Agile Strategies for the 21st Century
To succeed in a dynamic world, leaders must build agile organizations. This book provides a practical framework to accelerate innovation and adaptability by shaping a winning culture. Learn to diagnose and fix the unseen root problems that disrupt the flow of critical knowledge.
Exploring questions such as ‘What is the nature of leadership?’ and ‘What is entrepreneurship?’, this book is for the next generation of leaders in business, industry and society, for whom it is important to understand the principles which help society function best.
This book explores various leadership styles and models, demonstrating their dynamic nature. It is an essential reference point for both academics and practitioners.
Servant Leadership
Develop a servant leadership style that builds effective organizations and achieves outstanding results. This book details a holistic leadership approach that builds community through a common mission. It features examples, tips, practices, and questions for self-reflection.
Managing Enterprise Resource Planning Adoption and Business Processes
Recent decades have witnessed many avoidable ERP failures and malpractices concerning its adoption. The author presents an adoption methodology, called the Full Lifecycle ERP Adoption Reference (FLEAR) model, which will prevent the reoccurrence of such downfalls.
The Fashion Industry and Eating Disorders
Slimness is often seen as a fundamental requirement in the fashion industry. This text investigates the excessive ideal of slimness and its dangers for industry representatives. Ensuring the health of the models, it argues, must be a fundamental aspect of the industry.
Reporting Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The use of Alternative Performance Measures (APMs), or “Non-GAAP” earnings, has triggered a strong debate. Are they useful information for predicting future cash-flows, or an opportunistic tool that reduces reliability? This book provides insights on the economics of APMs.
This book provides practical, evidence-based strategies to cultivate diversity and inclusion. Learn to support employees’ sense of belonging and psychological safety, address harassment and microaggressions, and implement systemic change for vibrant, productive workplaces.
This book explores logistics, distribution, and supply chain management through theoretical analysis and practical heuristics. It features eight case studies on designing distribution systems, location problems, and inventory management for students and professionals.
Leadership for the Future
This volume explores leadership approaches from the past and present, analysing them for future challenges. Drawing from future studies, it introduces the reader to concepts of leadership that are ‘future-ready’.
Today’s profit-only management is obsolete, endangering the planet and disengaging employees. This book introduces 3D Management, a radical redesign that liberates organisations and replaces the bottom line with a model balancing profit, people, planet, and purpose.
The Mature Corporation
This book critiques concepts like CSR and traces capitalism’s malaise to the mantra of ‘shareholder value’. It provides a practical navigation chart for a new system where every stakeholder benefits, and true wealth creation and sustainability go hand-in-hand.
The business world needs to follow developments in the areas of accounting, auditing and finance to be able to adapt to globalization, technological advances and societal change. This study assesses the current issues in these fields and makes suggestions for their solutions.
Managerial Intelligence
Through a comprehensive framework, this text condenses over 60 years of clinical efforts in hundreds of organizations into a set of clear, concise, understandable principles and concepts that can be applied by managers to improve their performance and that of their organizations.
Demand Articulation of Emerging Technologies
In today’s high-tech environment, how do you convert a vague set of wants into well-defined products? Through “demand articulation,” an important competency of market-driving firms. While most firms seek pre-articulated demand, this book analyzes how to create it.
Self-Action Leadership (Volume II)
Self-Action Leadership provides the first comprehensive, secular manual for personal leadership and character education. Rooted in 30 years of extensive research, it introduces an original model that executives, scholars, and teachers alike can universally utilize.
This volume outlines the changing landscape of business and consumer behaviour post-pandemic. It identifies emerging trends—shaped by cultural context and generational belonging—needed to develop digital products and services for an evolving world.
The Golden Dawn of Italian Fashion
Once a famed fashion visionary of the 1920s-30s, Maria Monaci Gallenga was erased by Fascism. This book uncovers the story of the enigmatic artist—her Pre-Raphaelite influences, her entrepreneurial ambition, and her ultimate rediscovery by Fendi.
Financial Accounting
For students, entrepreneurs & managers, this book explains financial accounting using a practical approach. It covers recording transactions with VAT, accounting controls like bank reconciliation, and final accounts for enterprises like sole traders, partnerships & companies.
Once marketed, brands belong to consumers, who give them meaning. This book explains what brands mean to consumers, how they use them to communicate, and how advertising has become an integral component of the cultural communication system that is consumption.