This sixteenth volume in the PIBR series, International Business in Times of Crisis, is dedicated to Professor Geoffrey Jones from the Harvard Business School, and to the importance of historical scholarship in International Business (IB) studies.
What people get out of social media-and how businesses can get more out of itAlmost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have more than 1 billion users and account for almost 25 percent of Internet use.
Emerging technologies are having a profound impact upon business as individuals and organisations increasingly embrace the benefits of the 'always on' attitude that digital technologies produce.
Volume 27 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains five peer-reviewed papers highlighting key aspects of employment relations across a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
This collection explores Kuhn's 1970 perception of a scientific revolution in the form of a cyclical sequence of anomaly recognition; insecurity, alternative ideas, schools of thought and dominating practices.
In an attempt to achieve high levels of growth, profit, and competitive advantage, American businesses have been implementing a variety of management initiatives, such as TQM, reengineering, service management, self-directed work teams, and empowerment.
WINNER: CILIP's Knowledge and Information Management Award 2019 - Information Resources Print CategoryThe way an organization manages and disseminates its knowledge is key to informed business decision-making, effectiveness and competitive edge.
This book outlines the unique challenges and opportunities of doing business in Africa, analysing how varying degrees of development across its countries affects entrepreneurship.
Effective evaluation and measurement of learning and development initiatives is critical to maximise the impact of training, identify gaps for improvement and ensure that efforts are aligned to the business' needs.
Die Narrative Organisationsentwicklung ist ein relativ neues Paradigma, das jedoch zunehmend Eingang in Change-, Strategie-, Kommunikations-, Wissensmanagement- und Entwicklungsprozesse in Unternehmen findet.
The general perception amongst most project and risk managers that we can somehow control the future is, says David Hancock, one of the most ill-conceived in risk management.
This book integrates elements from agency theory and signalling theory and draws upon recent changes in the Australian payout policy and incentives pay for risk-averse employees to provide theoretical and empirical analyses that explain the paradox of the popularity of on-market stock buyback activities in a market environment characterised by reasonably high share prices.
Through an engaging and humorous narrative, Peter Coughter presents the tools he designed to help advertising and marketing professionals develop persuasive presentations that deliver business.
Das Werk veranschaulicht, wann eine Verantwortlichkeit und damit Haftung für das Verhalten von Geschäftspartnern droht, die Korruptionsverstöße anstelle eines Unternehmens begehen.
A concise and pithy reference guide that gives busy decision makers everything they need to know about management communications to get the right results for their business This book provides you with all the powerful, practical and accessible guidance you need to transform the effectiveness of communication within your business.
Building on the concrete advice and practical, powerful strategies revealed in its predecessor, More ProActive Sales Management provides harried sales managers with a proven method for managing the sales process and their people.
Stellenbeschreibungen sollen die Führungskräfte beim Mitarbeitereinsatz, bei der Personalentwicklung und auch bei der Gestaltung und Optimierung der Organisation unterstützen.
This book aims to develop four key challenges that remain unresolved in the boundary-spanning literature, which span from the conceptual, to the practice, to the translational.
Das Buch zeigt, wie APIs (Application Programming Interface) dazu beitragen, die digitale Transformation von Unternehmen zu ermöglichen und bestehende Geschäftsmodelle zu verbessern bzw.
Three unassailable facts will strike you as soon as you start to read The Future of Innovation: One: innovation is the new mantra; whether you're involved in teaching art and design, new product development for a blue chip consumer brand or responsible for providing public services to citizens; Two: understanding innovation requires multiple perspectives; from culture and mindset, social and commercial context, new ways of working as much as new products or services; Three: innovation is a journey; drawing on insights from around the globe is essential to accelerate our progress.
Develop long-term relationships, deliver market-beating growth, and create sustainable value with this pragmatic guide to aligning marketing, sales, customer success and your executives around your most important customers.
Candid conversations with top leaders around the world on how they approached pitvotal moments in their careers No Fear of Failure offers insightful, candid conversations with some of the world's top leaders in business, politics, education, and philanthropy each giving a first-person account of how they approached crucial, career defining moments.
