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.
Development Engineering
This research-backed guide shows innovators how to develop technological interventions for low-resource settings. Learn to create sustainable solutions that meet a real need, are affordable, and fit the cultural context to avoid common failures and achieve widespread use.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
International Marketing
With an emphasis on developing countries, this text explains international marketing theory and practice within a constantly-changing and increasingly-complex global environment. It describes global environmental forces and basic marketing strategies for international marketing.
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.
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.
Kola highlights perspectives concerning the economic and social impact of microfinance products on their clients’ lives. He probes whether being a client of monetary financial institutions’ microfinance programmes brings positive changes to their lives and their community.
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 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.
Deriving from project management conferences, this anthology centres on people and places and their role in projects. It focuses on project management offices, stakeholders, complexity and risk management, and contains case studies on project management in specific contexts.
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.
The single market and trade policy are Europe’s major economic achievements and its best assets in times of increasing globalisation. This title addresses the various facets of these two pillars of European integration.
Mastering the Credit Processing Mechanism in Mauritius
Ramlall focuses on the credit processing mechanism used in Mauritius. It is widely known that Mauritius uses a bank-based financial system; however, many people are oblivious to the credit processing mechanism in operation. This book addresses such a lack of understanding.
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.
A Social and Solidarity Economy
This volume explores the social and solidarity economy in America, Europe, and Australia, with a focus on its development in Ukraine. The collection will be of interest to academic scholars, as well as political and public decision-makers.