Rapid technology change is impacting organizations large and small. Mobile and Cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and "Big Data" are driving forces in organizational digital transformat...więcej »
This book takes the position that organizations, such as businesses and government agencies, form a special class of living system. As such, they come into being, live through lifecycle stages, and...więcej »
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a deep recession started in the United States in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. However, most people recognize that even though ...więcej »
Central banks do not print growth. The financial crisis was much more than the result of an excess of risk. The same policies that created each subsequent bust are the ones that have been implement...więcej »
Of those in management education who debates whether business ethics should be taught as a stand-alone course or in an embedded manner, most recommend combining both approaches for optimal results....więcej »
The cascading effects of globalization in the form of changing business environment, economic uncertainties and economic meltdown have brought about a plethora of unprecedented challenges for indus...więcej »
This book adopts a nontechnical approach to explaining the basis for trade between countries and the role of firms in global trade and describes the effect of tariffs and fluctuations in exchang...więcej »
Contemporary management studies usually focus on positive and desirable solutions that increase the organizational effectiveness and performance. As a result, graduates of higher business schools a...więcej »
Businesses recognize the need to become more customer focused, but struggle to see how. At the same time, our logic and business models for selling digital content and services are broken. Digital...więcej »
This book deeply explores production-capable social media channels, based on thousands of hours of observation and extensive collection of statistical data, extracting hypotheses that may genera...więcej »
Data mining has become the fastest growing topic of interest in business programs in the past decade. This book is intended to describe the benefits of data mining in business, the process and typi...więcej »
According to the health data released by the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United
States spends more per capita on healthcare than any other
OECD country. Curren...więcej »
This book explores the basic tenets of service excellence, opening to distinguish customer service from service excellence, and explore the driving aspects of strategy and philosophy.The ...więcej »
This book brings a unique combination of years of experience in academics research and studies in regards to "ERP systems" with years of experience from a practitioner's perspective. Each year bill...więcej »
Recent years have seen a huge growth in European cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and considerable attention has been given to how such deals arise and are completed. A U.S. investor mu...więcej »
This book provides the quintessential information needed to understand the financial side of the retirement planning coin. Readers will begin by learning about the various plan types available to t...więcej »
This volume will assist readers in fitting big data analysis into their service-based organizations.Volume I of this two-volume series focuses on the role of big data in service delivery ...więcej »
Information systems are a critical component of business success today. Unfortunately, many companies do not truly understand what an information system is; where, when, and how it should be implem...więcej »
Regression analysis can be used to establish causal relationships between factors and the response variable. However, in order to be able to do so, economic theory must be used to provide the causa...więcej »
This volume is the second of a three-volume set designed for use in a course in applied international corporate ?nance for managers and executives. This volume's issue is how uncertain foreign exch...więcej »