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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Global credit management

an executive summary

In many companies credit management is a passive and reactive discipline. This results in significant receivables assets weighing heavily on balance sheets, dragging down cash flow and inhibiting growth. The power of credit is shackled, muted. Release the power and passion of credit management in ...

Financial management

Financial Management is the ideal course text for business and management undergraduates and MBA students taking an introductory module in Financial Management. The concise yet thorough style of the book makes it highly accessible for students coming to the subject for the first time. This ...

Achieving post-merger success

a stakeholder's guide to cultural due dilligence,assessment, and integration

#The failure rate of mergers and acquisitions is unreasonable, unacceptable, and unnecessary,# say Claude S. Lineberry and J. Robert Carleton in this much-needed resource, which outlines their unique, proven, and practical process for increasing the success of mergers and acquisitions. Written for all those with ...

Financial management and analysis workbook

step-by-step exercises and tests to help you master financial management and analysis

This comprehensive workbook and study guide is the ideal complement to the bestselling Financial Management and Analysis, Second Edition#the definitive guide to the fundamentals of financial management and analysis. Financial Management and Analysis Workbook, Second Edition allows you to self-test your financial knowledge before ...