Business strategy

Investigating how international market actors create market morality on a global level, this book reflects on the unresolved questions and debates regarding the relationship between business and society.

This book reports on practical approaches for facilitating the process of achieving excellence in the management and leadership of organizational resources.

This book provides an evidence-based approach to understanding declining levels of employee engagement, offering a set of practices that individuals and organizations can adopt in order to improve productivity and organizational performance.

This book bridges two essential aspects of assessing and achieving business excellence in 21st-century organizations.

This book demonstrates, in detail, why annual performance appraisals might still work in hierarchical environments, but largely fail in agile ones.

Innovations and developments in technology have laid the foundations for an economy based on digital goods and services-the digital economy.

This book highlights the key issues, opportunities and challenges facing African firms, industries, cities and nations in their quest to compete successfully in the global economy.

This book communicates the latest developments and thinking on the coaching subject worldwide.

This edited collection examines the mind of leaders throughout the Bible to understand how thoughts and behaviors can support or sabotage leadership efforts.

This book deals with leadership trends in the next decade and beyond.

This book proposes that the key ingredient to effective leadership is trust and that leaders must earn the trust of their colleagues to be successful.

This book reviews latest research on the effectiveness of the chief information officer (CIO) in organizations and its impact on IT success.

This edited collection explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition to a low carbon economy, and outlines the different approaches taken to ensure the sustainability of such a transition.

This textbook provides a clear understanding of leadership needs in today's business world, explained within the scope of hard and soft leadership skills.

This book examines key aspects of the increasingly important phenomenon of reshoring - the decision of companies to reverse offshoring by bringing manufacturing back from overseas.

How to develop best-practice strategy in a business or a multinational organization?

This upper-level textbook provides a practical guide to the field of organization design, grounded in academic literature.

This book discusses the opportunities and conditions that digital technology provides to extend, innovate and differentiate the services offered by consulting companies.

Presenting a scientific exploration of personal branding and digital communication, this ground-breaking book aims to fill a gap between theory and practice.

This book analyzes the emerging concepts and theories of inclusiveness in business by explaining corporate social responsibility, social learning, and value co-creation, as critical elements to the success of firms.

This third volume provides an executive overview of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and details the roles that executives play in PLM initiatives.

This book describes the neurology of a business as a new dimension of organization and as a basis for success in a complex world.

The market is like the sea: it gives, and it takes away.

Providing a critical insight into the growth of the secondhand luxury and vintage fashion industry, this book offers a compendium of business developments from across the globe, including examples from Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

This comprehensive book responds to the growing demand to study entrepreneurship as a key driver of innovation and competitive advantage.

In contemporary times, most organizational functions (such as finance, marketing, and supply chains) have assessed their impact on the environment.

Coming more than 25 years after the last edition, this edition of the groundbreaking Ansoff work on the concepts and practical implementation of strategic management provides up-to-date case studies and simplified figures and offers a comprehensive approach to guiding firms through turbulent environments.

Business model innovations are conceived and implemented by a special type of entrepreneur: business model pioneers.

In this book, the authors investigate the rise in outward direct investment (ODI) from four emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC).

Through a global series of case studies, this pioneering book delves into refugee entrepreneurship - a major economic, political and social issue emerging as a top priority.

This book highlights the multi-faceted nature of corporate social responsibility and the need for greater engagement across academia to help develop the mechanisms needed to encourage socially responsible approaches across the board.

In view of the rising importance and prevalence of network-based collaboration, this book aims to meet the need for more theory in this area.

This book analyses mergers and acquisitions within the broader framework of strategic decisions.

This book gives a comprehensive overview on Software Product Management (SPM) for beginners as well as best practices, methodology and in-depth discussions for experienced product managers.

Dieses Praxishandbuch ist ein Nachschlagewerk zum Thema Mitarbeiterführung und richtet sich an alle, die sich für die konkrete Umsetzung von Führungswissen in der Praxis interessieren.

This practice- and research-based book caters to the needs of executive managers who see customer satisfaction as their primary goal.

Restrukturierungen, Neuübernahmen, Zusammenlegung von Abteilungen, Führungswechsel, Einführung neuer Regeln (Compliance).

Encompassing interviews with managing directors and CEOs, this book explores the role of business outsiders as leaders.

Real profit after taxes is the most important management target.

This book examines management and management-related activities as a feature of everyday life.

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the ISO 26000 standard for social responsibility (SR) in businesses and corporations.

This book examines the trajectory of management studies in South Africa during the apartheid and post-apartheid periods.

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

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

This unique book helps business executives to improve their company's business performance by showing how to build an effective and future-proof distribution channel, and adopt effective commercial policies and value-based pricing strategies.

Investigating the issue of employee representation in multinational companies (MNCs), this book sets out to systematically conceptualise the modes of articulation between different action fields.

This book provides a unique account of how perceived justice is influenced by various aspects of an organizational merger and investigates the impact on behavior for those involved in the process.

Exploring the three levels of project management, this edited collection analyses the practice of problem structuring approaches (PSAs) with an aim to improve organisational adaptability and value creation.

This volume critically analyzes the convergence of technology, business practices, public policies, political ideologies, and societal values for improving business performance at the global-local paradigm.