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Digitalization Cases Vol. 2
This book presents a rich compilation of real-world cases on digitalization, aiming to share first-hand insights from renowned organizations and to make digitalization tangible. With all economic and societal sectors being challenged by emerging technologies, the digital economy is highly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. It confronts established organizations with substantial challe…
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- 978-3-030-80003-1
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- xxi, 423p.:ill
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- Management for Professionals
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- 650.1 Dig
New Business Models in the Course of Global Crises in South Asia
To survive and sustain businesses during such times of crisis becomes difficult for managers and entrepreneurs. This in turn amplifies the importance of designing new flexible and adaptive business models. This book addresses different business situations that occur during national and global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, it proposes new and inspiring business models for …
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- 978-3-030-79926-7
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- xviii, 276p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 New
Designing a Bottom-up Operations Strategy
This book focuses on top-down and bottom-up antecedents for employee engagement. It combines Operations Management (OM) with elements from Human Resource Management (HRM) and Organizational Behavior (OB) to answer the overarching question: “How is operations strategy formation influenced by the individual employee?” Dedicated chapters investigate key research questions, closing the integrat…
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- 978-3-030-82771-7
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- xv, 117p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Sch d
Reputational Crises Unspun
This book reviews dominant crisis communication theories, which according to many scholars are either too narrow or broad for practical application to all types of reputational crises. Freeman, as the progenitor of modern stakeholder theory, has spent much time since the original publication trying to remove the primary focus from companies to that of achieving broader positive outcomes for org…
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- 978-981-16-5130-4
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- xix, 161p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Sch r
Corporate Digital Responsibility
This book describes in detail how corporate responsibility is changing in the age of big data and artificial intelligence and demonstrates how corporate digital responsibility can offer companies a sustainable competitive advantage. Business leaders and managers find a comprehensive guideline to professionally implement these innovative aspects in practice. It enables them to shape their busine…
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- 978-3-662-63853-8
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- xxiv, 203p.:ill
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- CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
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- 650.1 Dor c
Becoming a Leader in Product Development
It is becoming increasingly challenging for product development leaders to effectively lead as workplace demands continue to increase. The rate of change in technology, society, and business places immense pressure on leaders to ensure their groups move in the direction of their goals. What might have worked in the past no longer works. Organizational surveys show that firms struggle with le…
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- 978-1-4842-7298-5
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- xiv, 239p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Iko b
Sustainability Mindset and Transformative Leadership
This volume examines the importance of leadership in developing an effective sustainability strategy. It defines the sustainability mindset and surveys the primary motivations, conditions, or environment(s) that cause leaders to embrace sustainable practices. As described in the UN Sustainable Development Goal 8, embracing the sustainability mindset will lead to greater productivity and promote…
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- 978-3-030-76069-4
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- xxx, 270p.:ill
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- Sustainable Development Goals Series
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- 650.1 Sus
Leadership Unhinged
The recent proliferation of populist movements worldwide — along with the often dangerous, demagogic leaders that accompany them — have prompted questions about the underlying conditions that give rise to such troubling developments. Leadership Unhinged: Essays on the Ugly, the Bad and the Weird examines what is going on at a deeper level, both collectively and individually, between leaders…
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- 978-3-030-79345-6
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- xiii, 147p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Str
Strategic Management, Decision Theory, and Decision Science
This book contains international perspectives that unifies the themes of strategic management, decision theory, and data science. It contains thought-provoking presentations of case studies backed by adequate analysis adding significance to the discussions. Most of the decision-making models in use do take due advantage of collection and processing of relevant data using appropriate analytics o…
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- 978-981-16-1368-5
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- xiii, 280p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Str
Capital, Systems, and Objects
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, and it contains cases from South East Asia to elaborate this concept. Many organizations are currently addressing two important transformational issues: ecological sustainability and digiti…
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- 978-981-33-6625-1
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- xxvii, 248p.:ill
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- Management for Professionals
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- 650.1 Wat c
New Work Hacks
This book shows how joint working in companies can be fundamentally improved and modernised. After all, wherever people work together, communicate with each other and make themselves understood, there is potential for further development and joint growth. With 50 hacks - formats, methods and approaches from innovative companies and new work contexts - the authors provide a tool that can imme…
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- 978-3-658-33009-5
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- xi, 164p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Sch n
Crowd-Based Business Models
This book distinctively presents nine thematic discussions with real examples of small and large companies across the geographic destinations. Among many points of interest crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, decision-processes, technology, leadership, consumer behavior, crowd-based services designing, future perspectives in the context of crowd-based business modelling, and collective intelligence ar…
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- 978-3-030-77083-9
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- XXIX, 280p.:ill
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- 650.1 Raj c
Crowd-Based Business Models
This book distinctively presents nine thematic discussions with real examples of small and large companies across the geographic destinations. Among many points of interest crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, decision-processes, technology, leadership, consumer behavior, crowd-based services designing, future perspectives in the context of crowd-based business modelling, and collective intelligence ar…
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- 978-3-030-77083-9
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- xxix, 280p.:ill
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- 650.1 Raj c
True Profit!
Real profit after taxes is the most important management target. Profits are the cost of survival and the creators of new value. In this book, celebrated management thinker Hermann Simon brings clarity to the jungle of profit concepts and balance sheets. He sheds light on the performance of numerous companies and industries in international comparison and looks at the key profit drivers: price,…
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- 978-3-030-76702-0
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- xi, 205p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Sim t
FinTech Strategy
This book explores how new and small ventures with comparatively fewer financial resources have been able to compete with big banks and financial institutions. It discusses entry, competition, and growth strategies based on new business models enacted by current FinTech ventures. An analysis of strategies for Fintech and of cases from banked as well as non-banked and underbanked customer segmen…
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- 978-3-030-53945-0
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- XXV, 200p.:ill
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- -
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- 338.04 Rey f
Healthcare Leadership in Times of Crisis
This book addresses the challenges that healthcare organizations experience when attempting to manage the emergence of troublesome events or crises. It illustrates how experiences gained from event and crisis containment efforts can better prepare these organizations to prevent and/or manage other crises they may experience. Using a model outlining the relationship between a mismanaged event an…
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- 978-3-030-75965-0
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- xx, 182p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Taf h
Project Management in the 21st Century
This is a different kind of book on project management. Using a narrative tone, humor and personal anecdotes, the author highlights the significant gaps in current project management theory as well as disparities within project management practice. This book then provides managers with new models for project management and value creation using chaos and complexity theories, systems thinking and…
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- 978-3-030-71543-4
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- xi, 106p.:ill
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- Management for Professionals
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- 650.1 Ush p
Management Theory by Chester Barnard
This book explains Chester Barnard’s management theory clearly, faithfully, and systematically. When Barnard published The Functions of the Executive in 1938, it caused a paradigm shift in the research area of management. He aimed to clarify what executives should do, and how and why, as he argued that executive functions and processes are deeply related to specialization, incentive, authori…
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- 978-981-16-2979-2
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- xiii, 1110p.:Ill
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- SpringerBriefs in Business
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- 650.1 Iso m
Adopting Agile Across Borders
People are conditioned culturally from an early age, with each of us developing a set of values and behaviors that differ from those in other parts of the world. When adopting Agile, do cultural behaviors and values prevail, or is there a universal “Agile culture”? How have people from different cultures adopted Agile to suit them? Are some cultures naturally more suited to adopting Agile t…
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- 978-1-4842-6948-0
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- xvi, 399p.:Ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Cal a
Creativity and Strategy
This book provides an integrative analysis of creativity and strategic practices, particularly strategic problem formulation and strategic decision making. It examines the decision and not the individual as a unit of analysis, which leads to a deeper understanding of creative outcomes. It draws a correlation between strategic intent and creative outcomes, both positive and negative, and provide…
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- 978-3-030-70466-7
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- xi, 140p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Wal c
Private Banking and Wealth Management Futures 2030
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. Demonstrating this process in applied research, the bo…
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- 978-981-16-3395-9
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- xx, 53p.:ill
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- Springer Singapore
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- 650.1 Buh p
The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Management
We might think sustainable management is a new idea, created in the 1960s by enlightened modern scientists. We might think that it puts us on a new path, beyond what management was originally about. But this is not true. Sustainable management is as old as civilization and was a foundation stone of management science as it was formed in the first decade of the 20th century. Recovering this forg…
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- 978-3-030-71076-7
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- xii, 150p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Cum t
From Industry 4.0 to Business Model 4.0
In this essential you will learn how to use the changed rules of the game of Industry 4.0 and discover patterns for new business models. Reinhard Ematinger shows you how to describe your current business model in a structured way, sketch and test new business models and define the benefits for existing and new customers. Real and current examples accompany you through this book and questions s…
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- 978-3-658-32400-1
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- ix, 47p.:ill
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- ix, 47p.:ill
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- 650.1 Ema f
Digital Leadership, Agile Change and the Emotional Organization
This book shows an innovative way for managers to gain a better understanding of emotions in teams and organizational units and thus positively influence agile development in the context of digital transformation of companies. Digitalization does not just lead to technical changes. It dramatically changes the way employees work with each other as well as how executives play their roles. In a…
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- 978-3-658-33489-5
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- xvii, 174p.:ill
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- Future of Business and Finance
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- 650.1 Kup d
Leading a Board
This book represents the first cross-country study of the work of board chairs in Europe. It focuses on what board leaders actually do, rather than what they should do, and elaborates on a conceptual contingency framework for understanding chairs’ work in Europe. In this second edition, 18 experts from 14 European countries interviewed more than 300 chairs, CEOs, directors and shar…
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- 978-981-16-0727-1
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- xxvii, 460p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Lea
Hidden Champions in Dynamically Changing Societies
Hidden champions are highly successful small and medium-sized companies that are global leaders in terms of market share in their respective niches. Presenting the outcomes of an in-depth, multinational study on hidden champions in Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia and Turkey, this book provides essential insights into the critical drivers of success, market leader…
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- 978-3-030-65451-1
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- xi, 488p.ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Hid
Management Strategies to Survive in a Competitive Environment
Competition is present for almost every sector nowadays. Therefore, it is vital for companies to develop a set of strategies in order to survive in the competitive environment of a globalized world. This book discusses how and why not every strategy is appropriate for every sector. The volume offers a qualified and comprehensive analysis to determine effective competitive strategies taking into…
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- 978-3-030-72288-3
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- vii, 412p.:ill
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- Contributions to Management Science
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- 650.1 Man
Biblical Organizational Leadership
This edited work uses the life and biblical teachings of Jesus to examine modern leadership theory. With the Gospel of John as its focal point, it depicts leadership traits such as compassion, empathy, humility, and transparency as essential to the ministry of Jesus. The authors explore concepts related to communication, conflict resolution, mentorship, authentic leadership, servant leadership,…
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- 978-3-030-69929-1
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- xxi, 251p.:ill
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- Christian Faith Perspectives in Leadership and Business
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- 650.1 Bib
Mobility in Germany
Mobility in Germany is embracing market changes like never before. Megatrends, notably, digitalization, urbanization and sustainable thinking are driving Germany’s mobility transformation such that traditional players are rethinking their business models and new companies are constantly seeking market penetration. This book captures these changes in a holistic approach to depict Germany’s m…
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- 978-3-030-71849-7
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- viii, 72p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Fri m
Leading Solutions
This book on business psychology—particularly organizational leadership—crosses industries, continents, and business environments: it includes 45 précis on emerging theories of leadership; ethical and cultural considerations; group and team leadership; leadership self-development; management philosophy and practice; organizational diagnosis and cultural dynamics; personality and lifespan i…
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- 978-981-33-6485-1
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- xi, 376p.:ill
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- -
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- 650.1 Ser l
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