This monograph provides theoretical and practical perspectives on competency management as a key resource for producing competitive products. The authors develop and substantiate a law of dependence between competencies and emergence of new markets, and describe the practical aspects of...

IT-Serviceunternehmen müssen in einem äußerst dynamischen Markt bestehen und schnell auf neue Entwicklungen reagieren. Es ist daher von immenser Bedeutung, möglichst früh zu erkennen, welche Anforderungen in Zukunft an ihre Mitarbeiter gestellt werden. Bernhard Arnold untersucht, wie sich...

Management Skills sind Schlüsselqualifikationen, die neben der reinen Fachkompetenz nachhaltige Wettbewerbsvorteile darstellen und so zu beruflichem und privatem Erfolg führen. Diese persönlichen Fähigkeiten und Einstellungen gehen über Teamfähigkeit und Motivation von Mitarbeitern hinaus...

Introduction. And yet the Twain Meet: Great Convergence brings the East closer to the West -- Great Divergence and the Rise of the West -- Great Convergence and the Rise of the Rest -- The Great Convergence and Globalization: How the Former Colo-nies Became the World Economic Locomotives --...

Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...

Section 1: Economics and Finance -- Chapter 1: The Political Economy of Financial Development: A Review -- Chapter 2: Grievance Redressal in the Indian Financial Regulatory Space - The Unified Approach -- Chapter 3: Role of Intermediaries in Providing Financial Access: Current and Future...

This book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and...

"The emphasis on proper institutional settings as a requirement for innovation and the systematic comparative study of (the lack of) these settings in the Arab region leads to a challenging analysis and also provides clear policy recommendations." - Joan Muysken, Professor Emeritus, Maastricht...

Chapter 1: Banks Today: The Relationship between Financial Services and Technology -- Chapter 2: FinTech: Trends, Players, Challengers, and Bubbles -- Chapter 3: Products vs. Money Moments -- Chapter 4: Let’s Get Real: Anecdotes from FinTech Titans Experiencing Banking Products -- Chapter 5:...