The ability to harness Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) is increasingly at the heart of competitiveness and sustainable growth. As countries engage in an increasingly competitive global economy, they are trying to weave ICT into their development strategies, in the same way...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1987 Minority Marketing Congress held in Greensboro, North Carolina under the theme Minority Marketing: Issues and Prospects. It provides a variety of quality research in the field of minority marketing in order to assimilate and enhance...

Foreword -- Preface -- Marketing Strategies for Reaching Minority Markets -- Redefining Ethnic Market Segmentation -- An Assessment of the Impact of Racially Homogeneous Reference Groups on Strength of Ethnic Affiliation for Black Customers -- Initial Impressions in the Retail Buyer-Seller Dyad...

This study aims at analyzing the resilience of Indonesia from two aspects: one is was natural disaster and the other is environmental protection. Therefore the study comprises two parts. The first aims at analyzing Palangkaraya City in Central Kalimantan Province by constructing apartial and a...

Urbanization and Externalities -- Methods of Measuring Externalities -- Measurement Strategies of Externalities -- Externalities in Kathmandu -- Externalities in Quito -- Policy Implications and Conclusions.

Changing the Rules of Development: Institutional Innovation in Rebuilding China’s Shanty Towns -- Slum Upgrading Policies of China’s Shanty Towns -- Financing Development of Shanty Towns Upgrading -- Systems of Land and Security of Tenure -- Housing Development and Sustainable -- Economic...

This book contributes to the discussion on wisdom in management, leadership and strategy by developing a unique theoretical approach. Integrating rational-analytical, intuitive and philosophical dimensions of wise decision-making, it advocates a broadly Platonic-Socratic view on wisdom. Applying...

‘This book presents a fascinating journey through several cases of start-ups in the handset vendors business. A “must-read” for anyone interested in the strategies of start-ups in new industries.’ -Alfonso Gambardella, Professor of Management, Bocconi University, Italy ‘Giachetti’s...

Charakterisierung und Bedeutung mobiler Web-Befragungen -- Stand der Forschung zu den Einflussfaktoren der Teilnahme an mobilen Web-Befragungen -- Theoretische Bezugspunkte zur Erklärung der Teilnahmeentscheidung an mobilen Web-Befragungen -- Empirische Untersuchung der Teilnahmebereitschaft an...