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Rethinking Marketing: Towards Critical Marketing Accountings
Manufacturer: Sage Publications Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0803974906 |
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`This is an important text. It brings together critical reflections on the discipline's contribution in terms of theory, practice and pedagogy and as such is equally as insightful and challenging as some of its recent predecessors (eg Brown et al 1996; Brown and Turley 1997; Brown 1998). The book represents a useful point of departure for those setting off on their own critical journeys and, thus, it should be included on the reading lists of all those carrying out masters or doctoral research in marketing' - Journal of Marketing ManagementThis book provides a challenging and stimulating coverage of a broad range of key issues in contemporary marketing - such as marketing philosophy, marketing ethics, the marketing profession, and marketing teaching and research - through an innovative dialogue among some of the most renowned international scholars in the field .
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China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
Ted C. Fishman Manufacturer: Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743257359 |
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China has the world's most rapidly changing large economy, and according to Ted Fishman, it is forcing the world to change along with it. "No country has ever before made a better run at climbing every step of economic development all at once," he writes, in China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World. China is currently the largest maker of toys, clothing, and consumer electronics, and is swiftly moving up the ladder in car production, computer manufacturing, biotechnology, aerospace, telecommunications, and other sectors thanks to low-cost, high-tech factories. China is also where the world is investing. In 2004, for instance, the city of Shanghai alone attracted over $12 billion in direct foreign investment, roughly the same amount as all of Indonesia and Mexico received. In tracing China's ascendancy over the past 30 years (with annual growth of an astonishing 9.5 percent), Fishman presents a flood of facts, figures, forecasts, and anecdotes and examines the implications of this unprecedented growth for China, the U.S., and the rest of the world.Calling China's huge population "arguably the greatest natural resource on the planet," Fishman details how hundreds of millions of peasants have migrated from rural to urban areas to find manufacturing jobs, providing an unlimited, low-wage workforce to power China's economy. In the process, this shift has changed both Chinese culture and the global business climate in significant ways. Simply put, American companies can't compete with wages as low as 25 cents an hour and lack of regulation and oversight, so are forced to move their operations to China or completely change the focus of their business. And it's not just a problem for the U.S.--even Mexico is outsourcing to China. Though it remains to be seen whether this will truly be the "Chinese Century" as Fishman asserts, China, Inc. is a brisk and informative look at why so many American corporations, and American jobs, are heading to China. --Shawn Carkonen
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China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential -- and updated with new statistics and information -- this dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an industrial superpower by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the world economic order has occurred -- and why it already affects us all.
How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster than the United States? Why do nearly all of the world's biggest companies have large operations in China? What does the corporate march into China mean for workers left behind in America, Europe, and the rest of the world?
Meanwhile, what makes China's emerging corporations so dangerously competitive? What will happen when China manufactures nearly everything -- computers, cars, jumbo jets, and pharmaceuticals -- that the United States and Europe can, at perhaps half the cost? How do these developments reach around the world and straight into all of our lives?
These are ground-shaking questions, and China, Inc. provides answers.
Veteran journalist Ted C. Fishman shows how China will force all of us to make big changes in how we think about ourselves as consumers, workers, citizens, and even as parents. The result is a richly engaging work of penetrating, up-to-the-minute reportage and brilliant analysis that will forever change how readers think about America's future.
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"China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering america, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of china's growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global economic order has occurred -- and why it already affects us all. How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster than the United States? That China uses 40 percent of the world's concrete and 25 percent of its steel? What is the global impact of 300 million rural Chinese walking off their farms and heading to the cities in the greatest migration in human history? Why do nearly all of the world's biggest companies now have large-scale operations in China? What does the corporate march into China mean for workers left behind in America, Europe, and the rest of the world? Meanwhile, what makes China's emerging corporations so dangerously competitive? What could happen when China will be able to manufacture nearly everything -- computers, cars, jumbo jets, and pharmaceuticals -- that the United States and Europe can, at perhaps half the cost? How do these developments reach around the world and straight into the lives of all Americans? These are ground-shaking questions, and China, Inc. provides answers.Veteran journalist and former commodities trader Ted C. Fishman paints a vivid picture of the megatrends radiating out of China. Fishman's account begins with the burgeoning output of China's vast low-cost factories and the swelling appetite of its 1.3 billion consumers, both of which are being driven by historically unprecedented infusions of foreign capital and technological know-how. Traveling through China's frenetic landscape of growth, Fishman visits the factories, markets, streets, stores, towns, and cities where the story of Chinese capitalism is being lived by one-fifth of all humanity. Fishman also draws on interviews with Chinese, American, and European workers, managers, and executives to show how China will force all of us to make big changes in how we think about ourselves as consumers, workers, citizens, and even as parents. The result is a richly engaging work of penetrating, up-to-the-minute reportage and brilliant analysis that will forever change how readers think about America's future. "Customer Reviews:
Lacks critical analysis, nothing more than a collection of (incomplete) stories .......2007-09-04
Could have been at least 100 pages shorter.......2007-07-15
The Tom Wolfe of China.......2007-05-24
Please blame everything on China, is this a new trend to cover up American "disastrous" foreign policy? .......2007-05-11
Excellent reference background............2007-04-11
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China, S.a./ China, Inc.: Como La Nueva Potencia Industrial Desafia Al Mundo / How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World (Arena Abierta / Open Sand)
Ted C. Fishman Manufacturer: Debate Editorial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8483066467 |
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Japanese Urban Environment
Manufacturer: Pergamon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0080433596 |
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Japan has led the world in urban innovation, design and planning, successfully combining high population with functionality, cleanliness and low levels of crime.The
Divided into four parts, the volume addresses
• the social, cultural and physical determinants of the Japanese urban environment, showing how cultural values have influenced the historical evolution of cities
• the climate, energy use and leisure provision in the city from an environmental perspective
• the infrastructure of the Japanese city and its growth since the Second World War, illustrating how technical 'hardware', such as the subway systems, operates effectively because of the social, economic and cultural 'software'.
• the future of urban design in Japan, indicating the impact of national and local planning, the uses of advanced technology and methods for urban redevelopment
With contributions by a wide range of Japanese specialists, this work addresses the full complexity of the urban environment. The authors show how a dynamic synthesis of traditional Eastern socio-cultural influences with Western building and engineering techniques led to the modern Japanese city.
Edited with extensive introductions to each section by Gideon Golany, the
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Learning from the Japanese City: West Meets East in Urban Design (Studies in History, Planning and the Environment Series)
Barrie Shelton Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0419223509 |
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Unlike the serene Buddhist gardens and Meiji-era temples of old world Japan, the country's modern architecture and urban planning on first look, appear monotonously gray or aggressively gaudy. This book shows how an appreciation of Japan's cities is often at odds with Western thought and culture.
Learning from the Japanese City explores how Westerners tend to think of the city as a network of linear spaces, such as formed streets, while the Japanese see it as more of a patchwork of areas. Barrie Shelton suggests that this contrast in urban planning extend to other areas of cultural expression, including, most fundamentally, the written language. The book shows how an embrace of fracture, transformation and non-linear qualities, that appear chaotic, emerge as a potential source of learning and inspiration for Western architects and planners.
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the book is expensive, but its worth it.......2006-01-28
Very little to be learned here........2004-02-22
The photos are poorly reproduced and the diagrams (Shelton's own?) are laughably crude. He seems to consider every Japanese city to be generically interchangeable, and he caricatures Western architecture and urban traditions perhaps more than those of Japan.
If this is not intended as academic research but as quirky anecdotes/opinions along the lines of Alex Kerr or Peter Popham, fine, but in that case Shelton's awkward prose is not worth the effort to read.
In short, the only valuable information that Shelton provides is quoted or from sources that include: Ashihara's "The Hidden Order", Barthes "Empire of Signs", Jinnai's "Tokyo: a Spatial Anthropology", various texts by Bognar, and Popham's "Tokyo: the City at the End of the World". All of these books are highly recommended, along with Sorensen's "The Making of Urban Japan" and Atelier Bow Wow's "Made in Tokyo Guidebook". I promise I am not the author of any of the books I am praising (although I wonder if the same could be said about the other review on this page). This is definitely a low point in Routledge's usually high quality output. Don't waste your money.
Lucid insights into the Japanese Mind.......1999-10-20
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Living Cities in Japan: Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments (Nissan Institute Routledge Japanese Studies Series)
Sorensen/Funck Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0415402379 |
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Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as machizukuri, and represent an important development in local politics and urban management in Japan.
This volume examines the growth and nature of such civil society participation in local urban and environmental governance, raising important questions about the changing roles of and relations between central and local government, and between citizens and the state, in managing shared spaces. The machizukuri processes studied here can be seen as the focus of an important emerging trend toward increased civic participation in managing processes of urban change in Japan. The contributors provide a comprehensive overview of the machizukuri phenomenon through examination not only of theory and history, but also of case studies illustrating real changes in the institutions of place making and neighbourhood governance.
Living Cities in Japan will be of particular value to readers interested in social, urban, geographical and environmental studies.
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Empowering nature conservation in Japanese rural areas: a planning strategy integrating visual and biological landscape perspectives [An article from: Landscape and Urban Planning]
Y. Natori , W. Fukui , and M. Hikasa Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR1R58 |
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This digital document is a journal article from Landscape and Urban Planning, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Japanese Urban Environment.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
Chung-Tong Wu Manufacturer: American Planning Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009973PC Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on September 22, 1999. The length of the article is 2375 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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Japanese Property Development in Australia
Michael Berry Manufacturer: Elsevier Science Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0080425003 |
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Japanese Urban Environment
Gideon Golany, G. S. Golany Manufacturer: Pergamon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OGD8IG |
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Belarus Investment and Business Guide
USA International Business Publications Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739792113 |
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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities and regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.
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Investment Guide for Belarus
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development Manufacturer: Organization for Economic ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9264142010 |
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Designed to assist those interested in doing business in Belarus, this guide provides detailed background information about the country, outlines the current legal and regulatory framework for foreign investment, and provides a list of investment opportunities.
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Belarus (World Investment and Business Guide Library)
Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739778196 |
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Geography, history, people, language, culture, traditions, economy, government, politics, constitution, places to visit, info for travelers...Customer Reviews:
A huge disapointment.......2003-04-24
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Belarus Export Import and Business Directory (World Investment and Business Guide Library)
Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739765787 |
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Strategic information and contacts for conducting successful export-import and business operation in the country. Information on export-import products, exporters and importers, regulations, opportunities. Updated annually.
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Belarus Foreign Policy and Government Guide (Russian Regional Investment and Business Library)
Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739782401 |
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This yearbook contains information on investment business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, marketing and export-import opportunities information.
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Belarus Investment & Business Guide
Emerging Markets Investment Center Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739702149 |
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Belarus Mineral & Mining Sector Investment And Business Guide (World Business, Investment and Government Library)
USA International Business Publications Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739750615 |
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Belarus: A Spy Guide (World Investment and Business Guide Library)
Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739784439 |
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Everything a successful "spy" must know on the country. Strategic and practical information on government, national security, army, foreign relations, economy, technology, mineral resources, as well as culture, history, traditions, government and business contacts and more...
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Belarus: Business Guide to the Key Manufacturers
Manufacturer: Business Information Agency ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1418718378 |
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POTENTIAL FOR FUTURE BUSINESS GROWTH IS HERE! Belarus, despite its lack of any serious economic reforms, is undergoing a high rate of economic growth and development. A phenomenon that has even been dubbed the "Belarus riddle". This economic growth can be partially explained by developments in the machine building, metallurgical, chemical and coal industries. We provide full information and contact details for 1,500 top manufacturing companies in Belarus with 200 or more employees. The following companies are included: food & tobacco, clothing & accessories, lumber & wood, furniture, household equipment & accessories, printing and publishing, chemical products, rubber & plastic, stone, clay, glass & concrete, commercial equipment & computer devices, electronics, electrical equipment & components, transportation equipment, cameras, optics, watches, medical equipment and other. Information provided includes key fields of information such as company name, location, contact information, contact name, industry descriptions, SIC codes, line of business, manufacturing indicator, number of employees, year established, legal status, subsidiary indicator.
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Belarus: Business Guide to the Manufacturing Industry
Manufacturer: Business Information Agency ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 141871996X |
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1,500 COMPANIES IN BELARUS! Information provided includes key fields of information such as company name, location, contact information, contact name, industry descriptions, SIC codes, line of business, manufacturing indicator, number of employees, year established, legal status, subsidiary indicator.Books:
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