Industries Professions category: 12443 books
The Digital Hand
Volume II: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
The Digital Hand, Volume 2, is a historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors over the past half century. It is past of a sweeping three-volume description of how management...
The Future of the Professions
How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers,...
by Gregory Neil; Stanley D. Nollen; Tenev Stoyan
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
Software comes from India, hardware comes from China. Why is that? Why did China and India take such different paths to global dominance in new high-tech industries? Will their paths continue to diverge or converge? How can other countries learn from their successes and failures in reaching global scale...
Introducing the Creative Industries
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
"This text does a sterling job at identifying, outlining and defining the many elements that go to make up this booming sector of industry. What makes it particularly interesting is that it includes the view of the creative industries from the perspective of working in it, then the definitions...
by Jeffrey L. Funk
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Technology Change and the Rise of New Industries explores why new industries emerge at specific moments in time and in certain countries. Part I shows that technologies which experience "exponential" improvements in cost and performance have a greater chance of becoming new industries. When...
Tourism and the Creative Industries
Theories, policies and practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This book focuses on the theoretical, policy and practice linkages and disjunctures between tourism and the creative industries. There are clear and strong intersections between the sectors, for example in the development and application of new and emerging media in tourism; festivals and cultural...
by John Hartley, Dr. Jason Potts, Stuart Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
"This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work."
- Gauti Sigthorsson***, Greenwich University***
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In recent decades, network industries around the world have gone through periods of de- and re-regulation. With vast amounts of sometimes conflicting research carried out into specific network industries, the time has come for a critical over-arching assessment of this entire industry in order to...
Routledge Revivals: Defence Industries (1988)
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Originally published in 1989 Defence Industries presents a worldwide survey of defence industries. It argues that modern weapon systems and electronic warfare have led to the transition of the military-industrial enterprise into a multifaceted entity where electronics production is the key. It analyses...
by Dennis Nickson
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2007
Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries takes an integrated look at HRM policies and practices in the tourism and hospitality industries. Utilising existing human resource management (HRM) theory and practice, it contextualises it to the tourism and hospitality industries...
Frontiers of Creative Industries
Exploring Structural and Categorical Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Creative industries are a growing and globally important area for both economic vitality and cultural expression of industrialized nations. The growth and dynamism of creative industries depends on “continuous innovation” that must manage inherent tensions such as novelty to attract consumers...
Streaming, Sharing, Stealing
Big Data and the Future of Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
How big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple to fight back.
“[The authors explain] gently yet firmly exactly how the internet threatens established ways and what can and cannot be done about it. Their book should...
Knowledge Sharing in Professions
Roles and Identity in Expert Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
No professional is an island. Despite their capacity to monopolize and erect entry barriers in terms of either formal credentials or membership of certain organizations, professionalism is inextricably bound up with collective accomplishments on a day-to-day basis and the capacity to share all the...
by David Hesmondhalgh
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
"At once brilliant and accessible, it is without peer when it comes to detailing the big picture and complex nuances of how cultural industries work. Every student of the media should have this book on their shelf"
- Jennifer Holt, University of California
"Sometimes provocative,...