Django), which have embraced the MVC (Model-View-Controller) application pattern, and if you’re one of those developers, or even if you’re just curious, this book is for you. MVC allows for (buzzword alert!) a “greater separation of concerns” between components in your application. We’ll go into the ramifi cations of this later on, but if it had to be said it in a quick sentence: AS…
Abstract: This article is the second chapter of the second edition of "The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach," by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda and Edward Rock (Oxford University Press 2009). The book as a whole provides a functional analysis of corporate (or company) law in Europe…
The aim of Pioneers in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research is first to provide a historical-doctrinal review of the development of entrepreneurship and small business research and, second, to present some of the pioneers that have shaped the research field during the past three decades.
The market has adopted new rules to the game, allowing the customer more control than ever before. Trends like full adoption of e-business, social sharing and co-creation, ongoing individualization and the splintering of the Internet pose new challenges for the online marketer. Such trends change the way marketers must fulfill their roles; it is increasingly difficult to set up consistent mess…
It was a tragic day when economics, the queen of the social sciences, adopted the methods associated with the natural sciences: empiricism and positivism. In the sweep of economic thought, this change occurred-not coincidentally-about the same time that intellectuals and politicians came to believe in the efficacy of government planning. Despite their failures, both doctrines remain god- less f…
The Committee on National Urban Policy, established by the National Research Council (NRC) in 1981 with support from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Ford Foundation, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States, was charged with responsibility for evaluating past urban policies, continuing review of current policies, examining the …
“Darwinian” approaches to describe the development of knowledge gained wide public reception in the 1970s and 1980s, when several books about connections between biological evolution and the evolution of concepts in science were published and when corresponding ideas of leading authorities in biology and philoso- phy, like Konrad Lorenz or Karl Popper, were popularized.1 In this context Don…
Total Quality Management (TQM) has become a frequently used term in discussions concerning quality. The international and national competitive environment is in a process of constant change by the globalisation of markets and the increased interdependence of economic agents. This process of change has brought increased demands on the organisations’ competitiveness and the customers have gain…
Oracle's Siebel CRM is the market-leading Customer Relationship Management software. Unmatched in functionality and scalability, it offers a lot of challenges for the system administrator. This book will be your safe vessel while navigating the deep waters of installing and managing Siebel CRM. This book is a complete exercise in installing and managing Oracle's Siebel CRM 8 for your organizati…