Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Polman, Paul / Winston, Andrew, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take. 272 pp. 2021:10 (Harvard Business Review Pr., US) <666-904>
ISBN 978-1-64782-130-2 hard ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Runaway climate change and rampant inequality are ravaging the world and costing a fortune. Who will help lead us to a better future? Business.These massive dual challenges—and other profound shifts, such as pandemics, resource pressures, and shrinking biodiversity—threaten our very existence. Other megatrends, such as the push for a clean economy and the unprecedented focus on diversity and inclusion, offer exciting new opportunities to heal the world, and prosper by doing so. Government cannot do this alone. Business must step up.In this seminal book, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainable business guru Andrew Winston explode fifty years of corporate dogma. They reveal, for the first time, key lessons from Unilever and other pioneering companies around the world about how you can profit by fixing the world's problems instead of creating them. To thrive today and tomorrow, they argue, companies must become "net positive"—giving more to the world than they take. A net positive company:Improves the lives of everyone it touches, from customers and suppliers to employees and communities, greatly increasing long-term shareholder returns in the process.Takes ownership of all the social and environmental impacts its business model creates. This in turn provides opportunities for innovation, savings, and building a more humane, connected, and purpose-driven culture.Partners with competitors, civil society, and governments to drive transformative change that no single group or enterprise could deliver alone.This is no utopian fantasy. Courageous leaders are already making it real—and the stakes couldn't be higher. With bold vision and compelling stories, Net Positive sets out the principles and practices that will deliver the scale of change and transformation the world so desperately needs.Join the movement now at netpositive.world

Popper, Micha / Castelnovo, Omri, Leadership and Charisma: A Cultural-Evolutionary Perspective. (New Horizons in Leadership Studies) 144 pp. 2022:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-905>
ISBN 978-1-80220-351-6 hard ¥19,597.- (税込) GB￡ 68.00 *

This innovative book explores the universal and cultural foundations that underlie the dynamics of leadership. It asks key questions such as: why are we attracted to leaders? Why do we perceive certain leaders as charismatic? And why do some leaders who are perceived as charismatic during a certain period cease to be perceived as such in another period?Taking a unique evolutionary and cultural perspective, Micha Popper and Omri Castelnovo argue that the desire for leaders is inherent in the 'evolutionary software' of the human race. They provide an observation of the basic evolutionary foundations common to all animals before exploring elements that are unique to humans. The book considers acquired signals, universal and cultural signs of leadership and the phenomenon of charisma. Through the presentation of case studies and historical examples, the book demonstrates how followers create images of leadership and how evolutionary, psychological, and cultural aspects affect this process.Original and visionary in its approach, this book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students with a focus on business leadership, organizational behavior, and organizational psychology. Its use of both contemporary and historical case studies will also be beneficial for business managers and practitioners.

Pucek, Milan Jan / Ochrana, Frantisek / Placek, Michal, Museum Management: Opportunities and Threats for Successful Museums. (Arts, Research, Innovation and Society) 176 pp. 2021:11 (Springer, GW) <666-906>
ISBN 978-3-030-82027-5 hard ¥18,229.- (税込) EUR 74.99 *

This book centers on museum management with particular focus on risk management. It sees the museum as a modern institution that, in addition to its classical heritage function (collections management), also provides an educational function and implements this education through experience (the experiential function of the museum). It represents a combination of academic excellence and experience from real managers from museums and other public institutions. Additional topics such as strategic and operational museum management and museum research management are discussed and case studies from daily management practice are included.

Raei, Mohammed / Rasmussen, Harriette Thurber (eds.), Adaptive Leadership in a Global Economy: Perspectives for Application and Scholarship. (Routledge Studies in Leadership Research) 296 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-907>
ISBN 978-0-367-56714-9 hard ¥43,230.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-56715-6 paper ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

With the entire world experiencing the global pandemic and its aftermath, VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) conditions have never been more extreme and the need for adaptive leadership never more urgent. But how is adaptive leadership applied outside Western cultures? How can it be taught through leadership development programs? Which tools enhance its practice and its teaching? How does adaptive leadership relate to other key theories and practices? This volume answers these questions and more as it illustrates how adaptive leadership practices address some of the world's most pressing challenges-political and cultural division, remote work, crisis management-across a variety of sectors. Adaptive leadership has been explained as a key leadership approach for dealing with adaptive, as distinguished from technical or predictable, problems, especially prevalent in complex environments. However, adaptive leadership scholarship has suffered from a lack of conceptual clarity and casual application of its core concepts. It remains solidly Western in its prescriptions. This book will expand readers' understanding of adaptive leadership and its potential to solve local and global adaptive challenges and will explore its relevance and application to cultures outside the United States. Aiming to increase conceptual clarity about adaptive leadership to enhance future scholarship and application and illustrate novel approaches and perspectives, this book will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of leadership, strategy, and organizational studies.

Ratajczak-Mrozek, Milena / Marszalek, Pawel (eds.), Digitalization and Firm Performance: Examining the Strategic Impact. 345 pp. 2021:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-908>
ISBN 978-3-030-83359-6 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores how digitalization and digital technologies influence markets, firms, financial institutions and organizations. Drawing on examples from Canada, Poland, France, Albania, Africa and Turkey this book takes a truly international perspective. It explores the technical aspects of digitalization, with chapters examining topics like how digitization creates value in a small company, how digital-driven business drives innovation, how import-exporting firms can increase productivity within the digital economy and how financial systems and institutions evolve due to new technologies. However, the book goes beyond this and, by adopting a holistic view, examines the social impact of digitalization, with the authors discussing how trade unions and employers present Industry 4.0 to employees and the general public. This book will be of interest to anyone studying digital innovation, digital management, digital strategy, Fin Tech, firm management, and Industry 4.0.

Ratten, Vanessa (ed.), Entrepreneurial Connectivity: Network, Innovation and Strategy Perspectives. 167 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <666-909>
ISBN 978-981-16-5571-5 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book explores how entrepreneurial networks provide the basis for individuals and firms to compete based on knowledge asymmetries. This book states that this is crucial in the increasingly interdependent world where social capital influences potential market performance. This edited book focuses on future trends regarding entrepreneurial networks in terms of social, cultural and market connections thereby bridging the entrepreneurship, strategy and network literature. This book provides a practical way to capture market changes as networks evolve to a more digital format. The impact of innovation and strategy on these market developments will be discussed in each chapter as a way to understand performance.

Ratten, Vanessa (ed.), Entrepreneurial Innovation: Strategy and Competition Aspects. (Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics) X, 240 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <666-910>
ISBN 978-981-16-4794-9 hard ¥20,660.- (税込) EUR 84.99

This book explores and asserts that there are many different types of innovation but in order to bring about fundamental change to society the innovation must be entrepreneurial. The aim of this edited book is to focus on different elements of entrepreneurial innovation in order to understand emerging issues and trends. This book shows how this enables an increase in research attention placed on how entrepreneurial innovation must have a strategic intent in order to facilitate societal change. The role of competition in enabling organizations to utilise innovation that is cutting edge is discussed with the goal of bringing together the disparate literature on entrepreneurship and innovation in terms of international competitiveness. This book presents at length examinations on how entrepreneurship can facilitate healthier strategy and competition in organisations and beyond.

Reeves, Martin / Fuller, Jack, The Imagination Machine: How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company's Future. 224 pp. 2021:6 (Harvard Business Review Pr., US) <666-911>
ISBN 978-1-64782-086-2 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A guide for mining the imagination to find powerful new ways to succeed.We need imagination now more than ever-to find new opportunities, rethink our businesses, and discover paths to growth. Yet too many companies have lost their ability to imagine. What is this mysterious capacity? How does imagination work? And how can organizations keep it alive and harness it in a systematic way?The Imagination Machine answers these questions and more. Drawing on the experience and insights of CEOs across several industries, as well as lessons from neuroscience, computer science, psychology, and philosophy, Martin Reeves of Boston Consulting Group's Henderson Institute and Jack Fuller, an expert in neuroscience, provide a fascinating look into the mechanics of imagination and lay out a process for creating ideas and bringing them to life:The Seduction: How to open yourself up to surprisesThe Idea: How to generate new ideas The Collision: How to rethink your idea based on real-world feedbackThe Epidemic: How to spread an evolving idea to othersThe New Ordinary: How to turn your novel idea into an accepted realityThe Encore: How to repeat the process-again and again.Imagination is one of the least understood but most crucial ingredients of success. It's what makes the difference between an incremental change and the kinds of pivots and paradigm shifts that are essential to transformation-especially during a crisis.The Imagination Machine is the guide you need to demystify and operationalize this powerful human capacity, to inject new life into your company, and to head into unknown territory with the right tools at your disposal.

Reichheld, Fred, Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers. 256 pp. 2021:12 (Harvard Business Review Pr., US) <666-912>
ISBN 978-1-64782-178-4 hard ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Great leaders embrace a higher purpose to win. The Net Promoter System shines as their guiding star.Few management ideas have spread so far and wide as the Net Promoter System (NPS). Since its conception almost two decades ago by customer loyalty guru Fred Reichheld, thousands of companies around the world have adopted it-from industrial titans such as Mercedes-Benz and Cummins to tech giants like Apple and Amazon to digital innovators such as Warby Parker and Peloton.Now, Reichheld has raised the bar yet again. In Winning on Purpose, he demonstrates that the primary purpose of a business should be to enrich the lives of its customers. Why? Because when customers feel this love, they come back for more and bring their friends-generating good profits. This is NPS 3.0 and it puts a new take on the age-old Golden Rule-treat customers the way you would want a loved one treated-at the heart of enduring business success. As the compelling examples in this book illustrate, companies with superior NPS consistently deliver higher returns to shareholders across a wide array of industries.But winning on purpose isn't easy. Reichheld also explains why many NPS practitioners achieve just a small fraction of the system's full potential, and he presents the newest thinking and best practices for doing NPS right. He unveils the Earned Growth Rate (EGR): the first reliable, complementary accounting measure that can truly leverage the power of NPS.With keen insight and moving personal stories, Reichheld advances the thinking and practice of NPS. Winning on Purpose is your indispensable guide for inspiring customer love within your own teams and using Net Promoter to achieve both personal and business success.

Reiter, Thorsten, Managing Negotiations: A Casebook. 184 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) <666-913>
ISBN 978-0-367-61534-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-61535-2 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Managing Negotiations is a collection of seven global, real-life case studies on prominent negotiations in the realm of international business and politics.The book combines the rigorously researched frameworks of academia with the real-world challenges of negotiations. The cases combine scientific negotiation management practices as well as theories with real-world examples that demonstrate how to conduct successful negotiations and which prominent pitfalls to avoid. The topics discussed reach from mergers & acquisitions, collective bargaining, international diplomatic treaties to international free trade agreements. Each case study starts with an overview comprising three key objectives and ends with the key learnings as well as reflective questions for class discussion. This casebook can be used as recommended reading on Negotiation and Strategic Management courses at postgraduate, MBA and Executive Education level and serves as a guide for practitioners responsible for contract management, negotiation and procurement.

Rottinghaus, Adam Richard, Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future. (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture) 200 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) <666-915>
ISBN 978-1-03-204577-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book explores the origin and future of "upgrade culture," a collection of cultural habits and orientations based on the assumption that new technologies will rapidly, perpetually, and inevitably emerge.By analyzing discourses of technological change and the practices of marketing workers inside the consumer technology industry between the early 1980s and the late 2010s, the book describes the genesis, maintenance, and future of upgrade culture. Based on archival and popular sources, first-hand interviews with a range of industry professionals, and participant observations at industry-only events, the book attends to issues both intimate to the culture of marketing work and structural to the organization of the consumer technology industry.This book will have a broad appeal to social/cultural theorists of technology, marketing, and consumerism, as well as to scholars in business history, communication, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, and anthropology.The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003193869-1/introduction-adam-richard-rottinghaus?context=ubx&refId=1bb75408-b5c2-4a69-bd20-082a73a77920

Ruesen, Tom A. / Kleve, Heiko / von Schlippe, Arist, Managing Business Family Dynasties: Between Family, Organisation, and the Network. (Management for Professionals) 104 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <666-916>
ISBN 978-3-030-82618-5 hard ¥18,229.- (税込) EUR 74.99

This book deals with dynastic business families. Such families are characterized by a circle of owners comprising more than 50 family members, which typically face specific issues and challenges for which there has been little research knowledge and practical approaches until now. The book presents results and findings from a special research project on "big family management" where 7 representatives of dynastic families from Germany were studied over a 3-year period. The result was the identification of six topic areas that management in these business families has to deal with. At the same time, the study observes that dynastic business families hardly follow the logic of classic families anymore, but can rather be understood as networks with common family backgrounds. The study also reveals that a large number of business families are heading for large shareholder groups due to changed inheritance practices. The contents outlined here provide an orientation framework for the growing business family.

Sarasvathy, Saras D., Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise. 2nd ed. (New Horizons in Entrepreneurship) 320 pp. 2022:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-917>
ISBN 978-1-83910-257-8 hard ¥29,972.- (税込) GB￡ 104.00 *
ISBN 978-1-83910-259-2 paper ¥8,918.- (税込) GB￡ 30.95 *

To effectuate is to engage in a specific type of entrepreneurial action. It has special importance for situations where the future is truly unknowable or human agency is of primary importance. In this new and updated edition of the bestselling Effectuation, Saras Sarasvathy explores the theory and techniques of non-predictive control for creating new firms, markets and economic opportunities.Using empirical and theoretical work done in collaboration with Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon, the author employs methods from cognitive science and behavioral economics to develop the notion of entrepreneurial expertise and effectuation. Supportive empirical evidence is provided by the author's study of 27 entrepreneurs as well as other independent studies. The book then traces the consequences of effectuation for business management, economics and social philosophy. The author finds that effectuators generate constraint-satisfying solutions rather than searching for optimal ones, make rather than find opportunities, and in a deep sense, convert 'as-if' propositions into 'even-if' ones. The way they accomplish this is the central discussion of the book.Students and scholars of entrepreneurship will find this path-breaking research of great value. The book's conclusions will also be of interest to those in the fields of behavioral and evolutionary economics, cognitive science and management.Praise for the first edition:'The concept of effectuation is as subtle as it is profound. On the one hand, it challenges long held beliefs about the nature of cause and effect in social science. On the other hand, it generates a host of new insights about social phenomena. This concept is particularly well suited to analyzing entrepreneurial behavior - behaviors undertaken in settings where the relationship between cause and effect is understood, at best, very poorly.'- Jay B. Barney, The Ohio State University, US'Things rarely turn out as we expected or intended. Neither rational choice between well-defined prospects nor commitment to a vision, which can be realised by will power or persuasion, offers a credible representation of much human activity - even the activities of entrepreneurs. But although uncertainty (or unknowledge) is inescapable it may be productively managed. If we understand our present circumstances and some of its possibilities, build constructive relationships with others, and be ready to adjust both our objectives and the means of achieving them in order to take advantage of new contingencies, then we can at least participate in shaping our own future. By taking this perspective Saras Sarasvathy makes entrepreneurship a natural human activity, expressing the limitations and potential of human motivation and human intelligence.'- Brian J. Loasby, University of Stirling, UK'In Effectuation Saras Sarasvathy presents a carefully researched and reasoned view of entrepreneurial behavior that both challenges and extends prevailing wisdom in the field. There is little doubt that these ideas will serve as an important foundation for anyone desirous of stimulating positive action in the world. With Effectuation we are equipped to provide a generation of students and managers with the methods to make and find opportunities that create value. . . everywhere.'- Leonard A. Schlesinger, President, Babson College, US

猿山純夫他著　過剰設備と退出の困難さ－日本の電力産業の事例
Saruyama, Sumio / Xu, Peng, Excess Capacity and Difficulty of Exit: Evidence from Japan's Electronics Industry. (Development Bank of Japan Research Series / SpringerBriefs in Economics) X, 70 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <666-919>
ISBN 978-981-16-4899-1 paper ¥14,582.- (税込) EUR 59.99

This book provides cases and analyses of causes and consequences of difficulty in downsizing and exiting in the electronics industry during the “two lost decades” in Japan. Because of excess capacity in the industry, many electronics companies have been required for downsizing and exit since the 1990s. Exploiting corporate financial and segment datasets, it shows empirical evidence of misallocation of internal funds to “zombie” segments?intra-firm businesses suffering losses consecutively. The topics addressed in the book include the failure of Japanese corporate internal control systems, the lack of capital market pressure, employment protection, and misallocation of internal funds to businesses with few prospects. The last two decades indicate that the Japanese corporate governance systems have failed to resolve problems of excess capacity, as did US systems in the 1980s. Zombie lending is no more than one phase of the difficulty of downsizing and exit in response to excess capacity in the banking sector. Supported by both data analyses and rich anecdotal evidence, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek a convincing and comprehensive explanation of Japan's two lost decades from the points of view of difficulty in downsizing and exit. The authors’ analyses have implications not only for accelerating downsizing and exit in corporate Japan, but also for the world economy.

Sauberschwarz, Lucas / Weiss, Lysander, The Corporates Strike Back: How Large Companies Win the Innovation Race Against Disruptive Start-Ups. 204 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <666-920>
ISBN 978-3-030-79113-1 hard ¥20,660.- (税込) EUR 84.99

65% of global CEOs are concerned about losing the innovation race against disruptive start-ups. The supposed solution: copying their methods. But as corporations are not start-ups, this is a fatal mistake. Most ideas never reach successful implementation, and innovation becomes frustration. So how does a solution look like that enables large firms to systematically leverage their existing strength and thus win the innovation race sustainably? The answer is the 5C process for efficient innovation. This book closes a gap in the practice-oriented innovation literature - and brings the desire for innovation back to established companies. The road to successful innovation management is long - this book is the shortcut.Thomas Weiler, VP Innovation Portfolio & Strategic Programs, Deutsche TelekomAn overdue update on traditional R&D processes for the 21st century.Uwe Wagner, CTO, Schaeffler Anyone who has ever experienced the methodology described here in practice will hide the book from the competition!Dr. Carsten Stoecker, World Economic Forum, Global Future Council-Member

Scherm, Michael J., Scrum for Sales: A B2B Guide to Agility in Organization, Performance, and Management. (Future of Business and Finance) X, 190 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <666-921>
ISBN 978-3-030-82977-3 hard ¥18,229.- (税込) EUR 74.99

Many companies want to make their sales agile. Some of them have tried to set up agile sales organizations, but such top-down approaches and big-bang rollouts seldom seem to work. This book shows how the elements of the leading agile framework “Scrum” should be applied to install agility in the salesforce, improve sales performance, and resolve typical performance issues in sales organizations. It contains concrete guidelines, real-world examples, and useful tools to create the necessary change step by step and built to last.

Schermer, Tom, Reputational Crises Unspun: A Stakeholder Solution to Reputational Crises. X, 190 pp. 2021:12 (Springer, GW) <666-922>
ISBN 978-981-16-5129-8 hard ¥26,737.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book reviews dominant crisis communication theories, which according to many scholars are either too narrow or broad for practical application to all types of reputational crises. Freeman, as the progenitor of modern stakeholder theory, has spent much time since the original publication trying to remove the primary focus from companies to that of achieving broader positive outcomes for organisations, populations, and the operating environment. This book embraces the ethos of Freeman’s revisions and applies it to crisis communication through placing the reputational crisis at the centre of a stakeholder map, where other literature places the company at the centre of the stakeholder map. This leaves the company experiencing the crisis situated with all other crisis stakeholders to develop solutions to the source of conflict, and as a result, the reputational crisis.Removing the corporation from the centre allows for other stakeholders such as interest groups, politicians, media, and afflicted stakeholders, to legitimately work towards solving the crisis. This book uses a typology of apologia and builds upon it to create a means that allows corporate managers to genuinely apologise to crisis victims, without necessarily exposing the corporation to financial liability claims. The apologia construct developed herein is equally useful to CEO’s as it is in a domestic situation. Consistent throughout this book is the philosophy that all reputational crises can be either solved, or significantly reduced in terms of impact. Examples used throughout relate to reader’s personal lives as well as structured powerful organisations.

Scholz, Thilo / Huchzermeier, Arnd / Kuehlmann, Torsten A., Designing a Bottom-up Operations Strategy: Transforming Organizations and Individuals. (SpringerBriefs in Operations Management) X, 110 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <666-923>
ISBN 978-3-030-82770-0 paper ¥14,582.- (税込) EUR 59.99

This book focuses on top-down and bottom-up antecedents for employee engagement. It combines Operations Management (OM) with elements from Human Resource Management (HRM) and Organizational Behavior (OB) to answer the overarching question: “How is operations strategy formation influenced by the individual employee?” Dedicated chapters investigate key research questions, closing the integration gap between OM and HRM/OB. The book develops and statistically analyzes an operations strategy opportunity-motivation-ability framework. In addition, it examines how basic need fulfillment and organizational fairness relate to job satisfaction and performance. By doing so, the book helps readers to better understand employees’ preferences and enables operations managers to foster strategy-supportive behavior and job satisfaction more effectively in their workforces.

Sen, Kakoli / Shahi, Sujata (eds.), Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusiveness in India Inc: Practitioners Speak. (Responsible Leadership and Sustainable Management) 225 pp. 2021:11 (Springer, GW) <666-924>
ISBN 978-981-16-4236-4 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

The book addresses the concept of diversity and inclusiveness (D&I) and brings stories from the corporate, practitioners, think tanks and NGOs. It advocates the need and implementation of the D&I concept to build society of the future. It strives to bring out a focused approach in connecting "Theory to Practice". Every chapter delves into a different area and presents real-time practices as well as the challenges and the way forward. The book explains the various levels at which discrimination can occur such as demographic profiles, regional differences, religious alliances, college pedigree, marital status, sexual preferences, physical disability and health differentiation, pregnancy or returning mothers and technology competence. The book cites examples of inclusion from progressive organizations such as ABB India, Marico, TCS, PNB Metlife and Alsthom. Presenting the business case of D&I, the book emphasizes on creating a robust D&I strategy with a road map and alignment through internal and external frameworks as well as periodic audits. The Responsible, Accountable, Consultant and Informed (RACI) matrix is discussed while setting up the D&I analytics framework within the organization. The book also presents the growing role of artificial intelligence tools that can empower employees to participate in the D&I journey of an organization. It shares how tools such as Balloonr, Glint, Organization View, Planbox, Pluto and Waggl have been specially designed to allow employees to anonymously provide ideas and respond to ideas provided by others. Going forward, the D&I practices will have to be more customized than generalized, and this book brings up real evidences to make its point

Sindakis, Stavros / Aggarwal, Sakshi (eds.), Entrepreneurial Rise in the Middle East and North Africa: The Influence of Quadruple Helix on Technological Innovation. (Advanced Strategies in Entrepreneurship, Education and Ecology) 356 pp. 2022:3 (Emerald, UK) <666-925>
ISBN 978-1-80071-518-9 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Entrepreneurship is an essential driver for economic growth and innovation. With the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economies implementing reforms to improve employment, growth, diversification, governance structures, private sector development, the ecosystem encouraging MENA's digital entrepreneurship potential has been falling into place to unlock all its entrepreneurship potential. Entrepreneurial Rise in the Middle East and North Africa shares contributions from researchers and practitioners in a wide variety of fields related to the relationships and inter-dependencies between innovation, political regimes, and economic and social development throughout the MENA region. Chapters explore innovations across these varied sectors, emphasising on the discovery of emerging patterns and catalysts to these innovations and their impact on future research, practice, and policy. The Quadruple Helix model describes this new economic environment with examples throughout the MENA region on how government, universities, companies, civil society/community support innovation. Examining these unique start-up scenes, Entrepreneurial Rise in the Middle East and North Africa: The Influence of Quadruple Helix on Technological Innovation will be beneficial for upcoming students, entrepreneurs, and researchers interested in the concepts of the Quadruple Helix model of innovation, tech start-ups, and entrepreneurship rise in the Middle East and North Africa.

Sirower, Mark / Weirens, Jeff, The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers and Acquisitions Game. 272 pp. 2022:3 (Harvard Business Review Pr., US) <666-926>
ISBN 978-1-64782-042-8 hard ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

The new M&A bible.Few actions can change the value of a company-and its competitive future-as quickly and dramatically as an acquisition. Yet most companies fail to create shareholder value from these deals, and in many cases they destroy it. It doesn't have to be this way.In The Synergy Solution, Deloitte's Mark Sirower and Jeff Weirens show acquirers how to develop and execute an M&A strategy-end to end-that not only avoids the pitfalls that so many companies fall into but also creates real, long-term shareholder value. This strategy includes how to:Become a prepared "always on" acquirerTest the investment thesis and DCF valuation of a dealPlan for a successful Announcement Day, and properly communicate synergy promises to investors and other stakeholdersRealize those promised synergies through integration planning and post-close executionManage change and build a new, combined organizationSirower and Weirens provide invaluable background to those considering M&A, laying out the issues they have to consider, how to analyze them, and how to plan and execute the deal effectively. They also show those who have already started the process of M&A how to maximize their chances of success.There's an art and a science to getting mergers and acquisitions right, and this powerful book provides the insights and strategies acquirers need to find success at every stage of an often complex and perilous process.

Sliwa, Martyna / Kellard, Neil, The Research Impact Agenda: Navigating the Impact of Impact. (Management Impact) 112 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-927>
ISBN 978-0-367-54749-3 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-0-367-54751-6 paper ¥6,913.- (税込) GB￡ 23.99 *

This book contributes to the growing body of work addressing the processes and consequences of national governments' audits of the performance of higher education institutions (HEIs) in different countries. The book discusses one recent area of focus within these audits, namely the measurement of universities' societal and economic impact. The Research Impact Agenda offers a problematisation of the research impact agenda, especially in relation to the impact generated by academics based in schools of business and management. It scrutinises the often unintended but nevertheless significant consequences of this agenda for individuals and higher education institutions, such as the reproduction of existing inequalities in academia and the crowding out of other key activities of business schools. It puts forward a range of recommendations for researchers, policymakers, university and business school leaders, and individual academics.The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers - regardless of their formal position, organisational affiliation or career stage - who consider it important to reduce and remove inequalities and inequities within the HE sector and to make universities and business schools more inclusive. The readers will benefit from the opportunity to engage in reflection aimed at transforming the current framing, delivery and assessment of business and management research impact.

Spivack, April J. / McKelvie, Alexander, Entrepreneurship Addiction: Exploring Patterns of Engagement with Venturing Activities. (Entrepreneurship Footprints) 128 pp. 2022:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-928>
ISBN 978-1-78897-451-6 hard ¥21,038.- (税込) GB￡ 73.00 *

April J. Spivack and Alexander McKelvie present the development of the concept of entrepreneurship addiction, contributing to wider discussions of the 'dark side' of entrepreneurship. Focusing attention on mental health issues and neurodiversity among entrepreneurs, it offers insights into conflicting findings regarding entrepreneurial well-being.The book incorporates contemporary multifaceted lenses that consider cognitive, emotional, biological and physiological dimensions of experience, highlighting the complex interplay between entrepreneurs and their ventures. It distinguishes entrepreneurship addiction from other behavioural addictions to develop a robust and distinct empirical measure of psychological and physiological health of entrepreneurs. Describing recent contributions to this rapidly developing field of study, Spivack and McKelvie supply key research tools and map out a research agenda for further investigation.Offering operational methodologies for the study of entrepreneurial addiction, this book is crucial reading for scholars of entrepreneurship interested in the psychological and behavioural impacts of entrepreneurial endeavours. It will also benefit career-driven entrepreneurs, their partners, family members, and others looking for personal insights into entrepreneurial behaviour, as well as mental health workers and practitioners.

Staffler, Lukas, Business Criminal Law: A Primer for Management and Economics. 410 pp. 2021:12 (Springer Gabler, GW) <666-929>
ISBN 978-3-658-34471-9 paper ¥8,019.- (税込) EUR 32.99

This textbook deals with business criminal law from the perspective of Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. It primarily addresses students in business and economics (master's programme) as well as business practitioners, but is also meant for lawyers and law students. As criminal law legislators exert considerable influence on economic life, raising and growing awareness in the area of criminal law seems compulsory for future managers and executives. This textbook approaches the legal field less normatively and rather in a practical and entrepreneurial way. Its contents are based on the master level class "Business Criminal Law" at "MCI The Entrepreneurial School" taught by the author.This textbook has been recommended and developed for university courses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Styhre, Alexander, The New Corporate Landscape: Economic Concentration, Transnational Governance, and the Corporation. (New Perspectives on the Modern Corporation) 224 pp. 2022:4 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-930>
ISBN 978-1-80088-253-9 hard ¥23,920.- (税込) GB￡ 83.00 *

Presenting a comprehensive overview of the changes in policies and economic doctrines of the American economy following the 2008 global financial crisis, this book critically examines the reformation of the corporate landscape. Observing the growth of oligopolistic market tendencies and increased economic concentration, it draws on scholarly literature from economics, management studies and legal theory to provide an integrated perspective on the causes and consequences of the crisis.Discussing the growth of oligopolistic market niches in the American economy, chapters explore their causes, including the influence of "anti-antitrust" scholars on legal enforcement practices and the resulting relaxation of antitrust law. The book highlights their consequences, including the growth of monopsony and labor market concentration. Alexander Styhre uses aggregate economic equality data across the book to show that the working class in advanced economies have not been compensated for the globalization of the economy. It concludes by looking towards the long-term consequences of rising economic concentration, examining non-traditional labor contracts, new employment relations, lower entrepreneurial activities and lower labor compensation in the new corporate landscape.This informative book will be useful to students and scholars of business ethics and trust, corporate governance and organization studies. It will also be a critical read for policy makers concerned with the causes and consequences of economic inequality.

Tabak, Lawrence, Foxconned: Imaginary Jobs, Bulldozed Homes, and the Sacking of Local Government. 280 pp. 2021:11 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <666-931>
ISBN 978-0-226-74065-2 hard ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker stood shoulder-to-shoulder with President Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at the White House in July 2017, they painted a glorious picture of his state's future. Foxconn, the enormous China-based electronics firm, was promising to bring TV manufacturing back to the United States with a $10 billion investment and 13,000 well-paying jobs. They actually were making America great again, they crowed. Two years later, the project was in shambles. Ten thousand construction workers were supposed to have been building what Trump had promised would be "the eighth wonder of the world." Instead, land had been seized, homes had been destroyed, and hundreds of millions of municipal dollars had been committed for just a few hundred jobs-nowhere near enough for Foxconn to earn the incentives Walker had shoveled at them. In Foxconned, journalist Lawrence Tabak details the full story of this utter collapse, which was disturbingly inevitable. As Tabak shows, everything about Foxconn was a disaster. But worse, he reveals how the economic incentive infrastructure across the country is broken, leading to waste, cronyism, and the steady transfer of tax revenue to corporations. Tabak details every kind of financial chicanery, from eminent-domain abuse to good old-fashioned looting-all to benefit a coterie of consultants, politicians, and contractors. With compassion and care, he also reports the distressing stories of the many individuals whose lives were upended by Foxconn. Powerful and resonant, Foxconned is both the definitive autopsy of the Foxconn fiasco and a dire warning to communities and states nationwide.

Thakur, Manish Kumar, Sociology and Management Education: Engagements and Agendas. (Routledge Focus on Management and Society) 114 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) <666-933>
ISBN 978-1-03-219108-9 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

While examining the intersections and engagements between sociology and management education in historical and contemporary terms, this slim volume outlines the agenda of a promising prospective engagement between the two. It specifically foregrounds the Indian experience without being indifferent to the global context that has shaped the unprecedented rise of business schools. Employing a perspective from the Global South, it contextualises the dominance of the US model of management curriculum and disciplinary practices in relation to wider geopolitics of knowledge production. Parenthetically, it presents a critical assessment of Indian scholarly contributions to the field of management studies. This book should be of interest to management educators, administrators, and sociologists besides the students and researchers in the broad area of organisation studies.

Thompson, Neil / Byrne, Orla / Jenkins, Anna et al. (eds.), Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice. (Handbooks of Business and Management Research as Practice) 496 pp. 2022:4 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-934>
ISBN 978-1-78897-682-4 hard ¥52,452.- (税込) GB￡ 182.00 *

This Research Handbook advances entrepreneurship theory in new ways by integrating and contributing to contemporary theories of practice. Leading theorists and entrepreneurship experts, who are part of the growing Entrepreneurship as Practice (EaP) research community, expertly propose methodologies, theories and empirical insights into the constitution and consequences of entrepreneuring practices. This comprehensive Research Handbook pushes boundaries in the scholarship concerning what entrepreneurship is and what it can become. It is split into four Parts covering new foundations, new theoretical advances, new methodological advances and new empirical advances. Together, with an insightful Foreword by William B. Gartner, chapters examine the nature and consequences of entrepreneurship, its practices and relations, as well as novel research methods for conducting empirical EaP research. Collectively, this Research Handbook marks a bright future for EaP research.This insightful Research Handbook will provide an excellent up-to-date introduction to EaP research for entrepreneurship, management and organization scholars as well as scholars new to theories of this practice. Practitioners and researchers will also benefit from the wider perspective that this book provides in a novel, exciting and powerful way to fully understand entrepreneurship.

Thomson, Ian / Bates, Dominic, Urgent Business: Five Myths Business Needs to Overcome to Save Itself and the Planet. 208 pp. 2022:2 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <666-935>
ISBN 978-1-5292-1759-9 paper ¥5,760.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99 *

Getting business on board is essential if we want to achieve the United Nations' goal of building a better future for people and planet by 2030. But much of the sustainable business agenda falls woefully short of what is needed, with some practices even accelerating the problems they're trying to solve. In Urgent Business Ian Thomson and Dominic Bates, a business school professor and a former journalist, combine their expert insight to challenge five common myths that trap businesses in an unsustainable black-hole and offer a manifesto for change. Combining cutting-edge research - from AI and systems theory to climate science and behavioural economics - with fascinating real-world examples, the authors highlight the practical and holistic steps all businesses can take to play their part in addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals. .

Tuerko, Esra Sena (ed.), Regional Differences in Women Entrepreneurship. 224 pp. 2021:8 (P. Lang, SZ) <666-936>
ISBN 978-3-631-85344-3 paper ¥13,194.- (税込) SFR 53.55

In women entrepreneurship studies, the regional emphasis generally remained limited to the studies carried out within the scope of regional development. Regional differences were detected in many studies. However, unless the research was conducted within the theoretical framework of the regional economy, they were not discussed within this context. This book aims to represent the findings of studies on women entrepreneurship from various theoretical frameworks, which address differences and similarities at the regional level together and reveal the big picture. In addition, the factors causing differences in women entrepreneurship at the regional level and the topics, in which differences were observed, have been examined. The research involves conceptual and applied studies.

Upham, Phin, Innovation and Knowledge Communities: The Hidden Structure of Technology. 216 pp. 2022:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-937>
ISBN 978-1-80037-182-8 hard ¥21,038.- (税込) GB￡ 73.00 *

Breakthroughs in science and technology increasingly happen outside of firms in informal interorganizational communities of innovators. The effort of a group on a specific topic across firms, expertise, and geography can function as an emergent organizational form, capable of great productivity. Using data from computer science, basic research, and management strategy to identify and study these intense clusters of innovators, or 'knowledge communities,' this book illuminates the new organizational logics that govern such collective success. The interplay between organizational boundaries and interorganizational collaboration reveals interesting and counterintuitive lessons about how science and technology work in practice. These insights fundamentally challenge the centrality of both firm boundaries and geographic clusters for innovation in favor of a decentralized network perspective.Academics seeking to understand innovation in science and technology, allocators of grants and research support, corporate R&D departments, policy makers and NGOs, venture capitalists, and management consultants will all benefit from this original and challenging work.

Vetter, Michael, Acquisitions and Open Source Software Development. (Innovation und Entrepreneurship) 192 pp. 2021:8 (Springer Gabler, GW) <666-940>
ISBN 978-3-658-35083-3 paper ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99

Participation of firms in Open Source Software (OSS) development is steadily increasing. In fact, a substantial part of OSS projects today are developed in informal collaboration between firms and a community of voluntary contributors. As more and more firms are active in OSS, acquisitions of firms active in OSS development occur increasingly often. Yet, despite the economic and practical importance of OSS, research has so far overlooked this phenomenon. This dissertation explores this phenomenon of acquisitions of firms active in OSS development. Michael Vetter examines the role of OSS in the pre-acquisition phase and the impact of acquisitions on OSS development in the post-acquisition phase. Using qualitative and quantitative research methods, the author examines acquisition motives, acquisition likelihood, timing of acquisitions, and outcomes of acquisitions and discuss mechanisms behind variations across acquisitions.The findings from the studies contribute to research on acquisitions and OSS development while also providing insights into how to leverage OSS in target search, selection and evaluation processes as well as how to effectively manage acquisitions of firms active in OSS and the communities around them.

Vrontis, Demetris / Thrassou, A. / Weber, Y. et al. (eds.), Business Under Crisis. Volume I: Contextual Transformations. (Palgrave Studies in Cross-disciplinary Business Research, In Association with EuroMed Academy of Business) 296 pp. 2021:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-942>
ISBN 978-3-030-76566-8 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book examines businesses under crisis conditions through a composition of contextual accounts. The Editors argue that crises are transformative, evolutionary and even revolutionary in the development of organizations, industries and markets. Moreover, crises reform the context in which organizations operate, including customers and their behaviour. As such, they need to be viewed as conduits to change, accelerators of evolution and catalysts of innovation in organizations. Emphasising the importance of 'context' and its complexities, the book argues that for crisis, as a concept and notion, context is crucial to any understanding of the meaning that should or could be attached to it. Drawing on different types of changes and crises that substantially affect business, including economic, technological, political, and environmental, chapters Bringing together scientific research and case studies on contextual transformations, the book provides a balanced selection ofworks across business disciplines, including management, strategy, marketing and finance as well as geographic regions, market types and industries. The book examines the context of crises, its indicators and triggers, and encompasses topics such as Artificial Intelligence, e-mobility, changes in consumption patterns, militancy and the impact of pandemics.

Vrontis, Demetris / Thrassou, A. / Weber, Y. et al. (eds.), Business Under Crisis. Volume II: Organisational Adaptations. (Palgrave Studies in Cross-disciplinary Business Research, In Association with EuroMed Academy of Business) 302 pp. 2021:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-943>
ISBN 978-3-030-76574-3 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Crises present significant challenges for organizations. But, while critical events are inevitable, not every business is sufficiently equipped for when things don't go according to plan. This book focuses on business under crisis conditions, along with organizational responses and adaptation. Adaptation can be seen as a learning process. It encompasses meaningful ways that help companies sustain their viability over the long term. Companies that respond quickly, often achieve more than just surviving. Some organizations will learn from a crisis, develop reactive resilience, and emerge stronger from the period of turbulence. They will be able to explore possibilities and create new patterns of relationships. Bringing together descriptive and prescriptive research studies, chapters explore adaptation in different sectors, including public health, tourism, garment, Information Technology, high-tech companies, global trade networks, hospitality, security and the social sector. Ultimately, the book covers wide range of topics, linking strategy, entrepreneurship, and leadership to reciprocal organizational adaptations that help us delineate crisis, as well as its interconnections in differing settings.

Vrontis, Demetris / Thrassou, A. / Weber, Y. et al. (eds.), Business Under Crisis. Volume III: Avenues for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability. (Palgrave Studies in Cross-disciplinary Business Research, In Association with EuroMed Academy of Business) 260 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-944>
ISBN 978-3-030-76582-8 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

From recurring episodes of great depression, oil crises, political crises, wars, debt crises, to the ongoing climate change, there is a constant pressure on businesses to cope with critical events. However, throughout history, crises have been pivotal in advancing businesses and societies. This contributed volume approaches crisis not simply as a source of problems, but also as a set of choices. It seeks to explore critical events as possible opportunities for sustainability, through process improvement, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.Chapters reveal that times of crisis provide opportunities for new start-ups, creativity, resilience, organisational change, and revitalisation. This book also emphasises the importance of sustainability, driven either by the market or as a response to critical events. Within the wider attempt to explore avenues for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at times of crisis, the book is loosely organised in three thematic sections: organisational responses to crisis; digitisation, and how technology facilitates or hinders sustainability under conditions of crisis; and SMEs, Family Firms (FF), Entrepreneurship, which explores how critical events offer opportunities for innovation.

Walle, Alf H., Entrepreneurship and Culture: The New Social Paradigm. (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies) 232 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-945>
ISBN 978-1-03-202539-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-202543-8 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

The classic and dominant paradigm of entrepreneurship emphasizes the relatively universal and homogeneous responses of a small, but influential, minority as they make unique and breakthrough contributions. Entrepreneurs are often viewed as inspired individualists who possess the courage to "go against the grain" as they risk it all to pursue an impassioned vision. According to Joseph Schumpeter and those who build upon his seminal perspectives, such entrepreneurial individuals pursue a path of "creative destruction" that paves the way towards true and innovative progress. Today, state of the art research is tempering and transcending this classic vision by acknowledging a wider array of cultural, psychological, and environmental contexts, influences, and responses. This monograph contributes to this research stream by viewing entrepreneurs within a cultural perspective and advocating viewing entrepreneurship in "culturally competent" ways. Presenting these perspectives in a short and circumscribed volume provides an elegant and influential means of disseminating these important perspectives. Entrepreneurship and Culture expands beyond popular and conventional views of entrepreneurship and provides readers with alternative perspectives in even-handed ways. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of value both to advanced students, and to academics and practitioners in the fields of entrepreneurship, international business, leadership and organizational studies. Beyond the business school, this book will also be of interest to anthropology, economic development, and indigenous studies scholars.

Wang, Yan, Exploring the Trust and Innovation Mechanisms in M&A of China's State Owned Enterprises with Mixed Ownership. 345 pp. 2021:9 (Springer, GW) <666-946>
ISBN 978-981-16-4403-0 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book is dedicated to strategic management research relating to China's SOE. As China's economic system of the day is featured by mixed ownership, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), under the New Normal of economic backdrop, are devoted to exploring the reform of stock resources reorganization, one of which is through mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This book explores the key points and difficulties in the successful reform of Chinese enterprises with mixed ownership by focusing on trust and innovation and by widely covering normative research, index evaluation system, game theory and empirical research with case study. It is significant for evaluating the reform of SOE in China by integrating the informal institutional aspects into the formal one and understanding the leading role of SOE in China's economic development.

Wessendorf, Christoph Philipp, Indicating Value in Early-Stage Technology Venture Valuation: A Design Science Approach. (Schriften zum europaeischen Management) 270 pp. 2021:9 (Springer Gabler, GW) <666-947>
ISBN 978-3-658-34943-1 paper ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99

Fundraising for venture capital investments have continued to increase in recent years. One crucial step in the investment process is the valuation of the target company. Investors are faced with the great challenge of valuing a young venture without a corporate or financial history, a firm customer relationship or even a business model, while still taking into account the tremendous growth potential. Especially the valuation of technology companies is a difficult and often subjective process. Motivated by these considerations, this dissertation details a design science research project, which aims to develop an artifact that improves the indication of value in early-stage technology venture valuation while enabling operationalizable and fair valuation. This approach ensures a more meaningful valuation and better applicability to early-stage technology ventures compared to traditional methods while supporting the deliberate reduction of information asymmetries between entrepreneurs and investors. Firm-specific characteristics and practical applicability are taken into account.

Williams, Joan C., Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good. 224 pp. 2021:11 (Harvard Business Review Pr., US) <666-948>
ISBN 978-1-64782-272-9 hard ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion.Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To truly make progress we need to stop celebrating the problem and instead take effective steps to solve it.In Bias Interrupted, Joan C. Williams shows how it's done, and, reassuringly, how easy it is to get started. One of today's preeminent voices on inclusive workplaces, Williams explains how leaders can use standard business tools—data, metrics, and persistence—to interrupt the bias that is continually transmitted through formal systems like performance appraisals, as well as the informal systems that control access to career-enhancing opportunities. The book presents fresh evidence, based on Williams's exhaustive research and work with companies, that interrupting bias helps every group—including white men.Comprehensive, though compact and straightforward, Bias Interrupted delivers real, practical value in an efficient and accessible manner to an audience that has never needed it more. It's possible to interrupt bias. Here's where you start.

Yousafzai, Shumaila / Henry, Colette et al. (eds.), Research Handbook of Women's Entrepreneurship and Value Creation. (Research Handbooks in Business and Management) 464 pp. 2022:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-949>
ISBN 978-1-78990-136-8 hard ¥46,400.- (税込) GB￡ 161.00 *

This Research Handbook highlights the importance of women as agents of change, acknowledging women entrepreneurs' efforts and supporting their value-creation activities. With important implications for policymaking, contributing authors direct attention to and provide evidence for the positive contribution of women entrepreneurs to the economy, regardless of their businesses' size and formal status.Challenging the underperformance hypothesis associated with women entrepreneurs, chapters present evidence that women do not underperform in their businesses, but that they add value even in constrained environments. This intends to shift the focus of research from questions like 'what do entrepreneurs do?' to 'how do they do it?', focusing on the unique ways in which each woman entrepreneur creates value, and 'for whom do they do it?', looking at the multiple value outcomes women entrepreneurs create and the beneficiaries of that value.With a global perspective on women's entrepreneurship and their value creation, this Research Handbook will be vital reading for researchers of entrepreneurship, as well as government agencies and policymakers interested in promoting entrepreneurial activity.

Zuerl, Karlheinz, Effective Cost Cutting in Asia: Practical Modern Approach for Managers and Engineers in Industry to Achieve Profit Growth. (Management for Professionals) 271 pp. 2022:1 (Springer, GW) <666-950>
ISBN 978-3-030-82781-6 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

The days of cheap raw materials and energy sources are gone. Suppliers will demand price increases due to the rising costs of energy and materials. This book describes how your purchasing department is able to gain (more) profit for your company and includes new ideas for successful purchasing and supplier development in Asia. The author discusses how to reduce costs in productive (BOM) and non-productive materials (NPMs) and how to calculate product and tool costs. As well, the book shows ways to negotiate your results with your suppliers in Asia and build an effective system of supplier relationship management.

Daugherty, Paul R. / Wilson, H. James, Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future. 256 pp. 2022:1 (Harvard Business Review Pr., US) <666-850>
ISBN 978-1-64782-108-1 hard ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Technology advances are making tech more . . . human. This changes everything you thought you knew about innovation and strategy.In their groundbreaking book, Human + Machine, Accenture technology leaders Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson showed how leading organizations use the power of human-machine collaboration to transform their processes and their bottom lines. Now, as new AI powered technologies like the metaverse, natural language processing, and digital twins begin to rapidly impact both life and work, those companies and other pioneers across industries are tipping the balance even more strikingly toward the human side with technology-led strategy that is reshaping the very nature of innovation.In Radically Human, Daugherty and Wilson show this profound shift, fast-forwarded by the pandemic, toward more human-and more humane-technology. Artificial intelligence is becoming less artificial and more intelligent. Instead of data-hungry approaches to AI, innovators are pursuing data-efficient approaches that enable machines to learn as humans do. Instead of replacing workers with machines, they're unleashing human expertise to create human-centered AI. In place of lumbering legacy IT systems, they're building cloud-first IT architectures able to continuously adapt to a world of billions of connected devices. And they're pursuing strategies that will take their place alongside classic, winning business formulas like disruptive innovation.These against-the-grain approaches to the basic building blocks of business-Intelligence, Data, Expertise, Architecture, and Strategy (IDEAS)-are transforming competition. Industrial giants and startups alike are drawing on this radically human IDEAS framework to create new business models, optimize post-pandemic approaches to work and talent, rebuild trust with their stakeholders, and show the way toward a sustainable future.With compelling insights and fresh examples from a variety of industries, Radically Human will forever change the way you think about, practice, and win with innovation.

De Sordi, Jose Osvaldo, Design Science Research Methodology: Theory Development from Artifacts. 146 pp. 2021:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-851>
ISBN 978-3-030-82155-5 hard ¥15,798.- (税込) EUR 64.99

This book addresses the science of artificial and design theory in the context of the scientific research development environment. The author discusses the concepts, activities and techniques associated with the emerging methodology Design Science Research (DSR). Further, he examines the main challenges for its implementation, based on an analysis of the DSR literature, variations of DSR (i.e. Action Design Research, and Grounded Design), and the applicability of DSR in various disciplines related to innovation, both within and outside of the professional school. As a result, this book goes beyond conceptual issues of DSR, presenting and discussing more pragmatic issues and challenges faced by researchers. Design Science Research Methodology offers researchers in a variety of disciplines an examination of the various phases of scientific research development and communication.

Dhiman, Satinder / Marques, Joan (eds.), Leadership after COVID-19: Working Together Toward a Sustainable Future. (Future of Business and Finance) 490 pp. 2021:11 (Springer, GW) <666-852>
ISBN 978-3-030-84866-8 hard ¥19,444.- (税込) EUR 79.99

The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed lives around the world and no dimension of life and leadership seems to have been spared from its wrath. It has also stirred us into thinking about novel approaches to lead organizations and societies toward a shared, sustainable future. This book offers novel perspectives on leadership and change management after the COVID-19 pandemic that take us beyond striving for thriving-perspectives that are grounded in emergent theory, research and practice. It highlights sustainable leadership and change management strategies to effectively deal with unpredictable and rapidly changing situations-particularly in a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). This book also highlights engaging perspectives by specialists from different disciplines such as business, psychology, education, and health care. It serves as a practical guide in identifying and responding to leadership challenges and opportunities in eachof the four VUCA categories of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity-and how they affect businesses, organizations, and societies as a whole.

Doligalski, Tymoteusz / Golinski, Michal et al. (eds.), Disruptive Platforms: Markets, Ecosystems and Monopolists. (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology) 224 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-854>
ISBN 978-1-03-207521-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-207525-9 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

It has taken platforms only twenty years to become digital economy hubs. They have changed markets, enterprises, and society. They have expedited communication, collaboration, and trade for consumers, winning their attention and collecting their data. In doing so, they have made processes, products, and industries obsolete, and disrupted the expectations and behaviours of market players. This raises the question, are digital platforms global innovators or disruptive monopolists? Are they a solution to problems of the past or emissaries of a problematic future?This book provides a multi-faceted approach to platforms and their profound impact on markets and ecosystems. Economic, managerial, social, and political aspects are analysed, and the differentiation of platforms and their disruptive potential is reviewed. The book also examines the mechanism of achieving a monopolistic position, including in the international supply chain, and the greater influence of platforms on political activity and contemporary democracy. With examples from Poland, USA, and China, the contributions offer an international evaluation of disruptive platforms across a multitude of industries.The edited collection, prepared by scholars from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, will be valuable to researchers and academics across the fields of strategic management, marketing, innovations, international business, and the digital economy.

Drakeman, Donald L. / Drakeman, Lisa N. / Oraiopoulos, N., From Breakthrough to Blockbuster: The Business of Biotechnology. 232 pp. 2022:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <666-855>
ISBN 978-0-19-508400-9 hard ¥8,748.- (税込) US$ 38.99 *

Financial Times Business Top Title March 2022 How could a large collection of small companies, most with fewer than 50 employees, rise to compete with Big Pharma, one of the world's most breathtakingly expensive and highly regulated industries? Beginning in the 1970s, several scientific breakthroughs promised to transform the creation of new medicines. As investors sought to capitalize on these Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, the biotech industry grew to thousands of small companies around the world. Each sought to emulate what the major pharmaceutical companies had been doing for a century or more, but without the advantages of scale, scope, experience, and massive resources. Biotech companies have met the challenge by creating nearly 40% more of the most important treatments for previously unmet medical needs. Moreover, they have done so with much lower overall costs. From Breakthrough to Blockbuster: The Business of Biotechnology focuses on both the companies themselves and the broader biotech ecosystem that supports them. It paints a portrait of the crucial roles played by academic research, venture capital, contract research organizations, the capital markets, and pharmaceutical companies, demonstrating how a supportive environment enabled the entrepreneurial biotech industry to create novel medicines with unprecedented efficiency. In doing so, it also offers insights for any industry seeking to innovate in uncertain and ambiguous conditions.

Duwe, Julia, Ambidextrous Leadership: How leaders unlock innovation through ambidexterity. XIX, 252 pp. 2021:12 (Springer, GW) <666-856>
ISBN 978-3-662-64031-9 hard ¥21,875.- (税込) EUR 89.99

This book prepares leaders for fundamental change processes of organizations. In times of radical changes and unplanned crises, ambidexterity has become a key competence of global companies. Ambidextrous organizations manage to improve their core business, while at the same time opening up new business fields for the future. To unlock innovation next to the running business, it is essential for leaders to be ambidextrous. How these balanced leaders can operate with two different styles is demonstrated in numerous practical examples and tips for successful implementation. The book illustrates how the trade-off can be turned into an elegant balancing act. Learn how to become an ambidextrous leader in this standard work on ambidexterity and leadership. ・ Ambidexterity as a leadership approach for the digital transformation ・ Consciously shaping the digital change process ・ Enabling leaps in innovation ・ Driving evolution and revolution simultaneously ・ The relevance of ambidextrous leadership in times of crisis The book provides easy-to-implement courses of action for executives to consciously and actively shape change, to inspire people in companies to release their creative potential and to make the leap into the future as an organization. The book also addresses the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on crisis management. It documents how ambidextrous leadership skills are becoming a key competence in times of crisis.

Eniola, Anthony Abiodun (ed.), Entrepreneurship and Post-Pandemic Future. 272 pp. 2022:3 (Emerald, UK) <666-857>
ISBN 978-1-80117-903-4 hard ¥22,440.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

For many years now, entrepreneurship has been considered one of the most important solutions to the three-pronged challenges - poverty, unemployment, and inequality - of most African countries. COVID-19 has exerted severe damage to economies and businesses globally. For countries in Africa, the implications of COVID-19, on both businesses and individuals, will be enormous as many African societies are rarely equipped to absorb unexpected shocks of this magnitude, as the social and welfare schemes are far below the required levels. Entrepreneurship and Post-Pandemic Future illuminates entrepreneurship in the African setting, focusing on the prospects, challenges as well as the post-pandemic future and captures insights on the impact of COVID-19, the containment strategies that businesses are embracing to cope, and the post-pandemic future. This book will be essential reading to entrepreneurs, governments and government agencies, academics, researchers, and students who are interested in understanding issues relating to entrepreneurship development within the African continent.

Enright, Duncan / Knights, John / Grant, Danielle et al., Transpersonal Leadership in Action: How to Lead Beyond the Ego. 320 pp. 2022:2 (Routledge, UK) <666-858>
ISBN 978-0-367-71388-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-71389-8 paper ¥7,201.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99 *

How can leaders promote diversity, equality and inclusion? What does it mean to let go of leadership? How do learning, feedback and coaching help us become better leaders? Following the success of Leading Beyond the Ego, this book shows how to apply transpersonal leadership - practiced leaders who are radical, ethical, authentic and act beyond their own interests to create high-performing organisations - in a wide range of contexts. It considers the attributes of transpersonal leaders and how they transform organisations by building strong, collaborative relationships and a caring, sustainable and performance-enhancing environment. Shining a light on the way forward for senior leaders and HR and talent professionals, the book covers: Characteristics of transpersonal leaders such as purpose, ethics and adult development Impact of transpersonal leaders on global organisations, during digital transformation and change and through crises Case studies of transpersonal leadership in different contexts including in India and East Asia, when leading remotely, in HR and politicsTranspersonal Leadership in Action is essential reading for senior leaders, HR professionals and those responsible for leader and organisational development.