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Dieses essential gibt einen kompakten Überblick zu den aktuellen Herausforderungen der Internen Kommunikation und zu ihren Hebeln als Spiegelbild des unternehmerischen Wandels. Denn ihr Wirkungsraum ist mächtig: von Digitalisierungsstrategien und...

This decisive decade demands more inspired and informed practitioners who can use positive futures to rebalance the present. This book is a thought-provoking approach to imagine, create, and lead the journey to a more sustainable world – where a spectrum...

Bedtime reading for leaders who can’t sleep…A unique and rich mix of imaginative story-telling and practical advice from an author with six decades of management and leadership experience, Good Leaders in Turbulent Times is for those nightmare times when...

The business, commercial and public-sector world has changed dramatically since John Oakland wrote the first edition of Statistical Process Control in the mid-1980s. Then, people were rediscovering statistical methods of ‘quality control’ and the book...

This practical text covers the essential aspects of managing employees, providing relevant and interesting case studies to enable students to develop the management skills and approaches needed at all levels. The book includes a wealth of case studies...

Die Patientensicherheit im Gesundheitswesen bedarf trotz aller Fortschritte weiterer Verbesserungen. Angesichts der zunehmenden sozio-technischen Komplexität sind neue Strategien und Instrumente notwendig. Dieses Buch präsentiert mit dem Konzept...

Developing a learning mindset is essential for success in a rapidly changing world of work. But how can you adopt this approach? What qualities do you need? What role do technology and neuroscience play? How can it boost innovation, problem-solving and...

The project management profession has grown through the hard work of many volunteer groups and organizations. The Volunteering Journey to Project Leadership explains how volunteering can help project management professionals grow their own capabilities...

Das vorliegende Buch enthält fünf Studien, die sich mit den aktuellen Herausforderungen im Bereich organisationales Lernen in der Polizei beschäftigen. Der erste Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwiefern die deutsche Polizei als eine lernende...

A globetrotting Gold Rush heiress. An awkward Paris schoolmaster. A celebrated French actor. And a museum of history and art in California’s Central Valley. What do they have in common? They are all connected by an oil painting, a still life called...

The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy tells the inspiring, never-before-told, story of the Global Women’s Funding Movement – considered the women’s movement’s greatest secret – and how it enabled women from all walks of life to harness the power of money...

Business ethics are the set of practices and policies that companies use to guide them through decisions about finances, negotiations and deals, corporate social responsibility, and more. Without a strong set of ethics, a business can run afoul of the...

This four-volume book examines, through multiple and cross-discipline perspectives, the science and practice of not-for-profit organisations. These organisations have drawn considerable attention and witnessed extensive growth as they engage in...

This book presents the creative industries as a suite of practices intimately connected to political, economic, and cultural power. Seeking to illuminate the creative industries through critical cultural analysis, the book shows the extent to which...

Anders als in Frankreich und China, die seit Jahren weltweit führenden Produzenten von Nutzhanf sind, werden in Deutschland die Chancen des Nutzhanfs vernachlässigt. Was sind die Gründe hierfür und wo lässt sich ansetzen, um an der Nischenposition des...

Employing a critical yet humorous style, Chris Hackley draws on 40 years of education experience to examine business education and its wider societal role. He presents a historical perspective alongside various topical and personal accounts to answer the...

The world has witnessed the proliferation of Mega-Regional Trade Agreements (MRTAs), and this book critically examines a range of issues with MRTAs starting from their genesis to their economic clout over the world, the likely implications for member...

The conventional interpretation of safety, known as Safety-I, denotes a condition where as little as possible goes wrong, and the focus of practical efforts in management or analysis is on the occurrence of unacceptable outcomes and on how to reduce...

Advanced Human Resource Management provides comprehensive, practical guidance on understanding and implementing key strategic practices across the HR function. This essential textbook for postgraduate and final year undergraduate students of HRM covers...

Focusing on research that examines both individual and organizational behavior relative to accounting, Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research provides an in-depth analysis and exchange of peer-reviewed knowledge across all areas of accounting...

This book explores the genesis of the concept of global commons against the backdrop of the global environmental problems of climate change, biodiversity conservation, desertification, and the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes. It highlights...

Dieses CRM-Standardwerk behandelt die wesentlichen Fragen im Rahmen der Einsetzung und Organisation von Customer Relationship Management. Dies betrifft sowohl die Verzahnung mit Marketing- und Vertriebsprozessen, die systematische Zielbildung als auch...

Research shows that companies that employ data-driven decision-making are more productive, have a higher market value and deliver higher returns for their shareholders. In this book, the reader will discover the history, theory and practice of...

This book provides an accessible introduction to Marx’s seminal work Capital and explores the core ideas of Marxian political economy relevant for modern day economies. The first part gives an overview of Capital based on the authors’ original thinking...

Dieses Open Access essential enthält eine Sammlung praxisnaher Fallstudien, die auf realen Beispielen von Innovatorinnen basieren und einen Einblick in die vielfältigen Rollen von Frauen in Innovationsprozessen geben. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf...

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller!In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage...

From bestselling personal finance author Ramit Sethi, here is a definitive book about a defining challenge for tens of millions of people: navigating the tricky waters of money in a romantic relationship. Drawing on Sethi's experience working with...

Environmental Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of environmental economics that is based on a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research. Students will not only leave the...

The unspoken rules and unquestioned assumptions that make up corporate culture are so well hidden that, once we become insiders, we stop noticing them. But our shared language – ‘the way we talk around here’ – contains the patterns of thought and...

This book envisions the future of tourism in an economy that is largely automated. ‘Robonomics’ is the term given to this economic system that relies on robots, artificial intelligence and automation technologies for the production of goods and delivery...

Research shows that companies that employ data-driven decision-making are more productive, have a higher market value and deliver higher returns for their shareholders. In this book, the reader will discover the history, theory and practice of...

This book responds to calls for a systematic approach in understanding the transformations in the social media marketing landscape. To narrow the focus, the book takes a developing economy perspective and presents a comprehensive understanding of social...

In an era when growth marketing has become a buzzword for quick fixes, this book provides a clear roadmap for how marketers can move on from short-term hacks and utilize their full marketing funnel to gain and retain customers across any size business in...

Ein Blick auf den Hotel- und Gastronomiemarkt zeigt, dass Nachhaltigkeit keine Modeerscheinung ist. Die Autoren erläutern, was Nachhaltigkeit im Gastgewerbe bedeutet, welche erfolgversprechenden Strategien existieren und welche Werkzeuge eingesetzt...

This book offers a novel multi-portfolio approach and stochastic programming formulations for modeling and solving contemporary supply chain risk management problems. The focus of the book is on supply chain resilience under propagated disruptions,...

Only a small percentage of change programs in organizations are successful. Too often, companies rely upon top-down communication campaigns that tell or show employees about change, but don't involve them actively, emotionally or holistically...

This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. International policy frameworks have created a new universal agenda for developing cities. However, these frameworks have also...

'The most important start-up book of the last ten years' - Steve Blank, co-creator of the Lean Startup movementBased on extensive research and real-world examples, Pattern Breakers, read by co-author Mike Maples Jr, upends accepted wisdom about how to...

Reorganizing menstruation explores what happens when menstrual practices change, and what is revealed and made possible when longstanding menstrual stigma is disrupted. Menstruation matters: how it is perceived and practiced gives us important...

Dieses kompakte Werk zeigt praxisnah und fundiert die besondere Struktur von Verhandlungen auf. Gute Verhandlungen verlaufen spielerisch wie ein Theaterstück in drei Akten: die Begrüßung, der Austausch von Argumenten und im dritten Akt die Einigung...