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The Socially Responsible Organization : Lessons from COVID
This book explores the nature of the socially responsible organization, specifically the role of crisis management in creating a socially responsible organization. It applies the Myers-Briggs Personality Typology (MBPTI) and the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Framework to issues such as responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, regulation of tech companies, and infrastructure. Dr. Mitroff lists the major ar…
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- 978-3-030-99808-0
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- XI, 51
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- SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)
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- 658 MIT s
R&D Management Practices and Innovation: Evidence from a Firm Survey
This Open Access book provides a detailed account of firms’ research and development (R&D) management practices, and whether and how R&D management practices are associated with the success and the nature (explorative or exploitive) of innovation, using a unique survey of firms in Japan. While there is wide agreement that innovation is a key determinant for growth of firms, there are few stud…
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- 1
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- 978-981-16-9797-5
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- IX, 99
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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- 650 HAN r
Local Tax Benefits at a Distance : Japan's Hometown Tax Donation Payment
This book discusses the concepts, types, models, and patterns of Japan’s Hometown Tax Donation Payment system, to provide a clear picture of this newly developed unique and innovative fund-raising tool used by municipalities. It also sheds light on the influences that reciprocal gifts provided by each municipality to donors have on local economies by reviewing empirical works and surveys targ…
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- 978-981-16-5138-0
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- XV, 100
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
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- 650 HOD l
Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship : An Agenda for Europe
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. The authors of this book advise the economies of the European Union to become more entrepreneurial in promoting innovation and economic growth. The authors propose a reform strategy with respect to several aspects to achieve this goal. Starting with the rule of law and the protection of property rights; the tax system; the authors deal …
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- 978-3-319-55092-3
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- X, 102
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
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- 338 ELE i
Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory De…
This Open Access book presents feedback from the ‘Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action’- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France. It also presents: i) the key dimensions to be considered when dealing with agroecologi…
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- 1
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- 9783030019532
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- XVI, 335 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Proceedings of the 10th Hydrogen Technology Convention, Volume 1: WHTC 2023, …
This open access book highlights the latest advances in fundamental research, technologies and applications of hydrogen energy and fuel cells. In recent years, energy conversion between electricity and hydrogen energy has attracted increasing attention as a way to adjust the load of the grid. This book discusses and exchanges cutting-edge findings and technological developments in fields such a…
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- 9789819986316
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- XI, 499
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- -
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Understanding Acoustics : An Experimentalist’s View of Sound and Vibration
This open access textbook, like Rayleigh’s classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on approximation techniques rather than mathematical rigor. The second edition has benefited from comments and corrections provided by many acousticians, in particular those who have used the first edition in undergraduate and graduate courses. For example, phasor notation has been added to clearly …
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- 978-3-030-44787-8
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- XLIII, 783
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- Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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- 530 GAR u
A Decade of Research Activities at the Department of Industrial Engineering (…
This open access book celebrates the decennial of the Department of Industrial Engineering of Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. It covers the main research achievements developed at the department in the fields of aerospace, marine, energy, statistical, mechanical and management engineering. Five pre-existing departments merged in 2013, and the research results are here summarized to ce…
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- 978-3-031-53397-6
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- XI, 161
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- Springer Aerospace Technology (SAT)
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- 620 DEC
The Hackable City : Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Networ…
This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for em…
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- 9789811326943
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- XV, 302 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- -
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Making Universities Matter : Collaboration, Engagement, Impact
In an era of rapid change and increasing societal demands, the role of universities as knowledge producers and catalysts for change has come under scrutiny. This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the significance of universities in society, shedding light on how their knowledge can truly matter beyond academia. Drawing upon insightful inquiries from both the Swedish and internat…
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- 9783031487996
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- V, 232
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- Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management (ITKM)
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- 370 MAK
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