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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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Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals
This collection amplifies the experiences of some of the world’s young people who are working to address SDGs using geospatial technologies and multi-national collaboration. Authors from every region of the world who have emerged as leaders in the YouthMappers movement share their perspectives and knowledge in an accessible and peer-friendly format. YouthMappers are university students who cr…
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- 978-3-031-05182-1
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- Sustainable Development Goals Series
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- XXIII, 382
Niederlassungen führen
Niederlassungen müssen ganzheitlich geführt und gesteuert werden - andernfalls sind Umsetzungslücken oder Governance-Gaps unvermeidlich. Diese äußern sich in mangelnder Strategieumsetzung, Kommunikationsproblemen bis hin zu Skandalen wie Kartellklagen oder Korruptionsfällen. Ganzheitliche Steuerung von Niederlassungen ist eine Governance-Aufgabe, die nicht nur im Pflichtenheft des Boards …
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- 978-3-662-66203-8
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- XIV, 113
Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?
This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is di…
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- 978-3-031-08608-3
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- Contributions to Political Science
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- IX, 369
Sustainable Qatar
This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the environmental aspects, the contributors address climate change, food security, water…
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- 978-981-19-7398-7
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- Gulf Studies
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- XIII, 380
Design for Electromagnetic Compatibility--In a Nutshell
This open access book provides practicing electrical engineers and students a practical – and mathematically sound – introduction to the topic of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). The author enables readers to understand better how to overcome commonly failed EMC tests for radiated emission, radiated immunity, and electrostatic discharge (ESD), while providing concrete EMC design guideli…
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- 978-3-031-14186-7
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- XXVIII, 416
Revenue Management in Manufacturing
This book focuses on the application of revenue management in the manufacturing industry. Though previous books have extensively studied the application of revenue management in the service industry, little attention has been paid to its application in manufacturing, despite the fact that applying it in this context can be highly profitable and instrumental to corporate success. With this work,…
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- 978-3-319-30240-9
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Person-Centered Outcome Metrology
This unique collection of chapters from world experts on person-centered outcome (PCO) measures addresses the following critical questions: Can individual experiences be represented in measurements that do not reduce unique differences to meaningless uniformity? How person-centric are PCO measures? Are PCO measurements capable of delivering the kind of quality assured quantification required fo…
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- 978-3-031-07465-3
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- Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology
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- XII, 402
Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa
This Open Access book explores the multifaceted nature of agricultural and rural development in Asia and examines the extent to which the Asian experience is being replicated in contemporary Africa. This volume compiles the works of top scholars who provided analyses and evidences from household-level surveys collected for many years in several parts of Asia and Africa. The most important findi…
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- 978-981-19-5542-6
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- Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies
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Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Through Non-Territorial…
This volume assesses Non-Territorial Autonomy (NTA) in terms of its practical capacity to support the linguistic, cultural, and educational rights of national minority groups across Europe. The fact that 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of the coming into force of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on National Minorities (FCNM) and European Charter for Regional and Minority languages (EC…
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- 978-3-031-19856-4
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- XVII, 194
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