Books by Andreas Karaoulanis

This book gives us a holistic description of all paragons involved in small business operations during crisis years and suggests the necessary steps that need to be taken to help them overcome their problems.The author clearly demonstrates the crisis implications to small businesses by using personal research and real-life examples in addition to a big bibliography from renowned academics. The book contains useful and practical information for small business owners, entrepreneurs from all industries, business students, academics and strategists, business coaches and can be used as a road map during turbulent periods for small business in all industries.The author covers the topic from different approaches, while he tries to have a bird's-eye view of contemporary trends and new approaches. Several concepts like risk management, blue ocean strategy, and turnaround management have been discussed by the author in order to create a crystal clear understanding of why there is no such thing as dead end for small businesses even under the worst possible situations and how they can achieve their sustainable development and grow.This book was inspired by the significant problems that small and medium enterprises faced during the last huge global financial crisis.

This is the second compendium of the strategy series and is dedicated in analyzing, under a holistic view, the whole strategy implementation process and its components as they are known in the contemporary world. Strategy is the air that companies breath. Is their way towards future. As it is that vital for their own existence, it needs to be implemented in the right way. The right way is not an abstract notion. It means that an implementation plan needed to be applied, while we need to use the right tools and to follow specific procedures and rules in order to reach our goal which is the company¿s sustainable development.

Distance learning is an extremely important tool for global education. In an Internet of People global society, such tool can have vast impact, especially in poor countries where people can¿t afford a traditional education, not to mention the endless possibilities regarding working people or people who live in different time zones. In this book we are going to shed some light on the realm of distance learning via case studies and research, in order to understand both the mechanisms that make it happen and its social implications.