Public, Internet-based social networks can enable communication, collaboration and information collection and sharing in the health care space. About one-third of Americans who go online to research their health currently use social networks to find fellow patients and discuss their conditions,1,2 and 36 percent of social network users evaluate and leverage other consumers’ knowledge before m…
Telecommunication Services offerings for Business Use. An Enterprise Model for Orgainzing Telecommunications Companies growth strategies for Telecommunications Operators.
With multiple cloud platforms out there, it is easy to get confused when making a technology decision for your projects. This gets further complicated with the plethora of development tools and frameworks available today. Microsoft Azure simplifies this problem by providing a scalable and manageable platform for customers to easily deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot their cloud-based application…
Firstly these questions are intriguing. How do trusted people and organizations become cheats? Not just once, but repeatedly and systematically. What motivates and possesses them? What explains these twists and turns? How come factory workers went so far as to regularly bind a colleague naked to a push cart and push it through the production room as a joke to lighten the mood? How did a manager…
This book presents a new approach to industrial marketing and purchasing based on a research project carried out in five European countries. The book, however, is not a complete and final report of the project. It will be followed by others. The book ought to be of interest both to researchers and managers. It presents an alternative theoretical approach but is also highly empirical. The main …
This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression – rather than attempting to learn the characteristics, styles, and skills of noteworthy leaders, and then trying to remember and apply them where appropriate. The course is not designed to merely leave the students with knowledge (that is, not designed to leave stu…
For better or worse, banking is back in the headlines. From the desperate efforts of crisis-struck Eurozone governments to the Occupy Wall Street movement currently spreading across the globe, the future of banking is hotly debated. This VoxEU.org eBook presents a collection of essays by leading European and American economists that discuss both immediate solutions to the on-going financial c…
Online social networking sites like Orkut, YouTube, and Flickr are among the most popular sites on the Internet. Users of these sites form a social network, which provides a powerful means of sharing, organizing, and finding con- tent and contacts. The popularity of these sites provides an opportunity to study the characteristics of online social network graphs at large scale. Understanding th…
Social Networking Services (SNS) are changing the ways in which people use and engage with the internet and with each other. Young people particularly are quick to use the new technology in ways which increasingly blur the boundaries between their online and offline activities. SNS are also changing rapidly as technology changes with new mobile dimensions and features. As such children have…
In this chapter I provide an overview of research on social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. I include discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of social networks in markets and exchange, learning and diffusion, and network games. I also include some background on social network characteristics and measurements, models of network formation,…
The sudden explosion of mobile devices has made mobile apps development one of the hottest career fields for programmers. The global smartphone/tablet market shared by multiple platforms posed a serious question to mobile application developers and companies, as every mobile platform has different development frameworks and programming languages to develop native applications. How can we achiev…
Even in the early 19th century, John C. Calhoun described the United States as divided between the "tax payers and tax eaters." And today, we can use that same analysis. Ludwig von Mises called the battle between these two artificially created groups a "caste conflict," in contradistinction to Karl Marx's class conflict. There can be no natural class conflict in society, since the free market …
Over the last few decades project management has moved from its roots in industries such as construction and defense into the main- stream of American business. Many different industries, in particular the service sector, rely heavily on project management as an integral part of a successful strategy. In support of the widening importance of project management, a number of important professiona…
Network security experts agree that well-run corporations need a written security policy. The policy sets appropriate expectations regarding the use and administration of corporate IT assets. However, the conventional w isdom holds that composing and maintaining these documents bog down in a morass of bureaucratic inefficiency and pointless wrangling, which never ends and produces nothing usefu…
Internet advertising is a multi-billion-dollar industry, as is evident from the phenomenal success of companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and continues to grow at a rapid rate. With broadband access becoming ubiquitous, Internet traffic continues to grow in both volume and diversity, providing a rich supply of inventory to be monetized. Fortunately, the surge in supply has been accompanie…