Knowledge, Information and Data economics Books

This volume contains the Proceedings of ICFCA 2005, the 3rd International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis. The ICFCA conference series aims to be the premier forum for the publication of advances in applied lattice and...

"We know more than we can tell and we can know nothing without relying upon those things which we may not be able to tell" (Michael Polanyi) The importance of knowledge management (KM) is increasingly recognized in the public...

These proceedings contain the papers accepted for presentation at the Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003) held on Sanibel Island, Florida, U. S. A. , October 20-23, 2003. Following the success of ISWC 2002...

Real connections within teams can create a culture shift for an entire company. Leading Below the Surface illustrates this vision, taking a radical stance against the "surface-ness" of corporate culture and exploring how highly rewarded behaviors are...

The purpose of this volume is to analyze the microfoundations of knowledge spillovers. The microeconomic analysis of spillovers leads to the insight that the spillover and flow of knowledge is not at all automatic. Instead,...

Innovation is crucial for competitive advantage and long-term success. Based on both theory and practice, this book develops an architecture that enables companies to understand their innovation system and encourage creativity at a strategic level. It...

Do you want a workplace where people love what they do? Then you are about to discover a leadership development framework like nothing you have ever seen. Forget the traditional methods used to develop and grow leaders (they don't work). Cut through the...

 This book is concerned how to apply behavioral psychology method to predict labor psychology and solve labor argument challenges in societies. Research question:  How to raise labor productivity? This book is one teaching book to give...

 In the first part, it explains what the different common interview methods are. The first chapter indicates what the common interviews are as well as explains why interviewers need to apply psychological methods to test any applicant behaviors in...

 Share market is often changing.  Share price will often change due to market environment factor influence, e.g. competitors, strategy change, reorganization, sale growth or reducing etc. different factors.  How share buyers can predict...

Navigate your financial crisis and emerge stronger than before.A financial crisis can happen to anyone at any time. The most important thing is not to let fear and despair paralyze you and keep you from taking action. Many have come back stronger than...

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace may be the key to taking your company to the next level of success. Find out why and learn how to do it right.Full Stack Recruiter: Diversity Sourcing Strategies is your comprehensive guidebook to everything you...

Is Self-Doubt holding you back from living the life you want?Self-Doubt Detox: 5 Steps to Beat Your Bully and Bloom Confidence is packed with compelling experiences to inspire, motivate and help guide you on your journey of healing to happiness.If your...

Pulling aside the curtain of 'Big Data' buzz, this book introduces C-suite and other non-technical senior leaders to the essentials of obtaining and maintaining accurate, reliable data, especially for decision-making purposes. Bad data begets bad...

This book explores the battleground between neoliberal capitalist development processes in Latin America and the challenges to these systems that can be found through innovative community-driven buen vivir/vivir bien initiatives.In the current...

This book is everything you need to control your financial future.A financial plan guides you during good and bad times, ups and downs of the market, job changes, and financial setbacks. Creating a financial plan is not all about money, budgeting, and...

write this book aims to give my opinion to predit how future global computer industry will bring influences to global education reform. I shall give reasons to explain why US computer industry can not keep the leadership position as well as I shall...

 What are the different unique characteristics between one developing country and one developed country ？How to judge whether the country had been either developed or had been developing ? What factors influence the country development speed? In my...

Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation is a radical departure from the commonly held belief that neo-liberal economics from the US and the West is universal, and is the only solution to underdevelopment...

<p>Ready to start living the life you’ve always imagined?</p><p><br/></p><p>Most people sit around hoping their dreams will come to them. Don’t let next year look the same as this year. You can take action...

China has been experiencing extraordinary economic growth for over two decades. Behind the remarkable statistics, however, it is facing a pressing issue: balancing its economic development needs with protecting its environmental resources. The...

This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has...

The ADB Perceptions Survey 2020 seeks to determine whether ADB is meeting the evolving needs of its developing member countries on providing innovative and client-centered financial and knowledge products and services.This publication presents the...

In Learning Entrepreneurship Through Indigenous Knowledge the authors extract knowledge from a sampling of proverbs and sayings, and ingeniously apply this to entrepreneurship. They innovatively employ educative storytelling to concretize the...

The knowledge economy is the added non-monetary value that society accrues from increased access to data, information, and knowledge in the new, globally connected world. ICT and technology innovation are paving the way for significant economic...

He covers the anti-trust case against Microsoft; the successes of eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, and Google; road-kills along the information highway such as the forgotten eToys; as well as the Enron implosion and other corporate scandals. After tracing this...

Didaktik and Curriculum in Ongoing Dialogue revives the dialogue between the continental European Didaktik tradition and the Anglo-Saxon tradition of curriculum. It highlights important research findings that bridge cultural differences and argues for a...

Knowledge management principles, strategies, models, tools, and techniques have been proven in government, business, and industry. More recently, knowledge management has emerged as an essential enabler for the successful pursuit of scholarly activities...

In a changing and complex environment currently facing the main challenges of sustainable development, effective management of knowledge, intellectual assets, organizational learning, and talent management are the basis for social innovation and new ways...

The book reviews the relationship between culture and workplace innovation as a multi-dimensional, subjective and context specific phenomenon operating dynamically as organisational innovation, organisational climate for innovation, team and individual...

In most discussions about the knowledge-based economy, innovation is associated or even equated with technology, while culture's influence is ignored. Innovation is however embedded in cultural and social contexts, and neglecting these crucial contexts...

Since the mid-1980s, the development of competitive strategies based on intensive innovation has deeply transformed the design of new products and services. Much has been written about new methods and organizations that are likely to develop economically...

The public sector provides services to the public and does not expect to acquire financial gain; hence, the practices from the private sector could not be used efficiently without modification, bearing in mind that the main scope of the public...

With a focus on the three themes of sustainability, knowledge management and ecocentrism, this edited volume presents practical case studies from various organizational contexts, illustrating how sustainability-related practices make use of knowledge...

3X Sales Success!How to Move Your Sales Team to the Top 1%Why do some companies succeed while others fail in now the most competitive marketplace the world has ever seen?The big problem is lost sales. By revealing the psychology behind the elite sellers,...

The Document Methodology III makes a rock solid case for knowledge as the single most valuable asset of any organization.  It proposes a systems engineering discipline with which to capture, quantify, categorize, store and utilize knowledge to...

Labor In Politics Or Class Versus Country: Considerations For American Voters (1920) is a book written by Charles Norman Fay. The book discusses the role of labor in politics and the conflict between class interests and national interests in American...

Knowledge Management for Project Excellence defines a methodology, called Projects with Learning Outcomes (ProwLO), for management of knowledge in projects, including a process model. This guide enables organizations to solve many known knowledge...

You have more choices about the way you work than you probably realise ...When and where do you tackle different tasks?What work tools and technologies do you use?How do you run your meetings and collaborate with your team?Where do you go and what do you...

This book provides practical examples that can be replicated in other large global knowledge, financing, and development institutions and that will be relevant for public, private, and non-profit organizations.

Copyright laws, along with other Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), constitute the legal foundation for the "global knowledge-based economy" and copyright law now plays an increasingly important role in the creation of business fortunes, the access to...

Until now, research has given us only a limited understanding of how managers actually make sense of and apply management knowledge; how networks of interaction amongst managers help or hinder processes of knowledge diffusion and the sharing of best...