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SMASH
Using Market Shaping to Design New Strategies for Innovation, Value Creation, and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Stunningly, strategy has never adequately defined one of its central institutions, the market. Old playbooks got away with a hodgepodge of assertions, assumptions and approximations.
But the undeniable complexity of modern markets confronts us with the truth. Markets are elaborate, evolving...
Green Economy in the Western Balkans
Towards a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This multidisciplinary approach to the Western Balkans addresses topics from responsible business and ethics, innovation, corporate social responsibility, and new technology to human resources management. It is a theoretical and practical guide towards a sustainable future for the Western Balkans,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Economic institutions are undergoing radical transformations, and with these has come a reconfiguration of labor market institutions, managerial conceptions of work, and the nature of authority and control over employees as well. Yet many of these changes remain poorly understood. This volume provides...
by Dennis Jancsary, Thibault Daudigeos, Markus A. Höllerer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The insight that institutions, and the communicative practices that create, sustain, and challenge them, are multimodal accomplishments has garnered increasing attention from scholars in organization and management research over the last decade. Traditional understanding of social knowledge and meaning...
Change Management for Organizations
Lessons from Political Upheaval in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Change management is a better or smarter approach to initiate a change via behavioral aspects. As it is the power to innovate which is a unique strength for companies, the need for strategies to tackle change management within the firm is evident. This work demonstrates how a firm can learn change...
Becoming Digital
Toward a Post-Internet Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Becoming Digital examines the transition from the online world we have known to the Next Internet, which is emerging from the convergence of Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, and the Internet of Things. The Cloud stores and processes information in data centers; Big Data Analytics provide the tools...
by Yujie Chen, Zhifei Mao, Jack Linchuan Qiu
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
App designers dream of creating a platform that users never want to leave, that keeps them glued forever - a platform that is "sticky".
Over 846 million WeChat users leave text and voice messages, share life moments, play games, use stickers, purchase rail and flight tickets, shop...
Demystifying China’s Mega Trends
The Driving Forces That Will Shake Up China and the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The biggest causes of dissatisfaction in the current analysis of China’s mega trends is the lack of serious economic research effort. This has resulted in confusion and misunderstanding about the development and direction of mega trends and blind acceptance of these trends. This all leads to potentially...
Research on Economic Inequality
Poverty, Inequality and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This volume contains research on how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how we use such measurements to devise policies to deliver social mobility. It contains ten papers, some of which were presented at the third meeting of The Theory and Empirics of Poverty, Inequality and Mobility at...
by Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The 2008 global financial and economic crisis led to a significant increase in unemployment rates in most developed economies, yet despite the rising supply of labor, a high share of employers claim that they cannot find the right talent and skills. Concerns that economic restructuring and changing...
Broken Pie Chart
5 Ways to Build Your Investment Portfolio to Withstand and Prosper in Risky Markets
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Investment outcomes and strategies have changed considerably since 2008. Broken Pie Chart demonstrates the failures of classical diversification and asset allocation, pointing out that the backward-looking methods used by traditional financial professionals will not work moving forward.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are believed to contribute towards economic development of host countries through foreign direct investment (FDI), which results in poverty alleviation and human empowerment through linkages and spillovers with local stakeholders. However, earlier research demonstrates...
by Samantha Schmehl Hines
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Emotions are prevalent in the library workplace leading to many questions and areas of analysis worth exploring. For example, what tools for developing emotional intelligence are used effectively in library workplaces? How can emotional labor be managed to minimize the negative effects of emotion...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
European approaches to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are supposed to be largely different from those in other continents like America, Asia, and Africa. Yet, European approaches to CSR are not a single and static one, but vary across and within national states and shift over time. This edited...