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Corporate entrepreneurship is about remaking organizations; it
affects organizational cultures and systems which, in turn,
influence the magnitude, direction and content of corporate
entrepreneurship activities. This Handbook hopes to synthesize what
we know and clarify what we need to know about key issues such as
strategic renewal, innovation and venturing activities within
established companies, giving direction to future research. This
Handbook combines conceptual and empirical contributions covering a
wide gamut of theories and perspectives that include: opportunity
discovery vs. creation, the behavioral theory of the firm,
learning, human capital, agency, and dynamic capabilities. The
chapters uncover who the corporate entrepreneur is, how corporate
entrepreneurs vary from their independent counterparts, how
corporate entrepreneurship influences organizational performance,
and the effect of incremental versus radical strategic renewal
undertaken within corporate entrepreneurship on financial
performance. They also investigate what an organization learns from
corporate entrepreneurship, as well as the types of innovation that
companies gain through corporate venturing capital investments. The
diversity of authors, perspectives and foci of the chapters
highlight the growing depth and breadth of the worldwide research
on corporate entrepreneurship and the growing maturity of this
research. This book will appeal to scholars and students of
entrepreneurship and/or strategic management, as well as managers
of established firms. Contributors: S. Basu, H. Burgers, J.J.
Chrisman, D. Day, G. Dushnitsky, S. Georgoulas, J. Hayton, C.
Heavey, S.A. Hill, M. Hughes, M. Jelinek, T. Keil, S. Kotha, M.
Lewis, M. Maula, E. Memili, D.O. Neubaum, G.C. O'Connor, E.L.
Scifres, M. Shaver, Z. Simsek, D. Ucbasaran, V. Van De Vrande, A.
Wadhwa, S.A. Zahra
Corporate entrepreneurship is about remaking organizations; it
affects organizational cultures and systems which, in turn,
influence the magnitude, direction and content of corporate
entrepreneurship activities. This Handbook hopes to synthesize what
we know and clarify what we need to know about key issues such as
strategic renewal, innovation and venturing activities within
established companies, giving direction to future research. This
Handbook combines conceptual and empirical contributions covering a
wide gamut of theories and perspectives that include: opportunity
discovery vs. creation, the behavioral theory of the firm,
learning, human capital, agency, and dynamic capabilities. The
chapters uncover who the corporate entrepreneur is, how corporate
entrepreneurs vary from their independent counterparts, how
corporate entrepreneurship influences organizational performance,
and the effect of incremental versus radical strategic renewal
undertaken within corporate entrepreneurship on financial
performance. They also investigate what an organization learns from
corporate entrepreneurship, as well as the types of innovation that
companies gain through corporate venturing capital investments. The
diversity of authors, perspectives and foci of the chapters
highlight the growing depth and breadth of the worldwide research
on corporate entrepreneurship and the growing maturity of this
research. This book will appeal to scholars and students of
entrepreneurship and/or strategic management, as well as managers
of established firms. Contributors: S. Basu, H. Burgers, J.J.
Chrisman, D. Day, G. Dushnitsky, S. Georgoulas, J. Hayton, C.
Heavey, S.A. Hill, M. Hughes, M. Jelinek, T. Keil, S. Kotha, M.
Lewis, M. Maula, E. Memili, D.O. Neubaum, G.C. O'Connor, E.L.
Scifres, M. Shaver, Z. Simsek, D. Ucbasaran, V. Van De Vrande, A.
Wadhwa, S.A. Zahra
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Research on corporate entrepreneurship has grown rapidly over the
past decade. This authoritative collection brings together some of
the most influential studies that have shaped our thinking in this
field, and highlights the importance of corporate entrepreneurship
for organizational renewal, strategic change, learning, and
improved profitability and growth. The volume covers topics such as
designing effective corporate venturing programs, antecedents and
consequences of corporate entrepreneurship, and organizational
structure. Further sections investigate the dynamic interplay
between competitive strategy and corporate entrepreneurship, the
relationship between national culture and the pursuit of corporate
entrepreneurship, as well as value creation. The editor's
introduction outlines avenues for future exploration, and
highlights the importance of developing new theories that link
corporate entrepreneurship to organizational growth.
The properties of woven and knitted fabrics differ largely due to
the path yarn follows in the fabric structure. This path determines
the fabric's physical properties, mechanical properties, and
appearance. A slight variation to the design may result in entirely
different properties for the fabric. Structural Textile Design
provides detailed insight on different types of designs used for
the production of woven and knitted fabrics, highlighting the
effect design has on a fabric's properties and applications. With
focus on the techniques used to draw designs and produce them on
weaving and knitting machines, this book will be of great interest
to textile engineers, professionals and graduate students in
textile technology and manufacturing.
Reclaiming Education for Democracy subjects the prophets and
doctrines of educational neoliberalism to scrutiny in order to
provide a rationale and vision for public education beyond the
limits of No Child Left Behind. The authors combine a history of
recent education policy with an in- depth analysis of the origins
of such policy and its impact on professional educators. The public
face of these policies is separated from motives rooted in
politics, profit, and ideology. The book also searches for new
insights in understanding the neoliberal and managerialist assault
on education by examining the psychology of advocates who
demonstrate a special animus toward universal public education. The
manipulation of public education by No Child Left Behind is a case
study in the general approach to public institutions taken by the
politicians and theorists in these camps. K-12 education has been
subjected to deceptive descriptive analyses, marginalization of its
professional leadership, manipulation of its goals, the imposition
of illegitimate quality markers, a grab on its resources by
corporate profiteers, and a demoralization of its rank and file.
This book helps us think beyond this new commonsense of education.
Recipient: 2009 AERA Division K Award for Exemplary Research in
Teaching and Teacher Education
The unique relationship between mentors and students informs the
art of teaching and enhances the intellectual vitality of higher
education and quality of teacher and student life. This collection
of original essays presents autobiographical vignettes of important
professors of our time. These essays reflect the appreciation of
the authors-now successful academics-for their teachers/mentors,
whose drive and creativity had such on influence on the careers of
their students. No other collection presents such an
autobiographical and biographical portrayal of college of education
faculty. The essays examine what it means to be a professor in
today's academia, with its erosion of the professoriate and the
emergence of a questionable entrepreneurial pragmatism. The writers
and their subjects explain their vision of the academic life
sustained by a community and perpetuated through the lives of their
teachers and their students, a tradition not only in teaching but
also in mentoring.
Shaker Jeffrey's life has been an odyssey of courage, cunning and
desperation. His journey began as a fatherless Iraqi farm boy. As a
child he hung out with American troops and practised his English.
Soon he was helping gather information about terrorists, becoming
one of the youngest combat interpreters to work for the United
States government, even attracting the notice of General Petraeus.
When he was barely sixteen, ISIS overran his Yazidi community and
slaughtered most of its people. He narrowly escaped to the
mountains with the remnants of his community but with incredible
daring, he became a valuable go-between, informing the U.S.
military of the plight of the trapped Yazidis. Time and again he
risked his life, going into enemy territory disguised as an ISIS
fighter to mount daring rescue operations. Shaker saved over 1,000
civilians from ISIS, including hundreds of girls forced into sex
slavery, although he was unable to save his own fiancee from a
terrible fate. Shaker's powerful and inspiring narrative offers a
human face to the people and places caught in the crosshairs of a
borderless conflict that has come to define our age.
This book presents the most up-to-date coverage of procedural
content generation (PCG) for games, specifically the procedural
generation of levels, landscapes, items, rules, quests, or other
types of content. Each chapter explains an algorithm type or
domain, including fractal methods, grammar-based methods,
search-based and evolutionary methods, constraint-based methods,
and narrative, terrain, and dungeon generation. The authors are
active academic researchers and game developers, and the book is
appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students of courses on
games and creativity; game developers who want to learn new methods
for content generation; and researchers in related areas of
artificial intelligence and computational intelligence.
This book introduces nanocomposite materials possessing a broad
range of multifunctionality. It elucidates novel and highly
original developments from recent research and development of these
critical, new engineered materials. The collection examines
multiscale modeling, molecular dynamics, atomistic based continuum,
synthesis and characterization, condition health monitoring,
spectroscopic characterization techniques, self-lubricating
materials, and conducting polymers. The volume features the latest
efforts of some of the most eminent researchers in the world.
Providing a range of perspectives from the laboratory and the
field, Advances in Nanocomposites: Modeling and Characterization is
ideal for engineers, physicists, and materials scientists in
academia and industry.
This book is a comprehensive and easy-to-access guide not only in
the diagnosis of the various types of liver disease but in the
management of specific disorders, including the particular nuances
of the care of the patient with liver disease. It provides a
resource to the practitioner caring for patients with liver disease
for addressing everyday questions posed by patients and their
families, as well as referring physicians, in a manner that can
easily be conveyed. The spectrum covered includes appropriate
testing and disease monitoring of patients, use of medications,
supplements, alternative therapies and alcohol, operative risk
assessment, implementation of health maintenance for patients with
chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, identification and management
of particular complications of cirrhosis, and appropriate referral
for liver transplantation, as well as management of special
populations. Written by experts in the field, Liver Disorders: A
Point of Care Clinical Guide is a valuable resource for clinicians
who treat patients with a variety of liver disorders.
This book presents the most up-to-date coverage of procedural
content generation (PCG) for games, specifically the procedural
generation of levels, landscapes, items, rules, quests, or other
types of content. Each chapter explains an algorithm type or
domain, including fractal methods, grammar-based methods,
search-based and evolutionary methods, constraint-based methods,
and narrative, terrain, and dungeon generation. The authors are
active academic researchers and game developers, and the book is
appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students of courses on
games and creativity; game developers who want to learn new methods
for content generation; and researchers in related areas of
artificial intelligence and computational intelligence.
During the past decade, remarkable progress has been made in the
development of newer drugs to prevent and treat thromboembolic
disorders, such as oral direct anti-Xa and anti-IIa antagonists, as
well as oral antiplatelet ADP antagonists with rapid onset and
offset. In addition, there has been concentrated effort aimed at
identifying novel uses of traditional antithrombotic drugs, such as
aspirin, heparin, and oral anticoagulants, as well as combinations
of agents, such as more than one antiplatelet, antiplatelet with
anticoagulant, antiplatelet with or without thrombolytic.
Anticoagulants, Antiplatelets, and Thrombolytics, Second Edition
provides updates on various strategies in thrombosis, experimental
models, and clinical and recent advances in the discovery and
development of novel antithrombotics. As a volume in the highly
successful Methods in Molecular Biology (TM) series, this
collection provides the kind of detailed description and
implementation advice that is crucial for getting optimal results.
Easy to use and up to date, Anticoagulants, Antiplatelets, and
Thrombolytics, Second Edition is an ideal guide for researchers
aiming for the future of this vital field, focusing on the
prevention of thromboembolic disorders and the protection of the
vascular endothelium.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of common disorders
affecting the pancreas and the bile duct. The book reviews the
anatomy and laboratory test relevant to the pathophysiology of the
disease, categorizes the symptoms under clinical scenarios like
"incidental finding" or "painless jaundice", defines accuracy (or
lack of) of the investigations used, and formulates a management
plan as per evidence-based recommendations. The spectrum of
diseases covered include commonly occurring benign conditions like
pancreatitis, gall stone disease, bile duct strictures, and
malignant diseases of the pancreas, gall bladder and the bile
ducts. Also included are topics on motility disorders of the
pancreaticobiliary system and pre-malignant conditions. Written by
experts in the field, Pancreas and Biliary Diseases: A Point of
Care Clinical Guide is a valuable reference resource for clinicians
who need the latest evidence-based approach to manage these complex
patients and answer questions the patient or the referring doctors
may have regarding pancreas and biliary diseases.
This book introduces nanocomposite materials possessing a broad
range of multifunctionality. It elucidates novel and highly
original developments from recent research and development of these
critical, new engineered materials. The collection examines
multiscale modeling, molecular dynamics, atomistic based continuum,
synthesis and characterization, condition health monitoring,
spectroscopic characterization techniques, self-lubricating
materials, and conducting polymers. The volume features the latest
efforts of some of the most eminent researchers in the world.
Providing a range of perspectives from the laboratory and the
field, Advances in Nanocomposites: Modeling and Characterization is
ideal for engineers, physicists, and materials scientists in
academia and industry.
This book is a major update of novel targets in angiogenesis
modulation, including pro- and anti-angiogenesis. There is in-depth
coverage of preclinical and clinical methods and models,
investigational status, and clinical applications. The impact of
nanotechnology in advancing the applications of pro-and
anti-angiogenesis strategies is also highlighted, along with stem
cell and biotechnologies in research and development of
angiogenesis modulating targets.
This book is a major update of novel targets in angiogenesis
modulation, including pro- and anti-angiogenesis. There is in-depth
coverage of preclinical and clinical methods and models,
investigational status, and clinical applications. The impact of
nanotechnology in advancing the applications of pro-and
anti-angiogenesis strategies is also highlighted, along with stem
cell and biotechnologies in research and development of
angiogenesis modulating targets.
This book includes evidence-based insights and recommendations to
help academicians excel in raising philanthropic support for their
institutions and units. The book provides historical and
contemporary perspectives on core concepts and data, research
revealing donors' giving motivations, engagement strategies and
tactics for academic units, and guidance on management challenges
including strategic plans, campaigns, and measuring performance.
The authors include case studies in each section as examples of
successful fundraising and volunteer-driven initiatives. The final
section, contributed by Dean David D. Perlmutter, reinforces the
book's many practical and theoretical approaches to the fundamental
responsibilities academic leaders face in raising philanthropic
support. This book is grounded in the growing academic literature
on philanthropy and written by scholars who were successful higher
education fundraisers.
In this book, the author has presented an introduction to the
practical application of some of the essential technical topics
related to computer-aided engineering (CAE). These topics include
interactive computer graphics (ICG), computer-aided design (CAD),
computer and computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM). aided
analysis (CAA) Unlike the few texts available, the present work
attempts to bring all these seemingly specialised topics together
and to demonstrate their integration in the design process through
practical applications to real engineering problems and case
studies. This book is the result of the author's research and
teaching activities for several years of postgraduate and
undergraduate courses in mechanical design of rotating machinery,
computer-aided engineering, of finite elements, solid mechanics,
engineering practical applications and properties of materials at
Cranfield Institute of dynamics Technology, Oxford Engineering
Science and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology (UMIST). It was soon realised that no books on the most
powerful and versatile tools available to engineering designers
existed. To satisfy this developing need, this book, on the use of
computers to aid the design process and to integrate design,
analysis and manufacture, was prepared."
Integral geometry deals with the problem of determining functions
by their integrals over given families of sets. These integrals
de?ne the corresponding
integraltransformandoneofthemainquestionsinintegralgeometryaskswhen
this transform is injective. On the other hand, when we work with
complex measures or forms, operators appear whose kernels are
non-trivial but which describe important classes of functions. Most
of the questions arising here relate, in one way or another, to the
convolution equations. Some of the well known publications in this
?eld include the works by J. Radon, F. John, J. Delsarte, L.
Zalcman, C. A. Berenstein, M. L. Agranovsky and recent monographs
by L. H] ormander and S. Helgason. Until recently research in this
area was carried out mostly using the technique of the Fourier
transform and corresponding methods of complex analysis. In recent
years the present author has worked out an essentially di?erent
methodology based on the description of various function spaces in
terms of - pansions in special functions, which has enabled him to
establish best possible results in several well known problems."
During the past decade, remarkable progress has been made in the
development of newer drugs to prevent and treat thromboembolic
disorders, such as oral direct anti-Xa and anti-IIa antagonists, as
well as oral antiplatelet ADP antagonists with rapid onset and
offset. In addition, there has been concentrated effort aimed at
identifying novel uses of traditional antithrombotic drugs, such as
aspirin, heparin, and oral anticoagulants, as well as combinations
of agents, such as more than one antiplatelet, antiplatelet with
anticoagulant, antiplatelet with or without thrombolytic.
Anticoagulants, Antiplatelets, and Thrombolytics, Second Edition
provides updates on various strategies in thrombosis, experimental
models, and clinical and recent advances in the discovery and
development of novel antithrombotics. As a volume in the highly
successful Methods in Molecular Biology(TM) series, this collection
provides the kind of detailed description and implementation advice
that is crucial for getting optimal results. Easy to use and up to
date, Anticoagulants, Antiplatelets, and Thrombolytics, Second
Edition is an ideal guide for researchers aiming for the future of
this vital field, focusing on the prevention of thromboembolic
disorders and the protection of the vascular endothelium.
The 38th chapter of the Revival of the Religious Sciences, this
treatise follows on from "Al-Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity &
Truthfulness." Here, Ghazali focuses on the different stations of
steadfastness in religion (murabaha), vigilance and
self-examination being its cornerstones. As in all his writings,
Ghazali bases his arguments on the Qur an, the example of the
Prophet, and the sayings of numerous scholars and Sufis. As
relevant today as it was in the 11th century, this discourse will
be of interest to anyone concerned with ethics and moral
philosophy."
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