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At Your Service: Service-Oriented Computing from an EU Perspective
Presents results of collaborative research projects of the European Community's Information Society Technologies Programme about service-oriented computing.Service-Oriented Applications and Architectures (SOAs) have captured the interest of industry as a way to support business-to-business interaction, and the SOA market grew by $4.9 billion in 2005. SOAs and in particular service-oriented comp…
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- 9780262255080
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- 1 online resource (xii, 564 pages) :illustrations.
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Voluntary Programs: A Club Theory Perspective
Discusses which voluntary business organizations succeed in their socially responsible aims and why by focusing mostly on the rules of the organization.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The indirect side of direct investment: Multinational company finance and tax…
Drawing on a unique data set (MiDi) on German multinationals provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt, Mintz and Weichenrieder confirm the prevalence of indirect financing structures for both outbound and inbound German investment. They find evidence of "treaty shopping!' to avoid withholding taxes (using a third country with more favorable tax rates as a conduit through which to route …
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- 9780262289658
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- 1 online resource (192 pages) :illustrations.
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Shopping for good
Where public policy fails, can consumer choices lead the way to more ethical and sustainable production practices?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262306058
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- 1 online resource (103 pages).
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Central Bank Communication, Decision Making, and Governance: Issues, Challeng…
Experts analyze the recent emphasis on central communication as an additional policy and accountability device.In recent years central bankers have placed new emphasis on communication with financial markets and the general public. They have done this not only through the traditional channel of monetary policy pronouncements but also by increasing the quantity of information they make public. Y…
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- 9781461931881
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- 1 online resource (vi, 318 pages) :illustrations.
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The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and S…
"Using data from before and after the 1956 Act, this book compares the two groups of industries to determine the effect of price competition on concentration, firm and plant numbers, profitability, advertising intensity, and innovation. The book avoids two problems common to empirical studies of competition: how to measure the intensity of competition and how to unravel the links between compet…
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Globalizing innovation :state institutions and foreign direct investment in e…
The impact of host country institutions and policy on innovation by multinational firms in emerging economies. In the past, multinational firms have looked to developing countries as sources of raw materials, markets, or production efficiencies, but rarely as locations for innovation. Today, however, R & D facilities and other indicators of multinational-linked innovation are becoming more comm…
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- 9780262344265
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- 1 online resource (xx, 291 pages) :illustrations
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Big is beautiful :debunking the myth of small business
"Why small business is not the basis of American prosperity, not the foundation of American democracy, and not the champion of job creation. In this provocative book, Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind argue that small business is not, as is widely claimed, the basis of American prosperity. Small business is not responsible for most of the country's job creation and innovation. American democracy…
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Innovating :a doer's manifesto for starting from a hunch, prototyping problem…
Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of them that way. They are told to get an idea and a team and to build a show-and-tell for potential investors. In Innovating, Luis Perez-Breva describes another approach --…
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 396 pages) :illustrations
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Multinational firms and the theory of international trade
Despite the great importance of multinational firms in international economics, theoretical and empirical research on these firms has generally been conducted separately from that on international trade. In this book, James Markusen provides a comprehensive integration of the two fields. Drawing on twenty years of research, he focuses on the interaction of scale economies, trade costs, factor e…
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 440 pages) :illustrations
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