Information technology industries Books

Book SynopsisA quiet revolution is taking place within the computer ecosystem; one that will change the way we do business on the internet.It's called blockchain, and it promises to disrupt the way people interact with one another online, whether its messaging, banking, keeping up with medical records, land records, booking a vacation, socializing, or voting. Programs are also being developed to use blockchain to serve as one's identity "papers."Blockchain technology is based on the idea that all online transactions should be between two people without the need for public or private third-party oversight. Blockchain technology developers believe thoughts and ideas should be shared, not quashed. It's a world where web platforms are governed by their members, not a board of directors; privacy comes first, and one's personal information is kept private, not for third parties to take and sell as they, please.Blockchain technology offers everyone opportunities to take part. Anyone can participate in the fast-growing world using non-fungible tokens (NFTs), where works of art, music, literature, and poetry can be tokenized and sold or traded on a blockchain.These components comprise the next generation of the world wide web, which is referred to as Web 3.0. Billions of dollars are being spent to create infrastructure to create a viable framework to mainstream blockchain.This book offers a peek into this new world with examples of how this technology is being used today as well as the hurdles, including legal challenges, it must overcome to be viable.So, if you're ready, let's meet blockchain.

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Book SynopsisInformation is an asset to all individuals and businesses. The value of an organization lies within its information - its security is critical for business operations, as well as retaining credibility and earning the trust of clients. Information security refers to the processes and methodologies which are designed and implemented to protect print, electronic, or any other form of confidential, private and sensitive information or data from unauthorized access, use, misuse, disclosure, destruction, modification, or disruption. Information security responsibilities include establishing a set of business processes that will protect information assets regardless of how the information is formatted or whether it is in transit, is being processed or is at rest in storage. Information security has become very important in most organizations. The main reason for this is that access to information and the associated resources has become easier because of the developments in distributed processing, for example the Internet and electronic commerce. The result is that organizations need to ensure that their information is properly protected and that they maintain a high level of information security. In many cases, organizations demand some proof of adequate information security from business partners before electronic commerce can commence. Organizations employ a dedicated security group to implement and maintain the organization’s information security program. The security group is generally responsible for conducting risk management, a process through which vulnerabilities and threats to information assets are continuously assessed, and the appropriate protective controls are decided on and applied. When information is not adequately protected, it may be compromised and this is known as an information or security breach. The consequences of an information breach are severe. For businesses, a breach usually entails huge financial penalties, expensive law suits, loss of reputation and business. For individuals, a breach can lead to identity theft and damage to financial history or credit rating. Recovering from information breaches can take years and the costs are huge. Threats to sensitive and private information come in many different forms, such as malware and phishing attacks, identity theft and ransomware. To prevent attackers and mitigate vulnerabilities at various points, multiple security controls are implemented and coordinated as part of a layered defense in depth strategy. This should minimize the impact of an attack. To be prepared for a security breach, security groups should have an incident response plan (IRP) in place. This should allow them to contain and limit the damage, remove the cause and apply updated defense controls.

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Book SynopsisWhat do Goggle, Facebook, mobile phones and creative commons have in common? The answer is: economics! Stefano Comino and Fabio Manenti have written a crisp and thorough treatment of the economics of information and communications technologies. This valuable book fills a real gap in the market.'- Professor Tommaso Valletti, Imperial College Business School'I enjoyed reading this book immensely. So will students, as they will be able to see lucidly the economics behind their inseparable electronic companions. Researchers keeping a copy at hand will have a rich reference source of the ways in which good economic theory has captured the behaviour of sophisticated firms and their customer.'- Gianni De Fraja, The University of Nottingham, UKThis text rigorously blends theory with real-world applications to study the industrial organization of the ICT sector. Each of the self-contained chapters, which can be studied in isolation, contains theoretical models that are presented in a clear and accessible way. Throughout, a series of useful boxes complements and elucidates the theories with additional empirical/anecdotal evidence. This text will be of great interest to advanced undergraduate students with a background in microeconomics and game theory, particularly those taking courses in industrial organization, innovation economics and the economics of networks.The authors address the most important issues and are able to explore and explain complex theories and concepts in a clear, logical and coherent manner.Some of the topics covered include:- the economics of innovation- digital markets- network externalities- two-sided networks- imitation, open source and file sharing- antitrust in high-tech sectors.Contents: 1. Industrial Organisation of High-Tech Markets 2. Digital Markets 3. Network Externalities 4. Two-Sided Networks 5. Access and Interconnection in Telecommunications 6. Cumulative Innovation in Dynamic Industries 7. Imitation, Open Source and File Sharing 8. Antitrust in High-Tech Sectors References IndexTrade Review‘What do Google, Facebook, mobile phones and creative commons have in common? The answer is: economics! Stefano Comino and Fabio Manenti have written a crisp and thorough treatment of the economics of information and communications technologies. This valuable book fills a real gap in the market.’ -- Tommaso Valletti, Imperial College Business School, UK‘I enjoyed reading this book immensely. So will students, as they will be able to see lucidly the economics behind their inseparable electronic companions. Researchers keeping a copy at hand will have a rich reference source of the ways in which good economic theory has captured the behaviour of sophisticated firms and their customer.’ -- Gianni De Fraja, The University of Nottingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Industrial Organisation of High-Tech Markets 2. Digital Markets 3. Network Externalities 4. Two-Sided Networks 5. Access and Interconnection in Telecommunications 6. Cumulative Innovation in Dynamic Industries 7. Imitation, Open Source and File Sharing 8. Antitrust in High-Tech Sectors References Index

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Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging volume offers a balanced look at the benefits as well as the caveats associated with various ICT applications in transport. Addressing transport demand and supply as well as policies affecting both, and combining specific case studies with general conceptualizations, the book makes an important contribution to our understanding - and best deployment - of this complex constellation of relationships between ICT and travel. It will be of great value to researchers and practitioners alike.'- Patricia Mokhtarian, Georgia Institute of Technology, US'Transport is the testbed for many innovations in ICT and this book captures the essence of this fast moving and topical debate. It covers the behavioural implications, the potential impacts on sustainable transport, and the broader public policy issues. The approach is authoritative, matching the technological optimism with more pragmatic realism, and the contributors are smart in stressing both the opportunities and the need to limit the risks, as sustainable transport depends on all systems both societal and technological working together in harmony.'- David Banister, University of Oxford, UK'Again a nice collection of papers from the highly productive NECTAR network! ICT increasingly influences the transport system. This timely book focuses on the relevance of ICT for sustainable transport. Most papers present empirical evidence of impacts of several ICTs based on surveys. The book also discusses the impact of ICT on travel behaviour and user requirements more generally, as well as planning and policy implications, including risks, implementation barriers and ethical issues. A must for researchers, policy makers and planners dealing with the potential contribution of ICT to make society more sustainable!'- Bert van Wee, Delft University of Technology, the NetherlandsAs the importance and value of information increases, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is rapidly evolving and taking centre stage in everyday life in the 21st century. This is particularly evident in the transport sector, where ICT is greatly influencing our mobility and travel choices as well as travel experience. In this context, ICT for Transport examines the opportunities, threats, underlying principles and practical issues faced when deploying ICT for transport applications, especially in the quest to achieve sustainable transport.Focusing on infrastructure, people and processes, the contributors to this book use diverse case studies from around the world to illustrate the challenges faced by academics, practitioners and policy makers alike. The contents and bibliography provide up-to-date knowledge and expertise drawn from state of the art research in Europe, America, Asia and Africa.ICT for Transport is a valuable source of information for those aiming to be at the forefront of the evolving field of ICT for transport. This analysis of the various threats and opportunities will assist them in making more informed decisions about the future use of ICT for transport and for the benefit of society.Contributors include: M. Angelidou, E. Avineri, E. Ben-Elia, K. Butts, A. Cadena, C. Camusso, M. Chatziathanasiou, E. Dodds, P. Envall, M. Givoni, B. Gyergyay, L.D. Han, H. Herzogenrath-Amelung, N. Komninos, A. Kortsari, X. Leal, W. Lu, D. Palencia, I. Passas, C. Pronello, P. Rietveld, M.S. Schoina, E. Sefertzi, N. Thomopoulos, P. Troullinou, Y. Tyrinopoulos, Q. Xu, C.P. Zegras,Trade Review'This wide-ranging volume offers a balanced look at the benefits as well as the caveats associated with various ICT applications in transport. Addressing transport demand and supply as well as policies affecting both, and combining specific case studies with general conceptualizations, the book makes an important contribution to our understanding – and best deployment – of this complex constellation of relationships between ICT and travel. It will be of great value to researchers and practitioners alike.' -- Patricia Mokhtarian, Georgia Institute of Technology, US‘Transport is the testbed for many innovations in ICT and this book captures the essence of this fast moving and topical debate. It covers the behavioural implications, the potential impacts on sustainable transport, and the broader public policy issues. The approach is authoritative, matching the technological optimism with more pragmatic realism, and the contributors are smart in stressing both the opportunities and the need to limit the risks, as sustainable transport depends on all systems both societal and technological working together in harmony.’ -- David Banister, University of Oxford, UK‘Again a nice collection of papers from the highly productive NECTAR network! ICT increasingly influences the transport system. This timely book focuses on the relevance of ICT for sustainable transport. Most papers present empirical evidence of impacts of several ICTs based on surveys. The book also discusses the impact of ICT on travel behaviour and user requirements more generally, as well as planning and policy implications, including risks, implementation barriers and ethical issues. A must for researchers, policy makers and planners dealing with the potential contribution of ICT to make society more sustainable!’ -- Bert van Wee, Delft University of Technology, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Transport and ICT Nikolas Thomopoulos, Moshe Givoni and Piet Rietveld PART I CHANGING TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR THROUGH ICT FOR TRANSPORT 2. The Opportunities and Threats of Travel Information: A Behavioural Perspective Eran Ben-Elia and Erel Avineri 3. User Requirements for the Design of Efficient Mobile Devices to Navigate Through the Public Transport Network Cristina Pronello and Cristian Camusso 4. The Use of ICT to Provide Incentives to Change Habitual Travel Patterns Bernard Gyergyay PART II ICT APPLICATIONS AND SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT: THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES 5. Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Public Transport Personal Security Perceptions: Digital Evidence from Mexico City’s Periphery P. Christopher Zegras, Kuan Butts, Arturo Cadena and Daniel Palencia 6. Enhancing Transport through Open Geospatial Data and Crowdsourcing Qiyang Xu and Elizabeth Dodds 7. Impacts of Vehicular Communication Network on Traffic Dynamics and Fuel Efficiency Wei Lu, Lee D. Han 8. ICT and Planning for Increased Cycling in Europe - Now and Tomorrow Pelle Envall PART III POLICIES PROMOTING ICT FOR TRANSPORT: CONTEMPORARY AND FUTURE CHALLENGES 9. Reversing the Order: Towards a Philosophically Informed Debate on ICT for Transport Heidi Herzogenrath-Amelung, Pinelopi Troullinou and Nikolas Thomopoulos 10. Intelligent Transport Systems: Glocal Communities of Interest for Technology Commercialisation and Innovation Margarita Angelidou, Nicos Komninos, Xavier Leal, Isidoros A. Passas, Maria S. Schoina and Elena Sefertzi 11. A Critical Overview of ICT Deployment in Transportation in Europe Yannis Tyrinopoulos, Annie Kortsari and Maria Chatziathanasiou PART IV PROVIDING THE FRAMEWORK OF ICT FOR TRANSPORT 12. Amalgamating ICT with Sustainable Transport – Building on Synergies and Avoiding Contradictions Nikolas Thomopoulos, Moshe Givoni and Piet Rietveld Index

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Book SynopsisThis research review, written by two pioneers of e-commerce, discusses thirty of the most important papers written in the fields of economics, marketing and strategy. Topics covered include evaluation of the benefit to consumers of competition and product variety online, examination of auctions and reputational feedback mechanisms designed to mitigate informational asymmetries in online markets, and the debate on digital property rights including privacy, piracy and the open source movement. The review provides a thoughtful and accessible consideration of the subject of e-commerce, invaluable to scholars and practitioners alike.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Michael R. Baye and John Morgan PART I PLATFORMS AS STRATEGIC ACTORS 1. Michael R. Baye and John Morgan (2001), ‘Information Gatekeepers on the Internet and the Competitiveness of Homogeneous Product Markets’, American Economic Review, 91 (3), June, 454–74 2. Jean-Charles Rochet and Jean Tirole (2003), ‘Platform Competition in Two-Sided Markets’, Journal of the European Economic Association, 1 (4), June, 990–1029 3. Bernard Caillaud and Bruno Jullien (2003), ‘Chicken and Egg: Competition among Intermediation Service Providers’, RAND Journal of Economics, 34 (2), Summer, 309–28 4. Mark Armstrong (2006), ‘Competition in Two-Sided Markets’, RAND Journal of Economics, 37 (3), Autumn, 668–91 5. Andrei Hagiu (2009), ‘Two-Sided Platforms: Product Variety and Pricing Structures’, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 18 (4), Winter, 1011–43 6. Gerard J. Tellis, Eden Yin and Rakesh Niraj (2009), ‘Does Quality Win? Network Effects Versus Quality in High-Tech Markets’, Journal of Marketing Research, XLVI (2), April, 135–49 PART II IS E-COMMERCE FRICTIONLESS? PRICE DISPERSION AND OBFUSCATION ONLINE 7. Erik Brynjolfsson and Michael D. Smith (2000), ‘Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers’, Management Science, 46 (4), April, 563–85 8. Michael R. Baye, John Morgan and Patrick Scholten (2004), ‘Price Dispersion in the Small and in the Large: Evidence from an Internet Price Comparison Site’, Journal of Industrial Economics, LII (4), December, 463–96 9. Michael R. Baye, J. Rupert J. Gatti, Paul Kattuman and John Morgan (2009), ‘Clicks, Discontinuities, and Firm Demand Online’, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 18 (4), Winter, 935–75 10. Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison (2009), ‘Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet’, Econometrica, 77 (2), March, 427–52 11. Xavier Gabaix and David Laibson (2006), ‘Shrouded Attributes, Consumer Myopia, and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121 (2), May, 505–40 12. Jennifer Brown, Tanjim Hossain and John Morgan (2010), ‘Shrouded Attributes and Information Suppression: Evidence from the Field’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (2), May, 859–76 PART III DOES E-COMMERCE BENEFIT CONSUMERS? INFORMATION, PRODUCT VARIETY, AND COMPETITION 13. Fiona Scott Morton, Florian Zettelmeyer and Jorge Silva-Risso (2001), ‘Internet Car Retailing’, Journal of Industrial Economics, XLIX (4), December, 501–19 14. Jeffrey R. Brown and Austan Goolsbee (2002), ‘Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive? Evidence from the Life Insurance Industry’, Journal of Political Economy, 110 (3), June, 481–507 15. Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu (Jeffrey) Hu and Michael D. Smith (2003), ‘Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety at Online Booksellers’, Management Science, 49 (11), November, 1580–96 16. Chris Forman, Anindya Ghose and Avi Goldfarb (2009), ‘Competition Between Local and Electronic Markets: How the Benefit of Buying Online Depends on Where You Live’, Management Science, 55 (1), January, 47–57 PART IV ONLINE AUCTIONS FOR PRODUCTS AND ADVERTISING 17. Hal R. Varian (2007), ‘Position Auctions’, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 25 (6), December, 1163–78 18. Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz (2010), ‘Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions’, American Economic Review, 100 (2), May, 597–602 19. Patrick Bajari and Ali Hortaçsu (2003), ‘The Winner’s Curse, Reserve Prices, and Endogenous Entry: Empirical Insights from eBay Auctions’, RAND Journal of Economics, 34 (2), Summer, 329–55 PART V MITIGATING INFORMATION ASYMMETRIES: REPUTATION, RECOMMENDATION, AND FEEDBACK MECHANISMS 20. Paul Resnick, Richard Zeckhauser, John Swanson and Kate Lockwood (2006), ‘The Value of Reputation on eBay: A Controlled Experiment’, Experimental Economics, 9 (2), June, 79–101 21. Daniel Houser and John Wooders (2006), ‘Reputation in Auctions: Theory, and Evidence from eBay’, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 15 (2), Summer, 353–69 22. Gary E. Bolton, Elena Katok and Axel Ockenfels (2004), ‘How Effective Are Electronic Reputation Mechanisms? An Experimental Investigation’, Management Science, 50 (11), November, 1587–1602 23. Chrysanthos Dellarocas (2003), ‘The Digitization of Word of Mouth: Promise and Challenges of Online Feedback Mechanisms’, Management Science, 49 (10), October, 1407–24 24. Yan Chen, F. Maxwell Harper, Joseph Konstan and Sherry Xin Li (2010), ‘Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online Communities: A Field Experiment on MovieLens’, American Economic Review, 100 (4), September, 1358–98 25. Judith A. Chevalier and Dina Mayzlin (2006), ‘The Effect of Word of Mouth on Sales: Online Book Reviews’ Journal of Marketing Research, XLIII (3), August, 345–54 PART VI BATTLES FOR DIGITAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: PRIVACY, PIRACY, AND THE OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT 26. Rafael Rob and Joel Waldfogel (2006), ‘Piracy on the High C’s: Music Downloading, Sales Displacement, and Social Welfare in a Sample of College Students’, Journal of Law and Economics, XLIX (1), April, 29–62 27. Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf (2007), ‘The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis’, Journal of Political Economy, 115 (1), February, 1–42 28. Benjamin E. Hermalin and Michael L. Katz (2006), ‘Privacy, Property Rights and Efficiency: The Economics of Privacy as Secrecy’, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 4 (3), September, 209–39 29. Avi Goldfarb and Catherine E. Tucker (2011), ‘Privacy Regulation and Online Advertising’, Management Science, 57 (1), January, 57–71 30. Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole (2002), ‘Some Simple Economics of Open Source’, Journal of Industrial Economics, L (2), June, 197–234 Index

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Book SynopsisThis book shares research and practice on current trends in digital technology for agricultural and rural development in the Global South. Growth of research in this field has been slower than the pace of change for practitioners, particularly in bringing socio-technical views of information technology and agricultural development perspectives together. The contents are therefore structured around three main themes: sharing information and knowledge for agricultural development, information and knowledge intermediaries, and facilitating change in agricultural systems and settings. The book includes: -Views from diverse academic disciplines as well as practitioners with experience of implementing mobile applications and agriculture information systems in differing country contexts. -Case studies from a range of developing countries and information from across the public and private sector. -A set of practitioner guidelines for successful implementation of digital technologies. With contributions reaching beyond just a technological perspective, the book also provides a consideration of social and cultural factors and new forms of organization and institutional change in agricultural and rural settings. An invaluable read for researchers in international development, socio-economics and agriculture, it forms a useful resource for practitioners working in the area.Table of ContentsSection 1: Creating and Sharing Knowledge 1: Mobile Phone Applications for Weather and Climate Information for Smallholder Farmer Decision Making 2: Smartphones Supporting Monitoring Functions: Experiences from Sweet Potato Vine Distribution in sub-Saharan Africa 3: Customized Information Delivery for Dryland Farmers 4: mNutrition: Experiences and Lessons Learned in Content Development Section 2: Information and Knowledge Intermediaries 5: Introducting a Technology Stewardship Model to Encourage ICT Adoption in Agricultural Communities of Practice: Reflections on a Canada/Sri Lanka Partnership Project 6: Reducing Transaction Costs in Contract Farming Arrangements: the Case of Farmforce 7: Adoption of ICT Products and Services among Rice Farmers in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone 8: The Effect of ICTs on Agricultural Distribution Channels in Mexico Section 3: Facilitating Change in Agricultural Systems 9: Towards Alternate Theories of Change for M4ARD 10: Mobile for Agriculture (m4Agric) Services: Evidence from East Africa 11: Understanding the Impacts of Mobile Technology on Smallholder Agriculture 12: Farmerline: a For-profit Agtech Company with a Social Mission 13: Best Practice Lessons and Sources of Further Information

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Book SynopsisThis book shares research and practice on current trends in digital technology for agricultural and rural development in the Global South. Growth of research in this field has been slower than the pace of change for practitioners, particularly in bringing socio-technical views of information technology and agricultural development perspectives together. The contents are therefore structured around three main themes: sharing information and knowledge for agricultural development, information and knowledge intermediaries, and facilitating change in agricultural systems and settings. The book includes: -Views from diverse academic disciplines as well as practitioners with experience of implementing mobile applications and agriculture information systems in differing country contexts. -Case studies from a range of developing countries and information from across the public and private sector. -A set of practitioner guidelines for successful implementation of digital technologies. With contributions reaching beyond just a technological perspective, the book also provides a consideration of social and cultural factors and new forms of organization and institutional change in agricultural and rural settings. An invaluable read for researchers in international development, socio-economics and agriculture, it forms a useful resource for practitioners working in the area.Table of ContentsSection 1: Creating and Sharing Knowledge 1: Mobile Phone Applications for Weather and Climate Information for Smallholder Farmer Decision Making 2: Smartphones Supporting Monitoring Functions: Experiences from Sweet Potato Vine Distribution in sub-Saharan Africa 3: Customized Information Delivery for Dryland Farmers 4: mNutrition: Experiences and Lessons Learned in Content Development Section 2: Information and Knowledge Intermediaries 5: Introducting a Technology Stewardship Model to Encourage ICT Adoption in Agricultural Communities of Practice: Reflections on a Canada/Sri Lanka Partnership Project 6: Reducing Transaction Costs in Contract Farming Arrangements: the Case of Farmforce 7: Adoption of ICT Products and Services among Rice Farmers in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone 8: The Effect of ICTs on Agricultural Distribution Channels in Mexico Section 3: Facilitating Change in Agricultural Systems 9: Towards Alternate Theories of Change for M4ARD 10: Mobile for Agriculture (m4Agric) Services: Evidence from East Africa 11: Understanding the Impacts of Mobile Technology on Smallholder Agriculture 12: Farmerline: a For-profit Agtech Company with a Social Mission 13: Best Practice Lessons and Sources of Further Information

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Book SynopsisDo conceptions of the Rule of Law reflect timeless truths, or are they in fact contingent on a particular information and communications infrastructure - one that we are fast leaving behind? Hildebrandt has engineered a provocative encounter between law and networked digital technologies that cuts to the heart of the dilemma confronting legal institutions in a networked world.'- Julie E. Cohen, Georgetown University, US'Many contemporary authors are wrestling with two technological developments which will change our society beyond recognition: big data analytics and smart technologies. Few though understand, or can explain, these developments in the way Mireille Hildebrandt does. In ambitiously bringing together legal theory, psychology, social ethnology and of course smart agency and ambient intelligence, Hildebrandt gives the most complete study of these vitally important developments. Books are often described as 'must read' though few actually are; this one genuinely is.'- Andrew Murray, London School of Economics, UKThis timely book tells the story of the smart technologies that reconstruct our world, by provoking their most salient functionality: the prediction and preemption of our day-to-day activities, preferences, health and credit risks, criminal intent and spending capacity.Mireille Hildebrandt claims that we are in transit between an information society and a data-driven society, which has far reaching consequences for the world we depend on. She highlights how the pervasive employment of machine-learning technologies that inform so-called 'data-driven agency' threaten privacy, identity, autonomy, non-discrimination, due process and the presumption of innocence. The author argues how smart technologies undermine, reconfigure and overrule the ends of the law in a constitutional democracy, jeopardizing law as an instrument of justice, legal certainty and the public good. Nevertheless, the book calls on lawyers, computer scientists and civil society not to reject smart technologies, explaining how further engaging these technologies may help to reinvent the effective protection of the Rule of Law.Academics and researchers interested in the philosophy of law and technology will find this book both discerning and relevant. Practitioners and policy makers in the areas of law, computer science and engineering will benefit from the insight into smart technologies and their impact today.Trade Review‘Hildebrandt’s book is thought-provoking and a needed contribution to discussions of the impacts of smart technologies.’ -- Beth-Anne Schuelke-Leech, Science and Public Policy‘In this challenging book, Mireille Hildebrandt again shows just how far she thinks ahead of the curve. Exploring the implications of the technological changes that are impelling humans towards an “onlife” world – a world of data-driven agency, the Internet of Things, and a radically different information and communication infrastructure –Hildebrandt asks how law can maintain its mission for justice, certainty and purposiveness. Having joined Hildebrandt in this new world, readers will find it difficult to put the book down.’ -- Roger Brownsword, Kings College London, UK‘In sum, the depth and precision with which Hildebrandt provides her insights is uncommon and striking, making this book (as law professor Andrew Murray remarks in his rear-cover endorsement) one of the few “must reads” within the field. Its content is provocative and challenging, having an appeal that is sure to reach far beyond the field of legal scholarship to accompanying disciplines of computing, science and philosophy from which the book draws. Likewise, it is clear that Hildebrandt benefits from working between the disciplines of law and computer science, with her experience in computer science departments evident in the way in which she sensitively translates between, and explores, the separate logics of law and technology.’ -- SCRIPT-ed‘Do conceptions of the Rule of Law reflect timeless truths, or are they in fact contingent on a particular information and communications infrastructure – one that we are fast leaving behind? Hildebrandt has engineered a provocative encounter between law and networked digital technologies that cuts to the heart of the dilemma confronting legal institutions in a networked world.’ -- Julie E. Cohen, Georgetown University, US‘Many contemporary authors are wrestling with two technological developments which will change our society beyond recognition: big data analytics and smart technologies. Few though understand, or can explain, these developments in the way Mireille Hildebrandt does. In ambitiously bringing together legal theory, psychology, social ethnology and of course smart agency and ambient intelligence, Hildebrandt gives the most complete study of these vitally important developments. Books are often described as “must read” though few actually are; this one genuinely is.’ -- Andrew Murray, London School of Economics, UK‘Mireille Hildebrandt’s deep perception of how law is embedded in a print culture, now combined with her conviction that transformations are called for in relation to the emerging digital-electronic culture underlies this innovative book. Both a philosopher and lawyer, she is a forefront thinker concerned with smart and robotic technologies. Her addition of how Japanese language and culture shows such an interesting variant on these technologies is a strong plus. Excellent reading.’ -- Don Ihde, Stony Brook University, US‘Hildebrandt’s book is thought-provoking and a needed contribution to discussions of the impacts of smart technologies. It would certainly be useful for a university course in law or courses specifically focused on smart and autonomous systems.’ -- Science and Public PolicyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Diana’s onlife world 2. Smartness and Agency 3. The Onlife World 4. The Digital Unconscious: Back to Diana 5. Threats to Fundamental Rights in the Onlife World 6. The Other Side of Privacy: Agency and Privacy in Japan 7. The Ends of Law: Address and Redress 8. Intricate Entanglements of Law and Technology 9. The Fundamental Right of Data Protection 10. The End of Law or Legal Protection by Design References Index

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Book Synopsis'Internet development dynamics are tackled in this Handbook by leading scholars representing mainstream, institutional, evolutionary economics and political economy perspectives. They show how complex markets for digital technologies and services are evolving. Crucially, they demonstrate why conventional analytical tool kits need to be extended by bridging disciplinary boundaries. This volume offers significant advances in the analysis of technological and institutional change and demonstrates how important it is to acknowledge conflict resolution and tradeoffs as essential aspects of the internet's history and its future.'-Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKThe Internet is connecting an increasing number of individuals, organizations, and devices into global networks of information flows. It is accelerating the dynamics of innovation in the digital economy, affecting the nature and intensity of competition, and enabling private companies, government, and the non-profit sector to develop new business models. In this new ecosystem many of the theoretical assumptions and historical observations upon which economics rests are altered and need critical reassessment.This Handbook brings together twenty-six original chapters that discuss theoretical and applied frameworks for the study of the economics of the Internet, encompassing: its unique economics as a global information and communications infrastructure the effects of the Internet on economic transactions, including social production, advertising, innovation, and intellectual property rights the economics and management of Internet-based industries, such as search, news, entertainment, culture, and virtual worlds the effects of the Internet on the economy at large Interdisciplinary in its approach, the Handbook synthesizes the state of knowledge and offers new perspectives for researchers, practitioners, and students.Contributors: S. Aggarwal, C. Antonelli, H. Asghari, J.M. Bauer, S. Bauer, Y. Benkler, S.M. Besen, I. Brown, E. Castronova, D.D. Clark, C. Corrado, C. Feijóo, D.L. Garcia, J.-L. Gómez-Barroso, C. Handke, J. Haucap, K. Hollnbuchner, N. Just, G. Knieps, I. Knowles, J.J. Kranz, L. Küng, M. Latzer, W.H. Lehr, Y.-L. Liu, W. Ma, P. Mazepa, V. Mosco, N. Newman, E.M. Noam, P.P. Patrucco, R.G. Picard, A. Picot, G. Sadowsky, F. Saurwein, V. Schneider, S.J. Schultze, R. Sherman, P. Stepan, T. Stühmeier, R. Towse, B. Van Ark, M. Van Eeten, B. Van Schewick, H.R. Varian, D. Waterman, R.S. Whitt, S.S. Wildman, S. Wunsch-VincentTrade Review'The Internet has transformed many fundamental economic facts of life and business, but it is challenging to catalogue them all. This topic deserves a comprehensive handbook, and the editors delivered. The chapters are engaging and lucid, and cover a wide range of topics. The editors were not shy about spanning boundaries between technical detail, economic analysis, and policy relevance. This is a great resource for any modern scholar of the Internet.' --Shane Greenstein, Harvard Business School'The Handbook provides an outstanding insight on understanding all kinds of businesses carrying over the information super-highway called the Internet.' --Science and Public Policy'This handbook has the laudable aim of providing an original map of research in the Internet Economics field. It succeeds in this thanks to the editors' inclusion of theoretical perspectives ranging from the mainstream to institutional and evolutionary economic theory, complex adaptive systems theory, and critical political economy. . . Readers will gain insight into the limitations of the questions that are asked within different economic traditions, but importantly, also into what can be revealed by these theories and empirical methods. Media and communication scholars, not just those with an interest in media economics, will come away from engagement with this handbook with a good understanding of the assumptions underpinning the contributions economists are making to contemporary debate about the consequences of the continuous evolution of digitally mediated markets.' --European Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Economics of the Internet: An Overview Johannes M. Bauer and Michael Latzer PART II THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS 2. The Industrial Organization of the Internet Günter Knieps and Johannes M. Bauer 3. The Internet as a Complex Layered System Stephen J. Schultze and Richard S. Whitt 4. A Network Science Approach to the Internet Volker Schneider and Johannes M. Bauer 5. Peer Production and Cooperation Yochai Benkler 6. The Internet and Productivity Carol Corrado and Bart Van Ark 7. Cultural Economics and the Internet Christian Handke, Paul Stepan and Ruth Towse 8. A Political Economy Approach to the Internet Patricia Mazepa and Vincent Mosco PART II INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS AND INTERNET ARCHITECTURE 9. Competition and Antitrust in Internet Markets Justus Haucap and Torben Stühmeier 10. The Economics of Internet Standards Stanley M. Besen and George Sadowsky 11. The Economics of Copyright and the Internet Sacha Wunsch-Vincent 12. The Economics of Privacy, Data Protection and Surveillance Ian Brown 13. Economics of Cybersecurity Hadi Asghari, Michel Van Eeten and Johannes M. Bauer 14. Internet Architecture and Innovation in Applications Barbara Van Schewick 15. Organizational Innovations, ICTs and Knowledge Governance: The Case of Platforms Cristiano Antonelli and Pier Paolo Patrucco 16. Interconnection in the Internet: Peering, Interoperability and Content Delivery David D. Clark, William H. Lehr and Steven Bauer PART III ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES 17. Internet Business Strategies Johann J. Kranz and Arnold Picot 18. The Economics of Internet Search Hal R. Varian 19. The Economics of Algorithmic Selection on the Internet Michael Latzer, Katharina Hollnbuchner, Natascha Just and Florian Saurwein 20. Online Advertising Economics Wenjuan Ma and Steven S. Wildman 21. Online News Lucy Küng, Nic Newman and Robert G. Picard 22. The Economics of Online Video Entertainment Ryland Sherman and David Waterman 23. Business Strategies and Revenue Models for Converged Video Services Yu-Li Liu 24. The Economics of Virtual Worlds Isaac Knowles and Edward Castronova 25. Economics of Big Data Claudio Feijóo, José-Luis Gómez-Barroso and Shivom Aggarwal PART IV PAST AND FUTURE TRAJECTORIES 26. The Evolution of the Internet: A Socioeconomic Account D. Linda Garcia 27. From the Internet of Science to the Internet of Entertainment Eli M. Noam Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This cutting edge book introduces the origins and consequences of digital platforms, examining how artificial intelligence-enabled digital platforms collect and process data from and about users by providing social media and e-commerce services. Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller compare and contrast neoclassical, institutional and critical political economy approaches. They show how uneven power relationships between platform operators and their users are analysed in different economic traditions. Key features include: analysis of economic and public values provides a foundation for platform regulation examines the impacts of platforms on the media industry challenges claims of the inevitability of platform dominance discusses key challenges, including: artificial intelligence, data sharing and competition in the digital economy. This concise book will be indispensable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of media and communication studies, innovation studies and economics, particularly those focusing on platform economics.Trade Review'This Advanced Introduction provides a much-needed analysis of digital platforms and their major influence on society. What makes Mansell and Steinmueller's book stand out is that it looks at platforms not only through the lens of neo-classical economics, but also of institutional economics and critical political economy, comprehensively demonstrating how these theories differ in their assessment of both consequences of platforms and the need for regulation and non-commercial alternatives.' --Manuel Puppis, University of Fribourg, Switzerland'This is a timely and useful overview of the multifaceted roles of digital platforms by two leading experts in the field. The book presents an insightful discussion of three different economic perspectives on the benefits and dangers of digital platforms. It also addresses the most critical issues concerning users, policy makers, platform operators and society as a whole, identifying reforms that may be necessary. Highly recommended for an understanding of the challenges ahead.' --Franco Malerba, Bocconi University, Italy'Digital platforms are the dominant new business model of the digital economy. With Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics, Mansell and Steinmueller have written a wonderfully accessible and insightful treatise which will be extremely valuable to all students who want to understand digital platforms' economic mechanisms and their social consequences.' --Annabelle Gawer, University of Surrey, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Digital platform origins and novelty 3. Economic analysis of platforms 4. Technologies and datafication practices 5. Self-regulation and alternative business models 6. Policy, regulation and alternative platform provision 7. Global perspectives 8. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This cutting edge book introduces the origins and consequences of digital platforms, examining how artificial intelligence-enabled digital platforms collect and process data from and about users by providing social media and e-commerce services. Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller compare and contrast neoclassical, institutional and critical political economy approaches. They show how uneven power relationships between platform operators and their users are analysed in different economic traditions. Key features include: analysis of economic and public values provides a foundation for platform regulation examines the impacts of platforms on the media industry challenges claims of the inevitability of platform dominance discusses key challenges, including: artificial intelligence, data sharing and competition in the digital economy. This concise book will be indispensable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of media and communication studies, innovation studies and economics, particularly those focusing on platform economics.Trade Review'This Advanced Introduction provides a much-needed analysis of digital platforms and their major influence on society. What makes Mansell and Steinmueller's book stand out is that it looks at platforms not only through the lens of neo-classical economics, but also of institutional economics and critical political economy, comprehensively demonstrating how these theories differ in their assessment of both consequences of platforms and the need for regulation and non-commercial alternatives.' --Manuel Puppis, University of Fribourg, Switzerland'This is a timely and useful overview of the multifaceted roles of digital platforms by two leading experts in the field. The book presents an insightful discussion of three different economic perspectives on the benefits and dangers of digital platforms. It also addresses the most critical issues concerning users, policy makers, platform operators and society as a whole, identifying reforms that may be necessary. Highly recommended for an understanding of the challenges ahead.' --Franco Malerba, Bocconi University, Italy'Digital platforms are the dominant new business model of the digital economy. With Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics, Mansell and Steinmueller have written a wonderfully accessible and insightful treatise which will be extremely valuable to all students who want to understand digital platforms' economic mechanisms and their social consequences.' --Annabelle Gawer, University of Surrey, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Digital platform origins and novelty 3. Economic analysis of platforms 4. Technologies and datafication practices 5. Self-regulation and alternative business models 6. Policy, regulation and alternative platform provision 7. Global perspectives 8. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative Handbook compiles a diverse set of contributions on digital entrepreneurship, providing an in-depth study of how digital entrepreneurship research has evolved over the years, and where it stands today.Offering a snapshot of the major themes in digital entrepreneurship research, the Handbook highlights a wide range of both practice-engaged and practice-relevant works and explores the fundamental concepts and common themes in the field. Chapters examine key topics including the digital platform economy, the digitalization of work, the blockchain economy, and the rural–urban digital divide. The Handbook further analyzes the history and theory of digital entrepreneurship, while also sparking ideas for future research through a consideration of emerging phenomena and new ways to approach research in this broad area of study.Discussing a diverse set of questions, contexts, theories, and methods, this Handbook will be a key resource for researchers and advanced students with a particular interest in entrepreneurship, innovation, technology management, and digital business models. Managers and entrepreneurs will also find the discussion of digital entrepreneurship in relation to financing, social issues, and technology beneficial.Table of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 An introduction to digital entrepreneurship: concepts and themes 2 Mohammad Keyhani, Andishe Ashjari, Alina Sorgner, Tobias Kollmann, Clyde Eiríkur Hull and Zahra Jamshidi PART II DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEFINITIONS 2 What is digital entrepreneurship? Fundamentals of company founding in the digital economy 27 Tobias Kollmann and Philipp Benedikt Jung 3 Eras of digital entrepreneurship: connecting the past, present, and future 49 Tobias Kollmann, Lucas Kleine-Stegemann, Katharina de Cruppe and Christina Strauss 4 Exploring the field of digital entrepreneurship: a bibliometric analysis 74 Eusebio Scornavacca, Tobias Kollmann, Stefano Za, Lucas Kleine-Stegemann and Christina Strauss PART III DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEMS 5 Measuring the digital platform economy 91 Zoltan J. Acs, László Szerb, Abraham K. Song, Esteban Lafuente and Éva Komlósi 6 The regional impacts of digitalization of work on entrepreneurship in the United States 121 Frank M. Fossen, Trevor McLemore and Alina Sorgner PART IV DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGIES 7 Startup stacks: understanding the new landscape of digital entrepreneurship technology 140 Mohammad Keyhani 8 Digital product-assisted learning: transforming entrepreneurial learning with product usage analytics 161 Varun Nagaraj PART V DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ADOPTION AND OUTCOMES 9 Punching above their weight class: assessing how digital technologies enhance new and small firm survival and competitiveness 181 Franz T. Lohrke, Alexander B. Hamrick and Qiongrui (Missy) Yao 10 Digital adoption in micro and small enterprise clusters: a dependency theory study in Kenya 199 Ben Mkalama, Giacomo Ciambotti and Bitange Ndemo PART VI DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FINANCING 11 Crowdfunding: a competency framework for creators 222 Andishe Ashjari 12 Backers: consumers or investors? Crowdfunding vs. traditional financing as an optimal security design problem 236 Anton Miglo 13 Blockchain economy: the challenges and opportunities of initial coin offerings 256 Bennet Schierstedt, Vincent Göttel and Lisa Klever PART VII DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL ISSUES 14 Agentifying the body algorithmic: digital entrepreneurial agency and accountability gaps 272 Angela Martinez Dy 15 Digital entrepreneurship in a rural context: the implications of the rural–urban digital divide 291 Paolo Gerli and Jason Whalley 16 Data are the fuel for digital entrepreneurship — but what about data privacy? 306 Wolfgang Koehler, Christian Schultz and Christoph Rasche Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Providing a comprehensive overview of the current and future uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare, this Advanced Introduction discusses the issues surrounding the implementation, governance, impacts and risks of utilising AI in health organizationsKey Features: Advises healthcare executives on how to effectively leverage AI to advance their strategies and plans and support digital transformation Discusses AI governance, change management, workforce management and the organization of AI experimentation and implementation Analyzes AI technologies in healthcare and their impacts on patient care, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, population health, and healthcare operations Provides risk mitigation approaches to address potential AI algorithm problems, liability and regulation Essential reading for policymakers, clinical executives and consultants in healthcare, this Advanced Introduction explores how to successfully integrate AI into healthcare organizations and will also prove invaluable to students and scholars interested in technological innovations in healthcare. Trade Review‘Leaders in assessing the impact of analytics and directing the adoption of novel information technologies address the near term challenges of AI applied to clinical care at scale.’ -- Isaac Kohane, Harvard University, US

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Providing a comprehensive overview of the current and future uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare, this Advanced Introduction discusses the issues surrounding the implementation, governance, impacts and risks of utilising AI in health organizationsKey Features: Advises healthcare executives on how to effectively leverage AI to advance their strategies and plans and support digital transformation Discusses AI governance, change management, workforce management and the organization of AI experimentation and implementation Analyzes AI technologies in healthcare and their impacts on patient care, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, population health, and healthcare operations Provides risk mitigation approaches to address potential AI algorithm problems, liability and regulation Essential reading for policymakers, clinical executives and consultants in healthcare, this Advanced Introduction explores how to successfully integrate AI into healthcare organizations and will also prove invaluable to students and scholars interested in technological innovations in healthcare. Trade Review‘Leaders in assessing the impact of analytics and directing the adoption of novel information technologies address the near term challenges of AI applied to clinical care at scale.’ -- Isaac Kohane, Harvard University, US

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Book SynopsisRecognizing how the lines between digital and traditional forms of entrepreneurship are blurring, this forward-thinking book combines digital technology and entrepreneurship perspectives to advance knowledge on this paradigm-shifting typology of entrepreneurship. Kisito Futonge Nzembayie and Anthony Paul Buckley explore how in the digital age, the micro-level activities of digital entrepreneurs in new venture creation continue to digitally transform and disrupt economic systems at macro-levels. As digital entrepreneurship and other typologies of entrepreneurship in the digital age become increasingly conceptually fuzzy, the book sets out to define the digital entrepreneurship domain; what it is and why it is distinctive and disruptive. It concludes by offering a pragmatic framework for digital entrepreneurship implementation and demonstrates how the authors have put this into practice in their own work. Placing digital entrepreneurship in its conceptual and historical context, the book provides a clear understanding of the mechanisms driving the digital entrepreneurial process and practical tools to help nurture and develop new digital ventures. It will be valuable reading for business scholars and students interested in the role of technology in their field. Business managers and practitioners will also benefit from the book’s guidelines and analytical tools.Trade Review‘Digital technologies have fundamentally reshaped entrepreneurship. Uniquely and deeply informed by both scholarship and business practice, this book offers an up-to-date account of entrepreneurship in the digital age while addressing sub-topics of great contemporary interest, such as disruption, external enablement, design thinking, and the process nature of venture creation.’ -- Per Davidsson, QUT Business School, Australia and Jönköping International Business School, Sweden‘Nzembayie and Buckley have provided a digital entrepreneurial process model to guide digital entrepreneurs in this volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world of the 21st century. That their model is grounded in an action research design provides an invitation for other digital entrepreneurs to exploit their experience in like rigorous, reflective and relevant action design research processes to advance the growth of digital ventures.’ -- David Coghlan, University of Dublin Trinity College, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Digital entrepreneurship: context and conceptualization 2. Theories of the entrepreneurial process 3. Conceptualizing the digital entrepreneurial process 4. External enablers and barriers to digital entrepreneurship 5. Pragmatic model of digital new venture creation 6. Synopsis: digital new venture creation and disruption Glossary of terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Research Handbook provides international perspectives on the role of information systems in environmental sustainability, drawing on groundbreaking research from leading scholars to predict future trends.This Research Handbook presents in-depth studies on green information systems which utilise a diverse range of approaches and methods, including reviews of previous literature, experimental studies, surveys, and interviews. Chapters focus on the development and promotion of energy informatics, the use of digital technologies in the implementation of a circular economy, and the role of information systems in supporting the integration of renewable energy. This Research Handbook further analyses the ways in which digital nudging, demand response, and the impact of psychological ownership can influence consumer behaviour and encourage sustainable consumption. Tackling the issues facing information systems and the environment on an individual, organisational, and societal scale, this Research Handbook will be crucial reading for students and scholars in business ethics, environmental management, information systems, and management and sustainability. It will also be beneficial for practitioners in business management and corporate social responsibility who are interested in environmental sustainability.Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Information Systems and the Environment 1 Vanessa A. Cooper, Johann Kranz, Saji K. Mathew, and Richard T. Watson 2 Energy informatics: origins, emergence, and future 9 Marie-Claude Boudreau, Richard T. Watson, and Natalie Jeszke 3 SDU Center for Energy Informatics: background, and current and future research directions 27 Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen 4 Data collection and exploitation strategies for Green Information Systems 53 Vijaya Lakshmi, Jacqueline Corbett, and Jane Webster 5 How to unlock the potential of information systems for a circular economy 74 Anne Ixmeier, Johann Kranz, Jan Recker, and Roman Zeiss 6 From environmental towards sustainability management information systems 100 Tyge-F. Kummer and Kenan Degirmenci 7 Designing information systems that support environmental sustainability: a framework-based review 114 Jan Recker 8 Digital technology affordances for sustainable business practices 149 Stefan Seidel, Jan Recker, and Jan vom Brocke 9 Green IS: an imperative and an opportunity for IT services 165 Saji K. Mathew and Thillai Rajan 10 The persuasive potential of digital nudging for eco-sustainable behaviour 182 Anne Ixmeier, Anna Seidler, Christopher Henkel, Marina Fiedler, Johann Kranz, and Kim Strunk 11 Comfort vs money: influencing the energy user for sustainable consumption 207 Silpa Sangeeth L.R., Saji K. Mathew, and Richard T. Watson 12 Understanding the collaborative consumption of sustainable products and services: the impact of psychological ownership 231 Laurens Rook, Joshua Paundra,Jan van Dalen, and Wolfgang Ketter 13 Information systems and behavioural change: feedback interventions to curb the consumption of natural resources 253 Thorsten Staake, Verena Tiefenbeck, and Thomas Stiefmeier 14 The role of smart home technology in the sustainable transformation 275 Philipp Wunderlich and Daniel Veit 15 Smart grids and energy markets: towards a real-time energy system 295 Jason Dedrick, Gilbert Fridgen, Marc-Fabian Körner, and Jens Strüker 16 Blockchain-enabled markets: a literature review with a focus on decentralised energy markets 315 Anselma Wörner, Verena Tiefenbeck, and Wolfgang Ketter 17 Engineering markets and information systems for Citizen Energy Communities 341 Christof Weinhardt and Philipp Staudt Index 366

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Book SynopsisHow are digital technologies changing the creation of new ventures? What are the critical skills for entrepreneurs in the digital age? How does digitalization change product design and communication with customers? How can small businesses in non-digital industries overcome the digital divide? This book helps answer these questions through real-world case studies and lessons learnt from the perspectives of real entrepreneurs in various industries, countries and types of business. Each case has abundant materials to support learning and reflection, including: discussion questions and assignments to stretch students decision-making simulations rich and detailed teaching notes to help enliven your teaching. Highlighting how entrepreneurship is changing in the digital age, this book will be an excellent resource for teachers and students of entrepreneurship, innovation management, new venture creation, marketing and strategy. Trade Review‘This book highlights the diversity and dynamism of digital entrepreneurship. Through case studies drawn from multiple industries and different countries, including the Global South, readers are introduced to the challenges and opportunities associated with digital technologies. These are varied, as are the tools that the book provides to help readers understand how the cases developed. Through combining the cases and tools, what emerges is a rich set of insights into digital entrepreneurship, enabling readers to develop their analytical skills and further their understanding of this area.’ -- Jason Whalley, University of Northumbria, UK‘Digital entrepreneurship has such a broad scope that it is sometimes difficult to discern what is being talked about when we hear this term. The present collection brings together a series of concrete case studies that delve into the details of what digital entrepreneurship means in practice and in specific contexts. This collection provides a valuable resource to entrepreneurship educators that want to provide their students with tangible and well-researched accounts from the real-world trenches of digital entrepreneurship.’ -- Mohammad Keyhani, University of Calgary, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Cases on Digital Entrepreneurship: digital entrepreneurship as digital transformation xvii Luca Iandoli and Carmine Gibaldi 1 What do my customers really want? Pivoting digital technology and business models in emergency response management 1 Cesar Bandera and Katia Passerini 2 The dark side of a student online startup 11 Michael Dominik 3 E-Bro APS: opportunities and challenges for digital social entrepreneurs 24 Ada Scupola 4 The role of digital technologies in the development of the Shape Stretch body stretching bar: a case study in product innovation and management resources 35 John DiMarco 5 Agroads case: technological solutions for the agricultural sector 45 Rubén A. Ascúa, Andrea Minetti and José A. Borello 6 Leveraging collaboration between academic research and SMEs to support digital transformation in the agri-food Italian industry: the case of Santomiele 58 Roberto Parente, Rosangela Feola and Ricky Celenta 7 Bringing the traditional farm into the digital era: entrepreneurship with digitalization and diversification 75 Anna Sörensson and Maria Bogren 8 Escaping the “tortoise shell paradox”: digitalization and servitization in the green building construction industry – the case of Marlegno 90 Davide Gamba, Tommaso Minola and Matteo Kalchschmidt 9 The case of Dodo Pizza: how a Russian pizza making startup transformed itself into a thriving digital company 102 Dmitry Katalevsky 10 Digital entrepreneurship for influencer marketing: the case of Buzzoole 116 Gianluca Elia, Alessandro Margherita, Pasquale Del Vecchio, Giustina Secundo and Marco Valerio Izzo 11 Between agility and growth: (re-)designing the IT landscape of a digital gazelle in the online marketing industry 130 Nils J. Tschoppe, Jan K. Tänzler and Paul Drews 12 Lenali, the first audio social media: the Malian app empowering small-business owners 145 Katia Richomme-Huet and Odile De Saint Julien Chapter 1: teaching notes 160 Cesar Bandera and Katia Passerini Chapter 2: teaching notes 165 Michael Dominik Chapter 3: teaching notes 173 Ada Scupola Chapter 4: teaching notes 180 John DiMarco Chapter 5: teaching notes 184 Rubén A. Ascúa, Andrea Minetti and José A. Borello Chapter 6: teaching notes 190 Roberto Parente, Rosangela Feola and Ricky Celenta Chapter 7: teaching notes 201 Anna Sörensson and Maria Bogren Chapter 8: teaching notes 205 Anna Sörensson and Maria Bogren Chapter 9: teaching notes 214 Dmitry Katalevsky Chapter 10: teaching notes 225 Gianluca Elia, Alessandro Margherita, Pasquale Del Vecchio, Giustina Secundo and Marco Valerio Izzo Chapter 11: teaching notes 230 Nils J. Tschoppe, Jan K. Tänzler and Paul Drews Chapter 12: teaching notes 238 Katia Richomme-Huet and Odile De Saint Julien index

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Book SynopsisIssues related to teaching and learning information systems (IS) concepts have received keen interest from IS academics since the discipline’s inception over 60 years ago. Bringing together cutting-edge research from over 30 international experts, Teaching Information Systems presents a timely assessment of critical issues associated with the IS curriculum, the learner, and the learning environment.Chapters take a contemporary look at the key issues related to the teaching of IS across the globe, addressing the challenges of virtual learning environments, the drawbacks of relying solely on textbooks, and current thinking on how to align the curriculum with industry needs. Drawing lessons from faculty reflection and empirical evidence, the book provides valuable insight to IS professors and administrators invested in delivering high-quality IS education, demonstrating how instructors can design and implement a relevant and practical curriculum to meet the needs of modern-day students.Exploring non-technical skills and non-traditional instructional materials, this erudite teaching guide will prove an essential resource for instructors in information systems, computer science, information science, and related disciplines. Its practical insights will also benefit researchers and consultants interested in applying IS research findings to practice.Trade Review‘This book is a great reference for information systems educators and administrators, providing strategies on how to teach IS for the fast-changing field. With wide coverage and international perspectives, it spans many different aspects of IS teaching, from curriculum design and ideas to understanding different characteristics of IS learners and learning environments.’ -- Dr. Hongjiang Xu, Butler University, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Teaching information systems: history and current issues 2 Mark I. Hwang PART II CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS 2 Addressing students’ writing challenges with the case development genre through explicit instruction: lessons learned from a design-based research project 19 Maria Pia Gomez Laich, Divakaran Liginlal, Thomas Mitchell and Silvia Pessoa 3 Go beyond the technology: emphasizing soft skills in IT/ IS capstone classes 44 Jack Zheng, Zhigang Li and Lei Li 4 Cross-disciplinary curricula in Bachelor of Information Systems education: a case study in Indonesia 68 Tjibeng Jap and Sri Tiatri 5 Directing the eye: enhancing cybersecurity education through media 87 Jacob Young, Sahar Farshadkhah and Tyler Smith 6 The tyranny of the textbook: an 8-step program on how to stop using the textbook 115 David R. Firth, Theresa Floyd and Emily Plant PART III THE LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS 7 Exploring educational settings and projects for a balanced gender representation in undergraduate information technology education 136 Dorian Stoilescu and Andreea Molnar 8 Developing career-focused curriculum to improve high school perceptions of information systems careers 159 Rohan Genrich, Mark Toleman and Dave Roberts 9 Academic integrity in digital learning 193 Khanyisa Malufu, Siduduziwe Malufu and Christinah Dlamini PART IV THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT 10 Virtual Learning Environments: early identification of students at risk 220 Kem Z.K. Zhang, Michael Dohan, ShiKui Wu and Wesley Floriano Willick 11 The synergy of the Information Systems curriculum between academic and industry perspectives: the case in Indonesia 243 Yohannes Kurniawan and Erwin Halim 12 Transitions in Information Systems education: confronting technological and societal change in the face of global realities and disparities 264 Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe, Nasrullah K. Khilji and Stephen A. Roberts Index 299

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Book SynopsisInnovation in Multinational Corporations in the Information Age investigates the production of information communication technology (ICT) through multinational corporations worldwide, and particularly in Europe. Questions relating to the management of corporate technological portfolio and the management of corporate research activity are addressed, and sectoral specialisation along with the geographical location of corporate technological development are analysed. The book imparts enlightening viewpoints on the changing boundaries of the international firm and the evolution of corporate learning in a more complex technological system. The increasing significance of regions as units of spatial competition is highlighted, and the analysis of ICT provides an insight into business strategy and policy making agendas.Providing useful insights into the dynamics of innovation at company level in an international context, this book will be of great interest to international, political, industrial and business economists and scholars.Trade Review'. . . Grazia D. Santangelo has added enormously to our understanding of the nature of international R&D. Hence, I strongly recommend the book to researchers and interested practitioners who work in the field of ICT innovation and international R&D.' -- Oliver Gassmann, R&D Management'Innovation in Multinational Corporations in the Information Age is highly recommended for any professional interested in the role of information technology in multinational corporations. Although most of the analysis in this book is focused on Europe, the findings can be easily extrapolated to other regions of the world. The highly structured analysis of empirical data sets this book apart from others in this topic.' -- Roberto Vinaja, Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM)'This book deals with issues that will be of particular interest to those who wish to learn about the location of corporate R&D. In line with earlier studies on international business, this book concludes that although ICTs encourage the geographical dispersion of R&D activities, the location of these is not in fact random. On the contrary, the book shows that the location patterns of multinational corporations reflect regional technological advantages and are affected by agglomeration economies. The collection of data presented in this work bears several implications for the management of multinational corporations and public policy.' -- Salvatore Torrisi, Universita di Camerino and St Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Location, Innovative Activity and MNCs 2. The Geography of Innovation and Local Embeddedness: Tacit versus Codified Knowledge 3. The Management of Corporate Technological Portfolios: Rationalisation versus Diversification 4. Globalisation and Innovation Management Part II: The Experience of the European ICT Industry 5. The Evolution of European Corporate Competencies in ICT 6. The Dynamics of Corporate Competencies and STPs 7. Locational Aspects of ICT Corporate Technological Development: Some Evidence from German, Italian and UK Regions Part III: Concluding Remarks and Implications 8. Conclusions: Context-Dependency, Industrial Models of Innovation and Corporate Learning 9. Management Issues and Policy Implications Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is about - but not only about - Napster. The story of Napster is important in its own right, but its legacy even more so. The phenomenon that surrounds Napster has highlighted the extraordinary potential for the mass mobilisation of consumer and community power. This irresistible force - the underground Internet - has blown apart conventional models of doing business. Merriden charts the birth of Napster and its genesis in Internet music communities. He describes in detail how big businesses felt complacent enough to ignore Napster, only to turn on it when the truth about their business models dawned. As the big companies got nasty, Bertelsmann and Thomas Middelhof broke ranks and did a deal with Napster. The rapid spread in Napster's popularity has made many businesses sit up and notice. And it wasn't just because of the court room battles highlighted by the media every day. Some estimates put the peak number of Napster users at around 58 million. Hard to ignore the cries of the masses. Through the aftermath of those bloody court rooms, Napster has left a lasting impact on the future of e-business. This legacy affects more than music and record companies. In irresistible forces, Trevor Merriden shows how all businesses who have an interest in the Internet should pay attention. The influence on business of file sharing and peer-to-peer technology will be profound in the years ahead.Trade Review"...the story is gripping reading, but Merriden's grasp of the wider implications is even more impressive..." (Cre@te Online, November 2001) "..a good job of telling an interesting tale while analysing the implications apparent today..." (Electronics Times, 12 November 2001) "..a gripping read and a fascinating account.." (M2 Communications, 6 December 2001) "...captivating account...a fine browse." (globebooks.com, 22 October 2001) "...detailed and enjoyable...Irresistible Forces is a soundtrack for the new world of the internet." (The Manager, January 2002)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements 1 The Birth of the Napster Phenomenon 2 The Growth of the Underground Internet 3 Big Boys Get Angry 4 The Battle Commences 5 The Voice of the People: The Fury of the Underground Internet 6 Bertelsmann (and The End of Napster As We Know It) 7 Children of Napster - Music and Video 8 Will Online Subscription Prosper 9 Napster, File Sharing, Peer to Peer - and the Impact on the Wider Business World 10 Newcomers and Old Stagers 11 Irresistible Forces and Immovable Objects 12 Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the 'new' areas of telecommunications technology, focusing particularly on fixed data communications (including the internet) and mobile telecommunications (including the mobile internet). A sectoral systems of innovation approach is used as a conceptual framework for the analysis of the telecommunications sector, in terms of equipment, access and content.The authors consider the emergence and expansion of new technologies and explore how the sectoral system of innovation is evolving and how previously independent systems are now converging. In particular, they address the question of equipment production and the provision of intangible service products such as internet access and content. By addressing the production of both goods and services, they highlight the critical interdependence of service innovations and manufacturing innovations.Some of the specific topics discussed within the book include: the challenges for Europe of fixed data communications second and third generation mobile telecommunications systems data communication via satellite and television subsystems the dynamics and trends of the internet services industry policy implications for the future of the telecommunications sectoral system of innovation. The book is a comprehensive theoretical, empirical and policy oriented account of the emergence and evolution of the sectoral system of innovation of the internet and mobile telecommunications. It will be an invaluable source of reference for academic researchers and policymakers in the fields of macroeconomics, industrial economics and innovation, as well as consultants and firms operating in the communications industry.Trade Review'. . . this book is a great reference tool for those involved in telecommunications. The macroeconomic aspects of how different entities affected the development of worldwide standards are addressed as well and make for interesting case studies.' -- Maike van Wijk, Business Information AlertTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Fixed Internet and Mobile Telecommunications Sectoral System of Innovation: Equipment, Access and Content 2. Fixed Data Communications: Challenges for Europe 3. The Global System for Mobile Telecommunications (GSM): Second Generation 4. The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS): Third Generation 5. Data Communication: Satellite and TV Subsystems 6. The Internet Services Industry: Sectoral Dynamics of Innovation and Production 7. The Internet Services Industry: Country-specific Trends in the UK, Italy and Sweden 8. Policy Implications for the Future of the Sectoral System Abbreviations Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the 'new' areas of telecommunications technology, focusing particularly on fixed data communications (including the internet) and mobile telecommunications (including the mobile internet). A sectoral systems of innovation approach is used as a conceptual framework for the analysis of the telecommunications sector, in terms of equipment, access and content.The authors consider the emergence and expansion of new technologies and explore how the sectoral system of innovation is evolving and how previously independent systems are now converging. In particular, they address the question of equipment production and the provision of intangible service products such as internet access and content. By addressing the production of both goods and services, they highlight the critical interdependence of service innovations and manufacturing innovations.Some of the specific topics discussed within the book include: the challenges for Europe of fixed data communications second and third generation mobile telecommunications systems data communication via satellite and television subsystems the dynamics and trends of the internet services industry policy implications for the future of the telecommunications sectoral system of innovation. The book is a comprehensive theoretical, empirical and policy oriented account of the emergence and evolution of the sectoral system of innovation of the internet and mobile telecommunications. It will be an invaluable source of reference for academic researchers and policymakers in the fields of macroeconomics, industrial economics and innovation, as well as consultants and firms operating in the communications industry.Trade Review'. . . this book is a great reference tool for those involved in telecommunications. The macroeconomic aspects of how different entities affected the development of worldwide standards are addressed as well and make for interesting case studies.' -- Maike van Wijk, Business Information AlertTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Fixed Internet and Mobile Telecommunications Sectoral System of Innovation: Equipment, Access and Content 2. Fixed Data Communications: Challenges for Europe 3. The Global System for Mobile Telecommunications (GSM): Second Generation 4. The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS): Third Generation 5. Data Communication: Satellite and TV Subsystems 6. The Internet Services Industry: Sectoral Dynamics of Innovation and Production 7. The Internet Services Industry: Country-specific Trends in the UK, Italy and Sweden 8. Policy Implications for the Future of the Sectoral System Abbreviations Index

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative book presents a selection of the most important published articles and papers on the computing industry - an industry that after five decades of growth permeates virtually all areas of modern economic activity. Many economists believe the diffusion of computing has been a catalyst and a driver of economic growth. This has stimulated research into the microeconomic determinants and consequences of computing. This collection provides a state-of-the-art survey of advances in applied and empirical approaches to the industrial economics of computing. The first section of the book presents several distinct approaches to the measurement of frontier research in computing. The second section addresses the factors shaping the industrial structure for supplying computer goods and services. The third section focuses on the determinants of the adoption and diffusion of information technology.Shane Greenstein - a leading scholar in the field - has written a new and authoritative introduction which provides a comprehensive overview of the subject. This is an important feature of the volume which will be an essential reference source for both industrial and business economists concerned with the computing industry.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction: The Industrial Economics of Computing Shane Greenstein PART I TECHNICAL ADVANCE 1. Ernst R. Berndt, Zvi Griliches and Neal J. Rappaport (1995), ‘Econometric Estimates of Price Indexes for Personal Computers in the 1990s’ 2. Timothy F. Bresnahan (1986), ‘Measuring the Spillovers from Technical Advance: Mainframe Computers in Financial Services’ 3. Manuel Trajtenberg (1989), ‘The Welfare Analysis of Product Innovations, with an Application to Computed Tomography Scanners’ PART II SUPPLY BEHAVIOR AND INDUSTRY EVOLUTION 4. Timothy F. Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein (1999), ‘Technological Competition and the Structure of the Computer Industry’ 5. Franklin M. Fisher, John J. McGowan and Joen E. Greenwood (1983), ‘Anticompetitive Behavior and IBM’s Actions’ 6. Barbara Goody Katz and Almarin Phillips (1982), ‘The Computer Industry’ 7. Richard N. Langlois and Paul L. Robertson (1992), ‘Networks and Innovation in a Modular System: Lessons from the Microcomputer and Stereo Component Industries’ 8. Timothy F. Bresnahan, Scott Stern and Manuel Trajtenberg (1997), ‘Market Segmentation and the Sources of Rents from Innovation: Personal Computers in the Late 1980s’ 9. Shane Greenstein (2000), ‘Building and Delivering the Virtual World: Commercializing Services for Internet Access’ PART III USER ADOPTION AND PRODUCTIVITY 10. Thomas N. Hubbard (2000), ‘The Demand for Monitoring Technologies: The Case of Trucking’ 11. Susan Athey and Scott Stern (2002), ‘The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes’ 12. Paul A. David (1990), ‘The Dynamo and the Computer: An Historical Perspective on the Modern Productivity Paradox’ 13. Timothy Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein (1996), ‘Technical Progress and Co-invention in Computing and in the Uses of Computers’ 14. George P. Baker and Thomas N. Hubbard (2004), ‘Contractibility and Asset Ownership: On-Board Computers and Governance in U.S. Trucking’ 15. Erik Brynjolfsson and Lorin M. Hitt (2000), ‘Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisIndia has become a highly visible participant in the information communication technology (ICT) industry. Since the 1990s, it has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world, emerging as the most watched test of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume examine how the ICT-driven development of India appears to have skipped the middle stages of the traditional economic development models and leapfrogged directly to the final stage whereby growth is mostly technologically driven. Information Communication Technology and Economic Development reveals new insights regarding the complex process of globalization. It shows how the generation and circulation of intellectual capital in the US and India in ICT have led to greater productivity in the US while facilitating the economic development of India. Most industrialized nations now see the vast intellectual capital-based services that India provides at extremely competitive rates as key to their own national competitiveness in the global arena. The contributors' findings suggest that India's ICT-led growth will accelerate in the next ten years, launching India as a major global economic power next to the US and China.This provocative and timely volume will be a necessary read for students and scholars of international business, public policy, economic development, management and strategy as well as all those interested in the impact of globalization on national and regional economies.Trade Review‘Information Communication Technology and Economic Development provides a quick and broad overview of the Indian ICT sector. With its exhaustive examination of the business management and industrial organisation of the ICT sector, it is a particularly useful tool for any researcher or policy analyst interested in a thorough analysis of the mechanics of the sector and the Indian context within which it operates.' -- Syud Amer Ahmed, Papers in Regional ScienceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Tojo Thatchenkery and Roger R. Stough Part I: Information Communication Technology and Economic Development of India 2. Economic Development Theory and Practice: The Indian Development Experience Roger R. Stough, Kingsley E. Haynes and Maria Elena Salazar 3. Information Communication Technology and Economic Development: The Indian Context Tojo Thatchenkery, Roger R. Stough, Govindasamy Balatchandirane and Rupa Ranganathan 4. Recent Developments in India’s Service Economy and the Role of the Information Technology Industry Cherian Samuel 5. An Analysis of Factors Responsible for the Indian Information Technology Sector Growth: Signaling Quality Aparna Sawhney Part II: Knowledge Spillovers and Innovation in the ICT Sector 6. Diffusion Innovation: A Pattern of Information Communication Technology Innovation in the Indian Economy Mary Mathew 7. Development through Knowledge: Capability Replication in Global Innovation Communities Gita Surie 8. Inimitability of Network Resources in the Research and Development Services Domain of the Indian Information Technology Industry Nagarajan Dayasindhu Part III: Industry Issues and Patterns 9. Creating Information Technology Industrial Clusters: Learning from Strategies of Early and Late Movers Kavil Ramachandran and Sougata Ray 10. Managerial Synergies and Related Diversification: Software Services and the Business Process Outsourcing Sector in India Suma Athreye and Vasanthi Srinivasan 11. Intellectual Property in the Indian Software Industry: Past Role and Future Need Stanley Nollen 12. Does India’s Information Technology Industry Need Labor Mobility in an Age of Offshore Outsourcing? Ron Hira Index

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Book SynopsisThis original and timely book presents the most comprehensive, empirically based analysis of clustering dynamics in the high-technology sector across liberal and co-ordinated market economies. By carefully exploring and comparing ICT and biotechnology in the UK and Austria, the authors find evidence that industry innovation characteristics can overcome some of the supposed constraints of such 'varieties of capitalism' and themselves usher in regulatory reforms. They also provide a first examination of the ways in which firms utilize knowledge spillovers in such settings. In addition, the book highlights the practices of 'free-riders' and the excess land rents that they and more collaborative firms endure as 'diseconomies of agglomeration'. Finally, arising from these findings, the authors present a new post-sectoral, post-cluster policy methodology called 'Innovative Platform Policy', which they believe is more attuned to the dynamics of the knowledge economy.This book will be of great interest to academics, especially regional and industrial economists, economic geographers, regional scientists, political scientists and economic sociologists. It will also appeal to students and researchers, as well as government officials in industry, trade and economic development at national and regional levels.Trade Review'The book gives a good overview, an extensive and well-organized picture, of previous regional economic studies and analyzes them from the point of view of knowledge-based industries. . . Due to the extensive theoretical consideration of topics the book is a suitable text for students interested in regional and industrial economics. On the other hand, the in-depth analyses with empirical findings make it interesting for researchers as well as for national and regional officials.' -- Ulla Kotonen, Journal of Regional Science'This volume represents an important information source for a broad range of disciplines - regional and development economics, public policy, economic geography and industrial studies. It will interest teachers, researchers, students and policymakers within these fields.' -- Economic Outlook and Business ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Conceptual Issues 1. Introduction: Aims of the Book 2. The Emergent Knowledge Economy: Concepts and Evidence 3. Knowledge-based Sectors: Key Drivers of Innovation and Modes of Knowledge Exchange 4. Local Clusters and Global Networks 5. Varieties of Business System and Innovation Part II: Empirical Findings 6. Introduction to Key Research Results 7. UK ICT and Biotechnology Performance: The Significance of Collaboration and Clustering 8. Austrian Catch-up in Knowledge-based Sectors: Research Exploitation, Spatial Clustering and Knowledge Links 9. Comparing the Cases and Lessons for Knowledge-based Sector Policy 10. Reflections on the Research and Conclusions for Policy Index

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Book SynopsisApplication integration assembles methods and tools for organizing exchanges between applications, and intra- and inter-enterprise business processes. A strategic tool for enterprises, it introduces genuine reactivity into information systems facing business changes, and as a result, provides a significant edge in optimizing costs. This book analyzes various aspects of application integration, providing a guide to the alphabet soup behind EAI, A2A, B2B, BAM, BPM, ESB and SOA. It addresses the problems of choosing between the application integration solutions and deploying them successfully. It supplies guidelines for avoiding common errors, exploring the differences between received wisdom and the facts on the ground. The overview of IT urbanization will help introduce English-speaking audiences to a powerful approach to information system flexibility developed in France. A key chapter approaches the analysis and interoperation of service levels in integration projects, while the discussion on deployment methodologies and ROI calculation anchors the theory in the real world. Application Integration: EAI, B2B, BPM and SOA relies on concrete examples and genuine experiences to demonstrate what works – and what doesn’t – in this challenging, topical and important IT domain.Table of ContentsForeword xiii Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Chapter 2. What is Application Integration? 5 2.1. The economy: the “engine” of integration 5 2.2. The history and the issues of application integration 6 2.3. Consequences for IT 12 2.4. Integration typologies 14 2.4.1. Classifying the integration problem types 14 2.4.2. Classifying the applications 19 2.5. EAI: Integrating enterprise applications (A2A) 22 2.5.1. Accounting interpretation: EAI precursor 22 2.5.2. EAI today 23 2.6. Integrating inter-enterprise exchanges (B2B) 24 2.7. Coupling A2A and B2B: A2B (or Business Collaboration) 25 2.8. Managing business processes (BPM) 25 2.9. Service-oriented architectures (SOA) 26 Chapter 3. Levels in Integration Services 29 3.1. Transport and connectivity 30 3.1.1. Defining partners 30 3.1.2. Data transport 32 3.1.3. Connectivity 42 3.1.4. Supervising transport 50 3.2. Adapting the information 52 3.2.1. Transformation 52 3.2.2. Routing 62 3.2.3. Storage 65 3.2.4. Defining the rules 66 3.2.5. Supervising exchanges 70 3.3. Automating business processes 73 3.3.1. Modeling business processes 73 3.3.2. Executing business processes 86 3.3.3. Supervising business processes 88 3.4. Business process and integration: mediation and exchange 90 3.4.1. Business process level and integration level 90 3.4.2. Mediation process sub-level 91 3.4.3. Exchange process sub-level 91 3.4.4. Interaction between the sub-levels 93 3.4.5. Interaction between integration and business process (BPM) 93 3.5. Choosing the exchange architecture 94 3.5.1. Synchronous/asynchronous communication 95 3.5.2. Architecture: centralized or distributed? 95 Chapter 4. Types of Integration Projects 99 4.1. Integrating a single application 99 4.1.1. Exchange cartography 99 4.1.2. The integration platform 101 4.2. IT infrastructure projects 104 4.2.1. Urbanization of information systems 104 4.2.2. IT exchange infrastructure 106 4.3. Integrating inter-enterprise exchanges 111 4.3.1. Exchanging electronic documents (EDI) 112 4.3.2. XML standards 113 4.3.3. Inter-enterprise “spaghetti” system 116 4.3.4. Inter-enterprise exchange platforms 118 4.3.5. “Single Window” initiatives 123 4.4. Managing business processes 127 4.4.1. Points of departure 128 4.4.2. BPM project opportunity: choosing the processes 130 4.4.3. The “top-down” approach 131 4.4.4. Expected results 133 4.5. Implementing a service architecture 134 4.5.1. Characteristics of an SOA 137 4.5.2. Elements of an SOA infrastructure 141 4.5.3. Applicable norms and standards 142 Chapter 5. Application Integration Tools 145 5.1. Brokers 145 5.2. Application servers 146 5.3. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 148 5.4. BPM tools 148 Chapter 6. Understanding Integration Failures 151 6.1. High failure rates 151 6.2. The technological approach 152 6.2.1. New technology or new packaging? 152 6.2.2. Technology confronts reality 153 Chapter 7. Integration Myths 155 7.1. The mirage of the single tool 155 7.1.1. A conservative choice: example and consequences 156 7.1.2. “Modern” architectural choice: example and consequences 157 7.2. XML: miracle format 157 7.3. Business adapters: simplifying the implementation 158 7.3.1. Business adapter: implementation – maintenance – problem 160 7.3.2. By way of a conclusion on business adapters 161 7.4. Java: the proof of a modern solution 162 7.4.1. The real reason for Java 162 7.4.2. Limitations of an all-Java integration solution 163 7.5. Files: the “poor cousins” of application integration 163 7.6. Process and services are everything 164 7.6.1. BPM and SOA: top-down approach – from business to IT 165 7.6.2. EAI and B2B: bottom-up approach – from IT to business. 166 7.6.3. Complementary approaches 166 Chapter 8. Integration and IT Urbanization 167 8.1. IT urbanization review 167 8.2. Limits of urbanization without an integration solution 169 8.3. How do integration solutions support IT urbanization? 169 8.4. Limits of integration solutions without IT urbanization 170 8.5. How does IT urbanization support integration solutions? 170 8.6. The need to correlate integration solutions and urbanization 171 Chapter 9. Choosing an Application Integration Solution 173 9.1. General approach 173 9.2. Methodology for calculating return on investment (ROI) 173 9.2.1. Introduction to the method 173 9.2.2. Equations: maintaining the language of integration 176 9.2.3. Operational workload gains through centralized supervision 178 9.2.4. Quality of service improvements 179 9.3. Opportunity study 181 9.3.1. Analyzing the real needs of the enterprise 182 9.3.2. Real needs and the “state of the art” 182 9.3.3. Identifying possible business benefits 183 9.4. Go/NoGo from General Management 183 9.5. The search for a candidate: Request for Information (RFI) 184 9.5.1. Why issue an RFI? 184 9.5.2. Key points in an integration RFI 184 9.6. Request for Proposal (RFP) or specifications document 185 9.6.1. Interest and spirit of an RFP 185 9.6.2. Myths: standard questionnaire + one-stop supplier 185 9.6.3. Key points in an RFP for application integration 186 9.7. Presentations from the candidates 188 Chapter 10. Deployment Methodology 189 10.1. Introduction to the method 189 10.2. Deployment methodology: general principles 190 10.3. Special case: deploying BPM and SOA 192 10.4. Economic models of cost allocation 192 10.4.1. Cost allocation linked to usage 192 10.4.2. Cost allocation linked to usage and services (developed model) 195 Chapter 11. Operational Examples of Implementation 203 11.1. Rationalizing bonds purchase order management (banking) 203 11.1.1. The context 203 11.1.2. The choices204 11.1.3. The solution 205 11.1.4. The results 206 11.2. An EAI hub (telecommunications) 207 11.2.1. The context 207 11.2.2. The choice 207 11.2.3. Implementing the pilot: first difficulties 208 11.2.4. Integration tests: disturbing results 209 11.2.5. How did we end up here? Consequences of architectural choices 209 11.2.6. Performance tests: catastrophic results 210 11.2.7. Report card: final decision 210 11.2.8. The lesson: what we could have done 211 11.3. A2A and B2B (retail) 211 11.3.1. The context 211 11.3.2. The choice 212 11.3.3. The solution 212 11.3.4. The results 213 11.4. BPM and SOA in service delivery 213 11.4.1. The context 213 11.4.2. The choice 214 11.4.3. The solutions 214 11.4.4. The results 215 11.4.5. Points to watch for this type of solution 216 Conclusion 217 Bibliography 219 Index 221

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Book SynopsisTheo S. Eicher and Thomas Strobel present an industry-level account of the recent changes in German productivity growth and compare the trends to Europe and the US. The specific focus is on how differential investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) affected the economic performance of these economies.Not all industrialized countries shared the economic fortunes that ICT presented to the US economy. While the US experienced successive accelerations in its trend growth in 1995 and again in 2000, Germany experienced dual reductions in labor productivity growth. Some European economies fared better and others even worse than Germany. Since productivity is the ultimate determinant of living standards, the authors examine the sources of these productivity differentials. They also present a new German growth accounting database that utilizes unique ICT investment data, sourced directly from the industries, to place their findings into an international context.This book is targeted at economists and policymakers alike, and is designed to provide clear guidance for those interested in industrial policy and statistical account methods.Trade Review'Eicher and Strobel have traced the recent US productivity acceleration and the German productivity slump to substantially higher levels of investment in information and communications technology in the United States. They have demonstrated how this investment interacts with the intensity of skills and in research and development to generate productivity growth. This is an important contribution to our understanding of the ongoing divergence of productivity in Europe and the United States.' -- Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University, US'This book is an important addition to an emerging literature on the drivers of growth during the past two decades, notably the role of information and communication technology and productivity. Now that global growth has come under severe pressure, it is even more important to understand the dynamics of technological change and productivity. The international comparative perspective, notably between Germany and the United States, provides a useful perspective to draw lessons for future policy regimes supporting innovation.' -- Bart van Ark, The Conference Board and University of Groningen, The Netherlands'This timely book provides a detailed description of the sources of economic growth in Germany since unification in 1991. While the ICT revolution propelled productivity growth in the US, growth in Europe's biggest economy remained sluggish. Based on a new industry-level database, the authors provide an in-depth analysis of the German growth experience focusing on the role of skills, ICT-investments, software and R&D. This industry perspective on growth provides useful insights into the barriers and drivers of economic growth.' -- Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen, The Netherlands'This book provides a detailed look at a number of the more pressing and important issues in the study of economic growth today. Their analysis of the importance of new technologies, skills and innovation for growth provide a range of novel insights into the reasons for lagging productivity growth in Germany and other European countries compared to the US.' -- Robert Inklaar, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Deriving New Economy Data at the Industry Level 3. Industry Origins of the US Productivity Accelerations and Germany’s Productivity Slump 4. ICT Intensity and Productivity Growth: An International Comparison 5. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Productivity: Software Investments as the Decisive Driver 6. Education and ICT Investment Complementarities 7. Industry Productivity, R&D Intensity, and ICT Investment References Index

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Book SynopsisThe case studies and analyses developed in this timely book provide insight into the structural features of small- and medium-sized firms in the information technology sector, and the implications of these features for the careers of people who are employed by them.Using research conducted in Australia, Canada, England and the United States, the contributors explore how individuals manage their paid work within firms that are struggling to survive and compete in global economies. The book discusses the tensions that arise as workers and owners struggle for personal and firm survival, two processes that are often contradictory and occasionally produce conflict. The firms in this study show how the character of the small, New Economy is changing the relationship between employers and employees in increasingly significant ways.A broadly international audience of scholars, students, human resource professionals and policymakers in business, public policy, economics and sociology will find this book of great interest.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Aging and Working in the New Economy Julie Ann McMullin and Victor W. Marshall 2. Making a Life in IT: Jobs and Careers in Small and Medium-sized Information Technology Companies Victor W. Marshall, Jennifer Craft Morgan and Sara B. Haviland 3. New Careers in the New Economy: Redefining Career Development in a Post-internal Labor Market Industry Sara B. Haviland, Jennifer Craft Morgan and Victor W. Marshall 4. Shifting Down or Gearing Up? A Comparative Study of Career Transitions Among Men in Information Technology Employment Gillian Ranson 5. Employment Relations and the Wage: How Gender and Age Influence the Negotiating Power of IT Workers Elizabeth Brooke 6. Knowledge Workers in the New Economy: Skill, Flexibility and Credentials Tracey L. Adams and Erin I. Demaiter 7. Formal Training, Older Workers, and the IT Industry Neil Charness and Mark C. Fox 8. The Structure of IT Work and its Effect on Worker Health: Job Stress and Burnout Across the Life Course Kim M. Shuey and Heather Spiegel 9. Flexibility/Security Policies and the Labor Market Trajectories of IT Workers Martin Cooke and Kerry Platman 10. Work and the Life Course in a New Economy Field Victor W. Marshall and Julie Ann McMullin Index

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Book SynopsisThis critical ethnographic study of knowledge workers and knowledge-intensive organization workplaces focuses on the issues of timing and schedules, the perception of formality and trust and distrust in software development as well as motivation and occupational identity among software engineers. The book is a cross-cultural, comparative study of American and European high-tech workplaces that addresses the issues currently of interest to both Academia and to practice and provides a rare international comparison of organizations from both sides of the Atlantic. Its conclusions shed new light on the problems typical for software projects. The book specifically focuses on, and gives voice to, the perspectives of knowledge workers rather than managers and will thus be useful to not only scholars and human resource managers from software companies, but also to high-tech professionals. Scholars and professionals in organization studies, management, HRM, innovation and knowledge management will find this book engaging and enlightening.Trade ReviewThe knowledge worker is a welcome addition to the ethnographic investigation of high-tech work. The author's thoughtful comparative approach, contrasting the oft-studied American knowledge workers with their less familiar Polish counterparts, offers a refreshing take on the post industrial workplace and demonstrates once again the profound changes that high-tech work has made in the nature of work, the worker and the workplace, far beyond Silicon Valley. - Gideon Kunda, Tel Aviv University, Israel The body of research addressing knowledge-intensive and creative work is massive and is quickly growing, but Dariusz Jemielniak manages to bring some new issues and perspectives to the table in his carefully designed study of the Polish and American computer programming community, making concepts such as time, trust, and motivation constitutive elements of contemporary knowledge work. Being able to bring together ethnographic research and organization theory and social science more broadly, The New Knowledge Workers is a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary working life in the so-called ''knowledge society''. - Alexander Styhre, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Jemielniak's book combines detailed comparative ethnographic observations with organizational analysis to highlight how little we actually know about the operations of knowledge-intensive organizations. Arguing that ancient commonplaces about a ''greener'', more egalitarian, post-Taylorist future rely on ignoring real-time observations of real people in context, Jemielniak's portrait of the knowledge society of the 21st century shows it to be more like the Fordist society of the 20th century than the utopia so many futurists choose to imagine. His book tells us it is time to begin observing again if we wish to ''know'' rather than ''believe'' what the future holds for us. --- Davydd J. Greenwood, Cornell University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Outline of the Research Project 2. Work 3. Knowledge-intensive Organizations 4. Knowledge Workers 5. Research Methods and the Organizations Studied 6. Modern Bureaucracies 7. High Time in High-tech 8. Trust in Knowledge Work 9. Pleasure, Motivation and Identity in Knowledge Work Summary References Index

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Book SynopsisAs economic activity has become more information-intensive and ideas about the information society have been canvassed widely, information technology has overshadowed thinking about the role of communication and information. In the advanced economies investment in information-handling equipment has grown rapidly in importance and almost throughout the world telecommunications facilities are advocated as the leading edge of development.This wide-ranging collection charts the responses of the economics discipline to these changes, initially slowly but with gathering pace, as communication and information have moved from the sidelines to centre stage.This book will be an indispensible reference source by all those in the economics community, those interested in information science, library studies and communication.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Overview Part II: Information, Organization and Efficiency Part III: Macrorealities Part IV: Management and Technology Part V: International Aspects Part VI: Information Policy Part VII: Selected Classics Part VIII: New Directions Part IX: Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Dynamics of Technical Innovation, Geert Duysters explores the evolution of complex industrial systems over time by examining technological and market developments in the computer, telecommunications and semiconductor industries.An integrated theoretical framework is developed by Professor Duysters to study the relationship between technological change, changing industry structures, and innovation strategies by several different categories of company. This is followed by an in-depth empirical analysis of technological convergence, strategic technology partnering and globalization - three major factors in the development of information technology over the past decade. The Dynamics of Technical Innovation is one of the first attempts to measure quantitatively the technological convergence process in information technology. Providing new insights on the internationalization of research and development, this analysis of recent and historical developments in the information technology industry which will be welcomed by scholars and practitioners interested in international business, technological change and innovation management.Trade Review'. . . the concept of applying biological and evolutionary concepts to firms is a very encouraging research area to explain the development of technical innovation. Duysters contributes to its promotion and development. . . . The book is very informative on the three sectors of the IT industry and their development.'Table of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction Part II: Theoretical Framework Part III: The Computer Industry Part IV: The Telecommunications Industry Part V: The Semiconductor Industry Part VI: Technological Convergence: An Empirical Analysis Part VII: Inter-Firm Relationships in Major IT Networks Part VIII: Internationalization of Corporate Technological Activity Part IX: Summary and Conclusions References

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Book SynopsisThis important book provides a systematic and quantitative analysis of the development of the software industry: the major growth industry in advanced economies of the world. It presents the results of a comprehensive set of industry surveys to shed light on the differences in specialization and performance of US and European software firms.Salvatore Torrisi analyses the development of the software industry within the context of theories of technical change. He interprets exhaustive surveys of firms participating in software industries conducted between 1990 and 1997. These reveal the main characteristics of innovation activities in software, including the characteristics of product and process innovations, the sources of technological change within firms, the instruments for the protection of innovation and the nature of innovative skills. The author also compares the historical evolution of software activities in Europe and in the United States and explains the differences in specialization and performance in terms of the geographical proximity to leading hardware manufacturers, the size of the domestic market, regulation and public policies, including property rights and anti-trust.This unparalleled book will be required reading for academics interested in industrial organisation and the economics of innovation.Trade Review'A valuable comparative study of the innovation process within the software industry . . . This is a useful application of the larger innovation field to the special aspects of software development.' -- Communication Booknotes Quarterly'. . . Dr Torrisi's book breaks new ground in its attempt to ground the analysis of the structure and growth of the software industry in the economics of innovation and industrial organisation. This informative and stimulating book should inspire further work on a major growth industry which has transformed economic organisation and management.' -- V.N. Balasubramanyam, Business HistoryTable of ContentsContents: Preface by Kevin Pavitt 1. Introduction 2. Innovation and Knowledge-Intensive Production 3. The Market for Software and Services 4. The Evolution of Industry Structure, Industrial Policies and Firm Strategies 5. Product and Process Innovation in Software Activities 6. In-House Skills and External Sources of Innovation 7. Conclusions 8. Appendices

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Book SynopsisDigital information and data flows permeate every aspect of our society. Within this context, design extensively avails itself of the technological bounty of advanced digital tools. Yet beyond these tools, the fluidity of digital information and the seemingly immaterial nature of communication dominate most discussions. Understanding the contemporary networks of information and communication as inherently geographic, Geographies of Information attempts to realign design’s relationship to information and communication technologies (ICTs) by expounding on their multiscalar complexities and contextual intricacies. From the impact of digital social media on political action and the rise of predictive technologies in speculative real estate to new ways of mapping temporal conditions of a site and the evolving role of information in how designers see, understand, and act on space, ICTs exert critical influence. This issue of New Geographies examines the forms, imprints, places, and territories of ICTs through spatially grounded and nuanced accounts of the hybrid conditions that ICTs generate, the scales at which they operate, and how this production of space is manifested in both advanced and emerging economies.

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Book SynopsisMarshall Goldsmith wrote in his book, What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There, that people rely on their past experience to address new challenges. The limitation with this approach is that these new challenges often arise from different contexts and may not be susceptible to traditional approaches.In the coming era of artificial intelligence (AI), expanded use of robots, and increased trans-national commerce, humanity will face monumental challenges that will differ from those we have faced in the past, including how to avoid mass unemployment due to rapid growth of automation. In order to survive and thrive in this new era, we will have to think and act differently, so that new ideas can solve not only the problems of the present but also of the near and distant future.Economic Renaissance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence explores a wide range of new approaches to the economic, social, legal, scientific, technological, financial, architectural, environmental, and humanistic challenges that humanity will face due to increased automation. The new methods and approaches outlined by the various experts in this book will help inform and inspire humanity to create a more balanced world in which science, economics, and the environment can thrive for years to come.

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Book SynopsisThis world first summary of the evolution of 2D chatbots in websites, backends of portals and social media apps, and conversationally advanced 3D mixed reality cognitive interfaces, serves several purposes.It dissects some of the best-known case studies to emerge from the past two decades of tech giants launching the best chatbot, or supposedly the smartest, intelligent virtual assistant. From Microsoft’s Tay.ai to London’s Eugene Goostman claim to turing test fame, from the market dominating Amazon Alexa to Gatebox’s IoT innovation with its multi-cloned Japanese hologram girlfriend, this is the first ever history of bots.This book also touches on the Trump vs Clinton chatbot wars as well as the UK Labour Party’s dating site stunt, including references made to Facebook Messenger bots and the impact of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Included in the book is a hands-on checklist and guidelines in for people wanting to buy or license bots for their companies and organizations. The author also outlines the possible use cases and key issues to consider when sourcing and commissioning your first botification project, with the fi nal chapters predicting where the future development – and development traps – might lie.In this easy-to-read overview, Tania Peitzker cites leading business intelligence and analyst firms’ research, and takes a deeper dive into the practical challenges of chatbots, including the obstacles and triumphs experienced by business chatbots.

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Book SynopsisThe force-multiplying power of business-technology alignment is acknowledged among the biggest contributors to enterprise success in the digital age. Even so, it is a missed opportunity in most organizations, or at best, restricted to a unidimensional coalition. Successful digital enterprises define alignment between business and technology along multiple dimensions. They invest in this alignment at the level of their culture, strategy, structure, process, intellect (innovation), function, and tactics. A systematic understanding and embracement of these seven dimensions of Business Technology Alignment is at the core of a successful digital enterprise. Using familiar workplace paradigms and relatable examples, this book builds on each dimension of business-technology alignment towards strengthening the foundation on which a successful digital enterprise stands, using tricks and tips not found in textbooks and classrooms. If you are, or aspire to be, in an organization that relies on a convergence of business and technology to achieve success, this book is meant for you. It builds upon fundamental ideas in a manner designed to strike a chord in everyone—from interns to entrepreneurs.

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Book SynopsisInformation technology (IT) risk and information security management are top of mind for corporate boards and senior business leaders. Continued intensity of cyber terrorism attacks, regulatory and compliance requirements, and customer privacy concerns are driving the need for a business-minded chief information security officer (CISO) to lead organizational efforts to protect critical infrastructure and sensitive data. A CISO must be able to both develop a practical program aligned with overall business goals and objectives and evangelize this plan with key stakeholders across the organization. The modern CISO cannot sit in a bunker somewhere in the IT operations center and expect to achieve buy in and support for the activities required to operate a program.This book describes the thought process and specific activities a leader should consider as they interview for the IT risk/information security leader role, what they should do within their first 90 days, and how to organize, evangelize, and operate the program once they are into the job. It provides practical, tested strategies for designing your program and guidance to help you be successful long term. It is chock full of examples, case studies, and diagrams right out of real corporate information security programs. The Business-Minded CISO is a handbook for success as you begin this important position within any company.

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Book SynopsisWhat does memory mean for learning in an age of smartphones and search engines?Human minds are made of memories, and today those memories have competition. Biological memory capacities are being supplanted, or at least supplemented, by digital ones, as we rely on recording—phone cameras, digital video, speech-to-text—to capture information we'll need in the future and then rely on those stored recordings to know what happened in the past. Search engines have taken over not only traditional reference materials but also the knowledge base that used to be encoded in our own brains. Google remembers, so we don't have to. And when we don't have to, we no longer can. Or can we?Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology offers concise, nontechnical explanations of major principles of memory and attention—concepts that all teachers should know and that can inform how technology is used in their classes. Teachers will come away with a new appreciation of the importance of memory for learning, useful ideas for handling and discussing technology with their students, and an understanding of how memory is changing in our technology-saturated world.Table of Contents Introduction: Machines, Memory, and Learning 1. What Technology Does to Us (and for Us): Taking a Critical Look at Common Narrative 2. Why We Remember, Why We Forget 3. Enhancing Memory and Why It Matters (Even though Google Exists) 4. Memory Requires Attention 5. The Devices We Can't Put Down: Smartphones, Laptops, Memory, and Learning Conclusion: How Memory Can Thrive in a Technology-Saturated Future Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does memory mean for learning in an age of smartphones and search engines?Human minds are made of memories, and today those memories have competition. Biological memory capacities are being supplanted, or at least supplemented, by digital ones, as we rely on recording—phone cameras, digital video, speech-to-text—to capture information we'll need in the future and then rely on those stored recordings to know what happened in the past. Search engines have taken over not only traditional reference materials but also the knowledge base that used to be encoded in our own brains. Google remembers, so we don't have to. And when we don't have to, we no longer can. Or can we?Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology offers concise, nontechnical explanations of major principles of memory and attention—concepts that all teachers should know and that can inform how technology is used in their classes. Teachers will come away with a new appreciation of the importance of memory for learning, useful ideas for handling and discussing technology with their students, and an understanding of how memory is changing in our technology-saturated world.Table of Contents Introduction: Machines, Memory, and Learning 1. What Technology Does to Us (and for Us): Taking a Critical Look at Common Narrative 2. Why We Remember, Why We Forget 3. Enhancing Memory and Why It Matters (Even though Google Exists) 4. Memory Requires Attention 5. The Devices We Can't Put Down: Smartphones, Laptops, Memory, and Learning Conclusion: How Memory Can Thrive in a Technology-Saturated Future Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a unique perspective into the mindset of psychology and cybersecurity. It presents a view of incorporating the latest research in cybersecurity and behavior. The newest cybersecurity challenge is not just understanding cybercriminals’ behavior, but our behavior as well, and to realize that some of behaviors could lead us in making bad cybersecurity decisions. By using models and literature rooted in psychology and comparing those to cybersecurity attacks, this book will help those who make crucial cybersecurity decisions to protect their organization, even better decisions. Dr. Brown also presents even a possible theory of cybersecurity. Key areas include: behaviorism; learning models; cybersecurity vulnerabilities; stereotypes; cybersecurity traits; conditioned response; social engineering; deep fakes

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Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to computers covering relevant topics that include: computers and society, the Internet, social media, Microsoft Office 2019, and high-level programming. The main goals are to help students to define computers and information processing and describe the main concepts related to hardware, software, and their use. The author prepares students to identify how the Internet has changed people’s lives and develops critical thinking about the role of computers in society, recognize the impact of technology in the personal and professional base, to mention a few. Emphasis is placed on developing skills in Word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and programming algorithms.

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Book SynopsisThis is a book for anyone intrigued by the complexities of digital leadership that require a capability to constantly balance the routines of everyday business with the ability to innovate. Finding the appropriate mix between the dichotomy stability—flexibility has been a delicate task that few, if any, corporations have properly managed to overcome. Why is that? This conundrum becomes acute as businesses embark on digital transformations, an often-painful venture highlighting the deficiencies of traditional management styles but also agile methodologies. They deliver results that are far below initial expectations, provide half-baked digital solutions where potential commercial gains are poorly captured and leveraged, and, far too often, not even identified. Mismatches between technologies, the man-machine (dis)connect, or organizational dysfunctionality are typically identified as root causes, but beneath them lurks a more scathing problem: an inadequate leadership. This inadequacy rests on a lack of holistic insights backed by well-rounded skills and sets of knowledge that are required to understand all aspects of a digital transformation, as well as its participants from employees to customers. Thus, what is needed is a modern take of the Renaissance Man.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch hilft IT-Unternehmern, Eigentümern und Gesellschaftern von Systemhäusern und IT-Beratungshäusern die Unternehmensnachfolge und den Unternehmensverkauf optimal zu planen. Im Vordergrund stehen Themen wie "Wie viel ist mein IT-Unternehmen wert?", "Was sind die wesentlichen Schritte und Erfolgsfaktoren für einen gelungenen Unternehmensverkauf?", "Wie mache ich mein IT-Unternehmen übergabefähig?" und "Was kann ich frühzeitig tun, damit der Verkauf meines Unternehmens ein Erfolg wird?“.Anhand von 3 Beispielunternehmen zwischen 5 und 25 Mio. € Umsatz werden alle Phasen des Unternehmensverkaufs von Systemhäusern und IT-Dienstleistern praxisnah durchgespielt: Von der Zielsetzung und den Motiven des Verkaufs über die Berechnung des Unternehmenswerts bis zur Erstellung des Exposés sowie einer Due Diligence und der Verkaufsverhandlung. Table of ContentsEinleitung: Nachfolge und Unternehmensverkauf von IT-Unternehmen.- Schritt 1: Die wichtige Vorbereitungsphase 2-3 Jahre vor geplantem Verkauf.- Schritt 2: Ihr IT-Unternehmen verkaufsbereit und übergabefähig machen.- Schritt 3: Den Nachfolge- und Verkaufsprozess starten.- Schritt 4: Die Unternehmensbewertung: Wie viel ist Ihr IT-Unternehmen wert?.- Schritt 5: Vermarktung.- Schritt 6: Verhandlung.- Schritt 7: Abschluss und Übergabe.- Resümee.

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a practical look at how IT organizations need to position themselves optimally in this dynamically changing world and what this means for the leadership of this increasingly important IT. In addition, the book takes a closer look at the topic of managing an IT organization: What is the role and what are the leadership responsibilities of a CIO? How and by what means can an IT organization best be managed? How can complex change processes and transformations be managed? Thus, the book offers a practical guide for organizational change or reorganization of IT with many tips on change management, leadership, and agile methods and approaches in the new IT organization. Table of ContentsThe IT organization in the change of the time - The structure of IT organizations - Leadership of IT organizations

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Book SynopsisThe United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is a founding member of the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development, which is an international, multi-stakeholder initiative to improve the availability and quality of ICT data and indicators. One of its key achievements is the development of a core list of ICT indicators for the production of internationally comparable statistics. This list was first endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission at its 38th session in March 2007 and has since been updated regularly. The Commission encouraged countries to use that list in their data collection programmes; a first version of the Manual for the Production of Statistics on the Information Economy was published at the end of 2007. An updated version was published in 2009. The current edition, entitled Manual for the Production of Statistics on the Digital Economy, was prepared to reflect the many changes that have taken place in the past decade in terms of access and use of ICTs. Compared to earlier versions, it expands the coverage of the measurement of e-commerce, trade in ICT services and trade in ICT-enabled (or digitally delivered) services. It contains more model questionnaires and reflects the most recent revisions of the Partnership's list of core ICT indicators. The Manual is intended to guide statisticians from developing countries through all the steps involved in the production and dissemination of statistics related to e-commerce and the digital economy

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