Management & Strategy

This book is a reference on digital technology and its impact on sustainability, providing insight into sustainable practices globally among various organizations and communities. It describes the green computing paradigms and the impact of a circular economy with a focus on sustainable practices in a post-pandemic world.

This book analyses how solidarity economy initiatives develop alternative spatialities as counterpower to mainstream economy.

Given the political, social and economic salience of locale, this book explores the potential contribution of place-based initiative to more balanced and equitable socio-economic development, as well as growth in a more general sense.

Expanding the scope of the metadiscourse construct, Ho offers a comprehensive analysis of the online review response genre using hotel managers' responses to negative reviews posted by dissatisfied customers on TripAdvisor.

This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on funerary practice in Poland. An overview of the important features of the Polish funeral law, funerals, cremations, cemeteries and funeral industry, the book also covers the demographic characteristic of mortality in Poland.

This book provides an expert overview of contemporary research in the important fields of co-operative and mutual enterprises.

This book seeks to better understand the processes and influences that have driven professionalization in the arts.

Welchen kommunikativen Herausforderungen begegnen wir in beruflichen Handlungsfeldern in Wissenschaft, Technik und Institutionen? Inwiefern können wir diesen kommunikativen Erfordernissen gerecht werden? Welche didaktischen Konsequenzen können wir aus einem mehr- und vielsprachigen beruflichen Kontext für den Bereich des Deutschen als Fremd- und Fachsprache ziehen?Da die berufliche Kommunikation moderner Arbeitskontexte vor einigen Herausforderungen steht, beschäftigt sich der vorliegende Sammelband mit den Chancen und Möglichkeiten, die eine solche Situation mit sich bringt. Neben der Modellierung von Viel- und Mehrsprachigkeit in einzelnen Settings und der Erhebung kommunikativer Herausforderungen einzelner Gruppen werden auch translatologische Fragestellungen in didaktischen Kontexten sowie der Einsatz von Medien in der beruflichen Kommunikation diskutiert.

Three key books on internal auditing by the same author.

The comprehensive coverage makes the book a valuable reference for practitioners and students, particularly postgraduate and MBA students, who require such insights to improve business functions and make informed decisions. It is also accessible for readers without a strong background in mathematics.

During the second half of the nineteenth century, a new global market for wheat came to the fore. Ever since, scarce and perishable food has been transformed into a modern global commodity, millions of tons of which is sold, bought and transported across the oceans, providing the "daily bread" for a fast-growing world population.

The contribution of this book is the development of the assessment tool for measuring social responsibility of every enterprise - Enterprise Social Responsibility Index (EnSRI) and Consumer Social responsibility Index (CnSRI).

This book presents and discusses the main issues and challenges posed by communication, leadership, and trust.

This handbook takes a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to provide a comprehensive exploration of the processes, conditions, and activities that hold the potential to control corruption.

This handbook is a key resource on post-processing treatments available for additive manufactured products. It provides a broad coverage on the theory behind this emerging technology, the material development, functional characterization, and the technical details required to investigate the novel applications and methods and put them to use.

This book analyses the relationship between the private sector, UK official development aid (ODA) and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book will interest researchers from business management, development studies and political science, as well as to practitioners with an interest in the role of the private sector in ODA.

This book explores the relationships between access, diversity, equity, inclusion (ADEI), and creative justice in the U. S. creative sector as a solution to meaningfully addressing enduring creative injustices.

This concise volume explores how creatives operate within the cultural ecology of the Caribbean, and the diverse range of tactics they use to mediate state and global policies to define cultural production and consumption in post-colonial small island states.

Mastering the Synergy of Technology and Human Expertise It's not enough to fully understand the technology of AI, leaders must understand how to employ power skills to elevate the interactions between AI and humans and the importance of the conversation between humans and humans, and humans and AI. Critical thinking, leadership, conflict management, stakeholder engagement and other power skills are essential in all projects. AI-Powered Leadership aims to empower leaders to navigate the complexities of the AI-driven world by developing human competencies and integrating them with AI capabilities, fostering a balanced, innovative, and ethically sound leadership approach that drives sustainable success. It aims to provide a comprehensive framework for leaders to understand and apply the "Both/And" strategy in leadership, where leaders don't have to choose between traditional methods and AI-driven innovation but can leverage the strengths of both. The approach of the book is a practical, integrative framework that combines theory with actionable strategies to help leaders navigate the complex dynamics of AI in their organizations.