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A new biography re-examining the complex and fascinating king, whose very humanity saw him deposed from his divine role.
Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Begräbniszeremoniell und Staatlichkeit – welchen Zusammenhang gibt es zwischen politischem Verständnis eines Königs und seinem Begräbnis ? Dieser Frage wird in der vorliegenden Examensarbeit exemplarisch nachgegangen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll untersucht werden, inwiefern die symbolische Sprache des Begräbniszeremoniells von Karl IV. ein Bild von einer bestimmten Ordnung entwirft. Friedrich Bruck beschrieb die Einstellung des Menschen zum Tod mit den Worten: „[Wie] die Menschen sich zum Tode einstellen, bestimmt ihre Haltung gegenüber dem Leben“. Somit läßt sich auch aus dem Begräbnis sehr viel über das Leben des Verstorbenen und seiner Umwelt ...
CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind text for the emerging business arena of entrepreneurship and innovation. Built on years of research and experience, this unique text employs a clear and informative how-to approach and features sections and chapters organized according to a summary model of the corporate entrepreneurship process. A professional format and look make the text especially appealing and appropriate for sophisticated readers and experienced business professionals. This groundbreaking text fulfills a real business need, because many executives consider entrepreneurial behavior a key to sustaining their companies' competitive advantage, but few possess genuine knowledge of the subject or understand how to apply it. The Third Edition of CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION provides detailed, actionable answers to the what, how, where, and who questions surrounding corporate entrepreneurship in today's dynamic business environment. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Superior Customer Value is a state-of-the-art guide to designing, implementing and evaluating a customer value strategy in service, technology and information-based organizations. A customer-centric culture provides focus and direction for an organization, driving and enhancing market performance. By benchmarking the best companies in the world, Weinstein shows students and marketers what it really means to create exceptional value for customers in the Now Economy. Learn how to transform companies by competing via the 5-S framework – speed, service, selection, solutions and sociability. Other valuable tools such as the Customer Value Funnel, Service-Quality-Image-Price (SQIP) framework, SE...
Innovative technologies are changing the way research is performed, preserved, and communicated. Managing Scientific Information and Research Data explores how these technologies are used and provides detailed analysis of the approaches and tools developed to manage scientific information and data. Following an introduction, the book is then divided into 15 chapters discussing the changes in scientific communication; new models of publishing and peer review; ethics in scientific communication; preservation of data; discovery tools; discipline-specific practices of researchers for gathering and using scientific information; academic social networks; bibliographic management tools; information...
Data are becoming the proverbial coin of the digital realm: a research commodity that might purchase reputation credit in a disciplinary culture of data sharing, or buy transparency when faced with funding agency mandates or publisher scrutiny. Unlike most monetary systems, however, digital data can flow in all too great an abundance. Not only does this currency actually grow on trees, but it comes from animals, books, thoughts, and each of us! And that is what makes data curation so essential. The abundance of digital research data challenges library and information science professionals to harness this flow of information streaming from research discovery and scholarly pursuit and preserve...