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Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises Context Practices and Outcomes

Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises Context Practices and Outcomes

Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises contributes to the body of knowledge concerning talent management in small and medium enterprises. Despite the growing number of publications on talent management in recent years research has focused mainly on large companies. As a consequence of this research bias towards large companies the presented theoretical concepts and practices have limited applicability for talent management in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Because SMEs constitute a significant part of the national economy in a large number of countries many authors report the necessity to investigate talent management in such enterprises. This book will be a source of useful data for managers of SMEs and owners and provide them with information about the practices and methods concerning the acquisition development and retention of talented employees who may contribute to the success of SMEs and the execution of business strategies. The book offers academic researchers postgraduate students and reflective practitioners a state-of-the-art overview of Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises. | Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises Context Practices and Outcomes

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Small and Medium Enterprises in Malaysia Policy Issues and Challenges

Small and Medium Enterprises in Malaysia Policy Issues and Challenges

First published in 1999 this volume focuses on the contributions of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to Malaysia and they can be best supported. Moha Asri Abdullah examines solutions in the form of policy supports in developing countries financial and credit assistance entrepreneurial development business management training human resources development technical and vocational programmes local and infrastructure facilities fiscal policy and incentives for SMEs and the accessibility of SME support programmes. Abdullah ends with recommendations for the sector. | Small and Medium Enterprises in Malaysia Policy Issues and Challenges

GBP 31.99
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Small and Medium Enterprises in Distress Thailand the East Asian Crisis and Beyond

Small and Medium Enterprises in Distress Thailand the East Asian Crisis and Beyond

This title was first published in 2000: Since 1998 there have been many diagnoses studies and theories attempting to explain the East Asian economic crisis and the impact on major economic and financial sectors. This text aims to fill a gap in the literature by examining the effects on small and medium-sized enterprises. From early 1998 unemployment figures in the region rose rapidly although large enterprises were not as yet engaged in corporate restructuring. Registered small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and microenterprises were a major source of this unemployment especially among unskilled and seasonal workers. This volume covers the debate in five ways. An introductory chapter presents an overview of the SME international experience both in OECD and developing economies. | Small and Medium Enterprises in Distress Thailand the East Asian Crisis and Beyond

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Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing A Complete Guide to the Medium

Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing A Complete Guide to the Medium

Silverpoint and metalpoint more generally is the practice of marking with soft metal on a specifically prepared drawing surface. Practiced for centuries the artform is experiencing a resurgence in recent years with contemporary work exploring abstract as well as realist conceptual as well as traditional. Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing is the essential manual of metalpoint technique written by Susan Schwalb and Tom Mazzullo contemporary masters of the medium. This book is the first treatise on the subject for artists and art teachers with chapters on early history materials including grounds supports metals and tools techniques for working in metalpoint as well as mixed media and finally the care of metalpoint works. Not only beautifully illustrated this book also demonstrates how to photograph and exhibit metalpoint art. Featuring a gallery of drawings by contemporary artists along with their tips and insight Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing is a perfect introduction for students of the medium and an inspiration for those already more familiar with it. | Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing A Complete Guide to the Medium

GBP 39.99
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Narrative Environments and Experience Design Space as a Medium of Communication

Narrative Environments and Experience Design Space as a Medium of Communication

This book argues narrative people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This is a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory spatial theory and design theory. Examples of narrative spaces such as exhibitions brand experiences urban design and socially engaged participatory interventions in the public realm are explored to show how space acts as a medium of communication through a synthesis of materials structures and technologies and how particular social behaviours are reproduced or critiqued through spatial narratives. This book will be of interest to scholars in design studies urban studies architecture new materialism and design practitioners in the creative industries. | Narrative Environments and Experience Design Space as a Medium of Communication

GBP 38.99
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Small and Medium Enterprises in India Infirmities and Asymmetries in Industrial Clusters

Small and Medium Enterprises in India Infirmities and Asymmetries in Industrial Clusters

Small and medium enterprises (SME) have attracted increasing interest in the last few years and industrialization is no longer seen as a linear way of development. This book analyzes how SME clusters emerge in a developing economy. Using India as a case study it addresses one central question: If growth has largely failed to be inclusive so far and if employing a work force in increasing returns activities through a different trajectory of industrialization is largely dependent upon industrial clusters of small and medium sized firms then what are the structural infirmities and asymmetries that need to be taken into account in the context of framing policies related to industrial clusters? The book identifies the structural infirmities in industrial clusters in India which could be typical to any of the developing countries and sharply in contrast to European success stories. Blending theory and empirical material it provides a middle ground between the two extremes of a uniform policy assuming ‘one size fits all’ and a specific policy based on individual cases. The book redraws the broad contours where space and production processes mutually constitute each other giving rise to outcomes somewhat generic to underdevelopment. It is of interest to academics working in the fields of economics business administration/ management and development economics. | Small and Medium Enterprises in India Infirmities and Asymmetries in Industrial Clusters

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Digital Art Aesthetic Creation The Birth of a Medium

Digital Art Aesthetic Creation The Birth of a Medium

Is art created with computers really art? This book answers ‘yes. ’ Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovations in computer technology and a Postmodern naturalization of technology wherein technology becomes something we live in as well as use. The present study establishes these claims by looking at digital art’s historical emergence from the 1960s to the start of the present century. Paul Crowther using a philosophical approach to art history considers the first steps towards digital graphics their development in terms of three-dimensional abstraction and figuration and then the complexities of their interactive formats. | Digital Art Aesthetic Creation The Birth of a Medium

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Managerial Labour Markets in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Managerial Labour Markets in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Focussing on the relatively few small firms which grew rapidly this book originally published in 1993 uses face-to-face interviews as well as published records to identify and analyse the managerial factors most closely associated with successful small firms. The volume concentrates on the following key managerial issues: In what respects do the managerial backgrounds and aspirations of the founders of fast-growth small firms differ from those of non-fast-growth small firms? How is the process of growth managed? What incentives remuneration packages and communication systems are instituted? How do these characteristics and experiences differ in fast-growth small firms from both the traditional small firm and large-firm sector? To what extent is it possible to explain the relative economic performance of small firms in terms of differences in their ownership organizational and management structures. | Managerial Labour Markets in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

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Indie TV Industry Aesthetics and Medium Specificity

Indie TV Industry Aesthetics and Medium Specificity

This edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging examination of the interface between American independent film and a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial broadcasters cable networks and streaming providers in which independent film and television intersect in complex multifaceted and creative ways. The book covers the long history of continuities and connections between the two sectors as seen in the activities of PBS HBO or Sundance. It considers the movement of filmmakers between indie film and TV such as Steven Soderbergh Rian Johnson the Duplass brothers Joe Swanberg Lynn Shelton and Gregg Araki; details the confluence of aesthetic and thematic elements seen in shows such as Girls Breaking Bad Master of None or Glow; points to a shared interest in regional sensibilities evident in shows like One Mississippi or Fargo; and makes the case for documentaries and web series as significant entities in this domain. Collectively the book builds a compelling picture of indie TV as a significant feature of US screen entertainment in the 21st Century. This interdisciplinary landmark volume will be a go-to reference for students and scholars of Television Studies Film Studies and Media Studies. | Indie TV Industry Aesthetics and Medium Specificity

GBP 34.99
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Medium and Small Enterprises How to Find the Right Solution for Effectively Connecting with Your

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Medium and Small Enterprises How to Find the Right Solution for Effectively Connecting with Your

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are a growing topic among small- and medium-sized enterprises entrepreneurs and solopreneurs and it is completely clear that CRM is a tool that businesses should have in place to manage sales processes. Teams of salespeople must have a system to run their daily activities and small businesses and solopreneurs must track their marketing effort a functioning structure for maintaining their contacts with prospects and clients to improve the effectiveness of their sales effort. CRM once only available to large corporations is now powerful technology for small and medium businesses. Small and medium businesses are now able to implement CRM solutions under a more cost-effective balance as an alternative to traditional tools like Salesforce Dynamics or Oracle. The reason for the success is mainly the simplicity of the new tools and solutions that have been developed for the management of sales processes. This book discusses how to implement a CRM from the perspective of the businessperson—not the more typical IT consultant or the technical staff. It benefits business development sales management and sales process control. Small business owners must understand why and how implementing a CRM will create value for their business—how it will focus on business development sales management and how sales leads develop into happy customers. Small business owners must first understand what a CRM system is how it works what its main functions are and how it serves to manage workflows in the company’s sales department. Generally entrepreneurs struggle to find the time to read and study complex and fully comprehensive books. This book provides direct operational guidelines to those who need easy-to-read information about how to use CRM effectively. Business professionals must be able to set up CRM systems and avoid mistakes and wasting time. This book provides an overview of what can be done with CRM and how it happens to empower businesspeople to find new customers and win business opportunities. This book discusses the logic of CRM in sales giving tips and explanations on why and what happens when CRM is implemented in a specific way. Essentially this book gives the entrepreneur the know-how behind CRM in sales in general terms supporting enhanced customer relationships. | Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Medium and Small Enterprises How to Find the Right Solution for Effectively Connecting with Your

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Creative Approaches to Planning and Local Development Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe

Creative Approaches to Planning and Local Development Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe

This book project highlights creative approaches to planning and local development. The dynamic complexity diversity and fluidity which characterize contemporary society represent challenges for planning and development endeavours. While research and policy work has extensively focused on large cities and on metropolitan regions there has been relatively little work on ‘smaller places’. This book shows that if these new challenges affect all places and regions small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) are suffering many specific problems that call imperatively for the design and implementation of very imaginative creative approaches to planning and local development. What could enhance creativity in local development and planning? Is it possible to talk about creative capacity building at the level of a town that might release imaginative and innovative activities? Under what local and non-local conditions is creativity being initiated and flourishing? What are the major obstacles and in what way can these be contained in order to safeguard pockets of creative action? Interdisciplinary and with case studies from France Norway and other European countries this volume presents a wide range of approaches and territorial contexts of small cities and towns in which spatial dynamics and the consequences of the city-region for urban planning theory and practice in Europe are highlighted with a special focus on the challenges for - and understanding of - planning and development of SMSTs. It provides a significant body of critical comparative and contextual perspectives on the quest for urban sustainability and resilience in SMSTs therefore emphasizing collaborative and potentially innovative approaches that can be detected but also the shortcomings pitfalls and 'traps' that can lie behind the approaches aimed at concerting ecological economic and socio-cultural concerns and the discourses promoting them. | Creative Approaches to Planning and Local Development Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe

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Economic Integration in East Asia Production networks and small and medium enterprises

Economic Integration in East Asia Production networks and small and medium enterprises

International production networks in manufacturing particularly in machinery industries have rapidly developed over the last two decades resulting in dramatic increases in intra-regional and intra-industry trade providing a key source of regional growth integration and development in East Asia. This book provides a better understanding on how to effectively further increase SME participation in East Asian production networks and in doing so identifies key challenges and issues that they need to address. This book aims to not only fill the theory-practice gap but also to lay solid foundations for designing national arrangements and a regional institutional frameworks to further encourage and support SME engagement and participation in regional and global production networks. The book contains several country case studies and by drawing upon individual country experiences at various stages of economic development this book demonstrates the varying difficulty faced by SMEs in ASEAN member countries attempting to participate in regional production networks and highlighting differences in needs and policy priorities. This book offers both a more focused theme on the assessment of globalization and a rather unique approach by focusing upon the particular importance of SMEs and by utilizing micro-level data at the firm or plant level. Its policy insights and the richness and uniqueness of the empirical findings will make the book an invaluable contribution to understanding East Asian production networks. | Economic Integration in East Asia Production networks and small and medium enterprises

GBP 42.99
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Documentary Vision Notes from Behind the Camera

Documentary Vision Notes from Behind the Camera

This book is a collection of personal essays that address critical elements involved in the production of nonfiction films. Written by an experienced documentary filmmaker and cinematographer the book draws upon practical wisdom to explore the nuances and challenges faced by filmmakers and viewers alike. Included in the text are rarely discussed ethical issues best practices in the field filmmaker etiquette and a detailed analysis of interview techniques. The book also provides a candid view of how decisions are made in production that are consequential to a finished film’s meaning and fidelity. Drawing on a wide range of subject matter it will enhance the reader's understanding of the tremendous power and potential of the documentary medium. The book offers an invaluable insight into documentary filmmaking for professionals who work in the medium and students who are learning the trade and honing their skills. | Documentary Vision Notes from Behind the Camera

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Mapping Urban Spaces Designing the European City

Mapping Urban Spaces Designing the European City

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological sociological and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sustainable – accessibility ease of travel urban sustainability social inclusiveness – can be traced back to the nature of that space. The chapters develop from a phenomenological study of space to contributions on places and landscapes in the city. Centralities and their meaning are studied as well as the social space and its complexity. The contributions focus on history and theory as well as concrete research and mapping approaches and the resulting design applications. The case studies come from countries around Europe including Poland Italy Greece Germany and France among others. The book will be of interest to students scholars and practitioners in architecture urban planning and landscape architecture. | Mapping Urban Spaces Designing the European City

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Business Model Innovation How it really works

Business Model Innovation How it really works

Based on the author’s 30 years of consulting experience and validated by doctoral research this book focuses on creating profitable growth with business model innovation in medium and large companies. Arising from an increased need for systems thinking and technological development there is a common understanding that a business model should primarily create develop and retain value for companies' customers. But increased globalization and resource constraints have led to a difficult balancing act when addressing the challenges of achieving profitable processes and long-term growth. This book provides a new framework based on six central themes with five related success factors each to enhance opportunities’ visibility contribute to improved margins increase awareness of a company’s unique strengths and weaknesses in overall resources manage risk and optimize implementation of a new model throughout an entire organization. Owners board members and managers of medium and large companies worldwide as well as advanced business students will appreciate this detailed practical and clarifying approach to business model innovation. | Business Model Innovation How it really works

GBP 31.99
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The Networked Firm in a Global World Small Firms in New Environments

The Networked Firm in a Global World Small Firms in New Environments

This title was first published in 2000. Illustrated by a wide range of international case studies this volume elaborates extends and critiques one of the key models of local growth which emphasizes learning networking and 'embeddedness' in relation to the role of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). In doing so it provides a comprehensive understanding of the changing role of SMEs in an era of globalization. | The Networked Firm in a Global World Small Firms in New Environments

GBP 31.99
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The Radio Handbook

The Radio Handbook

Updated and revised the fourth edition of The Radio Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the medium of radio and the radio industry in the UK. Featuring new chapters on social media and podcasting this book offers a thorough breakdown of the knowledge and skills needed to work within the contemporary radio industry. Using examples case studies and transcripts it examines the various building blocks that make radio from music scheduling to news values and from phone-ins to sports commentaries. The latest trends in contemporary audio practice are referenced throughout including the increased adoption of smartphone technology further consolidation within commercial radio and the ongoing debate about the future funding of the BBC against the backdrop of an accelerated move towards remote working the rise in popularity of podcasting and an ever more crowded media landscape. Combining theory and practice this textbook is ideally suited for students of radio media communications and journalism. It equips readers with the skills they need to not only produce good radio themselves but to have the knowledge they need to become a critical friend of the medium.

GBP 42.99
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Crafting Stories for Virtual Reality

Crafting Stories for Virtual Reality

We are witnessing a revolution in storytelling. Publications all over the world are increasingly using immersive storytelling—virtual reality augmented reality and mixed reality—to tell compelling stories. The aim of this book is to distill the lessons learned thus far into a useful guide for reporters filmmakers and writers interested in telling stories in this emerging medium. Examining ground-breaking work across industries this text explains in practical terms how storytellers can create their own powerful immersive experiences as new media and platforms emerge. | Crafting Stories for Virtual Reality

GBP 36.99
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Technological Change In Japan's Beef Industry

Technological Change In Japan's Beef Industry

The Japanese Cattle industry has been undergoing major changes for the past three decades. During the 1950's and 1960's mechanized power rapidly. The process of beef industry structure change accelerated in the 1970's as medium scale feedlots came into being regional packing plants were established and the beef marketing system matured. Economic forces both within and external to the industry. A major objective of this book is to test the authors’ hypothesis that beef production by Japan's cattle industry could become competitive with imported beef. | Technological Change In Japan's Beef Industry

GBP 39.99
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David Bowie and Transmedia Stardom

David Bowie and Transmedia Stardom

Addressing the interart intertextual and intermedial dimensions of David Bowie’s sonic and visual legacy this book considers more than five decades of a career invested with a star’s luminosity that shines well beyond the remit of pop music. The book approaches the idea of the star David Bowie as a medium in transit undergoing constant movement and change. Within the context of celebrity studies the concept of stardom provides an appropriate frame for an examination of Bowie’s transmedial activity especially given his ongoing iconic signification within the celestial realm. While Bowie has traversed many mediums he has also been described as a medium which is consistent with the way he has described himself. With contributions from a wide range of disciplinary areas and countries each chapter brings a fresh perspective on the concept of stardom and the conceptual significance of the terms ‘mediation’ and ‘navigation’ as they relate to Bowie and his career. Containing a multitude of different approaches to the stardom and mediation of David Bowie this book will be of interest to those studying celebrity audio and visual legacy and the relationships between different forms of media. It was originally published as a special issue of Celebrity Studies. | David Bowie and Transmedia Stardom

GBP 38.99
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