Business strategy

Douglas Long is the author of Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control which focused on the new understanding of what influences individuals' values, world views and the behaviours needed to facilitate leadership fit for the future.

By analysing the rationales for sustainability strategies, this book addresses a timely question for managers, academics and MBAs: 'when does it pay to be green?

In recent years, luxury brands have deviated from the principles of craftsmanship, rarity, uniqueness and heritage.

Women's Leadership challenges traditional concepts of leadership that draw on the male experience and offers an alternative construction that emerges from the female experience.

Following the success of the second (1995) edition, this report takes a fresh perspective on the industry, reviewing changes and developments in industry structure, corporate strategies, market condition, technology and application trends.

This book discusses a range of topics that are essential to understanding cyber security, including legal implications and technical aspects, cyber detection, and minimising the threats so that governments and organisations can function without noticeable degradation of service.

Wie Organisationen sich an neuen Werten ausrichtenWas wäre, wenn die Existenzberechtigung von Organisationen mit ihrem gesellschaftlichen Mehrwert verbunden wäre?

Learn about alternative ways of managing the change experience to make it doable, energising and transformative.

This book elaborates the fundamental principles and practices of Islamic leadership and management by highlighting its underlying philosophies, key concepts, and sources.

A proven system for rallying all of an organizations' employees around a new vision and ideas for making the vision stick When something at work isn't going smoothly, managers struggle with what part of the problem to tackle first.

Know how your company can accelerate growth by not only tapping into new growth vectors, but also by adapting its organization, culture, and processes.

In an era that has brought new and unexpected challenges for virtually every company, one would be hard-pressed to find any responsible manager who is not thinking about what the future will bring.

Effective risk management - the identification, assessment and prioritization of risks - is a vital consideration when looking to safeguard your company's commercial future and deal with the latest regulatory requirements.

Five years' worth of management wisdom, all in one place.

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 business professionals with the clearest, easiest roadmap to achieving highly effective departments and organizations.

The definitive guide to the international fluid sealing industry to help you make the right business decisions.

​Dem globalen Wettbewerb ausgesetzt, fühlen sich viele Manager in der Klemme: Zwang zur Expansion bei steigendem Kostendruck, Notwendigkeit zur Personalentwicklung bei gleichzeitigem Zwang zur Rationalisierung, Ausbau des operativen Geschäftes bei gleichzeitiger Forderung nach Wertsteigerung und hoher Kapitalrendite.

This book sheds light on the intricate relationship between geopolitics and business and the essential interdependence between corporations and geopolitics.

This book provides a framework for understanding micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) as important contributors to economic growth.

The best of Clayton Christensen's seminal work on disruptive innovation, all in one place.

The dramatic recent advances and emergent trends in technologies have brought to the fore many vital and challenging questions and dilemmas for leaders and organizations.

Enterprise Agility in Healthcare explains why agility is vital to organizational survival.

In this compelling look at charismatic leaders and their leadership styles, Abraham Zaleznik asserts that leaders are either 'hedgehogs,' who view leadership as a single-minded track driven by unwavering rules, or 'foxes,' who assess and re-evaluate their goals and strategies based on ever-changing factors in business, politics, and culture.

Do Less Better teaches leaders how to recognize the complexity and inefficiencies within their businesses and reveals how they can simplify and streamline through specialization and sacrifice.

In a noisy, fast-paced marketing world, customer insight holds the key to creating memorable, purpose-driven marketing.

Many strategic change efforts fail.

Leveraged Innovation reveals that a dramatically different approach to the supplier-client relationship is being developed by leading companies around the world.

Digital Marketing Fundamentals is the first fully-fledged textbook on digital marketing that covers the entire marketing process.

This title was first published in 2000: The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty years.

In his trusted book for small businesses, John Jantsch challenges you to craft a marketing strategy that is as reliable as the go-to household item we all know, love, and turn to in a pinch: duct tape.

As a pioneer in the sustainable business movement, Smith & Hawken co-founder Dave Smith is on a mission to inspire people everywhere to reconcile compassionate values with capitalism.

Given the emergence of sustainability as the defining issue of our time, it is essential for university graduates, and especially business and economics students, to have a fundamental grasp of the key issues in this emerging multidisciplinary field of study.

The internationalization of the human society and mainly of the economy will continue.

We hear a lot about the necessity of meeting needs of changing markets by developing people, but we hear less about ways implement change.

The American economy is profoundly dependent on the success of its retailers and the strength of its consumer spending.

Positioning is hot.

How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them?

This critical and informed protest against the absurdity and dishonesty of neoclassical economic theory as it has progressed through the 20th century down to the present, sheds new light on the predicament faced in 2012.

Baffled by repeated mistakes in your department?

We live in the age of big companies where rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few.

Owning a property is a dream for many people, and borrowing from banks is often essential to achieve this.