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Data Warehousing in the Age of the Big Data will help you and your organization make the most of unstructured data with your existing data warehouse.As Big Data continues to revolutionize how we use data, it doesn't have to create more confusion.

Social Data Analytics is the first practical guide for professionals who want to employ social data for analytics and business intelligence (BI).This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technologies and platforms and shows you how to access and analyze the data.

Social Data Analytics is the first practical guide for professionals who want to employ social data for analytics and business intelligence (BI). This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technologies and platforms and shows you how to access and analyze the data. You'll explore the five major types of social data and learn from cases and platform examples to help you make the most of sentiment, behavioral, social graph, location, and rich media data. A four-step approach to the social BI process will help you access, evaluate, collaborate, and share social data with ease. You'll learn everything you need to know to monitor social media and get an overview of the leading vendors in a crowded space of BI applications. By the end of this book, you will be well prepared for your organization’s next social data analytics project. Provides foundational understanding of new and emerging technologies—social data, collaboration, big data, advanced analytics Includes case studies and practical examples of success and failures Will prepare you to lead projects and advance initiatives that will benefit you and your organization

The risks perceived by the customer from organizations' new offerings can be attributed to as a major driver which will determine the proclivity for adoption and potential for life cycle advancement and proliferation in the consumer market. Based on a prior research endeavor which generated two consolidated components namely product-related factors and consumer-related factors to respectively group the various perceived risk elements and variables, this paper works on developing a metaanalytical framework which congregates these riskinducing factors in accordance with their seminal literature insights and explanative. The research further attempts to operationalize these risk-bearing components for empirically measuring the respective variables in an effort toward proposing the development of a comprehensive measurement scale for consumers' perceived risks from innovative offerings.

Investigates managerial value systems and decision styles among expatriate and indigenous managers in the UAE. Provides support for the proposition that differences among expatriate and host country nationals are manifested in their value systems. Indicates that Arab expatriate and national managers display a high preference for participative and pseudo-participative styles while foreign expatriates show a high commitment to consultative style. Finds work values to be significantly related to some decision styles.

Consumer bargaining is a global phenomenon operating, essentially, in every product category since time immemorial. With the recognition of exchange as central to marketing, it should have been one of the most developed areas of research but many scholars lacked interest in it. This has created a paucity of managerial implications. Over the last decade, consumer bargaining has flourished in the U.S. and firms have started not only coping with it but also encouraging it. In this work, we offer a framework of consumer bargaining, discuss its drivers of growth, offer responsive marketing strategies and areas for future research.

This research is designed to study the individualism-collectivism (I/C) dimension among Taiwanese managers and explores their decision style tendencies. The objectives are to determine whether or not there are differences among Taiwanese managers on I/C measures and to investigate the relationships between decision styles and I/C. This research used a questionnaire which was comprised of three sections. These are: 1. basic profile of the firm, 2. decision styles, and 3. I/C measures. The results show that Taiwanese preferred consultative and participative styles and that the least preferred styles were pseudo-consultative and delegative. Participants considered consultative style as the most practiced and effective followed by participative. The results show that there were no significant differences across sectors of enterprise. Furthermore, male participants scored higher than females on collectivism belief. Likewise older participants scored significantly higher than younger participants on both work collectivism and collectivism belief.