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Handbook of Operations Research in Agriculture and the Agri-Food Industry
The scope of this book is Operations Research methods in Agriculture and a thorough discussion of derived applications in the Agri-food industry. The book summarizes current research and practice in this area and illustrates the development of useful approaches to deal with actual problems arising in the agriculture sector and the agri-food industry. This book is intended to collect in one v…
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- 978-1-4939-2482-0
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- XIV, 464
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- 658 HAN
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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Use of Market Data in the Recruitment of High Potentials Segmentation and Ta…
In his study, Jan Posthumus uses the grounded theory method to explore the implementation of marketing instruments such as segmentation and targeting in the recruitment of high potentials in the pharmaceutical industry. The implementation of these instruments can best be understood as the result of an interaction between four categories: the identified internal need for certain groups of high p…
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- 978-3-658-10376-7
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- 8 b/w illustrations
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Aging Workers and the Employee-Employer Relationship
This book focuses on the aging workforce from the employment relationship perspective. This innovative book specifically focuses on how organizations can ensure their aging workers remain motivated, productive and healthy. In 15 chapters, several experts on this topic describe how organizations through effective human resource management can ensure that workers are able to continue working at h…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-08007-9
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- XIII, 268
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- 658.3 AGI a
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 16th Interna…
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2015, held in Helsinki, Finland, in May 2015. While agile development has already become mainstream in industry, this field is still constantly evolving and continues to spur an enormous interest both in industry and academia. The XP conference series has always played, and cont…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-18612-2
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- XVII, 376
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- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
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- 005.1 AGI a
Agile Development in the Real World
This book is a practical guide for new agile practitioners and contains everything a new project manager needs to know to get up to speed with agile practices quickly and sort out the hype and dogma of pseudo-agile practices.The author lays out the general guidelines for running an agile project with the assumption that the project team may be working in a traditional environment (using the wat…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-4842-1679-8
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- XXVIII, 297
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- 658.404 CLI a
Diversity of managerial perspectives from inside China
This book includes research presented at the Global Chinese Management Studies Conferences held in Singapore between 2011 and 2014. It covers managerial themes from China that are associated with eco-labels, institutional changes in the context of governance, fusion accounting information, consumers on insuring, corporate social responsibility, financial warning systems, new product development…
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- 9789812875556
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- 9789812875556
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- 658.4
Dos and don'ts in human resources management : a practice guide
With this book, an international group of approximate 50 HR leaders, professors and senior consultants compiled their knowledge and experience in an easy-to-navigate format to allow busy HR executives finding exactly the advice they need. Re-inventing the wheel unfortunately still is a common practice in Human Resources Management
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- 9783662435526
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- xxiv, 193 pages ; 21 cm
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- 658.3
Urban Mining Systems
This book focuses on the fundamental concept of and current endeavors in “urban mining” among those who are interested in both metal resources and ecology. Systems for recycling and reusing precious metals and rare-earth minerals contained in used and discarded electronics are introduced in this book. The target audience is not academic researchers in the resource management and ecology fie…
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- 978-4-431-55075-4
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- 10 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
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Urban Land Economics
This book covers the main aspects of regional and urban economics and presents state-of-the-art theories in a comprehensive and concise way. The book will be of interest to undergraduates in business and economics and covers specific areas such as real estate, urban and regional planning and geography and development studies.
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- 978-3-319-15320-9
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- XIII, 154
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