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Rethinking Infrastructure Design for Multi-Use Water Services
As we approach a historic tipping point in the global trend toward urbanisation – within two decades urban dwellers will increase from 49% to 60% of the planet’s population – this book identifies and addresses a critical problem: water. The editors show how cities can shift from being water consumers to resource managers, applying urban water management principles to ensure access to wate…
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- 978-3-319-06275-4
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Implementing Industry 4.0 in SMEs: Concepts, Examples and Applications
This open access book addresses the practical challenges that Industry 4.0 presents for SMEs. While large companies are already responding to the changes resulting from the fourth industrial revolution , small businesses are in danger of falling behind due to the lack of examples, best practices and established methods and tools. Following on from the publication of the previous book ‘Indus…
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- 978-3-030-70516-9
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Social Media for Civic Education: Engaging Youth for Democracy
This open access book provides the theoretical and pedagogical foundations for a promising new approach to civic education: using social media to teach civics. While many measures indicate that youth civic engagement has long been in decline, many of these measures fail to take into account all of the ways that youth can interact with civic life. One of these understudied ways is through social…
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- 978-3-031-10865-5
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- Palgrave Studies in Educational Media Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
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- XIX, 161
iCity. Transformative Research for the Livable, Intelligent, and Sustainable …
This open access book presents the exciting research results of the BMBF funded project iCity carried out at University of Applied Science Stuttgart to help cities to become more liveable, intelligent and sustainable, to become a LIScity. The research has been pursued with industry partners and NGOs from 2017 to 2020. A LIScity is increasingly digitally networked, uses resources efficiently, an…
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- 978-3-030-92096-8
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- XLI, 371
The Fundamental Elements of Strategy: Concepts, Theories and Cases
This open access book clarifies confusions of strategy that have existed for nearly 40 years through the core thoughts of three fundamental elements. Unlike the traditional definition of strategy as "a plan to achieve a long-term goal from overall considerations”in a linear view, this book defines strategy from non-linear viewpoint as it is in the real world. The art of a strategy lies not on…
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- 978-981-33-4713-7
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Effectuation entwickeln: Ein auf Reinforcement Learning aufbauender agentenba…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein Rahmenwerk entwickelt, das simulationsbezogene Untersuchungen von Effetcuation ermöglicht und gleichzeitig die Grundlage für die Entwicklung von gründungsunterstützenden Entscheidungssystemen schafft. Es wird diskutiert, inwieweit effektuatives Lernen modelliert und algorithmisch interpretiert werden kann. Auf Basis der Vorstellung und kritischen Evaluier…
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- 978-3-658-39251-2
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- XXIX, 159
Masterpieces of Swiss Entrepreneurship: Swiss SMEs Competing in Global Markets
This open access book focuses on Switzerland-based medium-sized companies with a longstanding export tradition and a proven dominance in global niche markets. Based upon in-depth documentation and analysis of 36 Swiss companies over their entire history, an expert team of authors presents several parallels in the pathways and success factors which allowed these firms to become dominant and oper…
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- 978-3-030-65287-6
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Datenwirtschaft und Datentechnologie: Wie aus Daten Wert entsteht
In diesem Open-Access-Buch stehen die wirtschaftliche Verwertung von Daten und die dazu gehörenden technischen und organisatorischen Prozesse und Strukturen in Unternehmen im Fokus. Es behandelt Themen wie Datenmonetarisierung, Datenverträge, Data Governance, Informationssicherheit, Datenschutz und die Vertrauenswürdigkeit von Daten. Seit Jahren wird davon gesprochen, dass „Daten das …
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- 978-3-662-65232-9
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- XI, 303
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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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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- XIII, 101
Advanced Digital Auditing
This open access book discusses the most modern approach to auditing complex digital systems and technologies. It combines proven auditing approaches, advanced programming techniques and complex application areas, and covers the latest findings on theory and practice in this rapidly developing field. Especially for those who want to learn more about novel approaches to testing complex informati…
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- 978-3-031-11089-4
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- XIV, 256
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