The Middle East was the region least impacted in the 2008 crisis, has investment systems markedly different to the West, is largely governed by Islamic Shari'a, and has varying forms of governance and institutional organization, which are not understood by many, nor how these systems shape entrepreneurial and industrial development.
The 2nd edition of this well-established textbook introduces the reader to the fundamentals of contemporary and emerging technologies and services in Internet computing.
Germany's economic miracle is a widely-known phenomenon, and the world-leading, innovative products and services associated with German companies are something that others seek to imitate.
This work is a revision of the doctoral dissertation of Eduardo Mena pre- sented to the Department of Computer Science and System Engineering at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in November 1998 [Mena 98].
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2015, held in Innsbruck, Austria, in August/September 2015.
Die Digitalisierung nimmt maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen und bietet gleichermaßen neue Möglichkeiten, mit Kunden in Kontakt zu treten.
Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in angewandte Optimierungssysteme für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, insbesondere auch für Wirtschaftsinformatiker, -ingenieure und -mathematiker.
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2016, and the 21st International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD 2016, held together with the 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2016) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2016.
The emergence of new platform business models, notably the sharing economy, is impacting the economy in various ways, altering the structure of many industries, and raising a number of economic and political issues.
The main goal of this book is to explain the core ideas of process mining, and to demonstrate how they can be implemented using just some basic tools that are available to any computer scientist or data scientist.
This book pulls together robust practices in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) from other disciplines and shows how they can be used in the area of Banking and Finance.
As millennials and Gen Z grow their influence in the workplace, side hustling and overemployment are emerging from the dark corners of the corporate world-but many companies still resist this trend.
The actual organization and use of information systems in American, European and Japanese firms are investigated and compared with theoretical conclusions.
While intense efforts of clarification have been made to distinguish between the concept of system and ecosystem, and between the different forms of ecosystems, very few works have addressed the issues of how these different forms of ecosystems are interacting in a dynamic perspective, or of how the notion of a dynamic ecosystem could emerge from the static frame of a system approach.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Software Quality Days Conference, SWQD 2021, which was planned to be held in Vienna, Austria, during January 19-21, 2021.
This monograph aspires to lay the foundations of a new scientific discipline, demoeconomics, representing the synthesis of demography and spatial economics.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the international workshops associated with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2024, which was held in Limassol, Cyprus, during June 2024.
Innovating Professional Services provides a practical and detailed guide for change agents and leaders in professional service firms who are seeking to transform their firm's performance through innovation.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2014, held in Waterloo, ON, Canada, in October 2014.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, TrustBus 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015 in conjunction with DEXA 2015.
A constant growth of new small firms is an important part of a healthy economy, yet little is known about the factors which determine success or failure in a small business.
Rapidly developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems hold tremendous potential to change various domains and exert considerable influence on societies and organizations alike.
This book intends to theoretically conceptualize and empirically investigate upcoming and established practices of community-based initiatives in various countries in which both citizens and governments join efforts and capacities to solve wicked issues.
Corporate success has been changed by the importance of new developments in Business Analytics (BA) and furthermore by the support of computational intelligence- based techniques.
