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Trading, forecasting, aggregating, and innovating (the Four) are key social interactions in human life at both the individual and aggregate levels. They are…
part of the human fabric because they stem from mankind’s peculiarities—heterogeneity, inclination to forecast, sociality, and inventiveness. But humans have multifaceted behavior, too. They are capable of having contradictory impulses towards one another, integrating and disintegrating as well as cooperating and dominating, and behaving prosocially and anti-socially. Hence, humans need to organize themselves in order to maintain, improve, and extend their social interactions as well as a safe and ordered life. Crucial intersections emerge naturally—the efficiency of humans’ way of tackling the Four is a joint product of economic systems, institutions, and behaviors. All told, the main idea of this book is to include in a single tour a collection of insights on why and how humans implement the Four. The narrative highlights several connections as well as how key these businesses are as the traveler is escorted through some Four-related behavioral problems and institutional solutions that humans have been, respectively, facing and elaborating over time. Economics students may exploit this book by both inserting what they are learning from textbooks into a wider framework and enjoying some of the hints revealed by the grand social theorizing of giants such as A. Smith and J. Schumpeter. But the proposed tour may also attract outsiders to economics who are curious about disparate economic themes linked to the Four but who wish to gain an overview without engaging in longer readings.Mit den Themen Betriebsklima und Unternehmenskultur kommen wir alle in unserem beruflichen Alltag, aber auch als Konsumenten und Empfangende von…
Dienstleistungen in Berührung. Wir nehmen Stimmungen und Abläufe wahr und ordnen diese - bewusst oder unterbewusst - ein. Hierdurch wird uns eine Organisation sympathisch oder unsympathisch, ein Produkt oder eine Dienstleistung gefällt uns, oder auch nicht. Dies beeinflusst unsere Entscheidung für eine Firma, ein Produkt oder auch eine Dienstleistung und auch unsere Auswahl des Arbeit gebenden Betriebes. Kurz: Betriebsklima und Unternehmenskultur sind von maßgeblicher Bedeutung für den Erfolg von Organisationen und damit Gegenstand zahlreicher und umfänglicher Veröffentlichungen. In dieser Arbeit werden diese Inhalte zusammengeführt, systematisiert und gegenübergestellt, um dann die Relevanz und Einsetzbarkeit der Konzepte Betriebsklima und Unternehmenskultur im Hinblick auf die die Babyboomer sowie die Generationen X,Y und Z herauszuarbeiten. Hierbei werden zudem die Aspekte Agilität, Änderungen der Informationstechnologie, Internationalisierung und Globalisierung sowie Employer Branding berücksichtigtThis book advances an original conception of the relationship between state and corporate power in the United States. Using what…
he terms an Institutional Marxist framework, Maher argues that, far from passively responding to interest group pressures, the state has been a key agent in politically mobilizing business, and has played an active role in the organization of lobbying groups. Such business associations do not merely express the pre-existing interests of their corporate members, but are also mechanisms through which the state organizes the political power of the capitalist class. They form part of what the author refers to as an integral state—a wider network of state power which traverses and interpenetrates the state bureaucracy, the legislature, the industrial policy apparatus, and corporate governance. Based on extensive archival research, this book tracks the role of the General Electric Company as a pillar of the integral state in the United States from the finance capital period (1880 to 1930), through the managerial period (1930-1979), to the restructuring leading up to the age of neoliberalism (1979-present).Managing Your Academic Career: A Guide to Re-Envision Mid-Career
By Vicki L. Baker. 2022
The definitive resource for mid-career professionals in the academy, this book provides a step-by-step guide to re-imagining the mid-career stage,…
regardless of career goals, whether aiming for full professorship or an administrative path, drawing on higher education, organizational studies, and human resource fields. Essential guidance for scholars of faculty work, faculty developers, mid-career faculty members, and institutional leaders to build a strong foundation to design a diversified portfolio of mid-career stage programming is assured. The stories, examples, literature, and resources shared throughout this comprehensive work will provide inspiration, and reality checks, to mid-career faculty and the individuals charged with better supporting them. Readers will be able to: Identify their career (or departmental/institutional) goals and next steps Determine the gaps in needed skills, tools, and experiences to support goal achievement as next steps are pursued Manage the process of taking newfound skills, tools, strategies, and resources to arrive at the intended destination. Higher education faculty, administrators, and other academic leaders will be empowered to take control of the mid-career stage by using the resources, strategies, and tools offered throughout the book to build, implement, and assess a robust mid-career faculty development program.This book focuses on projects using child indicators outside of a research context and provides a user-friendly set of materials…
to help professionals or organizations start and sustain high-quality child indicator projects. The book is based on the fundamental idea that better data leads to better decisions regarding programs for children. The number of people with experience and expertise in developing child indicator projects is limited in many countries. This initiative provides critical information on the topic in a cost-effective manner, and thereby fills an important niche regarding the use of child indicators. To the extent that it promotes more and better child indicator projects, the book leads to more attention for children and better decision-making regarding public support for children. It is also likely to increase the number of such projects that exist and to improve the quality of such projects. This easy-to-use and practical guide is for all professionals and organizations working with child indicators data.Economics of Power Systems (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science #327)
By Antonio J. Conejo, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Makoto Tanaka. 2022
This book describes the latest microeconomic concepts and operations research (OR) techniques needed to comprehend the design and operation of…
power markets, as well as the actions of their agents: producers, consumers, operators, and regulators. This is critical when it comes to addressing a constantly evolving power system environment that incorporates an increasing number of no-marginal-cost renewable sources, increasingly competitive storage facilities, increasingly responsive demands, and widespread communication channels that allow distributed decision-making. Such evolving environments call for a re-examination of the microeconomic concepts and OR techniques required by graduate students and practitioners in the electric energy field. This accessible, tutorial-style book features numerous illustrative examples to help readers grasp the economic concepts and OR procedures used by power market professionals. The authors explian these concepts and procedures and present a vision of a renewable-dominated marketplace. Each chapter also includes exercises.Money Matters: How Money and Banks Evolved, and Why We Have Financial Crises
By Luis Angeles. 2022
This book explores the nature of money and banking throughout their history, and applies this to the study of financial…
crises. The first part of the book covers the evolution of monetary arrangements, money creation and the business of banking since their earliest manifestations to the present day, showing how changes in the business of banking led to a transformation in the money we use. The second part of the book applies the understanding acquired during the first part to the study of financial crises, showing that money is taken out of circulation when bank loans are paid back. This key insight is at the core of the mechanism that explains financial crises, since an economy that sees its money supply diminish is also an economy that cannot generate enough demand for its own goods and services. Financial crises result when bank lending slows down or comes to a halt – while outstanding bank loans are still due for repayment. The mechanism is discussed in detail, and the crucial role of banks highlighted. Adequate policy measures to prevent crises, or to mitigate their effects, are then put forward in light of this mechanism. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of economic and financial history, as well as those working in finance, banking and economics more widely.OCR GCSE (9–1) Business, Fourth Edition
By Alan Williams, Mike Schofield. 2022
With up-to-date case studies of real-world businesses, this fully updated OCR GCSE (9-1) Business Student Textbook will help your students…
respond to exam questions with confidence, demonstrating how they can structure their answers for maximum impact. This Student Textbook includes:- Fully up-to-date exam questions, with 25% more practice questions and increased practical support for tackling different question types- More exam tips and advice, with examiner commentary showing how students should approach exam questions- Real-world case studies, new and updated, to reflect the developments in e-commerce and the impact of recent global and political developments- Quick knowledge-recall questions throughout the book to help students check understanding, and for teachers to use in assessmentEssential SQA Exam Practice: From the publisher of How to Pass
By Craig McLeod. 2022
Exam board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: Business ManagementFirst teaching: August 2017First exam: Summer 2018Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for…
the SQA National 5 Business Management exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every question type and topic, plus two full practice papers - all written by an experienced examiner.> Choose to revise by question type or topic: A simple grid enables you to pick particular question styles or course areas that you want to focus on, with answers provided at the back of the book> Remember more in your exam: Repeated and extended practice will give you a secure knowledge of the key areas of the course (understanding business; management of marketing; management of operations; management of people; management of finance)> Familiarise yourself with the exam paper: Both practice papers mirror the language and layout of the real SQA papers; complete them in timed, exam-style conditions to increase your confidence before the exams> Find out how to achieve a better grade: Answers to the practice papers have commentaries for each question, with tips on writing successful answers and avoiding common mistakesFully up to date with SQA's requirementsThe questions, mark schemes and guidance in this practice book match the requirements of the revised SQA National 5 Business Management specification for examination from 2018 onwards.OCR GCSE (9–1) Business, Fourth Edition
By Alan Williams, Mike Schofield. 2022
With up-to-date case studies of real-world businesses, this fully updated OCR GCSE (9-1) Business Student Textbook will help your students…
respond to exam questions with confidence, demonstrating how they can structure their answers for maximum impact. This Student Textbook includes:- Fully up-to-date exam questions, with 25% more practice questions and increased practical support for tackling different question types- More exam tips and advice, with examiner commentary showing how students should approach exam questions- Real-world case studies, new and updated, to reflect the developments in e-commerce and the impact of recent global and political developments- Quick knowledge-recall questions throughout the book to help students check understanding, and for teachers to use in assessmentEssential SQA Exam Practice: From the publisher of How to Pass
By Craig McLeod. 2022
Exam board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: Business ManagementFirst teaching: August 2017First exam: Summer 2018Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for…
the SQA National 5 Business Management exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every question type and topic, plus two full practice papers - all written by an experienced examiner.> Choose to revise by question type or topic: A simple grid enables you to pick particular question styles or course areas that you want to focus on, with answers provided at the back of the book> Remember more in your exam: Repeated and extended practice will give you a secure knowledge of the key areas of the course (understanding business; management of marketing; management of operations; management of people; management of finance)> Familiarise yourself with the exam paper: Both practice papers mirror the language and layout of the real SQA papers; complete them in timed, exam-style conditions to increase your confidence before the exams> Find out how to achieve a better grade: Answers to the practice papers have commentaries for each question, with tips on writing successful answers and avoiding common mistakesFully up to date with SQA's requirementsThe questions, mark schemes and guidance in this practice book match the requirements of the revised SQA National 5 Business Management specification for examination from 2018 onwards.India Migration Report 2021: Migrants and Health (India Migration Report)
By S. Irudaya Rajan. 2022
India Migration Report 2021 presents a detailed study on the health of migrants. It highlights major healthcare challenges faced by…
migrant labourers, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced authorities, policymakers and many other stakeholders to turn their attention to healthcare delivery unlike ever before. Bringing to the fore the health status of the migrant population both before the pandemic and during the pandemic, the essays in this volume discuss • the ease of access of migrant labourers to primary healthcare services; • the safety challenges faced by migrant workers at their workplaces, their exposure to various physical and psychological health vulnerabilities, and prevalence of potentially malignant health disorders and mental health issues among migrant labourers; • gendered access to healthcare, gender-based violence at workplaces and the gender-related perceptions on topics such as employment, decision-making and general attitude; • the role of decentralization and local self-government institutions in enabling health systems to address health problems of migrants, government policies and programs aimed at providing welfare for return emigrants from the Gulf; • the vulnerabilities migrant workers have encountered across the Indian states during the pandemic, with regards to food insecurity and psychological distress, and the type of support they received from various stakeholders. The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of development studies, economics, demography, sociology and social anthropology, and migration and diaspora studies.Advances in Artificial Systems for Logistics Engineering (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #135)
By Sergey Petoukhov, Matthew He, Zhengbing Hu, Qingying Zhang. 2022
The book comprises high-quality refereed research papers presented at the Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Logistics Engineering (ICAILE2022),…
held in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 20–22, 2022, organized jointly by the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute," Wuhan University of Technology, Nanning University, National Aviation University, and the International Research Association of Modern Education and Computer Science. The topics discussed in the book include state-of-the-art papers in artificial intelligence and logistics engineering. It is an excellent source of references for researchers, graduate students, engineers, management practitioners, and undergraduate students interested in artificial intelligence and its applications in logistics engineering.Sustainable Infrastructure Investment: Toward a More Equitable Future
By Eric Christian Bruun. 2022
This book provides examples and suggestions for readers to understand how public investment decisions for sustainable infrastructure are made. Through…
detailed analysis of public investment in infrastructure over the last few decades in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Finland, the author explores how the decision-making processes for major public works spending, many of them requiring quite rigorous and detailed computational methodologies, can result in plans that underserve large portions of the population, are inequitable, and fail to efficiently preserve public property. Beginning with some of the commonly offered explanations for the slow pace of investment and repair in a supposedly prosperous society facing serious environmental challenges, the book then explores media’s role in shaping the public-at-large’s understanding of the situation and the unimaginative solutions put forward by politicians. It continues with some case studies of infrastructure investment, or lack thereof, including an exploration of competing uses for government funds. It concludes with some suggestions. It is aimed at a large readership of professionals, students, and policy makers in political science, urban planning, and civil engineering.Understanding African Real Estate Markets (Routledge International Real Estate Markets Series)
By Aly Karam, François Viruly, Catherine Kariuki, Victor A. Akujuru. 2022
This book brings together a broad range of research that interrogates how real estate market analysis, finance, planning, and investment…
for residential and commercial developments across the African continent are undertaken. In the past two decades, African real estate markets have rapidly matured, creating the conditions for new investment opportunities which has increased the demand for a deeper understanding of the commercial and residential markets across the continent. The chapters consider issues that pertain to formal real estate markets and the critical relationship between formal and informal property markets on the continent. With contributing authors from South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, the book considers the achievements of African real estate markets while also highlighting the complex central themes such as underdeveloped land tenure arrangements, the availability of finance in both the commercial and residential sectors, rapidly growing urban areas, and inadequate professional skills. This book is essential reading for students in real estate, land management, planning, finance, development, and economics programs who need to understand the nuances of markets in the African context. Investors and policy makers will learn a lot reading this book too.Generalized Modigliani–Miller Theory: Applications in Corporate Finance, Investments, Taxation and Ratings (Contributions to Finance and Accounting)
By Peter Brusov, Tatiana Filatova, Natali Orekhova. 2022
The original theory of capital cost and capital structure put forward by Nobel Prize Winners Modigliani and Miller has since…
been modified by many authors, and this book discusses some of them. The book’s authors have created general theory of capital cost and capital structure – the Brusov–Filatova–Orekhova (BFO) theory, which generalizes the Modigliani–Miller theory to encompass companies of an arbitrary age (and arbitrary lifetime). Despite the availability of this more general theory, the classical Modigliani–Miller theory is still widely used in practice. In this book, the authors for the first time generalize it for cases of practical relevance: for the case of variable profit; for the case of advance tax-on-profit payments and interest on debt payments; for the case of several tax-on-profit and interest on debt payments per period; and for the combination of all three effects. These generalizations lead to valuable theoretical results as well as significantly widen of practical application this theory in practice and increase of the quality of finance management of the company. As well, the book investigates the applications of said results in corporate finance, investments, taxation and ratings, where employing a generalized Modigliani–Miller theory can be very fruitful.The Conversion Code: Stop Chasing Leads and Start Attracting Clients
By Chris Smith. 2022
The new edition of the bestselling book for real estate agents, loan officers, SaaS and small businesses. In this revision,…
The Conversion Code: A Step-by-Step Guide to Marketing and Sales that Will Grow Your Business Faster, Second Edition, digital marketing and lead conversion expert Chris Smith delivers the ultimate exploration of the marketing and advertising tactics that are successfully generating higher quality leads that are easier for salespeople to convert. Smith researches and tests the latest and most popular platforms, including TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, while also studying the most effective sales techniques, tools, and scripts. In this book, you'll learn to: Increase your lead conversion rate, reduce your cost per lead and improve your overall ROI from marketing and sales Generate an endless supply of high-quality leads from social media that are easy to convert into closed sales Stop chasing leads and start attracting clients with amazing marketing and clever ads Adapt to the consumer privacy changes that have made targeting ads and getting leads to answer the phone harder than ever Differentiate your brand in a way that positions you as the authority and gets people contacting you who are already sold An invaluable reference and easy to follow guide for real estate agents, loan officers, SaaS and small businessescompeting in the hyper-competitive online environment. The Conversion Code, Second Edition, is also a fantastic resource for sales leaders, marketing managers, business owners and anyone else with a team who is responsible for growing revenue.Mutual Funds For Dummies
By Eric Tyson. 2022
Build substantial wealth with mutual funds (and ETFs)! Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are great for professional management, diversification…
and liquidity into your portfolio, but what are the costs and risks? And how have the best investment strategies changed with the rise of robo-investing, ETFs, and new tax rules? Mutual Funds For Dummies answers all your questions, giving you insight on how to find the best-managed funds that match your financial goals. With straightforward advice and plenty of specific fund recommendations, Eric Tyson helps you avoid fund-investing pitfalls and maximize your returns. This new edition covers the latest investment trends and philosophies, including factor investing, ESG investing, and online investing. You’ll also find completely updated coverage on the best mutual funds and ETFs in each category. Earn more with funds! Learn how mutual funds and ETFs work and determine how much of your portfolio to devote Weigh the pros and cons of funds, and use funds to help you pick your own stocks Make the most of online investing and other new technologies and trends Maximize your gains by choosing the funds and strategies that work for you Mutual Funds For Dummies is a trusted resource, and this update has arrived to help you plan and implement a successful investment strategy. The fund market is rebounding—get on the train and take advantage of the opportunity today!The business leader’s guide to creating a winning employee experience In Experience, Inc.: Why Companies that Uncover Purpose, Create Connection,…
and Celebrate Their People Will Triumph, veteran business leader and growth strategist Jill Popelka delivers a hands-on guide to building a flexible, adaptable, and engaged workforce that can enable your organization to evolve with emerging challenges. You’ll find the insights you need to build a company culture that prioritizes your people, resulting in an empowered and future-ready workforce. Filled with stories from the author’s extensive experience as the President of SAP SuccessFactors, the book also offers: Advice from global thought leaders on some of today’s most pressing issues Practical resources for any employee to improve their productivity and impact Tips on creating a culture that works for the organization and its peopleExperience, Inc. is an essential tool for business leaders of all levels, from the C-suite and senior executives to people managers and human resources practitioners. It is a must-read for organizations looking for ways to build a sustainable, productive, and exciting workplace centered around the most critical driver of business success: employees.Zum Einfluss von Krisen auf die Profitabilität von Banken in Deutschland
By Michael Deeken, Andreas Schmidt. 2022
Das Buch widmet sich der Frage, welchen Einfluss die Krisen des vergangenen Jahreszehnts auf die Profitabilität des deutschen Banksystems haben…
und welche Erkenntnisse demnach für den Einfluss der Corona-Krise auf diese abgeleitet werden können. Im Zentrum der Untersuchug stehen dabei Groß-und Landesbanken sowie Sparkassen und Genossenschaftsbanken. Neben den veränderten Rahmenbedingungen aus Krisen und der ständig wachsenden Regulatorik werden auch gesellschafts-und finanzpolistiche Aspekte in die Untersuchung einbezogen. Insbesondere Themenkomplexe wie die Kredit- und Spekulationskultur im Vorfeld der Finanzkrise, aber auch Themenbereiche wie Geld und Zinsen sind dabei zu nennen.