Business innovation

A much-needed addition to literature, this timely edited collection aims to provide clarity and understanding on how modern organizations work.

This book introduces readers to the core principles and methodologies of product development, and highlights the interactions between engineering design and industrial design.

This book presents a rich compilation of real-world cases on digitalization, the goal being to share first-hand insights from respected organizations and to make digitalization more tangible.

This edited collection presents state-of-the-art reviews of the latest developments in multisensory packaging design.

This book proposes that organizational policies are what ensure the institutionalization and sustainability of futures thinking in organizations.

This is the fifth volume of a sub series on Road Vehicle Automation published within the Lecture Notes in Mobility.

Ideas are ubiquitous.

Many people dream of starting their own business one day, but are not sure how to make it a reality, or whether they will succeed.

This book examines how digital technologies enable collaboration as a way for individuals, teams and businesses to connect, create value, and harness new opportunities.

This book explores the concept of reverse entrepreneurship, providing real-life examples of innovative start-ups and ventures hoping to internationalize.

This book provides essential insights into how to rapidly and safely develop new sustainable products, no matter whether it is in the private sector, the public sector or the non-profit sector, and regardless of the specific national or business culture.

This book explores-at the macro, meso and micro levels and in terms of qualitative as well as quantitative studies-the current and future role of museums for art and society.

This edited monograph presents a selection of research contributions on eco-factories of the future.

This book presents the integration of new tools, the modification of existing tools, and the combination of different tools and approaches to create new technical resources for assisting the innovation process.

This book provides readers with in-depth insights into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability strategies, as well as their impacts on product and process innovation, business models and social innovation around the globe.

This book is an essential guide or foundational toolkit for anyone who is involved in the process of developing, offering or selling any type of product or service.

This edited book presents cutting edge international research in operations management sustainability and topical research themes.

Eco-innovations are crucial for reducing the environmental damages arising from economic activities, and are one of the main drivers of a successful transition towards sustainable development and remedying essential climate change problems.

This book offers comprehensive examination of research on the relevance of individual behavior and technology to financial innovations.

This book provides rare insights into the difficult and complex dialogues between stakeholders within and outside the music industries in a time of transition.

This is the second volume on adsorption using green adsorbents and is written by international contributors who are the leading experts in the adsorption field.

Departing from the traditional approach of surveying current and future trends and developments, this unique Handbook brings phenomena, theories, and concepts from multiple disciplines together to advance entrepreneurship.

This book analyses various models of value creation in projects and businesses by applying different forms of Artificial Intelligence in their products and services.

This monograph provides a new perspective on business modeling in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

This volume analyzes real in-flight communications to explain the dynamics of knowledge construction.

This book explores how contemporary organisations are abandoning conventional tactics in order to survive and grow in an incessantly shifting business landscape, analysing fundamental aspects of management, marketing and strategy from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book focuses on the specific traits and nature of entrepreneurial human capital and the extent to which it can be stimulated by entrepreneurship education - especially when these activities combine collaborative practices and innovation.

This book argues that "e;organizing"e; is a broader term than managing, as it entails understanding how people and machines interact with each other; how resources, data, goods are exchanged in complex and intertwined value chains; and how lines of action and activities can be articulated using flexible protocols and often ad-hoc processes in situated practices of use and production.

This contributed volume explores and reveals the new developments, dynamics and recommendations for entrepreneurship education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This book examines how the emergence of new media brings brought challenges to the North American sport industry, discussing challenges in terms of a shift from an information economy to an attention economy perspective.

This book describes practical ways to understand energy and water use in organizations and then manage or control that use, thereby reducing risk and cost.

This book examines the different ways companies can develop and design social innovation.

This book provides an interdisciplinary account of how technological advances - mainly in the domains of energy and transportation - contribute to the transformation towards a more sustainable economic system.

The objective of this book is to explore the relationship between intellectual capital management and the sustainable development of organizations and society.

One of the first of its kind, this book examines the digitalization of Chinese businesses both theoretically and practically.

Analysing the trends that are emerging in sport enterprises such as advancements in technology and social media, the authors of this illuminating book tackle the issue of how to create new opportunities in such a changing industry.

This book examines how to optimize design management processes in order to produce innovation within organizations.

This book discusses a six-step transformation cycle in which the tasks of innovation management - ranked according to their relevance for companies - are placed in a systematic order.

This edited collection is a uniquely positioned contribution of interrelated research papers about global business value transformations in both offline and online (digital) worlds.

This book challenges the widely-held belief that popular narratives about business are invariably critical.

This book examines the extensive changes in markets, technologies and value chains that telecommunication companies are currently confronted with.

Recently, rapid technological advances have been influencing the global business operations strategies at companies of all sizes like never before.

This proceedings volume presents the latest research from the worldwide mass customization & personalization (MCP) community bringing together new thoughts and results from various disciplines within the field.

This Handbook provides authoritative up-to-date scholarship and debate concerning creativity at work, and offers a timely opportunity to re-evaluate our understanding of creativity, work, and the pivotal relationship between them.

  Contributing to recent debate on the emergence of digital and agile work, this book explores the implications for labour and employment relations within and beyond organizational boundaries.

Exploring the theoretical concept of collaborative dynamic capabilities, this book illustrates how service innovation can be achieved in an era of technological convergence.

Every firm must maintain an entrepreneurial ecosystem and a coherent innovation strategy in order to stay ahead of the competition.

In a world of rapid and unpredictable change, the problem with strategic planning is that if you follow your plan through to the end, you will get exactly what you used to want.

Globalization has been a key force in the development of business in recent decades.

This book is a practical guide to the evolving landscape of finance, highlighting how it's changing our relationship with money and how financial technology, together with macroeconomic and societal change, is rewriting the story of how business is done in developing economies.