Economy & Finance

This book includes various topics related to marketing and business analytics. It is written to help organizations increase their profits by making better decisions. This book is meant for students, practitioners, industry professionals, researchers, and faculty working in the field of commerce, marketing, and big data analytics.

This book provides a comprehensive and most recent discussion of breakthroughs on additive manufacturing for plastic materials recycling to boost a circular economy. It offers new ideas of combining/hybridizing processing methods that work as a source of information for manufacturers in making new and strategic product development plans.

This book offers a unique and scholarly perspective on a little studied subject: maritime crime and policing.

With record voter turnouts for the 2008 presidential election, interest in the U.S. electoral system and voting (especially among college students) has never been higher. This textbook is based on a popular mathematics and politics course that the authors have taught at George Washington University for the past six years. It explores the mathema

Written by two leaders in quantitative research, this book compares various numerical methods for solving high-dimensional nonlinear problems arising in option pricing. Designed for practitioners, it is the first authored book to discuss nonlinear Black-Scholes PDEs and compare the efficiency of many different methods, including novel techniques

This book is a comprehensive and analytical source on entrepreneurship and big data that prospective entrepreneurs must know before embarking upon an entrepreneurial journey in this present age of digital transformation.

Sustainable Entrepreneurship is nowadays considered as a discipline at the cross-roads of many others. This book describes recent cases, techniques and tools proposed for leaders, entrepreneurs, and practitioners who are involved and responsible for making strategic decisions in their companies and aiming at sustainable development.

This book explores regionalism in the European Union in comparative context with Latin American, African, Asian, North American regionalism. It also investigates the links between the EU and other regional organisations and assesses the implications for the study of contemporary regionalism both inside and beyond Europe.

There is little doubt that in recent years, enterprise has been considered an essential approach in the alleviation of deprivation existing in the developed world. The assumption is that area-based initiatives provide a means by which enterprise can include all members of society in mainstream social and economic activities. The rationale behind Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion is to critically challenge the notion that enterprise can address the complexity behind deprivation and social exclusion by demonstrating UK and North American examples. We see how enterprise has come to be regarded as a means by which poverty can be reduced and new opportunities can be opened up to support individuals. However, the authors here seek to give a greater appreciation to the structural roots of deprivation and pose questions about whether or not enterprise might actually exacerbate structures of social and economic exclusion. What if enterprise actually maintains differences between types of community and keeps individuals entrenched in certain ways of thinking? The contributions in this edited collection will offer a distinct opportunity in respect of both theoretical and empirical advancement. The authors hale from both sides of the Atlantic and form an inter-disciplinary group to provide complementary perspectives in this field.

Continuing the thematic strand of the successful and proven British Library '100 Maps' series. This new volume traces the fully international history of railways from their beginnings in the north-west of England through to the inter-continental lines of today.

Using country case experiences, this volume discusses the dramatic innovation and learning experiences in East Asia.This book was published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.

This edited collection presents cutting edge research into the topic of green messages and subsequent consumer responses, providing important insights into current practice as well as directions for future research. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Advertising.

Data science is a multi-disciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. This book covers all the possible areas, applications with arising serious concerns, and challenges towards this emerging area/field in detail.

This book examines the impacts of land tenure reform interventions implemented in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe.

This book takes into account the climate change adaptation, mitigation practices, and policy frameworks for promotion of sustainable livestock and poultry production.

An insightful look at physician integration in today's healthcare market, this book draws on the author's experience and expertise in the field to address those factors relevant to physician integration. She examines topics such as physician reimbursement not keeping pace, declining margins, physician shortages, physician hospital competition, r

This book presents an innovative method of how to select a leader based on system engineering concepts and the voice of the customer from Total Quality Management.

This book fills a need for a guide on the important commercial aspects of the lubricants business, offering valuable insights from an industry veteran. It answers questions and offers insights on how to effectively market and sell all types of lubricants, including automotive, industrial, mining, marine, agricultural, and aerospace, among others.