"A history of entrepreneurship at MIT, and how it evolved from ad-hoc efforts by students and alumni to a formally recognized piece of MIT's official program"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The definitive book on leadership in the digital era: why digital technologies call for leadership that emphasizes creativity, collaboration, and inclusivity. Certain ideas about business leadership are held to be timeless, and certain characteristics of leaders--often including a square jaw, a deep voice, and extroversion--are said to be universal. In Leading in the Digital World , Amit Mukher…
"Tactical Publishing explores new experimental ways of publishing investigating historical, artistic and technical precedents to provide a new evolution of publishing"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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"Scholarly communication in the context of open access: how the imaginaries, practices, and infrastructures of 'openness' have been shaped"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An insider's view of China's under-the-radar, globally competitive innovators. Chinese innovators are making their mark globally. Not only do such giants as Alibaba and Huawei continue to thrive and grow through innovation, thousands of younger Chinese entrepreneurs are poised to enter the global marketplace. In this book, Mark Greeven, George Yip, and Wei Wei offer an insider's view of China's…
Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering. In Spontaneous Venturing , Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions -- the rapid emergence of a compassionate venture. This app…
This collection looks at how university students in Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, India, and Uruguay get the books and articles they need for their education. The death of Aaron Swartz and the more recent controversy around the SciHub and Libgen repositories have drawn attention to the question of access to knowledge, particularly for students facing financial and other const…
How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The traditional academic imperative to "publish or perish" is increasingly coupled with the newer necessity of "impact or perish"--the requirement that a publication have "impact," as measured by a variety of metrics, including citations, views, and downloads. Gamin…
Includes index.How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.