Soft Computing in Management and Business Economics: Volume 2

✍ Scribed by José M. Merigó-Lindahl (auth.), Anna M. Gil-Lafuente, Jaime Gil-Lafuente, José M. Merigó-Lindahl (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 388
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 287
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Management and Business Economics (AEDEM), held at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona, 05 – 07 June, 2012. This edition of the conference has been presented with the slogan “Creating new opportunities in an uncertain environment”. There are different ways for assessing uncertainty in management but this book mainly focused on soft computing theories and their role in assessing uncertainty in a complex world.

The present book gives a comprehensive overview of general management topics and discusses some of the most recent developments in all the areas of business and management including management, marketing, business statistics, innovation and technology, finance, sports and tourism. This book might be of great interest for anyone working in the area of management and business economics and might be especially useful for scientists and graduate students doing research in these fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Bibliometric Analysis of Business and Economics in the Web of Science....Pages 3-17
Is Human Capital the Key Factor in Explaining Business Location Differences? Knowledge Intensive Business Services in Portugal....Pages 19-30
The Importance of Human Capital in Innovation: A System of Indicators....Pages 31-44
Use of Web 2.0 in the Audiovisual Series....Pages 45-59
Typologies of University Spin-Off Support Programmes: United Kingdom and Spain....Pages 61-75
Information Technology: Potential in the Colombian Banking Sector....Pages 77-95
A Double-Network Perspective on the Evolution of Subsidiary R&D Role: A Matter of Dual Embeddedness....Pages 97-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
A Fuzzy Random Variable Approach to Life Insurance Pricing....Pages 111-125
Customer Loyalty Strategies and Tools in the Spanish Banking Sector....Pages 127-135
The Dimensions of the Financial Condition in Spanish Municipalities: An Empirical Analysis....Pages 137-152
Empirical Evidence of Spanish Banking Efficiency: The Stakeholder Theory Perspective....Pages 153-165
Disability Caused by Occupational Accidents in the Spanish Long-Term Care System....Pages 167-176
A Paradigm Shift in Business Valuation Process Using Fuzzy Logic....Pages 177-189
Description of a Straightforward Strategy to Invest: An Experiment in the Spanish Stock Market....Pages 191-200
Determinants of Households’ Risk....Pages 201-217
Discussing Relationship between Asian and US Financial Markets....Pages 219-234
A General Solution to the Mortgage Loans in Mexico....Pages 235-249
The Spanish Savings Banks: Analysis of Its Efficiency in Its Reorganization Strategy....Pages 251-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Non-equity Agreements in the Hospitality Industry: Analysis from the Perspective of the Forgotten Effects....Pages 269-285
Tourism Expenditure of Airline Users: Impact on the Spanish Economy....Pages 287-304
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Tourism and Learn Spanish in Historic Cities: A Case Study in Córdoba....Pages 305-318
Sustainable Stakeholder Relationship Patterns: An Analysis Using a Case Study in the Spanish Hotel Sector....Pages 319-334
Hotel Environmental Impact Management: A Case Study in Cádiz Province....Pages 335-346
How to Identify Regional Specialization Measurement of Clusters in Tourism Industry?....Pages 347-360
Innovation in Tourist Management through Critical Success Factors: A Fuzzy Map....Pages 361-373
The Forgotten Effects of Sport....Pages 375-391
Back Matter....Pages 0--1

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Financial Economics; Game Theory/Mathematical Methods