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?
Master mobile in-app advertising. This guide for publishers and advertisers uses data and case studies to reveal how factors like ad size, position, and timing influence success. Optimize campaigns for higher revenue and an improved user experience.
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.
This book argues that contemporary fashion is a performative-conceptual turn. It presents a new approach from visual semiotics, where fashion emerges as a visual code for our hyperreal societies, combining cybernetics, fetishism, and transgression.
This volume explores approaches to monitoring sustainable tourism at seaside destinations, focusing on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. It presents a systematic process of gathering data to assess and manage development. Essential for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.
This comprehensive book explores the evolving landscape of sustainable entrepreneurship. It delves into the intersection of business and sustainability, analyzing technology, investment, empowerment, and AI-driven commerce through diverse case studies and analyses.
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.
Management Accounting in the Third Millennium
This book is an innovative review of monetary and non-monetary incentive schemes and their effects on employee motivation and performance. It provides a schematic approach to navigate reward systems, offering practical insights and best practices for practitioners and managers.
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.
Conflict-based strategy is obsolete.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.
This book delves into the relationship between economic growth and tourism in China’s diverse regions. Emphasizing China’s unique experiences, it offers practical insights and valuable lessons applicable to policymakers, economists, and tourism professionals worldwide.
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.
A Small and Medium Enterprise’s Guide to Innovation and Growth
Unlock the potential of AI with this guide for SMEs. Break down complex concepts into actionable strategies to innovate, grow, and compete. Learn how to harness AI to streamline processes, enhance decision-making, outpace industry giants, and thrive in an AI-driven future.
This book studies how hidden and malicious intent in business decisions led to collapses like the 2008 Great Recession. It proposes a conceptual AI-augmented model, based on a cancer analogy, to detect and correct these destructive decisions before they harm the economy.
Technological Innovation Management
This book shows how to treat your organization as an entity of continuous learning and innovation. Use knowledge as a strategic asset to improve processes, products, and services, leading to improved performance and sustainable value for stakeholders.
We don’t see reality as it is. Instead, your brain uses experience to create a story—your private narrative. This book shows how this narrative enables humans to anticipate the future, engage in complex thought, and communicate, providing a new way of viewing human experience.
Master the business lifecycle, from launch to profitable exit. Learn to hire, market, sell, grow, and negotiate while sidestepping costly mistakes. This essential guide equips you for lasting success and unlocks your highest earning potential.
This book explores technology business incubation in India. It maps the role of various actors in the incubation process, provides an overview of the innovation ecosystem, and examines how the country’s science and technology culture influences its overall development pathway.
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.
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.