Virtual Reality in Manual Order Picking

The introduction of consumer-level head-mounted devices (HMDs) has led to a major drop in the application costs of virtual reality (VR), making the technology available for a wide range of users. T…

Digital Transformation and New Challenges

This book gathers the best papers presented at the second conference held by the Russian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), which took place in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federat…

Indicating Value in Early-Stage Technology Venture Valuation

Fundraising for venture capital investments have continued to increase in recent years. One crucial step in the investment process is the valuation of the target company. Investors are faced with t…

Decision Making in Inventory Management

This book provides several inventory models for making the right decision in inventory management under different environments. Basically, the optimal ordering policies are determined for situation…

Strategic Approaches to Energy Management

This book introduces current managerial approaches to energy production and energy use. The volume analyses how to manage technological developments that contribute to lowering the price of energy …

Capital, Systems, and Objects

This book provides a set of integrated frameworks—capital, systems, and objects—that transcend managerial or technology hype by focusing on the long-term fundamentals that sustain organizationa…

Introduction to Digital Economics

Innovations and developments in technology have laid the foundations for an economy based on digital goods and services—the digital economy. This book invites students and practitioners, to take …

Design Thinking Research

Extensive research conducted by the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has y…

Acquisitions and Open Source Software Development

Participation of firms in Open Source Software (OSS) development is steadily increasing. In fact, a substantial part of OSS projects today are developed in informal collaboration between firms and …

EURO Working Group on DSS

This book recapitulates the major developments in Decision Support Systems (DSS) over the last 30 years in order to evaluate the research areas of decision making and in which direction the field s…

New Work Hacks

This book shows how joint working in companies can be fundamentally improved and modernised. After all, wherever people work together, communicate with each other and make themselves understood, th…

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in the Financial Sector

The book provides its readers with an overview of the technology and its potential and helps them to place RPA in the context of process management. The readers receive concrete instructions for th…

Dynamical Corporate Finance

The way in which leverage and its expected dynamics impact on firm valuation is very different from what is assumed by the traditional static capital structure framework. Recent work that allows th…

YOUR SMALL BUSINESS COMPUTER: Evaluating, Selecting, Financing, Installing an…

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Service Excellence for Sustainability

This book provides significant conceptual and empirical contributions to the understanding of service science and the practices of service sectors in the wake of the fourth industrial revolution br…

Crowd-Based Business Models

This book distinctively presents nine thematic discussions with real examples of small and large companies across the geographic destinations. Among many points of interest crowdsourcing, crowdfund…

Crowd-Based Business Models

This book distinctively presents nine thematic discussions with real examples of small and large companies across the geographic destinations. Among many points of interest crowdsourcing, crowdfund…

True Profit!

Real profit after taxes is the most important management target. Profits are the cost of survival and the creators of new value. In this book, celebrated management thinker Hermann Simon brings cla…

Knowledge Technology

This book reviews creative technologies that underpin the human activities of converting data and information into knowledge, creating new ideas based on that knowledge, and validating those ideas.…

Healthcare Leadership in Times of Crisis

This book addresses the challenges that healthcare organizations experience when attempting to manage the emergence of troublesome events or crises. It illustrates how experiences gained from event…

Patent Analytics

Through the prisms of a data scientist, a patent attorney, and a designer, this book demystifies the complexity of patent data and its structure and reveals their hidden connections by employing el…

Motives and Functions of Patenting in Public Basic Science

Taking German public basic research as an example, this book explores how the ongoing implementation of knowledge and technology transfer as the Third Mission of academic science creates not only n…

Mobility-as-a-Service

The advent of mobility-as-a-service and the disruption of the automotive industry are both overlapping and fuelled by the same developments and thus raise a very fundamental question: are we at pea…

Agricultural Supply Chains and Industry 4.0

This book explores the impact of industry 4.0 on agricultural supply chains, exploring how changes such as increased digitisation, automation, and the digital value chain, will impact food producti…

Project Management in the 21st Century

This is a different kind of book on project management. Using a narrative tone, humor and personal anecdotes, the author highlights the significant gaps in current project management theory as well…

Technology Meets Flowers

Why do the Dutch continue to play a central role in the global production, sales, and distribution of flowers? What are the origin and history of the bulb and flower industry in the Netherlands? …

Russia Business

A comprehensive guide in a compact format on doing business in Russia. This book contains everything business-minded individuals need to know, using practical information and numerous tips to succe…

Business in Africa in the Era of Digital Technology

This book covers various aspects of business such as Entrepreneurship, HR management, Supply chain management, Marketing, Finance, and Globalization within the Africa Context, especially as digital…

Humanoid Service Robots

Based on four empirical studies, Moritz Merkle examines the introduction of humanoid robots to the frontline service encounter in a customer-centric approach focusing on customer expectations and c…

From Big Data to Intelligent Data

This book addresses many of the gaps in how industry and academia are currently tackling problems associated with big data. It introduces novel concepts, describes the end-to-end process, and conne…