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Business and Management
A Short Guide to Operational Risk
This comprehensive yet concise guide provides an accessible introduction to operational risk management for professionals across all industries and sectors. The renowned author defines operational risk and its crucial role within holistic enterprise-wide risk governance frameworks. In a highly practical manner, the book guides readers through the core processes of identifying, assessing, [...]
Accelerators in Silicon Valley
Building Successful Startups
Whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur, a policymaker seeking to foster a thriving startup ecosystem, or a researcher interested in the drivers of innovation, this book offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the Silicon Valley accelerator model that has become a global benchmark for startup development.
Assetization
Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism
Offering interdisciplinary perspectives on how a wide range of things are being transformed into capitalized "assets" that can generate economic rents, this book sheds critical light on the complex dynamics of financialization and the expanding role of assets in the contemporary technoscientific economy.
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How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly
Whether you are an academic, a policymaker, a tech industry observer, or simply an engaged citizen, this book provides a thoughtful and insightful examination of a company that has come to wield tremendous influence over our lives. It challenges readers to confront the broader implications of Amazon's success and the need for [...]
Global Fintech
Financial Innovation in the Connected World
The book analyzes foundational innovations and their prompting of transitions in banking, payments and services. Contributors assess regulatory frameworks and policies, providing perspectives from academia, industry and government. Case studies evaluate recommendations for assessing mergers and standards.
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Competition Policy for the High-Technology Economy
This book makes the case for shifting competition policy's emphasis from price effects to fostering innovation, especially in high-technology sectors. It argues regulatory priorities should align with incentivizing dynamic competition through new product and service development rather than static price considerations.
Principles of Knowledge Auditing
Foundations for Knowledge Management Implementation
“Principles of Knowledge Auditing” provides clear guidance for understanding and successfully implementing knowledge audits within organizations. Knowledge audits assess knowledge assets and needs to improve organizations, but currently lack standards. The author addresses this by outlining principles for conceptualizing, planning, executing and reporting on knowledge audits based on in-depth case studies. Recommended [...]
Selling the American people
Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech
"Selling the American People" provides researchers, scholars, and students in media studies, communication, science and technology studies, and critical digital studies with a rich, nuanced historical analysis of the development of digital advertising and the data-driven marketing industry. The book offers critical perspectives on how the technical, institutional, and ideological underpinnings of [...]