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    • Introduction to Electronic Commerce and Social Commerce 

      Turban, Efraim; Whiteside, Judy; King, David; Outland, Jon (Springer, 2017)
      The global economic crisis of 2009–2014 forced organizations to reduce expenses in an environment of reduced economic activities. One of the most popular cost-reduction activities is conducting more business online. ...
    • Physical Asset Management 

      Hastings, Nicholas A.J. (Springer, 2015)
      Physical asset management is the management of fixed assets such as machinery, vehicles, equipment, plant, buildings, and infrastructure. This book presents a systematic approach to the management of these assets from ...
    • Electronic Commerce 

      Turban, Efraim; King, David; Lee, Jae Kyu; Liang, Ting-Peng; Turban, Deborrah C. (Springer, 2015)
      There has been a severe recession in the world economy in recent years, yet electronic commerce, the topic of this book, has grown rapidly, with companies like Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Alibaba Group and Amazon.com ...
    • Fundamentals of Business Process Management 

      Dumas, Marlon; Rosa, Marcello La; Mendling, Jan; Reijers, Hajo A. (Springer, 2013)
      Business Process Management (BPM) is a special field for more than one reason. First of all, BPM is a crossroad of multiple, quite different viewpoints. Business managers are attracted to BPM because of its demonstrated ...
    • Corporate Social Responsibility 

      Okpara, John O.; Idowu, Samuel O. (Springer, 2013)
      We are now in an era where being socially responsible is what is expected of all organizations regardless of where such organizations are based and what they do. Being socially responsible must start from the very top ...
    • Econometrics 

      Baltagi, Badi H. (Springer, 2011)
      This book is intended for a first year graduate course in econometrics. I tried to strike a balance between a rigorous approach that proves theorems, and a completely empirical approach where no theorems are proved. Some ...
    • International Trade Theory and Policy 

      Gandolfo, Giancarlo (Springer, 2014)
      There is no lack of good international economics textbooks ranging from the elementary to the advanced, so that an additional drop in this ocean calls for an explanation. In the present writer’s opinion, there seems still ...
    • A Concise Guide to Market Research 

      Sarstedt, Marko; Mooi, Erik (Springer, 2019)
      We’ve revised the third edition thoroughly. Some of the major changes compared to the second edition are: 44The third edition comes in a new design template, which allowed us to implement further pedagogical elements, ...
    • Applied Quantitative Finance 

      Härdle, Wolfgang Karl; Chen, Cathy Yi-Hsuan; Overbeck, Ludger (Springer, 2017)
      The third edition of Applied Quantitative Finance moves the focus to risk management. As a consequence, we changed the basic structure from four to three chapters with many more contributions to market and credit risk. ...
    • Energy Economics 

      Zweifel, Peter; Praktiknjo, Aaron; Erdmann, Georg (Springer, 2017)
      Access to energy resources, energy supply security, high and increasing prices of energy, lack of competition, slow market entry of renewables, insufficient investment in energy efficiency, and sluggish progress in ...
    • Game Theory 

      Peters, Hans (Springer, 2015)
      This book is a compilation of much of the material I used for various game theory courses over the past decades. The first part, Thinking Strategically, is intended for undergraduate students in economics or business, ...
    • Microeconomics 

      Dorman, Peter (Springer, 2014)
      It would not be easy to avoid all discussion of economics in twenty-first century America. You would have to keep your distance from television, radio and newspapers, not to mention casual conversations on the job, over ...
    • System Dynamics 

      Bala, Bilash Kanti; Arshad, Fatimah Mohamed; Noh, Kusairi Mohd (Springer, 2017)
      This book System Dynamics: Modelling and Simulation is a totally new book with numerous examples and case studies for better understanding the complex systems and their changes through modelling and simulation to aid in ...
    • Managing Sustainable Business 

      Lenssen, Gilbert G.; Smith, N. Craig (Springer, 2019)
      This book provides an excellent framework for managers to pursue sustainable business in a strategic way. At the same time, it is a learning model, starting with the foundations of risk management and stakeholder management ...
    • Essentials of Business Analytics 

      Pochiraju, Bhimasankaram; Seshadri, Sridhar (Springer, 2019)
      Business analytics is the science of posing and answering data questions related to business. Business analytics has rapidly expanded in the last few years to include tools drawn from statistics, data management, data ...
    • Business Process Management Cases 

      Brocke, Jan vom; Mendling, Jan (Springer, 2018)
      Business Process Management (BPM) is an important and timely topic. For many companies, BPM is the key for mastering digital transformation and for innovating their business models. The fast pace of change has also taken ...
    • Economics as Applied Ethics 

      Beckerman, Wilfred (Springer, 2017)
      This is a substantially revised version of the first edition. Some of the chapters have been largely rewritten, notably the chapters on ‘happiness’, the valuation of life and the problem of equality. In addition, Chapter ...
    • Time Series Econometrics 

      Neusser, Klaus (Springer, 2016)
      Over the past decades, time series analysis has experienced a proliferous increase of applications in economics, especially in macroeconomics and finance. Today these tools have become indispensable to any empirically ...
    • Leadership Today 

      Marques, Joan; Dhiman, Satinder (Springer, 2017)
      The story that today’s workforce is looking for different skills and qualities in its leaders has become abundantly clear in the past decade, not only through a major shift in corporate leadership, but also through shifts ...
    • Knowledge Management 

      North, Klaus; Kumta, Gita (Springer, 2018)
      On the path towards a knowledge-based society, organisations – firms, public institutions, non-governmental organisations – increasingly face the challenge to mobilise knowledge resources for creating value in a sustainable ...