Author : William Aspray
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The effect of a commercialized Internet on American business, from the boom in e-commerce and adjustments by bricks-and-mortar businesses to file-sharing and community building.
Author : Donya Alinejad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319476262
This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles—the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora—as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web platforms are embedded within the everyday social, cultural, and political lives of second generation Iranian Americans. Donya Alinejad unpacks contemporary diasporic belonging through her discussion of the digital mediation of race, memory, and long-distance engagement in the historic Iranian Green Movement. The book argues that web media practices have become integral to Iranian American identity formation for this generation, and introduces the notion of second-generation “digital styles” to explain how specific web applications afford new stylings of diaspora culture.
Author : M. Carr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137550244
Despite the pervasiveness of the Internet and its importance to a wide range of state functions, we still have little understanding of its implications in the context of International Relations. Combining the Philosophy of Technology with IR theories of power, this study explores state power in the information age.
Author : Rick Boulware
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1438109865
Buying, selling, budgeting, and saving are fundamental business practices that almost everyone understands on a basic level.
Author : Thomas K. McCraw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1119097290
Tells the story of how America’s biggest companies began, operated, and prospered post-World War I This book takes the vantage point of people working within companies as they responded to constant change created by consumers and technology. It focuses on the entrepreneur, the firm, and the industry, by showing—from the inside—how businesses operated after 1920, while offering a good deal of Modern American social and cultural history. The case studies and contextual chapters provide an in-depth understanding of the evolution of American management over nearly 100 years. American Business Since 1920: How It Worked presents historical struggles with decision making and the trend towards relative decentralization through stories of extraordinarily capable entrepreneurs and the organizations they led. It covers: Henry Ford and his competitor Alfred Sloan at General Motors during the 1920s; Neil McElroy at Procter & Gamble in the 1930s; Ferdinand Eberstadt at the government’s Controlled Materials Plan during World War II; David Sarnoff at RCA in the 1950s and 1960s; and Ray Kroc and his McDonald’s franchises in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first; and more. It also delves into such modern success stories as Amazon.com, eBay, and Google. Provides deep analysis of some of the most successful companies of the 20th century Contains topical chapters covering titans of the 2000s Part of Wiley-Blackwell’s highly praised American History Series American Business Since 1920: How It Worked is designed for use in both basic and advanced courses in American history, at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1438109873
Presents an alphabetically-arranged reference to the history of business and industry in the United States. Includes selected primary source documents.
Author : Jeffrey C. Ulin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351136615
In this updated edition of the industry staple, veteran media executive Jeff Ulin relates business theory and practice across key global market segments—film, television, and online/digital—providing you with an insider’s perspective that can't be found anywhere else. Learn how an idea moves from concept to profit and how distribution dominates the bottom line: Hollywood stars may make the headlines, but marketing and distribution are the behind-the-scenes drivers converting content into cash. The third edition: Includes perspectives from key industry executives at studios, networks, agencies and online leaders, including Fox, Paramount, Lucasfilm, Endeavor, Tencent, MPAA, YouTube, Amazon, and many more; Explores the explosive growth of the Chinese market, including box office trends, participation in financing Hollywood feature films, and the surge in online usage; Illustrates how online streaming leaders like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, YouTube, Hulu and Facebook are changing the way TV content is distributed and consumed, and in cases how these services are moving into theatrical markets; Analyzes online influences and disruption throughout the distribution chain, and explains the risks and impact stemming from changing access points (e.g., stand-alone apps), delivery methods (over-the-top) and consumption patterns (e.g., binge watching); Breaks down historical film windows, the economic drivers behind them, and how online and digital delivery applications are changing the landscape. Ulin provides the virtual apprenticeship you need to demystify and manage the complicated media markets, understand how digital distribution has impacted the ecosystem, and glimpse into the future of how film and television content will be financed, distributed and watched. An online eResource contains further discussion on topics presented in the book.
Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1139 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199738815
As the global economic crisis that developed in the year 2008 makes clear, it is essential for educated individuals to understand the history that underlies contemporary economic developments. This encyclopedia will offer students and scholars access to information about the concepts, institutions/organizations, events, and individuals that have shaped the history of economics, business, and labor from the origins of what later became the United States in an earlier age of globalization and the expansion of capitalism to the present. It will include entries that explore the changing character of capitalism from the seventeenth century to the present; that cover the evolution of business practices and organizations over the same time period; that describe changes in the labor force as legally free workers replaced a labor force dominated by slaves and indentures; that treat the means by which workers sought to better their lives; and that deal with government policies and practices that affected economic activities, business developments, and the lives of working people. Readers will be able to find readily at hand information about key economic concepts and theories, major economists, diverse sectors of the economy, the history of economic and financial crises, major business organizations and their founders, labor organizations and their leaders, and specific government policies and judicial rulings that have shaped US economic and labor history. Readers will also be guided to the best and most recent scholarly works related to the subject covered by the entry. Because of the broad chronological span covered by the encyclopedia and the breadth of its subjects, it should prove useful to history students, economics majors, school of business entrants as well as to those studying public policy and administration.
Author : Jayson Reeves
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1462001246
JAYSON REEVES was born in Gary, Indiana and is now an author whom writes on the important subjects of government and business throughout the United States of America. Jaysons writi ng is based on the experience that he has established within working professionally throughout design, engineering, and as a investor and businessowner. As an investor, businessowner, and former partner of a civil engineering fi rm he has observed, and experienced the American society throughout Indiana, Illinois, Arizona, and other states. This experience with valued interest includes the work, and observati on of small, large, public, private businesses, and corporati ons with their adjacent values to government. These business disciplines within society, and most values of government have become the foundati on of his writi ng to enlighten the American general public.
Author : Shane Greenstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691178399
In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream—and how the commercialization of the Internet was by no means a foregone conclusion at its outset. Shane Greenstein traces the evolution of the Internet from government ownership to privatization to the commercial Internet we know today. This is a story of innovation from the edges. Greenstein shows how mainstream service providers that had traditionally been leaders in the old-market economy became threatened by innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn't—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned innovations into valuable products and services as the Internet evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of challenges with implementing innovative new services. How the Internet Became Commercial demonstrates how, without any central authority, a unique and vibrant interplay between government and private industry transformed the Internet.
