Industries Professions category: 12443 books
The Creative Economy
How People Make Money from Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2002
Britain makes more money from music than from its car industry. In the United States the core copyright industries achieved foreign sales and exports of $60.18 billion - a figure which surpasses, for the first time, every other export sector, including automobiles, agriculture and aircraft. Howkins...
Advertising and Anthropology
Ethnographic Practice and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Examining theory and practice, Advertising and Anthropology is a lively and important contribution to the study of organizational culture, consumption practices, marketing to consumers and the production of creativity in corporate settings. The chapters reflect the authors' extensive lived experienced...
The Innovation Tools Handbook, Volume 2
Evolutionary and Improvement Tools that Every Innovator Must Know
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In today’s fast-moving, high-technology environment, the focus on quality has given way to a focus on innovation. From presidents of the United States to presidents of Fortune 500 companies, it is clear that everyone thinks innovation is extremely important. The challenge is that few people stop...
Ecotourism
A Practical Guide for Rural Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Tourism, with its niche element of ecotourism, is one of Australia’s fastest growing industries, overtaking the traditional export items of coal, wheat and wool in export earnings. This book covers everything a person needs to think about before venturing into the ecotourism market. It explains what...
by Derek Hrynyshyn
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This academic analysis explores social media, specifically examining its influence on the cultural, political, and economic organization of our society and the role capitalism plays within its domain.
• Explores the use of blogs, Facebook, and Twitter in revolutionary political action and...
by Tom Stuczynski
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
The entertainment industry is in the midst of perhaps the greatest transformation to occur since its inception. The rise of the Internet, mobile devices, big data, and digital media, has completely changed the way the world obtains and enjoys movies, television shows, music, video games, and nearly...
Economic Analysis of Music Copyright
Income, Media and Performances
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Chris Anderson's initial `Long Tail' analysis was released in 2004 just as the wave of mergers and acquisitions was sweeping the music publishing and radio industries. Music industry executives began looking for Anderson’s ‘Long Tail’ effect and with it the implied redistribution of royalty...
The Soviet Wood-Processing Industry
A linear programming analysis of the role of transportation costs in location and flow patterns
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Systematic study of the geography distribution of the wood-processing industry has received recent Soviet attention, yet the results have been disappointing. Soviet work has been descriptive and lacking in critical analysis of the location problem. In particular, there has been little, if any, attempt...
by Gregor Dorfleitner, Lars Hornuf, Matthias Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book focuses on market developments of crowdfunding, crowdinvesting, crowdlending, social trading, robo-advice, personal financial management, online payment and mobile payment in Germany. FinTech companies are an important driver of innovation in the financial industry. By making financial transactions...
Knowledge Generation and Technical Change
Institutional Innovation in Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Knowledge generation and transfer mechanisms are being transformed in important and controversial ways. Investment in research and development has increased in response to recognition that scientific productivity is tightly connected to economic dynamism. Patent protection has been expanded in order...
Food Chains
From Farmyard to Shopping Cart
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media frequently report on cases of food contamination as well as on the risks of hormones and cloning. Journalists, documentary filmmakers, and activists have had their say, but until...
The Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry
Its Evolution and Current Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
This book explores why Japan, despite being a world leader in many high technology industries such as automobiles and consumer electronics, is only a minor player in the global pharmaceutical industry. Japan provides a huge market for pharmaceuticals as the second largest consumer of prescription...
by Bonita Kolb
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This is a user-friendly textbook that covers qualitative, quantitative and social media methods, providing tourism, hospitality and events students and course leaders with an accessible guide for learning and teaching marketing research.
The book contains essential information on how to conduct...
The Logics of Healthcare
The Professional’s Guide to Health Systems Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Most of the current literature on healthcare operations management is focused on importing principles and methods from manufacturing. The evidence of success is scattered and nowhere near what has been achieved in other industries. This book develops the idea that the logic of production, and production...