Product Description: 'Frenkel and Maital provide a ground-breaking deeply-delving study of innovation systems, offering guidance for decision-making practitioners that links theory with case-based learning opportunities.'- Michael Radnor, Chairman and co-founder, Global Advanced Technology Innovation Consortium (GATIC)'A must read for national policy makers, this book highlights the role of innovation in overall economic wellbeing and the importance of a system-based approach to designing national innovation policies'- Brendan Cahill, Partner, BearingPoint'Every national innovation ecosystem is based on the country's history, culture, people and environment...read more

Innovation Management: Strategies, Concepts and Tools for Growth and Profit combines the extensive knowledge and international experience of authors Shlomo Maital and D. V. R. Seshadri. The book aims to teach readers in a systematic way how to effectively build winning business strategies and help companies achieve sustained growth and profit through innovation. Written in a focused and interesting manner, the authors believe that the three key reasons to innovate are to: energize people; build growth and profit; and survive.

Product Description: What do economists know that business executives find useful? Economics ought to be indispensable for business decision-makers because it deals with the issues executives face daily: what to pro duce, how and how much, at what price, how best to use resources (time, labor, capital), how to understand markets...read more

Product Description: This book provides business leaders, managers, and consultants with tools that help strategize the future along with illuminating the past. It is an attempt to show how independent-thinking managers, using basic economic tools, can track the three elements that together drive the world's complex and somewhat unstable economic system―minds, markets, and money...read more

Product Description: The war in Iraq, Afghanistan, continual conflict in the Middle East, and the global war on terrorism, are all intertwined in a greater battle of global conflict: World War III. However, the fogs that have been created to hide these conflicts from public opinion are obstructing a clear view of reality...read more

Product Description: This book comprises, in one compact volume, cutting-edge research in behavioral economics and economic psychology, published mainly during the past five years. The judicious selection of articles examines the subject from a variety of perspectives and includes papers on the historical origins and methodologies of behavioral economics; rational choice in childhood; behavioral aspects of saving, risk and investment; effort, pay and poverty; seeking happiness; and social norms and culture...read more

Product Description: Managing New Product Development and Innovation provides a new approach to the microeconomics of innovation by measuring the technical quality of new products and guiding the managers of innovation and technology in the central considerations of today's knowledge-based companies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Economic psychology uses psychological theories to explore, assess and explain economic theories and behaviour. For example, motivation theory can be used to gain insight into consumer behaviour. This text reflects the current state of affairs in the co-operation between economists and psychologists, covering consumer behaviour, financial behaviour, business decision-making, cross-cultural research, and experimental research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains ten basic principles of economics and shows how they can be used in business by practicing managers to answer the questions 'What is it worth?' and 'What do I give up to get it?' (view table of contents)

Product Description: Landmark papers by prominent scholars in the field of economic psychology are drawn together in this authoritative reference collection which demonstrates the varied ways in which the insights of psychology have been applied to the understanding of economic behaviour...read more

Product Description: Book by Maital, Shlomo

Combines psychology and economics to analyze more than thirty economic games and argues that basic changes are needed in todays games in order to make everyone a winner in these times of unemployment, inflation, and stagnation

Applies psychology to human economic behavior in a discussion of such topics as tax evasion, savings, gambling, high interest rates, inflation, and sluggish productivity