Business and Management

Managing Data in Motion describes techniques that have been developed for significantly reducing the complexity of managing system interfaces and enabling scalable architectures.

The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA).

Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small- or Medium-sized Enterprises outlines different approaches to the analysis of the organisation of small- or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The choice of financial performance measures is one of the most critical challenges facing organizations.

Recent cases of corporate failures, including the fixing of LIBOR rates and money laundering issues in the banking industry, highlight how behavioural issues on the part of company directors are significant contributory factors in corporate governance and the success or failure of companies.

This book discusses initiatives intended to promote strategic flexibility, resilience, sustainability, and information system flexibility and analytics, through AI, HR analytics, employee attrition using perspectives from machine learning, agile competencies, agile organization, digital recruitment, e-governance, cyber security controls, and cyber security risk management.

In vielen Märkten drängt sich die Konkurrenz dicht an dicht.

The new eighth edition of the pioneering guide to generating attention for your idea or business, jam-packed with new and updated techniques As the ways we communicate continue to evolve, keeping pace with the latest trends in social media, including social audio like Clubhouse, the newest online video tools such as TikTok, and all the other high-tech influences, can seem an almost impossible task.

A riveting look at the real reasons Americans feel inadequate in the face of their dreams, and a call to celebrate how we support one another in the service of family and work in our daily life.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations (KMO) held in Santiago, Chile, during September 2014.

Building on his decades of experience as a consultant and project manager in the automotive industry, the author develops comprehensive and pragmatic recommendations for action regarding the digital transformation of the automotive and supplier industries.

Dieses Buch zeigt, was unter Auto­matisierung und Personalisierung von Dienstleistungen zu verstehen ist und welche Fra­gestellungen und Konzepte zukünftig von Bedeutung sein werden.

The Multinational Corporation in China: Controlling Interests addresses the question of how multinational corporations control and coordinate their worldwide affiliates, with a fascinating inside story on contemporary China.

This volume presents extensive research devoted to a broad spectrum of mathematics with emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects of Optimization and Probability.

Offering real-world insight and explanations, this book provides a roadmap for organizations looking to develop a profitable big data strategy and reveals why it's not something they can leave to the I.

This book analyzes the dramatic social impacts of global economic restructuring in the US textile industry and the consequences for Southern textile mill communities.

La gestión de activos constituye hoy en día una respuesta a las necesidades de adaptación de los sistemas productivos, y a las demandas y exigencias tanto de los mercados como de los diferentes grupos de interés.

Get your mind unstuck.

Tackle racial bias and discrimination at your company and create a representative and diverse leadership team In Inclusion Revolution: The Essential Guide to Dismantling Racial Inequity in the Workplace, workplace strategist and C-suite executive Daisy Auger-Dom nguez delivers a timely, inspirational, and practical exploration of why mainstream efforts at diversity improvement tend to fail and what you can do today to successfully create a diverse and representative leadership team at your company.

Never before has there been so extensive a collection of what has been thought, said, and written about the sociology of the military.

Sales isn't about pushing products or being efficient; it's about building the right systems to manage and empower your salespeople.

Agile Development and Business Goals: The Six-Week Solution is a guide for the software development process, which can be challenging, difficult, and time-consuming.

'Absorbing' - The Guardian'Are You Listening?

Vorwort Vorgesetze, Kollegen, Mitarbeiter – Menschen im Arbeitsleben sind essenziell für uns: Wir orientieren uns an ihnen, sie geben uns Sicherheit, gemeinsam schaffen wir herausragende Leistungen.

Exploring the concept of win-win agreements, this book analyses how they pose an important challenge for entrepreneurs, managers and advisors involved in complex negotiations among firms.

Build reporting applications and dashboards using the different MicroStrategy objectsKey FeaturesLearn the fundamentals of MicroStrategyUse MicroStrategy to get actionable insights from your business dataCreate visualizations and build intuitive dashboards and reportsBook DescriptionMicroStrategy is an enterprise business intelligence application.

The development of the Agile Movement, whatever the area of application or discipline, comes from the famous faster, cheaper, better"e; maxim.

Pay what your really owe--and not a penny more!

This title was first published in 2002: The interrelationship between international trade and the environment has become the subject of much heated debate.

What would you get if you combined an entrepreneur, a technologist, a financier, and a strategist/ecologist with an international chef, corporate lawyer, architect, and more?

`By assembling an international cast of contributors from all walks of research life, Professors Prasad, Pringle and Konrad successfully broaden the scope of scholarly discourse on workplace diversity.

One current challenge of conducting research from the leadership-as-practice perspective is a practical one: how to capture and analyse the elusive practice of leadership within the web of mundane organising processes.

This volume of Advances in Strategic Management explores emerging trends and contemporary research in the field of organization design.

Transforming data into revenue generating strategies and actions Organizations are swamped with data collected from web traffic, point of sale systems, enterprise resource planning systems, and more, but what to do with it?

This book reflects one mathematician's view of certain areas of economics and finance.

Digital Governance provides managers with a simple and jargon-free introduction to the impact that digital technology can have on the governance of their organisations.

This book responds to the increasing speed with which the domain of electronic procurement has been evolving, as well to the significant advances predicted to take place in the near future.

By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth.

Kein Bereich ist derzeit so großen Herausforderungen unterworfen wie die Führung.

What if you discovered a blueprint that could grow your brand's reputation and loyalty, dramatically reduce customer service issues, produce content and technology, and cement a powerful, lasting relationship between you and your customers?

This book is based on a number of systems concepts, of which the following are emphasized here: oThe interacting systems of society and the environment are dynamic and evolution- ary oEvolution of these systems carries them through stages of differential stability and instability, continuity and discontinuity oAssociated with evolution and instability is structural change that is essentially irre- versible oThe present is a stage of world transformation that may not have been equaled for decades or even centuries oPolicies and decisions must match the times, in the present case the stage of world transformation The time 11:59:59 PM, approximately, on December 31, 2000 has an impor- tant symbolic meaning.