Filter by
The Scrum Culture Introducing Agile Methods in Organizations
This book is a guide for managers, Scrum Masters and agile coaches who are interested in agile organizational methods and who are planning to introduce Scrum at their own company. Scrum is not only a product development framework but can also be used to structure activities for agile and lean organizational development. Divided into five major parts, the book first introduces and defines t…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-11827-7
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain
This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts. School superintendents are civil servants at the heart of the governance of municipal education. Educational governance in the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - is currently undergoing comprehens…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-25104-2
- Collation
- XX, 334
- Series Title
- Educational Governance Research
- Call Number
- -
Financial Accounting and Management Control
This book is about financial accounting and management control and how these two information systems are related as well as how their objectives conflict. At the most fundamental level, the objective of financial accounting is to provide owners and funders with comparable information on a company's value creation. The aim of management control, on the other hand, is to give the board, senior ex…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-13782-7
- Collation
- XI, 138
- Series Title
- Contributions to Management Science
- Call Number
- -
The Influence of Blockholders on Agency Costs and Firm Value
Markus P. Urban investigates the influence of large shareholders (the so-called blockholders) on agency costs and firm value, thereby accounting for blockholder characteristics and blockholder interrelationships. The work provides a profound theoretical and empirical analysis on the nature and effect of shareholder engagement with due regard to the specifics of the German institutional environm…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-11402-2
- Collation
- XXXVI, 462,
- Series Title
- Auditing and Accounting Studies
- Call Number
- -
Personal Knowledge Management, Leadership Styles, and Organisational Performa…
Penelitian ini meneliti hubungan antara demografi responden, keterampilan manajemen pengetahuan pribadi (PKM) mereka, gaya kepemimpinan mereka dan kinerja serta ukuran organisasi mereka; ini menyelidiki sejauh mana PKM dan gaya kepemimpinan manajemen puncak menguntungkan bagi industri perawatan kesehatan. Kuesioner survei dibagikan kepada 1.000 manajer puncak rumah sakit di Thailand, dan tangga…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-287-438-2
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Briefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)
- Call Number
- 303.34 ZUM p
The Grants Register 2014
The most comprehensive guide on postgraduate grants and professional funding globally. For thirty-two years it has been the leading source for up-to-date information on the availability of, and eligibility for, postgraduate and professional awards. Each entry is verified by its awarding body and all information is updated annually.
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-0-230-39285-4
- Collation
- 32, 1184
- Series Title
- The Grants Register 2014
- Call Number
- -
Reflections on Life in Higher Education
This book explores the challenges of an academic teaching career. The authors discuss the issues that may arise in the tenure process, scholarship activities, publishing, and providing service to their academic communities as well as how to keep teaching lessons relevant and fresh.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-56045-2
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 378
The Replication of Retail Fashion Formats into Foreign Countries A Qualitati…
Christoph Schröder does one of the first attempts to analyze format transfers within the scope of different strategies, format elements, countries and success with focus on the fashion industry. Three distinct format transfer strategies are identified. The empirically observed design of format elements supports and extends the existing research. Fashion firms standardize their “Retail cultur…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-07541-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Replication of Retail Fashion Formats into Foreign Countries A Qualitati…
Christoph Schröder does one of the first attempts to analyze format transfers within the scope of different strategies, format elements, countries and success with focus on the fashion industry. Three distinct format transfer strategies are identified. The empirically observed design of format elements supports and extends the existing research. Fashion firms standardize their “Retail cultur…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-07541-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
New Meanings for Marketing in a New Millennium
Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these ev…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-11926-7
- Collation
- XXIX, 302
- Series Title
- Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography