Labour in the 21st Century
This compendium investigates and discusses the different aspects of the major transformations that have characterized the world of work in recent years. It claims that in order to propose solutions to cope with such changes, it is necessary to analyze their ongoing dynamics.
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.
Lemus explores resistance to the change from US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). He argues IFRS should act as a singular accounting language, promoting a better economic position in the world financial market.
Fashion through History
This collection analyses fashion as a key indicator of social change. It offers a comprehensive analysis of clothes across history, cultures, and disciplines, from ancient costumes and craft traditions to modern media and the styles of marginalized groups.
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.
Sustainability of Tourism
This book examines policies and practices for sustainable tourism development. It provides real-world examples and international cases related to culture and nature, with guidelines that apply to museums, cities, regions, and countries.
Towards a Sustainable Information Society
This volume represents an important voice in the scientific discourse on what constitutes a sustainable information society, and provides a new comprehensive and forward-looking approach to such a development.
Diversity Management and Identity in Organisations
Bizjak advances a conceptualisation of gender identity within Diversity Management in organisations that takes into account the linkages between individual and organisational identity, thus moving from liminality to inclusion.
Professional Ethics
This book addresses the ethical dimension of professional development. With contributors from a variety of fields, it explores inter-professional ways of working and developing an ethical response to changing contexts. Useful for practitioners, managers, and scholars.
This book explores how Kuwait can convert its oil “resource curse” into a blessing. It considers the strategic points surrounding oil governance and its implication for growth, arguing that a planned investment in innovation is critical for development.
This work studies issues of company governance and management, in the context of the MER Model of Integral Management and Governance. It considers the fundamental aspirations for the enterprise’s existence and, thus, its quantitative, as well as qualitative, changes.
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a popular management tool for measuring performance. This book is a collection of contributions from DEA experts, covering theoretical developments and applications in various sectors. It is useful for researchers and practitioners.
Sex Tourism on the Kenyan Coast
This book challenges suppositions about sex tourism. Elderly men seeking romance are taken advantage of, while women delude themselves searching for a mzungu to fulfill their dreams. The success of the few becomes a false promise for the majority. Based on a Kenyan coast study.
Customer-Centricity
Empowered customers have high expectations. This book presents a framework to understand the digital trends reshaping consumption, and analyzes the new skills and business models needed to succeed in the age of digital disruption.
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.
This book examines the revolution in Human Resource Management, from HR 4.0 to HR 5.0, with special emphasis on Artificial Intelligence. It provides real-world applications, success stories, and insights from global leaders on the future direction of HR practices.
Explore Agile’s evolution from a software technique to a broad organizational philosophy. This essential guide covers frameworks like Scrum and Kanban, their application across industries, and their role in navigating the future of work and organizational agility.
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.
This collection deals with the connection between relationship marketing management and trade fair activity management. It investigates the role of trade fairs with regard to B2B relationship marketing management in the world economic crisis era.
The EU at a Crossroads
This book summarises the dilemmas the European Union faces during its multilevel crisis. The first part concerns EU constitutional issues, the second is on public governance issues, the third details issues of the EU market and trade, and the fourth is on the Eurozone crisis.