Oxford University Press

A revolution is taking place in the way companies organize and manage the 'front-end' of their organization, where it meets its customers. This book aims to provide insights into how this revolution is unfolding and to provide a framework for executives and management students to address the issues involved....

Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth        century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories        through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false,        frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to...

A vivid portrait of Mozart, combining a well-reserched account of his life with an introduction to his works: symphonic,chamber, sacred, and theatrical....

Written by a group of leading scholars from economics, law, sociology and management studies, this book examines recent changes in Japanese corporate governance. Each chapter presents original empirical analysis of the transformation of the Japanese firm and discusses the prospects and challenges for Japan's distinctive variety of capitalism....

Uniting work from philosophical, cognitive and linguistic perspectives, Dr        Truswell develops a model of the structure of events as perceptual and cognitive        units. He predicts the acceptability of particular formulations, considers the        individuation of events in the light of the model, and provides a novel account...

In this greatly entertaining tale of one of our most august institutions, Nelson Polsby argues that among other things, from the 50's to the 90's, Congress evolved. In short, Polsby argues that air conditioning altered the demography of the southern states, which in turn changed the political parties of the South, which transformed the composition...