Part I: Introducing the Framework -- 1. Launch Pad -- 2. Human Capital -- 3. Finance Capital, Market, and Policy -- 4. Infrastructure and Institutions -- 5. Management of Resources and Lessons Learned -- Part II: Learning from Successful Innovation Regions -- 6. Bangalore Innovation System -- 7....

Chapter 1: Financial risk tolerance: where does it all start from? -- Chapter 2: Risk tolerance tools: from academia to regulation and back -- Chapter 3: Challenges and opportunities in the regulation of financial instruments post Mifid2 – Sustainable finance -- Chapter 4: The digital...

Part I: Organizational Politics -- 1 Fundamental Concepts -- 2 Perspectives on Power -- 3 Latent Conflict -- 4 Open Conflict -- Part II: Software Processes -- 5 Process Design -- 6 Bureaucratic Control -- 7 Cultural Control -- Part III: Political Action -- 8 Politics at Work -- 9 Political...

Optimization Software Class Libraries -- Distribution, Cooperation, and Hybridization for Combinatorial Optimization -- A Framework for Local Search Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization Problems -- Hotframe: A Heuristic Optimization Framework -- Writing Local Search Algorithms Using...

Chapter 1. Digital transformation and software-defined business -- Chapter 2. IT management in the digital world -- Chapter 3. Innovation-oriented IT management with DevOps -- Chapter 4. DevOps for continuous innovation at T‑Systems MMS -- Chapter 5. Learnings for continuous innovation.

Worum geht es? -- Das UX-Management-Framework: Was gehört dazu, wirklich nutzerzentriert zu sein? -- Der UX-Status-Quo: Wie bereit ist meine Organisation für User Experience? -- Die UX-Vision: Wohin soll die Reise gehen? -- Menschen: Wie verändern sich Teamzusammensetzungen und Kompetenzen?...

The Social Capital View -- Open Source Software and Firm Involvement -- Private-Collective Innovation and Open Source Software: Longitudinal Insights from Linux Kernel Development -- Social Capital Effect on Value Contribution - Revealing Differences between Voluntary and Firm-Sponsored Open...

Introduction -- Background: OSS development and acquisitions -- Qualitative study: How does the involvement of firms in OSS matter in the pre-acquisition phase? -- Quantitative study: The role of OSS for likelihood and timing of acquisitions -- Mixed-methods study: The effect of acquisitions on...

Digital software platforms such as iOS or Android evolve quickly. Through regular updates, their set of built-in (core) features increases. While innovation allows strengthening platforms amidst competition, it can hurt contributors when introducing core features that are already provided by...

Part I -- 1: Don't Be A Prick -- 2: Managers Are Evil -- 3: Stables and Volatiles -- 4: The Rands Test -- 5: How to Run a Meeting -- 6: The Twinge -- 7: The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster -- 8: Lost in Translation -- 9: Agenda Detection -- 10: Management via Worry and Crisis -- 11:...