This book analyzes the dynamic growth of the U.S. scholarly publishing industry in the United States during 1939-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences. It explains how the key publishing players positioned...

This book deconstructs the case study, describes the case writing process and explains how a good case study is composed. It is a reference book that accompanies case writers on their case writing journey. It serves as a guide for writers to develop case studies for teaching, research, and...

This book offers helpful insight and advice on how doctoral students and junior faculty can succeed as an entrepreneurship scholar. It invites them to think entrepreneurially to identify research opportunities, manage the publication process, achieve excellence in the classroom, secure a faculty...

This book addresses the recent debate about copyright law and its impact on the distribution of scientific knowledge from an economic perspective. The focus is on the question whether a copyright regime or an open access regime is better suited to the norms and organizational structure in a...

Part 1: Prologue -- Part 2: Case Study 1 (Choice Behaviour in Interactive MCDM: A Rocky road) -- Part 3: Case Study 2 (Can a Linear Value Function Explain Choices? An Experimental Study: A Not So Rocky Road) -- Part 4: Epilogue

This book carries on the ideal of providing a systematic exposition of the logistics development in China to the English-reading community at large in the spirit of the four predecessor volumes, published in previous years. This book is the fifth volume in a series entitled "Contemporary...

Dieses Buch greift die drei wichtigsten Aspekte der Marktveränderung im Handel auf: Markt und Kunde, neue Geschäftsideen und Geschäftsmodelle sowie Geschäftssysteme und Businessschnittstellen. Dabei werden sowohl absatzseitige Aspekte wie beispielsweise das Kaufverhalten der Millennials bzw....

This volume presents empirical studies and theoretical reflections on Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), its most important concepts and their interrelations. As a novel theory of governance, EGT understands governance as radically evolutionary, which implies that all elements of governance...

China’s Logistic Development Environment -- Development of China’s Logistics Market -- Logistics Facilities and Technological Development -- Policies and Plans on China’s Logistics Development -- Logistics Development of Pearl River Delta -- Logistics Development of Wuhan Metropolitan...

Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Unique, Multi-Generational Development: A Lesson in Forward Planning -- 2 Changes in the Environment that Made the Bazancourt-Pomacle Biorefinery -- 3 Industrial Symbiosis at the Bazancourt-Pomacle Biorefinery -- 4 Prospects for the Bazancourt-Pomacle Biorefinery...