Asset Maintenance Management in Industry

This book introduces readers to essential strategies, practices, and benchmarking for asset maintenance in operations intensive industries. Drawing on a case study from the oil and gas sector, it o…

Generation Z Marketing and Management in Tourism and Hospitality

Generation Z (Gen Z) is the demographic cohort also known as Post-Millennials, the iGeneration or the Homeland Generation. Referring to individuals born roughly between the mid-1990s and the early …

Contracting in the New Economy

Today’s business environment is constantly evolving, filled with volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity and driven by digital transformation, globalization, and the need to creating va…

Enterprise Risk Management

This textbook demonstrates how Enterprise Risk Management creates value in strategic- and decision-making-processes. The author introduces modern approaches to balancing risk and reward based on ma…

The Cosmos Economy

If man’s next big step is to live and work in space, then what will everyone do out there that is so different from what we are now doing here on Earth? As the future of space comes into focus it…

New Horizons in Management, Leadership and Sustainability

Drawing upon research and practitioner narratives from management, leadership, organizational studies, entrepreneurship and sustainable business domains, this book explores the many pathways that e…

Continuous Innovation with DevOps

This book connects the new world of digitalization with classic IT management. With the presence of software in objects, products and processes, most businesses will become software-defined busines…

Applying Particle Swarm Optimization

This book explains the theoretical structure of particle swarm optimization (PSO) and focuses on the application of PSO to portfolio optimization problems. The general goal of portfolio optimizatio…

Frugal Innovation and Its Implementation

This book discusses several product development strategies and tools employed by organizations around the world to implement frugal innovations. Over the past decade, frugal innovations have caught…

Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams

The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practica…

Marketing Tourism and Hospitality

This textbook explores the fundamental principles of marketing applied to tourism and hospitality businesses, placing special emphasis on SMEs in the international tourism industry. It includes exa…

Transforming Society and Organizations through Gamification

Gamification is the application of game-design elements and game principles to non-game contexts, and has been used to solve problems by applying characteristics of games. Though it has principally…

Business Analysis and Design

This textbook offers an essential introduction to design orientation in business, which impacts the way management is undertaken world-wide. Design orientation, as it applies to business, is the pr…

Revolutionizing Workshops

Dr. Max Jalowski designs strategies for revolutionizing workshops by introducing persuasive technology.His results show that investigating the behavior of participants in design workshops offers va…

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

This book features the latest research in the area of immersive technologies, presented at the 6th International Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Conference, held in online in 2020. Bridging t…

Introduction to Supply Chain Resilience

This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to supply chain resilience, covering management, modeling and technology perspectives. Designed to accompany the textbook “Global Supply …

The Lean Healthcare Handbook

The book shows readers exactly how to use Lean tools to design healthcare work that is smooth, efficient, error free and focused on patients and patient outcomes. It includes in-depth discussions o…

Data Governance and Compliance

This book sets the stage of the evolution of corporate governance, laws and regulations, other forms of governance, and the interaction between data governance and other corporate governance sub-di…

Analysing Intraday Implied Volatility for Pricing Currency Options

This book focuses on the impact of high-frequency data in forecasting market volatility and options price. New technologies have created opportunities to obtain better, faster, and more efficient d…

Facility Layout

This book presents a structured approach to develop mathematical optimization formulations for several variants of facility layout. The range of layout problems covered includes row layouts, floor …

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Governance, Economics and Finance, V…

The book discusses the effects of artificial intelligence in terms of economics and finance. In particular, the book focuses on the effects of the change in the structure of financial markets, inst…

Blockchain Gaps

This book analyzes the fundamental issues faced when blockchain technology is applied to real-life applications. These concerns, not only in the realm of computer science, are caused by the nature …

Knowledge Management and Learning Organizations

This book focuses on knowledge management and learning organizations, showing how they realise entrepreneurship and innovation. Understanding knowledge management as the process of creating, sharin…

New Frontiers in Hospitality and Tourism Management in Africa

This book provides a management perspective on the full historical, contemporary, and geographic landscape of hospitality and tourism (H&T) in Africa. In so doing, it critically assesses and challe…

Elementary Classroom Management: Lessons from Research and Practice, FOURTH E…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-07-110763-1

Collation

xxvi, 454 p.; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

371.102 Wei e

Advances in Interdisciplinary Research in Engineering and Business Management

The volume contains latest research on software reliability assessment, testing, quality management, inventory management, mathematical modeling, analysis using soft computing techniques and manage…

Organizational Dignity and Evidence-Based Management

This book discusses dignity in the organizational context. Combining diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as empirical studies, this book examines the concept of dignity betwe…

Operations and Supply Management 4.0

Fierce competition, globalisation and the permanent liberalisation of markets have changed the face of supply chains and operations drastically. Companies, which want to survive in a hostile enviro…

LISS 2020

This book contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Sciences (LISS 2020), which is co-organized by Beijing Jiaotong University, Budapest Un…

Organizational Behavior in Sport Management

This textbook presents a comprehensive analysis of organizational behavior in sport organizations from a practitioner's perspective. It covers issues related to managing employees and work teams as…