Product Description: Information technology has come to play an important role in organizations over the last few decades. Though it began as an entity dealt with by specialists, IT has evolved to become an everyday tool with both operational and strategic impacts...read more

Product Description: Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management education and practice. At the same time, the formalization of management practice has allowed for a widespread diffusion of management ideas across sectors and continents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Economics in Sweden contains the results of one of the most comprehensive attempts to evaluate research in economics ever undertaken. A team of Swedish and international researchers, including Avinash K. Dixit, Seppo Honkapohja and Robert M. Slow, examined the structure of economics in Sweden and its results. They identified postgraduate education as a key area, and their findings will be of particular relevence at a time when many countries are restructuring their graduate education programme.

Product Description: During the 1980s and 1990s, organisations have undergone both regulation and deregulation. This set of papers written by a distinguished selection of international experts examines the nature of regulation, its evolution in particular sectors and its impact on social and economic equality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The main historical events that have shaped present-day management education are examined in a representative sample of European countries and in Japan. By the end of the nineteenth century local educational traditions were already confronted with the emerging American paradigm, but they had to face a massive transfer of American managerial prescriptions and methods after the end of the Second World War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Mercury Meets Minerva seeks to uncover and analyse how business problems have won acceptance in academia and how academic values have come to influence business education. The study provides short accounts of the development of universities and the progressive growth of business schools, plus discussions of the scope of business administration and the organizational features of universities...read more