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Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility
CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
This book is a concise and authoritative reference work and dictionary in the field of corporate social responsibility, sustainability, business ethics and corporate governance. It provides reliable definitions to more than 600 terms and concepts for researchers and professionals alike. By its definitions...
International Perspectives on Engineering Education
Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
This inclusive cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering education and context. In so doing the book offers a reflection on contextual boundaries with an overall boundary crossing ambition and juxtaposes important cases of critical participation within engineering education with...
Governing Business Systems
Theories and Challenges for Systems Thinking in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Based on papers from the 4th Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium (BSLAB) in 2016, this volume contributes to the business management, organizational and innovation literature by providing insights on the antecedents of systems thinking in the business systems domain. The Business...
Software Business
7th International Conference, ICSOB 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 13-14, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2016, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2016. Software business refers to commercial activities in and around the software industry aimed at generating income from the delivery of software...
Stagnation Versus Growth in Europe
Capitalism in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This book explores the debate on the policies required to overcome the crises of 2008 and 2011, in which the focus on short-term measures has overshadowed the need to analyze the low growth rate in the European Union, and especially the Eurozone, as the basis for interventions that will counteract...
Electronic Participation
7th IFIP 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece, August 30 -- September 2, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2015, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in August/September 2015.
The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This book includes results of the seventh International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIE'2014) and the 1st International Conference of Operations Research and Management (ICORM'2014) on November 7-11, 2014 in ZhuHai, China.
The book, contains 35 selected high-quality papers,...
Travel Marketing, Tourism Economics and the Airline Product
An Introduction to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to travel marketing, tourism economics and the airline product. At the same time, it provides an overview on the political, socio-economic, environmental and technological impacts of tourism and its related sectors.
This publication covers both...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This book focuses on the management of ship operations, an activity that requires integrative knowledge and technical expertise that spans various disciplines. As such, ship operations personnel are expected to be well-versed with aspects of management, economics, engineering, technology and law....
Semantic Technology
5th Joint International Conference, JIST 2015, Yichang, China, November 11-13, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2016
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2015, held in Yichang, China, in November 2015.
The theme of the JIST 2015 conference was "Big Data and Social Media". The JIST 2015 conference consisted of...
Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems
16th International Conference, IPMU 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 20 - 24, 2016, Proceedings, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This two volume set (CCIS 610 and 611) constitute the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2016, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in June 2016.
The 127 revised full papers presented together...
Energy Law in Brazil
Oil, Gas and Biofuels
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This book describes the energy-law situation in Brazil. It focuses on three specific energy sectors: oil, natural gas and biofuel. The decision to concentrate on these areas takes into account the role that these energy sectors play in the economic, political and legal systems in Brazil, as well as...
Enterprise Information Systems
16th International Conference, ICEIS 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, April 27-30, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book contains extended and revised papers from the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2014, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in April 2014.
The 24 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 313 submissions. The book...
Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation
12th International Workshop, EOMAS 2016, Held at CAiSE 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 13, 2016, Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, EOMAS 2016, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2016.
The 12 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on formal approaches and human-centric approaches.