The Future of Project Management
This book gives decision-makers, project workers, and students insight into the modern challenges of project management, from digitization to AI. It argues that modern project management is based on people, their values, and the intelligent use of emerging technologies.
Enhancing Organizational Leadership Practice
This book helps organizational leaders balance three core responsibilities: organizational, stakeholder, and ethical. Using Western and Chinese concepts and practical examples, it reframes human resources as a capital investment, enhancing leadership effectiveness.
This book presents research on Costs of Quality (CoQ) management in China. Based on case studies from Chinese enterprises, it shows professionals and executives how to adopt strategic CoQ management to enhance product quality and improve business performance.
Neoteric Developments in Management Science in Engineering
This book identifies the major research categories in Management Science in Engineering (MSE) and evaluates and classifies each journal. Compiled by leading academics and editors, it is an essential resource for scientists, researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students.
Based on real science, this book offers a new methodology for assessing coaching’s effects on managers’ personalities. It shows how they can respond to the challenges they face in a more effective and professional way.
Journal evaluation and classification are critical for researchers, engineers, and students in Management Science in Engineering (MSE). This book identifies the main research categories of MSE, and evaluates and classifies each journal in the field.
This book proposes an approach linking social exchange to market activity and organizational performance. It explains value creation theory, why it supersedes classical organization theory, and offers factors for researchers and practitioners to improve performance.
Experiential Marketing in an Age of Hyper-Connectivity
This rigorous, informative resource is a playbook for every scholar, student, and practitioner of experiential marketing. Learn the state of customer experience, how to expand a customer base, and use cutting-edge sensory marketing to create hedonic experiences.
This book helps students and practitioners understand marketing and design. It provides an overview of experiential marketing, innovation, branding, and human-centred design, while considering future avenues for creativity in the field.
No other book links epidemiological concepts to leadership. This book identifies leadership determinants and matches research-based antidotes to them. Using over 60 case studies and leadership style assessments, you will learn to improve your leadership and the workplace climate.
Megaproject overruns are often blamed on project managers, but the real culprit is flawed Engineering Management. Design errors cause overruns that no management tool can fix. Using a Systems Thinking approach, this book explores methods to address these root causes.
This collection of essays examines emerging research paradigms in communication. It focuses on the shift from traditional unidirectional information sharing to multidirectional channels, providing students, scholars, and practitioners with innovative ways to think critically.
The Marketing of Works
The first book on a new type of marketing: the marketing of works. It describes activities like repair that change an object’s market value without transferring ownership. Distinguishing works from services, it provides marketing theorists with many opportunities for research.
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’.
One-to-one support alone isn’t enough for leaders. This book presents the Leadership Inquiry Support (LIS) model, a practical approach integrating multiple support modalities through authentic collaboration. It offers strategies backed by research and real-world experience.
Responsible Business Professionals
This collection explores responsible business in the context of India’s growing global trade. It delves into creating responsible business ecosystems, developing leadership, and managing cross-cultural communication to enhance the human accountability of business.
This book explores various leadership styles and models, demonstrating their dynamic nature. It is an essential reference point for both academics and practitioners.
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.
Mechanisms of Cross-Boundary Learning
This book reveals the mechanism of adult learning through boundary-crossing experiences. It empirically analyzes how collaboration across organizations sparks learning and associated job crafting, presenting findings with global applications.
Self-Action Leadership (Volume I)
The first of its kind, Self-Action Leadership is a comprehensive manual addressing the universal need for personal leadership and character education. Rooted in 30 years of research, it introduces an original theory and model for all to utilize.