Geographies of Commodity Chains (Routledge Studies in Human Geography, 10)

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Geographies of Commodity Chains draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation, and consumption of commodities. Not only do these case study examples seek to transcend older understandings of production and consumption, but they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the meanings, origins, and biographies of commodities.
The book takes a geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers and consumers, focusing on the ways in which these ties increasingly are stretched across spaces and places. Critical engagements with the ways in which these spaces and places affect the economies, cultures, and politics of the connections between producers and consumers are threaded through each section.

Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: The Canadian Geographer

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Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: The Canadian Geographer
Robert M. Wilson
Manufacturer: Canadian Association of Geographers
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008DNS8A
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from The Canadian Geographer, published by Canadian Association of Geographers on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 764 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Robert M. Wilson
Publication: The Canadian Geographer (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2003
Publisher: Canadian Association of Geographers
Volume: 47 Issue: 1 Page: 93(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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The bible for mutual fund investors--completely updated with exclusive performance data, must-see Web sites, and profiles of the 100 most promising funds for the new millennium

Diversified, affordable, and easy to buy, mutual funds are hotter than ever. This unbeatable resource contains everything investors need to make the right fund choices, whatever their level of experience or investment objectives. A nationally recognized mutual fund analyst, Kirk Kazanjian provides clear, practical guidance for putting together a winning portfolio. Investors will gain a firm understanding of how mutual funds work, their advantages and drawbacks, how to buy them, and which funds best meet their personal needs and goals.

Thoroughly updated to reflect the realities of the year 2000, this indispensable annual features:

*Exclusive performance data for more than 8,000 funds from the Value Line Mutual Fund Survey
*Profiles of the year's top 100 most promising fund performers
*Reviews of 25 must-see Web sites
*Model portfolios with specific recommendations for distinct investment goals
*Worksheets to determine risk tolerance and optimal level of retirement savings

Timely, targeted, exhaustive, and reliable, NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF FINANCE GUIDE TO MUTUAL FUNDS 2000 gives investors the facts and guidance they need to create a top-notch investment plan.

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing.........2000-12-08

Like many mutual fund investing books, this one was a bit of a disappointment. With the huge selection of funds from which to choose, the authors select just a few of their favorites and don't give ample justification for many of the funds' inclusion. The advice on building a fund portfolio was ho-hum--you can find the same information in any issue of a monthly investment magazine. Also, as with many investment books, the data and commentary quickly feel outdated.

Fine mutual fund compilation.......2000-01-06

I have recently read several compilations of mutual fund data and, in my view, this is the best. Morningstar reviews 500 funds extensively, and Business Week reviews 885 equity funds (and an unknown number of bond funds, but who cares?). This book covers 9000 funds. The trade-off for the extensive coverage is less detail about each fund. If you want more material, and will only look at the major players, then Morningstar is the better bet. If you want to go mining for overlooked gems, as I did, then Kazanjian's book gives you a better chance of finding them.

Much of Morningstar's information is available on-line. Mutual Fund Magazine is also a good on-line source for information.

I read the previous review and would be very interested in hearing how Kazanjian's 1999 picks have fared. His reviews of what he considers to be top funds are interesting and thought provoking, even if they don't prove to be the very top funds for the coming year. Everybody's got to do the work and decide which funds match their own personality and what's best for themselves.

If you want to go fishing in the whole ocean of equity funds, stop first at this bait shop.

Good, But Lacks Accountability For His Top Picks From 1999.......1999-12-22

Provides good overview of the mutual fund industry (basically the same material from his 1999 book). He also provides his list of "100 Powerhouse Performers for 2000" (Chpt. 5) and several recommended portfolios (Chpt. 6).

In "Guide to Mutual Funds 1999" he lists his 100 powerhouse performers for 1999. My problem with his new book is that he doesn't account for his 1999 picks.

When I first saw his "2000" book, I first looked to see how well his 1999 picks performed compared to the usual suspects (e.g., S&P 500, Russell 2000). Unfortunately, he does not list this information. If his picks performed well, then WHY NOT include this critical information, especially since this would help to establish credibility and sell more books. Since he does NOT provide this basic information, the logical inference would be that his picks did not perform that well (compared to other funds and indices).

Besides the overview of mutual funds, the main reason for buying this book (especially if you bought his 1999 book) is his fund recommendations. That presumes that his recommendations carry some weight. Although "past performance is no indication of future performance," I would like to see some track record of his prior recommendations. He seems to have done a great deal of research and his suggestions maybe very good, but with no track record, it's hard to put much faith in his picks.

Fund managers are held accountable for their picks and those that make fund recommendations should be as well.

To the author (Kirk Kazanjian):

1. How did your 1999 recommendations perform (overall and individually) compared to other funds and the main indices?

2. Is there a single place (URL?) where readers can view the performance of all 100 picks from 1999?

3. Why did you not include this information in your latest book?

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Recent discussion about the role of civil society in democratic governance around the world and the decline of social capital in the US has raised pressing theoretical and empirical questions about the character of contemporary societies and the social and institutional correlates of sound and dynamic democracies. This debate has reached a North American and European audience that extends well beyond academia.

The predominant refrain in the debate, following Alexis de Tocqueville's 160-year-old analysis of democracy in America, attaches tremendous importance to the role of voluntary associations in contemporary democracies. Participation in such groups is said to produce social capital, often linked to high levels of social trust. Social capital in turn is conceived as a crucial national resource for promoting collective action for the common good.

Beyond Tocqueville presents 21 varied essays on how civic engagement and political and economic cooperation are generated in contemporary societies, linking theoretical discourse with public policy and actual behaviors.

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The Social Capital Debate.......2001-08-14

I am purchasing this book after reading it--I have the libraries copy in front of me, but I need a copy to write in the margins and highlight. As a curious follower of Putnam's work on Social Capital, this book deepens the conversation and ideas surrounding the issue, most importantly asking questions about what do we mean by "social capital."

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This book includes contributions from scholars in the US, Germany and Japan and takes a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to the issue of organization and authority in the modern corporation.

Business Clusters: An International Perspective (Routledge Studies in Business Organization and Networks)

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Business Clusters: An International Perspective (Routledge Studies in Business Organization and Networks)
Martin Perry
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0415339626

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Clusters of specialized businesses are being promoted around the world, aided by high-profile examples such as Silicon Valley. Using evidence from high and low income economies and detailed case-studies that show the special conditions behind successful clusters, this book is aimed at students of business location, policy-makers and managers seeking a real-world understanding of clustering.

Distributed Sensor Networks: A Multiagent Perspective (Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations)

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Distributed Sensor Networks: A Multiagent Perspective (Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations)

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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1402074999

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As computer networks (and computational grids) become increasingly complex, the problem of allocating resources within such networks, in a distributed fashion, will become more and more of a design and implementation concern. This is especially true where the allocation involves distributed collections of resources rather than just a single resource, where there are alternative patterns of resources with different levels of utility that can satisfy the desired allocation, and where this allocation process must be done in soft real-time. Distributed Sensor Networks is the first book of its kind to examine solutions to this problem using ideas taken from the field of multiagent systems. The field of multiagent systems has itself seen an exponential growth in the past decade, and has developed a variety of techniques for distributed resource allocation.
Distributed Sensor Networks contains contributions from leading, international researchers describing a variety of approaches to this problem based on examples of implemented systems taken from a common distributed sensor network application; each approach is motivated, demonstrated and tested by way of a common challenge problem. The book focuses on both practical systems and their theoretical analysis, and is divided into three parts: the first part describes the common sensor network challenge problem; the second part explains the different technical approaches to the common challenge problem; and the third part provides results on the formal analysis of a number of approaches taken to address the challenge problem.

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Not as good as it should be !.......2004-03-31

This book is not half as good as it should be. It seems to be badly edited and hastily compiled.

There is no flow also.

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`Peter Ordeshook is an outstanding scholar and is addressing a very important question. As he points out on the first page of Chapter 1, social norms do exist and are adhered to, constitutions survive, people cooperate with others in some settings, but not in others. The topic of this book is very exciting and important - this is a real winner.' - Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, US Marianna Klochko and Peter Ordeshook address an under-studied issue from rational choice theory - the common assumption that individual time preferences are exogenous and fixed. They then present empirical evidence to suggest that this is not the case, exploring a computer simulation model that allows for the evolutionary change of time preferences. This is done, moreover, in the context of social networks that are themselves endogenously determined.

International Perspectives on Community Care for Older People (Avebury Studies of Care in the Community)

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International Perspectives on Community Care for Older People (Avebury Studies of Care in the Community)
Wales) Ageing in Europe (1993 Cardiff
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1859720560

Managing Web-Enabled Technologies in Organizations: A Global Perspective

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Managing Web-Enabled Technologies in Organizations: A Global Perspective

Manufacturer: IGI Global
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Binding: Paperback

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Technological advancement of the past several decades in computer and telecommunication technologies has had a profound impact upon the fundamental structures of society, and particularly upon organizations. As these technologies have matured and developed, many organizations have been looking into the organizational and managerial changes that can be made that allow the organization to achieve greater utilization of these technologies to improve their competitive postures.

Web-enabled technology has become a serious contender. Many global organizations are looking into emerging web-enabled technologies to make their dispersed operations around the world more efficient and to maintain greater control over their resources. Those organizations that have not attempted to identify and master the many applications of web-enabled technologies will have serious difficulty competing and surviving.

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In recent years there has been a growth in work on the organization of the firm. The same period has also seen a corresponding rise in literature dealing with the organization of the multinational firm, but the two literatures have developed quite separately, even though insights from each have much to offer the other. This unique collection of essays from respected academics aims to bridge this gap, addressing questions of the theory of the firm and international business.

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Understanding multinationals.......2000-06-15

Multinational corporations (MNCs) are becoming more and more important in the world economy. However, the popular perception of these firms is driven by populist and political agendas. There is a popular perception that these firms arise solely on political grounds, and survive by paying off those with political power. Nothing could be further from the truth. MNCs are becoming bigger and more powerful precisely because the world economy is becoming more efficient in lowering barriers to international trade and investment. On balance, they provide superior employment conditions (compared with current alternatives) in the third world, create knowledge and innovation in the first world and create untold amounts of wealth everywhere. In order to understand this argument it is necessary to understand the basic drivers of the business firm and then apply these to multinational economic activity. That is what the essays in this book do. In assembling essays by pioneers in the study of the MNC like Mark Casson, Peter Buckley and James Markusen, Ram Mudambi and Martin Ricketts have done a sterling job of presenting a convincing case for the MNC. The bottom line is clear - it is unwise to criticize economic organizations without understanding them.

Strategic Capabilities And Knowledge Transfer Within And Between Organizations: New Perspectives from Acquisitions, Networks, Learning And Evolution

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Strategic Capabilities And Knowledge Transfer Within And Between Organizations: New Perspectives from Acquisitions, Networks, Learning And Evolution

Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 184376945X

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This volume is the imaginative outcome of several international strategy scholars who have cultivated original research on the broad relationship between strategic capabilities and knowledge transfer at both intra- and inter-organizational levels. This innovative book explores, in depth, the role that strategic capabilities play in facilitating or preventing knowledge transfer in both firm and interfirm environments. As regards the relationships between strategic capabilities and the transfer of knowledge, the research encompasses different levels of analysis (e.g., the firm, the inter-organizational network, the industry), different theoretical lenses (e.g., the resource-based view, the knowledge-based view, the evolutionary perspective, transaction cost economics, the cognitive theory) and different methodological stances (conceptual, empirical, case based). Strategic Capabilities and Knowledge Transfer Within and Between Organizations is an illuminating and cohesive book which will appeal to scholars and researchers of management and business strategy as well as practitioners such as managers and consultants.

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Effective Federal Tax Rates, 1979-1997

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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0756719259

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Effective federal tax rates 1979-1997: Change in tax rates, 1979 to 1997 (using 2000 tax law for 1997) (A CBO study)

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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0160509645

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