Technology and human capital in historical perspective

One theme of this volume is whether the complementarity between technology and human capital is a recent phenomenon, or whether it can be traced through history. Different approaches to human capital as well as technology are applied, and besides historical surveys are total factor productivity ...

Understanding industrial and corporate change

Understanding Industrial and Corporate Change contains pioneering work on technological, organizational, and institutional change from leading theorists and practitioners such as Joseph Stiglitz, Oliver Williamson, Masahiko Aoki, Alfred D. Chandler Jr., and Sidney Winter. Trans- disciplinary in its approach, the book explores three distinct themes ...

Planes de contingencia

la continuidad del <<negocio>> en las organizaciones

Las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC) han experimentado un imparable crecimiento permitiendo facilitar los trabajos tradicionales y permitir la realización de otros que eran impensables hace muy poco tiempo,las han convertido en imprescindibles en el mundo actual.En esta obra se ...

Social capital and information technology

The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutual obligation, has been applied to a number of fields, from sociology to management. It is only ...

Herramientas para el éxito

94 metodologías de análisis de negocios

Herramientas para el éxito es una guía completa sobre todas las herramientas de administración que le ayudarán a mejorar el desempeño de su equipo y de su organización. Se trata de un libro conciso pero muy completo que ofrece un amplio espectro de herramientas de ...

Participatory it design

designing for business and workplace realities

The goal of participatory IT design is to set sensible, general, and workable guidelines for the introduction of new information technology systems into an organization. Reflecting the latest systems-development research, this book encourages a business- oriented and socially sensitive approach that takes into consideration the ...

Networks

This major two-volume collection presents a comprehensive overview of the scholarly literature exploring the emergence, functioning and forms of networks, focusing on their role in the economy. The collection draws from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds to combine key writings that have defined the ...

Thoughtful interaction design

a design perspective on information technology

The authors of Thoughtful Interaction Design go beyond the usual technical concerns of usability and usefulness to consider interaction design from a design perspective. The shaping of digital artifacts is a design process that influences the form and functions of workplaces, schools, communication, and culture ...

Manage IT as a business

how to achieve alignment and add value to the company

Many IT projects fail to deliver the benefits to the business that were promised. Yet IT managers and staff work hard to meet the needs of the business: Systems are put in place; network operations are reliable and stable. The cause is usually a misalignment ...

Data mining

next generation challenges and future directions

Data mining, or knowledge discovery, has become an indispensable technology for businesses and researchers in many fields. Drawing on work in such areas as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases, and high performance computing, data mining extracts useful information from the large data sets now ...

Gestión del conocimiento en los medios de comunicación

conceptos, pautas y estrategias de gestión del conocimiento y tecnologías de la información aplicadas a las empresas de comunicación

La tecnología al servicio de las personas

e-hr

El siglo que acabamos de estrenar se encargará de ratificar en su infancia la realidad del discurso, hoy todavía y teórico, de que las personas son la fuente de valor diferencial en las organizaciones. Nada se conseguirá si no se sabe gestionar de manera excelente ...

The Oxford handbook of innovation

This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Policy Studies, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body ...

Creating an environment for successful projects

Since it was first published in 1997, Creating an Environment for Successful Projects has become a landmark work that shows how to develop project management as an organizational practice. This second edition offers solid, results-oriented advice on how upper management can create an environment that ...

Media, technology and copyright

integrating law and economics

Media, Technology and Copyright is an interdisciplinary work that applies economic theory to central topical issues in the law of intellectual property. Based on the author's professional experience as a professor, lecturer, and consultant, the volume represents the first full-length consideration of the diverse ...

Informática aplicada a la gestión inicial

manual práctico para la administración

Microsoft Windows es el sistema operativo de mayor difusión internacional. Como tal, es el principal intermediario entre los usuarios y sus ordenadores, y dominarlo implica optimizar al máximo el rendimiento de éstos. Microsoft Word es el procesador de textos de mayor difusión internacional. Forma parte ...

Rating management's effectiveness

with case studies in telecommunications

This book explains why and how management's effectiveness makes the difference between success and failure, in any organization. Based on extensive research in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland, the author outlines how to be effective, what happens in cases of ineffectiveness ...

Financing technology's frontier

decision-making models for investors and advisors

INDICE Chapter 1. Sharing the Excitement of Discovery. Chapter 2. Growth Models that Encourage Investment. Chapter 3. Where to Find Capital#Part I: Venture Capital. Chapter 4. Where to Find Capital#Part II: Public Markets and Private Placements. Chapter 5. Creative and Alternative Financing Strategies ...

Finanzas con Excel

Esta segunda edición está construida sobre la base de la primera, enormemente ampliada con más de 100 nuevos modelos, y con la novedad de incluir un CD-ROM con los modelos elaborados. Todo el desarrollo del libro se ha realizado con la versión Excel que incluye ...

La valoración de los negocios

una guía teórica y práctica para valorar empresas