Development Growth category: 1653 books
Spatial-Economic Metamorphosis of a Nebula City
Schiphol and the Schiphol Region During the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This book analyses the long term spatial-economic metamorphosis of Schiphol and the Schiphol region as archetypal for a wider international phenomenon of urban development of metropolises across the world. It study the origins and course of urban development process by identifying and explaining which...
Food Aid and the Developing World
Four African Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Food aid is a controversial form of development assistance and this book, first published in 1979, seeks to counter allegations from critics by taking account of both direct and indirect affects.
Based on field research in Tunisia, Botswana, Upper Volta and Lesotho, it considers aid from the...
Bluff economy
Chi ha giocato d’azzardo con il futuro, chi ha scoperto le carte
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Perché da diversi anni l’economia mondiale è caratterizzata da tensioni sociali, bolle borsistiche, mercati impazziti, disuguaglianze stridenti e da una disoccupazione galoppante che stanno bruciando il futuro di intere generazioni? La risposta è semplice: perché il sistema economico su scala...
Social and Solidarity-based Economy and Territory
From Embeddedness to Co-construction
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
The articulation between the social and solidarity-based economy (SSE) and territory is not self-evident. For the contributions to this volume, the challenge was one of disentangling these interrelations by avoiding two pitfalls. The first, the idealist perspective, sees SSE as the magic answer to...
by Andreas Moring, Sonja Deurloo
Language: German
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Dieses Buch beschreibt eine neue Innovationsmethode, die sich an der Logik von binären Systemen und Algorithmen orientiert und diese für Produkte, Services und Unternehmen nutzbar macht.
Bisherige Innovationsmethoden und Business Development-Modelle stammen im Grunde aus analogen Verfahren,...
Creative Destruction
Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market--And How to Success fully Transform Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Turning conventional wisdom on its head, a Senior Partner and an Innovation Specialist from McKinsey & Company debunk the myth that high-octane, built-to-last companies can continue to excel year after year and reveal the dynamic strategies of discontinuity and creative destruction these corporations...
Building Social Business
The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author shows how entrepreneurial spirit and business smarts can be harnessed to create sustainable businesses that can solve the world's biggest problems.
Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank,...
The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that...
7 Practical Ways to Attract YouTube Subscribers for FREE!
FREE YouTube Subscribers, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
So your YouTube Channel isn’t growing either, huh?
Welp, no problemo. I get that question a LOT.
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First of all, let me introduce myself...
(I’ve been teaching YouTube Growth Strategies from 2015...**)**
It’s Umar Farooq, instructor at URDU TUBE, a YouTube...
24/7
Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political...
The Digital Transformation Playbook
Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Rethink your business for the digital age.
Every business begun before the Internet now faces the same challenge: How to transform to compete in a digital economy?
Globally recognized digital expert David L. Rogers argues that digital transformation is not about updating your technology...
Smartsourcing
Driving Innovation And Growth Through Outsourcing
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006
Outsourcing is the most popular movement of the new global business economy. In fact, the typical executive will soon spend one-third of their budget on outsourcing! Smartsourcing is the next evolution in outsourcing. Traditional outsourcing reduces costs by moving the work to where the least expensive...
Good Business
Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2004
Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi published the groundbreaking Flow more than a decade ago, world leaders such as Tony Blair and former President Clinton, and influential sports figures like Super Bowl champion coach Jimmy Johnson have all been inspired by the book. In today's corporate upheaval, a new...
by Joel Gurin
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Get unprecedented access to thousands of databases. It's called Open Data, and it's revolutionizing business.
The business leader’s guide to using Open Data to analyze patterns and trends, manage risk, solve problems—and seize the competitive edge
Two major trends—the exponential growth...