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Book SynopsisThe end of the post-war economic boom was marked by the recognition of the environmental problem with the oil crises of the 1970s and, in 1972, the first major UN conference devoted to the human environment. Successive international meetings have resulted in a context where technical change, innovation and industry have assumed a central place in the creation of a new model of society. Against this consensus, the author demonstrates from economic analysis and wide-ranging examples that the environmental innovation doctrine and ecodesign methods remain fragile and can lead to paradoxical results.Table of ContentsForeword ix Introduction xiii Chapter 1. Environmental Innovation: A Controversial Doctrine 1 1.1. Progressive conceptualization of “environmental innovation”: a journey back through 40 years of controversies 3 1.1.1. Environmental concerns and innovations: the first proposals of economic theory during the 1970s 4 1.1.2. Involvement in environmental technologies and green growth in the 1980s 13 1.1.3. Diverse theoretical appropriations of the concept by economic sciences from the 1990s onwards 18 1.1.4. Conceptual beginnings and an existential crisis in environmental innovations during the 2000s 24 1.2. Critical analysis of the typology of environmental innovations 33 1.2.1. Degrees of change of environmental innovation 34 1.2.2. “End-of-pipe” technologies: a limited palliative approach to conservation of the environment? 36 1.2.3. Clean technologies, a preventive, radical and modular approach 39 1.2.4. The circular economy: Another form of systemic environmental innovation 42 1.2.5. The quest for eco-efficiency, an objective based on a productivist approach 50 1.3. Drivers of environmental innovation in the face of institutional tensions 55 1.3.1. Modifying the dominant design, thanks to transition management theory 56 1.3.2. Moving towards a specificity of technological trajectories of environmental innovations? 59 1.3.3. Creation of technical conventions promoting conservation of the environment 64 1.3.4. The rebound effect, the forgotten impacts and macrosystemic crises 70 1.4. Conclusion 76 Chapter 2. Ecodesign and Technological Change: A Missed Opportunity? 79 2.1. Ecodesign and the dispute over methods 80 2.1.1. Ecodesign during the 1970s, the metronome of a new mode of development 81 2.1.2. First theorization and confrontation with reality during the course of the 1980s 85 2.1.3. Birth of sustainable development and a rocky start for industrialists 86 2.1.4. The limited effects of an “open” ecodesign philosophy 88 2.2. The main determining factors of ecodesign 96 2.2.1. Integration of the environment: the end result of total quality management 96 2.2.2. Towards environmental declarations about products 104 2.2.3. A multitude of tools to encourage ecodesign 106 2.3. Product life cycle analysis: a limited tool for decision-making in the face of complexity 107 2.3.1. Towards supremacy of the life cycle analysis 108 2.3.2. Product life cycle analysis: a tool weakened by complexity 113 2.4. Ecodesign confronted with environmental and economic problems 116 2.4.1. The different concepts of the environment, a multi-dimensional and complex notion 117 2.4.2. The environment from the perspective of Boltanski and Thévenot’s “worlds” 118 2.4.3. Towards a “tragedy of change”? 121 2.5. Conclusion 126 Conclusion 129 Appendix 133 Bibliography 143 Index 165

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Book SynopsisWe are facing unprecedented challenges today. For many of us, innovation would be our last hope. But how can it be done? Is it enough to bet on the scientific culture? How can technical culture contribute to innovation? How is technical culture situated with regards to what we name collectively the culture of innovation? It is these questions that this book intends to address.Table of ContentsIntroduction ix Marianne CHOUTEAU, Joëlle FOREST and Céline NGUYEN Chapter 1. A Brief History of European Technical Culture and Its Relationship with Innovation 1Anne-Françoise GARÇON 1.1. Introduction 1 1.2. Technological development practices in the 16th Century 2 1.3. A new system of technology, but no innovation culture 3 1.4. But how did entrepreneurs achieve success before Schumpeter? 5 1.5. A “dashboard knowledge” culture to complement the operating cultures 7 1.6. When the “dashboard knowledge” culture becomes an innovation culture 10 1.7. Conclusion: what does the objectification of an innovation culture at the turn of the 19th–20th Century mean? 13 1.8. References 17 Chapter 2. When Innovation Culture Hides Technical Culture 21Marianne CHOUTEAU, Joëlle FOREST and Céline NGUYEN 2.1. Introduction 21 2.2. Culture and technical culture 23 2.2.1. Culture or cultures? 23 2.2.2. Approaches to technical culture 25 2.3. Technical culture as we understand it 27 2.4. Why is technical culture still struggling to develop? 30 2.5. An innovation culture that acts as a barrier 32 2.6. Conclusion 36 2.7. References 37 Chapter 3. Technical Culture and the Contemporary World 41Bruno JACOMY 3.1. Introduction 41 3.2. Technology and innovation in the digital age 42 3.2.1. Innovation and control over the future 43 3.2.2. Technology, innovation and culture 44 3.3. An approach to innovation in progress 45 3.3.1. A variable focal analysis 45 3.3.2. Objects in their surroundings 48 3.4. Innovation and evolution of technical objects 50 3.4.1. An innovative approach, with small steps and big jumps 51 3.4.2. Families of objects to understand evolution 52 3.4.3. The laws of evolution 54 3.4.4. Innovation in human history 55 3.5. Conclusion 56 3.6. References 57 Chapter 4. Industrialist and Inventor: Alfred Nobel’s Dynamite Invention 61Sophie BOUTILLIER 4.1. Introduction 61 4.2. Alfred Nobel: the chaotic journey of an obstinate entrepreneur, somewhere between chance and necessity? 63 4.2.1. The invention of dynamite by Nobel or the archetype of serendipity? 63 4.2.2. Alfred Nobel between the company and the laboratory 65 4.3. The invention of dynamite: a well-anticipated chance 70 4.3.1. A favorable economic and institutional context 70 4.3.2. The invention of dynamite: chance and necessity 73 4.4. Conclusion 76 4.5. References 77 Chapter 5. Thinking Creatively to Innovate: A Study of the Genesis of a Mathematical Breakthrough by Cédric Villani 81Joëlle FOREST, Marie-Line GARDES and Danièle VIAL 5.1. Introduction 81 5.2. Emergence of innovations according to Cédric Villani 84 5.2.1. A conception of innovation, inherited from the conception of Henri Poincaré’s mathematical invention 84 5.2.2. The seven ingredients of “innovation ideas” according to Cédric Villani 87 5.3. The strength of networks 91 5.3.1. A network of actors with varied knowledge 91 5.3.2. Contribution of the network of actors to the genesis of the theorem 93 5.4. Creative rationality: the forgotten ingredient 95 5.4.1. Creative rationality: what are we talking about? 95 5.4.2. Cédric Villani and creative rationality 96 5.5. Conclusion 97 5.6. References 98 Chapter 6. Innovation Culture in Organizations 101Muriel DAVIES and Stéphanie BUISINE 6.1. Introduction: recent developments in the concept of innovation 101 6.2. Innovation culture in organizations 103 6.2.1. Innovative leaders and managers 103 6.2.2. Presence of innovative teams 104 6.2.3. Presence of innovative individuals 105 6.2.4. Organizational context 105 6.2.5. Links to the environment outside the organization 108 6.2.6. The ETOILe model of innovation culture 109 6.3. Discussion 110 6.4. References 112 Chapter 7. Technical Culture and Innovation Culture: Reconciling through Design 117John DIDIER 7.1. Introduction 117 7.2. Technical culture 118 7.3. The culture contained in the technical object 119 7.4. Innovation culture 120 7.4.1. Training designers to generate technical and social innovation 123 7.4.2. Innovation in technical education 125 7.5. The training and transmission of a technical culture 126 7.5.1. Innovation in the learner’s role 127 7.5.2. From the technical object to the pedagogy of the project 128 7.5.3. The individual creator and designer of their project 129 7.6. Technical culture and knowledge creation 130 7.7. Conclusion 135 7.8. References 135 Chapter 8. Cultural Anthropology, Animism, and Industrial Innovation Processes: The Case of the “Animal Language” Myth 139Fanny PARISE 8.1. Introduction 139 8.2. A collective unconscious faced with a diversity of material objects and cultures 140 8.3. An immersive approach, a vehicle for decentering 142 8.4. The experience of the cabinet of curiosities where the experience of writing is renewed 144 8.4.1. The technology behind a new form of animism 144 8.4.2. From a “show company” to the staging of innovation 145 8.4.3. Orality and writing as creative drivers 146 8.5. Mini-mythologies of modernity that fit into current societal issues 148 8.6. When technique meets mythology towards a first approach of materialization of modernity stories 151 8.7. From an anthropological perspective to a corporate innovation culture 153 8.8. References 154 Conclusion 161Marianne CHOUTEAU, Joëlle FOREST and Céline NGUYEN List of Authors 165 Index 167

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Book SynopsisTalent is not a matter of status, nor a sub-component of personality, nor a commodity that can be quantified or measured. This book consists of two parts. The first offers a fertile resource (epistemological and theoretical) to consider the notion of talent, as well as notions of potential, intelligence and business skills. The second part, in turn, investigates ten major families of talents (or “Natural Operating Modes”). From Marie Curie to Walt Disney, Hans Zimmer, Gabrielle Chanel and Claude Lévi-Strauss, the illustrations and examples are intended to be precise and demonstrative. Skills relating to observation, evaluation and elucidation are developed in detail and complemented with concrete examples. Both managers and employees can use this book to acquire the solid bases required to potentiate and develop their talents within their respective company and beyond. Table of ContentsPart 1. Theory, Principles and Methods 1. Rethinking the Issue of “Talent Development”. 2. Methodology and Working Principles. 3. Operating Principles Related to the Issue of “Talent”. 4. Potential-Situation: Potential as an Exteriority to the “Self”. Part 2. Principles and Operational Uses of MO.O.N.s 5. Natural Operating Modes (MO.O.N.s): a Sum of Skills-Abilities. 6. Interpersonal MO.O.N.: Empathic-interactive. 7. Kinesthetic MO.O.N.: Gestural-material. 8. Spatial MO.O.N.: Emulative-inferring. 9. Musical MO.O.N.: Tonal-rhythmic. 10. Linguistic MO.O.N.: Phonetic-figurative. 11. Mathematical MO.O.N.: Abstract-general. 12. Scientific MO.O.N.: Correlative-pragmatic. 13. Naturalistic MO.O.N.: Classify-appreciate. 14. Extra-personal MO.O.N.: Multiple-tenticular. 15. Intrapersonal MO.O.N.: Autonomous-assertive. 16. Summary of the Ten MO.O.N.s. 17. Applications and Principles for Companies.

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Book SynopsisIn macro-, meso- and micro-economic systems, the concept of innovation involves a variety of resources and functions. It includes all formal and informal institutions, networks and actors that influence innovation and act as innovation boosters within companies, at the territorial level, at the level of innovation networks or in national economies. This book deals with innovation in a globalized context in terms of the entrepreneur, enterprise, territorial and sectoral systems and national systems of innovation in which collective innovation processes are formed.Table of ContentsIntroduction ixDimitri UZUNIDIS Chapter 1. Enterprise Knowledge Capital and Innovation: Definition, Roles and Challenges 1Blandine LAPERCHE 1.1. Knowledge capital: definition and roles 3 1.1.1. Information and knowledge 3 1.1.2. Definition of knowledge capital 6 1.1.3. Knowledge capital and managing knowledge 8 1.2. Productive use of knowledge capital 11 1.2.1. Knowledge capital and the production of new goods and services 12 1.2.2. Knowledge capital and the cohesiveness of work collectives 16 1.2.3. The use of knowledge capital in the digital era: reduction of the production process completion time 17 1.3. Conclusion 21 1.4. Bibliography 22 Chapter 2. The Non-economic Values of Innovation 27Edouard LE MARÉCHAL 2.1. Introduction 27 2.2. The development of business models caused by digitization 29 2.3. Extending the notion of value generation to include non-economic values 32 2.4. Putting forward a value system to be considered when creating innovation business models 35 2.5. How values can be used in a systemic representation of innovation39 2.6. Conclusion 41 2.7. Bibliography 43 Chapter 3. Long-term Survival of Innovative Organizations 47Sophie MIGNON 3.1. Long-term survival: finding a balance between change and continuity 48 3.2. Multiple possibilities between change and continuity 50 3.2.1. A balance resulting from a structural, spatial and architectural separation of opposite forces: the theory of structural ambidexterity 50 3.2.2. Reaching an equilibrium by temporally alternating between the two dynamics: punctuated equilibrium theory 51 3.2.3. Finding a balance through ambidexterity in individuals and more generally in the organizational context: the contextual ambidexterity approach . 52 3.3. Which innovation strategy should companies aiming for long-term survival adopt? The concept of prudent innovation 54 3.4. Conclusion 58 3.5. Bibliography 59 Chapter 4. The Resources Potential of the Innovative Entrepreneur . 63Sophie BOUTILLIER 4.1. The resources potential of innovative entrepreneurs 64 4.1.1. Defining innovative entrepreneurs 64 4.1.2. The resources potential of innovative entrepreneurs 69 4.2. The innovative entrepreneur’s resources: knowledge, finance and social Networks 72 4.2.1. Knowledge and financial means, the indispensable resources for innovative entrepreneurs 72 4.2.2. Mobility thanks to the networks of social relationships 76 4.3. Conclusion 81 4.4. Bibliography82 Chapter 5. Innovation Spaces: New Places for Collective Intelligence? 87Laure MOREL, Laurent DUPONT and Marie-Reine BOUDAREL 5.1. Introduction 87 5.2. Innovation spaces: the spaces where all the new innovation trends coexist 89 5.3. Which types of spaces, to what innovating or innovative ends? 91 5.4. The innovation space: a design issue approached in the wrong way 94 5.5. Places in the service of collective intelligence? 97 5.6. Conclusion 102 5.7. Bibliography 103 Chapter 6. The Innovative Territory 109Corinne TANGUY 6.1. Territory and innovation: a collective process of co-construction 110 6.2. Territorial proximities and cooperation networks 114 6.2.1. Challenging the predominant role of geographic proximity 114 6.2.2. Different forms of proximity 115 6.3. The complementary nature of local and distant collaborations 118 6.4. Conclusion: project territories and new governance systems 120 6.5. Bibliography 122 Chapter 7. The “Eco-innovative” Milieu: Industrial Ecology and Diversification of Territorial Economy.131Fedoua KASMI 7.1. Industrial ecology and the “eco-innovative” milieu 132 7.1.1. Industrial ecology and industrial regions 132 7.1.2. Industrial ecology as an “eco-innovative” milieu 134 7.2. From specialization to “smart” diversification: altering the economic trajectory of a region 138 7.2.1. Specialization versus diversification 138 7.2.2. “Smart” diversification and a new territorial path 143 7.3. Conclusion 150 7.4. Bibliography 150 Chapter 8. Responsible Innovation 159Leïla TEMRI 8.1. Foundations 160 8.1.1. Responsibility in science and technology . 160 8.1.2. Technology assessment 161 8.2. Responsible research and innovation in European policies 163 8.3. Responsible innovation and companies 166 8.4. Conclusion 173 8.5. Bibliography 174 Chapter 9. Innovation Capacities as a Prerequisite for Forming a National Innovation System 177Vanessa CASADELLA and Dimitri UZUNIDIS 9.1. Institutions and innovation capacities 179 9.1.1. Taking institutions into consideration in economic theory 179 9.1.2. Institutions and innovation capacities 182 9.2. Innovation capacities and national innovation systems 185 9.2.1. National innovation systems and their heterogeneity 186 9.2.2. Innovation capacities, the inseparable pillars of NIS 191 9.3. Conclusion 194 9.4. Bibliography 195 List of Authors 201 Index 203

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Book SynopsisTechnological change is exciting as much as it is daunting. The arrival of new digital tools affects consumption patterns, types of employment and working conditions, and can pose challenges to organizations and individuals alike. Indeed, although technological change is a factor for economic growth, it can also be an amplifier, or even a catalyst, of inequality. It is also a social change and interacts in complex ways: technology is both the source and the consequence of social transformation. To understand technological change and to harness its effects, this book studies transformations at different levels (societal, organizational and individual). In its analysis of the subject, it also draws on a number of disciplines of the human and social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology and psychology.Table of Contents1. From the Statisticalization of Labor to Human Resources Algorithms: The Different Uses of Quantification. 2. Quantification and Decision-making. 3. How are Quantified HR Management Tools Appropriated by Different Agents? 4. What Effects are the Effects of Quantification on the Human Resources Function? 5. The Ethical Issues of Quantification.

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Book SynopsisSince the late 20th Century, Human Resources (HR) has had a legal obligation to produce reports for management in most firms. However, these have long been considered restrictive and are seldom used to improve decision-making. More recently, the emergence of analytics, Big Data and algorithms has enabled a reconfiguration of the uses of quantification in HR. Accompanied by empirical examples, this book presents and defines the different tools and uses of quantification in HR. It studies the effect of these tools on decision-making and ? without subscribing to the myth of objective and rational quantification ? presents the contributions and limits of the use of data in HR, and analyzes the potential risks of excessive quantification. It also discusses the appropriation of these tools by the various players in a company and examines their effects on the position of HR.Table of Contents1. The Human and Social Sciences in the Face of Technological Change. 2. Technological Change and Society. 3. Technological Change and Organization. 4. Technological Change and the Individual. 5. Experiencing Technological Change.

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Book SynopsisThe status of knowledge management (KM) as a mature science has long been recognized in the academic world. However, in the economic arena, its connection with companies and organizations has been more gradual. Jean-Louis Ermine established a theoretical and practical framework for KM in Knowledge Management: The Creative Loop, which was also published by Wiley. In this second volume, practical examples are illustrated with real case studies. Modeled on the four-step operational approach inspired by �the creative loop�, this book includes four sets of real case studies – each one following the basic presentation of the fundamental material. Knowledge Management in Innovative Companies 2 is especially useful for practitioners, as there are numerous illustrations based on best practices for each specific KM step and for global project implementation. Indeed, the last chapter is dedicated to the implementation of a global KM corporate project.Table of Contents1. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Sharing. 2. Innovation from the Knowledge Base. 3. Case Study of a Global KM Project.

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Book SynopsisData analysis as an area of importance has grown exponentially, especially during the past couple of decades. This can be attributed to a rapidly growing computer industry and the wide applicability of computational techniques, in conjunction with new advances of analytic tools. This being the case, the need for literature that addresses this is self-evident. New publications are appearing, covering the need for information from all fields of science and engineering, thanks to the universal relevance of data analysis and statistics packages. This book is a collective work by a number of leading scientists, analysts, engineers, mathematicians and statisticians who have been working at the forefront of data analysis. The chapters included in this volume represent a cross-section of current concerns and research interests in these scientific areas. The material is divided into two parts: Computational Data Analysis, and Classification Data Analysis, with methods for both - providing the reader with both theoretical and applied information on data analysis methods, models and techniques and appropriate applications.Table of ContentsPart 1. Computational Data Analysis and Methods 1. Semi-supervised Learning Based on Distributionally Robust Optimization, Jose Blanchet and Yang Kang. 2. Updating of PageRank in Evolving Treegraphs, Benard Abola, Pitos Seleka Biganda, Christopher Engstörm, John Magero Mango, Godwin Kakuba and Sergei Silvestrov. 3. Exploring The Relationship Between Ordinary PageRank, Lazy PageRank and Random Walk with Backstep PageRank for Different Graph Structures, Pitos Seleka Biganda, Benard Abola, Christopher Engstörm, John Magero Mango, Godwin Kakuba and Sergei Silvestrov. 4. On the Behavior of Alternative Splitting Criteria for CUB Model-based Trees, Carmela Cappelli, Rosaria Simone and Francesca Di Iorio. 5. Investigation on Life Satisfaction Through (Stratified) Chain Regression Graph Models, Federica Nicolussi and Manuela Cazzaro. Part 2. Classification Data Analysis and Methods 6. Selection of Proximity Measures for a Topological Correspondence Analysis, Rafik Abdelssam. 7. Support Vector Machines: A Review and Applications in Statistical Process Monitoring, Anastasios Apsemidis and Stelios Psarakis. 8. Binary Classification Techniques: An Application on Simulated and Real Bio-medical Data, Fragkiskos G. Bersimis, Iraklis Varlamis, Malvina Vamvakari and Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos. 9. Some Properties of the Multivariate Generalized Hyperbolic Models, Stergios B. Fotopoulos, Venkata K. Jandhyala and Alex Paparas. 10. On Determining the Value of Online Customer Satisfaction Ratings – A Case-based Appraisal, Jim Freeman. 11. Projection Clustering Unfolding: A New Algorithm for Clustering Individuals or Items in a Preference Matrix, Mariangela Sciandra, Antonio D�Ambrosio and Antonella Plaia.

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Book SynopsisThis new edited volume consists of a collection of original articles written by leading financial economists and industry experts in the area of machine learning for asset management. The chapters introduce the reader to some of the latest research developments in the area of equity, multi-asset and factor investing. Each chapter deals with new methods for return and risk forecasting, stock selection, portfolio construction, performance attribution and transaction costs modeling. This volume will be of great help to portfolio managers, asset owners and consultants, as well as academics and students who want to improve their knowledge of machine learning in asset management.Table of ContentsForeword xiii Acknowledgments xv Chapter 1. Time-series and Cross-sectional Stock Return Forecasting: New Machine Learning Methods 1David E. RAPACH and Guofu ZHOU 1.1. Introduction 1 1.2. Time-series return forecasts 3 1.2.1. Predictive regression 3 1.2.2. Forecast combination 5 1.2.3. Elastic net 6 1.2.4. Combination elastic net 8 1.3. Empirical application 10 1.3.1. Data 10 1.3.2. Forecasts 12 1.3.3. Statistical gains 17 1.3.4. Economic gains 23 1.4. Cross-sectional return forecasts 26 1.5. Conclusion 29 1.6. Acknowledgements 30 1.7. References 30 Chapter 2. In Search of Return Predictability: Application of Machine Learning Algorithms in Tactical Allocation 35Kris BOUDT, Muzafer CELA and Majeed SIMAAN 2.1. Introduction 35 2.2. Empirical investigation 38 2.2.1. The data 38 2.2.2. Tactical asset allocation strategy 40 2.2.3. Implementation 41 2.2.4. Benchmarks 42 2.3. A review of machine learning algorithms for prediction of market direction 42 2.3.1. K-nearest neighbors 43 2.3.2. Generalized linear model 44 2.3.3. Elastic net regression 44 2.3.4. Linear discriminant analysis 45 2.3.5. Support vector machines with radial kernel 45 2.3.6. C5.0 47 2.3.7. Random forests 48 2.3.8. Multilayer perceptron 48 2.3.9. Model averaging 49 2.3.10. Repeated k-fold cross validation 50 2.4. Evaluation criteria 51 2.4.1. Statistical performance 51 2.4.2. Financial performance 53 2.4.3. Significant features 54 2.5. Results and findings 54 2.5.1. Descriptive statistics of the data 55 2.5.2. Statistical performance 56 2.5.3. Financial performance 58 2.5.4. The best performer, benchmark and model average 67 2.5.5. LIME 68 2.6. Conclusion 70 2.7. Acknowledgments 70 2.8. References 70 Chapter 3. Sparse Predictive Regressions: Statistical Performance and Economic Significance 75Daniele BIANCHI and Andrea TAMONI 3.1. Introduction 75 3.2. Related literature 78 3.3. Data: portfolios and predictors 80 3.4. Econometric framework 84 3.4.1. Shrinkage priors 86 3.4.2. Forecast evaluations 92 3.5. Predicting asset returns: empirical results 93 3.5.1. Statistical performance 93 3.5.2. Economic significance 96 3.6. Discussion on the dynamics of sparsity 100 3.7. Conclusion 102 3.8. Appendix 103 3.9. Posterior simulation 103 3.9.1. Ridge regression 103 3.9.2. Lasso and group-lasso 103 3.9.3. Elastic net 105 3.9.4. Horseshoe and the group horseshoe 105 3.10. References 106 Chapter 4. The Artificial Intelligence Approach to Picking Stocks 115Riccardo BORGHI and Giuliano DE ROSSI 4.1. Introduction 115 4.2. Literature review 120 4.3. Data 123 4.3.1. Equity factors 123 4.3.2. Data cleaning 125 4.3.3. Features used for training and prediction 125 4.4. Model specification and calibration 126 4.4.1. Models 126 4.4.2. Model calibration 133 4.5. Predicting US stock returns 135 4.5.1. Information coefficients 136 4.5.2. Long–short strategy 138 4.5.3. Returns correlation with Alpha model 140 4.5.4. Active returns by basket 141 4.5.5. Calibrated hyperparameters and model complexity 142 4.5.6. Variable importance 144 4.6. Predicting European stock returns 146 4.6.1. Information coefficients 146 4.6.2. Long–short strategy 147 4.6.3. Returns correlation with Alpha model 150 4.6.4. Active returns by basket 150 4.6.5. Calibrated hyperparameters and model complexity 151 4.6.6. Variable importance 152 4.7. The impact of transaction costs 154 4.7.1. Optimized strategies for European stocks 154 4.7.2. Optimized strategies for US stocks 158 4.8. Conclusion 161 4.9. References 163 Chapter 5. Enhancing Alpha Signals from Trade Ideas Data Using Supervised Learning 167Georgios V. PAPAIOANNOU and Daniel GIAMOURIDIS 5.1. Introduction 167 5.2. Data 169 5.3. Model and empirical design 174 5.4. Estimation and robustness 179 5.5. Economic significance 186 5.6. Conclusion 188 5.7. References 189 Chapter 6. Natural Language Process and Machine Learning in Global Stock Selection 191Yin LUO 6.1. Introduction 191 6.1.1. The performance of traditional stock selection factors continues to shrink 191 6.1.2. Textual data, natural language processing and machine learning 195 6.2. Natural language analysis of company management presentations 197 6.2.1. Coverage 198 6.2.2. Readability index and language complexity 201 6.2.3. Quantifying executive personalities 206 6.2.4. Syntactic parser and part-of-speech (POS) tagging 207 6.3. Extracting long-term signal from news sentiment data 211 6.3.1. Introducing RavenPack data 211 6.3.2. The challenges of using news sentiment signals in stock selection 215 6.3.3. How do investors react to news? 216 6.3.4. The interaction of news, corporate events and investor behavior 217 6.3.5. A machine learning approach to extract event-based sentiment 221 6.3.6. Welcome to NICE (News with Insightful Categorical Events) 225 6.4. References 228 Chapter 7. Forecasting Beta Using Machine Learning and Equity Sentiment Variables 231Alexei JOUROVSKI, Vladyslav DUBIKOVSKYY, Pere ADELL, Ravi RAMAKRISHNAN and Robert KOSOWSKI 7.1. Introduction 231 7.2. Data 234 7.2.1. Data construction process 234 7.3. Methodology 240 7.3.1. Historical beta 241 7.3.2. Bloomberg’s adjusted beta 241 7.3.3. OLS regression 241 7.3.4. Post-LASSO OLS regression 241 7.3.5. Random forest model 242 7.3.6. XGBoost model 242 7.4. Empirical results 242 7.4.1. Variable selection 242 7.4.2. Forecasting models 244 7.4.3. Variable importance 246 7.4.4. SHAP values. 247 7.4.5. Overall level of feature importance 248 7.4.6. Cross-sectional analysis of feature importance 250 7.4.7. Time-series analysis of feature importance 253 7.5. Constructing market neutral long–short portfolios 257 7.6. Concluding remarks 258 7.7. References 259 Chapter 8. Machine Learning Optimization Algorithms & Portfolio Allocation 261Sarah PERRIN and Thierry RONCALLI 8.1. Introduction 262 8.2. The quadratic programming world of portfolio optimization 264 8.2.1. Quadratic programming 264 8.2.2. Mean-variance optimized portfolios 265 8.2.3. Issues with QP optimization 270 8.3. Machine learning optimization algorithms 271 8.3.1. Coordinate descent 274 8.3.2. Alternating direction method of multipliers 279 8.3.3. Proximal operators 283 8.3.4. Dykstra’s algorithm 289 8.4. Applications to portfolio optimization 293 8.4.1. Minimum variance optimization 295 8.4.2. Smart beta portfolios 301 8.4.3. Robo-advisory optimization307 8.4.4. Tips and tricks 312 8.5. Conclusion 315 8.6. Acknowledgements 317 8.7. Appendix 317 8.7.1. Mathematical results 317 8.7.2. Data 323 8.8. References 324 Chapter 9. Hierarchical Risk Parity: Accounting for Tail Dependencies in Multi-asset Multi-factor Allocations 329Harald LOHRE, Carsten ROTHER and Kilian Axel SCHÄFER 9.1. Hierarchical risk parity strategies 332 9.1.1. The multi-asset multi-factor universe 333 9.1.2. The hierarchical multi-asset multi-factor structure 334 9.1.3. Hierarchical clustering 338 9.1.4. Portfolio allocation based on hierarchical clustering 342 9.2. Tail dependency and hierarchical clustering 343 9.2.1. Tail dependence coefficients 344 9.2.2. Estimating tail dependence coefficients 345 9.3. Risk-based allocation strategies 347 9.3.1. Classic risk-based allocation techniques 347 9.3.2. Diversified risk parity 348 9.4. Hierarchical risk parity for multi-asset multi-factor allocations 352 9.4.1. Strategy universe 352 9.4.2. A statistical horse race of risk-based allocation strategies 354 9.5. Conclusion 360 9.6. Acknowledgements 362 9.7. Appendix 1: Definition of style factors 362 9.7.1. Foreign exchange (FX) style factors 362 9.7.2. Commodity style factors 363 9.7.3. Rates style factors 364 9.7.4. Equity style factors 364 9.8. Appendix 2: CSR estimator 365 9.9. References 367 Chapter 10. Portfolio Performance Attribution: A Machine Learning-Based Approach 369Ryan BROWN, Harindra DE SILVA and Patrick D. NEAL 10.1. Introduction 369 10.2. Methodology 371 10.2.1. Matrix algebra representation of selection and allocation effects 372 10.2.2. Creating categorical variables from continuous variables 374 10.2.3. Optimizing continuous variable breakpoints to maximize systematic attribution 375 10.3. Data description 377 10.4. Results 378 10.5. Conclusion 385 10.6. References 386 Chapter 11. Modeling Transaction Costs When Trades May Be Crowded: A Bayesian Network Using Partially Observable Orders Imbalance 387Marie BRIÈRE, Charles-Albert LEHALLE, Tamara NEFEDOVA and Amine RABOUN 11.1. Introduction 388 11.2. Related literature 391 11.2.1. Transaction costs and market impact 391 11.2.2. Bayesian networks 392 11.3. ANcerno database 394 11.4. Transaction cost modeling 396 11.4.1. Order size 396 11.4.2. Order flow imbalance 398 11.4.3. Joint effect of order size and order flow imbalance 400 11.5. Bayesian network modeling with net order flow imbalance as latent variable 403 11.5.1. Bayesian inference 404 11.5.2. Bayesian network modeling 406 11.5.3. Net order flow imbalance dependencies 409 11.5.4. Implementation shortfall dependencies 413 11.6. Forecasting implementation shortfall 415 11.6.1. Inference of investors’ order flow imbalance given post-trade cost and market conditions 420 11.7. Conclusion 421 11.8. Appendix A: Garman-Klass volatility definition 423 11.9. Appendix B: bid-ask spread and volatility distribution dependencies 423 11.10. Appendix C: beta distribution properties 424 11.11. Appendix D: net order flow imbalance properties 425 11.12. Appendix E: implementation shortfall distribution 425 11.13. Appendix F: Hastings-Metropolis algorithm 426 11.14. References 427 List of Authors 431 Index 435 Commendations 434

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Book SynopsisThe digital transformation of companies is both a competitive challenge and a complex step for large groups and industries, and at the same time a tremendous opportunity. This transformation is entering a new dimension with the development of immersive technologies such as virtual reality, mixed reality and augmented reality, which are revolutionizing the way we generate content as well as visualize and interact with models and data.The challenges of innovation and digital transformation within companies are now converging. Research shows the potential that immersive technologies have to accelerate the first steps of the innovation process.The objective of this book is to provide a clear vision of the state of research on immersive technologies for design and to deliver practical recommendations for companies wishing to improve their innovation process.Table of ContentsForeword ix Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii Introduction xv Chapter 1. Innovation Management: Issues and Key Points for a Vital and Strategic Process 1 1.1. A question of survival 1 1.1.1. The example of Blockbuster Video 2 1.1.2. A regime of intensive innovation 2 1.1.3. From creativity to innovation 3 1.1.4. Equipping ourselves to innovate better 4 1.1.5. Modeling innovation at the company level 6 1.2. The blue ocean strategy 6 1.3. Open innovation 8 1.3.1. The two types of open innovation 9 1.3.2. The example of the MayAM challenge 10 1.3.3. Collaborative innovation 10 1.3.4. Crowdsourcing 11 1.3.5. The lead user 11 1.4. Technical and human issues from ideation to design 13 1.4.1. The sketch as a reflective process 13 1.4.2. Types of representation 14 1.4.3. Conditions for the effectiveness of sketches 15 1.4.4. The phases of ideation 16 1.4.5. The right tools at the right time 17 1.4.6. A growing variety of tools 19 Chapter 2. Creativity and Cognition: Factors and Biases of Mental Processes Involved in Creative Activities 21 2.1. The creativity process 21 2.1.1. The Wallas model (1926) 21 2.1.2. The GENEPLORE 22 2.1.3. Analogies 24 2.2. The factors of individual creativity 26 2.2.1. The individual creativity model 26 2.2.2. Investment theory 27 2.3. Creativity and personality 28 2.3.1. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator 29 2.3.2. The Big Five 30 2.3.3. Constituting a group for ideation 31 2.4. The factors of organizational creativity 32 2.5. Cognitive biases and creativity 35 Chapter 3. Physical and Virtual Environments and their Influence on Creativity 43 3.1. Physical environment of creation 43 3.1.1. Interference and stimulation 45 3.1.2. Layout 47 3.1.3. Natural elements 50 3.1.4. Colors, sounds, light and temperature 53 3.1.5. Creativity, posture and movement 55 3.2. Virtual creation environment 59 3.2.1. Avatars 60 3.2.2. Inspiring environments 64 Chapter 4. User-Centered Innovation Methods: Design Thinking, Double Diamond, Lean UX and Time to Concept 67 4.1. Design Thinking 67 4.2. The Double Diamond 70 4.3. Lean UX 71 4.3.1. Uncertainty linked to innovation 71 4.3.2. Definition 72 4.3.3. The Lean UX loop 72 4.4. The Time to Concept method 74 4.4.1. An example of the application of Time to Concept method 74 4.4.2. Managing innovation projects in Time to Concept 76 4.4.3. The six principles of the Time to Concept method 78 Chapter 5. Some Creative Problem-Solving Methods: TRIZ, C-K, CPS, Design Sprint 83 5.1. The TRIZ method 83 5.2. The C-K theory 85 5.3. Creative Problem Solving 86 5.4. Design Sprint 87 5.5. Lateral thinking 89 5.6. Synectics 91 5.7. Detour techniques 92 5.8. Discovery matrices 93 Chapter 6. All-Terrain Ideation Techniques: Brainstorming, Brainwriting, Brainsketching, Bodystorming and Immersive-Storming 95 6.1. Brainstorming 95 6.2. Brainwriting 97 6.3. Brainsketching 98 6.4. Bodystorming 99 6.5. Immersive-storming 101 Chapter 7. Immersive Tools for Every Innovative Situation 103 7.1. Design in virtual reality 103 7.1.1. The natural gesture 103 7.1.2. Links with CAD 105 7.1.3. Comparison of sketching tools 106 7.2. Co-design in virtual reality 108 7.2.1. Information capture in virtual reality 109 7.2.2. Asymmetrical collaboration 110 7.2.3. Affordances and constraints for immersive-storming 112 7.3. Types of immersive applications for creativity 114 7.4. Choosing the right creativity tools 118 7.5. Immersive tools for innovation project stages 120 7.5.1. Immersive technologies and Design Thinking 121 7.5.2. Immersive technologies and Lean Startup 123 7.5.3. Immersive technologies and Time to Concept 124 7.5.4. Immersive technologies and the creative process 126 Chapter 8. A Successful Immersive Experience for More Creativity 129 8.1. The experience of immersed users 129 8.1.1. Drawing inspiration from reality 130 8.1.2. A future standardization 130 8.1.3. User support 131 8.1.4. Physical space planning 133 8.1.5. The psychological dimensions of the user experience 134 8.2. The creative’s user experience 135 8.2.1. The Creative Support Index 135 8.2.2. The design of tools for ideation 136 Conclusion 139 References 141 Index 159

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive textbook has, at its core, the importance of linking strategic thinking with action in the management of tourism. It provides an analytical evaluation of the most important global trends, as well as an analysis of the impact of crucial environmental issues and their implications. Fully updated throughout, this new edition: -Covers forecasting, functional management and strategic planning; -Includes extra chapters to incorporate a wider spread of important topics such as sustainability, authenticity and crisis management; -Contains pedagogical features throughout, such as learning objectives, questions and case studies to aid understanding Now in its third edition, and reviewing the major factors affecting international tourism management, this well-established student resource provides an essential overview of strategic management for students and professionals in the tourism sector.Table of ContentsPart I: Tourism Environment, Economic Development, Forecasting and Trends 1: The new business environment and trends in tourism 2: Futurecast applied to tourism 3: Future economic development in tourism 4: Tourism demand modelling and forecasting Part II: Integrated Management in Tourism 5: Consumer behaviour in tourism 6: Strategic creativity in tourism business 7: Strategic innovation in tourism business 8: Empowerment human resource management in tourism 9: Financial management in tourism 10: Technology management in tourism Part III: Strategic Vision and Management in Tourism 11: Strategic thinking in tourism 12: Towards a new strategic paradigm 13: New performance measurements 14: Process-based management in tourism 15: International strategies in tourism 16: Crisis management and strategic implications Part IV: New Business Ecosystems and Stakeholder-driven Strategy 17: Stakeholder engagement in tourism 18: Tourism authenticity 19: Tourism resources and sustainability 20: New strategic developments in tourism

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Book SynopsisThe Asia-Pacific area is notable as one of the fastest growing tourism regions and not surprisingly, tourism in this region has become the major driver of global tourism in general. Nonetheless, tourism industries in Asia Pacific has been challenged in recent years by a number of major crises and disasters including terrorism, outbreaks (e.g. SARS and Bird Flu), natural disasters (e.g. tsunamis, bushfires, flooding), and political crisis (e.g. protests and political instability).The aim of this book is to contribute to the understanding of crisis and disaster management generally, but with a specific focus on the Asia Pacific. With chapters contributed by international scholars and practitioners, this book discusses both the theoretical and practical approaches toward successful crisis and disaster management.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION 1 Introduction: Major themes and perspectives PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS 2: Conceptualising organisational resilience in tourism disaster and crisis management 3: Theoretical perspectives on crimes against tourists The influence of organisational culture on crisis planning: An application of the competing value framework in Chinese hotels 4: How does crisis leadership influence effective crisis readiness? 5: Collaborative communication networks: An application in Indonesia RESPONSE AND RECOVERY 6: Integrating tourism into disaster recovery management – The case of the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami 2011 7: An analysis of the tourism industry’s management responses to political crises in Thailand 8: From tsunami to recovery: The resilience of Sri Lankan tourism industry 9: Analysing the impact of the 2011 natural disasters on the Central Queensland tourism industry 10: The global financial crisis’ influence on Chinese outbound travel market: A case study of the Shanghai regional market 11: The development of a trans-national tourism risk, crisis and recovery management network 12: The development of new tourism networks to respond to, and recover from the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake RESOLUTION, LEARNING AND FEEDBACK 13: Ecotourism as a sustainable recovery tool after an earthquake 14: The devastation of Darwin: Representing the recovery and reconstruction of Australia after Cyclone Tracy CONCLUSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 15: Conclusions and future directions

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Book SynopsisHow and to what extent do decisions affect business performance? Despite years of study by academic researchers and industry practitioners, there still remains a need to draw a clear and established connection between decision making and performance. By closely examining consequential business decisions made by key executives, this book offers a better understanding of business performance and recommendations for improved business practices.Through the use of case studies and interviews with business leaders based on 17 theorized measures of performance, this breakthrough study not only clarifies the impact of decisions on business performance, but also defines and distinguishes decisions that lead to successful and unsuccessful performance. Recommendations are made to optimize decision making for businesses of all sizes and projections about the future of decision making and performance are provided. This book can be used both as a reference source for academic researchers and students seeking further research on the subject, and as a practical guide for leaders and business professionals seeking advancement and better decision making within the industry.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Decisions 3. Performance 4. Modeling Performance and Research Approach 5. First Round Findings 6. Detailed Findings and Analysis 7. Underlying Performance Factors 8. Overall Research Conclusions 9. Recommendations for Business 10. Deciding and Performing in the Future Index

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Book Synopsis'In the current surge of organizational theory research on emotions in organizations, Dirk Lindebaum's book makes a unique and important contribution. He identifies and explores how workers' emotions are being abused as a tool of social repression by our bosses. In bringing together critical theory and theory on emotion regulation, he stimulates us to see through the workings of managerial power and, in the same go, offers ways to resist repressive emotional conditions in the workplace. A remarkable accomplishment that deserves to be read for both its theoretical insights and practical relevance!'- Frank den Hond, Hanken School of Economics, FinlandEmotion is often used by organizations to manipulate and repress workers. However, this repression can have adverse psychological and social consequences for them. This book articulates the pathways through which this repression occurs, and offers emotion regulation as a tool for workers to emancipate themselves from this repression and social control.Bringing together the largely unconnected literatures on critical theory and emotion regulation, this book articulates two pathways to social control currently underexplored in management: one where the social functions of emotion are exploited, and one where discussions about emotion override its social function. The author illustrates the processes through which workers can start to 'see through' the repression, and enlist emotion regulation strategies to emancipate themselves from it. These strategies may work in the short to medium term but, in the long term, workers may eventually change jobs. If staff turnover becomes unsustainable, the organization can seek to change the social structures causing the repression of workers in the first place. Combining fresh theoretical insights with practically informed vignettes, this book will appeal to academics and students across many social science disciplines, including business studies, organization studies, cognitive change, sociology and psychology. Both practising managers and disenchanted workers will also find this an enlightening read.Trade Review'In today's Western industrialized world, emotional regulation is usually taken to be a sine qua non. In this book, however, Lindebaum challenges this assumption, asserting that our emotions are critical for individual achievement and wellbeing and that, rather than seeking to control our emotions, we need to ''act with creativity, spontaneity, and autonomy''. Arguing from a critical management perspective, he makes a convincing case. This is a book that will be of interest not only to researchers, but also to management practitioners and consultants.' --Neal M. Ashkanasy, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia'This is a passionate book which has grown out of the author's different experiences of organizational injustices and oppressions in which emotions play a major part. . . Emotional labour now stands on par with intellectual and manual labour as an arena of workplace politics, a politics that frequently leaves workers exploited, oppressed and depressed. This book takes the discourse a stage further. Lindebaum not only seeks to redeem emotions from the stifling controls to which they are put, but he also argues that emotional regulation by the workers themselves can act as a defence against organizational injustice and, more ambitiously, as an emancipatory force.' --Organization'Whose business is emotions? Your own? Your workplace's? Your culture's? In this erudite book Dirk Lindebaum steers through this fascinating territory to pinpoint the emotional traps that workers face and, importantly, how they may escape from them. This well-researched book helps us look at emotion with fresh eyes and offers important insights for scholars and students of emotion.' --Stephen Fineman, University of Bath, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Emotion, its function and Emancipation from social control 3. Emancipation from emotional repression through emotion regulation 4. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisOur knowledge and understanding of organizations is both enabled and constrained by an invisible relationship of power that is embedded in the ways in which we act and speak. This book offers a succinct but comprehensive introduction to the vast field of organizational discourse analysis, the approach that studies organization as a linguistic phenomenon, and offers an original approach to investigate the relationship between materiality and discourse. Three original images of discourse are employed: discourse as a map, discourse as organizing and discourse as a mask. These metaphors are used as cognitive tools to highlight different implications and perspectives on discourse. The book critically compares and contrasts various linguistic-focused approaches to the study of organizations, and proposes the use of linguistic phenomena in connection with other methodologies. One section even offers an exemplification of the proposed approach to discourse analysis, presenting a map of discursive terrain, which plays a central role in the reproduction of local organizational and management discourses. This rich and approachable introduction is targeted at graduate and doctoral students, as well as non-specialist academics who want to familiarize themselves with the organizational discourse debate.Trade Review'Finally there is a book that explores the depths and contours of organizational discourse in a way that is simultaneously sophisticated and accessible. Marco Berti's achievement is to have canvassed a multitude of theoretical and methodological ways that discourse is deployed in the study of organizations, and to have distilled that into a comprehensive framework of metaphors. The result is a novel and valuable approach to organizational discourse analysis that synthesizes the field without sacrificing any of its complexity.' --Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney, Australia'Research on organizational discourse has indeed become one of the most fruitful and interesting areas in the field of organization and management studies, and has not only improved our understanding of how communication works, but also helps to ''see'' how discourses shape reality. The book introduces three ''images'' of discourse with the purpose of both illustrating and enabling the emergence of new knowledge and meaning: organizational discourse as a map, as organizing and as a mask. Moreover it provides a concrete exemplification of an application of organizational discourse analysis: the global institution of business education. The heuristic potential of the approach is employed to critically describe a complex inter-organizational field of practices relevant to how we ''do'' society through discourses.' --Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: The Aim and Structure of the Book 1. Language and Organization 2. The Discourse of Organizational Discourse 3. The Power of Metaphors 4. Discourse as a Map 5. Discourse as Organizing 6. Discourse as Mask: Silence, Emptiness and Ambiguity in Discourse 7. Organizational Discourse Analysis in Practice: The Case of Business Education Discourse 8. References Index

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Book SynopsisEconomics for Nonprofit Managers and Social Entrepreneurs updates the world's first textbook in nonprofit economics, and shows how economics contributes to better managerial decisions on social matters. A pioneering textbook for nonprofit and social managers, this second edition adds risk analysis, game theory, and behavioral economics to the managerial tool kit, along with analysis at the margin, opportunity cost, elasticity of demand and supply, market power, and cost-benefit analysis, with numerous timely examples.This text is essential for nonprofit managers and social entrepreneurs, and of interest to all economics students.Trade Review'An indispensable book for managers of nonprofits. The new edition includes excellent additional chapters that give insights into decision-making under uncertainty and risk using concepts from behavioral economics and game theory.' --Femida Handy, University of Pennsylvania, USTable of ContentsContents: Dedication Foreword by Patrick Rooney Foreword to the first edition by Burton A. Weisbrod Preface 1. Why Should Nonprofit Managers and Social Entrepreneurs Study Economics? 2. The Place of Nonprofits and Social Enterprise in the U.S. Economy 3. Policy and Management Issues 4. Analysis of Economic Functions 5. Thinking at the Margin 6. The Concept of Cost 7. Analysis of Competitive Markets 8. Market Power 9. Applications of Market Analysis 10. Economic Decision Making Under Risk 11. Games of Collaboration and Competition 12. Behavioral Research in Economics 13. Market Failure 14. Cost-Benefit Analysis 15. Using Economics in Practice Musical Appendix About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisEconomics for Nonprofit Managers and Social Entrepreneurs updates the world's first textbook in nonprofit economics, and shows how economics contributes to better managerial decisions on social matters. A pioneering textbook for nonprofit and social managers, this second edition adds risk analysis, game theory, and behavioral economics to the managerial tool kit, along with analysis at the margin, opportunity cost, elasticity of demand and supply, market power, and cost-benefit analysis, with numerous timely examples.This text is essential for nonprofit managers and social entrepreneurs, and of interest to all economics students.Trade Review'An indispensable book for managers of nonprofits. The new edition includes excellent additional chapters that give insights into decision-making under uncertainty and risk using concepts from behavioral economics and game theory.' --Femida Handy, University of Pennsylvania, USTable of ContentsContents: Dedication Foreword by Patrick Rooney Foreword to the first edition by Burton A. Weisbrod Preface 1. Why Should Nonprofit Managers and Social Entrepreneurs Study Economics? 2. The Place of Nonprofits and Social Enterprise in the U.S. Economy 3. Policy and Management Issues 4. Analysis of Economic Functions 5. Thinking at the Margin 6. The Concept of Cost 7. Analysis of Competitive Markets 8. Market Power 9. Applications of Market Analysis 10. Economic Decision Making Under Risk 11. Games of Collaboration and Competition 12. Behavioral Research in Economics 13. Market Failure 14. Cost-Benefit Analysis 15. Using Economics in Practice Musical Appendix About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisAs we grapple with how to respond to some of the world's most pressing problems, there is growing global interest in 'social innovation' as a potential solution. But what exactly is 'social innovation'? And how can it help us to think about problems such as inequality, poverty and climate change? Danielle Logue theorizes social innovation as a contemporary manifestation of the historical tensions between 'economy' and 'society' and the simultaneous pursuit of economic and social progress. Going back to the historical work of Adam Smith and his discussion of markets and morality, the author draws on organizational and management theory to present three theoretical lenses for understanding social innovation. These lenses include theorizing social innovation as social value creation, capture and distribution; social innovation as polysemous; and social innovation as institutional change. She then considers some of the current issues confronting social innovation in practice and the challenges for organizations in 'doing good' and 'being good'. This generative introduction is targeted at graduate and doctoral students, as well as non-specialist academics. It aims to stimulate further discussion and analysis by providing a comprehensive understanding of social innovation and a choice of frameworks when examining complex and wicked problems and the organization and management of efforts to solve them. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: the aim and structure of the book 1. Social innovation and its contemporary evolution 2. Social innovation as social value creation, capture and distribution 3. Social innovation as polysemous 4. Social innovation as institutional change 5. Social innovation: Morality, markets and theories of impact 6. Social innovation: Tensions in purpose and practice Index

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Book SynopsisWith organizational environments becoming increasingly unstable, uncertain and equivocal, the concept of resilience has become increasingly significant for management studies and practice. Resilience connotes organizational, team and individual capacities to absorb external shocks and to learn from them, while simultaneously preparing for and responding to external jolts. This book pinpoints the essential aspects of managerial and organizational resilience and offers insights that stimulate critical thinking. As the concept of resilience is essentially made up of contrasting forces, the volume presents some innovative synthetic interpretation that allows a deeper comprehension of the phenomenon and provides managers and policy makers with a solid basis for taking their decisions.This book provides an accessible yet rigorous systematization of individual resilience, team resilience and organizational resilience. Rich with real-life concept illustrations and containing practice-oriented tools, reflection questions and exercises, it shows how resilience can be cultivated across levels of organizational aggregation: individuals, teams, organizations and communities. The authors distinguish individual and collective resilience from related constructs and shed light on the boundaries of resilience and its potential implications for management practice. Elgar Introduction to Theories of Organizational Resilience will serve as a key resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students as well as academics and practitioners who are interested in deepening their understanding of resilience.Trade Review‘The book is full of real-life examples that distinguishes the boundaries of resilience and its potential implications on organisational practices [...] It describes many contrasting forces and deeper interpretations of the resilience phenomenon. It is a knowledge source for researchers of interest in resilience engineering, resilience economy and the subject of resilience in general.’ -- Mohamed Buheji, International Journal of Inspiration & Resilience Economy‘The Elgar Introduction to Theories of Organizational Resilience sets itself apart from other works by acknowledging the jargon-filled wasteland of meanings that has undermined scholarship in resilience. The book has clear goals: shedding light on the definition of resilience, distinguishing it from related ideas, setting forth models of organizational resilience, and offering a dialectical understanding of the term in practice as a process, dependent on the interaction of adaptation and reaction.’ -- Christopher L. Atkinson, International Journal of Public AdministrationTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction. The aim and structure of the book 2. Resilience in management and organization studies 3. Resilience in individuals 4. Resilience in collectives 5. The diffusion of resilience via cross-level interactions 6. Resilience as dialectical synthesis 7. Future trajectories for research on resilience Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique book provides a novel and challenging framework for understanding and influencing organizational change. It reimagines managing and leading change as the mindful mobilization of maps, masks and mirrors.The book challenges overly rational views of change management and leadership. Addressing the gaps, paradoxes and ironies of organizational change, it exposes how deep the faults of traditional change management lie. The authors successfully bridge the divide between scholarly treatises and textbooks on leading change. Summarizing and integrating the diverse literatures on change, this dynamic book is an invaluable resource for change researchers and specialists. Abundant with popular imagery, stories, case studies and reflective activities, Ironies of Organizational Change is the perfect companion and guide for lecturers and advanced students of business and organization studies. It also serves as a research based pragmatic handbook for practitioners looking to manage change more effectively. Trade Review‘Many writings and much thinking on organizational change are optimistic and simplistic. In this book the authors brilliantly point at ironies, difficulties and dilemmas, at the same time they provide the reader with an excellent overview of what to consider in change work. The book offers a very good balance between advice-giving and awareness of problems and obstacles in organizations seldom adaptive to plans rarely fully working when confronted with reality. The book is original, very accessible and at times also entertaining to read. It should be read by practitioners, students and scholars interested in change work.’ -- Mats Alvesson, University of Bath, UK and University of Queensland, Australia‘If change is illusive, how do we manage it? Badham and Santiago peel back the curtain on organizations to offer a view into and tools to live with change management’s irrationality. Their approach – filled with metaphors, stories, images, and pop culture – models the way, delighting the reader in the treacherous journey of managing change management. It is like the Turkish candy of change management – serious sweets presented with enchanting elegance. Leaders across the world will value this book!’ -- Wendy Smith, Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management, University of Delaware, US‘Badham and Santiago’s Ironies of Organizational Change presents an inspired, creative and practical way of addressing a practice that has confounded managers for generations. The book challenges us to reimagine the myths about change that we have held onto for too long, providing a fresh perspective on what can be done to get it right. An essential guide for today’s and tomorrow’s leaders.’ -- Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney, Australia‘This is a remarkable and highly entertaining overview of “change models” because it does what so few of us have either the bandwidth or the motivation to actually compare lots of models and research claims and theories in this field of change practice. This book makes it quite clear that not only do we differ in our structural theories but we are all over the map in our practices. It is high time that someone points this out and invites us to look at the ironies that our own efforts produce when our practices don't match our theories.’ -- Edgar H. Schein, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and co-author of Humble Inquiry (2021)‘Planned change often fails. Here is an innovative approach to getting it right. Richard and Brenda develop a novel framework involving maps, mirrors and masks – as executing change is a performance. Their creative onboard and online resources, including movies, will help you to reimagine the process, and reimagine yourself.’ -- David A. Buchanan, Emeritus Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Cranfield University School of Management, UK‘Ironies of Organizational Change is a welcome perspective on the complexities and ironies of change, while at the same time providing actionable frameworks for change agents and leaders. The book outlines several reasons for which rationalist change approaches may not hit the mark, while providing ways to appreciate the subtleties of organizations and change in a way that can lead to more effective change processes.’ -- Loizos Heracleous, University of Warwick, UK‘I often listen to Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan. One of his many memorable lines is “that he is not busy being born is busy dying”. It is not only life that is a process of constant change and shifts in performative identity in the presentation of self; the same is also true of the frameworks in which lives are led. Organizations provide frameworks for work, rest and play and they change performatively as do we. All is in process. Organizations and the individuals within them may seem to be managing change but the gap between aspirations and reality can always ironically undermine the stable sense of identity as being in control. In the space of organizational life’s coming into being and passing away, ironic performativity makes the process of change humanly manageable, in insights which this engaging book channels to creative purpose.’ -- Stewart Clegg, University of Sydney, Australia‘This book is a tour de force of scholarly practice. It is up to date academically and engaging and inspirational in its writing, its examples, its links to new sources of information, and its invitations to readers, regardless of the degree of our academic, manager, or consultant orientations. It encourages us all to imagine and act on organizational change in new ways and to recognize and appreciate the ironies in approaches to change that insist it is failing when it’s actually providing valuable learning experiences.’ -- Jean M. Bartunek, Boston College, US‘Thinking change, go no further. This book not only challenges us with thought provoking ideas and concepts but also grounds the contradictions, dilemmas, and ironies of change through exercises and cases that offer practical advice. A novel and excellent read for those who wish to reflect, reimagine and reinvent.’ -- Patrick Dawson, Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen, UK‘Planned change often fails. Here is an innovative approach to getting it right. Richard and Brenda develop a novel framework involving maps, mirrors, and masks – as executing change is a performance. Their creative onboard and online resources, including movies, will help you to reimagine the process, and reimagine yourself.’ -- David A. Buchanan, Emeritus Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Cranfield University School of Management, UK‘Buy this book! It is an important, erudite, insightful, and entertaining look at management and change. The book is based on decades of successfully teaching and advising managers, and of researching change in organizations. The book’s basic argument is very simple and highly difficult: in order to change our world, we have to change ourselves. To do that, we have to see the world and ourselves in a different light. Richard Badham and Brenda Santiago show us how to do this and I can’t think of anyone better equipped to do so. Whether you are a manager, practitioner, lecturer, or student, this book is for you.’ -- Bernard Burnes, University of Stirling, UK‘Sooner or later, somebody had to say – loudly and openly – that without understanding the role of paradoxes and irony, it is impossible to understand the functioning of contemporary organizations. Richard Badham and Brenda Santiago did just that. It is therefore of utmost importance that students and young scholars acquaint themselves with this provocative but correct image of organizational change.’ -- Barbara Czarniawska, University of Gothenburg, Sweden‘Ironies of Organizational Change is a welcome perspective on the complexities and ironies of change, while at the same time providing actionable frameworks for change agents and leaders. The book outlines several reasons for which rationalist change approaches may not hit the mark, while providing ways to appreciate the subtleties of organizations and change in a way that can lead to more effective change processes.’ -- Loizos Heracleous, University of Warwick, UK‘Maps, masks, mirrors – Professor Badham conjures up marvellous metaphors that do not just describe change, but work as change agents in classrooms and boardrooms. A helpful resource, a powerful reactant, insightful research: a must read.’ -- Martin Kornberger, Vienna University of Economics and Business, AustriaTable of ContentsContents: Prologue ACT I RE-IMAGINING CHANGE 1. The change problem 2. Re-imagining change, re-inventing yourself ACT II THE CYCLE OF CHANGE 3. Maps and orientation 4. Masks and performance 5. Mirrors and reflection ACT III LEADERSHIP OF CHANGE 6. Knowing–doing gaps 7. Paraurther reading 8. Ironies of change Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis Research Handbook identifies how resilience has evolved as a critical theoretical concept in the organizational sciences. International resilience scholars conceptualize and explore the various ways resilience can be embedded in theory and practice, offering new and updated perspectives on the importance of resilience in multiple contexts.Sections cover the nature of resilience at employee, team and organizational levels; the processes and dynamics of resilience in different contexts; and the antecedents and outcomes of these forms of resilience. Chapters provide case studies and theoretical frameworks to bring clarity, covering stress and coping, diversity and resilience, crisis management, employee behaviour, continuity and development.Organizational studies scholars interested in advancing theory and practice of resilience will find this Research Handbook includes a range of important considerations for the field. With application of several different levels of analysis, chapters discussing stress and coping will also appeal to those from a social psychology background. Contributors include: E. Antonacopoulou, S. Baker, M.E. Baloochi, B. Barker Caza, M.A. Barton, T.E. Becker, T.W. Britt, K.S. Cameron, A. Caza, J. Chesley, M. Christianson, V. D'Avella, S. Erskine, M.L. Frigotto, F. Guarnieri, S.C. Hammond, J. Harris, S. Hartmann, E. Hayes James, M. Hernandez, M. Hess, M. Hoegl, E.M. Johnson, L. Jones Christensen, J.D. Kabongo, D. Karolidis, S.A. Kay, D.C. Kayes, J. Kuntz, M. Larsen, M. Linnenluecke, S. Malinen, C.L. McCluney, B. McKnight, K.L. Merlo, K. Naswall, L. Neville, V. Nilakant, M. Olekalns, E.H. Powley, S. Raetze, L.M. Roberts, G. Sawhney, J.P. Stephens, K. Sutcliffe, S. Travadel, F. Vouzas, B. Walker, M. Weiss, L.P. Wooten, J. YoonTrade Review'This wonderful and timely Handbook addresses a critical gap in organization studies. Research on resilience has grown very rapidly in recent years, resulting in an exciting but diffuse body of work. The Research Handbook on Organizational Resilience does a marvellous job of capturing the breadth of current research in the field, presented in a way that is easy to navigate. An important addition to the bookshelf of any organizational scholar!' --Sally Maitlis, University of Oxford, UK'Powley, Caza, and Caza's Research Handbook on Organizational Resilience is a monumental advance that is long overdue for the field. It comprehensively maps the contours of an elusive concept and sprawling body of research on organizational resilience with clarity, precision, and rigor while also imaginatively pointing to the future.' --Timothy J. Vogus, Vanderbilt University, US'Powley, Caza, and Caza's Research Handbook on Organizational Resilience is a monumental advance that is long overdue for the field. It comprehensively maps the contours of an elusive concept and sprawling body of research on organizational resilience with clarity, precision, and rigor while also imaginatively pointing to the future.' --Timothy J. Vogus, Vanderbilt University, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction: framing resilience research 2 Edward H. Powley PART II NATURE OF RESILIENCE 2 Resilience capacity, processes and demonstration at the employee, team and organizational levels: a multilevel perspective 10 Thomas W. Britt and Gargi Sawhney 3 Resilient personality: is grit a source of resilience? 25 Arran Caza, Brianna Barker Caza and Mehri E. Baloochi 4 Team resilience in organizations: a conceptual and theoretical discussion of a team-level concept 39 Silja Hartmann, Matthias Weiss and Martin Hoegl 5 Reframing resilience on novelty and change 53 Maria Laura Frigotto 6 Negotiation resilience: a framework for understanding how negotiators respond to adversity 70 Lukas Neville, Brianna Barker Caza and Mara Olekalns PART III RESILIENCE PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS 7 Emotion regulation as a process to foster resilience 86 Sophie A. Kay and Kelsey L. Merlo 8 From parts to whole: a place for individual tacit knowledge in organizational adaptability and resilience 102 John Paul Stephens 9 The resilience of entrepreneurs in developing economies 116 Thomas E. Becker and Jean D. Kabongo 10 Organizational resilience: a social exchange perspective 131 Morela Hernandez, Scott Baker, Megan Hess and Jared Harris 11 Unpacking the critical role of firms in community resilience 153 Martina Linnenluecke and Brent McKnight 12 Enriching our conceptual and practical understanding of resilience through the lens of black women at work 167 Erica M. Johnson, Samantha E. Erskine and Laura Morgan Roberts 13 The unfolding process of organizational resilience in a diversity crisis: a case study of racial incidents at the University of Missouri 180 Courtney L. McCluney, Lynn Perry Wooten and Erika Hayes James PART IV RESILIENCE ANTECEDENTS AND OUTCOMES 14 Learning routines that build organizational resilience 203 D. Christopher Kayes and Jeewhan Yoon 15 Lost person behavior as an antecedent to resilience 214 Lisa Jones Christensen, Scott C. Hammond and Merilee Larsen 16 What makes work teams resilient? An overview of resilience processes and cross-level antecedents 232 Sebastian Raetze 17 The effects of individual resilience on organizational citizenship behavior in contemporary public administration: a dual pathway model 247 Dimitrios Karolidis, Fotis Vouzas and Elena Antonacopoulou 18 Resilience and organizational culture: a competing values perspective 261 Edward H. Powley and Kim S. Cameron 19 Interpreting the nightmare of Fukushima’s superintendent: sensemaking in extreme situations 275 Sébastien Travadel and Franck Guarnieri 20 Resilience of inter-organizational systems 299 Julie Chesley and Victoria D’Avella 21 Organizational resilience in action: a study of a large-scale extended-disaster setting 320 Bernard Walker, Sanna Malinen, Katharina Näswall, Venkataraman Nilakant and Joana Kuntz PART V CONCLUSION 22 Conceptualizing the who, what, when, where, why and how of resilience in organizations 338 Brianna Barker Caza, Michelle A. Barton, Marlys K. Christianson and Kathleen M. 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Book SynopsisThis innovative textbook applies a practical and engaging approach to the rapidly evolving field of international management. Students will learn the many complexities that managers must address when making decisions in the global marketplace. Covering a range of leadership challenges, including environmental change, social responsibility, global strategies, communication organizational change and human resources. International Management identifies the responsibilities and obligations of managers in the age of globalization. Key features include: Critical chapters on global corporate governance, corporate compliance and global environmental issues, which invite students to consider some of the ways in which global businesses affect the world around us Thirteen global case studies exploring the mechanisms of some of the world's leading business performers, including Patek Philippe, Nestlé, Adidas, Bombardier and the BBC, giving students the opportunity to further their understanding by identifying theory in practice Comprehensive opening vignettes framing each case study to facilitate classroom discussion. This is an ideal core textbook for use in undergraduate international management courses as well as an introductory text at postgraduate level. It also offers supplementary reading for strategic management or general management classes.Table of ContentsContents: 1. The Complexity of Globalization 2. The External Global Environment 3. Ethics and Social Responsibility 4. Global Corporate Governance and Corporate Compliance 5. Managing Across Cultures 6. Cross-Cultural Communication and Negotiation 7. Entry Strategies and Organizational Structures 8. Global Strategies 9. Management Decision-Making and Control 10. Motivation Across Cultures 11. Leadership 12. Human Resource Issues 13. International Environmental Issues Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative textbook applies a practical and engaging approach to the rapidly evolving field of international management. Students will learn the many complexities that managers must address when making decisions in the global marketplace. Covering a range of leadership challenges, including environmental change, social responsibility, global strategies, communication organizational change and human resources. International Management identifies the responsibilities and obligations of managers in the age of globalization. Key features include: Critical chapters on global corporate governance, corporate compliance and global environmental issues, which invite students to consider some of the ways in which global businesses affect the world around us Thirteen global case studies exploring the mechanisms of some of the world's leading business performers, including Patek Philippe, Nestlé, Adidas, Bombardier and the BBC, giving students the opportunity to further their understanding by identifying theory in practice Comprehensive opening vignettes framing each case study to facilitate classroom discussion. This is an ideal core textbook for use in undergraduate international management courses as well as an introductory text at postgraduate level. It also offers supplementary reading for strategic management or general management classes.Table of ContentsContents: 1. The Complexity of Globalization 2. The External Global Environment 3. Ethics and Social Responsibility 4. Global Corporate Governance and Corporate Compliance 5. Managing Across Cultures 6. Cross-Cultural Communication and Negotiation 7. Entry Strategies and Organizational Structures 8. Global Strategies 9. Management Decision-Making and Control 10. Motivation Across Cultures 11. Leadership 12. Human Resource Issues 13. International Environmental Issues Index

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Book SynopsisThis textbook addresses the most crucial strategic decisions and management challenges facing managers of multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating across different institutional settings and complex cultural contexts.How can managers of MNEs address pressures for local responsiveness and global integration? What are cultural and institutional differences and how do they impact the management of MNEs?How can managers create social capital across the MNE in the face of such differences? How can managers ensure knowledge transfer across the MNE? How can human resources be managed in a world of differing standards?Taking a critical, multi-level approach to international business, this textbook: Explores the strategic choices available to managers of MNEs and their consequences in an interactive way, providing an original, and engaging approach to the subject for students seeking to understand the issues faced by managers of MNEs Gives state-of-the-art theoretical overviews of topics related to global strategy and management, making this textbook a useful reference for academics as well as students Offers thirteen original, rich, case studies to illustrate each chapter's theory, highlighting the key challenges and dilemmas faced by managers of MNEs Provides clear exposition and critique of current literature to provide students with a firm theoretical understanding of the subject. This textbook provides a fresh and important contribution to the management of MNEs and will be invaluable for both students at masters level and their lecturers. It will also appeal to practitioners facing the daily challenges of managing MNEs.Trade ReviewGlobal Strategy and Management: Theory and Practice is articulate and highly readable, covering all the main topics in the field with a synthesis of current thinking and with numerous illustrative cases. As such it is a comprehensive, focused and immediately useful textbook in the course of International Management and Global Strategy.' --Torben Pedersen, Bocconi University, Italy'This is the second edition of this excellent and well-written book and if anything it has improved. The familiar topics from the first edition are still there, though reorganised into a more logical frame, and new sections and topics not only update the research base but have added a more critical element into the analysis. The new and once again extensive case studies add a valuable element linking the analysis to real-life issues. Both students and teachers will learn much from this book' --Chris Brewster, Henley Business School, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Setting the scene: The multinational enterprise 2. Why and how firms internationalize 3. International strategy and competitive advantage 4. Strategic decisions: Operating modes 5. Managing external stakeholders 6. Corporate social responsibility 7. National culture 8. Institutional context 9. Social Capital building and knowledge transfer 10. Cross-national transfer of HRM 11. International career development as global strategy Index

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Book SynopsisThis textbook addresses the most crucial strategic decisions and management challenges facing managers of multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating across different institutional settings and complex cultural contexts.How can managers of MNEs address pressures for local responsiveness and global integration? What are cultural and institutional differences and how do they impact the management of MNEs?How can managers create social capital across the MNE in the face of such differences? How can managers ensure knowledge transfer across the MNE? How can human resources be managed in a world of differing standards?Taking a critical, multi-level approach to international business, this textbook: Explores the strategic choices available to managers of MNEs and their consequences in an interactive way, providing an original, and engaging approach to the subject for students seeking to understand the issues faced by managers of MNEs Gives state-of-the-art theoretical overviews of topics related to global strategy and management, making this textbook a useful reference for academics as well as students Offers thirteen original, rich, case studies to illustrate each chapter's theory, highlighting the key challenges and dilemmas faced by managers of MNEs Provides clear exposition and critique of current literature to provide students with a firm theoretical understanding of the subject. This textbook provides a fresh and important contribution to the management of MNEs and will be invaluable for both students at masters level and their lecturers. It will also appeal to practitioners facing the daily challenges of managing MNEs.Trade ReviewGlobal Strategy and Management: Theory and Practice is articulate and highly readable, covering all the main topics in the field with a synthesis of current thinking and with numerous illustrative cases. As such it is a comprehensive, focused and immediately useful textbook in the course of International Management and Global Strategy.' --Torben Pedersen, Bocconi University, Italy'This is the second edition of this excellent and well-written book and if anything it has improved. The familiar topics from the first edition are still there, though reorganised into a more logical frame, and new sections and topics not only update the research base but have added a more critical element into the analysis. The new and once again extensive case studies add a valuable element linking the analysis to real-life issues. Both students and teachers will learn much from this book' --Chris Brewster, Henley Business School, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Setting the scene: The multinational enterprise 2. Why and how firms internationalize 3. International strategy and competitive advantage 4. Strategic decisions: Operating modes 5. Managing external stakeholders 6. Corporate social responsibility 7. National culture 8. Institutional context 9. Social Capital building and knowledge transfer 10. Cross-national transfer of HRM 11. International career development as global strategy Index

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Book SynopsisAcclaim for previous editions: 'The International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2011 provides comprehensive statistical data on world manufacturing. . . The Yearbook represents a massive effort in data collection, data harmonization, and tabular presentation - well beyond the constraints of time and resources available to the average researcher or investigator. Therefore, the Yearbook presents a vast amount of information in a convenient form.'- William C. Struning, American Reference Books Annual 2012'The UNIDO International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics is now a classic reference. . . The different editions of the Yearbook provide a unique statistical tool for analyzing the world industry.'- Revue d'Economie Industrielle / Industrial Economics Review'This annual publication seems to be the only international publication providing worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector. In terms of comprehensiveness, accuracy, and cross-country comparisons this volume is unparalleled . . . If you are looking for an authoritative source for comparative international statistics on industrial information, this is it.'- Andrea Meyer, Business Information Alert'This is a unique and massive effort by UNIDO providing comparative statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector worldwide . . . There is no doubt that the volume is a most important source book for economists, planners and policymakers.'- Pradosh Nath, Journal of Science and Industrial Research'UNIDO has done well to bridge gaps in information noticed so far in industrial statistics worldwide and its companionship and usefulness will be realised by all users of this documentation in governmental, industrial and academic circles, as a must on every working desk. Its reliability is fully backed up by authoritative analysis.'- Rajinder Kunmar, Marketing and Management NewsA unique and comprehensive source of information, this book is the only international publication providing economists, planners, policymakers and business people with worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector.The Yearbook is designed to facilitate international comparisons relating to manufacturing activity and industrial development and performance. It provides data which can be used to analyze patterns of growth and related long term trends, structural change and industrial performance in individual industries. Statistics on employment patterns, wages, consumption and gross output and other key indicators are also presented.Trade ReviewAcclaim for previous editions:‘The International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2011 provides comprehensive statistical data on world manufacturing. . . The Yearbook represents a massive effort in data collection, data harmonization, and tabular presentation – well beyond the constraints of time and resources available to the average researcher or investigator. Therefore, the Yearbook presents a vast amount of information in a convenient form.’ -- William C. Struning, American Reference Books Annual 2012‘The UNIDO International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics is now a classic reference. . . The different editions of the Yearbook provide a unique statistical tool for analyzing the world industry.’ -- Revue d’Economie Industrielle / Industrial Economics Review‘This annual publication seems to be the only international publication providing worldwide statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector. In terms of comprehensiveness, accuracy, and cross-country comparisons this volume is unparalleled . . . If you are looking for an authoritative source for comparative international statistics on industrial information, this is it.’ -- Andrea Meyer, Business Information Alert‘This is a unique and massive effort by UNIDO providing comparative statistics on current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector worldwide . . . There is no doubt that the volume is a most important source book for economists, planners and policymakers.’ -- Pradosh Nath, Journal of Science and Industrial Research‘UNIDO has done well to bridge gaps in information noticed so far in industrial statistics worldwide and its companionship and usefulness will be realised by all users of this documentation in governmental, industrial and academic circles, as a must on every working desk. Its reliability is fully backed up by authoritative analysis.’ -- Rajinder Kunmar, Marketing and Management NewsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Summary Tables Section 1.1 The Manufacturing Sector Section 1.2 The Manufacturing Divisions Part II: Country Tables

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Book SynopsisRevised and extended for its second edition, Contemporary Issues in Management provides a unique up-to-date view of the 'messy reality' of the complex management dilemmas facing workers and managers in the business environment today. Using a critical approach, the authors offer original perspectives on organisational behaviour and the sociology of work. Presenting business case studies and analysis, this textbook covers a broad range of key themes, including ethical and social issues, diversity, migration, continuity and change. Chapters present research studies into diverse areas, from teleworking to apprenticeships, food production, volunteering and factory working.This fully updated second edition textbook provides: Discussions of management issues in their wider philosophical and political contexts to allow students to have a broader understanding and interpretation of how management affects complex real-life situations Original and in-depth qualitative case studies present lived experience rather than abstract 'model' or 'idealised' problems for successful application of theory Examples of a wide range of management practices gives students the necessary knowledge for a globalised perspective on work and business A critical approach to the topic, to develop students' analytical skills to recognise problems, and suggest suitable solutions Questions and further reading sections for use in teaching and self study. This textbook is an invaluable guide for those studying organisational behaviour and business management, as well as the sociology and ethnography of work and workplaces. Contributors include: S.B. Emery, S. French, L. Hamilton, M. Keleman, D. Knights, A. Mangan, D. McCabe, L. Mitchell, T. Oultram, G. Pearson, U. Salmon, L. Stringer, E. Surman, N. TaylorTable of ContentsContents: Part I Thinking Critically About Business Management 1. Is there another way of organising? Considering the possibilities of alternative organisations Anita Mangan 2. The corruption of business: A statement of a contemporary problem Gordon Pearson 3. Dignity and recognition through work Laura Mitchell 4. Facing the uncertainties and realities of work and migration in the ‘Brexit Age’ Steve French 5. Ambiguity as organisational practice: An American Pragmatist perspective Michaela Keleman Part II Contemporary Work: Conditions, Challenges and Alternatives 6. Is paternalism still relevant? Changing the culture in a UK insurance company Darren McCabe and David Knights 7. Taken over by technology: remote work, anxious work or no work at all? Emma Surman 8. “One Day, All This Will Be Yours”: A Bourdieusian Exploration of Innovation in the Family Firm Udeni Salmon 9. Disjointed, degraded and divided? A tale of dirty work at the chicken factory Lindsay Hamilton and Darren McCabe 10. Hard work, productivity and the management of the farmed environment Steven B. Emery 11. Youth employment, masculinity and policy Teresa Oultram and Lee Stringer 12. Caring Companions: Volunteering, identity and morality in the rescue shelter Nik Taylor and Lindsay Hamilton Index

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Book SynopsisEmerging from what was a somewhat staid sub-discipline, there is currently a battle for the soul of Management and Organizational History (MOH), at the centre of which is a widespread concern that much recent work has been more about how one should or might do history rather than actually doing historical work. If ever there was a time for a new volume on MOH, this is certainly it. This Handbook affords space to both these perspectives, as well as uncovering unorthodox and unconventional topics and approaches to more familiar territory with an emphasis on new and revisionist viewpoints. MOH researchers, doctoral and other students and instructors working in this sub-discipline will discover cutting-edge work with novel treatments of familiar terrain in the Handbook. Contributors include: A. Barros, F. Bastien, A. Booth, T. Bridgman, K. Bruce, D. Coraiola, N. Cornelius, S. Cummings, G. Durepos, W.M. Foster, A.G. Gillett, M. Maclean, R. Marens, P.G. McLaren, A.J. Mills, J.H. Mills, J. Muldoon, E.S. O Connor, E. Pezet, R. Pistol, C. Quinn-Trank, H.L. Schachter, G. Shaw, K.D. Tennent, S. Wanderley, K.S. Williams, M. Witzel, T. Yu, Y. ZollerTrade Review'Kyle Bruce has succeeded in producing a worthwhile introduction to the tension between management historians who actually do historical work and their postmodern colleagues who write about how one should or might do it. The contributed chapters composing the Handbook make abundantly clear that the practice of history cannot be separated from its theoretical foundations. Regardless of academic persuasion - whether one thinks that all interpretations of the past are invented or, in contrast, believe that there is an objective reality - readers of all stripes will benefit from being exposed to the arguments advanced by adherents of both camps.' --Arthur G. Bedeian, Louisiana State University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Research on Management and Organizational History: the hotly contested present state of management and organizational history 1 Kyle Bruce PART I CLASSIC FOUNDATIONS 2 Thinking differently about Adam Smith’s legacy for management studies 11 Stephen Cummings and Todd Bridgman 3 The uses of Frederick Winslow Taylor: how management theorists have interpreted scientific management over the years and why 39 Hindy Lauer Schachter 4 Contested paths: a meta-analytic review of the Hawthorne studies’ literature 56 Jeff Muldoon and Yaron Zoller 5 Making the Res Publica: the political basis of management in the US – the works of Joseph Wharton, Mary Parker Follett, and Chester Barnard 80 Ellen S. O’Connor 6 Seebohm Rowntree and the British interwar management movement 101 Mairi Maclean, Gareth Shaw, Alan Booth, Rachel Pistol and Morgen Witzel PART II ALTERNATIVE VOICES 7 From West Point to points west: the French absolutist roots of the American industrial corporation 123 Richard Marens 8 Towards a Zen-informed approach to management and organizational history 146 Tianyuan Yu, Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills 9 Sport and project management: a window into the development of temporary organizations 169 Alex G. Gillett and Kevin D. Tennent 10 Decolonialism and management (geo)history: is the past also a place? 192 Amon Barros and Sérgio Wanderley 11 The commercial practices of the crown and the state: locating British trade with, and ‘commercial imperialism’ in, Africa, in the geopolitics of Europe 212 Nelarine Cornelius and Eric Pezet PART III ABOUT HISTORY 12 Feminist critical historiography: undoing history – a conceptual model 242 Kristin S. Williams 13 Unpacking organizational re-membering 256 William M. Foster, Diego Coraiola, Chris Quinn-Trank and François Bastien 14 Contextualizing the historian: an ANTi-History perspective 275 Gabrielle Durepos, Albert J. Mills and Patricia Genoe McLaren Index 293

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Book SynopsisOutlining both historical foundations and the latest research trends, this Research Handbook offers a unique and cutting-edge overview of the numerous avenues to responsible management. Opening with a conceptual mapping of the field, thought leaders such as Henry Mintzberg and Archie Carroll present foundational and controversial views. Frameworks such as sustainability management, responsible leadership, humanistic and biomimetic management are introduced. Glocal approaches include responsible management with Chinese characteristics, West African Yoruba, and American Pragmatism. Exploring frameworks for the responsible management process, such as theories of practice, and for responsible management learning and innovation, readers are introduced to key methods responsible management research, such as participatory action research. Groundbreaking in scope and depth, this Handbook caters to the responsible management research community, particularly to the Academy of Management and to United Nations PRME signatory business schools. Policymakers and practitioners will benefit from its insight into the latest advances in responsible management research. Contributors include: N.J. Adler, S. Almeida, O. Andrianova, E. Antonacopoulou, J.M. Bartunek, M. Beckmann, A.J. Beveridge, L. Bizzi, V. Blok, N. Bocken, L. Carollo, A.B. Carrol, R. Colbourne, M. Constantinescu, F. Cooren, S. Dmitrieva, S. Dmytrev, R.E. Freeman, P. Fu, M. Gentile, S. Gherardi, L. Godwin, J.F.S. Gomes, M. Guerci, T. Hahn, E. Iñigo, D. Jamali, H. Jiang, D.A. Jones, M. Kaptein, S. Kennedy, D. King, N. Kuriyama, O. Laasch, C. Land, N.E. Landrum, K. Langmead, T.B. Long, S. Looser, J. Mair, M. Manidis, T.M.G. Marques, L. McCarthy, T. Mead, D. Melé, S. Mena, J.P. Mika, H. Mintzberg, N. Nguyen, W. Ocasio, O. Ogechi, K. Ogunyemi, E. Osagie, T. Padan, S. Parker, I. Pavez, M. Pirson, O.M. Price, S. Pulcher, Q. Qu, M. Racz, N. Radoynovska, A. Rasche, H. Rintamäki, D.E. Rupp, S. Schaltegger, A. Strati, C. Stutz, R. Suddaby, C. Tams, S. Tams, H. Trittin, C. Van der Byl, E. van Mil, R. van Tulder, S. Waddock, R. Wesselink, C.R. Willness, B. Yang, I. Yi RenTrade Review'This Research Handbook includes the ''who's who'' of responsible management, from the most established senior scholars who have shaped the field to the new emerging voices who will shape the future of the field. This Research Handbook is a critical resource for any serious scholar in responsible management.' --Tima Bansal, Western University, Canada'We have, at long last, entered a period of transformation with regard to capitalism and the role of business in society. The age of shareholder primacy is coming to a close. During such turbulent times, it helps to have a roadmap to help us navigate our way to the future. This Research Handbook of Responsible Management provides the intellectual guide needed.' --Stuart L. Hart, University of Vermont, US, author of Capitalism at the Crossroads'Management has made the world that we live in. The world that we live in could now be destroyed by management. Massive inequalities, a sense that the elites are failing the people and a very real climate emergency have been caused by contemporary forms of organization. Now, more than ever, we need to rethink management, and this book makes a real contribution to that project.' --Martin Parker, University of Bristol, UKTable of ContentsContents PART I SETTING THE STAGE 1 Mapping the emerging field of responsible management: domains, spheres, themes, and future research 2 Oliver Laasch, Roy Suddaby, R. Edward Freeman and Dima Jamali 2 Can management ever be responsible? Alternative organizing and the three irresponsibilities of management 40 Kiri Langmead, Chris Land and Daniel King 3 What ‘are’ responsible management? A conceptual potluck 56 Archie B. Carroll, Nancy J. Adler, Henry Mintzberg, François Cooren, Roy Suddaby, R. Edward Freeman and Oliver Laasch PART II ICONIC VIEWS 4 Mintzberg on (ir)responsible management 73 Henry Mintzberg and Oliver Laasch 5 From managerial responsibility to CSR and back to responsible management 84 Archie B. Carroll and Oliver Laasch 6 Responsible management as re-enchantment and retrovation 91 Roy Suddaby and Oliver Laasch 7 Responsible leadership and management: key distinctions and shared concerns 100 Nancy J. Adler and Oliver Laasch 8 From ‘management sucks’ to ‘responsible management rocks!’ 113 R. Edward Freeman and Oliver Laasch PART III MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS 9 Sustainability management from a responsible management perspective 122 Markus Beckmann, Stefan Schaltegger and Nancy E. Landrum 10 Responsible leadership and/versus responsible management 138 Tânia M. G. Marques and Jorge F. S. Gomes 11 Ethics management and ethical management: mapping criteria and interventions to support responsible management practice 155 Mihaela Constantinescu and Muel Kaptein 12 Responsible governance: broadening the corporate governance discourse to include positive duties and collective action 175 Rob van Tulder and Eveline van Mil 13 Humanistic management as integrally responsible management? 195 Michael Pirson 14 Bioinspiration as a guide for responsible management 212 Taryn L. Mead and Nancy E. Landrum PART IV GLOCAL AND SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVES 15 The United Nations Global Compact and the Sustainable Development Goals 228 Andreas Rasche 16 The multinational perspective on responsible management: managing risk-responsibility trade-offs across borders 242 Rob van Tulder 17 Responsible management: an Indigenous perspective 260 Jason Paul Mika, Rick Colbourne and Shamika Almeida 18 Islamic perspective of responsible management 277 Yusuf Sidani 19 Catholic social teaching and responsible management 292 Domènec Melé 20 Responsible management with Chinese characteristics 304 Pingping Fu, Qing Qu, Bo Yang and Huihua Jiang 21 The Japanese perspective on responsible management 318 Naoki Kuriyama 22 Responsible managers for the common good: African (Igbo and Yoruba) perspectives on responsible management 332 Kemi Ogunyemi and Ogechi Obiorah 23 “Honorable merchant” and “handshake quality”: interpretations of individually responsible leadership 345 Stéphanie Looser and Joachim Schwalbach 24 American pragmatism and responsible management: the role of John Dewey 364 Svetlana N. Dmitrieva, R. Edward Freeman and Sergiy D. Dmytriyev PART V CONCEPTUALIZING PROCESS AND PRACTICES 25 Corporate social responsibility at the individual level of analysis: research findings that inform responsible management “in the wild” 375 Chelsea R. Willness, David A. Jones, Nicole Strah and Deborah E. Rupp 26 Enacting responsible management: a practice-based perspective 392 Oriana Milani Price, Silvia Gherardi and Marie Manidis 27 Beauty of responsible management: the lens and methodology of organizational aesthetics 410 Antonio Strati 28 The emerging logic of responsible management: institutional pluralism, leadership, and strategizing 420 Nevena Radoynovska, William Ocasio and Oliver Laasch 29 Responsible management of sustainability tensions: a paradoxical approach to grand challenges 438 Connie Van der Byl, Natalie Slawinski and Tobias Hahn 30 Consensus vs. dissensus: the communicative constitution of responsible management 453 Dennis Schoeneborn, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich and François Cooren 31 Managing the past responsibly: a collective memory perspective on responsibility, sustainability and ethics 470 Sébastien Mena and Jukka Rintamäki PART VI LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT 32 Responsible managers’ workplace learning 485 Olga Andrianova and Elena Antonacopoulou 33 Responsible management unlearning 501 Tali Padan and Nhien Nguyen 34 Differentiating CSR managers’ roles and competencies: taking conflicts as a starting point 516 Renate Wesselink and Eghe R. Osagie 35 Giving voice to values: responsible management as facilitation of ethical voice 532 Carsten Tams and Mary C. Gentile 36 A strength-based approach to responsible management: professional moral courage and moral competency 549 Leslie E. Sekerka 37 The dynamics of responsible careers and their impact on societal issues: a conceptual framework 565 Svenja Tams PART VII INNOVATION AND CHANGE 38 Responsible job crafting 583 Lorenzo Bizzi 39 Whistleblowing as a crucial practice for responsible management 594 Luca Carollo, Simone Pulcher and Marco Guerci 40 Responsible management of innovation in business 606 Thomas B. Long, Edurne Iñigo and Vincent Blok 41 Social innovation: specifying pathways for impact 624 Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair 42 Innovating business models for sustainability: an essential practice for responsible managers 640 Steve Kennedy and Nancy Bocken 43 Institutional work and (ir)responsible management 654 Lauren McCarthy and Sébastien Mena 44 Memes, transformational change, and responsible leadership 670 Sandra Waddock PART VIII ENGAGED RESEARCH 45 Critically responsible management: agonistic answers to antagonistic questions 686 Marton Racz and Simon Parker 46 Realizing the critical performative potential of responsible organizational research through participant action research 700 Kiri Langmead and Daniel King 47 Inquiring into change and innovation for greater responsibility through an appreciative inquiry lens 715 ‘Alim J. Beveridge, Lindsey Godwin and Ignacio Pavez 48 Creating standards for responsible translation of management research for practitioners 729 Isabelle Yi Ren and Jean M. Bartunek 49 Using the past responsibly: what responsible managers and management academics can learn from historians’ professional ethics 745 Christian Stutz and Judith Schrempf-Stirling Index 759

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Book Synopsis'In the current surge of organizational theory research on emotions in organizations, Dirk Lindebaum's book makes a unique and important contribution. He identifies and explores how workers' emotions are being abused as a tool of social repression by our bosses. In bringing together critical theory and theory on emotion regulation, he stimulates us to see through the workings of managerial power and, in the same go, offers ways to resist repressive emotional conditions in the workplace. A remarkable accomplishment that deserves to be read for both its theoretical insights and practical relevance!'- Frank den Hond, Hanken School of Economics, FinlandEmotion is often used by organizations to manipulate and repress workers. However, this repression can have adverse psychological and social consequences for them. This book articulates the pathways through which this repression occurs, and offers emotion regulation as a tool for workers to emancipate themselves from this repression and social control.Bringing together the largely unconnected literatures on critical theory and emotion regulation, this book articulates two pathways to social control currently underexplored in management: one where the social functions of emotion are exploited, and one where discussions about emotion override its social function. The author illustrates the processes through which workers can start to 'see through' the repression, and enlist emotion regulation strategies to emancipate themselves from it. These strategies may work in the short to medium term but, in the long term, workers may eventually change jobs. If staff turnover becomes unsustainable, the organization can seek to change the social structures causing the repression of workers in the first place. Combining fresh theoretical insights with practically informed vignettes, this book will appeal to academics and students across many social science disciplines, including business studies, organization studies, cognitive change, sociology and psychology. Both practising managers and disenchanted workers will also find this an enlightening read.Trade Review'In today's Western industrialized world, emotional regulation is usually taken to be a sine qua non. In this book, however, Lindebaum challenges this assumption, asserting that our emotions are critical for individual achievement and wellbeing and that, rather than seeking to control our emotions, we need to ''act with creativity, spontaneity, and autonomy''. Arguing from a critical management perspective, he makes a convincing case. This is a book that will be of interest not only to researchers, but also to management practitioners and consultants.' --Neal M. Ashkanasy, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia'This is a passionate book which has grown out of the author's different experiences of organizational injustices and oppressions in which emotions play a major part. . . Emotional labour now stands on par with intellectual and manual labour as an arena of workplace politics, a politics that frequently leaves workers exploited, oppressed and depressed. This book takes the discourse a stage further. Lindebaum not only seeks to redeem emotions from the stifling controls to which they are put, but he also argues that emotional regulation by the workers themselves can act as a defence against organizational injustice and, more ambitiously, as an emancipatory force.' --Organization'Whose business is emotions? Your own? Your workplace's? Your culture's? In this erudite book Dirk Lindebaum steers through this fascinating territory to pinpoint the emotional traps that workers face and, importantly, how they may escape from them. This well-researched book helps us look at emotion with fresh eyes and offers important insights for scholars and students of emotion.' --Stephen Fineman, University of Bath, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Emotion, its function and Emancipation from social control 3. Emancipation from emotional repression through emotion regulation 4. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThere is often little guidance available on how to teach in universities, despite there being increasing pressure to raise teaching standards, as well as no official requirement for academics to have any specific teaching qualification in many countries. This invaluable book comprehensively addresses this issue, providing an overview of teaching in a business school that covers all stages of student learning. This book demonstrates various ways to engage students and offers techniques to enhance teaching practice, focusing on particular challenges such as large group teaching, increasing attendance and engagement, and successful professional development. All the contributors have current experience of teaching in a business school, allowing them to offer honest, personal assessments of what is effective in practice. Chapters address specific topics such as technology enhanced learning, while useful 'thoughts' provide creative and innovative suggestions on improving participation and outcomes. Learning and Teaching in Higher Education will be an important resource for those teaching in a business school setting, as well as having significant value to anyone teaching in higher education more generally.Trade Review'This is an intensely practical and practice-inspired book aimed at the new, and not so new, HE instructor. Illustrations, thoughts, reflections and tips for the practitioner are generously provided throughout. Old and new tools and techniques, from storytelling to the virtual classroom, are brought to life; challenging and encouraging the reader to broaden their practice.' --Ann Davis, University of Sydney, Australia'This conversational collection offers an array of practical tips, personal anecdotes and examples for teaching in business and management contexts. Lecturers who are new to teaching will no doubt find it very useful to get started, while more experienced colleagues may want to dip into it for fresh ideas.' --Alison James, University of Winchester, UK'This is an essential resource for anyone teaching and supporting learning in a business school. The variety and richness of practical approaches, pedagogic reflections and initiatives presented in the context of business and management education is simply outstanding. Well done for this must-read collection of inspirational ideas and tried and tested approaches that will inspire us all to get more creative in the business classroom.' --Sally Everett, King's College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Foreword Introduction 1. Theorising about learning and knowing Keith Schofield Engaging Students 2. How to engage students Alison Lindon and Michael Butler 3. Icebreakers for business school students Ilias Basioudis Thought 1 Alison Lindon and Michael Butler 4. Trumping Truancy: Maintaining student attendance and engagement Gayatri Patel Thought 2 Kathy Daniels 5. Helping our students to think critically Elaine Clarke Thought 3 Daniel Cash 6. How to introduce and integrate creativity Bimal Arora 7. How to invigorate group presentations Matthew Olczak Thought 4 Gayatri Patel 8. Bridging the Gap: Writing in Higher Education Daniel Cash Enhancing Teaching Practice 9. Getting the most out of large group teaching Caroline Elliott and Jon Guest 10. Storytelling as a technique for teaching Sudeshna Bhattacharya Thought 5 Geetha Ravishankar 11. Experiential learning: Use of business simulations Clive Kerridge Thought 6 Kris Lines 12. How to do a confident presentation Chris Jones Thought 7 Caroline Elliott and Jon Guest 13. Making teaching relevant for the business student Kathy Daniels 14. Problem based learning Chris Owen Thought 8 Alison McPherson 15. Teaching students struggling because English is not their first language Pieter Koornhof 16. How to teach students from a range of different countries Uche Ogwude Thought 9 Matthew Olczak 17. Teaching small groups Alison McPherson Technology Enhanced Learning 18. Technology enhanced learning activities and student participation Bahar Kazmi and Umair Riaz Thought 10 Elaine Clarke 19. Cultivating students’ digital literacy Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Oscar Rodríguez-Espindola, Ahmad Beltagui and Pavel Albores-Barajas Thought 11 Uche Ogwude 20. Designing and teaching an online module Jon Taylor, Richard Terry and Matt Davies Thought 12 Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Oscar Rodríguez-Espindola, Ahmad Beltagui and Pavel Albores-Barajas 21. Successful teaching in virtual classrooms Richard Terry, Jon Taylor and Matt Davies Thought 13 Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Oscar Rodríguez-Espindola, Ahmad Beltagui and Pavel Albores-Barajas 22. Managing online learning Nicholas Theodorakopoulos, Teaching Content 23. The use of short in-class games Jon Guest, Maria Kozlovskaya and Matthew Olczak 24. Teaching maths to non-mathematical standards Geetha Ravishankar Thought 14 Pieter Koornhof 25. How to embed CSR in teaching Muhammed Al Mahameed and Umair Riaz 26. Teaching Law to business students Adam Shaw-Mellors and Pieter Koornhof Thought 15 Adam Shaw-Mellors 27. Practitioner module partnership and sponsorship Keith Glanfield Assessment 28. Demystifying the assessment criteria Gayatri Patel Thought 16 Bimal Arora 29. Using posters in academic assessments Kris Lines 30. Writing effective multiple choice questions Simon Finley Thought 17 Kathy Daniels 31. Peer assessment Elaine Clarke 32. Providing effective feedback Jon Guest Index

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Book Synopsis'Diane Nijs's development of Imagineering is at the forefront of innovation research. It is both daringly original and eminently applicable. It is a major contribution to the scholarly literature on innovation as well as for practitioners who want to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of the theory and practice of innovation.'- Alfonso Montuori, California Institute of Integral Studies, USThe most pressing problems facing society today, such as enhancing healthcare, revitalizing cities, and improving our systems and institutions are complex innovation eco-systems. Articulating and illustrating how experience design can unlock experience innovation, Diane Nijs and her colleagues present new ways of effectuating corporate, public, social and whole system innovation through collective creation. This ground-breaking book makes several contributions to the fields of innovation and design thinking by taking complexity science as its point of reference. It shows how two complementary types of science - a Newtonian equilibrium science of forces and a complexity science of simple rules - lead to two types of innovation policy and two complementary types of design thinking. By enhancing conventional design thinking with the systemic design approach of imagineering, this book offers readers a fresh perspective on innovation in times of growing complexity.This is a highly provocative book for scholars, practitioners and students in the field of change and innovation. It will also prove to be a useful tool for design thinking in management systems.Contributors include: C. Camargo-Borges, F. Campos, G. Maree, D. Nijs, F. Ouwens, L. Terzieva, A. van Dam, L. WanderleyTrade Review'Evolution does not just happen, it can be designed by the Imagineering approach as Diane Nijs and colleagues set out in this groundbreaking new book. Finding the right language to kindle inspiration and pro-active creativity can lead to a new self-organised sustainable yet dynamic state. This book argues that we can make people-led changes to society at a high systemic level to advance in desirable new directions.' --Ir. M.A. Voûte, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands'Design, innovation and co-creation are espoused by many executives and policy makers, but rather difficult to accomplish in practice. Advanced Imagineering shows how a mechanical view of the world locks executives and politicians into a 'hyper-simplification' that makes them blind to the complexity of reality. This book presents a highly useful roadmap for 'innovation as collective creation', illustrated with many cases. A must read for those facing fuzzy challenges that require collective action.' --Georges Romme, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands'Advanced Imagineering innovates the concept of innovation itself. It's a must-read for anyone who wants the latest theory, insights, and tools for leading collaborative transformation in today's disruptive world.' --Soren Kaplan, University of Southern California, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Benyamin Lichtenstein Preface 1. Introduction: Towards a New Design Discipline Diane Nijs PART I FOUNDATIONS OF IMAGINEERING 2. LANDSCAPE: A Big Shift in Society: Growing Complexity and the Innovation Opportunity Diane Nijs 3. LENS: A Big Shift in Science: Seeing Change and Innovation as a matter of Emergence Diane Nijs 4. LOGIC: A Big Shift in Design: Imagineering, Beyond Conventional Design Thinking Diane Nijs PART II THE SYSTEMIC DESIGN APPROACH OF IMAGINEERING 5. A-ppreciating Celiane Camargo-Borges 6. B-reathing Lilian Wanderley and Fabio Campos 7. C-reating Frank Ouwens 8. D-eveloping Geoff Maree 9. E-nabling Angelica van Dam 10. F-lourishing Liliya Terzieva Index

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Book SynopsisIn the face of the COVID-19 virus, organizations large and small are shuttering offices and factories, requiring as much work as possible be done from peoples’ homes. The book draws on the insights of the author's earlier book, Lessons from Mars, providing a set of the powerful tools and exercises developed within the Mars Corporation to create high performance teams. These tools have been adapted for teams suddenly forced to work apart, in many cases for the first time. These simple secrets and tested techniques have been used by thousands of teams who know that creating a foundation of team identity and shared meaning makes them resilient, even in a time of crisis. The "Resilience Series" is the result of an intensive, collaborative effort of our authors in response to the 2020 coronavirus epidemic. Each volume offers expert advice for developing the practical, emotional and spiritual skills that you can master to become more resilient in a time of crisis.

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Book SynopsisIn this insightful book, Alexander Styhre examines how corporations, often understood primarily as economic entities or legal devices, seek to influence and shape the market and the wider society in which they operate. Given the scope of such activities in most advanced economies, Styhre argues that corporations are political agents in their own right and that they must be critically analyzed in these terms. The book discusses the history and mechanisms of corporate law and the introduction of regulatory control to show how this has led to the development of a 'market for political influence' in the form of the lobbyism industry, think tank scholarship and advocacy, and donations to politicians and their parties. Theoretical perspectives are complemented by empirical studies as chapters analyze a variety of practices, such as corporate social responsibility commitments, in the light of corporations' political objectives. Management studies scholars and graduate students will benefit from the broadened perspective this book adds to organization theory and management studies literature. It will also prove an insightful read for policy makers and those working in regulatory agencies, as well as management consultants.Trade Review'Styhre provides a much-needed management perspective on the political dimension of corporations. Reaching back to the origins of the corporation to trace its constitution through politics, he investigates the role of politics in markets and markets in politics, opening up understanding of the corporation to its environment in a way that reminds the reader of Polanyi's great works. This is a book that should be on the reading list for any management scholar as well as for every MBA student.' --Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Uppsala University, SwedenTable of ContentsContent: Introduction: The political constitution of the corporation 1. The legal invention of the incorporated business 2. Market regulation and corporate interests 3. The market for political influence 4. The question of corporate social responsibilities 5. The corporation and the future competitive capitalism Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This insightful Research Agenda provides reflections on the state of the international business and management discipline and also highlights important future topics for research. The book especially covers a range of thought-provoking ideas on key subjects, from externalisation theory to emerging market economies to societal crises and modern slavery.This Research Agenda also revisits the relevance of core theories; examines the changing roles of nation states and multinationals as well as power relations and ideologies; and discusses new phenomena in international business and management (IB/M). Authors emphasise the merits of and the need for incorporating insights from critical perspectives and, finally, a commentary is given on fulfilling the future agendas laid out in the chapters.This will be a useful read for postgraduate students and researchers of IB/M. Academics in neighbouring subfields including social geography, political science and economic sociology will also find beneficial insights.Trade Review'Climate change, increasing inequality, pandemic, political turmoil... ''Thinking out of the box'' is exactly what we need to do. But how can we do that? This book will help us leave our comfort zone and encourage our renewed challenges to overcome the box.' -- Takahiro Endo, Hitotsubashi University Business School, Tokyo, Japan'Ödül Bozkurt and Mike Geppert have brought together a selective and creative set of scholars to revisit how to conduct research in international business and management from a more relevant and critical perspective. Authors in this edited book identify chasms in mainstream ideas, illustrate how to think outside the box and practice cross-disciplinary fertilization. This leads to analysis of international dynamics emerging from the role of nation states, power relations, ideology and crises. It is a must read for scholars interested in tackling big questions in IB.' -- Ruth Aguilera, Northeastern University, US'''Thinking out of the box'' is definitely needed in order to write this book A Research Agenda for International Business and Management (IB/M) and address the current and future grand challenges of society. This impressive edited book by Bozkurt and Geppert thoroughly analyzes a number of topical themes within IB/M emphasizing multinational enterprises and internationalization processes and operations on the one hand, and themes like behavioral aspects, social-political developments, power, humanitarian crises, and modern slavery on the other. As such, this book will set the scene for IB/M research in the years to come.' -- Jens Gammelgaard, Copenhagen Business School, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: 1 A Research Agenda for International Business and Management: the promises and prospects of thinking outside the box 1 Mike Geppert and .dül Bozkurt PART I REVISITING CORE IB/M THEORIES 2 Do we need a theory of externalisation? 23 Roger Strange 3 Behavioural theory and MNE decision-making: changing the narrative in international business management 43 Giulio Nardella, Rajneesh Narula and Irina Surdu 4 Outward investment from emerging markets: time for a paradigm shift? 63 Suma Athreye PART II CHANGING ROLES OF NATION-STATES AND MNES 5 The role of the home country in international business and management research: state of the art and future research directions 87 Florian Becker-Ritterspach and Khaled Fourati 6 The diplomatic imperative: MNEs as international actors 109 Brent Burmester PART III INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT, POWER RELATIONS AND IDEOLOGY 7 Treating ideology seriously in international business and management research: a textual analysis of the global “self-management” fad 131 Leo McCann, Brian Wierman and Edward Granter 8 Emerging economy MNCs and their geopolitical embeddedness 153 Ursula Mense-Petermann PART IV THEORIZING AND STUDYING NEW PHENOMENA IN IB/M: CRISIS, SLAVERY AND METHODOLOGY 9 Managing the unavoidable: new avenues for research on MNEs and societal crises 175 Verena Girschik and Jasper Hotho 10 Developing parameters for the occurrence of modern slavery: towards an empirical validation of Crane’s (2013) theory of modern slavery 195 Christoph Dörrenbächer and Lukas Ellermann 11 The future of international business research: theorising on unfolding phenomena in a complex, dynamic world 221 Peter Zettinig and Niina Nummela PART V COMMENTARY 12 Commentary on fulfilling the future agenda in international business 245 Jonathan P. Doh Index 251

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook investigates the many perspectives from which to reconsider teaching and learning within business schools, during a time in which higher education is facing challenges to the way teaching might be delivered in the future.Bringing together a diverse range of expert contributors, this Handbook fills gaps in current knowledge and research, whilst expanding and exploring new fields. Topics covered include the use and value of learning technologies, leadership education and continuous professional development of research-based teachers. Crucially, the Handbook considers how faculty at all levels of seniority will be forced to challenge their own modus operandi in designing and delivering teaching. This is especially important during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, where blended learning should be carefully assessed before it is adopted as part of any course design.Offering both practical suggestions and cutting-edge research into the field, this Handbook will be a key resource for academics, practitioners and students in business and management education who wish to consolidate their teaching and learning and further understand the broader issues surrounding it.Trade Review'The modernization of student learning experiences has never been more pressing than post-COVID. This thought-provoking book provides a plethora of perspectives on how to achieve better and more modern learning, through teams, through technology, through cases and through the continuous professional development of educators. This volume is a useful handbook both for educational practitioners and for researchers in educational research and development. Highly recommended!' -- Peter Møllgaard, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, the Netherlands'Business education has experienced significant transformation in the 21st century, and more recently through the pressures on business schools to adapt to blended learning practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. This compilation of papers provides an excellent resource to help navigate and understand the important dimensions of successful modern business education. It includes contributions from some leading scholars and across a range of important topics, including learning environments, technologies, CPD and research-led teaching.' -- Stuart J. Barnes, King's College London, UK'This book provides valuable direction to business schools during these transformational times. The chapters explore how business schools can improve the educational process, implement learning technologies, and effect pedagogical and social change.' -- C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Temple University, Philadelphia, US'As we grapple with intensifying calls for change, this indispensable compendium poses critical questions whilst simultaneously offering valuable insights into the transformation journey that lies ahead for business school leadership and faculty.' -- Nicola Kleyn, Erasmus University, the Netherlands'This is a much-needed compendium, bringing together contributions addressing a wide variety of aspects of business school teaching. It is a timely, original and interesting volume, written by educators and scholars based across the world. A must-read not only for those who are new to teaching but for everyone who wishes to keep abreast of pedagogic developments in business schools.' -- Martyna Sliwa, University of Essex, UK and Co-Editor of Management Learning'The book Handbook of Teaching and Learning at Business Schools: A Practice-Based Approach is a timeous and much needed book targeted at teaching faculty, administrators, and management of business schools across the globe. The book covers key issues business schools, irrespective of their geographic location, grapple with in ensuring an optimal learning experience for students. The book provides transformational perspectives of learning and gives insight into contemporary learning environments. The section on the use and value of learning technologies cannot come at a more opportune time. The book also deals with aspects related to the teaching and assessing in the business school classroom, leadership education and professional development of teaching faculty. It concludes with a section addressing the translation of research into teaching, work integrated teaching and how to harness the synergies between research, teaching, and engagement. This is a must read as it provides deep insight into so many of the pertinent issues relevant to business school teaching and learning.' -- – Daniel J. Petzer, Henley Business School Africa, South Africa'No other group of graduates has more access to resources than those with a business-oriented degree. How can Universities prepare them for both the opportunities as well as the duties connected with such access? The authors of Handbook of Teaching and Learning at Business Schools: A Practice-Based Approach have the pertinent answers for business educators of the current and next generation.' -- Gregor Halff, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark'Recent events have forced us to re-think how we undertake teaching and learning in business schools. This collection of essays on management education arrives at the perfect time to help us organize and enhance our thoughts about the changes underway, providing an overdue research perspective.' -- Robert D. Austin, Ivey Business School, London, Canada'A timely and refreshing text!! Targeted at those who are eagerly seeking new ways of teaching and engaging students in challenging contexts. This book emphasises co-production of education, the importance of involving key stakeholders in the learning experience while ensuring leadership and professionalism remain core. This is a “must-read” for Business School faculty.' -- Julian Gould-Williams, Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Teaching and Learning at Business Schools PART I TRANSFORMATION PERSPECTIVES 1 Community-engaged learning in business schools to effect social change: a capabilities perspective 2 Carolin Kreber, Leslie Wardley, Catherine Leviten-Reid and Stephanie MacPherson 2 Using co-design processes to support strategic pedagogical change in business education 20 Stephanie Wilson, Elaine Huber and Peter Bryant 3 Benefits and challenges of Assurance of Learning: making the intangible tangible 36 Lilia Mantai PART II LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS 4 The promise of the business studio: teaching for design and entrepreneurship at business schools 52 Kasper Merling Arendt and Bo T. Christensen 5 A framework for motivating business students through teaching, learning and curriculum design 68 David Kember 6 The challenge of reflexive pedagogy in executive education: a personal case study 82 Marian Iszatt-White 7 Team-based learning in the business school classroom: adaptation versus fidelity 95 Barbara Larson and Michael Sweet PART III THE USE AND VALUE OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES 8 Transformations towards blended learning: key issues to address 115 Annemette Kjærgaard, Thyra Uth Thomsen and Sylvia von Wallpach 9 The influence of technology on business schools’ curricula: a triple crown perspective 123 Loïc Plé and Bernadett Koles 10 Gamification in education: the case of gamified learning in teams 138 Rushana Khusainova, Yasin Sahhar and Ad de Jong PART IV IN THE BUSINESS SCHOOL CLASSROOM 11 Lecturing 160 Linda Greve 12 The case for cases: using historical and live cases to enhance student learning 178 René W.J. Moolenaar and Michael B. Beverland 13 Using live business projects to develop graduate employability skills 195 Eleri Rosier 14 Addressing the challenges of assessment and feedback in business schools: developing assessment practices which support learning 207 Nicola Reimann, Kay Sambell, Ian Sadler and Carolin Kreber 15 Business studios of practice 226 Stefan Meisiek PART V LEADERSHIP EDUCATION 16 Building a new identity for business schools: learning how to act with authenticity through the critical teaching of leadership 238 Alyson Nicholds 17 New avenues for leadership education and development: shaping leader identity through meaning-making from experiences 249 Sonja Zaar, Piet Van den Bossche and Wim Gijselaers 18 Equipping students with the attributes needed by business leaders in an era of social and technological change 264 David Kember PART VI CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH-BASED TEACHERS 19 How to motivate professors to teach 277 Uwe Wilkesmann and Sabine Lauer 20 Teaching and learning with our colleagues: the Associate Professor Development Programme at Copenhagen Business School 291 Alan Irwin Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Providing a comprehensive overview of the key theories and concepts that have guided the field of negotiation for several decades, Leigh Thompson and Cynthia Wang demonstrate how collaborative multi-disciplinary research has enriched the study of negotiation. Key Features: Reviews the fundamental constructs, measures and terms that are widely used in research and teaching Examines how individual characteristics, situational contexts and ethical considerations of the negotiator influence negotiation processes and outcomes Traces the roots of modern negotiation research and theory back to its economic and psychological origins, and outlines how behavioural decision-making and social utility research has shaped the contemporary study of negotiation Cross-disciplinary in scope, this incisive Advanced Introduction will be an invaluable tool for early career academics of psychology, sociology, economics, and communication studies interested in conducting research on and teaching negotiation. MBA students will also benefit from its accessible overview of the history, key constructs and latest findings related to negotiation.Trade Review‘. . . Covering topics such as gender and individual differences, emotions, social utility, ethics, culture, and communication media, this well-written, easy-to-read, Advanced Introduction provides a succinct summary of the research in the field. This book delivers a comprehensive overview and masterful integration of an entire academic discipline and is essential for graduate students, professors, and anyone interested in doing research in the field of negotiation.’ -- L.B. Jabs, Choice‘The book is a masterful integration of an entire scholarly discipline. Its integration of diverse literatures and disciplines, drawing on decades of research, represents a towering achievement.’ -- Don Moore, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. A multi-disciplinary approach 2. Core concepts 3. Behavioral decision making and negotiation 4. Relationships and social utility 5. Emotion revolution 6. Gender 7. Individual differences 8. Ethics 9. Culture 10. Communication media References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Providing a comprehensive overview of the key theories and concepts that have guided the field of negotiation for several decades, Leigh Thompson and Cynthia Wang demonstrate how collaborative multi-disciplinary research has enriched the study of negotiation. Key Features: Reviews the fundamental constructs, measures and terms that are widely used in research and teaching Examines how individual characteristics, situational contexts and ethical considerations of the negotiator influence negotiation processes and outcomes Traces the roots of modern negotiation research and theory back to its economic and psychological origins, and outlines how behavioural decision-making and social utility research has shaped the contemporary study of negotiation Cross-disciplinary in scope, this incisive Advanced Introduction will be an invaluable tool for early career academics of psychology, sociology, economics, and communication studies interested in conducting research on and teaching negotiation. MBA students will also benefit from its accessible overview of the history, key constructs and latest findings related to negotiation.Trade Review‘. . . Covering topics such as gender and individual differences, emotions, social utility, ethics, culture, and communication media, this well-written, easy-to-read, Advanced Introduction provides a succinct summary of the research in the field. This book delivers a comprehensive overview and masterful integration of an entire academic discipline and is essential for graduate students, professors, and anyone interested in doing research in the field of negotiation.’ -- L.B. Jabs, Choice‘The book is a masterful integration of an entire scholarly discipline. Its integration of diverse literatures and disciplines, drawing on decades of research, represents a towering achievement.’ -- Don Moore, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. A multi-disciplinary approach 2. Core concepts 3. Behavioral decision making and negotiation 4. Relationships and social utility 5. Emotion revolution 6. Gender 7. Individual differences 8. Ethics 9. Culture 10. Communication media References Index

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Book SynopsisHow and why does job stress manifest as negative emotions, disordered thoughts, deleterious behaviors, and physical illness? How can positive outcomes like growth and mastery be encouraged instead? Job stress theories provide insights that guide practical decision making on how to mitigate the negative effects, and promote the positive outcomes, of job demands for the organization and its constituents. This book provides a review of the empirical support for nearly 100 job stress frameworks, and presents guidance for theoretical applications, testing, refinement, and integrations.In addition to providing an overview of the theories, models, and hypotheses related to job stress, the authors present organizational and individual implications for both management and personal improvement. For scholars, gaps in the literature are identified to facilitate future research. Instructors and students will find this knowledge valuable for organizational psychology/behavior, occupational health psychology, or job stress classes, among others.Altogether, students, researchers, and practitioners will find this Introduction integral to their learning, and benefit from the actionable research ideas and suggestions for stress reduction.Trade Review‘Theory plays a critical role in scientific progress—it provides scholars with a framework for understanding their research findings, and it helps practitioners make sense of real-world problems. This book does an excellent job of introducing readers to the many theoretical perspectives used in the job stress literature.’ -- Nathan A. Bowling, Wright State University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Foundations of job stress theory 2. Theories from behavioral health 3. Physiological stress theories 4. Theories of arousal and emotion 5. Theories of cognition and coping 6. Equity and exchange theories 7. Social information and evaluations 8. Theories about job demands and resources 9. Conservation of resources theory 10. Person-environment theories 11. Role-related stress theories 12. Sociocultural systems perspectives 13. Theories of motivation and self-regulation 14. Leadership and organizational support 15. Perspectives on job stress Index

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Book SynopsisMany organizations operate in an environment that is increasingly dynamic, turbulent, and unpredictable. This volume makes the case that they need to embrace improvisation as a core organizational capability, not to replace but to complement planning and forecasting. Research on organizational improvisation has evolved from a jazz and theater metaphor to a distinct body of empirical and conceptual work that tackles how improvisation unfolds in the full range of organizational contexts. These contexts often have very different goals, constraints and possibilities than improvisation in the arts. This makes it crucial to develop understanding of improvisation at all levels and in all types of organizations including but not limited to day-to-day operations of large firms and government agencies, strategic change, emergency management, product development, and start-ups. This book pulls together in one place major advances in understanding organizational improvisation. It describes major theoretical- and evidence-based advances in models of organizational improvisation, which the authors define as the deliberate and substantive convergence of the design and execution of a novel activity, that can be created at the individual, team, or organizational level. The authors provide, integrate and consolidate the existing literature on organizational improvisation and offer a comprehensive analysis of key processes. They go beyond a mechanical literature review to include illustrative mini-cases, novel concepts in contemporary work and short personal comments from researchers in the field.Grounded in rigorous academic work to date, this book speaks both to scholars interested in developing research on organizational improvisation and to managers. It discusses both promising paths for academic research and practical recommendations, especially those who deal with unpredictable environments that force them to either improvise or to face harmful or even fatal outcomes for organizational members and/or the entire organization.Trade Review‘In a world characterized by uncertainty and rapid changes, this book brilliantly elucidates why improvisation is fundamental in organizational life. By blending seminal research on improvisation and new cutting edge findings, authors share precious and useful insights to wisely prepare and manage extemporaneous actions.’ -- Massimo Magni, Bocconi University, Italy‘Improvisation has never been more important as an advanced approach to augment planning in the face of uncertainty, disruption and often time and resource scarcity. The moment is ripe to build on the extensive research to understand and implement effective improvisation. This book unpacks improvisation in an insightful and practical way, making it accessible to all.’ -- Mary Crossan, Ivey Business School at Western University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Overview of the Elgar Introduction to Organizational Improvisation Theory 2. Introducing organizational improvisation 3. What leads to improvisation: triggers and individual enablers 4. Collective improvisation enablers: teams and organizations 5. How improvisation unfolds 6. The outcomes of improvisation 7. Organizational improvisation: implications for academic research and long-term theory development 8. Organizational improvisation: implications for practice and for community exploration References Index

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Book SynopsisThis concise text introduces an integrated view of all project management-related activities in an organization, called Organizational Project Management (OPM). Practical cases from several organizations, as well as popular theories such as the Resource-Based Theory and Institutional Theory provide for an insightful yet realistic understanding of OPM as an integrative tool for organizations to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. The reader will learn how separate organizational functions, such as project, program and portfolio management and governance integrate in a cohesive manner. The authors describe how different approaches to competing in the marketplace link to strategies, and the ways of selecting the 'best' business opportunities for organizations and integrating them into existing workflows and structures. They develop and describe a model that shows how OPM works within organizations. The book is a valuable resource for top managers, reflective practitioners, academics, and postgraduate students in organization theory.Trade Review'This fascinating book by renowned authors not only takes the organizational context of project management seriously, but also focuses on the interface as well as interplay between the temporary and the more permanent part of organizations. Discussing the value of the resource-based view and the neo-institutional approach as well as of governmentality theory for the analysis of organizational project management, the authors elaborate on the valuable link between project management and organization theory. They illustrate their ideas with the help of case studies. Reading recommended!' --Jörg Sydow, Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to Organizational Project Management Part I The OPM Model 2. Organizational Philosophy 3. OPM Approach 4. OPM Governance 5. Business Integration 6. Organizational Integration 7. Project Governance 8. Project Management Part II Theories and the OPM Model 9. Resource-Based Theory and OPM 10. Institutional Theory and OPM 11. A Theory of the OPM Model Part III Applications of the OPM Model 12. Case Study: OPM and the Management of Megaprojects 13. Case Study: OPM in an Organization for Public Good 14. OPM Assessment 15. Designing OPM Systems References Index

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised, extended and updated second edition of Silvia Gherardi's classic book gives the reader a must-read orientation through the myriad of methods and styles involved in practice-based research. Practice-based approaches to knowing, learning, innovating, and managing have thrived in recent years. Calling upon numerous narratives from a range of research fields, the author offers insight into the many possibilities of practice research, highlighting the inextricable links between humans and technology as the key emergent trend in management studies. Developing an innovative posthumanist approach, this novel book offers a useful and insightful compass for the navigation of practice-based studies through the lens of exemplar vignettes from internationally acclaimed researchers. A valuable and instructive work, this book is critical to any scholars of practice theories, as well as management and organizational studies and those with a keen interest in research methods. Masters students seeking insight into the development of practice-based studies, and PhD researchers developing their own methodologies will also find the guidance of this book indispensable in their studies.Trade Review'This new edition summarises key themes in practice theory and illustrates them with a colourful patchwork of cases and examples. The result is a very accessible introduction to practice-based research in organization studies and beyond.' --Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Practice as accomplishment 2. Practice as collective knowledgeable doing 3. Practice as sensible knowing 4. Practice as sociomateriality 5. The normative infrastructure of practices 6. Talking while practicing 7. Practices as socially sustained 8. The texture of practices 9. Tricks of the trade 10. Towards a posthumanist practice theory of organizing Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Research Methods in Organizational Change offers innovative and practical information to aid in the successful implementation of research methodologies. Written by a collective of experienced scholars, it provides inspiration for future academics wishing to advance research into human system changes. Presenting traditional, modern and potential future research methods within the field of organizational change and development, the Handbook offers practical guidance on how to carry out a wide range of different research methods, from rapid response to action research. Chapters explore the methods aligned with the phenomena of organizational change, as well as the various ontologies, epistemologies, frameworks, and values that researchers of organizational change adopt. The Handbook ultimately calls for the discipline to challenge existing paradigms and rethink its approaches to advancing knowledge regarding organizational change. This stimulating Handbook will be valuable for students and scholars of business and innovation hoping to conduct research into what transformational change on such a grand scale requires. Its expert insights will also be beneficial for scholars of interconnected disciplines such as sociology and psychology.Trade Review‘With their invitation to revitalize how we research change, this edited volume by David Szabla, David Coghlan, Bill Pasmore, and Jennifer Kim challenges all of us to think and rethink a pathway forward on perpetual research method questions (and problems.) As a practical, useful, and timely addition to what we often think we know and what we already do, the volume is just what is needed as the world deals with even more change and turbulence in the current organizational and societal climate. Whether you are a serious scholar, a pragmatic practitioner, or anything in between, the topics raised speak to how our work can engage and lead conversations on researching change and its practice.’ -- Gavin Schwarz, UNSW Sydney, Australia‘Given the rapidly escalating call for evidence-based knowledge in management and organizations, the Handbook of Research Methods in Organizational Change could not have come at a more crucial time. This is especially the case for research-based understanding of organization change, where fads, testimonials, and opinions have long steered knowledge in the field. The Handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of research methods for developing valid knowledge of all stages and facets of organization change. I heatedly applaud the Handbook contributors for bringing the organization change field onto more solid evidence-based footing.’ -- Thomas G. Cummings, USC Marshall School of Business, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 An invitation to revitalize research into organizational change 2 William Pasmore and David B. Szabla PART II METHODS FOUNDATIONAL 2 Action research as the social science of change and changing 19 David Coghlan 3 Conducting processual research on organisation change 47 Deepak Saxena and Joe McDonagh 4 The grounded theory methodology: over fifty years of inquiry! 69 John Loonam 5 Longitudinal research methods for studying processes of organizational change 88 Elaine Rabelo Neiva and Leonardo Fernandes Martins CONTEMPORARY 6 Psychoanalytic and socioanalytic approaches to organizational change research 124 Susan Long 7 Qualimetric intervention-research as an approach to studying organizational change 150 Henri Savall, Véronique Zardet, Marc Bonnet, and Anthony F. Buono 8 Collaborative management research: theoretical foundations, mechanisms and practices 172 Abraham (Rami) B. Shani 9 Learning history: engaging multiple perspectives for learning 194 Margaret Gearty 10 Principles for productive inquiry into ICT-enabled change in organisations 221 Joe McDonagh 11 Using participatory mixed methods to study “grand challenges”: an illustrative case of diversity, equity, and inclusion change research in organizations 242 Regina Kim and Yunzi (Rae) Tan EMERGING 12 Conducting phenomenon-driven rapid-response research to explore disruption and its impact on the minority experience 261 Jennifer Y. Kim and Zhida Shang 13 Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry: a new paradigm for leadership and organizational change research 281 William R. Torbert and Sofia-Jeanne Caring 14 Advancing Strong Structuration Theory in organizational change research 299 David B. Szabla and David A. Jarrett 15 Design science for organizational change: how design theory uncovers and shapes generativity logics in organizations 327 Pascal Le Masson, Agathe Gilain, Armand Hatchuel, Caroline Jobin, Maxime Thomas, Chipten Valibhay, and Benoit Weil 16 Longitudinal designs, Big Data, and social network analysis in organization development and change research 355 Ramkrishnan (Ram) V. Tenkasi, William (Bart) Brock, and Donna L. Ogle 17 X-Ray Vision: a research tool for uncovering system psychodynamics to advance organization change 397 Debra A. Noumair and Jacqueline D. Jenkins 18 Applying data science in organizational change research 431 Joshua Elmore PART III REFLECTIONS 19 Ethical dilemmas in collaborative action research 452 Tobias Fredberg and Johanna E. Pregmark 20 Reflections on the identity journey of a budding organizational change scholar or insights on constructing a meaningful research path and life 467 Julie Bayle-Cordier 21 Reflections on guiding doctorates in organizational change 486 David Coghlan and Jennifer Y. Kim Index 510

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Book SynopsisPresenting a comprehensive overview of the changes in policies and economic doctrines of the American economy following the 2008 global financial crisis, this book critically examines the reformation of the corporate landscape. Observing the growth of oligopolistic market tendencies and increased economic concentration, it draws on scholarly literature from economics, management studies and legal theory to provide an integrated perspective on the causes and consequences of the crisis.Discussing the growth of oligopolistic market niches in the American economy, chapters explore their causes, including the influence of “anti-antitrust” scholars on legal enforcement practices and the resulting relaxation of antitrust law. The book highlights their consequences, including the growth of monopsony and labor market concentration. Alexander Styhre uses aggregate economic equality data across the book to show that the working class in advanced economies have not been compensated for the globalization of the economy. It concludes by looking towards the long-term consequences of rising economic concentration, examining non-traditional labor contracts, new employment relations, lower entrepreneurial activities and lower labor compensation in the new corporate landscape.This informative book will be useful to students and scholars of business ethics and trust, corporate governance and organization studies. It will also be a critical read for policy makers concerned with the causes and consequences of economic inequality.Trade Review‘As the dynamism of the US and other advanced economies appears to be damaged by a lethal combination of low interest rates, plunging productive investments, real wage stagnation, rising household debt and growing inequalities, the concentration of economic power, and its political expression, are plain for all to see. Antitrust is once again high on the political agenda. Alexander Styhre’s new book tackles these questions head-on. It offers a lucid reading of the causes and consequences of the new corporate landscape that will interest both the New Brandeisians and their opponents. And his conclusions – that greater market competition is a good thing, but that the corporate system also needs to allocate the economic value it generates in ways that render it more legitimate in the eyes of its constituencies – will surely resonate with many today.’ -- David Gindis, University of Hertfordshire, UK‘The global economy is increasingly dominated by a handful of super-companies that wield immense power over citizens and governments. In this timely and perspicuous analysis of economic concentration, Alexander Styhre shows how the 2008 global financial crisis set the scene for a massive restoration of monopoly capitalism. This excellent book reveals the economic, legal and social policy drivers behind this and raises grave ethical questions about the decline of democracy. Anyone interested in the new corporate landscape should read this book.’ -- Peter Fleming, University of Technology Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The reformation of economic policies after the 2008 finance industry crisis 2. Legal theory doctrines and economic concentration: the ebbs and flows of antitrust enforcement 3. The consequences of economic concentration: declining dynamics in the US economy 4. Navigating in concentrated economies: issues, controversies, and prospects Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis third edition of Competing Values Leadership serves as the key source for understanding and using the Competing Values Framework, one of the most widely used and highly cited frameworks in the world for understanding human behavior, leadership, and organizations. The authors of the framework, who have been at the foundation of developing, applying, and studying this framework for more than four decades, explain how it helps foster successful leadership, innovation, culture change, financial performance, organizational effectiveness, and value creation.In addition to explaining why the Competing Values Framework is among the most important frameworks in the history of business, this edition addresses some criticisms of the framework and provides empirical evidence for its validity, reliability, and usefulness. The authors also provide practical tools and actions that can assist any organization in improving its performance.This book is widely applicable to several fields, including financial strategy, culture change, human resource management, leadership roles, and organizational change. Both academics and business leaders will find it to be an illuminating and useful tool and reference. It has also proven to be a valuable resource in executive education programs.Trade Review‘[The authors] continue to shape how organizations succeed through leadership by integrating two critical concepts: navigating paradox and creating value. The theory, research, and solutions-based insights from their Competing Values Framework offer all leaders ideas and tools that will have immediate and sustainable impact.’ -- Dave Ulrich, University of Michigan, US and The RBL GroupTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I THE COMPETING VALUES FRAMEWORK AND VALUE CREATION 1. Introducing the competing values way of thinking 2. Clarifying the meaning of value 3. The quadrants in the Competing Values Framework 4. Tensions and trade-offs: from either/or to both/and thinking 5. Creating value through new leadership behaviors PART II TECHNIQUES FOR APPLICATION 6. Predicting value creation through financial performance 7. Fostering innovation by applying the Competing Values Framework 8. Enhancing leadership competencies and organizational culture 9. Applying leadership levers for organizational change 10. The double helix of leadership and change: integrating the Competing Values model with Theory U 11. Responding to criticisms of the Competing Values Framework 12. Conclusions about the structure of value References Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book examines how nonprofits can prepare for and respond to serious threats, such as pandemics, economic recessions, terrorist attacks and other potentially catastrophic events. Reliant on donors, regulators, government funders and dedicated staff and volunteers, nonprofits are often vulnerable and unprepared to navigate such crises. Making a frank assessment of the risks these organizations face and how to enable them to become more resilient, Dennis Young and Elizabeth Searing develop multifaceted strategies involving balance sheets, cost and income structures, human resources, networks, technology, entrepreneurship, and information systems. Practical recommendations based on research are offered to managers for assessing risk and developing resilience strategies appropriate to their own organizations. The innovative use of templates for executive briefings, dashboards, and stress tests are included in a new management paradigm for building healthier and more effective nonprofit organizations for the future. The insights and tools on how to develop and manage resilient organizations makes this an excellent resource for nonprofit managers and trustees, foundations and government funders. Researchers, teachers, and students will also gain a greater understanding of how current research drives the resiliency paradigm and how to move research on nonprofit resilience forward.Trade Review‘What makes this book so remarkable for potential readers is its immediate potential for application to those working in the nonprofit sector. ... I am pleased to recommend this book – it is well-written, keyed to the interests of practitioners, and has real potential to make a positive difference in resilience planning for nonprofit organizations. I hope that nonprofit organization leaders will read it.’ -- Public Organization Review‘Resilience and the Management of Nonprofit Organizations is a book that explores the concept of resilience management for nonprofit organizations. The authors, Dennis Young and Elizabeth Searing, argue that the current paradigm of nonprofit management, which focuses on trustworthiness and efficiency, needs to be revised to adequately address the challenges facing non-profit organizations. They propose a new paradigm based on resilience, which they define as the ability of organizations to adapt to changing circumstances and continue serving their missions effectively. The book provides strategies for anticipating and preparing for crises, explores the various dimensions of organizational resilience, and offers management strategies for achieving organizational resilience. It also discusses the need for ‘‘organizational slack’’ in order to be flexible and adaptable in the face of challenges.’ -- Fandi Rahanra and Muhammad Hilal Sudarbi, International Society for Third-Sector Research 2023, Voluntas‘The COVID-19 pandemic has tested the resilience of many organizations. In their practical and timely book, Dennis Young and Elizabeth Searing take the opportunity to look at the larger question of preparedness in sector groups for dealing with circumstances – society-wide or unique to a specific organization – that threaten their viability.’ -- The Philanthropist‘Good non-profits are passionate about their missions and are excellent at the delivery of their services. This engaging book will provide the required learning to implement resilience strategies and strong financial acumen throughout their organizations to ensure that there is no interruption to services in times of turbulence and uncertainty.’ -- Noha Ryder, Interim Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer, Apollo's Fire, Ohio, US‘Learning from the crisis aftermaths of September 11, 2001, 2008, and 2020-21, Dennis Young and Elizabeth Searing’s new book on long-term nonprofit management proposes a paradigm shift in emphasis—from Efficiency, Mission Impact, and other traditional standards—to long-term Resilience. Academically sound, this trailblazer offers practical, logical, and sometimes revolutionary advice for every nonprofit.’ -- Richard Pogue, Former Managing Partner of Jones Day, Ohio, US and Former Chairman, Cleveland Foundation‘This is a book for our time. With increasingly rapid change and challenges, nonprofit organizations must be resilient in order to survive and succeed. Drawing on a fresh perspective, case studies and relevant scholarship, here are the processes and practices every nonprofit leader needs now.’ -- Frederick S. Lane, Baruch College, City University of New York, US‘This book provides valuable insight into how to integrate the concept of resilience into organizational culture and management practices. As we emerge from over two years of the pandemic, the need to lean into core strengths and develop greater expertise is invaluable.’ -- Brian Schreiber, JCC of Greater Pittsburgh, US‘Challenges the conventional maxims of “minimize overhead, diversify revenues, be lean, and avoid debt” in the context of catastrophic risk. A good frame for our era of COVID and political extremism.’ -- Jan Massoka, California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofits)Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Milton J. Little Jr. Preface Dennis R. Young 1. Introduction to Resilience and the Management of Nonprofit Organizations 2. Risk and the nature of crises 3. Understanding organizational resilience 4. Assets, liabilities and resilience 5. Cost structure and resilience 6. Income portfolios and resilience 7. Technology and resilience 8. People and resilience 9. Entrepreneurship and resilience 10. Networks and resilience 11. Red flags and stress tests 12. A new paradigm for nonprofit management: the Goldilocks approach Index

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Book SynopsisThe Elgar Companion to Managing People Across the Asia-Pacific provides a crucial exploration of current business and management research, touching upon topics such as leadership, employee motivation and politics, and innovation to provide a timely examination of management in the Asia-Pacific. It addresses how unique cultural, societal and governance factors in the Asia-Pacific affect business practices. Bringing together the work of a diverse collective of international authors, chapters explore often challenging topics such as the position of ageing workers in the Asia-Pacific and the dynamics of a multigenerational workforce. They carefully examine organizational psychology processes among Asia-Pacific workers in order to paint an accurate picture of differing work environments. Ultimately, this accessible Companion directly focuses on ongoing research efforts to conceptualize the culture, engagement and potential shifts within Asia-Pacific work environments. This discerning Elgar Companion will be beneficial for researchers and academics of multiple disciplines, such as business and management, international business, finance and organizational psychology. It will additionally be of use to practitioners in management positions seeking to understand contemporary issues within the field.Trade Review‘This is a welcome addition to the literature on managing people and organizations in the Asia-Pacific that takes an indigenous and critical stance on the prior dominance of ethnocentric Western perspectives. It successfully and competently covers the context and operation of many of the main dimensions and contours of Asian management.’ -- Chris Rowley, University of Oxford and University of London, UK.‘This collection of essays on leading and managing people in the Asia-Pacific from an organizational psychological perspective and through a Western and non-Western lens is an indispensable addition to the literature to help understand the rapidly-changing landscape in the Asia-Pacific. A must-read for researchers, practitioners and policy makers to help them develop better insights and benefit from these developments.’ -- Rosalie L. Tung, Simon Fraser University, Canada‘In this comprehensive collection of articles, the authors offer a timely and definitive look at the complex landscape of managing people in one of the most vibrant regions of the world. Firmly grounded in theories and empirical data, this volume provides contextualized thinking on the changing nature of work, leadership, work culture, policy and innovation in the Asia-Pacific. The rich insights from this Companion can also inform future cross cultural studies both locally and across the globe.’ -- Leigh Anne Liu, Georgia State University, US‘This Companion captures a wide range of issues critical to managing people in the Asia-Pacific context and offers valuable new insights into the world of work post-Covid-19. It is a must-read for readers interested in learning more about human resource management in the Asia-Pacific for a productive future of work.' -- Fang Lee Cooke, Monash University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: PART I THE CHANGING NATURE OF WORK AND WORKERS Introduction to Managing People Across the Asia-Pacific: An Organizational Psychology Approach 2 Eddy S. Ng, Jonathan E. Ramsay, Jacob Wood and K. Thirumaran 1 The post-pandemic workplace: issues and insights for future research and action 19 Pengji Wang, Shaoyuan Chen, Angeline Lim Cuifang and Sophia Zhao Xiuxi 2 Telework and telecommuting as new work forms 47 Yvette Blount and Lucy Taksa 3 Independent working and the gig economy 63 Mingming Cheng and Amy Wei Tian 4 Challenges in managing a multigenerational and diverse workforce 77 Masud Chand 5 The global workforce in Asia 93 Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos and Ioannis C. Thanos PART II LEADING AND MANAGING IN ASIA 6 Asian leadership: foundations, diversity and challenges 112 Smita Singh and Sophia Zhao Xiuxi 7 Groups and teams in the Asia-Pacific 131 Naina Gupta 8 Recruitment in China 147 Lin-Ya Hong and Fabian Jintae Froese 9 Supervisors’ prosocial feedback delivery: dispositional trait and motivational concerns 168 Joyce S. Pang and Jisoo Ock 10 Managing burnout and wellbeing 183 Bek Wuay Tang, Jacinth Tan and William Tov 11 The quest for work–life balance 200 Xi Wen (Carys) Chan, Paula Brough, Carolyn Timms and Sherry S.Y. Aw 12 Employee engagement in East Asia 218 Jihye Oh and Shuang Frances Wu PART III THE ASIAN WORK ENVIRONMENT 13 Organizational culture in Asian societies 250 Pengji Wang, Caroline Yook Ling Wong, Emiel L. Eijdenberg, Adrian Bradshaw and Chun Meng Tang 14 Virtual work challenges and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region: the role of organizational virtual work climate 269 Lama Blaique and Ashly Pinnington 15 Organizational power and politics in Asia 289 Diep Nguyen, Stephen Teo and Nguyen-Vuong Khoi 16 Corporate language policy and its implementation in Asia-Pacific business 316 Anna J.C. Hsu and Kevin Au 17 Religion and spirituality in the Asian workforce 334 Barry Tse, Kuhanesan Naidu and Jonathan E. Ramsay PART IV POLICY AND INNOVATION IN ASIA 18 Asian economies in transition 352 Sook Rei Tan, Haejin Jang, Benedict Atkinson and Jacob Wood 19 How power distance shapes social and employment protections in Asian societies 377 Ulrike Sengstschmid and Chan-Hoong Leong 20 Driving creativity and innovation in Asia 403 Sean T.H. Lee and Angela K.-y. Leung Index

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