This book explores the importance of the agriculturally-based fiber and textile industry, and how local, small-scale operations and markets, coupled with a connection to soil health, can lead the way to new transformative changes.
This book provides evidence as to how human resources management practices influence the knowledge management processes and the influence of knowledge management processes on innovation in higher educational institutes.
This book explores how decentralized finance (DeFi) can disrupt traditional centralized finance including the business areas of insurance companies, banks, money markets, and bonds.
Company executives need strategic flexibility in VUCA to maintain an advantage alongside business analytics, helping them achieve a competitive edge by providing timely insights, optimizing business processes, and generating growth and innovation opportunities.
Innovation, often tempered by the language of inclusion, has become an indispensable element of contemporary development policy and practice in the so-called Global South.
A fascinating guide to surviving and thriving in the corporate C-SuiteThe Suite Spot is not a single-idea book but rather a compendium of wisdom that has been sourced from hundreds of leading executives over a period of 20 years and has been collated into a portfolio of tools and anecdotes.
Written by the author who helped crystalize the field of technology management and the management of innovation with the first two editions of Managing Technological Innovation, this Third Edition brings the subject in line with current business strategy.
*updated with new material*'Digital transformation' and 'disruptive innovation' used to be empty buzzwords serving to justify pointless box-ticking and absurd corporate posturing.
Organizational executives must change the way they think about how to invest in and manage IT if they want to get lasting value from computer-based innovations.
This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing 'neo-Schumpeterian' research program that investigates how economic growth and its fluctuation can be understood as the outcome of a historical process of economic evolution.
'An engrossing story of audacious entrepreneurism' -- Charles Duhigg'Captures the remarkable journey of Airbnb exceedingly well' -- Reid Hoffman'fast paced, fun dive into one of the seminal firms of our time' -- Rana Foroohar In 2008, two broke art school graduates and their coder-whiz friend set up a platform that in less than a decade became one of the largest provider of accommodations in the world.
This study adopts a dynamic capabilities perspective to explore the activities and processes through which business model innovations arise in established organisations.
In this book, readers will discover how Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) unlock a company's full potential by providing a transformative framework that clarifies strategic tasks and fosters transparent communication throughout the organization.
Technology transfer-the process of sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills, scientific discoveries, production methods, and other innovations among universities, government agencies, private firms, and other institutions-is one of the major challenges of societies operating in the global economy.
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are believed to contribute towards economic development of host countries through foreign direct investment (FDI), which results in poverty alleviation and human empowerment through linkages and spillovers with local stakeholders.
In recent years, after realizing that personal beliefs and spiritual development are as important as mental strength, studies in the field of spirituality in the workplace have grown exponentially.
Re-entrepreneuring shows how organizations must re-invigorate entrepreneurial spirit at all levels to create new value and stay ahead in turbulent times.
Basierend auf einer empirischen Studie unter Projektträgern und Bundesministerien zeigt Mathias Hennemann alternative Lösungsansätze für das Management und die Steuerung von Zuwendungen für Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekte auf.
Digital technologies can have a profound impact on modern organisations, changing the way they operate, communicate, cooperate, and deliver value to stakeholders.
To ensure refinancing opportunities for SMEs, answers for bridging the information gap between investor and company are needed; in this context, capital markets are becoming increasingly important.
This book provides the knowledge necessary for succeeding in a world where companies increasingly work side-by-side with customers to create new products and services.
This book investigates and highlights the most critical challenges the pharmaceutical industry faces in an increasingly competitive environment of inflationary R&D investments and tightening cost control pressures.
Describes the world's leading approach to art and design taught at Rhode Island School of Design At Rhode Island School of Design students are immersed in a culture where making questions, ideas, and objects, using and inventing materials, and activating experience all serve to define a form of critical thinking albeit with one's hands i.
Use this comprehensive Agile product and project management guide with real-world case studies and examples for self-learning or as a student textbook.