Business innovation

This edited book explores the digital challenge for cultural-creative organizations and industries, and its impact on production, meaning-making, consumption and valuation of cultural-creative products and experiences.

The lack of congruence between theory and practice in business remains a widely discussed topic.

This book argues that three powerful symbiotic forces (globalization, competitiveness, and governability) are disrupting business in the 21st century, resulting in an impact on the economic and business environment far greater than the effects of any of these three individually.

We are living at the dawn of what has been termed 'the fourth paradigm of science,' a scientific revolution that is marked by both the emergence of big data science and analytics, and by the increasing adoption of the underlying technologies in scientific and scholarly research practices.

This book covers a wide range of management issues, concerning planning, control and continuous improvement.

Collaborative innovation networks are cyberteams of motivated individuals, and are self-organizing emergent social systems with the potential to promote health, happiness and individual growth in real-world work settings.

This book combines theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence on open innovation and entrepreneurship as two essential ways to help entrepreneurial businesses grow and achieve a competitive advantage.

This book presents some twenty case studies, showing how companies in different industry sectors and of different sizes make advances in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

This book presents the proceedings of the 2nd EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education (TIE' 2018), which took place at Ravensbourne University London, London, UK, on September 4, 2018.

This book attempts to advance critical knowledge and practices for fostering a variety of entrepreneurship at a city level.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th international Global Sourcing Workshop 2018, held in La Thuile, Italy, in February 2018.

In order to respond to economic globalization and increased competitive pressures, companies need innovative, efficient and effective management strategies.

This book provides a critical overview of technologies that are used within the fashion industry and supply chain, with a special emphasis on how they engender sustainability and the circular economy.

This book represents a major milestone in the endeavour to understand how communication is impacting on the fashion industry and on societal fashion-related practices and values in the digital age.

This volume explores emerging models, methods and tools in the management of research and development (R&D) in the knowledge era, with a particular focus on the challenges of the emerging technologies.

This book analyzes how companies and employees can endogenously, i.

This book proposes that, within the automotive industry, revised marketing principles and innovative marketing strategies are needed to address more effectively the unprecedented challenges posed by the modern digital revolution.

This book provides a selection of the best papers presented at the 18th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Information Systems (CAPSI), which was held in 2018.

This edited collection collates the most up-to-date and important research within the area of operations and logistics management.

This book analyzes future directions in the study of expertise and experience with the aim of engendering more critical discourse on the general discipline of science and technology studies.

This volume collects selected papers of the 5th CESA Automotive Electronics Congress, Paris, 2018.

Patient-oriented approaches to healthcare management have been brought to the fore in recent years, yet this book underlines how even further change is needed in order to fully mobilise the experiential knowledge of patients, and ultimately improve our healthcare systems.

In How to Make Things Happen, we learnt that knowledge is the fundamental driver of service efficiency.

The emergence of mobile money and other new forms of payment has changed the sovereign foundations of money.

This book provides a multidisciplinary view of smart infrastructure through a range of diverse introductory and advanced topics.

This book outlines a number of different perspectives on the relationship between science, technology, and innovation in emerging economies.

This book is a means to diagnose, anticipate and address new cyber risks and vulnerabilities while building a secure digital environment inside and around businesses.

This edited book discusses lean production as a suitable platform for global development by developing systems and products in a quicker, costless and sustainable way and educate people for a lean consumption.

Social entrepreneurship and social innovation both seek to improve the world through social change.

Technology is revolutionizing the way real estate is designed, operated, and valued.

The spread of the Internet into all areas of business activities has put a particular focus on business models.

This book is dedicated to examining Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) market in the Asia-Pacific region between 2004 and 2017.

By providing a comprehensive theoretical framework, this book aims to map the most relevant technologies that have the potential to reshape the retail industry.

This new edition surveys the full range of available structural equation modeling (SEM) methodologies.

This book covers a very broad range of topics in marketing, communication, and tourism, focusing especially on new perspectives and technologies that promise to influence the future direction of marketing research and practice in a digital and innovational era.

This book contains the papers presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2018), held on 20-22 June 2018 in Cartagena, Spain.

Sustainable entrepreneurship focuses on how the environment is embedded within business practices.

The book describes state-of-the-art product service systems, and provides a framework to categorize the knowledge surrounding these systems.

Based on economic knowledge and logical reasoning, this book proposes a solution to economic recessions and offers a route for societal change to end capitalism.

This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers from the 22nd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference in Rome.

Extensive research conducted by the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has yielded valuable insights on why and how design thinking works.

This book focuses on the role of subsistence entrepreneurs in creating social and sustainable business opportunities on the global marketplace.

The global phenomenon of eSports has experienced exponential growth in recent years, gaining interest from the media, sports and technology industries.

This book examines the behavior of high-tech startups and important aspects of innovation ecosystems in Brazil.

This book highlights essential concepts, models, and processes that help those responsible for making pricing decisions - whether professionally or privately - to effectively engage in product pricing activities.

This book evaluates the risks that China's intellectual property (IP) regime poses to innovation.

This book employs a multidisciplinary and multi-level perspective to understand how well-being and resilience can influence innovation in knowledge-intensive contexts.

The book describes the recent trends in space policy and the space sector overall.

This pioneering collection seeks to understand why and how some digital enterprises in Africa progress while others firms either stagnate or regress.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2018, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in June 2018.