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Book SynopsisTechnology transfer has a long history, but only recently has it become the subject of study and action. The rapid rate of scientific and technical advance in both Europe and the United States and the existence of large technology gaps among nations has brought the importance of the process into sharper focus, and has c~used technology transfer to have implications for countless aspects of both national and international develop­ ment. Technology transfer has been variously defined as: the process of information transfer between science, technology and actual utilization of scientific data and ideas, to wit: production of goods and services; the process by which science and technology are diffused throughout human activity; the transfer of research results into operations; the process by which technical information originating in one setting is adapted for use in another setting. Collectively, these and other definitions share a common theme which characterizes the process as one of bringing technology i'ilto widespread use in solving mankind's problems in the shortest practical time. The first NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Technology Transfer in July, 1973, brought together many of the individuals dealing with quantitative data, based on empirical research. This conference had both the advantages and disadvantages of a somewhat detached point of view. The ASI also had lectures contributed by representatives from government agencies and corporations (and a few university-based scholars) who had been active as practitioners or consultants in policy-making and organizational design for technology transfer.Table of ContentsI. Introduction.- World Crises: an Opportunity for Technology Transfer (Chairman’s Introduction).- Technology Transfer in the United States.- II. Quantitative and Qualitative Areas.- Empirical Approaches to Understanding Transfer Processes in Technological Change: Report on a Workshop.- Development and Implications of a Technique for Quantifying Technology.- Technology Transfer in the British Textile Industry.- The Critical Role of Communication in Technology Transfer.- Regulatory Barriers to Technological Innovation: Some Examples.- III. Public Technology.- Remote Sensing Technology Transfer to the Public Sector.- Accelerating Reform in the Courts through Technology Transfer.- Organizing U.S. State and Local Governments to Capture the Benefits of R&D.- Technology Transfer: Expanded Uses of Federal Laboratories.- Transfer of Military Technology to Civilian Needs.- European Views on the Transfer of Technology from Military to Civil Uses.- Technology Transfer from the Defense to the Civilian Sector in Israel: Methodology and Findings.- IV. International Technology Transfer.- People’s Republic of China’s Purchases of Industrial Plants from Japan.- U.S. Corporate Experience in Transferring Industrial Technology to the Soviet Bloc.- Barriers to the Transfer of Military Systems Technology to the United States.- Nuclear Energy Technology Transfer: the Security Barriers.- European Community Policies and Programmes Favouring Technology Transfer.- Assessing Effects of International Technology Transfer on the U.S. Economy.- V. Multinational Technology Transfer.- Technology Transfer in a Multinational Firm.- The Role of Technology in Development.- How to Obtain Foreign Technology at Minimum Cost, or Free.- An Evaluation of Technology Transfer in Under-Developed Countries.- VI. Summary, Synthesis and Review.- Summary.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book contributes to the creation of a cyber ecosystem supported by blockchain technology in which technology and people can coexist in harmony. Blockchains have shown that trusted records, or ledgers, of permanent data can be stored on the Internet in a decentralized manner. The decentralization of the recording process is expected to significantly economize the cost of transactions. Creating a ledger on data, a blockchain makes it possible to designate the owner of each piece of data, to trade data pieces, and to market them. This book examines the formation of markets for various types of data from the theory of market quality proposed and developed by M. Yano. Blockchains are expected to give data itself the status of a new production factor. Bringing ownership of data to the hands of data producers, blockchains can reduce the possibility of information leakage, enhance the sharing and use of IoT data, and prevent data monopoly and misuse.The industry will have a bright future as soon as better technology is developed and when a healthy infrastructure is created to support the blockchain market. Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Creation of Blockchain and a New Ecosystem Chapter 2. Market Quality Approach to IoT Data on Blockchain Big Data Chapter 3. Industrial Applications of Blockchain to IoT Data Chapter 4. Theory of Money: From Ancient Japanese Copper Coins to Virtual Currencies Chapter 5. Ethereum, Smart Contracts, DApps Chapter 6. DEX: A Dapp for the Decentralized Marketplace Chapter 7. Blockchain Business and its Regulation Chapter 8. Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology

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Book SynopsisThis book explores cultural polarization resultant decline in social cohesion in society and how information and communication technologies exacerbate the cultural polarization through phenomenon such as “echo chambers” of information that damage the quality of online discourse. This book examines the nature of the information that is shared. Further this book identifies how the quality of online discourse and polarization induced through it leads to offline harm and negative outcomes in our society. This book discusses how wide-ranging information exchange on digital media can lead to two scenarios, namely, the formation of the public sphere or the formation of echo chambers. While the public sphere, which promotes greater diversity, is a well-researched domain, substantially less research has been conducted on echo chambers in relation to sociocultural activities, products or services. This book states that polarization induced by the formation and evolution of echo chambers in sociocultural realm such as around epidemic outbreaks, vaccination, healthcare, education, and climate change is an emerging avenue of research due to its enormous impact in the shaping of our society. Therefore, this book argues that understanding the characteristics of sociocultural products related controversies is critical and valuable in developing interventions to reduce unhealthy societal and organizational polarisations. The development of systematic knowledge is required to understand and address such a large scale and complex societal challenge so as to facilitate a deeper understanding and offer solutions to the growing issue of polarization in sociocultural context driven primarily through echo chambers. This book examines how technology enabled social media usage increases, and the complex structural outcomes such as echo chambers are likely to have an increasingly important role in shaping public opinion. This book appeals to readers with interest in developing a deeper and broader understanding of issues and initiatives related to the polarization of opinions on cultural products. These include readers and scholars from various disciplines, along with engaged organizational leaders, activists, policy makers, and common citizens. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to the Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Polarization (Israr Qureshi, Babita Bhatt, Samrat Gupta and Amit Anand Tiwari).- Part I: Techniques and Methods.- Chapter 2. A Schelling-opinion model based on integration of opinion formation with residential segregation (Victoria Arcón, Juan Pablo Pinasco and Inés Caridi).- Chapter 3. The dynamics of Online opinion formation: Polarization around vaccine development for COVID-19 (Gaurav Jain, Avinash Bapu Sreenivas, Samrat Gupta and Amit Anand Tiwari).- Chapter 4. Investigating Dynamics of Polarization of Youtube True and Fake News Channels (Manideepto Das, Priya Singh and Adrija Majumdar).- Part II: Social Aspects of Polarization.- Chapter 5. The Polarization about Bushfires in Australia (Zhiwen Zhang and Babita Bhatt).- Chapter 6. (De) polarizing ICT Debates of Reservations and Affirmative Action Policy: A Plea for Reparations in India and the U.S. (K.C. Nat Turner, Nagaraju Gundemeda and Sabiha Sultana).- Part III: Cultural Aspects of Polarization.- Chapter 7. Impact of ICT on Literary Censorship: A Study of Selected Controversial Texts in Contemporary India (Fujeena Abdul Kader and Upender Gundala).- Chapter 8. Investigating Social Media Induced Polarization on National Education Policy 2020 (Bhavna Sharma and Kirti Vasuja).- Chapter 9. Media Bias and Bollywood: An untold story (Gaurav Jain, Snehanshu Suman, Samrat Gupta and Amit Anand Tiwari).- Part IV: Consequences and Outcomes of Polarization: Trends and Future Research Directions.- Chapter 10. Polarization in Information Ethics: The Debates between Privacy and Common Goods in the Chinese Social Credit System (Zhiwen Zhang and Babita Bhatt).- Chapter 11. A Comprehensive Review on Countering Rumours in the Age of Online Social Media Platforms (Amir Ebrahimi Fard and Trivik Verma).- Chapter 12. Future Research Directions in Polarization (Israr Qureshi, Babita Bhat, Samrat Gupta and Amit Anand Tiwari).- Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book considers the effects of COVID-19 on accounting, particularly with regard to the role of artificial intelligence in accounting in the post-pandemic business environment. The contributions in the book consider a variety of sectors that have been affected by the pandemic, such as the stock market, forensic accounting, Bitcoin, as well as the economic and educational responses to the pandemic and the aftermath felt by both developing and developed countries. This book will be a valuable read for academics, students and practitioners of accounting who are keen to explore the future of the field in light of the pandemic. Table of Contents1. Under the COVID Pandemic: Is it the springtime for Forensic Accounting Field to Blossom?.- 2. Co-movement among COVID-19 pandemic, crude oil, stock market of US and bitcoin: Empirical evidence from WCA.- 3. COVID-19 surprises in China and in the USA: which is useful in explaining the dynamic nexus among energy commodities and Bitcoin?.- 4. Corona Virus (COVID 19) Pandemic: Economic and Educational Responses and Aftermath Effects in developing and Developed Countries.- 5. The influence of the ownership structure and the corporate governance procedures on the capital structure of the Tunisian insurance enterprises.- 6. An investigation of artificial intelligence application in auditing.- 7. With Application of Agency Theory, Can Artificial Intelligence Eliminate Fraud Risk? A Conceptual Overview.- 8. The Study of Islamic P2P Crowd funding Model as an Alternative to SME Financing in Nigeria.- 9. A Study on The Implementation of International Banking Standards By BCBS with Special Reference to Basel III Norms In Emerging Economies: Review Of Empirical Literature.- 10. The role of international tax accounting in assessing digital and virtual tax issues.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains contemporary discussions on technology, business models, and the adoption of digital manufacturing systems. The book's initial chapters cover technological details underpinning the digital manufacturing systems, for example, cyber-physical systems and digital twins. Next, the book discusses how organizations modify their business models using concepts such as servitization and platforms to leverage digital manufacturing. The latter chapters focus on how a country's unique economic and infrastructural context influences digital manufacturing adoption in terms of technology and business models and frameworks to evaluate readiness for digital manufacturing. With perspectives from different continents, the book appeals to academic researchers and industry alike.Table of ContentsPart I: Technological Foundations Professor Ted Lirn National Taiwan Ocean University Taiwan Professor Raj Roy City University of London UK Professor Serzio Terzi Politecnico di Milano Italy Professor Marco Taisch Politecnico di Milano Italy Professor G Saravana Kumar IIT Madras India Dr U Chandrasekhar Wipro 3D India Professor N Arunachalam IIT Madras India Part II: Business Models Professor Helen Rogers Technical University of Nuremberg Georg Simon Ohm Germany Professor Fiona Lettice University of East Anglia UK Professor Tim Baines Aston Business School UK Professor M Naim Cardiff Business School UK Professor Petri Pulli University of Oulu Finland Professor P Wolf University of Southern Denmark Denmark Professor E Ferrari University of Insubria Italy Ramachandran S & Jeff Kavanaugh Infosys Knowledge Institute India/USA Professor L Prakash Sai IIT Madras India Part III: Cross-country Comparisons Professor Shams Rahman RMIT University Australia Professor Amrik Sohal Monash University Australia Dr J Srai University of Cambridge (Dept. of Eng. Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)) UK Professor Vinod Singhal Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller College of Business ) USA Professor Min Zhang Queen's Management School Ireland Professor C Tang UCLA (Anderson School of Management) USA Professor Ravi Shankar IIT Delhi India Part IV: Evaluation Approaches and Readiness Assessment Dr Gavin, Lai University of Nottingham Ningbo China China Professor X Zhao CEIBS-GLP Centre for Innovation in Supply Chains and Services China Professor N Subramanian University of Sussex Business School UK Professor KD Thoben University of Bremen Germany Professor M K Tiwari IIT Kharagpur/NITIE India Dr Shankar Venugopal Mahindra & Mahindra India

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Book SynopsisThis book acts as a valuable quick-access resource on the challenges and opportunities that the digital age presents to organizational leadership. Balanced, comprehensive, and thought-provoking, the book will be useful to professionals and practitioners. The book broadly follows a macro, meso, and micro approach to argumentation and is best read from beginning to end. The book synopsizes the historical context of technological revolutions and reflects on first-order results from enhanced use of information and communication technology in organizations; considers second-level impacts from information and communication technology on economy, society, work, and the very act of organizing; maps out core concepts of agility and principles that leaders should honor to exploit agility in newfound workforce ecosystems; showcases emerging leadership behaviors and mindsets; and specifies the good practice needed to plan and lead digital strategies. The book invites reference to the author's popular Knowledge Solutions: Tools, Methods, and Approaches to Drive Organizational Performance (2017) and the more recent Leading Solutions: Essays in Business Psychology (2021), which it both rests on and extends.Table of Contents1.Information and Communication Technology in Organizations: An Evolutionary Perspective.- 2.Information and Communication Technology in Organizations: Impacts and Implications.- 3.Information and Communication Technology in Organizations: Powering Agile-Friendly Leadership.- 4.Leading in the Digital Age.- 5.Planning and Driving a Digital Strategy.

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Book SynopsisSubsequently, the focus shifts to the laws dictating social networks, elucidating phenomena like the small world effect, power law distribution, community detection, diffusion processes, game theory dynamics, and hypernetworks, also including multiplex networks, multi-mode networks and temporal networks.

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Book SynopsisEnhance your data transfer and storage skills with this comprehensive step-by-step guide to managing data migration for new on-premises SAP S/4HANA implementations. This book is tailored towards small to large projects, with a focus on the managerial aspects of the data migration process rather than the technical details. You'll follow a project-led approach, enriched with a practical case study, and a comprehensive methodology for data migration planning and documentation. Athen traverse through a detailed plan on managing and documenting data migration throughout the project lifecycle. This book utilizes the general SAP Activate methodology for on-premises solutions as its foundational framework, enhancing it with specific strategies for data migration. Structured in alignment with the project phases of the SAP Activate methodology, Data Migration Management for SAP S/4HANA methodically covers planning, organizing, and controlling the data migration process. It serves as an essential guide for professionals tasked with implementing SAP S/4HANA in their business, ensuring a thorough understanding of each data migration phase on the project. What You'll LearnSignificantly decrease the time needed for both the preparation and execution of data migration activities. Foster clear transparency in data migration processes for all stakeholders, including the customer and the project team. Facilitate a seamless and timely data migration process. Establish a benchmark for data migration management in future projects. Address and remedy any deficiencies in the SAP Activate methodology pertaining to data migration. Who This Book Is ForSAP projects and data migration workstreams leads, already well-versed in SAP Activate methodology and possessing moderate experience in project and workstream management, who are seeking to enhance their skills in professionally managing data migration in implementation projects.

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Book Synopsis.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: History of UltraEdit.- Chapter 2: User Interface.- Chapter 3: Program Navigation.- Chapter 4: UI Customization and Options.- Chapter 5: Window Arrangement.- Chapter 6: Basics of File Management.- Chapter 7: Edit, Insert & Columns.- Chapter 8: View, Format & Find.- Chapter 9:  More Powerful Functions.- Chapter 10: Further Help

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Challenges of Supply Chain.- Chapter 2: SAP Cloud Network-Based Collaboration.- Chapter 3: SAP Business Network for Logistics (SAP BN4L).- Chapter 4: Basic Architecture.- Chapter 5: Functional Overview.- Chapter 6: Features of SAP BN4L.- Chapter 7 : Benefits of SAP BN4L.- Chapter 8: SAP Global Track & Trace (GTT).- Chapter 9: Features of  SAP GTT.- Chapter 10: Connectivity.- Chapter 11: About the Core Engine.- Chapter 12: Freight Collaboration.- Chapter 13: Freight Execution Visibility.- Chapter 14: Freight Settlement.- Chapter 15: Transmit Relevant Location Master to GTT using Data Replication Framework for 9.6.- Chapter 16: BN4L Configuration Details,- Chapter 17: GTT Configuration Details.

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