Value creation through big data in emerging economies

Investigating the determinants of Big Data Analytics (BDA) adoption in Asian emerging economies

Big Data Analytics (BDA), being an emerging technology, is used in many echelons of business and management. Extant research lack focus on the factors that impact the organizational adoption of this technology. Organizations need to assimilate it in a full-scale and deep level to fully realize its benefits and therefore worthy of study. Present paper, drawing upon Technology-Organization-Enviro...

Job Creation in the Arab Economies : Navigating Through Difficult Waters

The Arab Human Development Report Research Paper Series is a medium for sharing recent research commissioned to inform the Arab Human Development Report, and further research in the field of human development. The AHDR Research Paper Series is a quick-disseminating, informal publication whose titles could subsequently be revised for publication as articles in professional journals or chapters i...

Blind Creation: Emerging Music Through Implicit Collaboration

Normally agents cooperate when they have a joint goal or are able to get a higher payoff by doing so. We present a new perspective, where an agent cooperates with another without an explicit intention. We study this perspective in the context of Art Games, by introducing a novel algorithm where a human agent cooperates with a video game system in generating music in an emergent fashion, without...

Value Creation from a Shareholder ’ s Perspective : ‘ The Big Picture ’

For decades the German economy was bank centered and stakeholder oriented. Inherent to the system the capital market did not play a central role. Since the 1990s the German economy has undergone some fundamental changes. The old ‘Germany Inc.’ is in the progress of disintegration. With an increasing capital market orientation, the venture capital and IPO market almost gained ground automaticall...

Big data and the emerging ethical challenges