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Book SynopsisIn today’s ever-changing global world, there is a permanent need for anticipating new and evolving customer needs, resource supply constraints, and dynamically changing employee expectations. Sustainable innovation applies to products, services, and technologies as well as new business and organization models. This book provides insights into sustainable innovation trends in various marketing- and management-related fields. Authors critically investigate, amongst others, the sustainability impact of disruptive product design and innovative collaboration solutions within buyer-supplier relationships, along with innovative organizational processes to promote sustainable well-being-productivity synergy in a VUCA world. This volume is a uniquely positioned contribution of interrelated research articles on the sustainability-driven innovation needed for organizational health and future viability.Table of ContentsTable of Contents 1. Quasi-Passive Lower and Upper Extremity Robotic Exoskeleton for Strengthening Human Locomotion Aryaman Arora and John R. McIntyre 2. Ideate-Generate: Design Thinking and User Experience (UX) for Sustainable Impact on Global Product Development of Wearable Technologies in the Healthcare Industry Alexandra Washington, Samira Soumahoro, and Anshu Arora 3. Seeing is Believing: The Disruptive Effect of Sustainable and Functional Product Design in Electric Bikes for Emerging Economies Delonte D. Bright, Edna Laetitia Aude Diouf Ogandaga, and Anshu Arora 4. Do Greener Products Earn More Green? Examining Biomimicry along with Incremental and Radical Sustainable Product Innovations for UX Designs Snehapriya Bharatha, Elizabeth Jensolowsky, Michael Teiman, Anshu Arora, and Jennifer Edmonds 5. The Evolution of Buyer-Supplier Relationships Loucace Ampe, Barabara Anne Payne, Robert Iyeli Spake, Shavon Sharpe, and Amit Arora 6. The Road to Sustainable Transportation in Supply Chains: A Stage-Level Approach Meena Hotak, Evelin Turcois, Divina Grace Dayrit, and Amit Arora 7. Coaching, Agility and Sustainable Leadership Christophe Bacouel 8. Innovation in Employee Selection: Tracing the Use of Hugo Münsterberg’s Test for Motormen Nicole Cannonier 9. Family Business Sustainability - The Intergenerational Transfer of Social Capital and Network Contacts Fabian Bernhard, Miriam Hiepler, François-Xavier Engel 10. Sustainable Well-Being at work: A French-Swedish comparison Anne-Sophie Bacouel and Thomas Vergnol

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Book SynopsisThe digitalization of businesses calls for new forms of leadership and collaboration, as traditional human resources strategies are reaching their limits. Personal responsibility, networking and diversity are increasingly recognized as key prerequisites for agility, adaptability and innovativeness. This book encourages HR managers who want to be pioneers of, or support, digital transformation to rethink their HR strategies. It begins with a clear illustration of the difference between stability and agility in leadership and organization. Building on this, it then guides the reader through a broad range of relevant HR topics and how they compare to the new strategic orientation. All major aspects of HR management are addressed, including recruitment, learning, talent management, remuneration, performance management, corporate training, executive development and change management. Providing a comprehensive, practical, differentiated and non-dogmatic alternative to traditional approaches, the book is a must-read for all those who are concerned with sustainable HR management in the era of digitalization.Table of ContentsHR in the Context of Digitization.- Agility and Stability.- Building an HR Strategy.- The Structural and Cultural Context.- Talent Acquisition and Selection.- Goals, Assessment and Feedback.- Learning and Knowledge.- Development and Career.- Remuneration.- Engagement and Retention.- HR Operation.- Managing Change and Transformation.- Transformation into an Agile Future.

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Book SynopsisEconomic cycles are driven by financial flows, namely quantities of savings and credits, and not by high street inflation or interest rates. Their sweeping destructive powers are expressed through Global Liquidity, a $130 trillion pool of footloose cash. Global Liquidity describes the gross flows of credit and international capital feeding through the world’s banking systems and wholesale money markets. The huge jump in the volume of international financial markets since the mid-1980s has been boosted by deregulation, innovation and easy money, with financial globalisation now surpassing the peaks of integration reached before the First World War. Global Liquidity drives these markets: it is often determinant, frequently disruptive and always fast-moving. Barely one fifth of Wall Street’s huge gains over recent decades have come from earnings: rising liquidity and investors’ appetite for riskier financial assets have propelled stock prices higher. Similar experiences are shared worldwide and even in emerging markets, such as India, flat earnings have not deterred waves of foreign money and domestic mutual funds from driving-up stock prices. Now with central banks actively pursuing quantitative easing policies, industrial corporations flush with cash and rising wealth levels among emerging market investors, the liquidity theory of investment has never been more important.International spill-overs of these rapacious cross-border flows sets off capital wars and exposes the unattractive face of liquidity called ‘risk.’ As the world grows bigger, it becomes ever more volatile. From the early 1960s onwards, the world economy and its financial markets have suffered from three broad types of shocks – labour costs, oil and commodities, and global liquidity. Financial markets spin on fragile axes and the absence of liquidity often provides a warning of upcoming troubles. Global Liquidity is a much-discussed, but narrowly-researched and vaguely-defined topic. This book deeply explores the subject by clearly defining and measuring liquidity worldwide and by showing its importance for investors. The roles of central banks, shadow banking, the rise of Repo and growth of wholesale money are discussed. Additionally, covering the latest developments in China’s increasingly dominant financial economy, this book will appeal to practitioners, policy-makers, economists and academics, as well as those with a general interest in how financial markets work.Trade Review“Michael J. Howell’s Capital Wars: The Rise of Global Liquidity is a must-read for anyone trying to navigate the vagaries of inflation, bond yields, risk and volatility in global markets.” (Melissa Davies, spe.org.uk, March 8, 2021)“As a description of the workings of the modern global financial system and the interrelationship of finance and the real economy, it has no current rival. Not for beginners, but essential reading for market practitioners.” (John Plender, Financial Times, July 12, 2020)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Capital Wars.- 2. Global Money.- 3. Synopsis: A Bigger, More Volatile World.- 4. The Liquidity Model.- 5. Real Exchange Adjustment.- 6. Private Sector (Funding) Liquidity.- 7. The Central Banks: Don't Fight the Fed, Don't Upset the ECB and Don't Mess with the PBoC.- 8. Cross-border Capital Flows.- 9. China and the Emerging Markets.- 10. The Liquidity Transmission Mechanism: Understanding Future Macro-valuation Shifts.- 11. Financial Crises and Safe Assets.- 12. The Financial Silk Road: Globalisation and the Eastwards Shift of Capital.- 13. Measuring Liquidity: The Global Liquidity Indexes.- 14. Conclusion: A High Water Mark?.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the definitive resource for understanding the phenomena and process of personal brand management as it becomes increasingly valued in a global economy. By providing a research-based, theoretical framework, the author distills the concept of personal branding as it is applicable to individuals throughout all stages of career development as well as across industries and disciplines.Extensively researched with numerous case studies, this book clearly outlines the strategic process of evaluating the economic value of a personal brand to manage and scale it accordingly. The author, an expert in the field of personal brand strategy and management, argues that a business is what a person or organization does, but the brand is what people expect from that person or organization. The two must align, and the book’s conceptual framework explains the theory and practice behind personal branding to accomplish this synergism.The consequence of the digital age is unprecedented visibility for individuals and businesses. As they engage with one another in more and more virtual spaces, the need for understanding and managing the evolving complexity of this ‘personal’ engagement is an economic reality. For this reason, the framework in this title provides insight and perspective on all phases of a brand in its recursive life cycle both on and offline. By providing clarity and structure to the topic as well as practical theory for its application, this title is the ultimate primer on personal branding in theory and practice.Table of ContentsChapter 1. An Introduction to Personal Branding.- Chapter 2. What is a Personal Brand?.- Chapter 3. Discovering Your Target Audience.- Chapter 4. Positioning for a Competitive Advantage.- Chapter 5. Marketing Personal Brands.- Chapter 6. The Monetization of Personal Brands.- Chapter 7. Legally Protecting Personal Brand Equity.- Chapter 8. Personal Brand Reputation Management.- Chapter 9. Strategies for Managing Personal Brand Equity.

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Book SynopsisSince 2007, the biennial International Conferences on Dynamics in Logistics (LDIC) offers researchers and practitioners from logistics, operations research, production, industrial and electrical engineering as well as from computer science an opportunity to meet and to discuss the latest developments in this particular research domain. From February 12th to 14th 2020 for the seventh time, LDIC 2020 is held in Bremen, Germany. Similar to its six predecessors, the Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics) organizes this conference. The spectrum of topics reaches from the dynamic modeling, planning and control of processes over supply chain management and maritime logistics to innovative technologies and robotic applications for cyber-physical production and logistics systems. LDIC 2020 provides a forum for the discussion of advances in that matter. The conference program consists of three invited keynote speeches and 51 papers selected by a severe double-blind reviewing process. Within these proceedings all the papers are published. By this, the proceedings give an interdisciplinary outline on the state of the art of dynamics in logistics as well as identify challenges and solutions for logistics today and tomorrow.Table of ContentsMaritime Logistics.- Supply Chain Management and Coordination.- Multi-modal Transport.- Intra-Logistics Systems.- Collaborative Planning and Control.- Internet of Things and Services.- Sensor Networks in Logistics.- Human-Machine Interaction.- Mathematical Optimisation for Planning and Scheduling.- Agent-Based Modelling and Optimization .

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on human behavioural processes and describes them from an interdisciplinary perspective. It introduces readers to the main theories and approaches in the field of organisational development and change (ODC), and discusses their relevance and purpose with a clear focus on improving how readers perceive and handle change. The book is tailor-made for business students without any background in the humanities, helping them to conceptualise organisational development and change, and to practically organise interventions to increase organisational effectiveness. The book’s goal is to help future managers and consultants recognise and handle the ‘full situation’, which includes purposes, people and relationships. Furthermore, it elaborates on those theories and instruments that can deliver real benefits to real people working in real fuzzy and complex circumstances, and includes several practical cases focusing on the role of the interventionist.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Change Management.- Organisation Development.- Beyond Organisation Development.- Large-Group Interventions.- Changing and Learning.- Change Dynamics.- A Complexity Perspective.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of all phases of a hackathon and thus helps to reduce complexity, to use opportunities, to avert pitfalls and to avoid problems. In addition, it also explains from a participant’s perspective how to succeed in a hackathon. Lastly, the book is rounded off by extensive checklists, which support you in your own hackathons. The book is structured as follows: At first the basics and the history of hackathons are described in chapter 1. Afterwards the three phases of a hackathon are described in detail. This is started in chapter 2 with the description of the individual measures which are to be accomplished before the actual event. Here not only technical or organizational aspects are described, but also the important legal aspects are discussed. Subsequently, it is shown what is necessary to carry out a hackathon successfully. For this purpose the actual execution with all its steps is described in chapter 3. Next, chapter 4 looks at the follow-ups, which are often neglected or even completely forgotten. Chapter 5 describes from a participant’s point of view the reasons for participating in a hackathon and which aspects guarantee a successful participation. In the following chapter 6 the criticism of the format of the hackathons and their execution is also examined in detail. Eventually, the most important points are summarized in chapter 7, before chapter 8 gives a view into the future of hackathons. Subsequently chapter 9 collects statements and opinions of representatives from industry, science and administration on the topic of hackathons. The book is rounded off in chapter 10 with detailed checklists, which can be directly used for the successful planning, operation and follow-up of hackathons. The book is written for everyone with an interest in how hackathons work, how to create them, and how to successfully participate. It especially targets people in industry or young students who want to run or participate in a hackathon.Table of Contents1. Basics.- 2. Preparation.- 3. Operation.- 4. Follow-Up.- 5. Participant View.- 6. Criticism.- 7. Summary.- 8. Outlook.- 9. Quotations.- 10. Checklists.

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Book SynopsisImplementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems.The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction.- 1. Guidelines and Safety Practices for Improving Patient Safety.- 2. Brief story of a clinical risk manager.- 3. Human Error and Patient Safety.- 4. Looking forward to the future.- 5. Safer care: shaping the future.- 6. Patients for Patient Safety.- 7. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety from the Perspective of Medical Residents.- Part II. Background.- 8. Patient Safety in the World.- 9. Infection Prevention and Control.- 10. The patient journey.- 11. Adverse event investigation and risk assessment.- 12. From theory to real world integration: implementation science and beyond.- Part III. Patient safety in the main clinical specialties.- 13. Intensive care and anesthesiology.- 14. “Safe Surgery Saves Lives” .- 15. Emergency Department Clinical Risk.- 16. Obstetric Safety Patient.- 17. Patient Safety in the main clinical specialties.- 18. Risks in Oncology and Radiation Therapy.- 19. Orthopaedics and Traumatology.- 20.Patient Safety & Risk Management in Mental Health.- 21. Pediatrics.- 22. Patient safety in the main clinical specialties: Radiology.- 23. Organ Donor Risk Stratification in Italy.- 24. Patient Safety in Laboratory Medicine.- 25. Ophthalmology.- IV Healthcare organization.- 26. Community and Primary Care.- 27. Complexity science as a frame for understanding the management and delivery of high quality and safer care.- 28. Measuring clinical workflow to improve quality and safety.- 29. Shiftwork Organization.- 30. Non Technical Skills in Healthcare.- 31. Medication safety.- 32. Digital technology and usabililty and ergonomics of medical devices.- 33. Lessons learned from the Japan Obstetric Compensation System for Cerebral Palsy: A novel system of data aggregation, investigation, amelioration, and no-fault compensation.- 34. Coping with the COVID -19 pandemic: roles and responsibilities for preparedness.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses digital risk governance in a global context and provides practical solutions for sound digital policy. From cyber-attacks to the mechanisms of digital technical management on a global scale, this book identifies the fundamental areas of digital vulnerability for both states and businesses and outlines the means of securing them. Written with the digital security needs of the public and private sectors in mind, chapters provide approachable guidance on navigating national digital strategies for public and corporate cyber-risks, identifying mechanisms for embedding digital security over time, protecting both personal and strategic economic data, adapting regulations to digital challenges, and leveraging innovation and multilateralism for digital security. Providing a comprehensive view of digital risk mechanisms for multiple stakeholders, this volume will be useful for professionals and practitioners in technology governance, digital management, IS/risk management, digital security, and internet policy.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The international context of corporate digital security.- Chapter 2: National frameworks for the implementation of digital security.- Chapter 3: The complexity of digital technology makes it difficult for enterprises to conceive of its security.- Chapter 4: Intense inter-state competition in cyberspace.- Chapter 5: Establishing competition in digital markets.- Chapter 6: Preserve the legal order by strengthening data control and the ability to regulate platforms.- Chapter 7: Responding to the fiscal challenge launched by the major digital enterprises: a digital security and equity issue.- Chapter 8: Strengths and weaknesses of the enterprise's information system.- Chapter 9: Securing the information system of enterprises and institutions.- Chapter 10: Digital vulnerabilities and attacks compromising the security of enterprises and institutions.- Chapter 11: The nature of the attacks and the characteristics of a cyber-attitude.- Chapter 12: IT safety education for Digital Literacy.- Chapter 13: How to win the digital security challenge in terms of governance.- Chapter 14: Governance through the development of key technologies and the loss of strategic assets.- Chapter 15: Optimize the levers of industrial policy to mobilize financial and human capital: Chapter 16: Conclusion.- Glossary.- References.

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Book SynopsisCOVID-19 has hit the world unprepared, as the deadliest pandemic of the century. Governments and authorities, as leaders and decision makers fighting the virus, enormously tap into the power of artificial intelligence and its predictive models for urgent decision support. This book showcases a collection of important predictive models that used during the pandemic, and discusses and compares their efficacy and limitations. Readers from both healthcare industries and academia can gain unique insights on how predictive models were designed and applied on epidemic data. Taking COVID19 as a case study and showcasing the lessons learnt, this book will enable readers to be better prepared in the event of virus epidemics or pandemics in the future.Trade Review“This book is … of great interest for mathematical modelers--it nicely summarizes many important tools, with concrete examples, that could be adapted for other situations. … I strongly recommend this book to advanced undergraduate engineers and mathematicians as well as specialists dealing with dynamical system modeling.” (Arturo Ortiz-Tapia, Computing Reviews, July 26, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Prediction for Decision Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 2. Epidemiology Compartmental Models - SIR, SEIR and SEIR with Intervention.- Chapter 3. Forecasting COVID-19 Time Series based on an Auto Regressive Model.- Chapter 4. Nonlinear Prediction for the COVID-19 Data based on Quadratic Kalman Filtering.- Chapter 5. Artificial Intelligence Prediction for the COVID-19 Data based on LSTM Neural Networks and H2O AutoML.- Chapter 6. Predicting the Geographic Spread of the COVID-19 Pandemic: a case study from Brazil.

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon research and practitioner narratives from management, leadership, organizational studies, entrepreneurship and sustainable business domains, this book explores the many pathways that enable emerging countries to transform knowledge into action to achieve economic and sustainable development. The authors take a holistic approach to ‘transforming knowledge’ that goes beyond the mere ‘application of knowledge’ to include the assimilation, adaptation, and contextualization of knowledge to suit the unique contexts, needs and conditions existing in emerging countries. They then presents success stories and case studies comprising innovative solutions for emerging economies that practitioners can utilize. Current research in management is highlighted by bringing together academics, practitioners, policy-makers and interest groups from diverse regions and perspectives.Table of Contents1. Position of Sri Lankan Products in the Global Market: A Comparison of Brand Values.- 2. The Effect of Corporate Social Performance on Firm Financial Performance: The Moderating Effect of Ownership Concentration.- 3. The Moderating Role of Firm Size to Capital Structure-Financial Performance Relationship: A Panel Data Approach.- 4. Role of Innovative marketing strategy for success of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).- 5. Role of Organizational Culture and Actors on Success and Failure of Balanced Scorecard Operationalization: A Case Study of a Clustered Firm.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book focuses on Switzerland-based medium-sized companies with a longstanding export tradition and a proven dominance in global niche markets. Based upon in-depth documentation and analysis of 36 Swiss companies over their entire history, an expert team of authors presents several parallels in the pathways and success factors which allowed these firms to become dominant and operate from a high-cost location such as Switzerland. The book enhances these insights by providing detailed company profiles documenting the company history, development, and how their relevant global niche positions were reached. Readers will benefit from these profiles as they compile a diverse selection of industries, mainly active within the B2B sector, with mostly mature companies (60 years to older than 100 years since founding) and different types of ownership structures including family firms. ‘Masterpieces of Swiss Entrepreneurship’ brings unique learning opportunities to owners and leaders of SMEs in Switzerland and elsewhere. Findings are based on detailed bottom-up research of 36 companies -- without any preconceived notions. The book is both conceptual and practical. It fosters understanding for different choices in development pathways and management practices. Matti Alahuhta, Chairman DevCo Partners, ex-CEO Kone, Board member of several global listed companies, Helsinki, FinlandStart-up entrepreneurs need proven models from industry which demonstrate the various paths to success. “Masterpieces of Swiss Entrepreneurship” provides deep insights highlighting these models and the important trade-offs entrepreneurial teams must consider when choosing the path of high growth or of maximum control, as they are often mutually exclusive.Gina Domanig, Managing Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures, ZurichTable of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book chronicles airline revenue management from its early origins to the last frontier. Since its inception revenue management has now become an integral part of the airline business process for competitive advantage. The field has progressed from inventory control of the base fare, to managing bundles of base fare and air ancillaries, to the precise inventory control at the individual seat level. The author provides an end-to-end view of pricing and revenue management in the airline industry covering airline pricing, advances in revenue management, availability, and air shopping, offer management and product distribution, agency revenue management, impact of revenue management across airline planning and operations, and emerging technologies is travel. The target audience of this book is practitioners who want to understand the basics and have an end-to-end view of revenue management.Trade Review“A must-have for airline professionals … . a recommended handbook for people at all levels of airline management and required reading for RM scientists and analysts … . I wish a book such as Ben's had been available when I started my career. It not only nicely complements more academic books and articles in the vast RM and pricing literature but also provides a good look into a possible future as seen by an outstanding industry leader.” (Darius Walczak, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, Vol. 21, 2022)Table of ContentsOrigins.- Airline Pricing.- The Airline Spill Model.- Revenue Management of the Base Fare.- Low-Cost Carriers and Impacts on Revenue Management.- Offer Management.- Competitive Revenue Management.- Agency Revenue Management.- The Last Frontier – Individual Seat Pricing.- Influence of Revenue Management on the Airline Business Process.- Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in Travel.- Future State.- Index.

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Book SynopsisStrategies and practices for growing ecosystems are increasingly important in shaping industries and markets. Sustaining productive innovation is not just about you. It depends on others as well as your willingness and ability to collaborate effectively. This book is about how to use, as well as develop, a co-innovation platform to accelerate innovation and sustain ecosystem growth. It will show how you, your team and your organization can create and foster collaborative innovation among a diverse set of organizations that are located outside of your company’s hierarchy. A co-innovation platform provides an environment where firms can combine or recombine ideas to generate novel solutions. A distinctive feature of the co-innovation platform is its resource-open and hands-on approach to innovation. For many organizations, resource limitations, organizational obstacles and/or time constraints kill an idea before it takes shape. By providing access to demand-side and supply-side resources and capabilities to facilitate co-innovation, the platform solves this problem and shapes the ecosystem’s innovation trajectory from the ground up. This book provides strategic and practical guidance for orchestrating collaborative problem solving and ecosystem growth.Table of Contents1: Introduction to Co-Innovation Platforms.- 2: Platforms: What and How?.- 3: What is Co-Innovation?.- 4: Building Successful Co-Innovation Platforms.- 5: Remaining Frictionless: Intellectual Property.- 6: Bringing it all together.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook deals with engineering, science, technical, legal, financial, ICT, logistics and people management topics necessary for managing engineered assets such as all man-made tools, gadgets, buildings, equipment, machines, infrastructure, large-scale physical and industrial facilities and systems which pervade all sectors of industry. By coalescing concepts, principles, practices, and practical issues from the relevant multi-disciplines, the book addresses the body of knowledge required for managing engineered assets in the 4IR and Society 5.0 era and beyond.The book is written for: Scholars and students who intend to strengthen or acquire knowledge about the concepts, principles, and practice of managing engineered assets; Managers of engineered assets in both the public and private sectors who aim to improve asset management practice for their organisational purposes and missions; Policymakers and regulators in order to improve policymaking, governance, assessment and evaluation frameworks on the management of engineered assets; The broader audience concerned about the sustainable management of engineered assets that constitute our built environment and provide the means for industry and livelihood. Table of ContentsDefinitions and Scope.- Value and Sustainability.- Technical Principles.- Practical Concepts.- Engineering Asset Management Framework.- Asset Acquisition Stage.- Asset Utilisation Stage.- Asset Retirement Stage.- SAMP and EAMBoK.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book focuses on explaining differences amongst organizations regarding various attributes, forms, and outcomes. By focusing on the “how” of new venture creation and management to produce well-established organizations, the authors aim to increase our understanding of the antecedents of most management research assumptions. New ventures are the source of most newly created jobs generated in an economy, new industries and markets, innovative products and services, and new solutions to economic, social, and environmental problems. However, most management research assumes a well-established organization as the starting point of their theorizing.Building on the notion of guided attention, it details how entrepreneurs can allocate their transient attention to identify potential opportunities from environmental change and how entrepreneurs allocate their sustained attention to form beliefs about radical and incremental opportunities requiring entrepreneurial action. The authors explain how entrepreneurs build such communities and engage community members over time to co-construct potential opportunities for new venture progress. Using the lean startup framework, they connect the dots between the theorizing on identifying and co-constructing potential opportunities and the startup of new ventures. This leads to a new overarching framework based on are (1) co-creating a startup, (2) organizing a startup, and (3) performing a startup to bring together the many disparate threads of research on new ventures. The authors then theorize on the importance of knowledge in organizational scaling. Based on cutting-edge research from the leading entrepreneurship journals, this book expands knowledge on the cognitive aspect of the new venture creation process.Trade Review“The book highlights new insights … . Relevant industry examples are provided and engaging, and complement the theoretical arguments presented by the authors. Overall, the book is grounded in contemporary research which pushes the knowledge frontiers to the entrepreneurial journey of start-ups. It makes an excellent read for budding as well as veteran social sciences and has some elements which may be of interest to practitioners as well … .” (Radha Vyas, International Small Business Journal ISBJ, May 13, 2022)Table of Contents1. Attending to the External Environment to Identify Potential Opportunities.- 2. Co-contructing an Opportunity With a Community of Inquiry.- 3. A Lean Framework for Starting a New Venture.- 4. Managing New Ventures.- 5. Scaling New Ventures.

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Book SynopsisThe result of the application of strategic management philosophy to the nexus of entrepreneurship, innovation, and economy, strategic entrepreneurship fosters sustainable development and competitiveness. This volume provides an introduction to the theories of strategic entrepreneurship and accounts of their real-world applications in the entrepreneurial sector. The book is divided into three parts. Chapters in Part I discuss strategic entrepreneurship dynamics and mechanisms. Chapters in Part II focus on strategic entrepreneurship concepts and theories. Chapters in Part III provide global examples of strategic entrepreneurship practices in action. Presenting a view of strategic entrepreneurship across diverse sectors and industries, this edited volume will be attractive to researchers and students interested in management, entrepreneurship, economics, public administration, and public policy, as well as corporate strategists, managers, and policymakers looking to integrate the principles of strategic entrepreneurship.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Strategic Entrepreneurship: Dynamics and Mechanisms.- Chapter 2: Economic development at G7 country level: taxonomy of economic development ranking and proposition of a strategic entrepreneurship model of development.- Chapter 3: A study on the impact of the fourth industrial revolution and big data on human resources in Italian companies.- Chapter 4: The logic of production in the informal enterprises: the case of Bolivia and its implications for the public policy.- Part II: Strategic Entrepreneurship: Concepts and Theories.- Chapter 5: A metaphorical approach to the fundamental grounds in strategic timing: a contribution to the ontological perception, axiological evaluation, and epistemological classification of timing in strategic management.- Chapter 6: Going on a quest for social and humane intentions within strategic entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review approach.- Chapter 7: Corporate entrepreneurship strategy and internationalization: a literature review.- Chapter 8: Defining, measuring, and developing social entrepreneurship skills: A crucial element of social entrepreneurship strategy.- Chapter 9: How strategic entrepreneurship benefits public administration: a potential application of complexity theory.- Part III: Strategic Entrepreneurship: Practices.- Chapter 10: The strategic entrepreneurship pitching on crowdfunding platforms: a traction toward emerging advanced technologies.- Chapter 11: Technology-based entrepreneurship: venture inception, entrepreneurial aspirations, and background.- Chapter 12: Critical innovation strategies for achieving competitive strategic entrepreneurship in ever-increasing turbulent markets.- Chapter 13: Growth loops: from perceptions of growth to motivations for growth in high-growth women-led entrepreneurial firms.- Chapter 14: Rethinking strategic entrepreneurial succession: unfolding hidden aspects of the entrepreneurial families’ iceberg.- Index.

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Book SynopsisThe book describes the complete project process in individual steps for SAP S/4HANA project management based on the SAP ACTIVATE implementation methodology. By imparting knowledge based on experience with real SAP projects, the book supports project managers in developing skills and qualifications that will lead them to the successful management of SAP projects. In this context it emphasizes the crucial role of human interaction from the start to the successful completion of projects and provides useful tips on how to recognize and avoid pitfalls.Enriched with a wide range of material such as templates, checklists and practical examples, the book provides concrete guidance for project managers and participants on how to successfully manage ongoing projects. The book is valuable for both beginners and experienced project managers and also gives decision makers and stakeholders an excellent insight into the planning and management of large projects.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. What makes an SAP-Project so different?.- Chapter 3. The SAP S/4HANA project: How it should be.- Chapter 4. The SAP S/4HANA Project: How it is.- Chapter 5. The underestimated success factor: people.- Chapter 6. Project Planning, Control and Quality Assurance.- Chapter 7. Examples of real-live SAP-S/4HANA Projects.- Chapter 8. Consultants: Boon or Bane? Benefit or Burden?.- Chapter 9. Tools for project support.- Chapter 10. 12 Commandments for a successful SAP project.

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This open access book discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by companies in an age that increasingly values sustainability and demands corporate responsibility. Beginning with the historical development of corporate responsibility, this book moves from academic theory to practical application. It points to ways in which companies can successfully manage their transition to a more responsible, sustainable way of doing business, common mistakes to avoid and how the UN Sustainable Development Goals are integral to any sustainability transformation. Practical cases illustrate key points. Drawing on thirty years of sustainability research and extensive corporate experience, the author provides tools such as a Step-by-Step strategic guide on integrating sustainability in collaboration with stakeholders including employees, customers, suppliers and investors. The book is particularly relevant for SMEs and companies operating in emerging markets. From a broader perspective, the value of externalities, full cost pricing, alternative economic theories and circular economy are also addressed.

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Book SynopsisStrategic planning is an essential task that helps companies adapt to changes in the environment and to develop proactively. Accordingly, the goal of strategic planning is to ensure companies’ survival and long-term success. The strategy-planning process proposed in this book is based on the authors’ many years of experience as consultants and board members. The book shows how to carry out sound analyses, how to define concrete strategic objectives, how to develop and assess strategic options and how to determine which implementation projects are necessary. Numerous practical examples serve to illustrate the proposed approach. For the third edition, the sections on corporate strategy and business strategy development have been redesigned and expanded. Throughout the book, many aspects have been clarified and simplified. The book provides practitioners the knowledge they need to develop their own strategies. In addition, it offers a valuable textbook on the complex task of strategic planning.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- ​Idea and Process of Strategic Planning: Strategies, Strategic Planning and Success Potentials.- Development of Strategic Planning and Its Integration into Strategic Management.- Strategic Documents.- Strategy Planning Process.- Initializing Strategic Planning: Developing or Revising the Mission Statement.- Defining the Current Strategic Businesses.- Preparing the Strategy Planning Project.- Strategic Analysis at the Corporate Level: Global Environment Analysis.- Portfolio Analysis.- Diagnosing the Strategic Challenges at the Corporate Level.- Developing the Corporate Strategy: Developing and Assessing Strategic Options for the Company.- Defining the Strategic Objectives for the Company.- Formulating the Corporate Strategy.- Developing Project Plans for the Implementation of the Corporate Strategy.- Strategic Analysis of a Business: Identifying the Industry-Specific Success Factors.- Industry Environment Analysis.- Industry Analysis.- Market Analysis.- Analyzing the Competitive Position and the Business Model.- Diagnosing the Strategic Challenges of the Business.- Developing a Business Strategy: Developing and Assessing Strategic Options for the Business.- Defining the Strategic Objectives for the Business.- Formulating the Business Strategy.- Developing Project Plans for the Implementation of the Business Strategy.- Finalizing Strategic Planning: Developing the Functional Strategies.- Final Assessment of All Strategic Guidelines.- Preparing the Strategic Implementation.- Final Remarks.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines human resource development (HRD) strategy as a learning process, connecting learning and adult development with organizational development and change, and talent development, with a particular focus on the use of artificial intelligence (AI). It provides professionals and practitioners as well as students with processes and tools that will help them meet the needs of employees and the organization. It takes a scholar-practitioner perspective connecting theory with practice. HRD has evolved into a mature field of scholarship in recent decades. At the same time, practices of learning and development in organizations continues to evolve dramatically. At the individual, developmental, and organizational levels, workers, managers, and executives have to be continually learning from current and emerging trends in order to strategically reposition themselves for performance and future possibilities. This includes developing the competencies to navigate the complexities of a world in which people are interacting with ‘smart’ digital technologies that are broadly grouped together under the umbrella term artificial intelligence (AI). Featuring specific strategic learning methods and case studies from senior HRD professionals, this book is a valuable resource for managers, practitioners, students, scholars and others interested in strategic HRD practice.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Scope of Human Resource Development.- Chapter 2. Foundations of Learning Theory for HRD Practice.- Chapter 3. Strategically Positioning HRD Practice in Organizations.- Chapter 4. Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence and Strategic HRD.- Chapter 5. Data and Analytics for Improved HRD Performance in the Age of Digital Technologies.- Chapter 6. Strategic Learning for Sustainable Organization Performance.- Chapter 7. Aligning Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Level Learning and Development for Performance.- Chapter 8. Transfer of Learning: The Path that Connects Learning to Performance.- Chapter 9. The Future of Work in the Age of AI.

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Book SynopsisGeneral structure of the case study.- Course 1: Risk Analysis.- Course unit 1: Graphical representation of risks.- Course unit 2: Variance and standard deviation.- Course unit 3: Models for calculating volatility.- Course 2: Quantitative instruments in risk management.- Course unit 1: Different types of Value at Risk and Lower Partial Moments and Extreme Value Theory.- Course unit 2: Determination of portfolio risks.- Course Unit 3: Hedging of hedgeable risks and modelling of non-hedgeable risks.

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Book SynopsisFactors affecting students' intention toward data science and analytics careers: a comparison between two university programs.- Building the neural network-based system for identifying the gaming addiction level in children and adolescents.- Use of qualitative approach to identifying e-hrm practices in Cypriot's hotels.- Leadership style and innovative work behaviour: is learning agility the key?.- New directions for business models in the digital green economy.- Critical factors of sustainability for cocoa industry in Malaysia: price forecasting methodology.- Developing a digital maturity model for the event industry.- Adapting artificial intelligence in cypriot hotel industry: the views of hotel managers.- Considering the impact of a founder's own characteristics on business growth strategy.- The state of e-commerce in SMEs in the Visegrad Group: Insights from the digital economy and society index.- Links between managerial competencies assessment factors and business competency model factors.- Forecasting the effect of credit utilization rate on inflation volatility in Turkey.- An empirical investigation of the climate risk and vulnerability impact on the economic sentiment across European Union countries.- Financial markets, financial institutions and international trade nexus: the case of India.- The calendar effect related to firm size in the American stock market.- Dark triad of personality traits and financial crime: international evidence.- Reading ESEF filings with Arelle - opportunities and problems.

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Book SynopsisOrthodox gazelles performance and advantages during the pandemic (Russian case).- Establishment of start-up's identity as strategy for maintaining business continuity.- The effect of social entrepreneurship antecedents on social entrepreneurship intention.- Not another brick on the wall: generation z and future of work.- Technostress and psychological flexibility: the mediating role of resilience at work in the context of remote working it employees.- Optimizing profitability in native chicken production business: a study on growth performance and cost-effective diet systems for native chicken production business in Malaysia.- The effect of electronic word-of-mouth on customers' purchase intention among tiktok users.- A comprehensive analysis of online shopping expenditure in v4 countries.- Exploring the drivers of customer satisfaction in service industry: the case study of student dormitories in the city of Zagreb.- Does engagement in environment lead to enhance sustainable consumption behavior? Empirical evidence from Indonesia.- Consumer attitudes towards private-label yogurts and yogurt packaging.- Comparison of the predictive power of machine learning approaches for forecasting creditworthiness of industrial companies in low-default portfolios.- Connection between gender disparity in financial systems and businesses.- Improving public investment in Kazakh PPPs from a portfolio perspective: a system dynamics approach.- Integrated performance measurement system prevention of bankruptcy.- Decoding eastern European national public-private partnership infrastructure programs.- The role of environmental protection expenditures in the green transition of EU countries.

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Book SynopsisRisks, Opportunities, and Enterprise Risk Management.- Theories of Decision-Making Under Risk Heuristics and Biases in Enterprise Risk Management.- Methods of Decision-Making under Risk.- Risk Quantification, Risk Modelling, Risk Aggregation, and Model Risks.- Risk Metrics and Risk Measures.- Strategic Perspective on Enterprise Risk Management.- Operational Perspective on the ERM Process.- Strategy, Resilience, Robustness, Sustainability, and ERM.- Value-Based Management and Enterprise Risk Management.- Enterprise Risk Management and Business Planning.- Organizational Aspects of Enterprise Risk Management.- Case Studies: Risk Analysis, Company Valuation, and Strategy Valuation.

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Book Synopsis.- Identifying Disruptive Technologies: An Intellectual Property-based View to Disruptive Potential Assessment..- Talent-as-a-Service (TaaS) in Poland's Business Service Sector: Opportunities and Challenges in a Digitalized Labour Market..- Post-truth and Strategic Ignorance through the Story of Turkish Red Crescent (Kizilay)..- The Impact of Institutional Factors on Economic Growth in Western Balkan Countries..- The Relationship between Islamic Financial Development and CO2: Panel Causality Approach..- Establishing the Foundations of Sustainable Consumption Within Marketing Schools of Thought..- Evaluation of the Significance of the Objectives and Strategies of Family Businesses Using the AHP and ANP Methods..- Pretrained Deep Learning Models in Economic Forecasting - A New Frontier?..- Artificial Intelligence in Support of Warehousing 5.0 and the EU Green Taxonomy..- The Effect of Supply Chain Agility and Supply Chain Resilience on Firm Performance: A Study of the Marmara Organized Industrial Zones.

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. .- 2. The Concept and Definition of Management: Traditional Notions and a Contemporary Revision.- 3. Sub-Constructs of Management: Organization, Strategy, Governance, Leadership, Human Resource Management, and Culture.- 4. Implementation: Management Theory in Practice..

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Book SynopsisOpen labs provide spaces for interaction across organizational boundaries. They create a huge potential to advance innovation processes. Making use of this potential, however, is not an easy task. It requires diligence, sophistication and perseverance from everyone involved in the implementation and the management of the lab. This book brings together contributions from leading experts in engineering, design, strategy, foresight and marketing research as well as policy makers and practitioners from an open lab. It explores from different perspectives how open labs can be used to facilitate innovation and what needs to be done to make the operation of an open lab successful. The topics addressed in the book include: interaction patterns and mediation in open labs, innovation technology, resource management, ecosystem and platform design, cultural translation, productivity, multi-channel communication, and more. The first part of the book is dedicated to the study of JOSEPHS®, an open lab in Germany. It gives insight in the practical challenges of running an open lab and its role in the local business ecosystem. The other parts of the book discuss the phenomenon of open labs in general and its significance in different contexts all around the world.

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Book SynopsisTaking the business model as point of departure, this open access book explores how companies and organizations can contribute to a more sustainable future by designing innovative models that are both sustainable and profitable. Based upon years of research, it draws together theoretical foundations and existing literature on the topic of sustainable business alongside case studies and practical solutions. After examining the theoretical foundations of sustainable business model innovation, the authors present their own framework – RESTART. Consisting of seven factors, this framework can be the basis for restarting any business model. The final section outlines a research agenda for sustainable business informed by the perspectives and frameworks put forward in this book.Table of ContentsPART I: WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Chapter 1: Why sustainable business model innovation? Chapter 2: The seven steps of the RESTART framework Chapter 3: RESTART: what, why, how and so what? 3.1 Responsibility and opportunity 3.2 Sustainable and profitable 3.3 The next step: aligning financial, social and environmental bottom-lines PART II: THE RESTART FRAMEWORK Chapter 4: Roadmap to a RESTART Chapter 5: Redesign rather than standstill 5.1 The business model as the story of how the company works 5.2 Redesigning business models Chapter 6: Experimentation rather than turnaround 6.1 The science of profitability 6.2 Asking the right questions Chapter 7: Service-logic rather than product-logic 7.1 At your service 7.2 Access to everything Chapter 8: The circular rather than the linear economy 8.1 The future goes in circles 8.2 Resources astray Chapter 9: Alliances rather than solo-runs 9.1 Unite and collaborate! 9.2 Creating and sharing value Chapter 10: Results rather than indulgences 10.1 With an eye on the ball 10.2 Prioritize what matters Chapter 11: Three-dimensionality rather than one-dimensionality 11.1 Take the lead 11.2. Building a better world Chapter 12: RESTART before it is too late PART III: IMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH Chapter 13: A recap of the RESTART framework Chapter 14: A process model for sustainable business model innovation Chapter 15: Avenues for future research Chapter 16: Case study: A RESTART for Scanship Chapter 17: Case study: A circular business model for Orkla and BIR?

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