Business strategy

This proceedings volume highlights the latest research presented at the 9th International Conference on Research on National Brand & Private Label Marketing (NB&PL2022).

This book argues that ethical leadership without a theological foundation is lacking a firm foundation.

From recurring episodes of great depression, oil crises, political crises, wars, debt crises, to the ongoing climate change, there is a constant pressure on businesses to cope with critical events.

This book covers cross-border strategies to understand and profit from intellectual property.

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

This book examines the concept of leadership from within the Islamic worldview, exploring its meaning and various manifestations through textual evidence from the two primary sources of Islam, The Qur'an and hadith.

A new wave of digital technologies has impacted the business world like a tsunami.

In this book, experts discuss whether volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) represent a challenge or a business opportunity.

This book addresses business process prioritisation - a problem in Business Process Management research that is often ill-structured and complex.

This book challenges the roots and elements of the existing dominant paradigm of management, which can legitimize artless practices and result in dysfunction, and proposes an alternative based on a different understanding of human nature and social and economic life.

Highlighting the motivations of B Corp entrepreneurs in Chile, this book explores the phenomenon behind for-profit organisations that are committed to social and ecological sustainability as well as human welfare.

Innovating in an uncertain and unpredictable environment is becoming the norm for most companies.

This book draws attention to the classic, seminal articles in entrepreneurship that have made profound contributions to the field's emergence, development, and maturity.

This edited collection explores the variations of mentoring in India in comparison to western models, providing rich contextual interpretation and paving the way for a greater understanding of mentoring as a phenomenon.

Examining perceptions of leaders which are dependent on social and cultural contexts, this edited collection argues that in order to thrive and to understand the future business landscape, leaders must be inclusive and create followership.

This book provides a rich overview and takes a closer look at the current state of theory and practice in the field of sustainable business models.

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

Compiling the best practices of business excellence frameworks around the world, this new book addresses the need for innovative research on sustainable business performance.

This book highlights the most critical aspects of diversity and their implications for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), examining them in a collection of conceptual and practical contributions from researchers and practitioners alike.

This book connects entrepreneurship and psychology research by focusing on the personality dimensions of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial cognition, entrepreneurial leadership, and gender behavior.

Exploring the competitiveness and profitability of the agricultural sector in Central Europe, this book argues that the successful management of agricultural enterprises is inconceivable without the knowledge and application of modern forms of management and technology.

This book focuses on topics such as the cultural specificity of Arab family businesses with regard to shaping their governance and management; the influence that specific values in the Arab world could exert on the management of family businesses; how spiritual and religious values influence business in Arab family firms; and the role of emotions in the management of family firms in the Arab World.

This book provides well-founded insights and guidance to (self-)manage work in a globalized and digitalized knowledge economy with a perspective of the year 2030.

This book provides intriguing insights into the development of highly qualified women leaders in diverse Indian contexts and their role at national and organizational levels.

This book provides stimulating insights into the ways in which the adoption of experience logic can revitalize marketing perspectives and stimulate novel approaches to the creation and delivery of value.

Questioning why research centers so often fail to commercialize discoveries, this book explores the concept of linked innovation, which promises to drive economic sustainability while preserving academic quality at research centers.

This book presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted view of the state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) development in organizations in different industries around the world.

While many texts on entrepreneurship and biographies of great entrepreneurs and leaders talk about vision and its importance, few delve into what vision is, how it comes to be, and, how it can be more successfully developed.

This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of frequent flyer programs.

Knowledge management (KM) is about managing the lifecycle of knowledge consisting of creating, storing, sharing and applying knowledge.

Based on research findings and detailed, original cases, this book charts the new innovation imperative, where organizations must deliver on dual goals: an efficient return on current operations, and a burgeoning pipeline of new products.

This book introduces students to major research processes and methods used in business research.

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 illustrates innovative support-decision models, methods, and advanced automation and robotic technologies aimed at enhancing the overall performance of Warehousing and Material Handling (WMH) in terms of time and space efficiency, service levels, labor safety, and ergonomics.

This book is the second edition of Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work that shows how to improve well-being in organizations.

This book shares the learnings and perspectives of two pioneer women who waded the many challenges posed by multiculturalism and gender in one of the corporate environments more rigid and traditional in the business world: the energy sector in the Middle East.

This book is the seventh volume in a series covering best practices in community quality of life indicators.

Is unabated inflation the new normal?

This book provides a consistent model to understand leadership as a dynamic combination of vision, action, mobilization, and change.

This book presents and analyses exemplary cases of progressive business, understood as ecologically sustainable, future-respecting and pro-social enterprise.

Reflecting the challenges and opportunities of achieving improvement in healthcare systems, the contributions of this innovative new text lend depth and nuance to an increasing area of academic debate.

This book explores human decision-making heuristics and studies how nudging and winking can help citizens to make rational choices.

This book contributes to the discussions on the role of spirituality in organizing and leading, taking a philosophically and theologically rigorous perspective.

This book introduces readers to state-of-the-art cases and tools for managing innovation in today's rapidly changing business environment.

This book highlights the key contemporary issues and challenges relating to workplace religious diversity and inclusion.

This edited work uses the life and biblical teachings of Jesus to examine modern leadership theory.

This book presents an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the field of Workplace Spirituality.

This book assembles many of the great leaders of the senior living and care industry to discuss their paths to and views on leadership.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a very strong reminder that the future economic development of any country is more than ever influenced by its ability to ramp-up digital competitiveness.

The economic, health, and political crises, as well as the rise of the digital age, have changed and complicated the way in which people, companies, and regions function.