Philippe: 2415 books
Innovation Governance
How Top Management Organizes and Mobilizes for Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The business leader's guide to encouraging continuous innovation in any organization
Innovation governance is a hot topic in the business world. In a fast-paced business environment, the ability of corporate leaders to build purpose, direction, and focus for innovation is more important than...
A History of Econometrics in France
From Nature to Models
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
This text challenges the traditional view of the history of econometrics and provides a more complete story. In doing so, the book sheds light on the hitherto under-researched contribution of French thinkers to econometrics. Fascinating and authoritative, it is a comprehensive overview of what went on to be one of the defining subsets within t
by Richard Baldwin, Rikard Forslid, Philippe Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However, these efforts--collectively...
Global Supply Chains: Evaluating Regions on an EPIC Framework – Economy, Politics, Infrastructure, and Competence
Evaluating Regions on an EPIC Framework – Economy, Politics, Infrastructure, and Competence
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
A proven framework for measuring the supply chain potential of geographic regions
Managing a complex global supply chain requires a strategic assessment of the various factors that can affect decisions on procurement, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, distribution, and sales. Co-written by renowned...
Fuelling War
Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
A generous endowment of natural resources should favour rapid economic and social development. The experience of countries like Angola and Iraq, however, suggests that resource wealth often proves a curse rather than a blessing. Billions of dollars from resource exploitation benefit repressive regimes...
Power in Numbers
UNITAID, Innovative Financing, and the Quest for Massive Good
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
The story of UNITAID begins with two world leaders but quickly becomes a lesson in popular philanthropy, involving millions of people each making a small contribution to a program aimed at treating and ultimately eliminating the threat of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the developing world....
Build Your Dream Team
Humanist Management in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Suiccessive waves of innovation in management theory have claimed to revolutionise the subject of team building. However, we should look at all these waves together. This is what achieves the tide of change. For many years modern management has been known as 'Humanist Management.'...
Asia's Turning Point
An Introduction to Asia's Dynamic Economies at the Dawn of the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Asia was probably the biggest economic sensation of the post-war decades. The breathtaking success of Japan was followed by a remarkable rise of "four tigers", then ASEAN founder states and then China. The Asian miracle became a commonly accepted definition of this success. In the late 1970s...
by Philippe J. Maarek
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Campaign Communication and Political Marketing is a comprehensive, internationalist study of the modern political campaign. It indexes and explains their integral components, strategies, and tactics.
Offers comparative analyses of campaigns from country to country
Covers topics such as advertising...
Innovation Leaders
How Senior Executives Stimulate, Steer and Sustain Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Innovation leaders promote and address the innovation agenda in their company. Through personal conviction or competitive necessity they are obsessed with providing superior value to customers through innovation. They know how to mobilize their staff behind concrete innovation initiatives and do not...
Multi-criteria Decision Analysis
Methods and Software
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This book presents an introduction to MCDA followed by more detailed chapters about each of the leading methods used in this field. Comparison of methods and software is also featured to enable readers to choose the most appropriate method needed in their research.
Worked examples as well as the software featured in the book are available on an accompanying website.
World Fisheries
A Social-Ecological Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
This exciting new book grew out of an international symposium held at FAO, Rome in July 2008, but it is not just a collection of papers from that symposium. Rather, the publication brings together work on social-ecological marine research that cuts across disciplines, identifies key common elements...
Computational Methods for the Atmosphere and the Oceans
Special Volume
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This book provides a survey of the frontiers of research in the numerical modeling and mathematical analysis used in the study of the atmosphere and oceans. The details of the current practices in global atmospheric and ocean models, the assimilation of observational data into such models and the...
Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB®, OCTAVE and SCILAB
Scientific and Engineering Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB®, OCTAVE and SCILAB shows the reader how to exploit a fuller array of numerical methods for the analysis of complex scientific and engineering systems than is conventionally employed. The book is dedicated to numerical simulation of distributed parameter systems...