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Leadership of Networks and Performance: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
In contrast to hierarchical leadership within intra-organizational contexts, leaders of inter-organizational networks have to lead across organizational boundaries without hierarchical fiat or directive authority. The central research question of Susanne Ruckdäschel is how leadership behavior of network managers can influence network performance. Hereby, relational leadership in the form of em…
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- 978-3-658-07033-5
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Leadership in Surgery
How does one become a successful leader? This book teaches the theories and concepts behind leadership and explains the skills and traits needed to become a good leader. Teaching surgical faculty and trainees (i.e., residents and fellows) how to successfully lead will create more effective surgeon leaders. The skills and theories reviewed in this Volume are highly useful for numerous leadersh…
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- 978-3-319-11107-0
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Lead Markets in Age-Based Innovations: Demographic Change and Internationally…
Nils Levsen focuses on the international diffusion of product and service innovations for elderly users. In particular, the existence and location of lead markets is being investigated. Lead markets are characterized by their early adoption of innovations and their influence on design choice in a subsequent international diffusion process. Finally, two boundary conditions to the applicability o…
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- 978-3-658-08815-6
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Advanced Business Analytics
The book describes advanced business analytics and shows how to apply them to many different professional areas of engineering and management. Each chapter of the book is contributed by a different author and covers a different area of business analytics. The book connects the analytic principles with business practice and provides an interface between the main disciplines of engineering/techno…
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- 978-3-319-11415-6
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- XII, 243
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- 005.74 ADV a
Evolving Computability 11th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2015,…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2015, held in Bucharest, Romania, in June/July 2015. The 26 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions and included together with 10 invited papers in this proceedings. The conference CiE 2015 has six special sessions: two sessions, Representing Streams…
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- 978-3-319-20028-6
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- 20 b/w illustrations
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Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents
This book offers a practical guide to Agent Based economic modeling, adopting a “learning by doing” approach to help the reader master the fundamental tools needed to create and analyze Agent Based models. After providing them with a basic “toolkit” for Agent Based modeling, it present and discusses didactic models of real financial and economic systems in detail. While stressing th…
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- 978-3-319-44056-9
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- XVIII, 205
Teaching And Researching The Pronunciation Of English
The book contains contributions from practitioners and theoreticians who explore the pronunciation of English from various perspectives: phonetic, phonological, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic. In accordance with the unifying theme of the volume, individual contributions investigate the characteristics of a foreign accent, its production and perception, study the development of methods and…
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- 978-3-319-11092-9
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- XV, 247
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- Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Systems And Frameworks For Computational Morphology
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology, SFCM 2015, held in Stuttgart, Germany, in September 2015. The 5 revised full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The SFCM Workshops focus on linguistically motivated morphological analysis and generatio…
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- 978-3-319-23980-4
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- XIII, 185
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- Communications in Computer and Information Science
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Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World
This book investigates inherent, structural differences in the Chinese and English writing systems which predispose learners from childhood to develop specific literacy-learning strategies, which can impair later efforts at learning foreign language literacy if the foreign language script varies significantly from the native language script. It compares educational practices and philosophies in…
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- 978-981-10-0643-2
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- XIV, 185
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- Springer Texts in Education
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Adoption of Innovation: Balancing Internal and External Stakeholders in the M…
This edited volume brings together academics from both innovation and marketing fields to explore the additional value for companies that can be generated with the innovations in marketing and the marketing of innovations. If ideas need to reach the marketplace, then marketing strategies, concepts and tools - such as the continuous development of new product and services - become vital for t…
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- 978-3-319-14523-5
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- VI, 230
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- 658.8 ADO a
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