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Beyond Lean : Simulation in Practice
This book discusses how, in a practical way, to overcome the limitations of the lean approach to transforming manufacturing systems as well as related in-plant, plant-to-plant, and plant-to-customer logistics. The primary tools in this regard are algebra based mathematical models and computer-based systems simulation as well as the integration of these two. Concepts, methods and application stu…
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Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment
Mayer, Warner, Siedel and Lieberman's Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment is an up-to-date textbook with coverage of legal and regulatory issues that are more technical than the topics in the authors’ Foundations of Business Law and the Legal Environment.Appropriate for students who have already taken an introductory Legal Environment or Business Law course, the text is organized …
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Information Strategies for Communicators
Written by two nationally recognized experts in information strategy, Information Strategies for Communicators leads students step-by-step through the information search and evaluation process for news and strategic communication message production. The book includes a conceptual model of the information strategy process, case studies to illustrate the process in action and links to current exa…
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Good Corporation, Bad Corporation : Corporate Social Responsibility in the Gl…
This textbook provides an innovative, internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (C.S.R.) and business ethics. Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world, the textbook explores the social, ethical, and business dynamics underlying C.S.R. in such areas as global warming, genetically modified organisms (G.M.O.) in food prod…
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Guidelines for Improving the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors of Nonprofi…
The purpose of this book is to help boards of directors of nonprofit organizations improve their performance after completing the online board self-assessment tool found at www.boardcheckup.com. However, it can also be used as a stand-alone resource for any board seeking to enhance its effectiveness in that it also contains the diagnostic questions on which the online tool is based. The approac…
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The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
Terence Lau and Lisa Johnson’s The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business is a book for today’s student, who expects learning to be comprised not only of substance, but also of interactive exercises and multimedia. This book streamlines the presentation of material to ensure that every page is relevant, engaging and interesting to undergraduate business students, without losing the depth…
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Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in B.C.
This textbook is an introduction to the tourism and hospitality industry in British Columbia, and is written with a first year college and university audience in mind. It is a collaborative work with input from educators, industry leaders, employers and past graduates of B.C.’s tourism and hospitality management programs. All chapters have been reviewed by experts in the field. Each chapter i…
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Interpreting Canada’s 2019 Food Guide and Food Labelling for Health Profess…
This textbook provides the novice learner with a foundational understanding of Canada’s 2019 Food Guide and Food Labelling. It highlights important considerations for future health professionals seeking to adopt the new food guide into their practice, including strategies towards healthy eating. This open textbook underscores a relational inquiry approach to inform discussions with clients ab…
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Tourism and Travel during the Cold War : Negotiating Tourist Experiences acro…
The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ideological fault lines and the communist states attracted an ever-increasing number of Western tourists. Based on extensive original research, it examines the ramifications of…
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Sustainable Energy for All Innovation, technology and pro-poor green transfor…
Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital pre-cursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international policy commitments seek to address this, but scholarship has failed to keep pace with policy ambitions, lacking both the empirical basis and the theoretical perspective to i…
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