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Crafting sustainable wine businesses : concepts and cases
Sustainable wine businesses are being crafted around the world, fulfilling the industry's number one priority - leaving the land in better shape for the next generation. Using four case studies of wineries in both the Old and New Worlds, this book shows students and scholars how to develop and defend metrics for benchmarking wine business sustainability and justify new investments supporting th…
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- 9781137553089
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- X, 99
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- 330
Creativity in the Digital Age
This edited book discusses the exciting field of Digital Creativity. Through exploring the current state of the creative industries, the authors show how technologies are reshaping our creative processes and how they are affecting the innovative creation of new products. Readers will discover how creative production processes are dominated by digital data transmission which makes the connection…
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- 9781447166818
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- XII, 269
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- Springer Series on Cultural Computing
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- 338.7
Sustainability of External Imbalances
Since the mid-1990s, sustainability of large and persistent current account positions have been attracting much attention from policy makers and economists alike. Alongside global imbalances, sustainability of imbalances within the euro area, which started widening shortly after the introduction of the euro, raised much concern. While there exists a large body of theoretical and empirical liter…
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- 978-3-658-07091-5
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- XI, 329
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Introductory Business Statistics
The book Introductory Business Statistics by Thomas K. Tiemann explores the basic ideas behind statistics, such as populations, samples, the difference between data and information and most importantly sampling distributions. The author covers topics including descriptive statistics and frequency distributions, normal and t-distributions, hypothesis testing, t-tests, f-tests, analysis of varian…
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Information Systems for Business and Beyond
This book is written as an introductory text, meant for those with little or no experience with computers or information systems. While sometimes the descriptions can get a bit technical, every effort has been made to convey the information essential to understanding a topic while not getting overly focused in detailed terminology.
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- 650 BOU i
Convergence in Output and Its Sources Among Industrialised Countries A Cross-…
This book investigates the existence of stochastic and deterministic convergence of real output per worker and the sources of output (physical capital per worker, human capital per worker, total factor productivity (TFP) and average annual hours worked) in 21 OECD countries over the period 1970-2011. Towards this end, the authors apply a large battery of panel unit root and stationarity tests, …
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- 9783319136356
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- ix, 74 pages
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- 370
Financial Crisis Management and Democracy: Lessons from Europe and Latin America
This open access book discusses financial crisis management and policy in Europe and Latin America, with a special focus on equity and democracy. Based on a three-year research project by the Jean Monnet Network, this volume takes an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, analyzing both the role and impact of the EU and regional organizations in Latin America on crisis management as well as t…
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- 978-3-030-54895-7
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Building a Cashless Society: The Swedish Route to the Future of Cash Payments
This open access book tells the story of how Sweden is becoming a virtually cashless society. Its goal is to improve readers’ understanding of what is driving this transition, and of the factors that are fostering and hampering it. In doing so, the book covers the role of central banks, political factors, needs for innovation, and the stakeholders involved in developing a cashless ecosystem. …
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- 978-3-030-10689-8
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Cooperation management for practitioners : managing social change with Capaci…
Cooperating successfully in complex systems is a key challenge of the 21st century ℓ́ℓ a challenge we encounter in the global business context and in almost all policy fields. Whether we are looking at airport expansions, health reform, education system reform or public debt reduction, the complexity of such social change processes requires sophisticated interaction between different organ…
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- 9783658079055
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- ix, 281 pages
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- 370
Coping with Regional Vulnerability Preventing and Mitigating Damages from Env…
Whether a natural event turns into a disaster depends on the severity of the hazard as well as the condition of the social sphere of its potential victims, i.e., vulnerability. We focus on regional vulnerability considering the fact that regional socioeconomic conditions determine the aspects of the damage and thus the risk management policy. This book provides the theory and methodology to und…
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- 9784431551690
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- 338.5
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