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Understanding Auctions
In recent years, auctions have become an important field and many markets have designed new and sophisticated auction models to assign different types of items. The prime goal of this book is to set an organized classification of the main auction mechanisms in a way that readers can understand the importance of auction design and the advantages and drawbacks of each model. Given the relevance o…
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- 978-3-319-08813-6
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Assessing the Different Roles of Marketing Theory and Practice in the Jaws of…
This volume includes the full proceedings from the 2004 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference held in Vancouver, Canada, entitled Assessing the Different Roles of Marketing Theory and Practice in the Jaws of Economic Uncertainty. It include papers aimed to create awareness of the issues, trends, and advances associated with current marketing theories and practices. Found…
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- 978-3-319-11845-1
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- XXXIII, 353
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- Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
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- 381 ASS a
Handbook of Education Policy Studies
This open access handbook brings together the latest research from a wide range of internationally influential scholars to analyze educational policy research from international, historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. By effectively breaking through the boundaries between countries and disciplines, it presents new theories, techniques and methods for contemporary education policy, and i…
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Transition and Opportunity
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Multinational corporations (MNCs) have long played a crucial role in the Chinese economy. This role is one that is set to continue in the post-pandemic era as China works to transit to a high-quality growth model that is more sustainable and innovation-driven. With global experience and front-line involvement in some of the most pressing…
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- 9789811686030
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Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism Complex Trajectories, Prac…
This open access book brings novel perspectives to the scholarship on transnational migration. The book stresses the complexity of migration trajectories and proposes multi-sited field studies to capture this complexity. Its constituent chapters offer examples of onward migration spanning all major world regions. The contents exemplify a range of interdisciplinary approaches, including both qua…
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- 9783031125034
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Arthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-tropics
Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival. Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods and nutrition to human communities, and are important indicators of environmental change. Yet the population trends of several arthropods specie…
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- 978-981-10-1518-2
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- XXIV, 435
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Writing Pirates Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China
"In Writing Pirates, Yuanfei Wang connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. In the late Ming dynasty, so-called “Japanese pirates” raided southeast coastal China. Hideyoshi invaded Korea. Europeans sailed for overseas territories, and Chinese maritime merchants and emigrants founded diaspora communities in Southeast Asia. Travel writings, histories,…
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Democratizing Science: The Political Roots of the Public Engagement Agenda
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines potential remedies for improving public trust and the legitimacy of science. It reviews different policy approaches adopted by governments to incentivise the empowerment of stakeholders through co-production arrangements, participatory mechanisms, public engagement and interaction between citizens and researchers.…
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- 9781529223965
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Corporate Fraud and Corruption: A Holistic Approach to Preventing Financial C…
Krambia-Kapardis shows how evidence-based, multi-level micro and macro analysis of fraud risk and protective factors inform effective fraud prevention, in turn minimizing financial catastrophes
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- 9781137406439
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- XVII, 233
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- 658.4
Creativity and Entrepreneurial Performance: A General Scientific Theory
The essential problem in entrepreneurship is improving the performance of entrepreneurs. The most important theories will be the ones that most enable us to predict and then ultimately influence entrepreneurial performance. This book develops a new and more accurate theory of entrepreneurial performance based in entrepreneurial creativity. The field of entrepreneurship has a long tradition of e…
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- 9783319047263
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- XIV, 207
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- Exploring Diversity in Entrepreneurship
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- 658.11
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