We argue two alternative routes that lead entrepreneurial start-ups to acquisition outcomes instead of liquidation. On one hand, acquisitions can come about through the control route with external financers such as venture capitalists (VCs). VCs take control through their board seats along with...

Chaparral shrubland ecosystems are an iconic feature of the California landscape, and a highly biodiverse yet highly flammable backdrop to some of the fastest growing urban areas in the United States. Chaparral-type ecosystems are a common element of all of the world's Mediterranean-type climate...

Seeing the wood for the trees : exploring the evolution of frameworks of ecosystem services for human wellbeing / Unai Pascual and Caroline Howe -- Justice and equity : emerging research and policy approaches to address ecosystem service trade-offs / Neil Dawson, Brendan Coolsaet and Adrian...

The resource nexus: a new approach / Raimund Bleischwitz, Holger Hoff, Catalina Spataru, Ester van der Voet, Stacy D. VanDeveer -- The wider environmental angle: Natural capital, ecosystem services, and biodiversity - resolving complexity and resilience issues / Kaysara Khatun and Gloria...

The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project (http://www.marine-vectors.eu/). The main scope of the project (2011 - 2015) has been to evaluate, from a multilateral perspective, drivers, pressures and vectors of changes in marine life of three main European seas...

Die Leistungen der Natur bilden die Grundlage für unsere Lebensqualität. Um einen nachhaltigen Umgang mit der Natur zu gewährleisten, muss das gesellschaftliche (Kosten-)Bewusstsein für diese Ökosystemleistungen geschärft werden und in politische Entscheidungen einfließen. Das...

Human economies and ecosystems form a coupled system coevolving in time and space, since human economies use ecosystems services and at the same time affect ecosystems through their production and consumption activities. The study of the interactions between human economies and ecosystems is...

The relevance of the rational, classical approach to strategy in the ICT sector - the strategy process -- The relevance of the rational, classical approach to strategy in the ICT sector - the strategy content approach -- A systems view of strategy - complexity, chaos theory and poised strategy...