This impressive book sees the author applying and extending the resource based view of the firm to explain and predict the strategy of corporate diversification.Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification is an original and authoritative book that will be extremely useful to academics and students in such disciplines as busin

President Lincoln’s Cottage is a home for brave ideas, not only because of what Lincoln accomplished within the walls, but because of the conversations that happen there every day. On April 10, 2015, the Cottage was proud to host the first annual Lincoln Ideas Forum, the first in a series of events hosted to commemorate the 150 anniversary of Lincoln’s last visit to the Cottage and his assassination the next day. The Forum featured groundbreaking discussions, with experts from a variety of...

Fall 2017 edition of Mystery Tribune Magazine is a must-have! The issue features short fiction from iconic voices such as Lawrence Block to literary favorites including Angel Luis Colón. A curated collection of the photography from European and American artists, along with essays, book reviews and interviews by some of the best voices in mystery and suspense are among the other highlights.The issue features:Stories by Lawrence Block, Angel Luis Colón, Scott Adlerberg,...

Our 240 page Issue Nº9, Spring 2019 edition of Mystery Tribune is a must-have featuring Brendan DuBois, Andrew Bourelle, Greg Herren, Kevin Egan and Brian Silverman among others.Issue Nº9: Spring 2019 featuresA curated collection of short fiction including stories by Brendan DuBois, Andrew Bourelle, Greg Herren, Kevin Egan, Brian Silverman, E.A. Aymar, J.B. Stevens, Tom Larsen, and Tim Bemis.Interviews and Reviews by Jasper Fforde, Tracy Clark, Tori Eldridge, Isabel...

Straight from Dunder Mifflin’s HR department (via the minds of three The Office veterans), The Dunder Mifflin Employee Manual is a hilarious yet unexpectedly profound guide to navigating the work world, drawing from the wisdom contained in the 201 episodes of The Office.MEMO: NEW EMPLOYEE MANUALTO: All StaffFROM: Dunder Mifflin Corporate HRThis Dunder Mifflin Employee Manual draws on what we have learned fro...

Business historians and economic historians frequently contribute to our understanding of strategic management, and strategy scholars often rely on a deep understanding of historical context to make sense of classic strategy issues. Historically, the two sets of scholars have not always communicated with each other as effectively as one might hope. They also have different approaches to methodology and assessment of validity of results, which adds to this 'two solitudes'. In this volume, s...

It has been long understood that value creation by corporate strategists is determined by their ability to effectively deploy resources across multiple business units. Recently, scholarly attention has been dominated by studies of "synergy", or sharing resources across businesses. However, a second type of resource deployment, "resource redeployability" or "resource configuration", where resources are withdrawn from one business unit and reallocated to another may not only effect firm valu...

Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated the pace of globalization in the last 40 years, eroding barriers that limited firms’ geographic scope, and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create value globally. Globalization presents managers with an environment to create value that is more complex, risky, and also more promising than ever before. Despite recent advances in our understanding of how locatio...

Technology-based industries have come to account for ever-greater shares of economic activity during the last 30 years. Recently, rapid, digitally-enabled technological change has generated new opportunities for value creation, enabled new ways of capturing value, and stimulated the emergence of new organizational forms such as platforms and ecosystems. Together with the development of supporting institutions, including incubators, accelerators, and increasingly creative ways of funding ne...

Over the last century, the medium of animation has served as an expression of childhood as well as a method of subverting the expectations of what society has promised for the future. Separated into three parts, this work assembles various explorations of taste, culture and passion through animation.Section I features essays that outline the historical changes in art and society that gave rise to an outsider culture that found a home in animation. In the second section, essays exam...

Accessible and engaging, this book is an invaluable resource for students planning to enter the dynamic and changing world of media writing.Drawing on a wealth of real-world examples and featuring helpful "How To" boxes throughout, MediaWriting explains the various styles of writing for print, broadcast, online, social media, public relations, and multimedia outlets.Expanded and updated throughout, this sixth edition features:A look at how journalists...

An impressive debut mystery novel from Edgar award nominated author Brian SilvermanLen Buonfiglio is a former New York bar owner and family man who has disappeared to a small island in the Caribbean. When a genial tour guide, Rawle "Big Tree" Johns is a suspect in an American woman's fall from a cliff, Johns' mother enlists Buonfiglio's help to free her son and prove his innocence. Conflicted by the need to spend time with his 16-year old daughter who he hasn't see...