Economics, Finance, Business and Management

This edited volume is an introduction to diverse methods and applications in operations research focused on local populations and community-based organizations that have the potential to improve the lives of individuals and communities in tangible ways.

Cultural Policies in the Era of the Korean Wave explores how the state instrumentalises cultural industries, despite the bulk of their production and delivery mechanisms becoming subject to the market logic and foreign stakeholders, through an in-depth study of the South Korean government's cultural industry policies.

Just as in his previous volume, The Secrets of Hebrew Words, Rabbi Blech brings readers into the fascinating world of gematria (the reckoning of numbers) and acronyms to uncover the vast profundity hidden in everyday Hebrew language.

International Industrial Networks and Industrial Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe analyses the role of international industrial networks in industrial restructuring and corporate growth in central Europe, Russia and Ukraine.

This book explores how a long-term innovation can take place based on historical analyses of the development of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane from the early 1950s to the mid-2010s.

The concept of environmental, social and governance (ESG) is rapidly emerging as the new global industry standard and an important benchmarking tool for socially responsible investments.

This book highlights the use of an outcome-oriented view of performance to frame and assess the desirability of the effects produced by adopted policies, so to allow governments not only to consider effects in the short, but also the long run.

Schwer ist zu bestimmen, was eigentlich eine gute Sekretärin kennzeichnet.

Une catastrophe tels un incendie, une inondation peut survenir dans une mine souterraine.

This book examines the principles and procedures implemented by Moses for developing leaders.

Accounting Principles, 15th Edition by Jerry Weygandt, Paul Kimmel, and Jill Mitchell provides a practical introduction to introductory accounting from the sole proprietor perspective with a hands-on, active learning experience to improve student understanding, retention, and engagement.

Geographies of Journalism connects theoretical and practical discussions of the role of geotechnologies, social media, and boots-on-the-ground journalism in a digital age to underline the complications and challenges that place-making in the press brings to institutions and ideologies.

This textbook places cyber security management within an organizational and strategic framework, enabling students to develop their knowledge and skills for a future career.

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, emerging innovations like artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, quantum computing, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), and the Metaverse are transforming industries at an unprecedented rate.

Les entrepreneurs vous diront que leur métier ne s'enseigne pas, qu'il s'apprend plutôt sur le tas.

Recent decades have seen substantial growth in the range of assistance programmes for SMEs and entrepreneurs across the world.

This book focuses on the multifaceted reality of social and health constraints and health services access among migrants in China, by originally exploring the social strata, social networks, and the understanding of health and health services among migrants.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 5.

Blasting practices in mines have undergone many changes in the recent past and continue to be honed and reconfigured to meet the demands of today,s mining needs.

If you have experience in option trading, or a strong understanding of the options markets, but want to better understand how to trade given certain market conditions, this is the book for you.

Volume 28 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.

Are you ready to tap into Instagrams booming network of 1.

In the face of rapid changes and challenges to the business environment, learning and talent are key to the success of businesses.

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives.

In dem vorliegenden Bande wird eine Größe in den Vordergrund gerückt und eingehender Betrachtung unterzogen, die wie kaum eine andere Mög­ lichkeiten schafft, die Vielfalt der Abläufe des sozialen und ökonomischen Lebens zentral, d.

The fourth in the readers' series Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy, The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital analyzes the link between the strategic and operational roles of intellectual capital in the organization.

This book focuses on the current situation of two technologies for electricity production from renewable energy sources, wind and solar photovoltaic energy, analysing and describing both technologies in detail.

Artists, musicians, actors, singers, designers and other creative individuals need to understand basic business concepts if they are to successfully pursue their chosen artistic profession.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is the leading sponsor of basic academic research in engineering, and its influence far exceeds its budget.

The landmark study of cultural differences across 70 nations, Cultures and Organizations helps readers look at how they think-and how they fail to think-as members of groups.

Anthropogenic activity has clearly altered the N cycle contributing (among other factors) to climate change.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.

The traditional rules of Wall Street--what's right, what's wrong, and how investors can distinguish between the two Buy on Monday, sell on Friday"e;.

Im Wettbewerb um Publikum, Aufmerksamkeit und Förderung profitieren Kultureinrichtungen aller Art vom konsequenten Einsatz moderner Marketinginstrumente.

This books objective is to explore the concepts and applications related to Internet of Things with the vision to identify and address existing challenges.

Marketing Management is the business function that identifies customer needs and wants, determines which target markets the organisation can best serve, designs appropriate products, services and programmes to serve these markets and calls upon everyone in the organisation "e; to think and serve customers, from a societal viewpoint.

For a food product to be a success in the marketplace it must be stable throughout its shelf-life.

Rethinking Organizational Change: The Role of Dialogue, Dialectic & Polyphony in the Organization makes an important scholarly contribution to our understanding of dialogue applied to the management of change.

Leadership is a risky business.

This unique volume takes a very different approach to the county-level governance and the land system reform in China.

As a fundamental review and critique of activist economic policies, this book is a unique contribution to classical political economy.

Questions about the mortgage process seem so complex and intimidating, yet they must be worked through achieve the American Dream of home ownership.

This book provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance.

Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960sIn Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing-authors, agents, and publishers who forged partnerships across racial lines-from the 1910s to the 1960s.

Private Equity experienced dramatic flutuations in investment activity in line with the turbulences of financial markets in recent years.

Monetary policy in developing countries is largely based on a system introduced in the 1960s.

This is an exciting period for the book, a time of innovation, experimentation, and change.

Decision makers interested in going beyond their own personal and professional interests and involving themselves in humanising their organization, community and society should read Remaking Ourselves, Enterprise and Society.