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Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Culture An Institutional Perspective
The aim of this book is to analyze the relationships among entrepreneurship, regional development and culture in the current economy. Using an institutional approach, it examines the main theoretical issues and practices and their effect on different dimensions of society and the economy. Business creation is considered a key element of economic growth, innovation and employment. In recent year…
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- 978-3-319-15111-3
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- 31 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
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New Perspectives on Internationalization and Competitiveness
This volume showcases contributions from leading academics, educators and policymakers derived from two workshops hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) at George Mason University on internationalization and competitiveness. It aims to present key areas of current research and to identify basic problems within the field to promote further discussion and research. …
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- 978-3-319-11978-6
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- XV, 185
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Multi-Level Decision Making:Models, Methods and Applications
This monograph presents new developments in multi-level decision-making theory, technique and method in both modeling and solution issues. It especially presents how a decision support system can support managers in reaching a solution to a multi-level decision problem in practice. This monograph combines decision theories, methods, algorithms and applications effectively. It discusses in de…
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- 978-3-662-46058-0
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- XVI, 377
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- Intelligent Systems Reference Library
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Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights
This volume offers a comprehensible account of the development and evolution of moral systems. It seeks to answer the following questions: If morals are eternal and unchanging, why have the world’s dominant religious moral systems been around for no more than a mere six thousand of the two hundred thousand years of modern human existence? What explains the many and varied moral systems acro…
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- 978-94-017-9550-0
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- XVIII, 76
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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The Sustainable Global Marketplace Proceedings of the 2011 Academy of Market…
Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these ev…
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- 978-3-319-10873-5
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The Sugarcane Complex in Brazil The Role of Innovation in a Dynamic Sector o…
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the Brazilian sugarcane complex with a special focus on technological advances that promote sustainable development. It first examines the question why sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil is considered a superior alternative to fossil fuel compared to other biofuels produced on an industrial scale and subsequently analyzes the most dynamic areas within t…
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- 978-3-319-16583-7
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Minority Marketing: Research Perspectives for the 1990s
This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1993 Minority Marketing Congress held in Long Beach, Mississippi under the theme Minority Marketing: Research Perspectives for the 1990s. It provides a variety of quality research in the field of minority marketing in order to assimilate and enhance knowledge of marketing practices for minority enterprises. It includes papers on various topics …
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- 978-3-319-17385-6
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- XI, 115
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- Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
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Minority Marketing: Issues and Prospects
This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1987 Minority Marketing Congress held in Greensboro, North Carolina under the theme Minority Marketing: Issues and Prospects. It provides a variety of quality research in the field of minority marketing in order to assimilate and enhance knowledge of marketing practices for minority enterprises. It includes papers on various topics in minority …
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- 978-3-319-17391-7
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- XV, 161
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- Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
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Modeling Markets
This book is about how models can be developed to represent demand and supply on markets, where the emphasis is on demand models. Its primary focus is on models that can be used by managers to support marketing deciions.Modeling Markets presents a comprehensive overview of the tools and methodologies that managers can use in decision making. It has long been known that even simple models outper…
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- 978-1-4939-2085-3
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- XIV, 408
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- International Series in Quantitative Marketing
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Labour and Employment in a Globalising World : Autonomy, Collectives and Poli…
This collection of essays provides new insight into the complex realities of labour and employment market globalisation. The pluridisciplinary and multi-faced understanding of globalisation is based upon ground research in ten countries from South to North. Its contextualisation of globalising labour and employment market, perceived as process, constitutes the originality of the book. Globalisa…
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- 978-90-5201-658-0
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- 331.1 LAB
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