In chapter 1 of this volume, we have outlined three widely discussed arguments concerning the social stratification of cultural consumption: that is, what we have labelled as the ‘homology’, the ‘individualisation’ and the ‘omnivore–univore’ arguments. In our own previous work (Chan and Goldthorpe, 2005, 2007b,c) we have examined the validity of these arguments in the light of analyses of cultu...

Cameras automatically apply non-linear transformations to the sensor data, allowing for perceptually-uniform quantization suited to standard dynamic range displays in dim conditions. In the cinema industry, data is recorded in raw (linear) format and non-linearly corrected in post-production by a skilled technician who optimizes image appearance for cinema (dark) conditions. We propose a method...

Since its inception, SaaS market has been one of the fastest growing segments in the software industry. This paper is the first attempt to measure the productivity of pure-SaaS firms by adopting a stochastic frontier approach. Using an annual dataset from 2002 to 2009, we conduct a two-stage analysis. In the first stage, we derive the efficiency scores of each SaaS firm. We found average techni...

Description The “KnowHow” project, partly funded by the EU Research Executive Agency project scaled up the existing OrganiK Knowledge Management platform (http://www.organik-project.eu) from the research prototype it was into an industrial-grade knowledge management platform as a service (KM-PaaS) that supports social business applications. LTC’s role as a project partner was to produce a final...

The concept of sustainable development has become an important objective of policy makers in the software industry. The most used definition of sustainability refers to dimensions of economic sustainability to ensure that software services can create economic value; technical sustainability that their technical assets actually enable the software services to cope with changes and evolution; env...

The development of organizational capabilities takes time and resources, and they are difficult to change once they have been created. Recently, also non-software companies – so-called industrial companies – have started to sell software and related services. So far it has been unclear which capabilities are needed in, and whether they differ for, different types of software business in industr...

Geomorphosites or special geomorphologic sites are new concepts which have entered tourism literature with anemphasis on special sites. Basically, the goal for discussing such concepts is to identify landforms with specialimportance on understanding the geomorphologic structure of a region and their scientific, ecological, cultural,aesthetic, and economical values. Generally, they are used for ...