Business and Management

We have an entirely messed-up relationship with power.

This book provides a platform for interdisciplinary discussions on leveraging emerging technologies and analytics to empower humanity, fostering collaboration between experts in AI and analytics, sustainability, different areas of management, and IT.

This 2nd edition provides a comprehensive, updated review of current knowledge on the adaptive and maladaptive functions of humor.

From the fifth century BC to the present and dealing with the Three Teachings (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) as well as popular religion, this introduction to the eight-volume Early and Modern Chinese Religion explores key ideas and events in four periods of paradigm shift in the intertwined histories of Chinese religion, politics, and culture.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st IFIP WG 5.

Automation in industrial sectors is already a well-developed topic in management, economics, and sociology literature.

This book presents the latest behavioral research findings on workplace safety to assist practitioners and policymakers in achieving and maintaining good health for all workers.

This textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of international operations management, examining its principles, challenges, and strategies.

This book explores international experiences in the sustainable development of transport and logistics systems operating within specific regions.

This book presents selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Rehabilitation and Maintenance in Civil Engineering (6th ICRMCE) on July 4–5, 2024, at Mataram, Indonesia.

This book contains the papers of the 9th International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots (MESROB) which was held in Poitiers, France, on July 2-4, 2025.

Over the last three decades, the Romanian economy transitioned from a centralized, nonmarket economy, that outlawed private property, to a thriving, free-market economy.

Generative AI has brought artificial intelligence into the mainstream.

Disbanding the Patriarchy: Sex Policy and Power presents evidence from Australia, Europe, India, the UK, and the USA, revealing the calculated efforts to impede progress, dictated by oligarchs, the media, religious dogmas, and androcentric leaders.

First published in 1973, The Secret and Sublime is a warmly sympathetic account of Taoism, a colourful religion and way of life.

This volume features a collection of selected papers presented at the 4th Current Issues in Business and Economic Studies (CIBES) Conference, held in Frascati (Rome) from June 20-22, 2024.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st IFIP WG 5.

This volume sheds light on the valuation of assets in emerging economies.

In the age of Industry 5.

This book explores international experiences in the sustainable development of transport and logistics systems operating within specific regions.

This textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of international operations management, examining its principles, challenges, and strategies.

Over the last three decades, the Romanian economy transitioned from a centralized, nonmarket economy, that outlawed private property, to a thriving, free-market economy.

This book introduces the concept of digital twins and their purposive usage, including the technology infrastructure and the method support necessary for their construction.

This book showcases the discussion about megaprojects carried out at the MeRIT (Megaproject Research Interdisciplinary Team) workshop 2024: the crisis, discontinuity, rising prices, and supply chains disruption force radical reflection for those involved in megaprojects.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st IFIP WG 5.

This book explores the theoretical connections between time perspective (TP) and strategic and entrepreneurial cognition and entrepreneurial orientation.