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Published by MIT Press, 1986
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Hardcover. Black cloth boards with red lettering on spine. White illustrated dg, clear mylar cover. x, 291 pages : illustrations. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index. VG/VG ex-lib copy. Associated library stamps/stickers on spine, bookblock, end pages.
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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Condition: as new. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press. 1988. Paperback. x,291pp. Index. Condition: fine, clean and unread copy. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780262740142. Keywords : .
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Condition: very_good. Fast & Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.
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Condition: good. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental material…s.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp. 291 / Stofwikkel beschadigd / Dust jacket damaged English.
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Published by The MIT Press, 1986
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Relié. Condition: Etat satisfaisant. in-8 Description :Reliure éditeur, Mention, Etiquette au dos, Jaquette, Mention sur la jaquette, 291 pages Langue : français.
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hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.
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Published by Artforum, 1993
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- Periodical
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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Aceptable. Essays "Glamour Wounds: Rhonda Lieberman on The Jew Beat, Again," by Rhonda Lieberman; "Music: David Rimanelli and Tina Lyons on New Wave," by David Rimanelli and Tina Lyon; "Media Kids: Anne Marlowe on Rock at Princeton," by Ann Marlowe; "Exits an…d Entrances: Jeanne Silverthorne on David Mamets Oleanna," by Jeanne Silverthorne; "Film: Manohla Dargis on Gillian Armstrong's 'Last Days of Chez Nous,'" by Manohla Dargis; "Books: Gary Kamiya on James Miller's 'Passion of Michel Foucault,'" by Gary Kamiya; "Museum Piece: Thomas McEvilley on 'Exhibiting Cultures' and 'Museums and Communities,'" by Thomas McEvilley; "Eugenio Dittborn: Return to Sender," by Dan Cameron; "Half-Life: A Project for Artforum," by Nick Waplington with text by Jayne Anne Phillips; "Malice toward Nuns," Manohla Dargis talks with Abel Ferrara; "Luis Gordillo's Anxious Biology," by Lisa Liebmann; "You and I: The Art of Ketty La Rocca," by Judith Russi Kirshner; "The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia," Peter Canning interviews Slavoj i ek; "Openings: Chris Isner," by Daniela Salvioni. Reviews Donald Kuspit, Jan Avgikos, Barry Schwabsky, Kirby Gookin, Ben Lifson, Joshua Decter, A.M. Homes, David Pagel, Andrew Perchuk, Jenifer P. Borum, Keith Seward, Lois Nesbitt, Patricia C. Phillips, RoseLee Goldberg, Francine Koslow Miller, James Yood, Therese Lichtenstein, Maria Porges, Amy Gerstler, Benjamin Weissman, Laura U. Marks, Carlos Basualdo, José Luis Brea, Massimo Carboni, Giorgio Verzotti, Anne Dagbert, Miriam Rosen, Peter Nesweda, Claudia Jolles, Noemi Smolik, Sabine B. Vogel, Peter Funken, Michael Corris, Charles Green. Cover: Nick Waplington.
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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. CULTURE WARS bell hooks on Spike Lee's Malcom X ECOCULTURE Andrew Ross' Weather Report GLAMOUR WOUNDS Rhonda Lieberman on The Fountainebleau Hotel FACE-LIFTS Jeanne Silverthorne on Secret Vices AMERICAN MYTHS J. Hoberman on Bill Clinton TOP TEN Greil Ma…rcus' Real Life Rock COLUMNS FEATURES REVIEWS PROFANE ILLUMINATIONS: SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE ART OF JEFF WALL Thomas Crow WHEN IN VIDEODROME: TRAVELS IN THE NEW FLESH Howard Hampton ALEX KATZ Jack Pierson WENT LOOKING FOR AFRICA: CARRIE MAE WEEMS Kate Linker REAL TIME TRAVEL Laurence Rickels talks with Ulrike Ottinger LOCKDOWN: ROBERT GOBER AT DIA Collier Schorr THE END OF THE WORLD HAS ALREADY HAPPENED: ROBERT GOBER Donald Kuspit OPENINGS: LEONARDO DREW Hilton Als COLUMNS FEATURES REVIEWS NEW YORK Donald Kuspit on Eric Fischl Donald Kuspit on Karel Appel Donald Kuspit on A.R. Penck Keith Seward on Jenny Watson Joshua Decter on Matt Mullican Ben Lifson on Frank Majore Linda Yablonsky on Philip Pearlstein Patricia C. Phillips on Maria Nordman Patricia C. Phillips on Michelle Stuart Barry Schwabsky on Mat Collishaw Barry Schwabsky on Brenda Zlamany Jenifer P. Borum on Adolph Wölfli Jenifer P. Borum on Kenneth Goldsmith K. Marriott Jones on Stephen Ellis Ronny Cohen on Chuck Connelly Justin Spring on Sally Gall Kirby Gookin on Kirsten Mosher David Pagel on Nancy Mitchnick MILAN Francesca Pasini on Name Diffusion HARRISBURG Eileen Neff on Richard Torchia CHICAGO James Yood on Italo Scanga James Yood on Deborah Butterfield SAN FRANCISCO David Levi Strauss on Margaret Crane/Jon Winet LOS ANGELES David Pagel on Kevin Sullivan Benjamin Weissman on Thaddeus Strode Amelia Jones on José Quintana MONTREAL John K. Grande on Michèle Waquant MADRID Juan Vicente Aliaga on Francis Bacon VALENCIA Anatxu Zabalbeascoa on Joan Fontcuberta ROME Massimo Carboni on Salvatore Astore NICE Christian Kravagna on Gerwald Rockenschaub PARIS Jean-Pierre Criqui on Didier Vermeiren Olivier Zahm on Jutta Koether, Laurent Joubert ZURICH Giorgio Verzotti on Chiara Dynys, Giovanni Rizzoli VIENNA Johanna Hofleitner on Patricia London Ante Paris COLOGNE Jutta Koether on Adrian Schiess DÜSSELDORF Sabine B. Vogel on Andreas Techler HAMBURG Wolf Jahn on Klaus Kumrow LONDON Michael Corris on Gilbert & George Michael Archer on Tim Head.
Published by Artforum, 1984
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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "About Garry Winogrand," by Ben Lifson; "Astral America," by Jean Baudrillard; "Once Upon a Time in Amerika: Straub/Huillet/Kafka," by J. Hoberman; "De Chirico in America, 1935-37: His Metaphysics of Fashion," by Ma…urizio Fagiolo dell'Arco; "Signs: A Conversation with Luis Jimenez," by Amy Baker Sandback; "Waiting for Dr. Coltello," a project by Coosje van Bruggen, Frank O. Gehry, and Claes Oldenburg; "Books: David Hayman on 'Larva,"; "Jacksonism," by Greil Marcus; "Forum: Generation in Vitro," by Thomas Lawson. "The 41st Venice Biennale": "Hubris on the Lagoon," by Denys Zacharopoulos; "Fritto Misto," by Ida Panicelli; "A Few Highlights but No Festival," by Annelie Pohlen; "On the Couch: The Vienna Secession," by Ingrid Rein; "Closed Quotes," by Paul Groot; "'Quartetto,'" by Lars Nittve; "Tangled Nets," by Lisa Liebmann; "The One that Got Away," by Pier Luigi Tazzi. Reviews by Thomas Lawson, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Donald Kuspit, Patricia C. Phillips, Thomas McEvilley, Barbara Kruger, Ronny Cohen, John Howell, Jeanne Silverthorne, Jean Fisher, John Yau, Glenn O'Brien, Judith Russi, and Annelie Pohlen. Cover: Claes Oldenburg.
Published by Artforum, 1984
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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "About Garry Winogrand," by Ben Lifson; "Astral America," by Jean Baudrillard; "Once Upon a Time in Amerika: Straub/Huillet/Kafka," by J. Hoberman; "De Chirico in America, 1935-37: His Metaphysics of Fashion," by Ma…urizio Fagiolo dell'Arco; "Signs: A Conversation with Luis Jimenez," by Amy Baker Sandback; "Waiting for Dr. Coltello," a project by Coosje van Bruggen, Frank O. Gehry, and Claes Oldenburg; "Books: David Hayman on 'Larva,"; "Jacksonism," by Greil Marcus; "Forum: Generation in Vitro," by Thomas Lawson. "The 41st Venice Biennale": "Hubris on the Lagoon," by Denys Zacharopoulos; "Fritto Misto," by Ida Panicelli; "A Few Highlights but No Festival," by Annelie Pohlen; "On the Couch: The Vienna Secession," by Ingrid Rein; "Closed Quotes," by Paul Groot; "'Quartetto,'" by Lars Nittve; "Tangled Nets," by Lisa Liebmann; "The One that Got Away," by Pier Luigi Tazzi. Reviews by Thomas Lawson, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Donald Kuspit, Patricia C. Phillips, Thomas McEvilley, Barbara Kruger, Ronny Cohen, John Howell, Jeanne Silverthorne, Jean Fisher, John Yau, Glenn O'Brien, Judith Russi, and Annelie Pohlen. Cover: Claes Oldenburg.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A sogo shosha is like no other type of company. The Invisible Link provides a systematic and well-balanced description that covers virtually all aspects of sogo shosha operations, from finance to personnel.The sogo shosha is not defined by the products it handles or even by the services it p…erforms, for it offers a broad and changing array of goods and functions. Its business goals are equally elusive, for maximization of profits from each transaction is clearly not the major goal, at either the operating or philosophical level. The sogo shosha could be broadly defined as a large, diversified, multinational enterprise engaged primarily in trading. Yet it is a uniquely Japanese business operation whose structural and strategic dynamics have no close counterparts in North America and Europe. There are only nine sogo shosha in Japan - six of them of major significance - and the largest employs fewer than 15,000. Among them, they handle about one-half of all of Japan's exports and imports. The sogo shosha typically deal in bulk in products that are highly standardized and technologically unsophisticated - raw materials, commodities, intermediary products. A large sogo shosha will finance, develop, manufacture and/or carry over 20,000 different items, "from noodles to missiles" as one slogan has it. The Invisible Link gives detailed coverage to such topics as historical evolution of the sogo shosha, strategic responses and competitive dynamics, culture and organization, administrative structures and processes, human resource systems, career outcomes, interunit and interfirm coordination, sectional and network organization, and emerging challenges as the nature of the Japanese economy changes. The Invisible Link takes a close look at the influential trading houses like Misubishi, Misui, and C. Ito which are known as sogo shosha. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Thomas B. Lifson is an Associate in the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University.M. Y Yoshino is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Two of his books, Japan s Managerial Sys…tem and The Japanese M.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A sogo shosha is like no other type of company. The Invisible Link provides a systematic and well-balanced description that covers virtually all aspects of sogo shosha operations, from finance to personnel.The sogo shosha is not defined by the products it handles or even by the services it p…erforms, for it offers a broad and changing array of goods and functions. Its business goals are equally elusive, for maximization of profits from each transaction is clearly not the major goal, at either the operating or philosophical level. The sogo shosha could be broadly defined as a large, diversified, multinational enterprise engaged primarily in trading. Yet it is a uniquely Japanese business operation whose structural and strategic dynamics have no close counterparts in North America and Europe. There are only nine sogo shosha in Japan - six of them of major significance - and the largest employs fewer than 15,000. Among them, they handle about one-half of all of Japan's exports and imports. The sogo shosha typically deal in bulk in products that are highly standardized and technologically unsophisticated - raw materials, commodities, intermediary products. A large sogo shosha will finance, develop, manufacture and/or carry over 20,000 different items, "from noodles to missiles" as one slogan has it. The Invisible Link gives detailed coverage to such topics as historical evolution of the sogo shosha, strategic responses and competitive dynamics, culture and organization, administrative structures and processes, human resource systems, career outcomes, interunit and interfirm coordination, sectional and network organization, and emerging challenges as the nature of the Japanese economy changes. The Invisible Link takes a close look at the influential trading houses like Misubishi, Misui, and C. Ito which are known as sogo shosha. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A sogo shosha is like no other type of company. The Invisible Link provides a systematic and well-balanced description that covers virtually all aspects of sogo shosha operations, from finance to personnel.The sogo shosha is not defined by the products it handles or even by the services it p…erforms, for it offers a broad and changing array of goods and functions. Its business goals are equally elusive, for maximization of profits from each transaction is clearly not the major goal, at either the operating or philosophical level. The sogo shosha could be broadly defined as a large, diversified, multinational enterprise engaged primarily in trading. Yet it is a uniquely Japanese business operation whose structural and strategic dynamics have no close counterparts in North America and Europe. There are only nine sogo shosha in Japan - six of them of major significance - and the largest employs fewer than 15,000. Among them, they handle about one-half of all of Japan's exports and imports. The sogo shosha typically deal in bulk in products that are highly standardized and technologically unsophisticated - raw materials, commodities, intermediary products. A large sogo shosha will finance, develop, manufacture and/or carry over 20,000 different items, "from noodles to missiles" as one slogan has it. The Invisible Link gives detailed coverage to such topics as historical evolution of the sogo shosha, strategic responses and competitive dynamics, culture and organization, administrative structures and processes, human resource systems, career outcomes, interunit and interfirm coordination, sectional and network organization, and emerging challenges as the nature of the Japanese economy changes. The Invisible Link takes a close look at the influential trading houses like Misubishi, Misui, and C. Ito which are known as sogo shosha. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Invisible Link | Japan's Sogo Shosha and the Organization of Trade | Thomas B. Lifson (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 1988 | MIT Press | EAN 9780262740142 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand….
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A sogo shosha is like no other type of company. The Invisible Link provides a systematic and well-balanced description that covers virtually all aspects of sogo shosha operations, from finance to personnel.The sogo shosha is not defined…by the products it handles or even by the services it performs, for it offers a broad and changing array of goods and functions. Its business goals are equally elusive, for maximization of profits from each transaction is clearly not the major goal, at either the operating or philosophical level. The sogo shosha could be broadly defined as a large, diversified, multinational enterprise engaged primarily in trading. Yet it is a uniquely Japanese business operation whose structural and strategic dynamics have no close counterparts in North America and Europe. There are only nine sogo shosha in Japan - six of them of major significance - and the largest employs fewer than 15,000. Among them, they handle about one-half of all of Japan's exports and imports. The sogo shosha typically deal in bulk in products that are highly standardized and technologically unsophisticated - raw materials, commodities, intermediary products. A large sogo shosha will finance, develop, manufacture and/or carry over 20,000 different items, 'from noodles to missiles' as one slogan has it. The Invisible Link gives detailed coverage to such topics as historical evolution of the sogo shosha, strategic responses and competitive dynamics, culture and organization, administrative structures and processes, human resource systems, career outcomes, interunit and interfirm coordination, sectional and network organization, and emerging challenges as the nature of the Japanese economy changes.
