Chapter 1 The U.S. Business Environment Questions for Review: 1-4. Why is inflation both good and bad? How does the government try to control it? Inflation occurs when an economic system experiences widespread price increases. Too much inflation is a bad thing because it means the dollar doesn’t have the same purchasing power it did. Costs of goods rise with inflation‚ but too much inflation too quickly prevents people from keeping up with the changes in cost. For those who don’t receive income increases
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1 STUDYING THE MUSIC INDUSTRIES This chapter explores several ways of unpicking and analysing the complex web of practices‚ strategies and narratives that characterize the music industries‚ from political economy and the culture industry to sociological and historical approaches. It also highlights the transformations that digital technologies have brought to all areas of the music industries. KEY FINDINGS • The music industries may be explored from a variety of research perspectives. • Technological
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J. of the Acad. Mark. Sci. (2011) 39:777–794 DOI 10.1007/s11747-010-0230-5 ORIGINAL EMPIRICAL RESEARCH Music for free? How free ad-funded downloads affect consumer choice Dominik Papies & Felix Eggers & Nils Wlömert Received: 26 January 2010 / Accepted: 29 September 2010 / Published online: 20 October 2010 # Academy of Marketing Science 2010 Abstract The market for digital content (e.g.‚ music or movies) has been affected by large numbers of Internet users downloading content for free
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Using Social Media to Tackle Intolerance LITERATURE REVIEW The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is running an experimental action research pilot project‚ funded by Open Society Foundations (OSF)‚ which seeks to understand the potential impact of social media on attitudes and intolerance in Europe. This literature review has been produced to summarise existing knowledge on the role of social media in influencing social attitudes‚ particularly in relation to inter-group dynamics
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Apple‚ Inc. 2014 and the Global Smartphone Industry Learning Objectives • The dynamics of industries and customers change over time and its implications for strategic actions • The nature of sustainable competitive advantage • The timing of strategic moves • Multisided business platforms • The challenge of reinvigorating competitive advantage through innovation • The role of technology standards in competitiveness • Role
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Understanding Tablet Use: A Multi-Method Exploration Hendrik Muller ¨ Google‚ Inc. 76 9th Ave New York‚ NY 10011 United States hendrikm@google.com Jennifer L. Gove Google‚ Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View‚ CA 94043 United States jgove@google.com John S. Webb Google‚ Inc. 76 9th Ave New York‚ NY 10011 United States jwebb@google.com ABSTRACT Tablet ownership has grown rapidly over the last year. While market research surveys have helped us understand the demographics
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of information is hidden inside of music waveforms‚ ranging from perceptual to auditory—which inevitably makes largescale applications challenging. There are a number of commercially successful online music services‚ such as Pandora‚ Last.fm‚ and Spotify‚ but most of them are merely based on traditional text IR. Our course project focuses on large-scale data mining of music information with the recently released Million Song Dataset (Bertin-Mahieux et al.‚ 2011)‚1 which consists of 1 http://labrosa
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1: Overall of Social Networking Service (SNS) Social networking service is a type of invented communication that allows people to connect with each other. Social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚ and MySpace which are the typical application of Web 2.0 technology‚ has been popular and widespread all over the world over the past few years. A cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University‚ Michael Wesch has compared the society with social networking
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Zurich‚ Switzerland Facebook: A Case Study of Strategic Leadership April 8‚ 2012 Prepared by: Jeffrey S. Ray‚ P.E.‚ Esq.‚ PMP Doctoral Candidate‚ SMC University jeffrey.ray@student.swissmc.ch Prepared for: Swiss Management Center Learning Center – Zurich Seestrasse 463 8038 Zurich - Switzerland Tel.: +41 (0)41 500 16 22 administration@swissmc.ch http://www.swissmc.ch Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2103975 FACEBOOK: A CASE STUDY OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP 2 Abstract This
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White Paper Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update‚ 2013–2018 February 5‚ 2014 The Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update is part of the comprehensive Cisco VNI Forecast‚ an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications on global networks. This paper presents some of Cisco’s major global mobile data traffic projections and growth trends. Executive Summary The Mobile
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