Business and Management

This book engages the reader around different perspectives between forecasting and foresight in strategic design, drawing insights derived from a futures study that can be applied in form of a design-inspired foresight approach for designers and interdisciplinary innovation teams increasingly called upon to help envisage preferable futures.

This book  explains Chester Barnard's management theory clearly, faithfully, and systematically.

This book includes selected papers presented at the Indo-French Seminar on Optimization, Variational Analysis and Applications (IFSOVAA-2020), held at the Department of Mathematics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, from 2-4 February 2020.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Virtual Conference on Industry 4.

This book offers readers a simple, attractive, detailed knowledge of TRIZ and applied TRIZ, Technology for Innovation.

This volume comprises carefully selected and reviewed outcomes of the 12th International Workshop on Automated Negotiations (ACAN) held in Macao, 2019, in conjunction with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2019.

This book presents an overview of political economic change in Vietnam during a period of significant social and economic change and an era of international turbulence.

This book provides a set of integrated frameworks-capital, systems, and objects-that transcend managerial or technology hype by focusing on the long-term fundamentals that sustain organizational success.

This book helps undergraduate and graduate students understand Chester Barnard's organization theory.

This book gathers a selection of refereed papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research 2020 (KEER 2020), which was held in Tokyo, Japan, 7-9 September 2020.

This book is the tenth volume in a series titled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers from the Logistics Research Center at Nankai University.

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

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

This book discusses  utilizing Big Data and Machine Learning approaches in investigating five aspects of firm level innovation in manufacturing; (1) factors that determine the decision to innovate (2) the extent of innovation (3) characteristics of an innovating firm (4) types of innovation undertaken and (5) the factors that drive and enable different types of innovation.

This book provides a solid foundation for a comprehensive, systemic and water-centric approach to water management.

This book discusses important recent advances in automated negotiations.

This book highlights the relationship between independent and dependent ship repairing variables of various combinations under linear and nonlinear form using actual data collected from shipyards.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Serviceology for Services, held in Osaka, Japan, in March 2020.

This book discusses an emerging field of decision science that focuses on business processes and systems used to extract knowledge from large volumes of data to provide significant insights for crucial decisions in critical situations.

This book presents selected papers from the 9th International Workshop of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (IWAMA 2019), held in Plymouth, UK, on November 21-22, 2019.

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2019), held at the Universidad Abierta Interamericana, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 5th to 7th December 2019.

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

This book offers readers a simple, attractive, detailed knowledge of TRIZ and applied TRIZ, Technology for Innovation.

This book is the ninth volume in "e;Contemporary Logistics in China"e;, authored by the researchers in Logistics Research Center at Nankai University.

This book gathers essays that introduce the ideological advances in the philosophy of engineering and technology in contemporary China.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Dam Safety Management and Engineering (ICDSME 2019), organized by the Malaysian National Committee on Large Dams (MYCOLD), Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) and Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN).

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th National Conference, NASAC 2017, held in Harbin, China, in November 2017, and the 17th National Conference, NASAC 2018, held in Shenzhen, China, in November 2018.

This book provides an overview of predictive methods demonstrated by open source software modeling with Rattle (R') and WEKA.

This workbook accompanies the textbook Small Business Management: Theory and Practice.

This textbook familiarises students with the theory and practice of small business management and challenges assumptions that may be held about the way small business management can or should adopt the management practices of larger firms.

This book provides an overview of the theory, practice and context of entrepreneurship and innovation at both the industry and firm level.

This book provides an overview of the theory, practice and context of entrepreneurship and innovation at both the industry and firm level.

This book discusses an emerging area in computer science, IT and management, i.

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has recently attracted considerable attention from both research and industrial communities.

This book offers an insightful guide for academics, managers and practitioners, as well as undergraduate and graduate students of business studies.

This book is the first on the history of Chinese public relations, and has been selected as one of the "e;40 representative books for 40 years of public relations in China"e; by the Public Relations Society of China.

This book provides a step-by-step guide to implementing lean at SMEs using an approach that has been tested and fine-tuned at over a hundred organizations across India, South East Asia and the Middle East.

Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering: Proceedings of the 21st Conference on MMESE is the academic showcase of best research papers selected from more than 500 submissions each year.

This book explores the effects of soft information utilization in the decision process for lenders, especially concerning small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in regional markets.

This book provides an overview of the burgeoning next generation of industry- Industry 4.

This book provides a solution to "e;rare event"e; problems without using the classical theory of reliability and theory of probability.

This book is the ninth volume in "e;Contemporary Logistics in China"e;, authored by the researchers in Logistics Research Center at Nankai University.

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Takao Terano on the occasion of his retirement.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Workshop on Big Scientific Data Benchmarks, Architecture, and Systems, SDBA 2018, held in Beijing, China, in June 2018.

This book utilizes big data to undertake a cluster analysis of medical accidents.

This book covers all of the concepts required to tackle second-order cone programs (SOCPs), in order to provide the reader a complete picture of SOC functions and their applications.

This book considers and builds on the main propositions regarding body similarity and the principles of nature versus artifacts in science.

This book debates and discusses the present and future of Disruptive Technologies in general and military Disruptive Technologies in particular.

This book focuses on digital innovation and sustainability in the Asian region in the context of business and management.

This book serves as a great reference for engineering technicians and researchers in a wide range of fields, including emergency management, public safety science, risk management, emergency communication, and transportation optimization.