Innovation beyond Fiction
This book shows how recent advances in mathematics help us manage innovation as a collective act of imagination. Told as the fictional story of an inventor hampered by bureaucracy, it will make you rethink both innovation and mathematics in practical organizational settings.
For Trinidad and Tobago, a robust Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) framework can improve financial inclusion and may be the key to unlocking economic growth. This study assesses the current EFT policy and provides recommendations for modernizing the financial system.
Written by global scholars and practitioners, this volume explores the changing landscape of 21st century business. Covering issues from consumer trends to management styles, it explains the theories behind the changes taking place in the global business environment.
It is vital that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) captures more value from its industries’ global value chains. This study offers a basis upon which governments and regional organizations may adopt beneficial and effective international trade policies to achieve such an aim.
This volume contains proceedings from the BML Munjal University International Innovation Conference 2016. Featuring discussions between global academicians and industry executives, it will appeal to academics in management, business and economics, and to managers in innovation.
Economic Value Added for Competitive Advantage
How can competitive advantage be measured for Indian companies? This book advocates that Economic Value Added (EVA®) can be used to establish it. Based on an in-depth study, it shows that Indian companies using EVA® have a distinct advantage over competitors.
How to Manage Your Family Business
This book details the key aspects for success in a family business. It discusses how to develop a common vision and transmit values to the next generation, using the Middle East as an example. It serves as a guideline to the ‘dos and don’ts’ of the family business scene.
Encountering Entrepreneurs
This monograph probes the daily life of businessmen in a particularly productive area of Northern Italy, Lombardy. It provides insights into their business and entrepreneurialism, offering a different approach to capitalism and reflections on human nature.
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.
Family firms are over 80% of businesses worldwide. This book offers valuable insights into how they operate, exploring HR management, financial practices, and family integration as a source of competitive advantage. It provides a comprehensive analysis of these key challenges.
Explore how marketing culture fuels economic growth through creative industries and tourism. By contrasting Western and non-Western theories, this book forges critical new methodologies for intercultural business, challenging conventional wisdom.
This book explores strategic management with a focus on innovative business models and the new economy. It covers the principles of the sharing, circular, and networked economies for academics, students, and business practitioners seeking to transform their organisations.
Entrepreneurship and Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 unleashes new business models and insights for decision-making. This book explores how entrepreneurs can balance exploration and exploitation in i4.0, using technologies like AI and Big Data to make intelligent decisions and create value with unmatched efficiency.
This book details how social innovations impact society in areas like education and health. Based on the experience of authors from emerging countries, it presents practical methods for successful entrepreneurship and explains transformative advances in business management.
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.
This book illustrates how global phenomena like digitalisation and climate change impact multinationals. As extant research does not fully explain emergent topics like digital business models and cleantech companies, this volume serves to fill this critical gap.
How do affect and cognition shape managerial decisions? This book unpacks their interplay at the individual, group, and organizational levels, revealing how these powerful influences can be harnessed or mitigated.
Productivity of Contemporary Economies
This book reveals original research into the productivity of economies, as the world faces a slowdown caused by digitalization and COVID-19. It will be useful for researchers, policymakers, and all those searching for new ways of thinking about these interdisciplinary problems.
Hybridity in Contemporary Commercial Organizations
Commercial organizations adopt multiple templates, creating hybridity. While this offers a competitive advantage, it also presents tensions and contradictions with negative consequences for employee trust. This book explores individual-level responses to this multiplicity.
This book explores technology business incubation in India. It maps the role of various actors in the incubation process, provides an overview of the innovation ecosystem, and examines how the country’s science and technology culture influences its overall development pathway.