This book is a critical examination of the main ideas regarding disruptive change and startups. It systematically lays out the full set of challenges and tasks one needs to master in order for existing organizations to weather severe change or make a startup successful. Ian Mitroff outlines the...

Das 7. Wissenschaftsforum Mobilität, das im Juni 2015 an der Universität Duisburg-Essen stattfand, suchte Antworten auf Fragen nach der Entwicklung und Umsetzung neuer Verkehrskonzepte, nach neuen Fahrzeugantrieben und -systemen, neuen Produktionsverfahren und nach neuen Managementkonzepten...

Digital Leadership - wer führt verführt -- Digital Mindset - erst wenn die Synapsen digital sind, erfolgt ein Neudenken -- Digital Strategy - zurück zu den Tugenden des strategischen Wettbewerbsvorteils -- Digital Customer Relationships - ohne Beziehung keine Nähe -- Digital Prozesses,...

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...

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...

Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...

Analyzes quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of postwar Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the 20th century, more specifically, 1957-97

The dynamics of industry growth, technology and globalization have a dramatic impact on the current economic growth of nations, significantly changing the market structure and world trade, and challenging the competitive equilibrium and their guiding principles. In the world of innovations and...

This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three...