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Technology-focused Acquisitions

Performance and Functionality as Differentiators

By: Jan Paul Stein

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Technology-focused Acquisitions

Performance and Functionality as Differentiators

By: Jan Paul Stein

Technology-focused acquisitions are an important complement to the firm’s internal product development efforts. There is considerable heterogeneity when comparing individual technology-focused acquisitions – especially with respect to acquisition timing and the deal value. To resolve some of this heterogeneity the author introduces the novel distinction between performance- and functionality-focused acquisitions. He characterizes this distinction based on a theoretical analysis, a qualitative study, and turns to a sample of acquisitions in the field of artificial intelligence for the quantitative study. There are two key findings. First, performance-focused acquisitions take place earlier in a target’s life cycle than functionality-focused ones. Second, the deal value is – at a comparable stage in a target’s life cycle – higher for performance-focused acquisitions. This thesis is relevant for management scholars and managers alike: Scholars learn about the implications of the distinction between performance- and functionality-focused acquisitions on markets for technology. Managers gain insights into how this distinction may guide their strategic decision making.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311056209X

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9783110562095

Long Lives Are for the Rich

Aging, the Life Course, and Social Justice

By: Jan Baars

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Long Lives Are for the Rich

Aging, the Life Course, and Social Justice

By: Jan Baars

Long Lives Are for the Rich is the title of a silent ominous program that affects the lives of millions of people. In all developed countries disadvantaged and, especially, poor people die much earlier than the most advantaged. During these shorter lives they suffer ten to twenty years longer from disabilities or chronic disease. This does not happen accidentally: health inequalities – including those between healthy and unhealthy life styles – are mainly caused by social inequalities that are reproduced over the life course. This crucial function of the life course has become painfully visible during its neoliberal reorganization since the early 1980s. Studies about aging over the life course, from birth to death, show the inhumane consequences as people get older. In spite of the enormous wealth that has been piled up in the US for a dwindling percentage of the population, there has been growing public indifference about the needs of those in jobs with low pay and high stress, but also about citizens from a broad middle class who can hardly afford high quality education or healthcare. However, this ominous program affects all: recent mortality rates show that all Americans, including the rich, are unhealthier and dying earlier than citizens of other developed countries. Moreover, the underlying social inequalities are tearing the population apart with nasty consequences for all citizens, including the rich. Although the public awareness of the consequences has been growing, neoliberal policies remain tempting for the economic and political elites of the developed world because of the enormous wealth that is flowing to the top. All this poses urgent questions of social justice. Unfortunately, the predominant studies of social justice along the life course help to reproduce these inequalities by neglecting them. This book analyzes the main dynamics of social inequality over the life course and proposes a theory of social justice that sketches a way forward for a country that is willing to invest in its greatest resource: the creative potential of its population.

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375

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Taylor & Francis

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1000902285

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9781000902280

Get Ready to Play Tee Ball

By: Jan Cheripko

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Get Ready to Play Tee Ball

By: Jan Cheripko

A simple introduction to the rules and techniques of T-ball.

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1563977168

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Economic Development

By: Jan S. Hogendorn

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Economic Development

By: Jan S. Hogendorn

Analyzes the basic theories of development and explores current issues relevant to less developed countries, emphasizing international economic aspects of development. Contains chapters on measuring development and poverty; financing development; foreign aid, the World Bank, and the IMF; technology; population; labor and human capital; rural development; trade policy; and the environment. For students who have taken a first-year course in the principles of economics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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646

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0673994759

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9780673994752

Origin and Transformation of the Ancient Israelite Festival Calendar

By: Jan A. Wagenaar

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Origin and Transformation of the Ancient Israelite Festival Calendar

By: Jan A. Wagenaar

The book focusses on the origin and transformation of the priestly festival calendar. Since the epoch-making work of Julius Wellhausen at the end of the 19th century the differences between the various ancient Israelite festival calendars have often been explained in terms of a gradual evolution, which shows an increasing historicisation, denaturalisation and ritualisation. The festivals were in Wellhausen's view gradually detached from agricultural conditions and celebrated more and more at fixed points in the year. This study tries to show that the changes in the priestly festival calendar reflect a conscious effort to adapt the ancient Israelite festival calendar to the semi-annual layout of the Babylonian festival year. The ramifications of the change only come to the fore after a careful study of the agricultural conditions of ancient Israel - and Mesopotamia - makes clear that passover and the festival of unleavened bread were originally celebrated in the second month of the year. The first month of the year envisaged by the priestly festival calendar for the celebration of passover and the festival of unleavened bread in turn mirrors the date of one of the two semi-annual Babylonian New Year festivals. The two Babylonian New Year festivals were celebrated exactly six months apart at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. In order to adapt the ancient Israelite festival calendar to the Babylonian scheme with two New Year festivals a year, the date of passover and the festival of unleavened bread had to be moved up by one month. The consequences for the origin of passover, the festival of unleavened bread, the festival of weeks and the festival of huts are charted and the relations between the various ancient Israelite festival calendars are determined anew.

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Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

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344705249X

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9783447052498

Book's by Jan Paul Stein

Technology-focused Acquisitions

Technology-focused Acquisitions

Long Lives Are for the Rich

Long Lives Are for the Rich

Get Ready to Play Tee Ball

Get Ready to Play Tee Ball

Economic Development

Economic Development

Origin and Transformation of the Ancient Israelite Festival Calendar

Origin and Transformation of the Ancient Israelite Festival Calendar

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