This open access book presents an overview and step-by-step explanation of process management. It starts with the individual participants’ perspectives on their work in a process and its structuring and harmonization, and then moves on to its specification in a model and how it is embedded in the organizational and IT environment of the company. Lastly, the book examines the joint processing …
In this open access book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate and stage various forms of vulnerability in the Scandinavian welfare states. How do discourses of privilege and vulnerability coexist and interact in Scandinavia? How do the Scandinavian countries respond to vulnerability given increased migration? How is v…
This open access book examines why reading and math test scores for boys and girls have differed since the origins of testing in the United States. It details the pattern of differences that have remained largely unchanged for more than 100 years in the United States and worldwide. The book explores why boys have modestly larger math test score means than girls, and why girls have far larger re…
This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustainable development is both a new and old idea, which is simultaneously traditional and modern, and t…
his book presents a number of advanced autonomous dynamic trajectory optimal control technologies for launch vehicles. Improving flight autonomy has gained broad-ranging concerns, so as to responsively and autonomously handle the unexpected events or failures. It was reported that the enhanced Proton M launch system adopted artificial intelligence elements to improve the in-flight fail-safe…
Buku akses terbuka ini membahas implikasi crowdsourcing internal (IC) dalam perusahaan. Menyajikan model referensi lintas sektoral yang berorientasi pada karyawan untuk praktik IC yang baik, buku ini membahas dasar-dasar teori inti, dan menawarkan panduan untuk manajemen proses dan cetak biru untuk implementasi IC. Selain itu, buku ini juga membahas solusi untuk pelatihan karyawan dan pengemban…
To put this research project into context, a short introduction to the status of the climate debate is given. The methodology of the research is presented in brief, followed by the socio-economic assumptions made and key technological parameters used. The storylines of the energy demand projections for the 12 industry and service sectors analysed are described. The supply side of the sec…
Buku yang telah disunting ini membahas topik-topik ekonomi lingkungan dengan fokus pada keberlanjutan, konservasi, dan pengelolaan sumber daya yang bertanggung jawab. Ditulis untuk mengenang Peter Berck, Profesor Ekonomi Pertanian dan Sumber Daya di University of California, Berkeley, bab-bab dalam buku ini mengembangkan wawasannya tentang hubungan antara aktivitas manusia dan alam. Buku ini m…
olicies are crucial in determining and improving the state of our environment. Policies set goals (including targets, indicators and time frames) while policy instruments are the specific means or measures to translate the policy intent into action (Jacob et al. 2019). In discussions on the sustainability of hydropower production, knowledge of the currently existing regulations at different…
This work is mainly aimed at evaluating the reasons behind the inefficient execution of Operational Programs (OPs) aimed at promoting research and innovation (R&I), especially in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To achieve this goal, we employed a three-stage slack-based measure (SBM) data envelopment analysis (DEA) model combined with Stochastic Frontier analysis (SFA), which i…