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Large Infrastructure Projects in Germany
by Genia Kostka Jobst FiedlerThis book presents an analysis of why some large infrastructure projects are delayed or compromised and offers important insights into the better delivery of future projects. It provides an important reaction to the ambitious e315 billion investment plan devised by the European Commission, wherein Europe's infrastructure is a key investment target. Germany is adopted as a focus, as Europe's largest economy, and a nation that has seen significant delays and tensions in the delivery of key infrastructure projects. The contributions to this volume demonstrate various patterns for infrastructure assets and illustrate how factors such as poor project governance, early planning mistakes, inappropriate risk management and unforeseen technological challenges influence delivery. The in-depth case studies on the Berlin Brandenburg Airport, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and offshore wind parks show how project delivery can face massive problems, and illuminating solutions are offered to these problems. Overall, the case of Germany also offers the opportunity to assess various new forms of project delivery, such as public-private partnerships (PPP), and the risks and opportunities of ambitious first-mover 'pioneer' projects. The book will be of great interest for scholars and upper-level students of human geography, business and management, as well as policy makers.
The Large International Firm: The International Petroleum Industry (Routledge Library Editions: International Business)
by Edith PenroseThis book is a study of the economics of the large international firm, but is at the same time a study of one of the world’s most important industries. International firms face difficult problems in attempting to deal with the conflicts between their own interest as world-wide economic organisations on the one hand, that of the countries in which they operate on the other, and with the conflicts of interest among the countries which are related to the international policies of the firms. The author analyses the underlying problems and points to possible solutions. When it was first published this was the first book by a professional economist to look widely at the economics of the international petroleum industry outside the industrialized countries.
Large-Scale Agile Frameworks: Agile Frameworks, agile Infrastruktur und pragmatische Lösungen zur digitalen Transformation
by Sascha BlockWarum sollten Sie sich mit Large-Scale Agile Frameworks auseinandersetzen? Agilität in Unternehmen und Organisationen gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung. Dieses Buch unterstützt Sie mit praxisnahen Lösungen und Werkzeugen zur übergreifenden Priorisierung von Anforderungen zur Software-Entwicklung. So ermöglichen Sie bestmögliche digitale Lösungen und etablieren einen optimalen Informationsfluss in Ihrer Organisation.Mit agilen Organisationsstrukturen - auch als Large-Scale Agile Frameworks bekannt - werden Unternehmen und Organisationen anpassungsfähiger. Damit können sie schneller auf Veränderungen reagieren und werden wettbewerbsfähiger. Unterstützen Sie somit die bestmögliche Priorisierung der in agilen Teams organisierten Unternehmenseinheiten. Wissenschaftsorientiert werden Large-Scale Agile Frameworks im Kontext des Large-Scale Agile Development und dazugehöriger Agile Frameworks und agiler Methodik und Tools beleuchtet. Mit dem Domänenmodell (Domain Driven Design), dem Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) und dem Spotify Engineering Model werden drei bekannte Frameworks vorgestellt. Dabei wird das Zusammenspiel aktueller Technologie-Themen wie des Cloud-Trends oder die organisatorischen Anforderungen im Hinblick auf Microservices und IT-Security reflektiert.
Large-Scale Agile Frameworks: Agile Frameworks, Agile Infrastructure and Pragmatic Solutions for Digital Transformation
by Sascha BlockThe book Large-Scale Agile Frameworks provides practical solutions for cross-team and cross-functional prioritization of requirements and documentation for enterprises. It reflects the interplay of current technology trends such as cloud computing and organizational requirements for microservices. Organizations are increasingly required to align their IT strategy with customer needs for customer-centric and service-oriented products and services. The book analyzes the unique requirements of a differentiated software service offering and shows how agile principles are effective in addressing these issues. The book also highlights the importance of large-scale agile development and provides guidance to organizations on how to transform their structure towards agile prioritization. The book covers various appropriate models, methodologies, and agile tools and provides recommendations for cross-functional prioritization of requirements. It also considers the need for IT security and shows how it can be integrated into the overall agile development process.
Large-scale Change at the WSSC
by Corey Hajim Amy C. EdmondsonDescribes the organizational transformation occurring at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC), a public utility. Faced with the possibility of privatization after decades of providing service in the absence of competition or performance pressures, the WSSC leadership orchestrates a reorganization to improve efficiency and effectiveness, while facing massive layoffs. A critical decision the organization faces is whether, and how, to add new entrepreneurial services to increase otherwise flat revenues. Analyses focus on assessment of the change process and approach.
Large-Scale Cognitive Assessment: Analyzing PIAAC Data (Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment)
by Débora B. Maehler Beatrice RammstedtThis open access methodological book summarises existing analysing techniques using data from PIAAC, a study initiated by the OECD that assesses key cognitive and occupational skills of the adult population in more than 40 countries. The approximately 65 PIAAC datasets that has been published worldwide to date has been widely received and used by an interdisciplinary research community. Due to the complex structure of the data, analyses with PIAAC datasets are very challenging. To ensure the quality and significance of these data analyses, it is necessary to instruct users in the correct handling of the data. This methodological book provides a standardised approach to successfully implementing these data analyses. It contains examples of and tools for the analysis of the PIAAC data using different statistical approaches and software, and it offers perspectives from various disciplines. The contributing authors have hands-on experience of using PIAAC data, and/or they have conducted data analysis workshops with these data.
Large-Scale Development of Renewables in the ASEAN: Economics, Technology and Policy (Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific)
by Han Phoumin Rabindra Nepal Fukunari Kimura Farhad Taghizadeh-HesaryThis book combines the fundamentals of economics, technology, and policy in deriving feasible solutions to facilitate the large-scale development of renewables in the ASEAN. A unique feature of this book is documenting that achieving large-scale renewables deployment inevitably requires combining these three distinct but interrelated forces of economics, technology, and policy. The economic foundations are guided by the microeconomic foundations grounded on economic efficiency and the associated market designs to deliver short-run economic efficiency including the application of auction designs and cost-benefit analysis. The role of battery technology and utility-scale batteries as enabling technologies for large-scale deployment of renewable energy is evidenced through energy modeling techniques. This book also pays particular emphasis on identifying key policy barriers of large-scale renewable development and pathways to overcome them such as the importance of carbon pricing in ASEAN countries and cross-border electricity trade to improve energy security by achieving clean energy targets. Country-specific case studies and regional case studies are used to study the economic, technological, and policy facets of large-scale renewable development with a view to derive policy lessons and recommendations in decarbonizing economic regions such as the ASEAN. The case studies are carefully selected and supported by rigorous data analysis and modeling as appropriate. This book on energy economics and policy is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and robust overview on the recent empirical evidences of facilitating the large-scale development of renewables with a particular reference to the ASEAN and Asian economies including India and China.
Large-scale Graph Analysis: System, Algorithm and Optimization (Big Data Management)
by Yingxia Shao Bin Cui Lei ChenThis book introduces readers to a workload-aware methodology for large-scale graph algorithm optimization in graph-computing systems, and proposes several optimization techniques that can enable these systems to handle advanced graph algorithms efficiently. More concretely, it proposes a workload-aware cost model to guide the development of high-performance algorithms. On the basis of the cost model, the book subsequently presents a system-level optimization resulting in a partition-aware graph-computing engine, PAGE. In addition, it presents three efficient and scalable advanced graph algorithms – the subgraph enumeration, cohesive subgraph detection, and graph extraction algorithms. This book offers a valuable reference guide for junior researchers, covering the latest advances in large-scale graph analysis; and for senior researchers, sharing state-of-the-art solutions based on advanced graph algorithms. In addition, all readers will find a workload-aware methodology for designing efficient large-scale graph algorithms.
Large-Scale Group Decision-Making: State-to-the-Art Clustering and Consensus Paths
by Su-Min Yu Zhi-Jiao DuThis book explores clustering operations in the context of social networks and consensus-reaching paths that take into account non-cooperative behaviors. This book focuses on the two key issues in large-scale group decision-making: clustering and consensus building. Clustering aims to reduce the dimension of a large group. Consensus reaching requires that the divergent individual opinions of the decision makers converge to the group opinion. This book emphasizes the similarity of opinions and social relationships as important measurement attributes of clustering, which makes it different from traditional clustering methods with single attribute to divide the original large group without requiring a combination of the above two attributes. The proposed consensus models focus on the treatment of non-cooperative behaviors in the consensus-reaching process and explores the influence of trust loss on the consensus-reaching process.The logic behind is as follows: firstly, a clustering algorithm is adopted to reduce the dimension of decision-makers, and then, based on the clusters’ opinions obtained, a consensus-reaching process is carried out to obtain a decision result acceptable to the majority of decision-makers. Graduates and researchers in the fields of management science, computer science, information management, engineering technology, etc., who are interested in large-scale group decision-making and consensus building are potential audience of this book. It helps readers to have a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of clustering analysis and consensus building in large-scale group decision-making.
Large-Scale Integrated Energy Systems: Planning and Operation (Energy Systems in Electrical Engineering)
by Qing-Hua Wu Jiehui Zheng Zhaoxia Jing Xiaoxin ZhouThis book discusses key issues in the planning and operation of large-scale integrated energy systems (LSIES). It establishes individual-based models for LSIES and develops multi-objective optimization algorithms and multi-attribute decision making support systems, which are applied to the planning and optimal operation of LSIES. It is a valuable reference work for researchers, students and engineers who are interested in energy systems, operation research and decision theory.
Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Ghana: Institutional Change, Gender and Power (Routledge Studies in Global Land and Resource Grabbing)
by Kristina LanzThis book examines a large-scale land acquisition project for rice production in Ghana’s Volta Region, which has been purported by some to be a social and ecological showcase of a company entering a "community–private partnership" with affected communities. Celebrated by national and international media, the project has received substantial amounts of funding from various donor organisations and claims to empower women through its much-lauded outgrower project. Although discourses of "development", "sustainability" and "women’s empowerment" are used by the investment company, the state and the customary authorities to legitimise the large-scale land acquisition, this book highlights how the deal benefits mainly the powerful elite, including elite women, and generally increases the depreciation of those already most marginalised, such as poor female-headed households and settler communities that were dependent on resources from the commons now enclosed and transformed into a rice farm. The author adopts a New Institutionalist perspective in social anthropology in order to analyse how this land acquisition has been implemented in a plural institutional context and how different actors use different rules and regulations and associated legitimating discourses to increase their bargaining power and to pursue their own interests in a changing legal context. In addition, this perspective shows how benefits and losses are distributed along different intersecting axes of power, such as class, gender, clan membership and age. By focusing on power, gender and legitimisation strategies in the context of institutional change caused by the large-scale land acquisition, this book fills a gap in the literature on large-scale land acquisitions while contributing to the development of a theoretical perspective on institutional change, power relations and ideological legitimisation. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of land and resource grabbing, agricultural development and agribusiness, land management and development studies more broadly.
Large-Scale Land Investments in Least Developed Countries: Legal Conflicts Between Investment and Human Rights Protection (International Law and Economics)
by Luis Tomás Montilla FernándezThis book analyses large-scale land investments for agricultural purposes in Africa’s least developed countries from a law and economics perspective. Focusing on the effects of foreign land investments on host countries’ local populations and the apparent failure of international law to create incentives to offset them, it also examines the legal and economic mechanisms to hold investors accountable in cases where their investment leads to human rights violations. Applying principal agent and contract theory, it elucidates the sources of opportunism and develops control mechanisms to ameliorate the negative effects. It shows that although judicial mechanisms fail to deliver justice, international law offers alternatives to safeguard against arbitrary and abusive state and investor conduct, and also to effectuate human rights and, thus, tackle opportunistic behaviour.
Large Scale Optimization in Supply Chains and Smart Manufacturing: Theory and Applications (Springer Optimization and Its Applications #149)
by Jesús M. Velásquez-Bermúdez Marzieh Khakifirooz Mahdi FathiIn this book, theory of large scale optimization is introduced with case studies of real-world problems and applications of structured mathematical modeling. The large scale optimization methods are represented by various theories such as Benders’ decomposition, logic-based Benders’ decomposition, Lagrangian relaxation, Dantzig –Wolfe decomposition, multi-tree decomposition, Van Roy’ cross decomposition and parallel decomposition for mathematical programs such as mixed integer nonlinear programming and stochastic programming. Case studies of large scale optimization in supply chain management, smart manufacturing, and Industry 4.0 are investigated with efficient implementation for real-time solutions. The features of case studies cover a wide range of fields including the Internet of things, advanced transportation systems, energy management, supply chain networks, service systems, operations management, risk management, and financial and sales management. Instructors, graduate students, researchers, and practitioners, would benefit from this book finding the applicability of large scale optimization in asynchronous parallel optimization, real-time distributed network, and optimizing the knowledge-based expert system for convex and non-convex problems.
Large-Scale Organizational Change: An Executive's Guide
by Christopher Laszlo Jean Francois LaugelLarge Scale Organizational Change provides the principles by which large scale organizations reinvent themselves not once, but on an ongoing basis. Continual reinvention allows leading companies to learn, adapt, and innovate faster than competitors in complex and fast changing environments. These action principles are based on first-hand experience at the world's leading Fortune 500 companies using emergent models of living systems.The context for large scale organizations is one of information overload, complexity and constant change. This book reduces the sense of vulnerability felt by managers. It provides a guide to piloting change in ways that lead to constant renewal and a capacity to survive frequent and often brutal changes in the operating environment. It describes a leadership concerned with the capacity to learn, inflection points, emergent strategies, knowledge management, the ability to anticipate, and tapping into the distributed intelligence resident in the organization. Large Scale Organizational Change provides managers with a framework for making their organizations highly adaptive in the complex market systems in which they operate, thereby reducing or eliminating the need for periodic episodes of traumatic restructuring and sometimes fatal reengineering processes.
Large Systems Change: A Special Theme Issue of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship (Issue 58)
Large Systems Change (LSC) is a field of study and action that is characterized by its focus on transformational pathways towards a participative, flourishing future through inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches that value engagement with practitioners and those aspiring for such futures. Its emergence holds great promise for addressing critical issues. Advancing its development requires aggressiveness to cross the many disciplinary, institutional and other boundaries and build the necessary scale of effort; however, humbleness is also required to recognize that although we have substantial knowledge and methodologies for approaching LSC, we are still at early stages of their development. The papers in this Special Issue of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship focus on the question of how to scale to the field of LSC. We can see the contributors and editors reflect on this at the three levels: broadening by increasing the numbers of people and organizations identified with it; going up and out with a more receptive environment arising with failures of traditional management approaches; and deepening of knowledge and methods for supporting LSC. This Special Issue will be essential reading for those researching in this emerging field, and practitioners looking for the latest thinking on how LSC may be a solution to global challenges.
Larger Than Yourself: Reimagine Industries, Lead with Purpose & Grow Ideas into Movements
by Thibault ManekinDARE TO CHANGE THE WORLD Why do some great ideas take off and soar, while others never get off the ground? Where does that elusive sense of being part of something larger than ourselves come from? How can each of us harness that feeling to help fuel the world’s best ideas and turn them into movements? In Larger Than Yourself, Thibault Manekin tells gripping stories about inspirational people and pivotal moments that answer these questions at a time when social entrepreneurship is no longer a buzzword but a global necessity. He shares his experiences helping to bridge social divides in war-torn countries through sports and reimagining the real estate industry so that buildings empower communities and unite cities, illustrating how we all can turn ideas into movements. The seven distinct lessons that emerge become actionable principles for the doers and dreamers of today, inspiring you with takeaways to assist in the pursuit of your own endeavors.
The Larry & Barry Guide to Entrepreneurial Wisdom
by Arthur Lipper IIIIf you have a valuable idea and want make the leap from there to billionaire, let the Larry and Barry guide you through this difficult process -- from business-building to profit-making. These two characters will keep you entertained while offering priceless advice on: Clarifying your idea and determining valueTurning a vision into a businessFinanc
Larry Miller
by Alicia Dadlani Frances X. Frei Francesca Gino Hise GibsonUnder the leadership of Larry Miller, chairman and former president of Nike's Air Jordan brand, annual revenues for the Jordan brand soared from $150 million to over $4 billion. But for over 40 years, Miller guarded a secret. When he was 16 years old and part of a West Philadelphia gang, he shot and killed an innocent teenager and spent 4 years in juvenile detention. Upon release, he fell back into a life of crime and spent nearly five years in prison for armed robberies. This time, he vowed to change, focused on his education, and graduated with honors from college. After disclosing his crime to a potential employer led to the withdrawal of a job offer, he never told anyone again until 40 years later, when he wrote a memoir with his daughter in 2022. Miller wondered if sharing his story could affect positive change, serving as a source of inspiration for troubled youth and encouraging leaders to promote fair chance hiring of formerly incarcerated people.
Larry Steffen: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package
by Craig Stephenson William E. FruhanNew MBA graduate Larry Steffen has accepted an attractive job offer from Athena Global Technology but must now choose one of two alternative compensation plans. The first compensation plan option includes a base salary plus a $25,000 cash bonus, and the second includes the same base salary plus employee stock options. In order to evaluate and decide on one of these plans, Larry must estimate the value of the offered stock options and consider several complicating factors, including whether he will remain at Athena for the five-year vesting period necessary to receive the options. This case introduces students to option valuation and facilitates a discussion about the effectiveness and potential benefits and problems associated with the use of stock options in compensation packages.
L’art de la conversation: Comment parler à tout le monde et construire rapidement des liens en 30 étapes faciles
by The BlokeheadMerci pour votre intérêt pour ce livre, « L’art de la conversation : Comment parler à tout le monde et construire rapidement des liens en 30 étapes faciles » Ce livre contient des informations sur la façon dont vous pouvez développer vos aptitudes à la conversation pour créer des liens et parler à des personnes de tous les horizons. En outre, il contient également 30 conseils sur la façon de créer des liens avec à peu près n'importe qui. Prenez ce livre maintenant!
L'Art de la richesse
by Baron Alexander Deschauer Rita BakopDevenir riche, et mieux encore, opulent, demande un certain état d'esprit. Devenir opulent est plutôt simple, en théorie. En pratique, il existe des obstacles que la plupart d'entre nous ne voient même pas. Ce sont des barrières d'entrée qui permettent à beaucoup de personnes dans la société de prétendre que des opportunités existent pour tout le monde – mais en réalité, elles sont fermées pour la plupart d'entre nous. La première chose à faire pour surmonter ces barrières c'est d'être capable d'apprendre à les voir. Une fois que vous apprenez à les voir, vous serez capable de les surmonter. Ce livre, à travers de petits récits, expose le secret du développement de l'état d'esprit à cultiver pour devenir riche. Il vous servira des vérités testées derrières l'accumulation de la richesse et de l'opulence.
L'arte della ricchezza. Gli ostacoli per raggiungerla.
by Baron Alexander DeschauerQuesto libro espone, attraverso brevi racconti e riflessioni, i segreti per sviluppare l'approccio mentale giusto per raggiungere la ricchezza. Segna l'incontro tra l' "Arte della guerra" di Sun Tzu e "Padre ricco, padre povero" di Kiyosaki. Diventare ricchi è alla portata di tutti. Teoricamente. In pratica ci sono ostacoli che la maggior parte di noi neppure vede. Sono le barriere di ingresso che permettono a molti di affermare che l'opportunità esiste per tutti ma che in realtà è preclusa alla maggior parte di noi. La prima cosa per superare queste barriere è essere in grado di imparare a vederle. Una volta che imparerete a vederle, sarete in grado di superarle. Questo libro con brevi racconti e narrazioni vi permetterà di sviluppare il gisuto approccio mentale per ottenere l'agiatezza. Vi fornirà le verità provate e testate che stanno dietro alla'ccumulazione delle ricchezze e del benessere.
L’ascension de l’empire
by Ulrich Richard HambuchLe peuple des poètes et des penseurs, qui a été deux fois victime de terribles guerres mondiales dans l’histoire récente, est à nouveau en crise profonde ces jours-ci et se trouve à un carrefour. Au cours des sept dernières années, d’innombrables œuvres brillantes sur le plan analytique, mais sobres, longues et pour la majorité incompréhensibles et donc finalement éphémères ont été produites dans ce contexte, dans lesquelles les auteurs se sont sentis appelés à dévoiler et dénoncer les choses qui nous ont consciemment ou inconsciemment opprimés au cours des dernières décennies. En fin de compte, cependant, tous les auteurs que je connaissais ont échoué à esquisser une alternative holistique et durable à l’état actuel. Il fallait y remédier. Aujourd’hui, je considère cela comme une coïncidence du destin, qui depuis quelques années ne m’a pas permis de poursuivre mon activité habituelle de manière permanente et complète et le destin m’a conduit à partir de maintenant à me consacrer en retraite et en impartialité au sujet de la recherche de la vérité. En tant que personne capable d’agir après un moment d’apprentissage, de réflexion, de ressenti et de pause, je n’ai pu trouver ma place dans aucun parti, entreprise ou lieu en République fédérale d’Allemagne. J’ai donc décidé sans plus attendre de créer pour moi-même cet idéal politique, laïc et spirituel.
L'ascesa dell'Impero: Volume 1: La Germania si riprenderà attraverso lo spirito tedesco
by Ulrich Richard HambuchIl popolo dei poeti e dei pensatori, che sono stati per due volte vittime di terribili guerre mondiali nella storia recente, è di nuovo in una profonda crisi in questi giorni e si trova a un bivio. Negli ultimi sette anni, in questo contesto sono state prodotte innumerevoli, analiticamente brillanti, ma sobrie, lunghe e per la maggior parte incomprensibili e quindi in ultima analisi solo opere fugaci, in cui gli autori si sono sentiti chiamati a scoprire e denunciare le cose che ci hanno consapevolmente o inconsciamente oppresso negli ultimi decenni. In definitiva, però, tutti gli autori che conoscevo non sono riusciti a delineare un'alternativa olistica e sostenibile allo stato attuale. A questo bisognava porre rimedio. Oggi la considero una coincidenza del destino, che per alcuni anni non mi ha permesso da più parti di portare avanti la mia attività abituale in modo permanente e che mi ha portato, da ora in poi, a dedicarmi in solitudine e imparzialità al tema della ricerca della verità. Come persona che, dopo un po' di tempo di apprendimento, di pensiero, di sentimento e di pausa, è in grado di agire, non ho potuto trovare casa in nessun partito, in nessuna azienda o luogo della Repubblica Federale Tedesca. Così ho deciso senza ulteriori indugi di creare questa casa ideale politica, laica e spirituale per me stesso.
Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing of Metal Parts: Modeling, Optimization, and Control of Mechanical Properties (Advanced and Additive Manufacturing Series)
by Linkan Bian Nima Shamsaei John UsherLaser-Based Additive Manufacturing (LBAM) technologies, hailed by some as the "third industrial revolution," can increase product performance, while reducing time-to-market and manufacturing costs. This book is a comprehensive look at new technologies in LBAM of metal parts, covering topics such as mechanical properties, microstructural features, thermal behavior and solidification, process parameters, optimization and control, uncertainty quantification, and more. The book is aimed at addressing the needs of a diverse cross-section of engineers and professionals.