Häftad, Engelska, 2009
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Kai Wright – författare
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant, painful, celebratory, and inspiring.The African American Experience is a one-of-a-kind and absolutely riveting collection of more than 300 letters, speeches, articles, petitions, poems, songs, and works of fiction tracing the course of black history in America from the first slaves brought over in the 16th century to the events of the present day. All aspects of African American history and daily life are represented here, from the days of abolition and the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement and the current times. Organized chronologically, here are writings from the great political leaders including Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, and Barack Obama; literary giants including Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and bell hooks; scholars such as Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; artists including Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Wynton Marsalis, Run-DMC, the Sugar Hill Gang, and Chuck Berry; athletes such as Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson; and many more. A new introduction by Kai Wright provides overall context, and introductory material for each document delineates its significance and role in history. This edition features all new and updated material. - E-bokPDF, Engelska, 2015
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Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 1,7, University of London, course: Entrepreneurship and Innovation, language: English, abstract: Joseph Schumpeter had three goals in his life: To become the greatest lover in Austria, the greatest horseman in Europe and the greatest economist in the world. (Sandmo, 2011) I cannot assess his achievements in the first two areas but there is no doubt that he became an important economist and father of entrepreneurship and innovation research. This essay will show how Joseph Schumpeter influenced the evolution of conceiving and developing concepts of entrepreneurship and innovation. This essay will be structured in three sections. In the first section I will explain Schumpeter s theory on equilibrium and economic development and I will describe the role of the entrepreneur as an agent of change, also taking into account the time context and his peers. The second section will show how Schumpeter became the foundation and a source of inspiration for subsequent scholars in the area of entrepreneurship and innovation research. The last section will critically look at the importance of Schumpeter for our understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation but also the limitations of his work. - E-bokPDF, Engelska, 2015
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Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 2,0, University of London, course: Digitial Creativity and New Media Management, language: English, abstract: Internet of things (in the following: IoT), Industrial Internet, Ubiquitous Computing - these are current buzz words all trying to provide a catchable description of what we are currently experiencing: A fundamentally new quality of computerized data collection and processing, enabled by smart devices, which are fitted with sensors, processors and connectivity components making them capable of being interconnected devices with autonomous exchange of information. These devices form the IoT, a vision in which classical computers as separate devices are disappearing and smart objects merge into the physical world. This essay will elaborate upon the concept of the IoT, the underlying conditions why we are experiencing the realisation of the vision now, the value drivers and how this will affect our private lives as well as businesses. - E-bokPDF, Engelska, 2015
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Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, University of London, course: Intellectual Capital and Competitvness, language: English, abstract: Knowledge and competence of individuals and their recognized value for successful and sustainable economic activity is reflected in the term of intellectual capital. Companies that want to be successful and play an outstanding role in the fierce competition of global dynamic markets have to be able to continuously innovate. Competiveness more and more becomes a question of the ability to innovate; Creativeness, ideas, knowledge and competencies as well as the ability to collaborate are key factors to be competitive and therefore are important elements which have to be managed by today's corporations. One can speak of a paradigm change going away from an industrial society where classical production factors (land, labour and capital) and tangible resources mattered, where labour was seen as a cost factor. The intangible paradigm on the contrary considers labour and therefore humans and their knowledge as the most important source of innovation and value creation. In that sense intellectual capital is actually substituting the other factors of production. This essay will elaborate what intellectual capital is, what elements it consist of and why it is important for corporate competiveness. - E-bokPDF, Engelska, 2015
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Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, University of London, course: Principles of Organization and Management, language: English, abstract: In this essay I will elaborate on the Open Innovation model in the context of an article which highlights the difficulties Procter & Gamble currently faces with delivering innovation through internal R&D in contrast to line extension of existing products. We will see that the open innovation model is an important contribution on how to exploit and to explore knowledge and technology, but that it has its limitations and threats when this R&D strategy is not combined with processes and organizational competencies that ensure that the external knowledge is leveraged to create innovations also internally. We will see that Procter & Gamble seemed to rely too much on simply the acquisition of external technology rather than absorb the gained knowledge to significantly invent internally. - E-bokPDF, Engelska, 2015
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Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, University of London, course: Innovation Systems, Networks and Social Capital, language: English, abstract: Innovation processes often mainly consist of the creation of genuine new knowledge or the recombination of existing knowledge in a new context. These processes are managed by people, who are also the carrier and translator of knowledge. As knowledge creation is only partially accomplished by one person on its own, and nearly all economic activities is embedded in social systems, the inter-communication between individuals within a firm or across firm boundaries must be acknowledged as equal important in the process of innovation. Network theories must be seen at the blurred boundaries between sociology, trying to understand which social layers are (positively) affected by having a broad and diverse or closed and narrow social nexus, and management theory, trying to understand the organizational implications of the nexus of the firms' stakeholders. Therefore this essay will elaborate on the role of ties, in its different shapes from weak to strong, within the innovation process. It will particularly focus on when which shape of tie is particularly important for which kind of successful innovation (incremental versus radical). It will also show how the focus on knowledge developed in management theory and how certain theories implicitly use the notion of networks to explain innovation processes.
