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By Alberto Onetti , Antonella Zucchella. Most books on the biotechnology industry focus on scientific and technological challenges, ignoring the entrepreneurial and managerial complexities faced bio-entrepreneurs. The Business Models for Life Science Firms aims to fill this gap by offering managers in this rapid growth industry the tools…. Innovation is seen as an interactive process that involves many actors within and across organizational boundaries.

In public sector services, innovation is a frequent, often holistic, and multi-layered process that involves many actors and many services at the same time. However, most of the…. By Romanus Okeke , Mahmood Shah. As retail businesses migrate to the digital realm, internal information theft incidents continue to threaten on-line and off-line retail operations.

The evolving propagation of internal information theft has surpassed the traditional techniques of crime prevention practices. In the global economy, regional development and innovation are increasingly an imperative to increase the competitive edge of EU economies. While European regions are different in many ways, the innovation capacity of regions, clusters and firms is what makes them capable of building up new and….

By Jyoti Choudrie , Catherine Middleton. When one considers broadband, the Internet immediately springs to mind. However, broadband is impacting society in many ways. For instance, broadband networks can be used to deliver healthcare or community related services to individuals who don't have computers, have distance as an issue to…. Marketing of technology related products — and especially cutting edge ones — involves a complex and multidimensional…. Why does information technology disappoint or enslave us? Why do so many information systems projects collapse?

How can we do better? There are many technical, social, economic and other aspects to consider.

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How do we ensure we take all these into account as we research ITC or employ them? Edited by Vishanth Weerakkody , Christopher G. Over the last decade governments in Europe and North America have attempted to improve efficiency of public services through Information and Communication Technology, commonly branded as electronic government e-government. Public Sector Transformation through E-Government explores the influence…. Edited by Keith Alexander , Ilfryn Price.

The term Facilities Management has become global but fraught with confusion as to what the term signifies. Elsewhere the term has become conflated with an alternative meaning: Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business, society, and ecology. It is important to gain an understanding of these elements, the interplay between them, and the behavior of the system. This book explores the….

Edited by Lene Foss , David v. Global recessions and structural economic shifts are motivating government and business leaders worldwide to increasingly look to "their" universities to stimulate regional development and to contribute to national competiveness. The challenge is clear and the question is pressing: Behind the steady stream of new products, technologies, systems and services in our modern societies there is prolonged and complicated battle around the role of users.

Who should speak for the users? How may designers collaborate…. Global corporations initiate, join and maintain socio-technological change and hence, alter the ways in which we organize our lives. Demanding significant investment of resources and time, the development and implementation of new technologies on different levels must take into consideration these…. Edited by Eric Shiu. Digital media present opportunities for new types of consumption including desiring, buying, collecting, making, and even selling digital virtual goods.

To these activities we can add those taking place in virtual communities of consumption, online shops, brand websites, and online auction houses…. Edited by Peter Ekman , Peter Dahlin. Information technology has come to play an important role in organizations over the last few decades.

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Though it began as an entity dealt with by specialists, IT has evolved to become an everyday tool with both operational and strategic impacts. Most modern organizations have adopted different forms….

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Leadership is vital to creativity and successful innovation in groups and organizations; leadership is however seldom studied in the academic literature as a creativity driver. Gallaher , Albert N.

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Link , Jeffrey E. Using a cutting-edge structure, where a current description of the service sector and up-to-date case studies are compared and contrasted with innovative activity in manufacturing, this book contributes towards a better theoretical understanding of innovation in the U.

By Viktor Braun , Cornelius Herstatt. Economic growth is highly dependent on technological progress and innovation, yet the sources from which these innovations originate are still largely misunderstood and untapped. Recent research has demonstrated that users, rather than manufacturers, are often a critical source of innovation in…. The aim of the Managing Networks of Creativity is to improve our understanding of creativity and the management of creativity, as discussed in the fields of management including strategic management, organization science, organizational behaviour, and entrepreneurship , economics, sociology,….

Challenging the Innovation Paradigm is a critical analysis of the innovation frenzy and contemporary innovation research. The one-sided focus on desirable effects of innovation misses many opportunities to reduce the undesirable consequences. How do development and use of new technology relate?

How can users contribute to innovation? This volume is the first to study these questions by following particular technologies over several product launches in detail. It examines the emergence of inventive ideas about future technology and uses,…. Public institutions, academic researchers and financial analysts among others hail nanotechnologies as one of the most promising sectors of social and economic development.

Calculations predict that it will become a trillion euro industry by and that it will bring about economic change of at…. By Neil Pollock , Robin Williams.

This is the first book that addresses the genesis and career of the modern day enterprise system in a comprehensive and robust manner. It does so through setting out a new approach for the study of packaged solutions and presents novel empirical studies based on in-depth ethnographic and…. Edited by Grete Rusten , Sarah Skerratt. Drawing together the experiences of individuals, households and businesses, this book offers an international perspective on the on how and the extent to which the experiential nature of being rural, whether as an business manager in an SME or micro-enterprise , a non-business person, a retired….

Much has been written on the grand prospects for "Information Society"; much less on what this might mean in everyday terms. So what do we find when we look at what is happening in a society, Finland, that is one of closest to an information society? Bringing together studies of everyday local…. Edited by Juha Laurila , David Preece. Companies outsource various activities, which enable them to improve efficiency, reduce costs, focus more on core competencies and improve their….

Networks are made up of organizations. Often a central unit, or "Network Administrative Organization" NAO , manages an entire network of organizations that collaborate to achieve an overall network-level goal. Goal-directed networks are those that come together to achieve a shared objective, in…. Building on the work of labor historians, industrial relations scholars, and institutional labor economists, this book offers not only a comprehensive analysis of the changing nature of shopfloor labor-management relations in the large manufacturing firms of this century, it also supplies empirical….

What has been the impact of deregulation and a rapidly changing socio-economic environment on the professions?

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The cross-disciplinary contributions to this volume examine the changing role of the professions. Mutuality has become a topic of debate recently for a whole range of academics and social commentators. The 'demutualisation' of banks and building societies has been partnered by the idea of a 'new mutualism' , forming a set of social values and beliefs, and this collection looks at the….

This book provides an economic and econometric analysis of real estate investment and real estate market behaviour. Peijie Wang examines fluctuations in the real estate business to reveal the mechanisms governing the interactions between the industry and other sectors of the economy. Edited by Daniel Coffey , Carole Thornley.

Industrial issues are often inextricably linked with labour market concerns and policy approaches that attempt to consider production and employment separately are inherently flawed. With contributions from such scholars as…. Johnson , Alistair Bruce. In recent years leading figures in a variety of fields - political, financial, medical, and organizational - have become acutely aware of the need to effectively incorporate aspects of risk into their decision-making.

This book addresses a wide range of contemporary issues in decision research,…. By Frans Boekema , Roel Rutten. This exhaustive study from an experienced and respected set of editors and authors looks at the impact that universities have on their surroundings, with particular reference to regional development.

Edited by Anna Grandori. This volume examines the nature of interfirm networks and their role in promoting industrial competitiveness. Where previous work in this area has tended to be descriptive, the distinguished contributors to this volume present a balanced theoretical and empirical approach to interfirm networking…. Edited by Nicolai Foss , Brian Loasby. The work of G. Richardson has given insights into key issues and debates such as markets versus hierarchies, price stability, the economics of information and the concept of competition based upon differentiated firms.

This collection encourages further development of Richardson's themes. The use of formulae has become widespread in recent years across most developed countries. Edited by Gerhard Bosch , Steffen Lehndorff. The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries,…. The channels and mechanisms of knowledge flows define the links that make up production and innovation systems.

As such, they relate directly or indirectly to all policies that affect such systems. Knowledge flows are also directly related to intellectual property protection policies and…. Adamson , Anthony H. The UK construction industry is the sixth largest industry in the UK in terms of turnover. During the last decade, it has undergone an unprecedented period of self-examination, including input from most of the leaders of the major suppliers and clients as well as from leading politicians, civil…. The brewing industry, through its network of public houses, has a profound impact on the lives of much of the population of United Kingdom.

Exploring the shaping of this industry in the years from , this book shows how it has moved from being largely concerned with the technical issues of…. The performance of current transport systems is inadequate when viewed in terms of economic efficiency, sustainability and safety. Higher education rates are increasing throughout the Western world, yet at the same time, government budgets face increasing constraints.

This has ensured that the importance of student support is recognized in many countries. In recent years there has been a world-wide movement towards the use of….

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A timely contribution and incisive analysis, this is the story of the British experiment in privatizing the nuclear power industry and its subsequent financial collapse. It tells how the UK's pioneering role in nuclear power led to bad technology choices, a badly flawed restructuring of the…. Edited by Nigel Caldwell , Mickey Howard. This book examines the management of Procuring Complex Performance PCP in large-scale programmes that includes the downstream support phase in sectors such as construction, healthcare, transport, aerospace, marine and defence.

It brings together a series of edited chapters to explain why the…. Edited by Julia Connell , John Burgess. Over the past ten years there has been a massive growth in call centres worldwide. These centres are said to represent the most dynamic growth area in white-collar employment internationally since the mid s. Yet the footloose and global nature of the industry means that jobs will always be…. Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and measurable ways through research, the teaching and development of experts, and knowledge innovation.

Over the past 50 years the US economy has experienced economic dynamism and technological change at a dizzying pace, driven substantially by innovation in digital communication technology. This dynamism has had limited effects in the electricity industry, and institutional change within the….

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Although social, political, technological and business networks hold our modern world together, we still lack a good understanding of what business networks are, how they work, and the language of network analysis that we may apply to solve common, everyday problems. This book looks at such…. Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society.

Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this book presents an interdisciplinary approach in which this and other aesthetic markets, such…. Edited by Alison Linstead , Stephen Linstead.