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How can I take a data-driven approach to company culture? What should I measure and which metrics should I focus on? How can I use people analytics and behavioural science impact culture? Based on insights from the largest ever behavioural research study...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. A new trend in ethical finance, impact investing aims to generate positive social or environmental impacts alongside financial returns. But what does it really mean and how is it practiced across...

2022 Business Woman of the Year (CEO Today magazine)In her new book, The Inner Mountain, DHgate Group founder and chairperson Diane Wang shares her journey to the top in the business world while overcoming internal conflicts with confidence and...

Gain a contemporary and complete understanding of the concepts, theories and practical considerations integral to modern diversity management with this textbook. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace provides a clear and accessible...

A small group of experienced business leaders and academics have teamed up to create an innovative and potentially disruptive approach to developing leadership in the 21st Century. The result is a unique, people-centric, and scientifically researched,...

The practice and the concept of social enterprise has been studied extensively across the globe; however, the flourishing of nonprofit social enterprises has received little attention over the years, especially in Africa. This book provides a framework...

Takahashi reconstructs the key blocks of one of the founders of the Institutional school, John R. Commons’ theories of the evolution of capitalism and of institutional change by taking the concept of transaction as a central point of departure.Commons’...

The world is grappling to come up with alternative imaginations for transformation despite repeated crises, inequalities and immiseration caused by the increasing dominance of the neo-liberal capitalist framework and the collapse of twentieth-century...

To change the world, we need a money revolution. Yet the debate over money has been dominated by two perspectives: those free-market capitalists who want money to rule everything, and those who want the state to harness money's power. Decolonizing...

Veränderung tangiert die gesamte Arbeitswelt, die in einem nicht enden wollenden Umbruch steckt. Es geht dabei vor allem um die Veränderung von Führung und die Veränderung der Arbeit an sich. Das beinhaltet Change Management, Organisationsentwicklung...

This book is about geography, economics, society, and innovation. Why did different regions evolve in different ways? What caused economic priorities and activities to go in one direction or another? The author believes that happenstance played a...

Strategy in Context represents a pragmatic and novel approach to competitive strategy and strategic thinking. It makes use of numerous examples across the public and private sectors to demonstrate strategy from three dimensions–external context, internal...

The world is grappling to come up with alternative imaginations for transformation despite repeated crises, inequalities and immiseration caused by the increasing dominance of the neo-liberal capitalist framework and the collapse of twentieth-century...

China dominates manufacturing and is the world's largest retail market, but for companies outside of China, finding ways to do business in the country is increasingly uncertain in the face of rising US-China tension, combined with China's crackdowns on...

Despite the promise of enhanced customer engagement through new technology, consumer trust has suffered widespread collapse, and annual corporate losses are in the trillions. This book exposes the faulty foundation of the populist Customer Experience...

Despite the promise of enhanced customer engagement through new technology, consumer trust has suffered widespread collapse, and annual corporate losses are in the trillions. This book exposes the faulty foundation of the populist Customer Experience...

Taking decisions might be part of your job description, but it can often feel daunting, lonely and exhausting. This short guide walks you through the decision-making process step by step and, by breaking it down, makes it both less intimidating and more...

Why just be contrarian when you can bet against consensus and be right? Through a meta-analysis of what moves markets and what drives human behavior, New York Times bestselling author and founder of Verdad Advisers Dan Rasmussen cuts through the 60/40...

How can responsible business work in the highly competitive areas of innovation? Focusing on business opportunities and illustrating how Responsible Innovation can be successfully implemented in practice, this book captures experiences and insights from...

This book studies one part of the Sundarbans, the largest and one of the most fragile mangrove ecosystems in the world. The study is placed in the context of highly topical international debates on biodiversity, climate change and economic...

Price Catalysts explores the world of corporate special situations and demonstrates how savvy investors can profit from untapped investment opportunities in this niche sector of the market. The book is a resource for investors looking for a competitive...

This book presents a new model, the competency framework, for students, innovators, entrepreneurs, managers, and anyone who wants to better understand the dynamic world of innovation and entrepreneurship.Focused on both the individual and strategic...

Dieses Buch untersucht und beleuchtet die wichtigsten Herausforderungen, denen sich die pharmazeutische Industrie in einem zunehmend wettbewerbsorientierten Umfeld mit inflationären F&E-Investitionen und verschärftem Kostendruck stellen muss. Die Autoren...

The automotive aftermarket is a part of the global value network that involves manufacturing, trading, distributing and developing goods and services to global and local automotive markets. Sustainable mobility and automobiles, from passenger cars to...

Dieses Buch behandelt die Prinzipien und Aktionsfelder des Store Brand Managements, das auf die Etablierung von Einkaufsstätten als starke Marken abzielt. Der Autor erläutert grundlegende Begriffe, stellt zentrale Herausforderungen dar und behandelt die...

Wissen und Künstliche Intelligenz sind zwei Schwergewichte in der Gestaltung der Zukunft: Wissen gewinnt im unternehmerischen Kontext immer mehr an Bedeutung und die disruptiven Veränderungen in der Arbeitswelt erfordern neue Wege, Informationen und...

The era of digital transformation brings to small and medium-sized enterprises new challenges and complex issues that need to be navigated carefully and effectively to keep pace with the rate of local and global changes, to continue operating efficiently...

This book explores the dynamics of the Chinese labor market, the largest in the world. The sheer scale of rural laborers living in cities is the ultimate engine driving the fastest urbanization the world has ever seen. Today, the country faces a series...

Dieser Band geht in historischer Perspektive der Frage nach, wie in verschiedenen Gesellschaften zu verschiedenen Zeiten mit dem Problem des Reichtums umgegangen wurde. Wer über den Tellerrand unserer gegenwärtigen Vorstellungen des Reichtums hinaussehen...

The climate crisis is the greatest challenge facing our world, so it's vital that all businesses step forward and lead the charge. Sustainability Heroes uncovers the strategies that lead to sustainable success. While over 90% of business leaders...

Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit – lediglich zwei Buzzwords oder eine Symbiose? Digitalisierung und die Nutzung neuer Technologien wie Künstliche Intelligenz bieten Chancen für innovative Geschäftsmodelle sowie neuartige Produkte und Dienstleistungen...

What measures do you use to spot talent and measure employee performance? How do you decide who gets promoted? Are these methods fair and inclusive? Organizations are keen to recruit and retain a diverse workforce but the talent management processes in...

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...

Dieses Buch führt leicht verständlich in die Grundzüge der Buchhaltung ein. Es vermittelt die wichtigsten theoretischen Hintergründe sowie typischen praktischen Belange anhand vieler praxis- und lebensnaher Beispiele.  Vorgestellt werden unter anderem...

This book presents a new vision and strategy for a spiritual antiracism that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. Employing the practice of seeing, choosing, and acting as a framework, it examines the role of Christian spirituality, which includes...

In Breaking the Bonds of Corruption, Elena Denisova-Schmidt takes a broad view of corruption and its prevalence in global societies, using the case of Ukraine to examine practices that are considered corrupt in historical, social, and economic...

This book looks into “responsible leadership” as leader’s proactive actions towards attainment of sustainable development goals and overall wellbeing of organization and society. The book covers both theoretical and practical approaches towards...

Market and Technical Knowledge Integration in R&D Intensive Companies explores the integration of market and technical knowledge within R&D intensive companies. Starting with industry classifications and a discussion on the significance of R&D...

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 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...