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Sustainable Enterprise Value Creation
This Open Access book provides a practical guide to the creation of sustainable enterprise value and implementation of the principles of stakeholder capitalism for corporate boards and management teams. The authors argue that business leadership is on the threshold of a new era driven by major shifts in technology, society, political economy and climate change. They set this transition in inter…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-93560-3
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- XVII, 289
Krankenhaus-Report 2022
Seit Anfang des Jahres 2020 und somit nun seit rund zwei Jahren ist die gesellschaftliche und politische Diskussion und das Handeln auf allen Ebenen stark durch die Herausforderungen der Covid-19-Pandemie geprägt. Seit dem ersten Auftreten hat die Pandemie mit diversen Virusmutationen in mehreren Wellen auch Deutschland erreicht und speziell das Gesundheitswesen sowie die Versorgung im Kra…
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- 9783662646854
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- XXIII, 430
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e-Science: Open, Social and Virtual Technology for Research Collaboration
This open access book shows the breadth and various facets of e-Science, while also illustrating their shared core. Changes in scientific work are driven by the shift to grid-based worlds, the use of information and communication systems, and the existential infrastructure, which includes global collaboration. In this context, the book addresses emerging issues such as open access, collaborati…
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- 978-3-030-66262-2
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- XII, 185
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- Progress in IS (PROIS)
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Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and…
This book is based on the findings of a long-term (2000-2014) interdisciplinary research project of the University of Hohenheim in collaboration with several universities in Thailand and Vietnam. Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of nat…
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- 978-3-642-33377-4
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- X, 490
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- Springer Environmental Science and Engineering (SPRINGERENVIRON)
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iCity. Transformative Research for the Livable, Intelligent, and Sustainable …
Economy and society today face a multitude of complex challenges (“grand challenges”) like climate change, demographic change, urbanization, or digitalization, which create a constant demand for new technologies, services, business models, and consequently innovative solutions. In this light, the mobility sector has undergone a great change over the past few years, which is formed by di…
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- 9783030920968
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- XLI, 371
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Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes : New Research Methods to Study…
This open access book offers four ways to enrich traditional research methods in business ethics. By looking at critical jokes and cartoons on management consultants, their business practice and their clients’ demands, many ethical transgressions in business get addressed. By illustrating and criticizing such transgression, jokes can serve as an example in a theoretical argument, as a prompt …
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- 978-3-031-10201-1
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- XIII, 101
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Tuberculosis in Adults and Children
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific developments in the field of tuberculosis research, with an emphasis on diagnosis and treatment. It may serve as a practical resource for students, clinicians and researchers who…
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- 978-3-319-19132-4
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- VIII, 66
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- SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC, volume 2)
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Indikatoren für die Messung von Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation : Stec…
Diese Open-Access-Publikation diskutiert unterschiedliche Ansätze zur Messung von Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation in Unternehmen, Hochschulen und staatlichen Forschungsinstituten. In Form von Steckbriefen beschreibt sie die wichtigsten Eigenschaften und Anwendungsgebiete von über 180 Indikatoren. Dabei werden die Gebiete, aus denen die Indikatoren stammen (Publikationen, Patente usw.), …
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- 978-3-658-32886-3
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- XVI, 246
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- FOM-Edition (FOMEDITION)
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Crime and Safety in the Rural : Lessons from research
Criminology has until recently neglected the nature and levels of crime outside the urban realm. This is not a surprise as crime tends to concentrate in urban areas and the police directs resources where the problems are. Yet, there are many reasons why scholars, decision-makers and society as a whole should care about crime and safety in rural areas. This book highlights 20 reasons why crime a…
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- 978-3-030-98290-4
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- XIX, 123
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- SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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Dissecting Discrimination : Identifying Its Various Faces and Their Sources
This Open-Access-book examines the phenomenon of discrimination using a descriptive approach. Discrimination is omnipresent, whether it is people who discriminate against other people or, more recently, also machines that discriminate against people. The first part of the analysis employs decision theory on discrimination, leading to two fundamental subtypes: taste-based discrimination and stat…
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- 978-3-658-34569-3
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- XI, 234
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- Entscheidungs- und Organisationstheorie (EOT)
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