Business and Management

Provides a clear, useful framework and methods for R&D, including robust technology development, product planning, and product design and development management Quality Strategy for Research and Development integrates the Japanese and Western perspectives on Quality Function Deployment (QFD), updates the strategy of Robust Engineering (RE), and relates their unique frameworks to current, widely adopted philosophies of quality assurance.

The Dark Side of Emotional Labour explores the work that the rest of society would rather not think about, the often unseen work that is emotionally disturbing, exhausting, upsetting, and stigmatising.

The papers presented in this volume address diverse challenges in energy systems, ranging from operational to investment planning problems, from market economics to technical and environmental considerations, from distribution grids to transmission grids and from theoretical considerations to data provision concerns and applied case studies.

The rise of suicide and burnout among physicians has brought a new disease to the healthcare provider, which we previously thought only affected the soldier: moral distress syndrome, second only to moral injury.

"e;Mesmerizing & fascinating.

The area of networked learning (learning in which information and communications technology (ICT) is used to promote connections between people and resources) is wide and growing in importance, especially in further and higher education.

This book examines the impact of downsizing on employee morale and productivity.

Das Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über das Informationsmanagement.

This book identifies and discusses the main challenges facing digital business innovation and the emerging trends and practices that will define its future.

Today, with a kaleidoscope of disruptive forces affecting business transactions, the speed of commerce, and the ferocious level of competition for consumer loyalty and business survival-the cost of an enterprise's faulty communication can literally make or break a product.

Sie sind im Vertrieb tätig und haben den Wunsch sich weiterzuentwickeln?

Winner of the Shingo Prize for Research and Professional Publication, 2009The international bestseller The Toyota Way explained the company's success by introducing a revolutionary 4P model for organizational excellence-Philosophy, People, Process, and Problem Solving.

Health systems worldwide are grappling with the challenge of coordinating difference in an increasingly complex care environment.

Einleitung Achim Walter und Michael Auer Unternehmerische Chancen jenseits der Trends erkennen und nutzen Notwendigkeit des Unternehmertums in der Forschung Allgemein werden in der Literatur unter dem Thema "Academic Entrepreneurship" Aktivitäten, Personen, Programme und Organisationen betrachtet, die der wirtscha- lichen Verwertung von wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen dienen.

This companion takes the student through the different approaches to working with cases in the classroom, virtually and for research purposes.

With more than two million students in higher education in Germany, the economics of higher education are an important, yet only partially covered field of research.

It is all too easy to discuss organizational change in abstraction, particularly when you are dealing with large corporations with wide product ranges across global markets.

Tax-exempt law explained, for lawyers and nonlawyers alike The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations has, for decades, been the definitive single-volume source of legal information for nonprofit lawyers and managers alike.

An inspiring, practical and progress-oriented blueprint for energetic achievement.

What got us here will not get us there.

This monograph presents a systematic top-down approach to distributed control synthesis of discrete-event systems (DES).

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2011, held in Mykonos, Greece, in September 2011.

Give your business a successful credit and collections plan with this easy and clear guide Over 100,000 businesses have slow or non-paying customers.

Find the right innovation modelInnovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea, many companies miss the markplans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 8.

Die Entwicklung, Produktion und Vermarktung von Gütern und Diensten bildet den Kern des unternehmerischen Tuns.

With the recent development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), businesses are urged to consider innovation while applying digital transformation.

"e;Dental Practice Health Check"e; helps dental practice owners improve their business.

This volume highlights recent applications of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) models in the field of finance.

First published in 1998.

Around the world every year very many students have to complete dissertations or theses as part of their undergraduate or masters studies in tourism and related subjects.

Führe dein Unternehmen zu seinem verdienten Erfolg – dank der Erfolgsformel!

This is the go-to reference to learn about new developments in the field of intercultural training and cultural traditions.

Providing new knowledge on risk analysis and simulation for megaprojects, this book is essential reading for both academics and practitioners.

A top-level security guru for both eBay and PayPal and a best-selling information systems security author show how to design and develop secure Web commerce systems.

This textbook explores ethical issues for not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations, providing discussion-oriented cases for NFP and NGP practitioners.

This volume brings together noteworthy articles in accounting.

A comprehensive introduction to social network analysis that hones in on basic centrality measures, social links, subgroup analysis, data sources, and more Written by military, industry, and business professionals, this book introduces readers to social network analysis, the new and emerging topic that has recently become of significant use for industry, management, law enforcement, and military practitioners for identifying both vulnerabilities and opportunities in collaborative networked organizations.

This book draws on the author's professional experience and published works in the areas of leadership, philosophy, psychology and management (amongst others) to discuss the 'softer' qualities of being a good lawyer - qualities which are not taught or widely documented, such as humility, confidence, personal relationships and our dreams and vision.

In today's networked economy, each organization is more and more shaped by the system of its long-term business interactions.