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This book provides insights into how new ventures in emerging economies and developing countries generate social innovation. It showcases new forms of business and how they are different from traditional business models. With increasing drive for innovation in emerging markets and lack of knowledge of how these markets work, this book enriches existing literature by looking at how such businesses in developing economies break new ground in a daunting, resource constrained environment. The book examines successful individual entrepreneurs, social relationships, product innovation, processes, systems and markets through cases. It navigates across key theoretical elements including individual initiative-taking, agency, and opportunity contexts. This book will be a useful reference to understanding the dynamics of new ventures in emerging markets and how they fuel social innovation and sustainable development.

Social entrepreneurship. --- Entrepreneurship --- Technology --- Study and teaching --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Technological innovations --- Social aspects.

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Einsamkeit und die psychologische Kraft der Marke In eingängiger, prägnanter und oftmals humorvoller Weise beleuchtet dieses Buch die übergreifenden psychologischen Kräfte des „Kultursystems Marke“. Es lässt von Sigmund Freud über Erich Fromm bis hin zu Dagobert Duck klassische sozialpsychologische Denker, Wissenschaftler und Alltags-Philosophen zu Wort kommen. Die Marke taucht in allen Kulturen, Wirtschaftssystemen und über alle Zeitalter hinweg auf – sie ist der Dinosaurier der Ökonomie. Alles nur Manipulation? Die Lebenswirklichkeit beweist: Die Vorstellung eines rationalen „Verbrauchers“ ist falsch. Vielmehr wählen wir lustvoll aus den Möglichkeiten aus, die die Warenwelt uns bietet – egal ob Luxuslimousine oder Bio-Supermarkt. Die Entscheidung für eine Marke ist auch immer eine Aussage wie wir selbst gesehen werden wollen und vor allem welcher Gemeinschaft wir angehören: Lidl oder ALDI, BMW oder VW, Domestos oder Frosch. Indem wir uns für-oder-gegen bestimmte Waren und Dienstleistungen entscheiden, vergrößern wir unsere eigenen Möglichkeiten und schärfen unser Ich gegenüber der Außenwelt: Wir werden als Individuen erkennbar. Damit lindert die Marke eine fundamentale Angst des Menschen: Die Einsamkeit. Dieses Buch liefert Ihnen spannende und überraschende Erkenntnisse darüber, warum Marken immer und überall zu finden sind. Zum Autor Professor Dr. Oliver Errichiello studierte Soziologie und Psychologie. Er ist Geschäftsführer des Büro für Markenentwicklung, sowie als Lehrbeauftragter für „Brandmanagement“ und „Werbepsychologie“ u.a. an der Hochschule Luzern und der EMBA Hamburg tätig.

Psychology. --- Industrial psychology. --- Branding (Marketing). --- Economics—Psychological aspects. --- Economic sociology. --- Technology. --- Popular Science in Psychology. --- Industrial and Organizational Psychology. --- Branding. --- Economic Psychology. --- Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology. --- Applied Science, multidisciplinary.

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Gathering the proceedings of the 11th CHAOS2018 International Conference, this book highlights recent developments in nonlinear, dynamical and complex systems. The conference was intended to provide an essential forum for Scientists and Engineers to exchange ideas, methods, and techniques in the field of Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, Fractals and their applications in General Science and the Engineering Sciences. The respective chapters address key methods, empirical data and computer techniques, as well as major theoretical advances in the applied nonlinear field. Beyond showcasing the state of the art, the book will help academic and industrial researchers alike apply chaotic theory in their studies. .

Chaotic behavior in systems --- Computer simulation. --- Engineering. --- Technology. --- Mathematics. --- Complex Systems. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Complexity. --- Applied Science, multidisciplinary. --- Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences. --- Math --- Science --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Construction --- Technology --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Statistical physics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Computational complexity. --- Game theory. --- Games, Theory of --- Theory of games --- Mathematics --- Complexity, Computational --- Electronic data processing --- Machine theory --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Statics --- Mathematical statistics --- Statistical methods

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Prominent economists present detailed analyses of the conditions that made Greece vulnerable to economic crisis and offer policy recommendations for comprehensive and radical change. Clapperton Mavhunga's collection of essays about science, technology, and innovation (STI) from an African perspective opens with the idea, "Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere; when we insist that only 'our' meaning is the meaning, we silence other people's meanings." Mavhunga and his contributors argue that our contemporary definitions of STI are those of countries and cultures that have acquired their dominance of others through global empires, and as a counter to that, Mavhunga seeks to put the concepts of STI into question, exploring what the technological, scientific, and innovative might mean from Africa in lieu of outside introductions or influences.

Technology --- Science --- Technological innovations --- Creative ability in technology --- Industrial policy --- Social aspects --- Africa --- Social life and customs. --- Technical creativity --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Natural sciences

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The emergent technoscientific New World Order is being legitimised through discourses on openness and inclusivity. The paradox is that openness implies vulnerability and insecurities, particularly where closure would offer shelter. While some actors, including NGOs, preach openness of African societies, Africans clamour for protection, restitution and restoration. Africans struggle for ownership and access to housing, for national, cultural, religious, economic, and social belonging that would offer them the necessary security and protection, including protection from the global vicissitudes and matrices of power. In the presence of these struggles, to presuppose openness would be to celebrate vulnerability and insecurities. This book examines ways in which emergent technologies expose Africans and, more generally, peoples of the global south to political, economic, social, cultural and religious shocks occasioned by the coloniality of the global matrices of power. It notes that there is the use -- by global elites -- of technologies to incite postmodern revolutions designed to compound the vicissitudes and imponderables in the already unsettled lives of people north and south. Particularly targeted by these technologies are African and other governments that do not cooperate in the fulfilment of the interests of the hegemonic global elites. The book is handy to students and practitioners in security studies, African studies, development studies, global studies, policy studies, and political science.

E-books --- Globalization --- Technological innovations --- Technology --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Social aspects --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Africa