managerial, and
policy circles. Yet researchers and policymakers tend to define
entrepreneurship narrowly as business start-ups, and entrepreneurs
as young dreamers with a particular personality. In fact, as Peter
G. Klein argues, entrepreneurship is a far broader, pervasive, and
more important phenomenon in the market and in the free society.
Klein is one of the stars of the Austrian School today, with a
specialization in an area in which the Austrians make a unique
contribution: the entrepreneur's role society as the driving force
of the market. The last major work on this topic appeared in 1973
with Kirzner's own book on entrepreneurship. Klein's own book, as
Peter Lewin has written, offers "a fresh, immensely revealing
perspective." In "Capitalists and Entrepreneurs," Klein
rehabilitates and expands the classical concept of the entrepreneur
as a judgmental decision-maker, linking the capitalist-investor and
the entrepreneur-promoter. Building on foundations laid by the
Austrian school of economics, Frank Knight's theory of uncertainty,
and the modern economics of organization, Klein shows how an
entrepreneurial perspective sheds light on firm size and structure,
corporate governance and control, mergers and acquisitions,
organizational design, and a host of managerial and financial
problems. He also offers a reinterpretation of the modern Austrian
school and a critique of the "opportunity-discovery" perspective in
modern entrepreneurship studies. In a series of shorter essays he
tackles the economics of the Internet, network theory, the
socialism of the intellectual class, the financial crisis, and the
contributions of Carl Menger, F. A. Hayek, and Oliver Williamson.
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