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This book explores how enterprises adapt to challenges in their business environments. Simply put, today's business environment demands a new way of doing business that challenges brand's existing core business philosophy. Organisations are 'individual' entities in their own rights.

This book analyzes how and under what conditions collaborating corporations can effectively manage relationships with their suppliers in order to decrease the risk of suppliers' noncompliance with codes of conduct and standards.

This brief explores the business and global implications of the American shale energy, or natural gas, revolution.

This book highlights essential concepts, models, and processes that help those responsible for making pricing decisions - whether professionally or privately - to effectively engage in product pricing activities.

This book utilizes big data to undertake a cluster analysis of medical accidents. With the objective of preventing these accidents, which negatively impact numerous different stakeholders, and based on interdisciplinary research, the book examines (1) the application of data mining to identify shared accident patterns;

This book analyzes the impacts that family control of firms has on capital structure choices, leverage and the risk of financial distress, earnings management practices, and the relation between accounting choices and firm market value.

Human resource (HR) governance is a relatively new construct that has recently begun attracting more and more attention in both research and practice. This book theoretically integrates HR governance with the related domains of corporate governance, general management, HR management, and leadership.

This book explores new ways for companies to sustain their success, by means of viable business models and a values-driven culture. The point of departure is a value proposition designed to last, and grounded in the values espoused and actively practiced by the organization. These values are in turn the product of a values creation process, which is essential to any business trying to ensure its viability in the long run. A concise step-by-step process explains how this process can be introduced to keep companies competitive for and in the future.In subsequent chapters, the book describes key challenges for modern management, introduces a paradigm of sustainable management, and presents roadmaps to future viability and axioms of viable business management. Active practitioners in executive and operational management roles, research and development, innovation management, human resources, sustainability, or process management will benefit from this volume. Given its scope of coverage, the book offers a valuable resource for lecturers and students in business management, economics, law, and sustainability-related degree courses.

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

This volume examines the relationships among social ecology, innovation, sustainable development and economic growth.

This book offers a practical guide to artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that are used in business. Chapter 6 states potential business prospects of AI and the benefits that companies can realize by implementing AI in their processes.

This book examines performance evaluation in the context of assessing the non-financial outcomes of human activities. Special emphasis is placed on efficiency measurement with data envelopment analysis (DEA), and on data aggregation in life cycle assessment (LCA).

This book presents the findings of a comparative study on office work culture in Germany and China. Focusing on behavioural and work practices, it explains the cultural influences on local staff's personal behaviour.

Introduction.- Sustainable Entrepreneurship: framing the boundaries of current knowledge.- The Review Approach.- The Evolution and Distribution of the Scientific Knowledge.- Toward a Systematic Review of the Literature: Content Analysis.- Discussion, Managerial Implications, and Future Steps.- Conclusion.

The first four stages are dubbed CSR 1.0 and characterise most current CSR practice, while the fifth stage is named CSR 2.0 (also transformative or systemic CSR) and describes emergent and future CSR practices.

This book examines the role of intangible assets (IA) in companies and countries for achieving sustainable economic growth.

A common charge leveled against the autopoietic perspective is that it does not explain change or, consequently, knowledge creation. This book demonstrates that knowledge creation is not always an ongoing process, as is claimed in many process philosophy and autopoietic research works.

This book presents an empirical investigation of the efforts that multinational pharmaceutical companies take in order to find a business model that allows for a profitable access to the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) markets.

This book explains Chester Barnard's management theory clearly, faithfully, and systematically. When Barnard published The Functions of the Executive in 1938, it caused a paradigm shift in the research area of management.

The rise of sustainability has swept away the traditional views about firms' competitiveness, survival and profitability, advocating new approaches.

This book focuses on how digital technologies and rapid developments in artificial intelligence are shaping a new generation of cyber-physical systems based on the convergence among robots, sensors, and 3D printing.

This book presents the performance management efforts of selected governments across the globe. It largely focuses on how the Government of India and some state governments have adopted performance management systems in order to enhance the performance of government functionaries on one hand and raise the standards of citizen services on the other. As performance management is fast being adopted in government agencies across all the levels, the book offers the best global practices in a single volume, serving as a point of reference for all those interested in government performance management. It creates greater awareness among the practicing government functionaries and encourages further research into government performance management. It clearly elaborates on various government performance management practices and also the best practices that have ushered in a new era of public governance where great importance is placed on accountability and transparency.

This book integrates the fundamental concept of international business theory, internationalization theory, and market orientation theory providing an accessible and detailed introduction to the wide array of different research field. It provides a reader with an understanding of detail explanation of market orientation from export settings. The topics addressed in this book include all the topics related to export market orientation, market orientation theories and practices, explanation of all sorts of developed empirical studies related to the field. A detailed explanation of each trend of research where each type of existing frameworks like direct, indirect (moderated or mediated), U-shaped, inverted U shape has been presented. The topics addressed in the book include main trends in terms of methodologies employed, samples used, theories applied for the research. Moreover, this book categorizes existing research based upon emerging themes in order to draw insights on under-researched areas that should be further delved into in the future. This book is highly recommended to the readers who seek an in-depth understanding of export market orientation in the field of international business.

Every organization faces the challenge of competing in the digital economy. An increasingly dynamic environment requires more flexible and resilient organizations. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic revolutionized dormant concepts and standards, requiring innovative approaches to bring forth new scenarios. Redesigning the work environment is an issue that cuts across both academic and practical levels and involves reorganizing traditional business models.This book explores the potential of different approaches to work organization and proposes solutions to improve collaboration and efficiency in the work environment, while enabling a better balance between personal and professional life. The book includes an analysis of the public sector. By illuminating advantages and disadvantages, the research results contribute to discussion in the public organizations field, with the aim of proposing new strategic paradigms for sustainable and resilient future work environments.