Verlagskatalog von Paul Parey,: Verlagsbuchhandlung für Landwirtschaft, Gartenbau und Forstwesen in Berlin. Mit systematischem Inhaltsverzeichnis.

Mode of access: Internet.

Bibliographia genealogica americana:

Mode of access: Internet.

Galignani's traveller's guide through Switzerland /

Mode of access: Internet.

Einhundert Jahre des Gesch"aftshauses Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn. K"onigliche Hofbuchhandlung und Hofbuchdruckerei in Berlin. Ein Zeitbild. Als Handschrift f"ur Freunde.

Mode of access: Internet.

H. Campbell & Co.'s hand-book for business men; or, Legal and financial directory, containing a catalogue of responsible lawyers located in all the important cities and towns of the United States and Canada, for the collection of claims and the expeditious transaction of all legal business. Also, a list of banks and bankers, together with a compilation of laws and facts important to every business man.

Wanting: p. 55-88, 147-188.

Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine work, and engineering.

Mode of access: Internet.

Annals of a publishing house. William Blackwood and his sons, their magazine and friends,

Vol. 3 has title: Annals of a publishing house. John Blackwood, by his daughter Mrs. Gerald Porter ... Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and sons, 1898.

George Palmer Putnam; a memoir, together with a record of the earlier years of the publishing house founded by him,

Mode of access: Internet.

Mathiesons' handbook for investors

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Vierteljahrs-Katalog der Neuigkeiten des Deutschen Buchhandels Nach den Wissenschaften Geordnet

Title varies: Vierteljahrs-Catalog Aller Neuen Erscheinungen im Felde der Literatur in Deutschland; Vierteljahrs-Katalog der Neuigkeiten des Deutschen Buchhandels

Westermanns Monatshefte.

Issues for Oct. 1856-Aug. 1940 called 1-168. Bd.

To the publishers of the Boston Evening post on the death of the Revd Dr. Wigg. written Tuesday Feb. 19, 1765: the day on which the doctor used to read his public lectures

This folded leaf contains a two-page handwritten poem written by a Harvard College sophomore on February 19, 1765, on the death of Harvard Professor Edward Wigglesworth. The poem begins, "Werefore this change? / Erst I was wont on this Day to frequent..."

Small firm growth

We review and discuss the literature on small firm growth with an intention to provide a useful vantage point for new research studies regarding this important phenomenon. We first discuss conceptual and methodological issues that represent critical choices for those who research growth and which make it challenging to compare results from previous studies. The substantial review of past research is organized into four sections representing two smaller and two larger literatures. The first of the latter focuses on internal and external drivers of small firm growth. Here we find that much has been learnt and that many valuable generalizations can be made. However, we also conclude that more research of the same kind is unlikely to yield much. While interactive and non-linear effects may be worth pursuing it is unlikely that any new and important growth drivers or strong, linear main effects would be found. The second large literature deals with organizational life-cycles or stages of development. While deservedly criticized for unwarranted determinism and weak empirics this type of approach addresses problems of high practical and also theoretical relevance, and should not be shunned by researchers. We argue that with a change in the fundamental assumptions and improved empirical design, research on the organizational and managerial consequences of growth is an important line of inquiry. With this, we overlap with one of the smaller literatures, namely studies focusing on the effects of growth. We argue that studies too often assume that growth equals success. We advocate instead the use of growth as an intermediary variable that influences more fundamental goals in ways that should be carefully examined rather than assumed. The second small literature distinguishes between different modes or forms of growth, including, e.g., organic vs. acquisition-based growth, and international expansion. We note that modes of growth is an important topic that has been under studied in the growth literature, whereas in other branches of research aspects of it may have been studied intensely, but not primarily from a growth perspective. In the final section we elaborate on ways forward for research on small firm growth. We point at rich opportunities for researchers who look beyond drivers of growth, where growth is viewed as a homogenous phenomenon assumed to unambiguously reflect success, and instead focus on growth as a process and a multi-dimensional phenomenon, as well as on how growth relates to more fundamental outcomes.

The Impact of Information Technology Investments on Firm Processes and Performance

This book provides the much needed international dimension on the payoffs of information technology investments. The bulk of the research on the impact of information technology investments has been undertaken in developed economies, mainly the United States. This research provides an alternative dimension - a developing country perspective on how information technology investments impacts organizations. Secondly, there has been much debate and controversy on how we measure information technology investment payoffs. This research uses an innovative two-stage model where it proposes that information technology investments will first impact the process and improvement in the processes will then impact the performance. In doing so, it considers sectors of information technology investment rather than taking it as one. Finally, almost all prior studies in this area have considered only the tangible impact of information technology investments. This research proposes that one can only better understand the benefits by looking at both the tangible and intangible benefits.

De la cooperativa agroalimentaria a la "learning netchain". Hacia un planteamiento teorico interorganizativo e interpersonal

Se propone un planteamiento teórico/conceptual para determinar si las relaciones interorganizativas e interpersonales de la netchain de las cooperativas agroalimentarias evolucionan hacia una learning netchain. Las propuestas del trabajo muestran que el mayor grado de asociacionismo y la mayor cooperación/colaboración vertical a lo largo de la cadena están positivamente relacionados con la posición horizontal de la empresa focal más cercana del consumidor final. Esto requiere una planificación y una resolución de problemas de manera conjunta, lo que está positivamente relacionado con el mayor flujo y diversidad de la información/conocimiento obtenido y diseminado a lo largo de la netchain. Al mismo tiempo se necesita desarrollar un contexto social en el que fluya la información/conocimiento y las nuevas ideas de manera informal y esto se logra con redes personales y, principalmente, profesionales y con redes internas y, principalmente, externas. Todo esto permitirá una mayor satisfacción de los socios de la cooperativa agroalimentaria y de sus distribuidores y una mayor intensidad en I+D, convirtiéndose la netchain de la cooperativa agroalimentaria, así, en una learning netchain.