Strategic Alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions: The Influence of Culture on Successful CooperationOrganizational flirts and marriages - alliances, mergers and acquisitions - are dramatic examples of how soft cultures can produce hard facts of success or failure. Decisions born from human vanity can lead to destruction of human capital. The chapters selected by Ulijn, Duysters and Meijer illustrate the many facets of organizational family life for the scholar and, hopefully, for the decision-maker who considers another move.'

 - Geert Hofstede, author of Culture's Consequences
 

Introduction to Macroeconomics

This is an introductory principle of economics course that covers topics in macroeconomics. The book will present factual material concerning the operation of the aggregate economy as well as the development of rudimentary understanding of economic policy.

Levy Processes in Finance: Pricing Financial Derivatives (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

Financial mathematics has recently enjoyed considerable interest on account of its impact on the finance industry. In parallel, the theory of Levy processes has also seen many exciting developments. These powerful modelling tools allow the user to model more complex phenomena, and are commonly applied to problems in finance.

Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to Present

Although technological change is vital for economic growth, the interaction of finance and technological innovation is rarely studied. This pioneering volume examines the ways in which innovation is funded in the United States. In case studies and theoretical discussions, leading economists and economic historians analyze how inventors and technologically creative entrepreneurs have raised funds for their projects at different stages of U.S. economic development, beginning with the post-Civil War period of the Second Industrial Revolution.

Key Management Models

Management models - love them or hate them, they're at the heart of management thinking and practice. They have two main purposes: to provide a framework for improving business performance; and to confuse the uninitiated with buzzwords and acronyms.