The Internationalization of High-Tech Firms
This book presents updated knowledge on the internationalization patterns of high-tech firms, with particular insights into their innovations and research and development. It highlights the internationalization path of firms operating in high-tech sectors.
Ethical Infrastructure
Explore the unique and under-researched area of ethical infrastructures. This book analyzes their impact on the moral behaviour of managers, showing how to institutionalize ethics within organizations and stimulating a deeper understanding of this vital concept.
A Business Health Service
If businesses function like living organisms, can they benefit from a professional healthcare service? This book explores the need for such a service and evaluates whether business advisors can meet the professional standards of medical care.
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.
This volume contains proceedings from the BML Munjal University International Innovation Conference 2016. Featuring discussions between global academicians and industry executives, it will appeal to academics in management, business and economics, and to managers in innovation.
Human Resource Management at the Crossroads
This book contains studies on the challenges of Human Resource Management. It analyzes how technology impacts the future of work, employee well-being, the management of careers and diversity, employee commitment, and other key topics facing HRM managers today.
This book simplifies environmental management for hospitality students and practitioners. It explains how global environmental problems affect the industry and outlines processes for waste management, energy, and water conservation with a global perspective.
Once marketed, brands belong to consumers, who give them meaning. This book explains what brands mean to consumers, how they use them to communicate, and how advertising has become an integral component of the cultural communication system that is consumption.
Self-Action Leadership (Volume II)
Self-Action Leadership provides the first comprehensive, secular manual for personal leadership and character education. Rooted in 30 years of extensive research, it introduces an original model that executives, scholars, and teachers alike can universally utilize.
Planning Behavior
This book extends decision theory to explain planning phenomena. It answers why urban containment policies fail, how land development decisions are analyzed, and why cities need plans, providing a fresh look at how planners should behave in the face of urban complexity.
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.
Exploring current trends and challenges in sustainable tourism, this volume investigates tourism policies, national image creation, environmental factors, wellness and medical tourism, regional development, and key financial issues.
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.
TOMS shoes disrupted business with its one-for-one model: for every pair sold, another was given to a child in need. The TOMS Effect explores this phenomenon’s influence on corporations and start-ups, and asks if its newest, riskier social campaigns can be sustained.
Demand Articulation of Emerging Technologies
In today’s high-tech environment, how do you convert a vague set of wants into well-defined products? Through “demand articulation,” an important competency of market-driving firms. While most firms seek pre-articulated demand, this book analyzes how to create it.
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.
How to Manage Your Family Business
This book details the key aspects for success in a family business. It discusses how to develop a common vision and transmit values to the next generation, using the Middle East as an example. It serves as a guideline to the ‘dos and don’ts’ of the family business scene.
This book analyzes the challenges in establishing new institutions of art and culture and provides recommendations for young managers. It is a study guide for managers’ training and self-education in the creative fields.
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.
Reporting Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The use of Alternative Performance Measures (APMs), or “Non-GAAP” earnings, has triggered a strong debate. Are they useful information for predicting future cash-flows, or an opportunistic tool that reduces reliability? This book provides insights on the economics of APMs.
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