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Spatial Microeconometrics is an advanced textbook for researchers and graduate students.

The book introduces the reader to the basic concepts of spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and spatial behavior of economics agents at the microeconomic level. Incorporating useful examples and presenting real data and datasets on real firms, the book takes the reader through the key topics in a systematic way. As the reader works through the book, the material becomes increasingly cutting edge, and the final part of the book summarizes some of the most recent contributions and...

Spatial Microeconometrics is an advanced textbook for researchers and graduate students.

The book introduces the reader to the basic concepts of spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and spatial behavior of economics agents at the microeconomic level. Incorporating useful examples and presenting real data and datasets on real firms, the book takes the reader through the key topics in a systematic way. As the reader works through the book, the material becomes increasingly cutting edge, and the final part of the book summarizes some of the most recent contributions and...

Die Trendzielgruppe der LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) wird vom Handel als Konsumgruppe stark umworben und steht verstarkt im Visier von CSR-Managern. Doch wie denken diese Konsumenten uber die Nachhaltigkeitsinitiativen von SPAR, Billa & Co und wie wollen sie im Rahmen der Unternehmenskommunikation angesprochen werden? Zu strategischem Konsum, Mediennutzung und Kommunikation gibt es kaum wissenschaftlich fundierte Studien. Dabei sind die LOHAS jene Meinungsfuhrer, die als Early Adopter zur wesentlichen Diffusion von wirtschaftsethischem Unternehmensverhalten beitragen. Um...

Outsourcing ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einer eigenen Managementdisziplin gereift. In der Praxis sind zunehmend Falle zu beobachten, in denen Unternehmen Teile oder auch ihr gesamtes Projektmanagement an Service Provider outsourcen oder outtasken. Doch gerade uber die Sinnhaftigkeit herrscht noch Skepsis, insbesondere bei den betroffenen Projektmanagerinnen und Projektmanagern. In diesem Buch werden die Rahmenbedingungen fur das Outsourcen von Projektmanagementaktivitaten untersucht. Es werden die einzelnen Projektmanagement-Prozesse auf ihre Sinnhaftigkeit bzw. Machbarkeit bezuglich...

Legal Programming: Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyond provides a process-oriented discussion of the legal concerns presented by agent-based technologies, processes and programming. It offers a general outline of the potential legal difficulties that could arise in relation to them, focusing on the programming of negotiation and contracting processes in a privacy, consumer and commercial context. The authors will elucidate how it is possible to create form of legal framework and design methodology for...

Certification and Security in Inter-Organizational E-Services presents the proceeding of CSES 2004 - the 2nd International Workshop on Certification and Security in Inter-Organizational E-Services held within IFIP WCC 2004 in August, 2004, in Toulouse, France. Certification and security share a common technological basis in the reliable and efficient monitoring of executed and running processes; they likewise depend on the same fundamental organizational and economic principles. As the range of services managed and accessed through communication networks grows throughout...

"E-Training Practices for Professional Organizations" is an essential reference for anyone interested in the integration of e-business, e-work and e-learning processes. The book collects, for the first time, the proceedings from the 2003 IFIP eTrain Conference held in Pori, Finland.

The text serves as a multi-disciplinary resource for information on the research, development and applications of all topics related to e-Learning. The first half of the book discusses theories, paradigms and their applications in academia and industry. The last half of the book examines learning...

So, what are you going to do about it?

Mitch Joel, one of the world's leading experts in new media, warns that the time has come to CTRL ALT DELETE. To reboot and to start re-building your business model. If you don't, Joel warns, not only will your company begin to slide backwards, but you may find yourself unemployable within five years.

That's a very strong warning, but in...

This volume of selected articles is being released in light of the new economic, social and environmental challenges Europe and the United States have been faced with following the end of the Cold War and in the evolving era of globalization. National security, immigration and the provision of health and other key social services call for a radically different outlook in terms of policy discussions. The contributors of this book focus on seven key policy issues and challenges that currently affect the United States and Europe: income distribution, the gender pay gap, crime and security,...