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A guide to help readers find their way through existing Consumer Culture Theory literature, the most current conceptual and methodological developments, managerial implications, and potential avenues of future importance.

Explores how consumers think about and respond to risk through their consumption behaviours. The authors extend prior reviews through an explicit discussion of the philosophical foundations of risk communication and management and the implications of specific foundations for communication and policy decisions.

Offers a comprehensive understanding of the construct'entrepreneurial team' by focusing on its definition and characteristics. The book depicts team evolution phases, from inception to maturity, linking these to firm performance by using a process approach (i.e., Input-Process-Outcome).

Describes the economic rationales, policy elements, implementation mechanisms, and expected economic impacts of 'technology-based economic development' (TBED) strategies that are being pursued in almost all 50 states within the U.S. economy.

Reviews the two promises of Gender Balance Law - the promise of greater gender equality in leadership positions in private companies and the promise of improved firm performance. This review is based on the academic literature together with long-term descriptive statistics before and after the regulation.

Presents the state-of-the-art in research thought leadership in supply chain finance and risk management, and contains great expository pieces on how advanced technologies are shaping supply chains and risk management within them. How supply chain finance and risk management can be best taught in classrooms is also covered.

Offers the first survey of neural approaches to conversational AI that targets Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval audiences. The book provides a csurvey of the neural approaches to conversational AI that have been developed, covering QA, task-oriented and social bots with a unified view of optimal decision making.

This monograph studies board independence in French, German, and UK listed family firms. It focuses on these countries because of their distinct legal and corporate governance systems.

The U.S. Market for Uranium: 70 Years of History explores the possible inefficiencies related to the amount of exploration undertaken by private interests. And was exploration conducted at socially efficient levels?

The Economics of Credit Rating Agencies explores the economic and regulatory issues and frictions associated with credit rating agencies in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

The Roles and Impacts of Technical Standards on Economic Growth and Implications for Innovation Policy assesses the economic nature, roles, and impacts of technical standards over the entire technology life cycle and the required public policies to effectively provide this critical infrastructure.

Angel Investing provides systematic and comprehensive review of the large body of research literature on angel investors.

Transitioning from private to public status is a watershed event in the life of any firm. For most firms and managers, the process of conducting an Initial Public Offering (IPO) is something they will only go through once.

Data Visualization and Health Econometrics focuses on the principles and practice of data visualization and statistical graphics and how these can enhance empirical analysis of health care costs and outcomes, especially for skewed and heavy-tailed distributions.

Start-up Actions and Outcomes: What Entrepreneurs Do to Reach Profitability provides a description of the firm creation process based on five harmonized data sets from four countries that track the business creation process. The second objective is to explore the role of start-up activities on the outcomes for these nascent ventures.

Privatization, State Capitalism, and State Ownership of Business in the 21st Century provides an overview of economic and political developments relating to privatization, state capitalism, and state ownership of business, and will survey the extensive recent research examining privatization and state ownership.

Corporate Entrepreneurship 2.0 organizes and reviews the significant research work that has been done in the corporate entrepreneurship literature over the years and suggests potential future directions for researchers.

Since the middle of the twentieth century, business and legal scholars have tried to explain why corporate boards of directors function as they do. Understanding Boards of Directors examines why research on corporate governance has been slow and uneven, and where that research should turn next to be valuable to practitioners.

While there have been a number of excellent literature reviews in recent years published in various academic outlets, Gender and Entrepreneurship: An Annotated Bibliography is more complete than other efforts and places each contribution to the literature into one of 16 descriptive categories.

Against the backdrop of an ever-changing financial landscape, "venture capital" has taken on a new uncertainty and complexity. In this review, the authors suggest that venture capital should not exclusively - or even primarily - be defined in terms of providing risk capital (and advise) to founder-entrepreneurs.

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Solar Energy Summarizes and analyzes recent research to understand, characterize, and model solar resource variability. This research shows that understanding solar energy variability requires a definition of the temporal and spatial context for which variability is assessed.

Presents a unified and comprehensive overview of sparse regression codes (SPARCs), covering theory, algorithms, and practical implementation aspects. Written by the world's recognised experts in the field it describes the use of SPARCs for efficient communication over AWGN channels, for lossy compression and multi-terminal communication.

Reviews the existing work that explores the role of physical embodiment in socially interactive robots. This book explores the embodiment hypothesis that physical embodiment has a measurable effect on performance and perception of social interactions in socially interactive robotics, and presents a thorough review of existing work.

Examines knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship (KIE). This book puts forward the argument that KIE enables a modern view of entrepreneurship that links the intense use of knowledge by new ventures with an intense innovative activity related to the economy and markets.

Presents foundations, original research and trends in the field of object categorization by computer vision methods. The book provides a review of existing representations, algorithms, systems and databases for visual object categorization.

Focuses on some of the key modern mathematical tools that are used for the derivation of concentration inequalities, on their links to information theory, and on their various applications to communications and coding. In addition to being a survey, this book also includes various new recent results derived by the authors.

Provides the first comprehensive survey of representations in the context of optimization. To achieve this the power flow representations surveyed are categorized as either relaxations or approximations. The techniques described form the basis of running an optimally efficient modern day power system.

Provides the reader with stated preference data collection methods, discrete choice models, and statistical analysis tools that can be used to forecast demand and assess welfare impacts for new or modified products or services in real markets, and summarise the conditions under which the reliability of these methods has been demonstrated.

Provides researchers, engineers and students with a comprehensive overview of core modeling, control, estimation, and planning concepts and approaches for micro aerial robots of the rotorcraft class. This monograph is a valuable starting point for researchers and developers working with aerial robots or drones.