Business strategy

Why do policies and strategies often fail, and what can be done about it?

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

This book presents selected theoretical and empirical papers from the 23rd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Madrid, Spain.

This edited volume provides managers, as well as students, with the best practices in effectively leading the 21st century workforce and managing change.

This book provides deep insights into intercultural collaboration among business partners, employees, managers, and entrepreneurs in Chinese-African professional interactions.

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In today's ever-changing global world, there is a permanent need for anticipating new and evolving customer needs, resource supply constraints, and dynamically changing employee expectations.

The broad foundation of this book is laid on the conceptual discussions on consumer theories and applied arguments on shifts in consumer behavior.

Deeply rooted in Chinese culture, the concept of guanxi has been widely researched from historical, cultural and political perspectives.

Providing evidence of the role of human capital on innovation in the Middle East, this edited collection closely examines the unique nature of the workforce in this region.

The digital transformation is impacting various aspects of how we live and work.

Since the introduction of the One Belt, One Road initiative (OBOR), first proposed in late 2013, international scholars have begun to study this new policy and its implications in the global age.

This book focuses on top-down and bottom-up antecedents for employee engagement.

This book analyzes the effects of the latest technological advances in blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) on business operations and strategies.

Reflecting increasing investment in entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this new book offers extensive coverage of the factors that enable Emiratis to start and grow a business.

This book brings together a variety of international, cross-cultural case studies of management education programmes and discusses the results in light of the present higher social expectations on managerial behaviour.

This book explains the requirements of ISO 9001 for establishing quality management system (QMS) for an organization.

This book addresses the challenges that healthcare organizations experience when attempting to manage the emergence of troublesome events or crises.

This book demonstrates how leaders can use research from positive psychology to increase work engagement and wellbeing, improve relationships, and increase performance and productivity in the workplace.

Addressing the urgency of radical decarbonization as a mitigative response to climate risk, this book explores how business can respond to the challenges of climate risk, through various transformational processes.

The price of virtually any product or service can reveal intriguing stories.

This book presents conscious business as a constantly expanding and powerful approach to reinvent and shape organizations in a human and beneficial manner.

This book highlights the latest research on sub-supplier management while also discussing its current state and related managerial challenges.

This book presents a new governance framework for socially oriented business management.

This second edition demonstrates that there are more conditions and actors prevalent in the economy than are considered today, and builds a balanced view of responsibility that would not be shunned by corporate executives.

Whether you are a business leader, internal business partner or external consultant, there are six key strategy missions that you will need to undertake as you deal with the re-positioning and growth issues that all businesses face at one stage or another during their life-cycle:assessing the environmentdefining a strategic positioningchoosing a growth strategyexpanding internationallycombining strategy, andinnovation or (re)designing the business model Meschi and Chereau bridge the gaps between academic theory and real world practice, between strategic analysis and strategic management, and between planning and doing, by providing you with six essential mission briefings to help you deliver the best possible outcome.

Focusing on Lagos Business School (LBS) in Nigeria, this book explores the impact of strong alumni leadership on university excellence in Africa.

This book examines the essence of leadership, its characteristics and its ways in Asia through a cultural and philosophical lens.

This two volume work examines the role of spiritual and religious traditions as a balancing force during times of crisis in organizational settings.

Adverse environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions and chemical spills have put the topic of green business firmly on the sustainability agenda.

Why when companies come crashing down, do we hear of boards who have failed in their fiduciary duties?

Leadership used to be about telling people to go where you sent them- now it's about persuading them to come with you.

Hidden champions are highly successful small and medium-sized companies that are global leaders in terms of market share in their respective niches.

This book explores how academic leaders throughout higher education experience and practice care and the ethics of care.

This book focuses on the emergence of new frames of political engagement underpinned by concepts in marketing, management, and organisation.

This book develops a unified framework to explain the phenomena of competitive advantage and firm value creation in dynamic environments.

John Maurice Clark's article "e;The Changing Basis of Economic Responsibility,"e; published in the Journal of Political Economy, is the topical starting point for all scholars interested in economic responsibility and responsible economic action.

This book analyses the careers, governance and management practices of some of the institutional sports leaders who have had the greatest impact on global sport in the 120 years since Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympic Games.

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

This book explores the workplace experiences, opportunities, and challenges that emerge from the nuances of diversity and inclusion dynamics in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

This book compels the legal profession to question its current identity and to aspire to become a strategic partner for corporate executives, clients and stakeholders, transforming legal into a function that creates incremental value.

This book brings home the message that meticulous integration management is the key to success in M&A transactions.

This book examines businesses under crisis conditions through a composition of contextual accounts.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of failure in business, management and consulting.

This book explores the factors that contribute to high corporate growth, presenting a new conceptual model for research into this phenomenon.

This book demonstrates how hospitals can be transformed into dynamic, patient-centered, and cost-effective organizations.

Innovation is one of the avenues in which companies can move up the value chain, and has become a popular demand from stock markets and governments.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another.

This book explores technological innovation in family firms, seeking to reconstruct the links between the heterogeneous dimensions of family businesses and their innovative behaviour.