Business and Management

The definition of a consultant is someone who facilitates organisational change and provides expertise on technical, functional and business topics during development or implementation.

This book offers the latest research on formation of modern workers in the context of digitalization: from constant improvement of new training technologies to growing requirements for employees in workplace, as well as an assessment of specialists' digital skills and dynamics of changes over the past years.

This textbook offers a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Optimization Programming Language (OPL).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the four workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2012, which took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, May 21-23, 2012.

Successful Time Management is packed with proven tips, tools and techniques to help you review and assess your time management and adopt new work practices to improve it.

This book presents the outcomes of the trans- and interdisciplinary research project NEMo (Nachhaltige Erfullung von Mobilitatsbedurfnissen im landlichen Raum - Sustainable Fulfilment of Mobility Needs in Rural Areas).

Filling a gap in the current literature, this book addresses the social approach to the design and use of innovative business models in the digital economy.

Multinational Corporations and Global Justice: Human Rights Obligations of a Quasi-Governmental Institution addresses the changing role and responsibilities of large multinational companies in the global political economy.

Political uncertainty and instability characterise many regions around the world and, increasingly, can be observed in more established democracies.

East Asian imagery resonates throughout Martin Heidegger's writings.

Professional Practice in Learning and Development guides learning and development professionals and students in designing and delivering effective people development in the modern organization.

Embedding Culture and Quality for High Performing Organizations (978-1-138-48338-5, K349105)Shelving Guide: The aim of this book is to bridge two different core disciplines: quality management and cross-cultural management, based on how multinational corporations work, and how culture determines individual practices and values.

Career Pathways: From School to Retirement brings together leading workforce researchers and practitioners to provide new perspectives on school-to-work and workplace career pathways.

​​Im Zeitalter der Globalisierung bietet die kooperative technologische Frühaufklärung für Unternehmen eine Möglichkeit, die eigene Zukunftsfähigkeit zu stärken.

Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions.

Für den Erhalt und den Ausbau von Marktanteilen können Unternehmen im Premiumsegment der Automobilwirtschaft auf verschiedene Kommunikationsinstrumente zurückgreifen, um mit potenziellen Neukunden in Kontakt zu treten und diese für die Marke und Produkte des Unternehmens zu gewinnen.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th IFIP WG 11.

Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt die wichtigsten multivariaten Analysemethoden, dies sind Regressionsanalyse, Varianzanalyse, Diskriminanzanalyse, Kreuztabellierung und Kontingenzanalyse, Faktorenanalyse, Clusteranalyse, Kausalanalyse (LISREL), multidimensionale Skalierung und Conjoint-Analyse.

Financial crime in Canada remains a mystery: omnipresent, but we know little about its operation.

Management is a constellation of concepts and ideas.

There is a lack of knowledge on how corporations in Asia develop strategies, organize their work processes and deal with competition.

This book provides a detailed look at the birth, growth and expansion of African Multinational Enterprises (AMNEs).

Public Relations: contemporary issues and techniques offers a definitive guide to public relations management.

Foreword Since the first studies by Bower and Burgelman in the early 1980's on the phenomenon of strategic initiatives, the use of strategic initiatives in the strategic management of diversified organizations now is omnipresent.

This volume of "e;Research in Competence-Based Management"e; focuses on a range of fundamental issues in developing competence-base theory and in undertaking competence-based research intended to contribute to management theory development.

Second Edition of a Shingo Prize Winner Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy and Me: Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey, now in its second edition, is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas,

The Essential Guide to Effectively Managing Developers So You Can Deliver Better Software-Now Extensively Updated "e;Lichty and Mantle have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level.

Unternehmen können schnell ins Minus rutschen.

The account handler is a key person within an advertising agency, liaising between the client on the outside and the planning, creative and media function within.

Knowledge and Practice in Business and Organisations contributes to scholarly understanding of knowledge and practice, mapping the conceptual terrain, providing a critical review of debates in the field and setting out key theoretical perspectives.

Meet the overnight tech success stories of China s globalizing business landscape In the last few years, we have seen a meteoric rise of Chinese tech companies across the world.

Entrepreneurship in the Region approaches many different aspects of entrepreneurship from a regional perspective.

The best organizations have the best talent.

***SHORTLISTED FOR FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*** FT Best books of 2020: Business 'In a world on fire, status quo is not a great option.

Organizational success crucially depends on having a superior strategy and effectively implementing it.

This book comprises the selected proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Hazards (NATHAZ'22), Angra do Heroismo, Terceira Island, Azores, 2022.

This book provides empirical evidence and statistical analyses to uncover answers to some of the most debated questions in the NBA.

This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are sustained, in part, upon sound rationale and justification and, in part, upon unfounded lore.

Reduce the time spent analyzing infrastructure modules while lowering your cost and resources in the process.

This book takes stock of the state of the question on innovation in a particular area of education and training.

Futures sind eng mit Gewinnstreben verbunden.

With economic winter facing many healthcare and health education budgets, the high costs of medical education are bringing it under close scrutiny.

Norges Bank has been an integrated part of Norwegian economic development from the complicated birth of the new nation-state after the Napoleonic wars to the present nouveau-richness of the Norwegian oil economy.

- Wie schafft man es, Veränderungen langfristig in Unternehmen zu verankern?

This book offers a pragmatic approach to the benefits of spirituality and sustainability for both individual and organizational success.