Visual IFPS Plus for Business or Copyright and Multimedia Products

Visual IFPS/Plus for Business

Author: Paul Gray

The Interactive Financial Planning System (abbreviated Visual IFPS /Plus) was originally developed in the early 1970's by Dr. Gerald R. Wagner (then a professor at The University of Texas at Austin) and his students. Its original impetus came from the desire to model risk in a way that could be easily understood by executives. The implementation that resulted is a general - purpose financial panning language that is particularly user friendly. Since then, Visual EFPS / Plus has been developed further and marketed by COMSHARE, Incorporated of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has been widely adopted in both industry and universities.

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Copyright and Multimedia Products: A Comparative Analysis

Author: Irini A Stamatoudi

Multimedia products have become highly successful. Yet they are often inadequately protected by existing national and international copyright schemes. This study is one of the first comprehensive, comparative analyses of multimedia works and copyright protection. Stamatoudi considers the nature of the multimedia work, and existing legislation, as well as collections and compilations, databases, audiovisual works and computer programs. Finally, she offers a model for a European legislative solution. Her work will interest academics and students, as well as lawyers and copyright policy makers.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	List of abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	Placing multimedia products within the scope of copyright	3
2	The scope of multimedia works	16
3	Traditional literary works	42
4	Collections and compilations	71
5	Databases	88
6	Audiovisual works	104
7	Computer programs	152
8	Video games as a test case	166
9	Multimedia products and existing categories of copyright works	186
10	A regime of protection for multimedia products	211
11	Conclusions	270
	Postscript	282
	Bibliography	283
	Index	315

Principles of Microeconomics or The Psychology of Economic Decisions Volume 2

Principles of Microeconomics

Author: Edwin Mansfield

Among the most popular and successful texts available to economics students, Edwin Mansfield's books have been adopted at over 1,000 colleges and universities around the world. The hallmark qualities of Professor Mansfield's books are a careful integration of theory and example, meticulously clear writing style, and a step-by-step pedagogy.

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The Psychology of Economic Decisions, Volume 2: Reasons and Choices

Author: Isabelle Brocas

This volume brings together contributions to the burgeoning research area of behavioral economics from a number of well-known international scholars in the field. Topics covered include 'irrational' conducts; imperfect self-knowledge; imperfect memory; time and utility; and experimental practices in psychology, economics, and finance. This book will provide a point of entry to anyone wishing to discover what the intellectual terrain between economics and psychology looks like.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Introduction
1	The Psychology of Irrationality: Why People Make Foolish, Self-Defeating Choices	3
2	Irrational Pursuits: Hyper-Incentives From a Visceral Brain	17
3	The Pursuit and Assessment of Happiness can be Self-Defeating	41
4	Behavioral Policy	73
5	Information and Self-Control	89
6	Self-Signaling and Diagnostic Utility in Everyday Decision Making	105
7	Mental Accounting and the Absent-minded Driver	127
8	Self-Knowledge and Self-Regulation: An Economic Approach	137
9	A New Challenge for Economics: 'The Frame Problem'	169
10	Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A Moment-Based Approach	187
11	Making Sense: The Causes of Emotional Evanescence	209
12	Temporal Construal Theory of Time-Dependent Preferences	235
13	Economists' and Psychologists' Experimental Practices: How They Differ, Why They Differ, and How They Could Converge	253
14	Psychology and the Financial Markets: Applications to Understanding and Remedying Irrational Decision-Making	273
15	What Causes Nominal Inertia? Insights From Experimental Economics	299
	Index	315

East Asia and the World Economy or Exploring Web Marketing and Project Management Interactive Workbook

East Asia and the World Economy

Author: Stephen Chiu

What role do East Asian states play in the world economy? Can the world-systems model originally designed for studying development in Europe and North America be applied to East Asia? To what extent has the rivalry between the United States and Japan had an impact on the development of East Asia? Examining these and other key questions, the authors offer a clear, comprehensive analysis of the economic development of East Asia. Offering a unique perspective, this book examines the origins and transformation of East Asia from a world-systems analysis. In contrast to the literature's focus on market, culture, state, and dependency, East Asia and the World Economy points to the crucial role of geopolitical and regional factors in East Asian development. The authors provide a cohesive review of the world-systems model as it applies to East Asia, exploring its intellectual heritage, the historical context through which it arose, its basic assumptions, and its policy implications. To illustrate how this model works in East Asia, the authors examine the economies of Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, North Korea, and Japan. The result is a fascinating study that demonstrates how the world-systems model provides a more focused explanation of East Asia's peculiar pattern of development. For scholars and students in the fields of political science, economics, Asian studies, international affairs, and development studies, this book is a must. "This book applies world-systems analysis to explain the peculiar pattern of East Asian development over the past two centuries. . . . It offers a fresh and fascinating approach to the study of economic and political evolution in the East asian nations. The volumeis well organized and written for both scholars and students. It will make an excellent text for an undergraduate course in East Asian Economics and politics." --Choice CONTENTS: I. Theoretical Introduction // 1. Current Perspectives on East Asian Development // II. Incorporation // 2. The Decline of the Chinese Empire / 3. The Great Escape of Japan // III. Regionalization // 4. Japan and Its Colonial Empire / 5. The Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Communist Revolution // IV. Ascent // 6. The Social Trajectories of China and North Korea / 7. The "Corization" of Japan / 8. The Semiperipherization of the NIEs (Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan) // V. Centrality // 9. United States - Japan Hegemonic Rivalry / 10. The Chinese Triangle of Mainland - Taiwan - Hong Kong / 11. Conclusion / Index ABRIDGED CONTENTS: I. Theoretical Introduction / II. Incorporation / III. Regionalization / IV. Ascent / V. Centrality

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Examines the role of geopolitical and regional factors in East Asian development. Reviews the world-systems model as it applies to East Asia, and intellectual heritage as well as the historical context from which it arose, its basic assumptions, and policy implications. The model is illustrated through examination of the economies of Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, North Korea, and Japan. Paper edition (unseen), $24. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Theoretical Introduction	1
1	Current Perspectives on East Asian Development	3
Pt. II	Incorporation	31
2	The Decline of the Chinese Empire	33
3	The Great Escape of Japan	57
Pt. III	Regionalization	83
4	Japan and Its Colonial Empire	87
5	The Sino-Japanese Wars and the Chinese Communist Revolution	112
Pt. IV	Ascent	137
6	The Socialist Trajectory of China and North Korea	139
7	The Corization of Japan	160
8	The Semiperipheralization of the Newly Industrializing Economies	186
Pt. V	Centrality	213
9	United States-Japan Hegemonic Rivalry	217
10	The Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong	241
11	Conclusion	267
	References	281
	Index	297
	About the Authors	307

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Exploring Web Marketing and Project Management Interactive Workbook

Author: Donald Emerick

• Develop an Internet business strategy
• Build a winning project team
• Work toward your Webmaster Certification

Total Management Strategies for Web-based Projects.

Written by Donald Emerick and Kim Round with Susan Joyce

Get the expert's view on marketing and communications for the Web. Learn insiders' tips for developing and implementing a business plan that works in the online community, then follow through by learning how to build a great project team and manage clients, workers, and technology to achieve your goals.

With this interactive workbook, you'll be creating your own real outline as you work through the case studies, exercises, and labs that underscore the reading in each section. By the time you're through, you will have a complete work plan to refer to as you manage your next project.

Exploring Web Marketing and Project Management gives you the skills to:

• Turn your creative vision into a marketing strategy and find the technology to support it
• Reach the clients that are right for your business
• Develop your plans into reality
• Manage the project, the team, and the client
• Get to the product launch-and through it
• Understand the special legal issues surrounding Internet communications

Exploring Web Marketing and Project Management is great for hands-on classroom use, self-paced study toward certification, or just as a practical guide for anyone who wants to do business on the Worldwide Web.

About the Foundations of Web Site Architecture Series

Endorsed by WOW, The World Organization ofWebmasters, these fully interactive workbooks-and their companion websites give you the core skills you need to manage content, business, and technology on the Worldwide Web. They are building blocks in Prentice Hall's comprehensive curriculum for professional Webmaster certification.

About WOW

The World Organization of Webmasters is a professional organization with thousands of members and affiliates worldwide. Started as a non-profit organization, WOW was created to enhance the role and position of those individuals who create, manage, maintain, and market websites. This support is provided through membership in WOW.

From Strategy to Change or Statistics for Business and Economics

From Strategy to Change: Implementing the Plan in Higher Education

Author: Daniel James Rowley

In From Strategy to Change-the last in a series-Daniel James Rowley comes full circle in defining his unique vision of the strategic planning process. Written with Herbert Sherman, From Strategy to Change shows how to take the next step after a strategic plan has been formulated. The authors clearly show how to implement a strategic plan that will meet the myriad challenges of today's complex higher education environment and spell success for the academy.
"It is amazing that while sports teams of colleges and universities meticulously plan their contests against their opponents, their institutions' administrators don't spend nearly enough time or effort in creating and
implementing a strategy. Institutions of higher education seem to be missing the requisite tools to develop and activate their 'play book.' With this new age of globally available real-time information, it becomes increasingly more essential to have a map to help go over and around obstacles, avoid the ever-present pitfalls, and effectively aid in selecting the best route. Rowley and Sherman provide such tools in this exciting and comprehensive new book. I wish that when I was a department chair, president of a faculty senate, and dean that this superb work was available. My function in planning would have been so much easier and more rewarding."
—Barry R. Armandi, Distinguished Teaching Professor, SUNY - Old Westbury

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Completes a trilogy by Rowley (business, U. of Northern Colorado, Greeley) by exploring how to implement the strategies for changes on college campuses that he sets out in the first two volumes. He and Sherman (professional studies, U. of Southampton, New York) show how the procedures of change can be made sensitive and responsive to people who are affected by them. They include detailed examples of actual strategic plans and the institutions that have implemented them. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Figures, Tables, and Exhibits
	Foreword
	Preface
	The Authors
Pt. 1	A Framework for Assessing the Making Strategic Choices
1	Forces of Change and the Importance of Strategic Planning	3
2	A Basic Choice Model for Traditional Academic Organizations	25
3	Extending the Model to Nontraditional and Alternative Educational Providers	56
4	Refining the Model for Enhanced Competitive Positioning	85
5	Tools and an Instrument for Applying the Model	109
Pt. 2	Implementing Strategic Choices
6	The Hard Facts of Implementing Change	149
7	Eleven Approaches to Implementing Successful Strategic Change	172
8	Why Gradual Change Is Most Effective	194
9	The Human Factor in Strategic Change	217
10	Navigation and Negotiation Strategies for Change Leaders	245
11	Preserving and Nurturing Changes That Are Made	274
12	From Strategy to Change: A Summary Perspective	299
A	Miles and Snow's List of Strategic Variables	321
	B: Glossary of Terms	327
	References	329
	Name Index	341
	Subject Index	345

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Statistics for Business and Economics: Methods and Applications

Author: Edwin Mansfield

As in previous editions, three principal objectives guided the writing of this book: first, to explain statistical methods used in business and by economists in the clearest possible way; second, to draw case material from real-world situations in order to demonstrate the practical applications of those methods; third, to surround both theory and cases with an abundance of problems, based on real data whenever possible and graded in level of difficulty.

Peddlers and Princes or After Restructuring

Peddlers and Princes: Social Development and Economic Change in Two Indonesian Towns

Author: Clifford Geertz

In a closely observed study of two Indonesian towns, Clifford Geertz analyzes the process of economic change in terms of people and behavior patterns rather than income and production. One of the rare empirical studies of the earliest stages of the transition to modern economic growth, Peddlers and Princes offers important facts and generalizations for the economist, the sociologist, and the South East Asia specialist.
"Peddlers and Princes is, like much of Geertz's other writing, eminently rewarding . . . Case study and broader theory are brought together in an illuminating marriage."—Donald Hindley, Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
"What makes the book fascinating is the author's capacity to relate his anthropological findings to questions of central concern to the economist . . . "—H. G. Johnson, Journal of Political Economy

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After Restructuring: Empowerment Strategies at Work in America's Hospitals

Author: Thomas G Rundall

Managing Change

An in depth treatment of organizational change in hospitals. After Restructuring provides a mother-lode of insights and lessons that will be mined for years. A must read for all those committed to improving hospital performance in a radically changing health care system.
--Stephen M. Shortell, Blue Cross distinguished professor of health policy and management professor of organization behavior, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

After Restructuring debunks the myths surrounding hospital change and offers insightful and practical recommAndations for successful restructuring. This valuable book is based on the work of a team of health services researchers headed up by Thomas Rundall, director of the Center for Health Management Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The book reports the results of a three year study of nine hospitals, an unaffiliated group of facilities in urban, rural, and suburban regions that received funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust to restructure patient care processes.

The authors present a framework for understanding organizational change and define the principles that guide change facilitators through the five stages of change--readiness to change, awareness of the need to change, identification and selection of changes, implementation, and institutionalization of changes. The standards derived from the change experiences of these hospitals provide important best practice guidelines.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits
	Preface
	The Authors
Pt. 1	Restructuring Hospitals to Improve Patient Care	1
1	The Changing American Hospital: New Approaches to Patient Care	3
2	Strengthening Hospital Nursing: A Program to Improve Patient Care	17
3	The Bounding of Empowerment: Managing Change with Empowered Persons	26
Pt. 2	Strategies for Successful Restructuring	49
4	Studying Organizational Change in the SHN Hospitals	51
5	Changes Implemented by SHN Hospitals	74
6	Principles of Successful Change	83
Pt. 3	After Restructuring: Empowerment Strategies at Work	103
7	The Impact of Restructuring on Nursing and Patient Care	105
8	The Impact of Restructuring on Hospital Culture	121
Pt. 4	The Cases	143
9	The Strategic Imperative: Abbott Northwestern Hospital	145
10	If It Ain't Broke, Fix It Anyway! Beth Israel Hospital	164
11	All Politics Is Local: District of Columbia General Hospital	177
12	"You Can't Do Anything Unless You Change the Culture": Health Bond Consortium	188
13	Maintaining Mission Through Organizational Change: Providence Portland Medical Center	206
14	Building Networks to Improve Patient Care: The Rural Connection	218
15	Collaborating to Compete on Quality: University Hospitals of Cleveland	224
16	The Hospital as Academic Laboratory: University of Utah Hospital	238
17	From a Knowing Organization to a Learning Organization: Vanderbilt University Hospital	257
	References	277
	Index	285

Value Engineering Practical Applications or Megatrends in Retail Real Estate

Value Engineering: Practical Applications

Author: Alphonse DellIsola

Available for the first time, a complete system for understanding and conducting Value Engineering and Life Cycle Costing Studies--for design, construction, and facilities operation. Along with step-by-step instructional chapters, readers get seven case studies on major facility types, with currently applicable data and examples. The disk provides, in Lotus and Excel, a set of electronic forms with built-in formulas and links. 400 pp. Pub: 8/97.

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A new text produced in lieu of a new edition of the author's previous ; it is complementary to the previous work in that the basics of VE are not presented. Rather, this text focuses on methods for successful application of VE concepts, including making the case to management for VE, integrating VE into planning and budgeting, conducting life cycle costing, and integrating VE into the design process. Case studies demonstrate application of VE strategies to a variety of commercial and civic projects. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Megatrends in Retail Real Estate

Author: John D Benjamin

Retail real estate properties and their marketplaces are in a constant state of change. The emergence of new and growing value formats like warehouse clubs, factory outlet malls, and other powerful discount formats provide traditional shopping centers and malls with increasingly competitive challenges. These value and discount retail formats generate higher sales per square foot and have lower construction costs than many traditional retail properties. Combined with the slow growth in retail sales and the increasing alternatives to in-store retailing, the question arises as to the future of retail marketplaces and which retail formats will be the leaders of the future. Megatrends in Retail Real Estate allows one to analyze and forecast changes in the retail marketplace. The book represents a simple model to analyze and predict mall and shopping center investment returns. It then examines the financing of retail properties and securitization of their mortgages, as well as the operations of retail properties. Finally, the book analyzes new retail marketplaces and the international retail arena.

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Analyzes changes in the retail marketplace, with sections on forecasting the changing retail marketplace, retail real estate investment returns, financing retail properties and mortgage securitization, operations of retail properties, new retail marketplaces, and the international arena. Subjects include malls versus centers, accessing the capital markets, dealing with the loss of an anchor tenant, development of inner-city retail niche markets, and a comparison of shopping centers in Canada and the US. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.