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Embracing the Power of AI
A Gentle CXO Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Many industries are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to stay ahead of the curve. As cognitive and AI platforms become smarter, companies are using deep neural networks to give them abilities they didn’t have before. It’s the augmented intelligence revolution, with AI enhancing existing...
Managerial Competence within the Hospitality and Tourism Service Industries
Global Cultural Contextual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This book examines cross-cultural managerial competence across all managerial functions. Focusing particularly on the hospitality and tourism industry, editor Saee examines the cross-cultural implications of planning: workplace communication, recruitment/promotion, induction, training, supervision,...
by Michael Palmer, Jeremy Tunstall
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
The emergence of a few powerful individuals in control of large sections of mass communication industries has coincided with world-wide media de-regulation. In the first book to take a close look at media moguls as a species, Jeremy Tunstall and Michael Palmer show how a handful of own-and-operate...
Making Media Content
The Influence of Constituency Groups on Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Making Media Content addresses the development of media content and the various factors and constituencies that influence content, such as advertisers, corporate interests, owners, and advocacy groups. It examines the strategic decision-making of mass media organizations as they determine what content...
Optimal Pricing and Investment in Electricity Supply
An Esay in Applied Welfare Economics
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Originally published in 1968, this book was one of the first full-scale published studies of the principles of investment planning and of the structure of marginal costs in a public enterprise. The concepts involved were more developed and applied in the world's electricity industries than elsewhere,...
Corporate Financial Distress
A Study of the Italian Manufacturing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
This book explores methods and techniques to predict and eventually prevent financial distress in corporations. It analyzes the effects of the global financial crisis on Italian manufacturing companies and, more specifically, whether the crisis has increased the number of firms that are likely to...
The British Newspaper Industry
The Future of the Regional Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
It is never very obvious to spectators of the newspaper business just why it is that the industry has suffered so badly in recent years. Most ascribe the reasons to the arrival of the Internet in all its forms when, in truth, most of its problems were created by the newspaper managements themselves,...
by Dr. Shankar Jha, Dr. Dinkar Nayak
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
There is a general thinking that the benefits of industrial development have not spread uniformly across the length and breadth of the country. It is in this context that industrialization and territorial development has acquired a significant topic of discussion. It has also influenced various policies...
The Coal Nation
Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Social science research is emerging on a range of issues around large and small-scale mining, connecting them to broader social, cultural, political, historical and economic factors rather than purely measuring the environmental impacts of mining. Within this broader context of global scholarly attention...
Twilight in the Desert
The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Twilight in the Desert reveals a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline. In this exhaustively researched book, veteran oil industry analyst Matthew Simmons draws on his three-plus decades of insider experience and more than 200 independently produced...
The Nature of the Firm in the Oil Industry
International Oil Companies in Global Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Firm-to-firm relationships, along with the overall structure of industry, have changed markedly over the past decades. Replacing the model of vertical integration with one of global business, firms have started to outsource more by using a wider global network. At the same time, they have begun to...
The Role of the Entrepreneurs in Rural Development - New Zealand -Tourism
New Zealand -Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Tourism, grade: A, University of Otago (Department of Tourism), course: Entrepreneurship in Tourism, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Many rural areas around the world face economic challenges, partly due to their peripheral locations...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The central concerns of mobilities research – exploring the broader context and human aspects of movement - are fundamental to an understanding of the maritime freight transport sector.
Challenges to the environment, attempts at more sustainable practices, changes in the geoeconomic system,...
Monopoly Mail
Privatizing the United States Postal Service
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
First class postage rates have risen from six cents in 1971 to 25 cents in 1988. This rapid increase might be justifiable if service had improved commen-surately, but in fact postal service has steadily deteriorated. The Postal Service concedes that it takes ten percent longer to deliver a first class...