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Service Design Capabilities
This open access book discusses service design capabilities in innovation processes, and provides a framework that guides design students, practitioners and researchers towards a better understanding of operational aspects of service design processes. More specifically, it revisits service designers’ capabilities in light of the new roles that have opened up in innovation processes on differe…
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- 2021
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Customer value generation in banking : the Zurich model of customer-centricity
Stefan R. Thallmaier's investigation enables mass customization businesses to better understand how co-design increases customers' value perception. He focuses on the increasing proliferation of service channels (online, mobile and in-store) and digital media (toolkits, social media and live help) at the co-design interface. Based on qualitative and quantitative research, the author examines ho…
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- 9783319199382
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- xxii, 195 pages
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- 658.812
Online Algorithms for the Portfolio Selection Problem
Robert Dochow mathematically derives a simplified classification structure of selected types of the portfolio selection problem. He proposes two new competitive online algorithms with risk management, which he evaluates analytically. The author empirically evaluates online algorithms by a comprehensive statistical analysis. Concrete results are that follow-the-loser algorithms show the most pro…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-13528-7
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- XXVI, 185
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Financial Literacy and the Limits of Financial Decision-Making
This book presents selected papers on the factors that serve to influence an individual’s capacity in financial decision-making. Initial chapters provide an overview of the cognitive factors affecting financial decisions and suggest a link between limited cognitive capacity and the need for financial education. The book then expands on these cognitive limitations to explore the tendency for o…
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- 978-3-319-30886-9
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- XVIII, 343
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Dependability in medicine and neurology : using engineering and management pr…
This ground-breaking title presents an interdisciplinary introduction to the subject of Dependability and how it applies in medicine generally and in neurology in particular. Dependability is the term applied in engineering and industry to a service that is safe, reliable and trustworthy. Dependable systems use a variety of methods to deliver correct service in the face of uncertainty resulting…
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- 9783319149684
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- xv, 335 pages
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- 362.1
The International Handbook of Shipping Finance
Edited by two leading academics in this area, and with contributions from 25 prominent market practitioners and academics over 16 chapters, this Handbook covers shipping finance and banking, maritime financial management and investments. As such, it includes: shipping markets; asset backed finance; shipbuilding finance; debt finance; public and private equity and debt markets; structured financ…
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- 978-1-137-46546-7
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- XLII, 430, 20 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour
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- The International Handbook of Shipping Finance
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The Icelandic Financial Crisis
This book presents a detailed account of Iceland’s recovery from the tumultuous banking collapse that overturned its financial industry in 2008. Early chapters recount how Iceland’s central bank was unable to follow the quantitative easing policies of the time to print money and save the banks, while serving the world´s smallest currency area. The book goes on to explore how the government…
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- 978-1-137-39455-2
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- XVI, 349, 23 illustrations in colour
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
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The Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Modelling
The 2008 financial crisis was a watershed moment which clearly influenced the public's perception of the role of 'finance' in society. Since 2008, a plethora of books and newspaper articles have been produced accusing the academic community of being unable to produce valid models which can accommodate those extreme events. This unique Handbook brings together leading practitioners and academ…
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- 978-1-137-49449-8
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- XIX, 316
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- The Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Modelling
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The Political Economy of Fiscal Consolidation in Japan
This book investigates the reasons for persistent public deficits and delayed fiscal reform in Japan, placing a special emphasis on political economy aspects. Japan is confronted with the need to pursue fiscal discipline for fiscal consolidation and implement structural reforms for reorganizing fiscal expenditures. Focusing on particular policy fields including social security, female labor sup…
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- 978-4-431-55127-0
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- XIII, 195
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- Advances in Japanese Business and Economics
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Non-Knowledge Risk and Bank-Company Management:The Role of Intangibles in Rat…
In the current economic scenario, the intangible assets contribute significantly to the construction of the competitive positioning of a company. It follows that this intangible information must be appropriately considered in the internal rating system (IRSs). Currently key aspects of business risk and operational risk such as potential for growth, competitive capabilities, core competencies, r…
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- 978-1-137-49712-3
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- XII, 241
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
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