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New Languages of the State
During the mid-1990s, a bilingual intercultural education initiative was launched to promote the introduction of indigenous languages alongside Spanish in public elementary schools in Bolivia’s indigenous regions. Bret Gustafson spent fourteen years studying and working in southeastern Bolivia with the Guarani, who were at the vanguard of the movement for bilingual education. Drawing on his collaborative work with indigenous organizations and bilingual-education activists as well as more traditional ethnographic research, Gustafson traces two decades of indigenous resurgence and education politics in Bolivia, from the 1980s through the election of Evo Morales in 2005. Bilingual education w...
Land of Wolves
The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. "It's the scenery—and the big guy standing in front of the scenery—that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's lean and leathery mysteries." —The New York Times Book Review Recovering from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, Sheriff Walt Longmire returns to Absaroka County, Wyoming, to lick his wounds and try once again to maintain justice in a place with grudges that go back generations. When a shepherd is found dead, Longmire suspects it could be suicide. But the shepherd's connection to the Extepares, a powerful family of Basque ranchers with a history of violence, leads the sheriff into an intric...
Towards Consumer 4.0 Insights and Opportunities under the Marketing 4.0 Scenario
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Crisis in an Atlantic Empire
The capstone of a research endeavor begun by Barbara Stein and Stanley Stein nearly sixty years ago, this volume concludes their masterful tetralogy on Spanish economic and Atlantic history. With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in an Atlantic Empire is a finely grained historical tour of the period covering 1808 to 1810, which is often called “the age of revolutions.” The study examines an accumulation of countervailing elements in a spasm of imperial crisis, as Spain and its major colony New Spain struggled to preserve traditional structures of exchange—Spain's transatlantic trade syst...
National Brands and Private Labels in Retailing
This book presents latest findings on brand marketing in retail. In times of economic downturn a "new retailing landscape" is being shaped, in which retailers and manufacturers face new challenges to their brand strategies. Marketing professionals need high value-added and timely responses. Among the topics targeted in this volume are: mix of national brands and private labels in retailers' assortments; assortment decisions in times of economic crisis and eventual recovery; consequences of delisting brands on store-related aspects; delisting manufacturers' brands and the effects on the distribution channel relationship; the new "retailing landscape", with special focus on fast moving consumer goods retailing; consumer preferences for national brands and private labels and many more.
Tourism Destination Management
This book collected studies focused on the management of tourist destinations. Destinations are complex and adaptive systems, where the different elements that make them up have to be oriented towards achieving a common objective that improves the competitiveness of the destination. Five main lines of research on tourist destinations can be established: 1) the management, planning, and marketing of destinations, with special attention to the tourism supply chain, communication, and integral management; 2) the sustainability of resources and capabilities; 3) the renewal of destinations in order to update their offer and main resources to maintain competitiveness; 4) online reputation and comm...
Sharing Economy and the Impact of Collaborative Consumption
The introduction of new technology and technological services worldwide has ushered in a new wave of peer-to-peer and access-driven companies that are disrupting the most established business categories. The emergence of these new business models has upset the flow in contemporary society and transformed people's behavior towards sharing-based economies. Companies and entrepreneurs can see this significant change in people’s behavior as both an opportunity and a threat. Sharing Economy and the Impact of Collaborative Consumption provides emerging research on the impact that the sharing services are having on society as well as the importance of the sharing economy development in the coming...
Peru
This Peru Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group, 2003-2009 is part of IEG s country program evaluation series. To date, IEG s in-depth country evaluations have comprised IEG-WB Country Assistance Evaluations (CAEs) and IEG-IFC Country Impact Reviews (CIRs). Both the CAEs and CIRs have involved comprehensive evaluations of the respective institutions activities in a country. In a pilot approach, this evaluation was prepared by a single IEG team that looked at development interventions across the three WBG institutions. The evaluation draws on WBG documents, external literature, and on interviews with government officials, representatives of the private sector and civil society, nongovernmental organizations, bilateral and multilateral development partners, and Bank, IFC, and MIGA staff in Washington and in Peru. An IEG mission visited Peru in September 2009. IEG also cooperated with the Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility that was conducting a parallel evaluation in Peru.
Impact of Mobile Services on Business Development and E-Commerce
Mobile devices have become an essential item in the daily lives of many people. As with any innovation, mobile services present both opportunities and challenges to current business models. The development of mobile communication coupled with evolving mobile services have completely changed the business landscape and have transformed consumer behavior. It is important to understand the impact that these services have on users’ lives, business, and society. Impact of Mobile Services on Business Development and E-Commerce is a collection of innovative research that focuses on the importance of mobile services in business development and discusses the provision of decentralized services, mobile commerce and marketing, and new models for the delivery of mobile services such as business-to-consumer and peer-to-peer. While highlighting topics including global market, consumer behavior, and customer satisfaction, this book is ideally designed for business managers, executives, marketers, entrepreneurs, financial advisors, consumer behavior analysts, computer engineers, software developers, IT specialists, students, researchers, and business professionals.
