Innovation in Financial Services
Synthesizing academic research and practitioner insights, this book explores innovation in financial services. It analyzes success factors, strategy, and the challenges facing an industry in need of vision and strategic foresight.
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.
This book develops a new mathematical model for modern human resources that is both organisational output-focused and employee-focused. It investigates various measurement and evaluation approaches to facilitate the adoption of alternative HR practices.
This book gives the latest information on advances in organic agriculture, with practical examples for farmers, engineers, and agroindustry people. Prepared by experts, it covers multidisciplinary approaches, environmental awareness, and novel ideas for future research.
This book takes a step-by-step, data-driven approach to HR analytics. Learn to use visualization and machine learning tools to solve issues like controlling attrition and improving performance, deriving valuable insights to support your HR strategies and make better decisions.
This book analyzes the US Federal Reserve’s extensive role in our daily lives and its consequences for the world’s economy. As its global dominance gives rise to international opposition, this book explores the Fed’s history, policies, and the key challenges it faces.
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.
Managing a Tour Operating Business
Explore the global tour operations business and how technology influences new business models. With case studies from Europe, Africa, and the USA, this text addresses challenges in developing countries and offers a business model for future sustainability.
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.
This book offers HR practitioners and researchers a hands-on guide to measuring workplace diversity. It shows how to apply diversity indices and use regression methods to assess the organizational factors that influence age, ethnic, and gender diversity, with practical examples.
Work Integrated Learning for Students
This book offers solutions to global challenges through work integrated learning (WIL). It shifts perspectives on building ethical businesses, engaging in the 4IR and gig economy, and embracing human-AI integration, propelling you to become an entrepreneurial lifelong learner.
A Comparison of Effort Estimation Techniques on Software Projects
This book compares industry approaches to software effort estimation, from traditional function points to agile story points. Using real-life case studies, learn to apply each technique immediately and answer the question all managers dread: “How is your project going?”
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.
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.
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.
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.
In an information-driven world where data is the most valuable resource, technology is not simply a cost. This book provides insights into how technology impacts knowledge, collaboration, and performance, showing decision-makers how to use it to realise strategic goals.
Measuring Marketing and Brand Communications Performance
This book provides the tools to generate greater returns from marketing and brand investments. Learn to develop, measure, and improve consumer-centred strategies to achieve significant ROI, build the brand, and strengthen customer loyalty and your company’s viability.
A guide to analyzing financial data using econometric techniques. Covering topics from time series analysis to machine learning, it provides students, researchers, and finance professionals with the essential tools and real-world examples to make more accurate predictions.
Management Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Authored by scholars worldwide, this book offers a truly global perspective on management innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource management. It provides scientific evidence and direction for businesses competing in today’s ever-changing environment.