Books in the Routledge Frontiers of Business Management series

Japanese Management in Evolution illustrates the significant changes that have been taking place in Japanese business by focusing on "emerging industries" in the relatively neglected service and "creative" sectors, and to put those changes in historical perspective by providing an overview of business development since World War II.The book would be of great interest to researchers, academics and practitioners in fields of global management, international management, and Asian capitalism.

This book examines the National Palace Museum's efforts to combine its expertise in museum service with a digitalized platform. It analyses the research results of surveys conducted and aims to inform readers of digital establishment and service innovations as well as the necessities of technological and managerial implementation.

Technological advances and the drive to digitalise business processes in aviation, tourism and hospitality has forced the industries to go along with the digital movement. This book brings together contributions from leading scholars in the field and explores the digital transformation in these industries in Southeast Asia.

This book explores cooperative management and provides insight into how Korea's consumer cooperatives have evolved and been managed. It focuses on and examines Korea's consumer cooperative management practices, their growth and performance.

This book discusses how transformational entrepreneurship uses novel business practices to reduce inequality in the marketplace and how it transforms society through creative solutions that enable change. The book provides useful insight into better understanding this emerging concept.

There has been growing attention placed on the role of female run and managed business in the global economy due to the increasing emphasis on gender equity. Despite the importance of female entrepreneurship, there has only been recently increased research attention devoted to entrepreneurship in the context of female entrepreneurship dynamics. This edited book examines female entrepreneurship and internationalization from both a practical and policy perspective and looks at the role of female entrepreneurship in the global economy.

This book focuses on gender and family entrepreneurship, as they are interrelated concepts particularly important in today¿s global society. The book highlights the significance of the role of gender in the development and growth of family businesses. It helps readers understand the role of family dynamics in business, particularly in terms of succession planning, strategic development and internationalization. This edited book is a useful and insightful addition to the entrepreneurship field.

This book, written by international authors, focuses on how knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship are crucial to the process of creative destruction and construction. The book aims to provide insights into and discussion on how firms combine entrepreneurial action that creates new opportunities for industries, regions and economies. This book is the first of its kind to link knowledge management perspectives to strategic entrepreneurship in order to understand the co-creation process. Being interdisciplinary in nature, this book appeals to entrepreneurship and knowledge management scholars, students and practitioners.

Sustainable development is an internationally recognized objective for governments, businesses and societies. However, how the private sector engages with sustainability in a systematic way through their business activities remains unclear. This book evaluates the sustainability practices of the private sector by utilising a sustainability assessment framework ¿ a method for integrating different strands of impact assessment, to better inform decision making for the promotion of sustainable economic development. The book will generate significant interest from sustainability practitioners in both the public and private sector.

Technology in several forms, especially Information Technology (IT), has a strong tendency to converge at varying degrees. This phenomenon of converging innovation will deepen and widen in future due to intense competition in global markets. Asian manufacturing firms in particular lead the global industrial innovation.Innovations as a result of convergence are often beneficial, improving welfare and employment. This book sheds light on the little-discussed idea of convergent innovation with examples hailing from Asia. The book also proposes new theories and investigates convergence at the micro level ¿ a must read for academics interested in innovation economics and management.

This book examines the National Palace Museum¿s efforts to combine its expertise in museum service with a digitalized platform. It analyses the research results of surveys conducted by the National Science Council and aims to inform readers of digital establishment and service innovations from an organization¿s perspective as well as the necessities of technological and managerial implementation. The development process of new digital contents and IT-enabled services of NPM would be a very useful benchmark for museums and the brick-and-mortar industries in Taiwan and the world.

This book introduces predictive analytics in sports and discusses how analytics relates to algorithms and statistics. It defines the sports data to be used and highlights the unique aspects of sport that make analytics useful, especially with the widespread availability of sports data.