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The European Investment Bank is the world’s biggest multilateral investor. This report lays out the EU bank’s priorities and details its investments in the projects that support those policy goals. The European Investment Bank devotes more than half its financing to climate action and environmental sustainability. The Bank aims to support the transition to renewable energy sources such as g…

A Vehicle for Change

An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Since its invention, the automobile has been systematically 'consumed', to become part of the fabric of twentieth- and twenty-first-century society, its impact and perception making the car an accurate gauge of changing cultural norms and values. As it grew in popularity, the a…

(Re)defining Entrepreneurship in a Post-pandemic Context

The theme of entrepreneurship in the post-pandemic context is essential for the economic and social revitalization of economies. Despite this importance, this theme has hardly been explored, and therefore one of the central aspects of this reprint is to bring the debate on the competitiveness of micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises in various sectors to academic discussion. Through 11 c…

Management by Missions : Connecting People to Strategy through Purpose

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2nd ed. 2022

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978-3-030-83780-8

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User Experience + Artificial Intelligence = Assessing the Qualities of AI-inf…

This open access book addresses the thriving trend of embedding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities in products and services reaching the lay public, focusing on the user experience (UX) they prompt from a designerly perspective. It offers a UX evaluation method designed explicitly for AI-infused systems to answer one of the core problems affecting the relationsh…

Unifying Sustainability Information for Societal Automation = Leveraging Coll…

This open access book offers a structured approach that aligns indicators of social value and provides a stable foundation amidst the dynamic and ever-changing social complexities. From detailed system scales of participation to an overview of how it works, this book presents a roadmap for automating data in systemic alignment with social value. With its adaptability to changing societal struct…

Business Data Ethics : Emerging Models for Governing AI and Advanced Analytics

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Food and agribusiness in 2030: a roadmap

"At the moment of writing, we are in the last quarter of an incredible year. The world is facing an astonishing number of changes resulting from one of the worst pandemics ever. Food, agribusiness, and biofuel chains will be working in a new macro environment and will operate differently after 2020. These structural changes come on top of the need to increase food production to feed 9 billion p…

Space Business

The space age dawned in 1957 with the successful orbiting of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, and it surged forward with the Apollo moon landings, ushering in the era of satellites and deep space probes. This situation in which space business relied on space science probes, space shuttle flights, and satellite launches largely persisted until the decentralization of space exploration began…

Software Business

Organizations must gain insights into often fragmented and isolated data assets and overcome data silos to profitably leverage data as a strategic resource. Data catalogs are an increasingly popular approach to achieving these objectives. Despite the perceived importance of data catalogs in practice, relatively little research exists on how to design corporate data catalogs. It is also obvi…