Accelerated by COVID-19, the digital transformation of organizations is a critical topic. This volume evaluates the process with an up-to-date perspective from the social sciences, covering fields from human resources and finance to education and marketing.
Diversity Management and Identity in Organisations
Bizjak advances a conceptualisation of gender identity within Diversity Management in organisations that takes into account the linkages between individual and organisational identity, thus moving from liminality to inclusion.
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.
Education Loan and Inclusive Growth
This book explores education loans as a tool for financing higher education in developing countries. Using India as a case study, it reveals how the system excludes the poor and formulates an action plan to make it an inclusive financing tool.
As mergers and acquisitions gain significance in India, the law faces emerging challenges. This collection of papers highlights these challenges, exploring the links between M&A and areas like anti-trust, taxation, and insolvency. A guide for students and practitioners.
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.
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.
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.
Agarwal undertakes a process of discovery across civilizations and time periods to unearth the development of the political economy. He offers solutions to guide society away from economic enslavement and to help mitigate the human suffering that results from societal imbalances.
This book examines the link between individual entrepreneurship and the competitive performance of an industry, using Kenya’s leather industry as a case study. It refocuses attention from knowledge-based industries to primary sectors that are typical of African economies.
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 work studies issues of company governance and management, in the context of the MER Model of Integral Management and Governance. It considers the fundamental aspirations for the enterprise’s existence and, thus, its quantitative, as well as qualitative, changes.
Based on papers from a Eurasian economics conference, this collection investigates the economic environment in Eurasian countries. It analyses the region from perspectives such as globalisation and economic integration, and economic growth and development.
European SME’s and Global Business
Most research focuses on large firms, but this volume explores the internationalisation of small enterprises. Using Norwegian case studies, it reveals the factors influencing the speed of going global and its significance for entrepreneurs and governments.
To truly evaluate digital transformation, we must go beyond corporate profit and economic growth. This book presents a new method for measuring the impact of ICT by accounting for consumer convenience, complete with theoretical considerations, research methods, and case studies.
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.
Experience and New Venture Performance
Does an entrepreneur’s experience predict success? Common sense says yes, but current research suggests otherwise. A founder’s prior experience can have a positive or negative impact. This book explores these inconsistencies through in-depth case studies.
Explaining Financial Scandals
Recent financial crises are rooted in two main problems: a lack of effective corporate governance and the excesses of financial innovation. Drawing on scandals from Enron to Lehman Brothers, this book proposes a new paradigm, “enlightened sovereign control”.
Financial mathematics is the base for corporate finance, financial management, and investment. This textbook provides knowledge necessary for every financier, economist, and financial analyst. It is for students and specialists who want to master quantitative methods in finance.
Massive oil revenues led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to invest their enormous wealth abroad. This book shows how foreign investment is a crucial tool for diversification and a strategy for preserving and expanding their oil wealth for the future.