This book clarifies the direction of business innovation using new ICT such as the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), smartphones, and cloud computing through a series of case studies on successful trials and advanced businesses in the Asia-Pacific where man…
The book discusses the effects of artificial intelligence in terms of economics and finance. In particular, the book focuses on the effects of the change in the structure of financial markets, institutions and central banks, along with digitalization analyzed based on fintech ec…
This open access book brings together perspectives from multiple disciplines including psychology, law, IS, and computer science on data privacy and trust in the cloud. Cloud technology has fueled rapid, dramatic technological change, enabling a level of connectivity that has ne…
The assembly line—developed at the Ford Motor Company in 1913 for the mass production of Model Ts—first created and then served an expanding mass market. It transformed industrial labor and provoked strikes and union drives. During World War II and the Cold War, it was often see…
"Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience with widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine and in this volume, a team of distingui…
When and how did Japanese industrialization begin? Why did industrialization begin much earlier in Japan than in other non-Western nations? What does the Japanese case add to our understanding of modern economic growth generally? This book address these questions by focusing sha…
This book is written in the belief that water is becoming one of the largest, and certainly the most universal, of problems facing mankind as the earth moves into the twenty-first century. The tasks of supplying enough water of the required quality to growing populations and the…
This book systematically defines and analyses the rise of China's innovation system and Chinese corporate governance model. China's achievement in artificial intelligence and high technology innovation has attracted the global attention. The country's innovation system and Chine…