Physica imprint: 137 books
Valuation of Network Effects in Software Markets
A Complex Networks Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2009
The customer base is an important value driver of software companies and a reliable prediction of its development is fundamental for investment decisions. A particularity in software markets is that an individual’s purchasing decision is often influenced by other users’ choices. Although such...
Competition for Public Transport Services
Institutional Framework and Empirical Evidence of Bus Services in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
This book evaluates the successes, failures, and factors that influence the competition for public bus transport services. Using Germany as a case study, the author explains the dichotomous system of a market with licenses for commercial services, where operators are granted exclusivity, and licenses...
Networks
Standardization, Infrastructure, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
New information and communication technologies unquestionably brought about enormous changes that resulted in an ever-increasing networked society. Indeed, there is no area in the social and economic world which is unaffected by the recent advances. In response to these changes scientists from numerous...
by Harald Bradke, Frank Marscheider-Weidemann, Oliver Som
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Is there a chance that public or private research and development institutions can improve the efficiency of the R&D process? This book gives a positive answer by designing an integrated concept of the science technology cycle and the innovation system of each technology. The position of a new...
Internal Control
A Study of Concept and Themes
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
The concept of internal control has developed along with audit practice. As demands have been made for greater accountability in corporate governance, the significance of internal control systems in companies has increased. Traditionally internal control has had a fairly direct relationship to financial...
Information Systems: Crossroads for Organization, Management, Accounting and Engineering
ItAIS: The Italian Association for Information Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This book examines a wide range of issues that characterize the current IT based innovation trends in organizations. It contains a collection of research papers focusing on themes of growing interest in the field of Information Systems, Organization Studies, Management, Accounting and Engineering....
Credit Risk
Measurement, Evaluation and Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
New developments in measuring, evaluating and managing credit risk are discussed in this volume. Addressing both practitioners in the banking sector and resesarch institutions, the book provides a manifold view on one of the most-discussed topics in finance. Among the subjects treated are important...
Financial Liberalization in Developing Countries
Issues, Time Series Analyses and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
The recent global ?nancial crisis has made ?nancial liberalization a topic of great academic and practical interest. This book makes new contributions to the topic by combining fact-?nding, empirical analysis, and theory to examine the relationship between ?nancial liberalization and economic growth....
Price Indexes in Time and Space
Methods and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2010
This book deals with the currently most relevant topics in price index numbers theory and practice. The problem of the harmonization of Consumer Price Indexes (CPIs) and the time-space integration of baskets is analyzed at the EU-zone level, with methodological and practical proposals on how to proceed...
International Economics of Resource Efficiency
Eco-Innovation Policies for a Green Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Human societies face a threatening future of resource scarcity and environmental damages. This book addresses the challenge of turning these risks into opportunities and policies. It is a collection of high level contributions from experts of sustainable growth and sustainable resource management....
On Global Aging
Old-Age Income Systems in the EU and Other Major Parts of the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Nearly all countries in the world are experiencing an aging of their populations due to declining fertility rates and rising longevity. Aging has been the subject of much discussion in the last decade, often expressed in alarmist language. On Global Aging presents a more optimistic look on the effects...
Performance Measurement in Corporate Governance
DEA Modelling and Implications for Organisational Behaviour and Supply Chain Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
In the global knowledge economy, corporate governance, organisational behaviour and performance of the supply chain are becoming increasingly important aspects of the evaluation of an enterprise. The subject of this book is the development of a contemporary organisation behaviour performance measurement...
Industrial Research Performance Management
Key Performance Indicators in the ICT Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Managers are increasingly concerned with the typical methods available for organizational performance measurement and control. Research into performance measurement, within the field of innovation management, has been variously approached through frameworks for performance measurement in general (for...
The Dynamics of Emerging Stock Markets
Empirical Assessments and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Emerging markets have received a particular attention of academic researchers and practitioners since they decided to open their domestic capital markets to foreign participants about three decades ago. At the same time, we remark that theoretical and empirical research in emerging stock markets has...