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This book provides an overview of the application of Corporate Social Responsibility in businesses and corporations around the world. Primarily based on real cases, it focuses on different approaches to CSR from a global perspective. It provides a critique of the “wrong” practices often...

By bringing together various current direc­tions, Software Project Management in a Changing World focuses on how people and organizations can make their processes more change-adaptive. The selected chapters closely correspond to the project management knowledge areas introduced by the Project Management...

In the rapidly changing business world, only a small percentage of firms are able to survive and prosper despite recessions, industrial evolutions and economic changes. An often-asked question is: What determines a firm’s sustainable competitive advantage? One of the most popular competitive strategies...

Do you want to do business in China? If you are already in this vast country and want to know more, or if you have never tried your hand at this fascinating market, then this book is for you. This Guide is a practical overview for the international businessman to understand the rules, regulations...

Der leicht verständliche Einstieg in die Buchführung: Anhand zahlreicher praktischer Beispiele stellt der Autor das System der doppelten Buchführung vor. Besonders verständlich und übersichtlich erläutert er die Buchungstechnik für die wichtigsten Geschäftsvorfälle in Unternehmen. Er legt...

Kaufmännisch denken und handeln und dabei alle rechtlichen Aspekte des Geschäftslebens berücksichtigen, ist Intention des Buches. Der Autor vermittelt einen besonders auf Verständnis ausgerichteten Einstieg in das Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB). Außerdem erläutert er andere, für den Kaufmann wichtige Gesetze. 

The CSR report has become a very important tool which can help corporations to set up strategies and build their core competencies. This book presents a range of cases from different industries. Based on the analysis of the enterprise survival environment, it points out the necessity and significance...

Nachhaltigkeits- bzw. CSR-Reporting wird zunehmend zu einem Standard für Großunternehmen. 94% der 250 größten Unternehmen der Welt legen bereits einen Bericht zu den entsprechenden Aktivitäten vor. Dabei erfolgt zunehmend eine Orientierung an den Vorgaben der Global Reporting Initiative, die...

This book examines in detail the correlation, more precisely the weighted correlation and applications involving rankings. A general application is the evaluation of methods to predict rankings. Others involve rankings representing human preferences to infer user preferences; the use of weighted...

Energy has been an inevitable component of human lives for decades. Recent rapid developments in the area require analyzing energy systems not as independent components but rather as connected interdependent networks. The Handbook of Networks in Power Systems includes the state-of-the-art developments...

Energy has been an inevitable component of human lives for decades. Recent rapid developments in the area require analyzing energy systems not as independent components but rather as connected interdependent networks. The Handbook of Networks in Power Systems includes the state-of-the-art developments...

The LNCS journal Transactions on Rough Sets is devoted to the entire spectrum of rough sets related issues, from logical and mathematical foundations, through all aspects of rough set theory and its applications, such as data mining, knowledge discovery, and intelligent information processing, to...

The management of financial portfolios or funds constitutes a widely known problematic in financial markets which normally requires a rigorous analysis in order to select the most profitable assets. This subject is becoming popular among computer scientists which try to adapt known Intelligent Computation...

This book presents a new computational finance approach combining a Symbolic Aggregate approximation (SAX) technique with an optimization kernel based on genetic algorithms (GA). While the SAX representation is used to describe the financial time series, the evolutionary optimization kernel is used...