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Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare
Essays in Honor of Nick Baigent
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of individual and collective choice, and theories of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, motivation and intention in economics, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory. The book offers an excellent overview over latest research in these fields.
Understanding the Earth System
Compartments, Processes and Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume includes revised versions of most of the presentations made at the International Conference «Understanding the Earth Sys tem: Compartments, Processes and Interactions" held on November 24-26, 1999 in Bonn. The Conference was organized by the German National Committee on Global...
by Julia Drechsel
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
The presented work combines two areas of research: cooperative game theory and lot size optimization. One of the most essential problems in cooperations is to allocate cooperative profits or costs among the partners. The core is a well known method from cooperative game theory that describes efficient...
by Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Katrin Golsch, Alexander W. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Many economic and social surveys are designed as panel studies, which provide important data for describing social changes and testing causal relations between social phenomena. This textbook shows how to manage, describe, and model these kinds of data. It presents models for continuous and categorical...
Design Thinking Research
Measuring Performance in Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
This book summarizes the results of the third year in the Design Thinking Research Program, a joint venture of Stanford University in Palo Alto and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. Understanding the evolution of innovation, and how to measure the performance of the design thinking teams behind...
The Liberalisation of the Telecommunications Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa and Fostering Competition in Telecommunications Services Markets
An Analysis of the Regulatory Framework in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This study investigates whether the existing regulatory framework governing the telecommunications sector in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa effectively deals with emerging competition-related concerns in the liberalised sector. Using Uganda as a case study, it analyses the relevant provisions of...
by Proshanto K. Mukherjee, Mark Brownrigg
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The book provides an introduction to shipping in all its aspects. It is a valuable source of information for students of traditional maritime law as well as for those who seek to understand maritime and shipping services on a global scale. The text includes information and analytical content on national...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The book provides an analysis of the grocery retail market in a very large number of countries with an international report written by an economist. The second part of the book offers the analysis of liability issues in relation to non-compliance with CSRs with an international report by a British barrister. Both topics are very timely.
Foresighted Leading
Theoretical Thinking and Practice of China’s Regional Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Under the conditions of market economy, the government is an independent economic entity, whose function is not only to provide services and handle public affairs, but also to coordinate, advance and lead economic development. The dual functions of regional government include providing service and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Since climate and land use strongly affect the runoff pattern and intensity of solute export, it is likely that some observations and conclusions formulated on the basis of investigations carried out in forested catchment may not be fully adequate to describe controls on solute export from agricultural...
by Guido Candela, Paolo Figini
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The book aims at providing an overview of the main economic issues related to tourism activities. While tourism is an important sector, contributing to more than 10% of the European Union’s GDP, research and teaching at the university level has only recently grown to a considerable level, and the...
Managing Information Quality
Increasing the Value of Information in Knowledge-intensive Products and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
What makes information useful? This seemingly simple and yet intriguing and complicated question is discussed in this book. It examines ways in which the quality of information can be improved in knowledge-intensive processes (such as on-line communication, strategy, product development, or consulting)....
Innovations in Knowledge Management
The Impact of Social Media, Semantic Web and Cloud Computing
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
This book discusses emerging trends in the field of managing knowledge work due to technological innovations. The book is organized in 3 sections. The first section, entitled "Managing Knowledge, Projects and Networks", discusses knowledge processes and their use, reuse or generation in...
Building Bridges: HCI, Visualization, and Non-formal Modeling
IFIP WG 13.7 Workshops on Human–Computer Interaction and Visualization: 7th HCIV@ECCE 2011, Rostock, Germany, August 23, 2011, and 8th HCIV@INTERACT 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
This volume constitutes the refereed post-workshop proceedings of two IFIP WG 13.7 workshops on Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization: the 7th HCIV Workshop on Non-formal Modelling for Interaction Design, held at the 29th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ECCE 2011, in Rostock, Germany,...