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  • Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes

    The Eccentric Life of Harrison G. Dyar, Jr.

    by Marc Epstein ...
    On September 26, 1924, the ground collapsed beneath a truck in a back alley in Washington, D.C., revealing a mysterious underground labyrinth. In spite of wild speculations, the tunnel was not the work of German spies, but rather an aging, eccentric Smithsonian scientist named Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. While Dyar's covert tunneling habits may seem far-fetched, they were merely one of many oddities ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Making Sustainability Work

    Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts

    by Marc J. Epstein, Adriana Rejc Buhovac ...
    Most companies today have some commitment to corporate social responsibility, but implementing these initiatives can be particularly challenging. While a lot has been written on ethical and strategic factors, there is still a dearth of information on the practical nuts and bolts. And whereas with most other organizational initiatives the sole objective is improved financial performance, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Measuring and Improving Social Impacts

    A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies, and Impact Investors

    by Marc J. Epstein, Kristi Yuthas ...
    Philanthropic NGOs, foundations, and corporations face endlessly competing needs when deciding to invest or donate for maximum social impact. This book fills an enormous gap by providing a system to measure, operationalize, and improve any organization's impact investments. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Rotten: Why Corporate Misconduct Continues and What to Do About It

    by Marc J. Epstein, Kirk O. Hanson ...
    An insiders' account of failed efforts to control corporate misconduct—and a forceful plan to do so.Nothing anyone has done in the past 50 years has stopped, or even slowed, corporate misconduct. Business schools have required courses on ethics, regulators have implemented laws and levied fines, and journalists have exposed the scandals named names, yet misconduct continues. Why? Is it simply the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • People of the Image

    Jews and Art

    by Marc Michael Epstein ...
    Series series Dimyonot
    The Middle Ages provide us with one of the richest repositories of art in the West. Yet the rise in the production of art made for and by Jews—especially in the form of illuminated manuscripts—is often neglected in general surveys or viewed as a mere emulation of Christian art during this period.In People of the Image, Marc Michael Epstein demonstrates how medieval Jews transformed their visual ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Organizational Learning Approach to Process Innovations

    The Extent and Scope of Diffusion and Adoption in Management Accounting Systems

    by Marc J. Epstein ...
    Series Book 24 - Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting
    In times of economic turbulence, an organization's ability to learn from its environment and adopt innovations enhances its competitive advantage as well its ability to improve its performance. This book focuses specifically on the contribution learning and innovation in management accounting can contribute to the success of the organization. However, all management accounting innovations may not ... Read more

    $136.99 USD

  • Performance Measurement and Management Control

    Global Issues

    by Marc J. Epstein ...
    Series Book 25 - Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting
    Over the years, the performance measurement and management control conference has grown in number of participants, quality of presentations and reputation, and has attracted leading researchers in the field from North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. The 2011 theme was directed at global issues, and included the significant challenges of managing and measuring performance ... Read more

    $194.99 USD

  • Advances in Management Accounting

    by John Y. Lee, Marc J. Epstein ...
    Series Book 22 - Advances in Management Accounting
    Featured in Volume 22 of Advances in Management Accounting are articles on: The Effect of Personality Traits and Fairness on Honesty in Managerial Reporting; The Impact of Firm Size on the Productivity of Resources; Transfer of Performance Measurement System Innovations Across Economic Sectors; Target Costing and Product and Production Interdependencies; Cost Accounting, Simulation, and Post ... Read more

    $136.19 USD

  • Globalisation and Contextual Factors in Accounting

    The Case of Germany

    by Marc J. Epstein ...
    Series Book 23 - Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting
    This research monograph critically examines convergence of financial reporting in Germany by taking into account the influence of political, social and economic factors on accounting. This study makes an original and significant contribution by examining issues and biases in the convergence process that may challenge the assumption of superiority, global comparability and universal applicability ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • The Innovation Paradox

    Why Good Businesses Kill Breakthroughs and How They Can Change

    by Tony Davila, Marc Epstein ...
    For more than twenty years, major innovations—the kind that transform industries and even societies—seem to have come almost exclusively from startups, despite massive efforts and millions of dollars spent by established companies. Tony Davila and Marc Epstein, authors of the bestselling Making Innovation Work, say the problem is that the very processes and structures responsible for established ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink

    Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts

    by Eva Frojmovic, Jenna Siman Jacobs, Hartley Lachter, Shalom Sabar, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Ágnes Vető, Susan Vick, Barbara Wolff, Diane Wolfthal ...
    A superbly illustrated history of five centuries of Jewish manuscriptsThe love of books in the Jewish tradition extends back over many centuries, and the ways of interpreting those books are as myriad as the traditions themselves. Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers the first full survey of Jewish illuminated manuscripts, ranging from their origins in the Middle Ages to the present day. ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Performance Measurement and Management Control

    The Relevance of Performance Measurement and Management Control Research

    Edited by Marc J. Epstein, Frank H. M. Verbeeten, Sally K. Widener ...
    Series Book 33 - Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting
    This volume contains exemplary papers that were presented at the 2017 Conference on Performance Measurement and Management Control in Nice, France, by researchers in the field from North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.This book represents a collection of innovative research in management control and performance measurement, and provides a significant contribution to the growing ... Read more

    $119.79 USD