Wspc imprint: 2707 books
Innovation and Growth
What Do We Know?
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This book, written entirely by faculty at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, provides a variety of practical and implementable perspectives on innovation for managers. In addition, the book contains chapters that provide reviews of the academic research on innovation in...
Long-Term Impact of Marketing
A Compendium
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Long-Term Impact of Marketing: A Compendium summarizes four decades of marketing science research by Professor Hanssens and coauthors. The book focuses on the topic of inferring long-term marketing impact on business performance from real-world data. It presents time-series analytic methods to measure...
The World Scientific Reference on Entrepreneurship
In 4 Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This multi-volume set focuses on a topic of growing interest to academics, policymakers, university administrators, state and regional economic development officials, and students: entrepreneurship. In recent years, we have witnessed a proliferation of entrepreneurship courses, programs, and initiatives...
Creating Entrepreneurs
Making Miracles Happen
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
This book gives short, action-oriented snippets of thoughts and ideas from some of the finest thinkers of entrepreneurship. It provides insights into educational activities, entrepreneurial thinking and on-the-streets operational methodologies of entrepreneurship. The thoughts, experiences, ideas...
by Matthew Shum
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Economic Models for Industrial Organization focuses on the specification and estimation of econometric models for research in industrial organization. In recent decades, empirical work in industrial organization has moved towards dynamic and equilibrium models, involving econometric methods which...
Kernel Smoothing in Matlab
Theory and Practice of Kernel Smoothing
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Methods of kernel estimates represent one of the most effective nonparametric smoothing techniques. These methods are simple to understand and they possess very good statistical properties. This book provides a concise and comprehensive overview of statistical theory and in addition, emphasis is given...
IAENG Transactions on Engineering Sciences
Special Issue for the International Association of Engineers Conferences 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Two large international conferences on Advances in Engineering Sciences were held in Hong Kong, March 18–20, 2015, under the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2015), and in London, UK, 1–3 July, 2015, under the World Congress on Engineering (WCE 2015) respectively....
The Social Value of the Financial Sector
Too Big to Fail or Just Too Big?
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
As a result of the recent financial crisis, there has been significant public debate on the role of the financial sector in bringing about the “Great Depression.” More generally, there has been debate about whether the current industry structure has enhanced social welfare or served a detrimental...
Food Safety Management in China
A Perspective from Food Quality Control System
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In recent years, China has taken a number of effective measures to strengthen the supervision of food quality and safety, but food safety incidents still occur sometimes. The recurrence and intractability of such incidents suggest that, in addition to the imperfect supervision system, the greatest...
Winning with Honour
In Relationships, Family, Organisations, Leadership, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Following the success of their first book "The Leader, The Teacher, & You", which won the Singapore Literature Book Prize in the Non-Fiction Category in 2014, Siong Guan and Joanne H Lim have collaborated again to produce their new book "Winning with Honour: In Relationships, Family,...
Stochastic Processes, Finance and Control
A Festschrift in Honor of Robert J Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
This book consists of a series of new, peer-reviewed papers in stochastic processes, analysis, filtering and control, with particular emphasis on mathematical finance, actuarial science and engineering. Paper contributors include colleagues, collaborators and former students of Robert Elliott, many...
Recent Developments in Computational Finance
Foundations, Algorithms and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Computational finance is an interdisciplinary field which joins financial mathematics, stochastics, numerics and scientific computing. Its task is to estimate as accurately and efficiently as possible the risks that financial instruments generate. This volume consists of a series of cutting-edge surveys...
Probability Theory
A Complete One-Semester Course
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book provides a systematic, self-sufficient and yet short presentation of the mainstream topics on introductory Probability Theory with some selected topics from Mathematical Statistics. It is suitable for a 10- to 14-week course for second- or third-year undergraduate students in Science, Mathematics,...
Open Innovation: A Multifaceted Perspective
(In 2 Parts)
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Open Innovation: A Multifaceted Perspective unveils research on open innovation from multidisciplinary perspectives and with practical insights from leaders and policy-makers. The first section addresses the links between open innovation and various disciplines, methods, concepts and policy instruments....