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The Antitrust Revolution: Economics, Competition, and Policy, 4/e, examines the critical role of economic analysis in recent antitrust case decisions and policy. The book consists of economic studies of twenty of the most significant antitrust cases of recent years, fourteen of them new to this edition and six updated from the third edition. These cases include alleged anticompetitive practices by Microsoft, Intel, and American Airlines; mergers-proposed or consummated-by AOL and TimeWarner, GE and Honeywell, MCI WorldCom and Sprint, and BP Amoco and ARCO; and other competitive issues such as bid rigging on school milk contracts, professional sports league practices, prescription drug pricing, and vertical restraints by manufacturers in regard to distributors. New overview essays precede the four sections of the book: Horizontal Structure, Horizontal Practices, Vertical and Related Market Issues, and Network Issues. Commissioned and edited by John E. Kwoka and Lawrence J. White, the case studies are written by prominent economists who participated in the proceedings. These economists were responsible for helping to formulate the economic issues, undertake the necessary economic research, and offer the economic arguments in court. As a result, they are uniquely qualified to describe and analyze the cases. Fully updated with the most current examples, this volume provides detailed and comprehensive insight into the central role that is now played and will continue to be played by economics and economists in the antitrust process. The Antitrust Revolution, 4/e, is ideal for undergraduate and graduate classes in industrial organization, government policy, and antitrust/regulation law and economics. It is also a useful reference book for lawyers and economists--both academics and practitioners--who are interested in the types of economic analyses that have been applied in recent antitrust cases. A companion website is now available at www.oup.com/antitrustrevolution. New to the fourth edition, the site features cases from the previous three editions.
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Lean Manufacturing: Tools, Techniques, and How to Use Them (APICS SERIES ON RESOURCE MANAGEMENT)
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Lean Manufacturing: A Plant Floor Guide
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There are some very good books available that explain the Lean Manufacturing theory and touch on implementing its techniques. However, you cannot learn "how to be" lean from merely reading the theory. And to be successful in the real-work environment you need a clear comprehension of how lean techniques work, rather than just a remote understanding of what they are. You need to know what does and does not work in different situations. And you need the benefit of practical experience in their implementation. Lean Manufacturing: Tools, Techniques, and How to Use Them gives you the benefit of author and practitioner William Feld's 15 years of hands-on experience - and the lessons he's learned. Feld provides insight into the appropriate use of assessment, analysis, design, and, most importantly, deployment of a successful lean manufacturing program. Packed with practical advice and tips but not bogged down in theory, this book covers how, why, when, and what to do while implementing lean manufacturing. It equips you with the tools and techniques you need along with an understanding of how and why they work. Feld explores why an integrated approach is so much more beneficial in securing sustained improvement. He focuses on the interdependency of the Five Primary Elements: organization, metrics, logistics, manufacturing flow, and process control. He describes a proven, applied approach to creating a lean program using these elements. To keep up globally, and even locally, your manufacturing operation must be responsive, flexible, predictable, and consistent. You must continually improve manufacturing operations and cultivate a self directed work force driven by output based, customer performance criteria. By applying what you learn from Lean Manufacturing: Tools, Techniques, and How to Use Them you can build a workforce - and an organization - with the capacity to satisfy world class expectations now and into the future.
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Great start to lean implementation.......2001-09-13
Everyone is looking for the lean cookbook. Sorry, but it doesn't exist. However, if you're looking for a good solid start, here it is. I've been doing lean consulting for nearly a decade, and found this book to be one of the best. Forget theories and potential benefits: here's where the rubber hits the road. The deployment plan presented is sound and can be easily adapted to most operations. The case study at the end helps to make the process more practical. While there is still no "Lean For Dummies" book out there yet, here is a good solid place to learn how to do it.
Disapointing and confusing.......2001-01-31
After reading Womack's books on lean, Feld seemed to be coming from a completely different perspective. The intriguing title and description suggested to me this book would be helpful in furthering my understanding of lean concepts (as described by Womack) and how to implement them. While I found a few bits and pieces to be helpful, overall it suggested a much different and confusing approach. In addition the way ideas were presented seemed to come more from a "how things might be done" rather than "how things were done that lead to success."
Lean Manufacturing: Tools, Techniques, and How to Use Them.......2001-01-16
This book was very refreshing as it took a very detailed approach at Lean manufacturing and made it not only easy to understand but easy to implement. This is a step by step, "holistic" approach to LT. If you ever get a chance to meet the author Bill Feld, and talk to him one on one you should jump at the chance. He is obviously one of the most knowledgable in North America on the sublect of Lean Manufacturing.
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Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries: Micro Patterns of Turnover, Productivity, and Market Structure
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This book examines the micro processes involved in the industrial sector of developing countries when new producers enter the market and existing ones exit while, simultaneously, market shares shift among producers who differ in their technology, managerial expertise, and profitablity.
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The Strategy Pathfinder: Core Concepts and Micro-Cases
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The Strategy Pathfinder provides today 's hard-pressed business students with a new, effective way to learn about business strategy. Built around micro-cases of real-life problems faced by companies and executives, this 'strategy i-pod' helps business students to engage with the kinds of situation they will encounter in their working lives while provoking discussions about key theoretical themes. These cases are drawn from the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania.Designed for use as a stand-alone resource, or with any main textbook, the book's fresh approach provides essential pathways through the 'jungles ' of strategic management approaches in a clear and concise format. Pathways discussed include: competitive positioning, corporate character, maverick strategies, crossing borders, and more. The Strategy Pathfinder meets course needs by:Synthesizing the concepts and applications students need to cover in a concise, lively format, the Pathfinder can comfortably be covered in a module or short course.Providing extensive references and links for those who wish to explore particular topics in more depth.Using micro-cases to introduce students instantly to a range of real-world problems and applications and show them how to set about solving them.Making readers active producers of strategy, rather than passive recipients of recieved wisdom: readers are encouraged to form a view themselves, and then test it against the views of others, before offering recommendations about how best to proceed.Responding to the global nature of today's business, by exposing students to current examples of business strategy in practice across every continent.The original design of the book makes this an essential companion for both the business-school classroom and the executive briefcase. The Strategy Pathfinder brings experienced and potential executives alike an instant guide to the ideas and techniques they need to know.The Strategy Pathfinder is also supported by online lecturer supplements, available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/angwin.
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Debates surrounding institutional change have become increasingly central to Political Science, Management Studies, and Sociology, opposing the role of globalization in bringing about a convergence of national economies and institutions on one model to theories about 'Varieties of Capitalism'. This book brings together a distinguished set of contributors from a variety of disciplines to examine current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight the limitations of these theories, finding them lacking in the analytic tools necessary to identify the changes occurring at a national level, and therefore tend to explain many changes and innovation as simply another version of previous situations. Instead a model emerges of contemporary political economies developing in incremental but cumulatively transformative processes. The contributors show that a wide, but not infinite, variety of models of institutional change exist which can meaningfully distinguished and analytically compared. They offer an empirically grounded typology of modes of institutional change that offer important insights on mechanisms of social and political stability, and evolution generally. Beyond Continuity provides a more complex and fundamental understanding of institutional change, and will be important reading for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Political Science, Management Studies, Sociology, and Economics.
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Health Economics
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Health Economics begins by looking at simple models of supply and demand within health care, before moving on to techniques of cost-benefit analysis and then compares differing health care systems around the world. With an array of case studies based on systems from around the world, the book successfully bridges the divide between the insurance-based system employed in the United States and the publicly funded options more common in Europe and Canada.
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Diagnosis: Good.......2002-12-06
Health Economics is a rapidly improving field of economic thought, and this new book is a very well written introduction that I have found to be very stimulating indeed.
It is not too long, but does not get overly technical and uses a wide variety of internationally based case studies to explain issues and topics with great aplomb.
Well worth a look if you, like me, are interested in Health Economics, or if you are into Public Health.
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Current Trends and Corporate Cases in Transfer Pricing:
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Global changes in business and tax environments are having profound impact on the volume and direction of intrafirm trade and transfer pricing strategies. Tang reports on the findings of a survey of 95 Fortune 1000 companies, sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants, and provides highly relevant information not easily found on how companies are reacting to this new business environment. He covers corporate financial goals and strategies and divisonal performance measurements systems, among other topics, and gives highly detailed case studies based on reports from five major respondents to his survey: Whirlpool, Dow Chemical, Guidant Corporation, Masco, and Eaton. Tang's book is essential, up-to-date reading for upper level students, researchers, analysts, and corporate executives in multinational firms worldwide. Tang starts with a presentation of the major changes in the global business environment and explains their impact on intrafirm trade and transfer pricing. In Chapter 2 he reports results of his questionnaire survey, and in Chapters 3 to 7 examines up close the details revealed in his five corporate case studies. He compares these corporations in Chapter 8, focusing on corporate strategies and financial goals, transfer pricing and performance evaluation practices, and concommitant tax planning strategies. He then relates his case study research to other major findings derived from his questionnaire survey, and ends the book with a general, summarizing, analytical conclusion.
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Excellent insider tool.......2007-01-19
This book is an excellent tool for anyone looking for insights in this topic. If you're new in transfer pricing, you'll find it easy to understand and to get an overview of TP that companies tipycally don't like to discuss or share. If you're working in TP you can use it as a benchmark. Don't expect large formulas to calculate the options to hide your profits in low-tax countries, but you'll find organizational aspects, financial details, approach and strategy.
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Truett and Truett's Eighth Edition shows how to use economic analysis to solve problems and make effective decisions in the complex world of business. The highly successful problem-solving approach, clear and accurate presentation of economic theory, and outstanding cases combine to make the best presentation of managerial economics yet.
* Walks readers step by step through specific types of problems, including elasticity calculations, cost minimization, and profit maximization.
* Shows how real-world firms have addressed issues discussed in the book.
* Emphasizes the global aspects of managerial economics and its application in the international marketplace.
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Possibly the worst economics textbook ever..........2007-09-25
This text manages to incorporate incomprehensible examples, incorrect answers to the problem sets, and overly complex explanations into a mere 768 pages. I've resorted to Google searches on key macroeconomic terms to get through this course. If I could give it no stars, I would. In a word - awful.
A Bad Textbook.......2007-07-16
I am currently taking a MBA class and this text book is being used. In just a few weeks I find this worst textbook I have ever used. The explanations to concepts are unclear. There are very few examples utilizing the concepts. Many of the answers to problems are incorrect to the point our teacher list the errors when assigning the homework. The study guide is of no help since it does not even explain how to do the problems. There has to be some other text out there that is better than this one.
Worst Economics Book Ever..........2006-07-08
I personally had the honor to take Professor Dale Truett's class in managerial economics. Although Dr. Truett knows far more than the average scholar of economics, it is best he sticks to the real thing, rather than trying to write a book about it. It is one of the hardest texts I have ever had to read...
Hard to understand; Worst Economics textbook ever.......2004-12-31
I teach college-level economics and this is the hardest textbook for students to understand. Most of my students do not like this textbook at all. It's explanations are very complex and the graphs are worse. Do not buy this textbook! There are so many more Economic textbooks on the market that are better than this one.
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