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Applications of Topic Models describes the recent academic and industrial applications of topic models with the goal of launching a young researcher capable of building their own applications of topic models.

This monograph explores the main issues involved in enterprise search both from a research as well as a practical point of view. It plots the landscape of enterprise search and its links to related areas, identifying key features before surveying the field in more detail.

Presents recently developed approaches in automotive control systems design that take implementation resources into consideration, aiming to improve the control performances for a given amount of resources, or equivalently, realize the required control performances with fewer resources.

Organises and summarises the large body of research related to facilitation of safe human-robot interaction. This book describes the strategies and methods that have been developed thus far, organises them into subcategories, characterizes relationships between the strategies, and identifies potential gaps in the existing knowledge.

In a good financial reporting regime, attributes, goals, and practice are not mutually exclusive. It is unlikely that any one of them is entirely satisfactory by itself; they complement one another. Better Financial Reporting argues for such a syncretic attitude to financial reporting regime.

Explores the issues and provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of business failure research that has surrounded the subject over the years within the entrepreneurship literature.

Executive Compensation surveys the extant literature on this important topic. The first section starts with a discussion of the theory of executive compensation, in which the author identifies two major approaches. The second section reviews the evidence on both the composition and level of pay and how it has changed over time, treating each component.

Agglomeration, Industrial Districts and Industry Clusters: Trends of the 21th Century Literature reviews the early work of 21st century scholarship on agglomerations, industrial districts and industry clusters and explores the context to the prominent themes that emerged between 2000 and 2015.

Explores the factors that have caused the recent explosion in hedge fund activism; examines the impact of this activism, including whether it is shortening investment horizons and discouraging investment in research and development; and surveys and evaluates possible legal interventions with an emphasis on the least restrictive alternative.

Entrepreneurship and Institutions: A Bidirectional Relationship argues that the view that institutions determine the extent to which entrepreneurial activity is productive is only part of the story. Rather, causality is bidirectional, in that entrepreneurship is also, for better or for worse, one of the main drivers of institutional change.

After a long decline in American manufacturing in the 2000s, the US governemnt responded with a poicy of ""advanced manufacturing"". This book traces how the foundational concepts of this poicy were developed and how an innovation system response was considered and developed to strengthen the US production system.

Presents a set of goals to help the reader understand the role of experimental economics in marketing. These include distinguishing experimental economics from other fields in the broadest possible terms; providing the basic methodological tenets of experimental economics; and delineating classes of experiments within experimental economics.

Attempts to promote a broad debate about the notion of causality and the role of causal inference in the social sciences. This volume allows researchers and students in accounting, and the social sciences, to acquire a deeper understanding of the notion of causality and the nature, limits, and scope of empirical research in the social sciences.

Lays out a discussion framework for understanding the role of human-computer interaction in public policymaking. The book takes an international view, discussing potential areas for research and application and their potential for impact. The aim is to provide a solid foundation for discussion, cooperation and collaborative interaction.

Bioresources are becoming increasingly important and topical as the world is faced with growing food demand as well as increased pressure to provide energy and materials. This monograph discusses the current flows of bioresources, their inherent properties and the services that these resources may provide in a sustainable biobased economy.

Presents the many different dimensions to national corporate governance regimes, encompassing the legal, the political, the economic, and the social behaviour. While there is much debate within the literature as to which is the most important aspect of each, this monograph provides a basis to evaluate this burgeoning literature.

Reviews prior studies and proposes new research directions for the corporate governance of China's listed firms. The primary focus is to investigate the underlying relation between China's institutional environment and its listed firms' corporate governance, and show how formal and informal governance mechanisms actually work within these firms.

Takes a broad view of spatial econometrics and introduces some of the basic concepts. After an introduction, the book introduces methods for the spatial econometric analysis of regional data, explores the new emerging field of microeconometrics, and applies the general SARAR paradigm to the case of spatial interaction models.

Focuses on the information-economics theoretic framework of brand equity. The authors posit that consumer-based brand equity is the value of a brand as a credible signal of a product's positioning. In their framework, the content, clarity, and credibility of the brand signal creates intangible benefits, and enhances perceived quality.

Owner-Level Taxes and Business Activity examines advances in both theoretical and empirical research that paint a clearer picture of the effects of owner-level taxation on business activity.

Marketing Dynamics: A Primer on Estimation and Control provides an introduction to the estimation and control of dynamic marketing models. It introduces dynamic models in discrete- and continuous- time, scalar and multivariate settings, with observed outcomes and unobserved states, as well as random and/or time-varying parameters.

Three Essential Analytical Techniques for the Behavioral Marketing Researcher reviews several topics that are essential complementary analytics that enable behavioral marketing researchers to test theories and hypotheses, and thereby advance their respective literatures and contribute to knowledge bases.

Provides an updated and comprehensive review of China's financial system and compares it with financial systems in other countries. The book reviews what has worked and what has not within the markets and intermediaries in China, and further considers the effects of the recent development of China's financial system on the real economy.

Explores the extent to which knowledge transferred from a university to a firm or group of firms through a research partnership results in short-term private gains to a firm as well as to long-term public gains to society.

Reviews the social cognition and its development to explore how progression in this broader field serves as a conceptual footing for the more specialized, microfoundation-based examination of entrepreneurial social cognition, and reviews some of the relevant work in fields that are closely related to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking.

Reviews the major design methodologies that have had a profound effect on designing future Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures. More precisely, the book addresses the problem of NoC design in the deterministic context, where the application and the architecture are modelled as graphs with worst-case type of information.

Helps put contract-based design in perspective. Contracts are precisely defined and characterized so that they can be used in design methodologies with no ambiguity.

Three Branches of Theories of Financial Crises presents basic frameworks linked to the broad topic of financial crises and describes some of the directions in which they influenced the literature and the way they relate to recent events. The authors also address some of the policy challenges, shedding light on them using the analytical tools at hand so that this survey will help to highlight the basic underlying forces that have been studied in the literature for over three decades in a simple and transparent way. It will be an easy and accessible source to the many economists who are interested in exploring the topic of financial crises following recent events.After the Introduction, Section 2 reviews the literature on banking crises and panics. This literature is perhaps most directly linked to the concept of crises. While Section 2 emphasizes fragility faced by financial institutions due to coordination failures by their creditors, Section 3 reviews models that analyze frictions in loans extended by financial institutions and other lenders. Overall, the models of Sections 2 and 3 highlight fragility on the different sides of the balance sheet of a financial institution. Another literature that evolved independently is focused on currency crises. Traditionally, these were viewed as a separate phenomenon, unrelated to banking crises, but more recently the literatures have moved towards each other. Section 4 reviews models of currency crises and Section 5 provides concluding remarks.