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 Recent Reviews
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Business and Management
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Top Global Companies in Japan
by Akira Ishikawa & Tai Nejo
"The authors have put together a select set of case studies, which will be useful for academic researchers to carry out further work and for businesses that might be interested in some practical aspects of strategies pursued by these top global companies."
Journal of Asian Business
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Core Values and Organizational Change  
Theory and Practice
by Alma Whiteley & Jervis Whiteley
"Behind the academic title I found a courageous, stimulating, and exceptionally timely book. At a time when practitioners of management are bombarded with simplistic, 'sound-bite' metaphors and dry, descriptive analysis, this book delves into such fundamental questions as ¡®How did things turn out to be the way they are in the modern organization?' and 'how can managers infuse meaning into an organization to overcome alienation?'
Crucially, the authors deliver on both counts — by providing the much-needed context that is lacking in much of today's management literature; and by showing admirable breadth in visiting other disciplines for cutting-edge yet highly relevant ideas. The result is a must-read for HR, strategy and change management professionals who seek to lay the foundation for successful and sustainable change in their organizations. In addition, for those who are exploring or being thrust into cross-cultural management and communications, the book offers a compact yet deeply inspired tool for taking stock of the paradigms and assumptions that inform our own, Western thinking on managing organizations."
Martin Kralik
Research Director
InnovAsia — Asian Business Research
INSEAD
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Integrating Ethics with Strategy
Selected Papers of Alan E Singer
by Alan E Singer
"It is becoming increasingly clear that good strategy is ethical strategy and good business is ethical business. Like with ecology and sustainability, ethical business behavior is being recognized as a good long-term investment. Alan Singer provides excellent conceptual foundations for these emerging tendencies. Efficiency, effectiveness, explication and ethics are the four basic ¡°e¡±s characterizing good business of the global era and permeating Alan Singer¡¯s excellent exposition, integrating ethics with strategy."
Milan Zeleny
Professor of Management Systems
Fordham University
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Asian Models of Entrepreneurship -- From The Indian Union and the Kingdom of Nepal to the Japanese Archipelago
Context, Policy and Practice
by Leo-Paul Dana
"Dana has provided a fascinating and detailed multi-perspective account of enterprise in East Asia. In summary, Asian Models is a welcome and useful reference for international entrepreneurship scholars, and a must for those travelling, researching or teaching in East Asia."
Small Business Economics
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Globalization and International Trade Policies
by Robert M Stern
"Readers ranging from undergraduates and graduate students to academics and policy-makers will benefit greatly from this collection of papers by Bob Stern and his co-authors that cover some of the most important policy topics in international economics today. Few economists have been able to analyze these issues in such a clear and insightful manner as these authors."
Robert E Baldwin
Hilldale Professor of Economics, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Robert Stern has been one of the most consistent and effective advocates of quantification as a tool in international policy-making. This collection of recent papers illustrates his art and will provide an invaluable source-book for those interested in globalization and trade policy, as well as those wanting to undertake quantitative policy analysis of their own."
Robert E Baldwin
L Alan Winters
Director, Development Research Group, World Bank
Professor of Economics, University of Sussex, U.K.
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Fads, Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy
by Ted Marmor
"Ted Marmor is committed to universal access to quality care and has great sympathy for those who work in health systems. He is also a great skeptic, an essential characteristic of good public servants. He provides practical guidance, particularly to public service advisers, but also to health managers, professional service providers and media commentators. He encourages all to test the claims of the ¡®reform¡¯ advocates, to consider the political and other interests involved, and to take into account the context in which different national health systems operate, and their distinct histories and cultures."
Andrew Podger
National President
Institute of Public Administration Australia
"This collection of essays showcases Ted Marmor at his most trenchant and irreverent best; skewering sacred cows, debunking health care fads, and exposing the shallowness of managerial jargon indiscriminately applied to health care. Only one whose sharp eye has been trained for years on the way health care delivery has ¡ª and hasn¡¯t ¡ª worked all over the world would have enough perspective to write this book. Marmor¡¯s sharp eye is matched by a sharp intellect and tongue, and the result is not only illuminating, but pure pleasure to read."
Professor Frances Miller
Boston University School of Law
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Creating Collaborative Advantage Through Knowledge and Innovation
edited by Suliman Hawamdeh
"I consider this monograph an extremely important publication for practitioners, researchers and students to expand their skills in the areas of creating collaborative advantage through knowledge and innovation. The contents provide an outstanding analysis of KM areas and issues leading to thought provoking insights. The book is valuable in preparing knowledge management professionals for the 21st century."
Professor Kanti Srikantaiah
Director of Center for Knowledge Management, Dominican University
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Human Systems Management
Integrating Knowledge, Management and Systems
by Milan Zeleny
"Professor Zeleny's emphasis on the importance of human coordination is highly illuminative, especially when it comes to the re-integration of knowledge, experiences and morality into wisdom, implying cultural enrichment and comprehensive human development, both of which are essential for sustainable development."
Professor Kensei Hiwaki
Tokyo International University
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