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A fascinating book about how platform internet companies Amazon Facebook and so on are changing the norms of economic competition Fast CompanyShoppers with a bargain hunting impulse and internet access can find a universe of products at their fingertips But is there a dark side to internet commerce This thought provoking expose invites us to explore how sophisticated algorithms and data crunching are changing the nature of market competition and not always for the better Introducing into the policy lexicon terms such as algorithmic collusion behavioral discrimination and super platforms Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E Stucke explore the resulting impact on competition our democratic ideals our wallets and our well being We owe the authors our deep gratitude for anticipating and explaining the consequences of living in a world in which black boxes collude and leave no trails behind They make it clear that in a world of big data and algorithmic pricing consumers are outgunned and antitrust laws are outdated especially in the United States Science A convincing argument that there can be a darker side to the growth of digital commerce The replacement of the invisible hand of competition by the digitized hand of internet commerce can give rise to antico

What do companies such as Northwestern Mutual Life Nokia and Zapier have in common They approach selling differently than any of their competitors Sales is not a transaction executed by the sales department it s a process that all employees support The result The sale value for each new customer is often double triple or even quadruple what their closest competitors achieve This book dives deeply into the exact formula for achieving similar if not even greater results Consider this your guide to shifting your organization from transactional selling to embracing a sales method that will explode your sales revenue and engage your entire organization The reason for embracing this method extends beyond achieving explosive sales growth The author has coached thousands of sales professionals over the years and one challenge they face stands out more than any other It s that selling is becoming increasingly difficult Why do you think there are over one million sales related vacancies in the United States at this very moment according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Prospects are more challenging to reach than ever work from home schedules anti spam legislation and policies that restrict visitors are making it increasingly difficult for your sales tea

Based on a theoretical analysis and supported by both explorative qualitative and quantitative research this book examines the many reasons why an initiative becomes an innovation and why some organizations are better at innovation than others Developing Capacity for Innovation in Complex Systems offers insights into the history of the idea of innovation as well as knowledge around different discourses on innovation The purpose of this book is to help organisations further their aspirations and work with innovation It is based on three premises 1 that capacity can be developed 2 that it is worthwhile trying to do so and 3 there are however no guarantees for success Providing a comprehensive view of innovation and discussing the theoretical challenges the book contributes towards a holistic theory for capacity building for innovation The book conveys frameworks methodologies and tools that are used in terms of innovation and it explains positive strategies for innovation that are being developed Complexity theory is presented and attributed to the construct of innovation to further the understanding of the intricacies and fallacies of innovation work This book will be of direct interest to scholars and subject matter experts in the field of innovat

The significant amount of information available in any field requires a systematic and analytical approach to select the most critical information and anticipate major events During the last decade the world has witnessed a rapid expansion of applications of artificial intelligence AI and machine learning ML algorithms to an increasingly broad range of financial markets and problems Machine learning and AI algorithms facilitate this process understanding modelling and forecasting the behaviour of the most relevant financial variables The main contribution of this book is the presentation of new theoretical and applied AI perspectives to find solutions to unsolved finance questions This volume proposes an optimal model for the volatility smile for modelling high frequency liquidity demand and supply and for the simulation of market microstructure features Other new AI developments explored in this book includes building a universal model for a large number of stocks developing predictive models based on the average price of the crowd forecasting the stock price using the attention mechanism in a neural network clustering multivariate time series into different market states proposing a multivariate distance nonlinear causality test and filtering out fals

Few countries experienced the period of turbulence surrounding the global financial crisis as intensely as Greece The country topped the global news agenda as images of mass protests in Athens jostled for space with reports of torturous negotiations between political leaders struggling to agree support packages Dramatic headlines proclaimed not only Greek bankruptcy and a possible exit from the euro but the collapse of the single currency itself This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the lengthy crisis that beset Greece and the wider Eurozone Written for the general reader it explores the passage of events from different perspectives as it probes the story behind the headlines to reveal the full complexity of the crisis Were its causes to be found in the prevailing international financial environment or in the economic and political system which evolved in Greece since the early 1970s Did the choices made by both domestic and international actors such as the IMF and the EU exacerbate the crisis Most importantly what has been the impact of the crisis on the daily lives of the country s inhabitants

This book has been specially designed for undergraduate students who are studying the subject of Operations Research and seek to deepen their theoretical understanding while developing practical prob

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing is the most well established and influential strategic pricing text available relied on by practitioners and students globally as a core guide for value based pricing The book explains how to balance the ability to create and extract value through from markets by managing pricing decisions in a more strategic and profitable manner Rather than calculating prices to cover costs or to achieve sales goals readers will learn to frame more strategic choices that proactively influence customer perceptions of value manage internal costs and profitably shift demand curves This edition features new discussions on harnessing concepts from behavioral economics as well as a refined value cascade to help organize the topics covered in this book Readers will also benefit from Major revisions to more than a third of the chapters including an expanded discussion of the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning analytics tools to assist in the evaluation of new pricing opportunities Discussion of many of the new pricing and revenue recognition models such as consumption based pricing outcomes based pricing and others An expanded discussion on Special Topics in Pricing that cover many of the transformative pricing moves succe

People want to create a better world and planet however where and how to start remains the question This book uses the Systems Engineering problem solving methodology to frame how each answer impacts the planet when multiple actions are strung together no matter where they take place

This book responds to calls for a systematic approach in understanding the transformations in the social media marketing landscape To narrow the focus the book takes a developing economy perspective and presents a comprehensive understanding of social media practices and how these can be integrated in firms operational activities to create a competitive advantage In emerging markets and developing economies EMDEs social media provides a technological solution to the economic challenges faced by governments firms and people at the bottom of the economic pyramid Social media is often considered to be fundamentally changing the business paradigm and is increasingly integrated into the marketing function and EMDEs seem to be quickly finding out that it offers them a relatively low cost opportunity to potentially leapfrog the competition in developed markets By using social technology to reach users in different market segments in ways that were impossible before social sites such as Facebook and X formerly Twitter create tremendous new growth opportunities for businesses As businesses embrace social media solutions however some challenges emerge in the adoption utilisation integration and implementation of social media systems and tools in EMDEs hence

Innovation has always been a core driver of growth at most organizations and collaboration is key to driving it Collaboration facilitates the exchange of ideas and thoughts among team members who then weigh in on them with collective expertise This book is based on a new paradigm which can create the change organizations need It reveals how to understand analyze create and improve all forms of collaborations with one generic and powerful roadmap Demonstrated by many examples from organizations this book defines the architecture of collaborations The first and second chapters discuss the complexity that characterizes the world today and the changes related to the issue of collaboration which has become extremely central in our time Then the book describes the key barriers to cooperation also defined as our blind spots with a list of the ten most common traps and barriers Most of the time we do not correctly identify our failures and our responsibility for their formation and therefore we do not produce the appropriate responses to those failures The book then continues to deal mainly with the architecture of collaborations describing a structured and systematic model for the effective management of collaborations with complementary aspects Other chap

El capitalismo se entiende como uno de los motores de la globalización. Su imagen pública está ligada a la bolsa, los bancos, las empresas multinacionales y las grandes familias de financieros, comerciantes e industriales. Sin embargo, la expansion mundial del capitalismo en el siglo XIX tambien fue obra de personajes de origenes diversos, de posicion precaria, a veces de dudosa reputacion, que contribuyeron a crear y expandir por los rincones mas remotos del mundo las practicas, los saberes y las instituciones que han llegado a formar parte del repertorio del sistema capitalista. Buscando la riqueza, el ascenso social o la mera supervivencia, estos hombres y mujeres tejieron redes transimperiales por los que circulaban las mercancias, los capitales, el saber hacer y la informacion, en unos flujos multidireccionales y complejos que no se reducen a la difusion desde el centro hacia la periferia ni de Occidente al resto del planeta.

La eclosión de la inteligencia artificial generativa representada, entre otros, en el conocido ChatGPT, ha generado un gran revuelo tanto en los medios de comunicación, que suelen destacar, a veces sin demasiado rigor, los aspectos mas negativos, como en las instituciones europeas que estaban y estan negociando el futuro Reglamento para una inteligencia artificial confiable. Hasta tal punto ha llegado la preocupacion que se han introducido normas especificas en relacion con los denominados “modelos fundacionales” en los que tendria cabida la mencionada inteligencia artificial generativa. . Desde el punto de vista juridico se abren interrogantes, en diversas esferas, que conducen a la revision de determinadas normas en vigor. No es pretension de la obra abordar exhaustivamente todas las aristas que, sobre todo, desde la perspectiva europea, posee el tema. Mas bien trata de dar pistas de posibles problemas, ausencia de regulacion o de regulacion inadecuada en los aspectos en los que se centra. En este sentido, su intencion es abrir vias de reflexion de cara a venideras investigaciones propias y ajenas. . Asi, tras un capitulo introductorio (capitulo I), la presente obra se focaliza en la regulacion de los modelos fundacionales en el futuro reglamento de intelige