Gender economics: an introduction to contemporary gender economics / Susanne Moore -- A note on the history of gender economics and feminist economics: not the same story / Giandomenica Becchio -- Impact of microfinance on female empowerment: a review of the empirical literature / Sefa Kwami...

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Manufacturing in a high cost environment: basis for future success on the national level / Göran Roos -- Competing from a high cost economy: what is the challenge to Australian public policy? / Ian Marsh -- Foundations for industrial rejuvenation: lessons from international and national...

1. Introduction -- 2. Innovation studies -- 3. Historical background : from manual identification to auto-ID -- 4. Globalization and the changing face of IDentification -- 5. Barcode : the pioneer auto-ID technology -- 6. Magnetic-stripe cards : the consolidating force -- 7. Smart cards : the...

1. Information systems success and failure--two sides of one coin, or different in nature? : an exploratory study / Jeremy Fowler, Pat Horan -- 2. Achieving sustainable tailorable software systems by collaboration between end-users and developers / Jeanette Eriksson, Yvonne Dittrich -- 3....

"Interest in e-government, both in industry and in academies, has grown rapidly over the past decade. This book provides helpful examples from practitioners and managers involving real-life applications; academics and researchers contribute theoretical insights"--Provided by publisher.

Business managers are striving to move toward process-centric organizations, but the challenge remains in ensuring adoption of a business process culture. This book aids managers in the transformation of organizations into world-class competitors through business process applications. A useful...

Language learning is one of the most rapidly changing disciplines. Along with changing perspectives in learning in the field of Second Language Acquisition, information communication technology (ICT) has also created many learning paths to assist the process of learning a second language (L2)....