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Digital Darwinism
Branding and Business Models in Jeopardy
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Digital Darwinism is a key challenge for all companies and brands. Not all companies and managers are aware of the challenges lying ahead. This book helps to identify the need for change and adaption based on a framework of findings and additional tools to position you and your company in the digital rat race.
China Green Development Index Report 2012
Regional Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The report was launched during China’s Twelfth Five-year Period (2011-2015). After revising the measurement system of the Green Development Index 2011, the report measures the green development level of 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions as well as 38 large and medium-sized cities...
by Wei Wei, Wuxiang Zhu, Guiping Lin
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Approaching Business Models from an Economic Perspective examines business model logic and explores the model from different aspects including definition, design, functionality, elements, and self-sustaining logic. It explains the essence and core elements of a business model and unlocks its mysteries,...
Healthcare Management
Managed Care Organisations and Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Within the international discussion on the structure of healthcare systems, managed care is an increasingly important topic. Over more than twenty years managed care approaches have fundamentally influenced healthcare systems in terms of patient orientation, efficiency, and quality. Experts assume...
by Sui Pheng Low, Lu Chang Peh
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The book explains how Gravitational Distance and the System of Cities influence transnational construction-related firms when they venture overseas. The study presented in the book internalizes the characteristics of home and foreign cities, and of transnational firms, to develop situational business...
by Samia Mohamed Nour
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
With the ongoing restructuring in Sudan, structural issues such as the need for skill development and interaction with technological change need an in-depth analysis that this book offers. The central themes of this book are- required skill formation, upskilling of the workers, and their interaction...
International Trade and Unemployment
On the Redistribution of Trade Gains When Firms Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Economic theory and empirical research confirm that the rising international integration caused an increase in aggregate income at least for the industrialized countries, although trade liberalization is no Pareto improvement. In the empirical literature, there is a consensus that the international...
Congestion-Prone Services under Quality Competition
A Microeconomic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
This study presents new microeconomic analyses of congestion-prone services that comprise most private and public services at the final consumption stage. It accounts for two distinctive features of congestion-prone services: the discrepancy between capacity and throughput, and service quality competition....
by Meilin Wen
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
This book is intended to present the milestones in the progression of uncertain Data envelopment analysis (DEA). Chapter 1 gives some basic introduction to uncertain theories, including probability theory, credibility theory, uncertainty theory and chance theory. Chapter 2 presents a comprehensive...
by Zeshui Xu
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
This book offers an in-depth and comprehensive introduction to the priority methods of intuitionistic preference relations, the consistency and consensus improving procedures for intuitionistic preference relations, the approaches to group decision making based on intuitionistic preference relations,...
Multi-Level Decision Making
Models, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2015
This monograph presents new developments in multi-level decision-making theory, technique and method in both modeling and solution issues. It especially presents how a decision support system can support managers in reaching a solution to a multi-level decision problem in practice.
This monograph...
Rare Earth Elements
A New Approach to the Nexus of Supply, Demand and Use: Exemplified along the Use of Neodymium in Permanent Magnets
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This thesis deals with Rare Earth Elements (REE), especially with neodymium used in permanent magnets, from a very scientific basis by providing basic research data. Despite the fact that REE are newsworthy and very important elements for a considerable bandwidth of todays’ technologies, accompanied...
by Patrick Kim Cheng Low
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Successful negotiation requires a close understanding of their partner’s culture, their feelings, habits and values. When planning to do business with suppliers and other partners in Asia, a thorough preparation is essential to avoid misunderstandings, confrontations and disappointments, and to...
e-Research Collaboration
Theory, Techniques and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Research 2.0 is now a critical component in research management. This book describes how Web 2.0 technologies can help researchers collaborate. It contains examples of web portals including MyNetResearch and discusses critical aspects of research management.