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Williams Obstetrics has defined the discipline for generations of obstetrician-gynecologists. Written by authors from the nationally renowned University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Hospital, the new edition of this authoritative, evidence-based work maintains its trademark comprehensive coverage and applicability at the bedside, while offering the most current information and insights. The culmination of a century of clinical thought, Williams Obstetrics, 26th Edition delivers expert coverage of obstetrical complications, such as preterm labor, pregnancy-related hypertension, infection, and hemorrhage. Additionally, the book offers invaluable foundational content on reproductive anatomy, physiology, and prenatal care.

A classic in the world of business management, The Toyota Way has been helping leaders create powerful strategies based on the automaker's legendary management principles and philosophy for nearly two decades. !t played a key role in launching the continuous-improvement movement, driving unprecedented change and innovation in countless public and private organizations across the world. Now, this fully revised edition builds on the originai 14 management principles that have made it so popular and includes new case examples from both manufacturing and service industries. Management guru and continuous-improvement pioneer Jeffrey K. Liker delivers a revised model with scientific thinking at its core. He walks you through the process of how Toyota and other top companies develop scientific thinking in leaders and employees at all levels—and replace theorizing and assuming with deep observation and experimentation. Liker delves below the surface of many lean six-sigma programs, showing how to align operational excellence with your business strategy by developing people who: view challenges as opportunities to energize improvement; lead high-performance teams to achieve seemingly impossible challenges; break down complex challenges into smaller, solvable problems that can be more easily addressed. (continued on back flap)

Questo testo si rivolge a studenti e studiosi di economia d'impresa. Il lavoro, dopo un'introduzione metodologica, illustra i tre grandi paradigmi organizzativi: la visione dell'impresa come sistema forte, predeterminato rispetto agli attori; la visione dell'azione organizzativa e dell'impresa come processo di decisioni e di azioni; la visione dell'azione organizzata e dell'impresa come sistema costruito dagli attori. Vengono poi esaminati i maggiori contributi teorici sviluppatisi nell'ambito di ciascun paradigma. L'excursus culmina nell'analisi del modello situazionista dell'impresa. A seguire sono trattati temi che occupano un ruolo baricentrico nel governo dell'impresa, quali la creazione di valore, la corporate governante, il management strategico, la responsabilità sociale. Ciascuno di essi è poi sviluppato attraverso l'analisi di casi. Infine vengono passati in rassegna gli aspetti salienti delle principali aree della gestione: risorse umane; marketing; operation; finanza.