Books in the Advanced Series in Management series

As decision-makers apply digitalization in global cities to achieve their SDG goals, contributors from around the world here shed light on forthcoming developments in Smart Cities, and set out how to plan for increasingly rapid changes,

This book examines an indigenous Africa-centric business model practised by the Igbos of south-eastern Nigeria for decades. The unique framework and rules of operation, collectively referred to as the Igbo-Traditional Business School (I-TBS) in this book, is underpinned by the 'Igba-boi' apprenticeship.

Africa is fast becoming an investment destination for firms operating outside the continent, and effective management is central to the realization of organizational goals. This volume evaluates the need for management philosophies and theories that reflect the peculiarities of the African continent.

Why do firms die? This volume explores international and cross-disciplinary perspectives, carrying out a forensic examination of 'how and why' companies die in order to understand the lessons 'dead firms' may have to offer.

The purpose of this volume is to examine new ways of working, technologies and working environments and the impact of these on our behaviors at work. Addressing trust, social cohesion and diversity, leadership, teamwork and innovative work behavior, we show that NWW-practices are changing everyone's work anytime, anyplace, anyhow.

Explores the organization of diplomacy for international entrepreneurship at the micro level: the diplomats' and individual entrepreneurs' perspective. This book takes an interdisciplinary perspective, combining the fields of business administration and public administration, specifically international entrepreneurship and international relations.

This book focuses on the concept and role of relational practices as a way to understand and study processes of organizing. Relational practices are conceived as an ongoing, everyday process resulting in more participative ways of organizing.

Presents consistency/intentionality platforms and evolution models that help to evaluate the learning and renewal capability of an organization and to improve its enabling infrastructure. This book presents the living composition model which is an interpretation of the theory of living, self-producing systems.

Traditional notions of stand-alone, "atomistic" organizations are giving way to new concepts about organizations and new modes of organizational interaction. This volume develops a number of systems perspectives and approaches that are essential in managing today's organizations.

This volume proposes a classification of organizational types based on studies of managers' actual approaches to "framing" the environment of an organization and possible modes of achieving it between organization and environment.

Focusing primarily on the application of the theories of complexity to organisations, it slowly helped to disseminate ideas on complexity. The 14 international authors in this volume reflect this interest in 10 chapters that range from the very practical application of the theory to more philosophical reflections on its nature and applicability.

Until recently real people worked in real locations to conduct business, whether in large corporations, or smaller businesses. These papers consider the implications for managers directing staff who work outside the physical confines of a location using telecommunication technologies.