This book provides solutions for organizations to achieve competitive advantage. It reviews the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), considers the Six Sigma technique, and discusses the agile manufacturing (AM) approach.
Circulating Knowledge and Elites
Intelligent bots promise salvation while paradigms clash online. With trust in experts collapsing, new leaders emerge. Are their intelligent designs an improvement on the evolution guessed by blind watchmakers?
Climate Change and Corporate Reporting in Europe
Diving into the intersection of climate change and financial reporting, this book explores Europe’s evolving regulatory landscape. It offers practical insights and best practices for regulators and businesses to address climate-related risks and opportunities.
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.
Cognitive Decision-Making
Cognitive Decision-Making is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and biology. This book provides an overview of current research for scholars interested in the nature, modeling, and evolution of decision-making.
These volumes explore significant questions about the use of ICT in fields like management, education, and science. Featuring research from European countries in transition, this is a major contribution to the discussion on the role of ICT in today’s world.
Communication and Information Technology in Society
This book discusses the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in management, economics, education, and psychology. With an interdisciplinary approach, it answers key questions and contributes to the discussion on the theoretical and practical use of ICT.
Communication and Information Technology in Society
This interdisciplinary volume explores communication technologies across fields like economics, education, and science. Adopting a psycho-pedagogical approach, it offers insights into Poland, a country in major transition regarding such technologies.
Communication and Work Systems
Pace provides a practical definition and explanation of “communicative behavior” for use in understanding interaction in work settings. He suggests a clear model of the elements of a work system, and describes how to solve both communication and organization problems.
Competing on Talent in Today’s Business World
In a rapidly changing landscape, acquiring top talent is a competitive advantage. This book provides a roadmap to transform recruitment from a reactive process to a strategic program, learning from best practices to consistently source and recruit the very best people available.
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 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.
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.
Control Tower Business in Logistic Services
This book explores the Control Tower cloud solution for deep supply chain insight. It presents strategies and business plans, emphasizing the need to test them through simulation. Without simulation, even the best strategies are based on single-minded thinking and will fail.
Conflict-based strategy is obsolete. This is the essential guide to cooperative strategy for modern leaders. In a world where the choice is stark—”cooperate, or die”—this book provides the playbook for a successful future.
Climate change, over-indebtedness, and demographic aging put pressure on future generations. This book explores how corporate and financial social responsibility can leverage intergenerational harmony and ensure a sustainable future for humankind.
Corporate Fraud in Japan
Why did risk management systems at world-famous Japanese companies fail? This book investigates eight incidents of corporate fraud, based on third-party reports, to explore common problems in corporate governance and internal control that let these companies down.
Corporate Governance and Board Performance
In Pacific Island Countries, board appointments are often based on politics and ethnicity, not merit. This book uses empirical evidence from the region to show how these factors influence board structure and ultimately damage their ability to perform.
Corporate Governance and Compliance with IFRSs
This is the first book to examine how corporate governance improves compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) in MENA stock exchanges. It identifies obstacles and suggests actions to globalize these emerging markets.
Corporate Social Innovation
This book explores Corporate Social Innovation as key to reshaping capitalism. By balancing profitability with purpose, companies can address social and environmental challenges, rebuild trust, and create shared value—providing a roadmap to redefine the purpose of business.