This text has a clear European foundation and an international appeal. In line with the globalisation of logistics, we have included cases from other parts of the world than Europe - diverse though European logistics solutions are - including South Africa, the United States, Japan, China and Australia. Accordingly, we start in Part One with the strategic role of logistics in the supply chain. We continue by developing the marketing perspective by explaining our view of 'putting the end-custom...

Learn and develop skills involving strategic global marketing decision-making Global Marketing, 8th Edition, by Hollensen continues to be the most up-to-date and comprehensive text of its kind, with cutting-edge case studies and a focus on the impact of new technologies and perspectives on international marketing. For nearly twenty years this title has been the definitive, truly international guide to marketing. During that time, borders have become ever more transient and this book more cent...

How can manufacturers of capital goods succeed in service business development? What are the potential network approaches for manufacturing companies planning on extending their service business? Over the last decade, the business environment of capital goods manufacturers has changed dramatically. Few capital goods manufacturers are able to outrun the competition with pure product-related technologies and innovation alone. For this reason they have added services to products as a way of resp...

Focusing on power and politics, this third edition combines a practical and theoretical guide to the politics of organizational change and innovation.

McKinsey & Company's bestselling guide to teaching corporate valuation - the fully updated seventh edition

Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, University Edition is filled with the expert guidance from McKinsey & Company that students and professors have come to rely on for over nearly three decades. Now in its seventh edition, this acclaimed volume continues to help financial professionals and students around the world gain a deep understanding of valuation and help...

Look at your data. Now available with Macmillan's online learning platform Achieve, The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics (PSBE) helps students develop a working knowledge of data production and interpretation in a business and economics context, giving them the practical tools they need to make data-informed, real-world business decisions from the first day of class. Achieve for The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics connects the problem-solving approach and re...

Successful businesses recognize that the development of strong customer relationships through quality service (and services) as well as implementing service strategies for competitive advantage are key to their success. In its fourth European edition, Services Marketing: Integrating Customer Focus across the Firm provides full coverage of the foundations of services marketing, placing the distinctive Gaps model at the center of this approach. The new edition draws on the most recent research,...

WINNER: 2018 Les Plumes des Achats & Supply Chain - The Committee Special Prize As we learn more about the climate and biodiversity crisis, it is clear that how we make and consume things is a major part of the problem. Extraction and processing of materials, fuels and food makes up about half of global greenhouse gas emissions and over 90% of biodiversity loss and water stress. Many modern businesses deplete resources, destroy ecosystems and dump waste and pollution at every stage - harming ...

Terwijl iedereen zich afvraagt hoe de wereld er na corona uit zal zien, kampen we met de ecologische schade en sociale kosten van ons huidige economische stelsel. Kees Klomp en Shinta Oosterwaal gaan te rade bij de belangrijkste en meest vernieuwende economische denkers, zoals Kate Raworth, Charles Eisenstein, Clair Brown, Helena Norberg en Daniel Wahl.

In dit boek wordt de essentie van hun gedachtegoed geschetst waardoor je in één keer bij bent op het gebied van alle nieuwe denkrichtingen:...

Onder het motto ‘nooit meer honger’ transformeerde de Nederlandse landbouwsector na de Tweede Wereldoorlog in slechts enkele decennia tot een innovatieve en productieve koploper. Maar met de oplossing van gisteren zaaiden we ook het probleem van morgen. Want dat efficiënte en productieve voedselsysteem dat we nodig hadden, draagt bij aan de opwarming van de aarde, tast de bodemkwaliteit aan en gaat ten koste van biodiversiteit.

Er is wederom een transitie nodig, naar kringlooplandbouw. ...