Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet (Paperback)
Integrating concepts from multiple theoretical disciplines and detailed analyses of the evolution of Internet-related innovations (including computer networking, the World Wide Web and the Linux open source operating system), this book develops foundations for a new theoretical and practicalunderstanding of innovation. It covers topics ranging from fashion to history of art, and includes the ...
Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet
Integrating concepts from multiple theoretical disciplines and detailed analyses of the evolution of Internet-related innovations (including computer networking, the World Wide Web and the Linux open source operating system), this book develops foundations for a new theoretical and practical understanding of innovation. It covers topics ranging from fashion to history of art, and includes the ...
Networks in the Knowledge Economy
In today's de-layered, knowledge-intensive organizations, most work of importance is heavily reliant on informal networks of employees within organizations. However, most organizations do not know how to effectively analyze this informal structure in ways that can have a positive impact onorganizational performance. Networks in the Knowledge Economy is a collection of readings on the ...
Theories of Communication Networks (Paperback)
The authors develop a multi-theoretical model that relates different social science theories with different network properties. This model is multilevel, providing a network decomposition that applies the various social theories to all network levels: individuals, dyads, triples, groups, and the entire network. Finally, it shows how to relate communication networks to other networks, thus ...
Corporate Networks in Europe and the United States (Hardcover)
This book offers a compelling comparison of corporate networks within the United States and Europe. It focuses on the comparative data on the inter-changing directories and networks of Germany, The United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United States.Book Format: Hardcover. Number of Pages: 0256. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (Paperback)
This is the first comprehensive treatment of feed-forward neural networks from the perspective of statistical pattern recognition. After introducing the basic concepts, the book examines techniques for modeling probability density functions and the properties and merits of the multi-layer perceptron and radial basis function network models. Also covered are various forms of error functions, ...
Information Technology and Organizations: Strategies, Networks, and Integration (Paperback)
This book explores the in which ways organizations design, build, and use information technology systems. In particular it looks at the interactions between these IT-centered activities and the broader management processes within organizations.Book Format: Paperback. Number of Pages: 0186. Publisher: Oxford University Press
Multinationals as Flagship Firms: Regional Business Networks (Hardcover)
Multinationals as Flagship Firms: Regional Business Networks D'Cruz, Joseph R. ;Rugman, Alan M. 9780199258185 09780199258185
Reputation: A Network Interpretation A Network Interpretation (Hardcover)
Book Format: Hardcover. Number of Pages: 0242. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Ecological Networks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs
This book is based on proceedings from a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop. Its contributing chapter authors treat the ecology of predator-prey interactions and food web theory, structure, and dynamics, joining researchers who also work on complex systems and on large nonlinear networks from the points of view of other sub-fields within ecology. Food webs play a central role ...
Restructuring Networks in Post-Socialism Legacies, Linkages, and Localities (Hardcover)
This books is about change in Central and Eastern Europe, and how we think about social and economic change more generally. In contrast to the dominant 'transition framework' that examines organizational forms in Eastern Europe according to the degree to which they conform to, or depart from, the blueprints of already existing capitalisms, this book examines the way economic and ...
Networks, Markets, and the Pacific Rim
This volume explores the wide diversity in the kinds of networks that have been established between firms in Japan and the Pacific Rim. Editor W. Mark Fruin shows how networks in Japan and Korea are more prescribed and standardized than those found in the United States. For example, Toyota''s satellite organizational system is more flexible, open-ended, and market-conforming than General ...
Stochastic Networks: Theory and Applications (Hardcover)
The theory of stochastic networks is an important and rapidly developing research area, driven in part by industrial applications in the design and control of modern communications and manufacturing networks. This volume is a collection of papers written by leading researchers in the field, providing a comprehensive survey of current research and the very latest developments. Areas covered ...
The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-War Britain
The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-War Britain Harding, Jason 9780199247172 09780199247172
Shopping for Bombs Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.q. Khan Network (Hardcover)
Here for the first time is the riveting, inside story of the rise and fall of A.Q. Khan and his role in the devastating spread of nuclear technology over the last 30 years.Book Format: Hardcover. Number of Pages: 0288. Publisher: Oxford University Press
The Dance of the Islands Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World (Hardcover)
Christy Constantakopoulou examines the history of the Aegean islands and changing concepts of insularity, with particular emphasis on the fifth century BC. Islands are a prominent feature of the Aegean landscape, and this inevitably created a variety of different (and sometimes contradictory) perceptions of insularity in classical Greek thought. Geographic analysis of insularity emphasizes ...
Statistics and Neural Networks: Advances at the Interface
In the area where statistics and neural networks meet there has been rapid growth in active research and the number of applications in which the resulting techniques can be used. Interest is growing as companies discover important and lucrative applications of the research to complex problemsin areas of engineering, computer science, finance, and other subjects. This book gives ...
The New Old Economy: Networks, Institutions, and the Organizational
American manufacturing is in obvious crisis: the sector lost three million jobs between 2000 and 2003 as the American trade deficit shot to record highs. Manufacturers have increasingly decentralized productive responsibilities to armies of supplier firms, both domestic and abroad. Many havespeculated as to whether or not manufacturing is even feasible in the United States, given the ...
The Flexible Firm: Capability Management in Network Organizations
This book provides a detailed account of the network-like organizational forms that some firms are adopting to make themselves more flexible and responsive to changing technologies and customer demands. As these organizations become more pervasive, the winners will be those firms that develop the specific capabilities that are needed to thrive in a networked world.
Between Hierarchies and Markets: The Logic and Limits of Network Forms of
This book conducts a survey into the ways in which the word ''network'' has been deployed in a wide range of literature. In particular, it offers a commentary on how the idea of networks has been used to illustrate contemporary forms of socio-economic organization broadly conceived to also include the political aspects of networks. The book brings some intellectual clarity ...
Advanced Genetic Analysis Genes, Genomes, and Networks in Eukaryotes (Paperback)
Advanced Genetic Analysis probes fascinating questions such as these by asking How can the principles of genetics be used as analytical tools to solve biological problems? With its unique integration of genetics and molecular biology, Advanced Genetic Analysis provides a broad survey of how our understanding of key genetic phenomena can be used to understand biological systems. Opening with a ...
Managing Network Resources: Alliances, Affiliations, and Other Relational Assets Alliances, Affiliations And Other Relational Assets (Paperback)
The book synthesizes Gulati's influential work on network dynamics from the last fifteen years, and presents the key findings from this extensive body of research. Gulati's insights are important for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in the behavior of firms in an increasinglynetworked economy.Book Format: Paperback. Number of Pages: 0325. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Network Epidemiology: A Handbook for Survey Design and Data Collection
Over the past two decades, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS has challenged the public health community to fundamentally rethink the framework for preventing infectious diseases. While much progress has been made on the biomedical front in treatments for HIV infection, prevention still relies on behaviour change. This book documents and explains the remarkable breakthroughs in behavioural research ...
Strategies of Cooperation: Managing Alliances, Networks, and Joint Ventures
Strategies of Cooperation: Managing Alliances, Networks, and Joint Ventures Oxford University Press 9780199266241
