Business and Management

This book presents the state of the art on cultural heritage and tourism globally.

Location-based Services (LBSs) are mobile services for providing information that has been created, compiled, selected or filtered under consideration of the users current locations or those of other persons or mobile devices.

The remarkable success of Japanese industry has frequently been attributed to the inter-corporate alliances and networks that exist in the Japanese economic system.

This book highlights cutting-edge ecodesign research, covering product and service design, smart manufacturing, and social perspectives in ecodesign.

This book describes the current innovative tendencies characteristic of multifaceted scientific research and practical developments in the field of international business development and sustainable management.

This book presents the results of the project on Young Adults with Low Levels of Education, conducted jointly by the OECD and the Canadian Policy Research Networks.

Doug Hall shares data-proven methods that can make sales, marketing, and business development measurably more effective.

For anyone whose best-laid plans have been foiled by faulty thinking, Blunder reveals how understanding seven simple traps-Exposure Anxiety, Causefusion, Flat View, Cure-Allism, Infomania, Mirror Imaging, Static Cling-can make us all less apt to err in our daily lives.

Construction Cost Estimating equips a new generation of students and early-career professionals with the skills they need to bid successfully on projects.

Within one generation, software has become one of the principal sources of wealth in the world.

The cybersecurity of connected medical devices is one of the biggest challenges facing healthcare today.

In order to ensure environmentally responsible production and disposal of products, local governments are imposing stricter environmental regulations, some of which even require manufacturers to take back their products at the end of the product's useful life.

The purpose of this book is to clarify the mission and history of Kobe University Business School (KUBS), not only for the development of management education but also for the familiarization of industry in Japan with the ideas of modern management.

4 EASY STEPS TO DRIVING EXEMPLARY COLLABORATION AND POSITIVE BUSINESS RESULTSPeople don't always communicate well.

This book, by two editors of Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning, attempts to bring about a fundamental shift in how educators think about the meetings we attend.

How can I influence the business and drive meaningful change as an HR professional?

The letters collected here comprise an important chapter in the life of Walter Pater's literary career.

This book is an insightful introduction to the pressing issues surrounding the climate emergency.

A few rare companies have discovered the secret to sustained high growth: momentum.

Project Management:Planning and Scheduling Techniques is a highly readable guide to the essentials of project planning, scheduling, and control aimed at readers looking for an introduction to the core concepts of planning and scheduling, including the 'Critical Path Method', but also the 'Precedence Diagramming Method', the 'Line of Balance' technique, and the 'Programme Evaluation and Review Technique'.

Volume 40 of Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management offers several original scholarly contributions written by thought leaders in the field of human resources management.

The book treats the C -hydrocarbons and their secondary products as a contribution 4 to chemical engineering economics, applying this field of teaching and research to the technical processes for making and processing this group of products, so important to the chemical industry.

This book focuses on developing a holistic sustainability assessment model for built environment that can help in identifying sustainability issues and parameters for the built environment.

Public Consultation and Community Involvement in Planning is the definitive introduction to public consultation for developers, students and planners.

This book constitutes selected papers from the 20th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2023, which was held in Dubai, UAE, during December 11-12, 2023.

Taking the fear out of writing your business project, this book helps you understand and carry out each step of the research process.

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of all phases of a hackathon and thus helps to reduce complexity, to use opportunities, to avert pitfalls and to avoid problems.

Ramona Wolfgang untersucht die aktuelle Situation sowie anwendbare Methoden für nachhaltiges Projektmanagement in Unternehmen.

In diesem Band werden neue praxiserprobte Konzepte der Führung und Aufsicht und des Managements von Not-for-Profit-Organisationen vorgestellt.

Learn how to use stories throughout the agile software development lifecycle.

This book presents tools, techniques, and best practices to develop public-sector leadership.

"e;Beautiful Chaos is an extraordinary journey of Carey Perloff and her theatre, ACT.

Written for all job hunters new entrants, mid-level people, very experienced individuals, and technical and non-technical job seekers Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies is packed with the building blocks for show-stopping interviews.

Porchlight Business Book Award nominee, Leadership & Strategy A captivating tale about what it takes as a small business owner to build a meaningful company from the ground up, falling in love with your work along the way In The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: Building a Better Business by Thinking Outside the Box, best-selling author, entrepreneur, and culinary innovator Erin Wade shares her inspiring and often hilarious journey of leaving her corporate lawyer job to open a hit mac and cheese restaurant, taking you through the challenges and victories that paved her path to success.

Industrial Action (1976), written by an experienced active trade unionist, brings valuable real-world examples to an examination of the many facets of trade union organising.

In an economy where companies must globalize or perish, only a few have successfully taken their business to the world level.

This edited volume is an introduction to diverse methods and applications in operations research focused on local populations and community-based organizations that have the potential to improve the lives of individuals and communities in tangible ways.

International Industrial Networks and Industrial Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe analyses the role of international industrial networks in industrial restructuring and corporate growth in central Europe, Russia and Ukraine.

This book explores how a long-term innovation can take place based on historical analyses of the development of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane from the early 1950s to the mid-2010s.

The concept of environmental, social and governance (ESG) is rapidly emerging as the new global industry standard and an important benchmarking tool for socially responsible investments.