Digital Business Ecosystems in the Service Industry
This guide explores the transformative potential of Digital Business Ecosystems (DBEs) for the service industry. Combining theory with case studies from leaders like Amazon and Netflix, it offers actionable insights to reshape business models and achieve sustainable growth.
Service Analytics and Management
This book covers key issues on service strategy, planning, design, and delivery. It explores service capacity management, resource planning, quality improvement, and the role of IT and Analytics. The text includes detailed cases for extensive class discussion.
This guide to the legal landscape of sea transport focuses on Letters of Indemnity (LoI) and Bills of Lading. It bridges legal theory and maritime practice, analyzing risks and offering practical solutions for shippers and carriers, including emerging blockchain technology.
The Influence of Smart Buildings on Smart Cities
Explore smart buildings, the technologies shaping them, and their impact on urban life. This accessible book explains how smart buildings lead to the development of smart cities, offering insights for anyone curious about the future of urban living.
Rehabilitating Heckscher-Ohlin
Comparative advantage, the cornerstone of international trade, lacks a theory consistent with the data. This book rehabilitates the popular but rejected Heckscher-Ohlin model by endogenizing technology and focusing on natural resources within a framework of vertical trade.
This book bridges economics and divinity, exploring how economic principles can be tools for spiritual growth. By examining material goods and free will, it reveals pathways to align with God’s will, transforming economics from a “dismal science” into a lens for the spiritual.
Luigi Einaudi and the Bocconi Years
For the first time, Luigi Einaudi’s lectures on public expenditure offer insights that remain strikingly relevant. His ideas—from defence spending to a concept presaging modern Eurobonds—provide guiding principles for contemporary economic policy at national and European levels.
A Culture of Endless Consumption
This provocative book challenges our relationship to possessions, value, and identity. It explores how things have come to define our sense of self and what lies behind our endless consumption, revealing how our material world shapes our well-being and ecological futures.
Public Finance in India
This book examines the management of India’s public revenue, expenditure, and debt. It analyzes fiscal performance and the impact of public finance policies on economic growth, income distribution, and stability, offering vital insights for policymakers, economists, and students.
Airports today face growing competitive pressures and are less often seen as natural monopolies. This book explores the global shift towards pro-competitive regulation in the airport sector, arguing that efforts remain at an early stage and require co-ordinated action.
The Real Estate Learner’s Guide
For students of real estate, this reference book assembles fundamental concepts and terms about what can be done on, to, and with land. With directions for further reading, it aids learning and prepares students for a career in land, property, and valuation.
A working manual for design and process engineers, this book offers analytical solutions and process optimization for impurity diffusion in silicon, gallium arsenide, and other semiconductor materials used in the fabrication of microelectronics devices and microsystems.
Iconic movies offer insight into our culture, revealing what we value, fear, or hope to become. Does the rise of superheroes suggest Americans feel powerless? What does it mean that movies have gotten darker? Without data, it’s just speculation. This book uses data analytics.
Earth’s oceans face unprecedented environmental crises. The UN Law of the Sea is failing to address plastic pollution, acidification, and sea-level rise. This book offers a blueprint for transforming outdated ocean law into planetary stewardship.
This book chronicles Marx’s evolution from philosopher to revolutionary innovator in political economy. Scrutinising post-Marxist perspectives, it reveals how his analysis of exploitation, equality, and liberty offers new slants for facing today’s recurring crises.
Rationality in Economics
A critical look at how scientists model human rationality. This book traces today’s complex mathematical models of choice back to their flawed, unpragmatic roots in medieval thought, offering a new taxonomy for understanding how we decide.
Spanning 118 years, this history of Nigeria’s public debt uncovers lessons from past successes and failures. It finds that political leadership is a decisive factor for sustainability, offering guidance for Nigeria and all developing economies.
This book is an in-depth exploration of modern Situation Centers (SCs)—essential components of national security. It examines their foundations and strategic role, focusing on the integration of big data and AI, cybersecurity, military applications, and future developments.
Master fundamental calculations in finance and insurance using simple tools like a calculator or Excel. This practical guide is for professionals, students, and anyone wanting to grasp key principles and make better financial decisions, unassisted by complex software.
This book shows that after a brief increase, Pakistan’s Total Factor Productivity declined continuously. Nationalization and IMF borrowing led to deindustrialization, a massive increase in poverty never witnessed before, and accentuating imbalances in income and wealth.
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