BOOKS with Alphabet C (Ca, Cb,Cc, Cd, Ce…... )

Overview: Presents a cohesive value creation theory which enhances and challenges current strategic management models.Provides measurable benchmarks by which firms can evaluate their competitive advantage.Offer.This book develops a unified framework to explain the phenomena of competitive advantage and firm value creation in dynamic environments. Through a new strategic value creation theory, it explores how a firm can measure and sustain its competitive advantage through management incentives, capital market forces, organizational culture and structure, and social complexity. It also consider

Overview: Presents recent research in complex systems and dependability.Features the proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems (DepCoS-RELCOMEX), held in Brunów.This book presents the proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems (DepCoS-RELCOMEX), which took place in the Brunów Palace in Poland from 2nd to 6th July 2018. The conference has been organized at the Faculty of Electronics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology since 2006, and it continues the tradition of two other events: RELCOM

Overview: Policy Gaps and Hidden Political Agendas in the United States and GermanyHuman trafficking is one of the most urgent political challenges of our global age. As the UN defines it, human trafficking is essentially a form of non-institutional slavery, but also includes the trafficking of human organs. It has been resistant to abolition and difficult to combat. Human trafficking is organized through networks and is clandestine in nature, making it very hard for governments to even detect. Yet it is arguably the most severe form of human exploitation in the world. Traffickers trade in the

Overview: .This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2022, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2022..The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Maritime and Port Logistics; Vehicle Routing and Urban Logistics; Warehousing and Location; Supply Chain and Production Management..978-3-031-16578-8978-3-031-16579-5Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: .The two-volume set LNCS 14750 and 14751 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2024, which took place in Linz, Austria, during July 8-12, 2024...The 104 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 266 submission. They were organized in topical sections as follows:..Part I: Software, Web and document accessibility; making entertainment content more inclusive; art Karshmer lectures in access to mathemtaics, science and engineering; tactile graphics and 3

Overview: Warns of the hidden agendas behind Smart City technologies.Addresses questions around urbanisation and big data in cities.Explores the ways technology has changed the ways cities workThis book explores the emergence and development of data in cities. It exposes how Information Communication Technology (ICT) corporations seeking to capitalize on cities developing needs for urban technologies have contributed to many of the issues we are faced with today, including urbanization, centralization of wealth and climate change. Using several case studies, the book provides examples of the,

Overview: This book traces the growth of capitalism in South East Asia between 1870 and 1941, a crucial element in understanding contemporary economic and political developments in the region. It focuses on three questions. Why was indigenous capitalism so weak in colonial South East Asia? What were the institutional weaknesses in an otherwise dominant Chinese capitalist class, and why did it fail to transform itself into a modern industrial elite? What was the impact of western colonialism and Japanese economic penetration on South East Asia‘s prospects for achieving sustainable economic grow

Overview: .If the twentieth century has beendominated by discussions of the public, public life, and the public sphere, .Contemporary Publics. argues that, in thetwenty-first century, we must complicate the singularity of that paradigm andstart thinking of our world in terms of multiple, overlapping, and competing .publics. .In three distinct streams—art,media and technology, and the intimate life—this volume offers up theintellectual and political significance of thinking through the plurality ofour publics. “Countering Neoliberal Publics: Screen and Space,” explores howdifferent artistic pra

Overview: Most recent trends in complex systems sciences & practices from an industrial and academic perspective.Contains all refereed papers that were accepted to proceedings of the “Complex Systems Design & M.This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the second edition of the « Complex Systems Design & Management » (CSDM 2011) international conference that took place in Paris (France) from December 7 to December 9, 2011. (Website: http://www.csdm2011.csdm.fr/)..These proceedings cover the most recent trends in the emerging field of complex systems sciences & practices from

Overview: Caribbean Women Writers is a collection of scholarly articles on the fiction of selected Caribbean women writers from Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad. It includes not only close critical analysis of texts by Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Zee Edgell, Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, Pauline Melville, Jean Rhys and Olive Senior, but also personal statements from the writers Merle Collins, Beryl Gilroy, Vernella Fuller and Velma Pollard.978-0-312-21863-8978-1-349-27071-2

Overview: Explores various aspects of human–computer interaction.Provides information on theoretical, methodological, and technological developments.Offers researchers a valuable reference guide, helping them sThis book highlights cutting-edge research on various aspects of human–computer interaction (HCI). It includes selected research papers presented at the Third International Conference on Computing, Communication and Signal Processing (ICCASP 2018), organized by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University in Lonere-Raigad, India on January 26–27, 2018. It covers pioneering topics in t

Overview: Explores the dynamics of the Chinese labor market.Projects the impact of an aging population on the Chinese economy.Explores the role of automation in the Chinese labor marketThis book explores the dynamics of the Chinese labor market, the largest in the world. The sheer scale of rural laborers living in cities is the ultimate engine driving the fastest urbanization the world has ever seen. Today, the country faces a series of new challenges as it tries to address problems of unemployment and under-employment. These include population ageing, automation, the increasing use of AI on t

Overview: Immunology has come a long way in the hundred or so years since the general concepts were first enuciated by Metchnikoff, Ehrlich, Von Bebring and others, One of the landmarks in this progress was the invention and development of monoclonal antibody secreting hybridomas by Milstein and bis co-workers in Cambridge. Unlike most modern inventions of this importance that of monoclonal antibody production was made available to the scientific community tbroughout the world unimpeded by patent protection. This may explain tbe unusual rapidity witb which it has been applied to the benefit of

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .CASL, the Common Algebraic Specification Language, was designed by the members of CoFI, the Common Framework Initiative for algebraic specification and development, and is a general-purpose language for practical use in software development for specifying both requirements and design. CASL is already regarded as a de facto standard, and various sublanguages and extensions are available for specific tasks...This reference manual presents a detailed documentation of the CASL specification formalism. It reviews the main underlying concepts, and carefull

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-662-35845-0978-3-662-36675-2

Overview: Wirtschaftliche Betätigung zwischen öffentlichem Auftrag und gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung.Includes supplementary material: Im erwerbswirtschaftlichen Sektor wird die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen seit einigen Jahren unter Begriffen wie Nachhaltigkeit, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) und Corporate Citizenship diskutiert. Diese Diskussion ist auch für die öffentliche Wirtschaft relevant und im Zusammenhang mit der Legitimation öffentlicher Unternehmen von politischem Interesse. Inwieweit sollen und dürfen kommunale Unternehmen im Rahmen der Leistungserbringu

Overview: Since the appearance of the treatise on "Schedules of Reinforcement" by Ferster and Skinner over two decades ago, the literature in behavior analysis, both experimental and applied, has been dominated by a range of studies dedi­ cated to providing ever more systematic and refined accounts of these "mainsprings of behavior control. " For the most part, the analysis has been pursued in the best traditions of "scientific methodology" with careful atten­ tion to the isolation of controlling variables in unitary form. Of late, relatively simple interaction effects have provided an importa

Overview: Introduces the innovative concept of co-creation, its various methodologies and learning techniques.Helps to understand the processes involved in implementing co-creation in any organization.Presents This book introduces readers to co-creation --- a complex, value-based, context-driven and collaborative effort to develop new paradigms, products and services to satisfy human wants. Co-creation is built not only around the perceptions of challenges, cause-and-effect relationships and constraints, but also around available alternatives for dealing with or overcoming those challenges. Co

Overview: Studies the synergetic interaction of AI and crypto, leading to a coevolution process.Discusses the impact of the quantum revolution on the future of the dichotomy of AI and crypto.Investigates the in.This book studies the intersection between cryptography and AI, highlighting the significant cross-impact and potential between the two technologies. The authors first study the individual ecosystems of cryptography and AI to show the omnipresence of each technology in the ecosystem of the other one. Next, they show how these technologies have come together in collaborative or adversari

Overview: This book explores which kind of competitive moves and countermoves have been taken by mobile phone vendors like Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and Apple, as well as emerging rivals from developing countries, to defend their competitive position over the industry life cycle, and which factors have driven these actions.978-1-137-37412-7