Business Revolution in a Digital Era

This proceedings volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 14th International Conference on Business Excellence, Business Revolution in the Digital Era (ICBE 2020), held in Bucharest,…

Digital Strategies in a Global Market

This book examines the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on business strategy, marketing, management, sustainability innovation, and various kinds of industry. It provides a broad overview…

Culture in Global Businesses

This book offers research geared toward understanding culture and its influence on the success of global businesses. Divided into two parts that look at the leveraging culture cultural diversity fr…

Leadership

Leadership is most needed in times of change, uncertainty and crisis. We are living through those times. To support leaders in all spheres, this book provides a guide to the territory of leade…

The CEO Whisperer

At this critical junction in the history of humankind, leaders that are proficient in magical thinking aren’t going to solve our problems. Creating alternative realities is not the answer. We nee…

Inside Management

This pivot includes a series of inside ethnographic accounts and stories about managerial practices and processes, providing a critical account of managerial and HR practices. It seeks to advance t…

Debating Equal Pay for All

This anthology debates the idea of giving all people – no matter which profession or position they have (and whether they have a job or not) – the same pay. Some contributors argue against equa…

Management for Sustainable and Inclusive Development in a Transforming Asia

This book identifies the ongoing management issues and compatible management systems for sustainable and inclusive development in a transforming Asia. In the dynamic process of economic development…

Affected

This book’s main message is to advocate for a collaborative, affective, visualised and future-oriented research agenda. The book finds its inspiration in “the chasm [that separates] philosophis…

Strategies in Sustainable Tourism, Economic Growth and Clean Energy

This book provides an in-depth analysis of and discussion about the relationship between green tourism, economic growth and globalization. It explores numerous topics relating to tourism including …

Patent Management

This book provides an overview of the common concepts and building blocks of patent management. It addresses executives in the areas of innovation, R & D, patent and intellectual property managemen…

The Organizational Embeddedness of Communities of Practice

This dissertation uncovers how informal and self-organized communities of practice as a source of learning and adaptability are embedded in their formal organizational surroundings. Based on an int…

Enablers of Organisational Learning, Knowledge Management, and Innovation

This book establishes constructivist, interpretivist, and linguistic approaches based on conventions about the nature of qualitative and text data, the author’s influence on text interpretation, …

Consumer Tribes in Tourism

This book adopts a collectivist perspective on special interest tourism consumption, bringing together research on ‘special interest tourism’ and ‘niche tourism’ as well as more recent rese…

Understanding Social Research Networking Sites

Research collaboration is a critical enabler for scientific knowledge production and innovation but poses significant challenges, particularly if it is carried out in a distributed and geographical…

Exploring Meso-Level Dynamic Capabilities to Address the Capability Rigidity …

In this book Florian Andresen aims to unpack the “capability rigidity paradox” within the dynamic capability view. Consequently, he tackles one of the core challenges in strategic management of…

Embracing Organisational Development and Change

This book focuses on human behavioural processes and describes them from an interdisciplinary perspective. It introduces readers to the main theories and approaches in the field of organisational d…

Modelling in Mathematical Programming

This book provides basic tools for learning how to model in mathematical programming, from models without much complexity to complex system models. It presents a unique methodology for the building…

Neocharismatic Leadership

This book introduces the theory of Neocharismatic leadership through a conceptual framework based on research and literature review. This is followed by a gradient of leadership developmental sessi…

Management: A Practical Introduction, Sixth Edition

Edition

6th

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-07-131529-6

Collation

548 p.; ill.; 25 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

658 Kin m

Uncovering Covert Innovation

It is of central importance for companies to be innovative. To maximize their innovation potential, companies often rely on formal systems and processes for innovation management. It has been shown…

Corporate Governance and Diversity in Boardrooms

This book explores diversity in boardrooms to highlight the link between the heterogeneous dimensions of board diversity and their impact on the firms. The book provides a brief definition of corpo…

Managing Value Propositions in Service Ecosystems

Julian Boha explores value propositions in ecosystems as they play an important role in communicating how a company aims to provide value to business partners and customers. Value propositions are …

Business Innovation with New ICT in the Asia-Pacific: Case Studies

This book clarifies the direction of business innovation using new ICT such as the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), smartphones, and cloud computing through a series of case …

Adoption of LMS in Higher Educational Institutions of the Middle East

This book discusses the adoption of learning management systems (LMS) in higher education institutions. It presents influential predictors that may impact instructors’ behavioral intention to ado…

Nanopharmaceuticals: Principles and Applications Vol. 2

This book presents the comprehensive description of basic principles, methodologies, similarities and differences of nano-liposomes and -phytosomes. It focuses on the implications of these nano car…

Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 26th European Conference, ADBI…

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2022, held in Turin, Italy, in September 2022. The 23 full papers prese…

Biochar and its Application in Bioremediation

Biochar prepared from agricultural biomass has received considerable attention because of the huge availability of ago-waste at zero cost, flexibility, high efficiency, renewability, faster contami…

Resource Management, Sustainable Development and Governance

This book examines the relationship between natural resource management, sustainable development, and governance with case studies from India and other places covering disaster risk reduction, conf…

Solid Waste Engineering and Management

This book is the first volume in a three-volume set on Solid Waste Engineering and Management. It provides an introduction to the topic, and focuses on legislation, transportation, transfer station…