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The Psychology of Human Leadership
How To Develop Charisma and Authority
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The book seamlessly links fundamental insights and practical approaches to address the most important leadership problems and challenges. Each of the 11 chapters takes a close look at a specific leadership aspect and explains how to develop personal leadership qualities, such as charisma, the ability...
German Domestic and Foreign Policy
Political Issues Under Debate - Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This volume analyses current German domestic and foreign policy debates of international relevance. By reflecting their contemporary historical background and discussing the logic behind the different positions in a dispute, the author considers issues such as whether Muslim women should be allowed...
Information Systems Outsourcing
Towards Sustainable Business Value
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book attempts to synthesize research that contributes to a better understanding of how to reach sustainable business value through information systems (IS) outsourcing. Important topics in this realm are how IS outsourcing can contribute to innovation, how it can be dynamically governed, how...
Contemporary Logistics in China
Assimilation and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book gives a systematic exposition of China’s logistics development to the English-reading community. The ultimate goal of the book is to present a timely portrayal of China’s logistics market growth and the evolution status of China’s logistics industry. Being the fourth volume of the...
Financial Cryptography and Data Security
FC 2014 Workshops, BITCOIN and WAHC 2014, Christ Church, Barbados, March 7, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
This books constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers and poster abstracts from the FC 2014 Workshops, the First Workshop on Bitcoin Research, BITCOIN 2014, and the Second Workshop on Applied Homomorphic Cryptography and Encrypted Computing, WAHC 2014, co-located with the 18th International Conference...
Web and Internet Economics
11th International Conference, WINE 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 9-12, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2015, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in December 2015. The 30 regular papers presented together with 8 abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 142 submissions...
Supply Chain Coordination in Case of Asymmetric Information
Information Sharing and Contracting in a Just-in-Time environment.
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Information sharing is frequently promoted as a mean to improve the supply chain performance. This work shows the results of behavioral experiments, in which the participants share private information in order to influence the contract terms in a Just-in-Time environment. It is shown that the impact...
Optimal Bundling
Marketing Strategies for Improving Economic Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Scientific knowledge and practical advice are combined in this book. Leading scientists present their latest research results in the area of product and price bundling, with respect to optimization as well as to behavioral bundling approaches. In addition the reader will learn how to implement bundling...
Cooperation, Clusters, and Knowledge Transfer
Universities and Firms Towards Regional Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Cooperation and clusters have become the guiding paradigms for explaining and promoting regional competitiveness, but the cooperation process between firms and universities and the transfer of knowledge in guiding and nurturing regional competitiveness has received relatively little attention. This...
Process Management
Why Project Management Fails in Complex Decision Making Processes
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
• End: pro?t and loss account. As a result, there will be a stage at which the parties have developed relations and prospects of gain, while there are still a number of problems that are dif?cult to solve and that fail to evoke consensus. Each party will then draw up a pro?t and loss account. On...
Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for the Future
Potentials and Limits of Foresight Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
The book gives practical guidance for policy makers, analysts and researchers on how to make the most of the potential of Foresight studies. Based on the concept of evidence-based policy-making, Foresight studies are common practice in many countries and are commonly understood as a supportive...
by Dietmar Hornung
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
In the 1990s, growth theory has incorporated imperfect competition in its investigations. This innovation has proven to be seminal: Cleviating from growth models with perfect competition, the new framework featured forward looking entrepreneurs. Firms maximize profits intertemporarily, i. e. their...
My Cognitive autoMOBILE Life
Digital Divorce from a Cognitive Personal Assistant
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Only ten years ago driving was about horsepower, style and comfort -- people said they loved their cars. Today, we can see the transformation in the automotive industry including ridesharing and carsharing with the new concepts of mobility and motion changing every day. Will consumers lose the e-motion...
Algorithmic Game Theory
9th International Symposium, SAGT 2016, Liverpool, UK, September 19–21, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2016, held in Liverpool, UK, in September 2016.
The 26 full papers presented together with 2 one-page abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions.
The...