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The Impact of Mobile Phones on Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries
This book investigates at both the micro- and macroeconomic levels the impact of mobile phones on poverty and inequality in developing countries. To gauge the effects of mobile phones on these aspects, the author refers to the standard concept of technology adoption and also analyses the actual utilization of mobile phones as a means of communication and the degree to which they have supplanted…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-27368-6
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- VIII, 93, 4 illustrations in colour
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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New Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Management in Or…
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 5th Annual Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy, GIKA 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in July 2015. The theme of the conference was “New Knowledge Impacts on Designing Implementable Innovative Realities.” The GIKA conference offers a unique opportunity for researchers, professionals, and students to present and exchange ideas concerning m…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-22203-5
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- VIII, 137
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- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
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The New World of Transitioned Media: Digital Realignment and Industry Transfo…
Similar to the first “Transitioned Media” book, Transitioned Media: A Turning Point into the Digital Realm, this book combines media industry leaders and academics to explore various transformative trends and issues. Themes include measuring cross-platform behaviour, artificial intelligence in journalism, the evolution of video games, digital media and physical space, the mobile use trends,…
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- 978-3-319-09009-2
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- XIII, 151
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- The Economics of Information, Communication, and Entertainment
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Wireless World in 2050 and Beyond: A Window into the Future
This book gathers visionary ideas from leading academics and scientists to predict the future of wireless communication and enabling technologies in 2050 and beyond. The content combines a wealth of illustrations, tables, business models, and novel approaches to the evolution of wireless communication. The book also provides glimpses into the future of emerging technologies, end-to-end syste…
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- 978-3-319-42141-4
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- XXII, 168
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Management of Software Engineering Innovation in Japan
This book assesses the achievements of the software engineering discipline as represented by IT vendors in Japan in order to deepen understanding of the mechanisms of how software engineering capabilities relate to IT vendors’ business performance and business environment from the perspective of innovation and engineering management. Based on the concepts of service science and science for so…
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- 978-4-431-55612-1
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The Impact of Mobile Phones on Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries
This book investigates at both the micro- and macroeconomic levels the impact of mobile phones on poverty and inequality in developing countries. To gauge the effects of mobile phones on these aspects, the author refers to the standard concept of technology adoption and also analyses the actual utilization of mobile phones as a means of communication and the degree to which they have supplanted…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-27368-6
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- VIII, 93
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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We are Big Data The Future of the Information Society
This book demonstrates the inevitability of a continuously growing role of data in our society and it stresses that this role does not need to be threatening: to the contrary, collection and analysis of data can help us prevent traffic jams, suppress epidemics, or produce tailor made medicine. The authors sketch the contours of a new information society, in which everything will be measured fro…
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- 978-94-6239-183-3
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- XIX, 199
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Value Chain Marketing A Marketing Strategy to Overcome Immediate Customer In…
Value Chain Marketing (VCM) is a promising strategy to overcome immediate customers’ innovation resistance. By pursuing VCM, material suppliers enlarge their target group beyond their immediate customers and address their downstream customers as well. Treading on relatively unexplored grounds, this book explores the relevance of VCM and comprehends its process; identifies the critical fact…
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- 978-3-319-11376-0
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- 91 b/w illustrations
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User Innovators in the Silver Market An Empirical Study among Camping Tourists
In this study among camping tourists of all age groups between 19 and 86 years of age, Konstantin Wellner compares key characteristics regarding innovative behavior of different age groups. The focus of the analysis is on the so-called “Silver Market” segment (consumers of at least 55 years) which gains importance to the demographic shift. Generally, older users are still actively innovatin…
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- XVIII, 222
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Advancing Women in Science: An International Perspective
Many countries have implemented policies to increase the number and quality of scientific researchers as a means to foster innovation and spur economic development and progress. To that end, grounded in a view of women as a rich, yet underutilized knowledge and labor resource, a great deal of recent attention has focused on encouraging women to pursue education and careers in science — even i…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-08629-3
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- XVI, 344
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- 302 ADV a
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