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

van der Mandele, L. Martin / Volberda, Henk W. et al., The New Professional Service Firm: How Consultants, Accountants, and Lawyers Need to Reinvent Themselves. (Business Guides on the Go) 185 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-356>
ISBN 978-3-031-06133-2 hard ¥8,235.- (税込) EUR 34.99

The authors of this book alert that professional services like law, accountancy, and consultancy firms are set to face major disruption. The most important driver and enabler are the new technologies that help and in part substitute the work done by professionals. The second important disruptor is the new generation of professionals - "NewGen" - who are less interested in building their careers in a hierarchical organization and more interested in entrepreneurial challenges in small teams, with more rapid returns. In the meanwhile, major service conglomerates - the "big four" accounting firms, the "big three" consulting firms to name a few examples - build their network using their brand and substantial resources. All along, the relentless pressure from clients to receive more services at lower cost continues. Medium-sized professional firms as well as one-person independents appear to suffer most from these disruptions and are most anxious to find new ways to conduct their business. But the leaders of large firms also feel that they are increasingly unable to support the innovative entrepreneurship of their most promising professionals while their organizations institutionalize and their overheads continue to grow. This book proposes a new orientation and model of a professional service firm as an answer to these challenges, by creating a Professional Service Community. It is a synergistic team of organizations that share a vision of their role in society and main lines of their mission as well as the quality of their deliverables and their key clients. At the same time, they are independent in designing their internal business models - like recruitment, training, knowledge management, and economics. The Professional Service Community provides a unique and highly attractive level of entrepreneurship, flexibility, and efficiency to the benefit of its clients, partners, staff, and other stakeholders. It is the way of the future.

Vignieri, Vincenzo, Enhancing Performance Regimes to Enable Outcome-based Policy Analysis in Cross-boundary Settings: A Dynamic Performance Management Approach. (System Dynamics for Performance Management & Governance 6) 157 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-357>
ISBN 978-3-031-07073-0 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

Over the last two decades, the field of public administration has witnessed theoretical and practical changes that have innovated the relationships between public administration and performance management.Dealing with the rising complexity of performance regimes in contemporary public administration requires that policy-makers and their organizations are able to face unpredictable problems impacting on a community's quality of life. Complex policy issues - such as immigration, pandemics, societal aging, crime, unemployment, and financial crises - cannot be easily solved by quick fixes that are focused only on a short-term and bounded vision of their causes. They rather require "robust" methods to support policy analysis and to affect sustainable community outcomes in cross-boundary settings.As illustrated in this book, Dynamic Performance Management provides a methodological framework enabling policy-makers to outline the causal relationships among policy outcomes, performance drivers, and related strategic resources. Such a modeling approach helps stakeholders to broaden the investigated system boundaries so to balance short- and long-term performance under different result domains.This approach blends performance management and System Dynamics modeling. Several examples and case studies are discussed to enable scholars and practitioners to appreciate the practical implications related to the use of such an approach.

von Buelow, Charlotte / Simpson, Peter, Negative Capability in Leadership Practice: Implications for Working in Uncertainty. 125 pp. 2022:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-358>
ISBN 978-3-030-95767-4 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

Working in uncertainty has become the new normal, but what do leaders have to draw upon when lacking the requisite knowledge? In this book, the authors make a case for Negative Capability, which enables leaders to work in a state of not knowing without simply reaching for old ideas or resorting to habitual behaviours. It is not a practice that can be measured, but its impact in leadership practice is immense and tangible. Offering fresh insights for leadership students, researchers, and practitioners on the challenges of working in uncertainty, the book offers a novel perspective on Negative Capability as a way of being. Each chapter explores an aspect of Negative Capability through the accounts of leaders and managers who had the courage to explore this way of being and share the stories about its powerful impact. Ultimately, this book explores how a practice of attention can lead to new ways of understanding the role of purpose, leisure, and passion in leadership practice.

Arora, Anshu Saxena / Jentjens, Sabine et al. (eds.), Managing Social Robotics and Socio-cultural Business Norms: Parallel Worlds of Emerging AI and Human Virtues. (International Marketing and Management Research) 210 pp. 2022:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-327>
ISBN 978-3-031-04866-1 hard ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This book explores the co-existence of humans and AI in business contexts. Though AI and social robots have become ubiquitous, there are still many challenges facing technological expansion, including a true understanding of abstract concepts, transfer of knowledge to novel application problems, transparency and security guarantees, and distinguishing between random and logically meaningful relationships. While machines are valuable tools, only humans are capable of recognizing values which are the key to ethics and socio-cultural norms. Further, human virtues such as emotional intelligence, wisdom, and courage are required for decision making in many (private and professional) situations where machines would lead to sub-optimal and/or ethically questionable business outcomes.This book discusses how digital technology has emerged as a critical support system for organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it can be used to complement human qualities that machines lack.It is divided into three sections that examine the complex world of AI and social robotics, digital technology and social media roles in business, and human actions that are embedded within socio-cultural business norms, such as international negotiations, that are not yet replaceable by AI.For researchers interested in understanding these parallel worlds, this book assesses how can continue to not only coexist but mutually benefit the business ecosystem.

D.B.オードレッチュ他編　COVID-19の危機と企業家精神
Audretsch, David B. / Kunadt, Iris A. M. (eds.), The COVID-19 Crisis and Entrepreneurship: Perspectives and Experiences of Researchers, Thought Leaders, and Policymakers. (International Studies in Entrepreneurship 54) 277 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-328>
ISBN 978-3-031-04654-4 hard ¥17,651.- (税込) EUR 74.99

2020 introduced a global pandemic that led to global economic, social, and regional lockdowns affecting public life in ways never been imagined before. This book takes a look at how researchers from fields encompassing economics and political science, along with thought leaders in business and economic policy, experienced the crises themselves as experts in their field, as well as from a personal viewpoint. Most importantly, however, it looks into the future how entrepreneurship and economic policies may change and positively influence the societies and the economy after the pandemic. Keeping in mind that, with climate change and the digital revolution, change was already around the corner and inevitable, renowned economic and policy experts are asked for their assessment of future roads and feasible economic policies. The book follows the chronology of the pandemic and focuses on leading researchers and thought leaders in public policy and business. An introduction to each chapter describes the context particular to the contributing author when the pandemic struck and their own reactions, experiences, and insights triggered by the emerging pandemic.

Berrones-Flemmig, Claudia Nelly et al. (eds.), Business in the 21st Century: A Sustainable Approach. 316 pp. 2022:10 (Emerald, UK) <682-329>
ISBN 978-1-80382-788-9 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

How can businesses around the world incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their models, policies and practices? The editors of Business in the 21st Century help answer this by bringing together scholars from around the world with chapters examining various industries ranging from finance, hospitality, aviation, tourism, food production and more. With international perspectives, business concepts such as HRM, employee wellbeing, leadership and digitalisation are also researched within the framework of the SDGs. Insights from how to implement such policies in a post-pandemic world are introduced to help businesses navigate the biggest disruption they have faced in decades. Business in the 21st Century provides a valuable framework for scholars, managers, leaders and business stakeholders to help navigate the incorporation of SDGs into the business world, shape strategy, improve practices and create a better business future.

BN, Prashanth, Link Technology to Your Long-Term Business Goals: How to Use Technology to Mobilize Your People, Strategy and Operations. XX, 260 pp. 2022:9 (Apress, US) <682-330>
ISBN 978-1-4842-8207-6 paper ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99

Link the use of technology with long-term business goals to optimize the core elements in your organization: people, strategy, and operations. This book will show you how effective planning of processes and execution of strategies with the help of technology can bring about an organization-wide increase in productivity and performance. Business environments have grown increasingly competitive. Before an organization realizes what has happened, it can lose or gain market share. Being agile is the key to success. This book covers the processes that can help your enterprise be agile and follow best practices when executing your business strategy. You'll review case studies from real-world experiences that dive deep into the problems a business encounters and the ways to solve those challenges. They deal with the different ways in which your organization can achieve dramatic performance improvements by changing your company’s processes. The book also explains how objectives and key results can be used to align business teams for increased productivity. With Use Tech to Mobilize Your People, Strategy, and Operations you'll learn how the intensity of core processes can ensure that growth does not wane in your organization. What You'll Learn Know the role of three core elements in organizations: people, strategy, operations Understand how technology can enhance these three core elements Be aware of the importance of scale and security in the information era Eliminate distractions and uncertainty in core processes Who This Book Is For People with experience building businesses (founders, CEOs, COOs, CTOs, project managers, product managers, operation heads, sales heads, finance heads, strategy heads, technology leaders) who are looking for technology solutions to business problems

Chen, Xi / Jasin, Stefanus / Shi, Cong (eds.), The Elements of Joint Learning and Optimization in Operations Management. (Springer Series in Supply Chain Management 18) 488 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-331>
ISBN 978-3-031-01925-8 hard ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book examines recent developments in Operations Management, and focuses on four major application areas: dynamic pricing, assortment optimization, supply chain and inventory management, and healthcare operations. Data-driven optimization in which real-time input of data is being used to simultaneously learn the (true) underlying model of a system and optimize its performance, is becoming increasingly important in the last few years, especially with the rise of Big Data.

De Villiers, Rouxelle (ed.), The Handbook of Creativity & Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Toolkit of Theory and Practice for Developing Creative Thinking Skills. 460 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-332>
ISBN 978-981-19-2179-7 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book enables readers to develop their own creative thinking and their teams' creative problem-solving skills to generate novel, useful and surprising ideas. The vast majority of companies believe that a culture of innovation and renewal impacts performance and ultimately business results. In contrast, many managers feel ill-equipped to promote a culture of creative endeavour for this type of work-environment and lack the know-how to put it into practice. This book covers theory, practice, and impact metrics of both convergent and divergent thinking tools and provide managers with the ideas, tools and guidance to develop a corporate culture conducive to intrapreneurial thinking, idea creation and testing and moving inventions from ideas to viable business concepts, products and profitable innovations. This book includes numerous step-by-step tutorials to help the reader to learn concepts quickly.

Fernandez, Juan Antonio / David, Emily M. et al., Innovative to the Core: Stories from China and the World. 252 pp. 2022:11 (Emerald, UK) <682-333>
ISBN 978-1-80455-084-7 paper ¥5,821.- (税込) US$ 27.00 *

Based on extensive interviews with industry leaders, Innovative to the Core: Stories from China and the World describes the components of innovative cultures, including both national culture and organizational culture and how they compare to the China model. Distinguishing between innovation and related concepts, chapters detail how talent management, leader behaviors, organizational systems, and company culture must combine and interact to create environments that are innovative to the core. Innovative to the Core displays how most innovative countries and companies are led by visionary and entrepreneurial servant leaders and have agile cultures that feature psychological safety, open communication, and diversity.

Hyams-Ssekasi, Denis / Agboma, Fredrick (eds.), Entrepreneurship and Change: Understanding Entrepreneurialism as a Driver of Transformation. 292 pp. 2022:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-336>
ISBN 978-3-031-07138-6 hard ¥40,014.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book offers novel and contemporary thinking of entrepreneurship and change. It espouses the distinct but reciprocal nature of both concepts to unravel high levels of transformation, both in terms of social structures and social relations, inherent in new venture creation. It provides insights from a theoretical, educational, and industrial context with emphasis on holistic approaches to change. Each chapter illuminates distinct elements of the entrepreneurial landscape and the importance of learning, creativity and innovation as tools for practice and knowledge management. This book is an essential resource for practitioners, researchers, and policy makers because it provides new outlooks and dimensions on the transformational powers of entrepreneurship and change.

Javier Montiel Mendez, Oscar / Tomaselli, S. et al. (eds.), Family Business Debates: Multidimensional Perspectives Across Countries, Continents and Geo-political Frontiers. 460 pp. 2022:11 (Emerald, UK) <682-337>
ISBN 978-1-80117-667-5 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

The family business arena is dynamic. Family business owners, managers, and practitioners need to be aware of changing management approaches, processes, and strategies to allow them to respond to global competition in an increasingly chaotic world - as emphasised by the COVID-19 pandemic - whilst maintaining their businesses unique character, culture, and attributes. Family Business Debates provides a novel, ground-breaking approach to diverse and contemporary topics in current business management research, focusing on family enterprises to study both the positive and negative aspects of such commercial structures. Each chapter explores specific themes as they relate to family businesses and the authors developing a comprehensive and far-reaching perspective of family businesses from experts around the world, showcasing highly controversial topics in today's global debate within family business and management. Offering unrivalled coverage of contemporary aspects of family business, Family Business Debates offers a unique focus on theory and applied research in family firms, particularly considering and reviewing the impact of research on policy and practice globally. It aims to communicate the latest family business research and knowledge worldwide for the benefit of scholars and family business practitioners.

Jevnaker, Birgit Helene / Olaisen, Johan, Reimagining Sustainable Organization: Perspectives on Arts, Design, Leadership, Knowledge and Project Management. 140 pp. 2022:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-338>
ISBN 978-3-030-96209-8 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book is an exploration into how organizations and individuals can develop sustainable organization in an era of interconnected men and machines, and rapid environment changes. Reimagining Sustainable Organization addresses our need for thinking and coping differently when facing the many unknowns in real-life enterprises in society. Timely and focused on re-imagining a deeper sustainability in dynamic organization, the book offers multiple perspectives on arts, design thinking, leadership, knowledge and project management. It examines how sustainability and management ideas can spread like a virus from organization to organization, being developed and amended to suit different contexts. Drawing on process philosophy, real-world case studies, and academic examinations of business practices as well as management research, the authors explore knowledge creation towards reimagining sustainable organization. The book includes frameworks and conceptual tools as well as insights for further explorations. This book will be of interests to students, scholars and teachers, and practitioners who are studying sustainable organization, greener management, leadership ideas, or knowledge and project management in various settings. It also covers future pressing issues for the technical, social, arts and design professionals involved in co-creative work across organizational boundaries.

Krause, Klaus / Schnitzler, Tobias, Business Partner Management: Successfully Managing External and Internal Business Relationships. 215 pp. 2022:7 (Springer, GW) <682-339>
ISBN 978-3-658-37474-7 paper ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This professional book provides a structured, industry-independent and at the same time practical insight into all types of business partnerships. Both relationships with external business partners and internal partnerships with colleagues and employees are considered in depth. The authors guide you through all phases of these partnerships, highlighting the different aspects and offering proven methods and practical tips for working successfully with partners. The focus is on people as partner and individual with interests and goals. The comparison to private partnerships is quite intentional and illustrates the explanations. Findings from brain research, learning and cooperation are also included.

渡部幹他編　アジアにおけるCOVID-19と進化するビジネス環境
Kwok, Andrei O. J. / Watabe, Motoki / Koh, S. G. M. (eds.), COVID-19 and the Evolving Business Environment in Asia: The Hidden Impact on the Economy, Business and Society. 289 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-340>
ISBN 978-981-19-2748-5 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book brings together valuable insights about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the business environment from an Asian perspective. While some businesses in Asia have been swift to embrace the new normal, others have found the disruption to the traditional way of doing business challenging. Businesses are striving to respond, adapt, and thrive under the shadow of the unprecedented upheaval to the business environment that has forced them to rethink their strategies, processes, and operating models. There seems to be a consensus among business scholars and stakeholders that the continuous embrace of change and transformation of business models will assist businesses to sustain a long-term competitive advantage. The chapters in this book explore shifts in business innovation and strategies linked to the "new normal" of doing business during the pandemic, bringing to light issues, challenges, and opportunities that firms can expect to face in their need to ensure sustainability post-pandemic and beyond.

Lacity, Mary C. / Treiblmaier, Horst (Hrsg.), Blockchains and the Token Economy: Theory and Practice. (Technology, Work and Globalization) 400 pp. 2022:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-341>
ISBN 978-3-030-95107-8 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

In this book, leading practitioners and academics provide comprehensive coverage and novel insights into blockchains and the token economy. Real world case studies from a wide range of industries provide practical examples of blockchain-based tokens for real estate, logistics, insurance, recruitment, collectibles, reservations, metaverses, and more. The cases show how tokens provide an innovative way to create and transfer value without relying on traditional intermediaries. Readers will better understand the business and social benefits of tokenization, but also its challenges. Chapter 3 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Leitao, Joao / Ratten, Vanessa (eds.), Context-based Entrepreneurship: The Importance of Location, Time, and Culture. (Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics) 199 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-342>
ISBN 978-3-031-05306-1 hard ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99

Context plays an important role in entrepreneurship and this is increasingly being acknowledged both in research, practice, and policy considerations. Where, why, and how entrepreneurship occurs can be considered when studying the effects of context. This book focuses on the role of context in entrepreneurship by analyzing different factors, including locational, time-specific, and cultural variables and social conditions. Researchers of entrepreneurship will particularly benefit from the holistic, context-based perspective this book offers.

Liao, Albert, Warranty Chain Management: Digitalization and Sustainability. (Management for Professionals) 488 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-343>
ISBN 978-981-19-2103-2 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book aims to provide a systemic viewpoint for enterprise to establish the warranty chain management system. This book includes warranty management practice, reverse logistics, product reliability engineering, data statistics and analysis, industry 4.0 and artificial intelligence, circular supply chain and sustainable design, and other basic theories and case descriptions. The author has many years' experience in academic and industrial management, and provides a management framework that especially takes into account (1) the implementation aspect - promotion of warranty plan and statistical analysis of data; (2) strategic aspect - digital application and sustainable development, with an overall system building point of view to describe the steps of warranty chain management step by step. There are rich industry cases in this book which has highly reference value for students, researchers and practitioners. Also this book fits to be used as teaching andtraining material in engineering management, which builds an overview of the product life cycle management from warranty service till the recovery stage.

Mondal, Subhra R / Majerova, Jana / Das, Subhankar (eds.), Sustainable Development and Innovation of Digital Enterprises for Living with COVID-19. 246 pp. 2022:9 (Springer, GW) <682-345>
ISBN 978-981-19-2172-8 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores the implications of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive digital enterprises and their practices for different functional domains and in different counties during COVID-19. This book will bring new dimensions of study to the concept of digital enterprises which is sure to change after COVID-19 as it has upended the way in which people work, live and communicate. Covering a broad range of topics related to digital enterprises, this book is meant for business owners, digital professionals, managers, researchers, and academics who are seeking to integrate digital enterprises in order to allow organizations and countries to stay on a sustainable development trajectory while living with COVID-19.

Punnen, Abraham P. (ed.), The Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization Problem: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications. 319 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-347>
ISBN 978-3-031-04519-6 hard ¥40,014.- (税込) EUR 169.99

The quadratic binary optimization problem (QUBO) is a versatile combinatorial optimization model with a variety of applications and rich theoretical properties. Application areas of the model include finance, cluster analysis, traffic management, machine scheduling, VLSI physical design, physics, quantum computing, engineering, and medicine. In addition, various mathematical optimization models can be reformulated as a QUBO, including the resource constrained assignment problem, set partitioning problem, maximum cut problem, quadratic assignment problem, the bipartite unconstrained binary optimization problem, among others.This book presents a systematic development of theory, algorithms, and applications of QUBO. It offers a comprehensive treatment of QUBO from various viewpoints, including a historical introduction along with an in-depth discussion of applications modelling, complexity and polynomially solvable special cases, exact and heuristic algorithms, analysis of approximation algorithms, metaheuristics, polyhedral structure, probabilistic analysis, persistencies, and related topics. Available software for solving QUBO is also introduced, including public domain, commercial, as well as quantum computing based codes.

Ramesh, Anbanandam / Rangnekar, Santosh (eds.), Flexibility, Innovation, and Sustainable Business. (Flexible Systems Management) 358 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-349>
ISBN 978-981-19-1696-0 hard ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book contains practical experiences, knowledge, and insights in the evolution, formulation, and implementation of strategies and models for flexibility, innovation, and sustainable business. The book discussed the increasing significance of a flexible approach by businesses as much as possible in every area of their work-from employment policies to supply chain management (SCM). It further links this flexible approach to a sustainability strategy, which is necessary to be competitive today and in the future. This business approach is necessary to create long-term value by considering how a given organization operates in the ecological, social, and economic environment. This is linked to the next theme of the book-innovation-which is fundamental for a business to improve its processes, develop new and improved products and services for the market, increase its efficiency, and, most importantly, get better profitability. The book also delves into another buzz word in business-analytics. Companies have widely embraced the use of analytics to streamline operations and improve processes. The book explores all these critical emerging areas through the chapters in its five sections and is invaluable for management students and researchers, practicing business managers, consultants, professional institutions, and government and corporate organizations.

Ratten, Vanessa (ed.), Cultural Entrepreneurship: New Societal Trends. 249 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-350>
ISBN 978-981-19-2770-6 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Cultural entrepreneurship uses culture as a way to understand innovative business ventures. Culture in this edited book involves the beliefs and values associated with certain forms of behaviour. This means the way individuals are involved in business ventures is based on their cultural ideas. This edited book focuses on how cultural entrepreneurship is an important way to understand how cultural products and services such as art, food, music and literature influence the development of business ventures. Thereby highlighting the interesting and unique way cultural ideas are embedded in entrepreneurial activities.

Ratten, Vanessa, Managing Innovation in Organisations: Fostering an Entrepreneurial Approach. 121 pp. 2022:7 (Springer, GW) <682-351>
ISBN 978-981-19-3099-7 hard ¥21,182.- (税込) EUR 89.99

This book explores how organisations need to manage their innovation processes in order to compete in the global marketplace. Innovation is essential to the ongoing competitiveness of organisations but can be difficult to capture and disseminate. This book states that there needs to be guidelines about how to manage innovation in an organisational context. This includes focusing on different types of innovation from incremental to radical. This book will focus on ways to manage innovation from incorporating it into organisational practices to implementing it into beneficial partnerships. Each chapter in the book focuses on a different aspect of innovation from how to communicate ideas to commercialising innovation.

Shepherd, Dean A. / Parida, Vinit / Wincent, Joakim, Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity: The Bright, the Dark, and the in Between. 213 pp. 2022:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-352>
ISBN 978-3-031-04883-8 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open acess book extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who face chronic adversity more deeply. Instead of focusing on the sort of responses intended to destroy the institutions that create and sustain chronic adversity, the authors are interested in how individuals use entrepreneurial action to find a way within these adverse constraints to improve their lives. They explore the positive outcomes arising from these entrepreneurial actions for the entrepreneurial actor and their family members as well as the negative consequences of these entrepreneurial responses to chronic adversity-outcomes that diminish others' well-being. The book relies on the lived experiences of those facing chronic adversity to provide insights into the bright-and dark-sides of entrepreneurship and the complexity of these relationships. It will serve as a valuable resource to scholars seeking to understandhow entrepreneurial action is conceived and implemented by those facing challenging resource-poor environments.

Siegfried, Patrick, Digitalisation in Mobility Service Industry: A Survey-based Expert Analysis. (Future of Business and Finance) 88 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-353>
ISBN 978-3-031-07150-8 hard ¥17,651.- (税込) EUR 74.99

This book focuses on the implications of digitalisation in the mobility service industry. Based on an analysis of more than 450 survey responses, it explores and assesses mobility in the age of digitalisation. The content covers both changes in the relationship between the company and its customers and a potential paradigm shift among leading companies. The findings suggest that a shift from traditional mobility management to a more customer-centred management perspective is both widely accepted and increasingly necessary. Nevertheless, the inclusion of services that are not primarily concerned with overcoming spatial distances is considered to be less attractive. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to researchers and professionals who are involved in digitalisation in the mobility service industry.

Tognazzo, Alessandra, Family Business Metaphors: Envisioning Images of Peaceful and Sustainable Organizations. 109 pp. 2022:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-354>
ISBN 978-3-031-05247-7 hard ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99

Typically, business tenets advise: never go into business with your family. This book proposes that this discrepancy may actually be at the core of modern problems: social harm and environmental problems are largely related to advancements focused on current dualistic metaphors that value only the business dimension and devalue the family.This book aims to offer an alternative viewpoint, by discussing how core beliefs linked to various metaphors change the way we conduct and perform in our lives and businesses, so that the reader can practice sustainable methods, which also includes the family. Situating family businesses as the primordial way of social organizing, chapters explore definitions of organizational symbolism, metaphors, and archetypes in order to guide readers and change the way we consider the family role within business and the economy.

Tu, Zipei, The New Civilization Upon Data: How Big Data Reshapes Human Civilization, Business and the Personal World. 226 pp. 2022:9 (Springer, GW) <682-355>
ISBN 978-981-19-3080-5 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book focuses on the changes which big data brings to human's society and personal thinking models. The author uses the concept of "data civilization" to reveal that we have entered a brand-new era on civilization level, which could be found and understood from three levels: human data civilization, commercial data civilization, and personal data civilization. There is no doubt data civilization will inevitably make a profound influence on the subversion and reconstruction of human beings including business, society, and thinking models. The book presents a unique perspective to understand the world which is dominated by data more and more.

Maji, Sumit Kumar / Laha, Arindam / Sur, Debasish, Indian Manufacturing Sector in Post-Reform Period: An Assessment of the Role of Macroeconomic and Firm-Specific Factors in Determining Financial Performance. 176 pp. 2022:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-201>
ISBN 978-981-19-2665-5 hard ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99

The book outlines the importance of Indian manufacturing sector and its growth under alternative policy regimes. The authors highlight the significance of various firm-specific and macroeconomic factors on the level of efficiency and profitability of the firms operating in the diverse manufacturing sector during the post-liberalization era. The book also examines the dynamic relationship between the select manufacturing sector-specific stock market indices and the various macroeconomic variables.

Winston, Bruce E. (ed.), The Mind of a Leader: A Christian Perspective of the Thoughts, Mental Models, and Perceptions That Shape Leadership Behavior. (Christian Faith Perspectives in Leadership and Business) 216 pp. 2022:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-152>
ISBN 978-3-031-07205-5 hard ¥40,014.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This edited collection examines the mind of leaders throughout the Bible to understand how thoughts and behaviors can support or sabotage leadership efforts. It is divided into three parts: the first part addresses thinking, influence, and communicating through the theoretical lenses of humility, metacognition, and personal well-being. Part Two addresses managing, motivating, and change through the theoretical lenses of leader-follower relationships and Lewin's change model. Finally, Part Three addresses ethics, service, and character through the theoretical lenses of participative leadership, inclusivity, resilience, and mentoring. Each chapter uses a biblical example to demonstrate the role of the mind in the effectiveness of different leaders. This volume will serve as a valuable resource to researchers interested in leadership studies, particularly those examining the biblical perspective.

Hornuf, Lars (ed.), Diginomics Research Perspectives: The Role of Digitalization in Business and Society. (Advanced Studies in Diginomics and Digitalization) 181 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-167>
ISBN 978-3-031-04062-7 hard ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book focuses on traditional fields of business studies and economics and how digitalization has affected them. It provides an overview about the lessons learned from academic research and highlights implications for practitioners. Digitalization has not only changed the ways business administration and economics are taught, but also the substance at the core of the two disciplines. Chapters from expert contributors define and carefully evaluate the developments that have occurred over the last decades. The authors further provide an assessment of how industry branches have adapted and in which form regulators have engaged. Attention is given to the theoretical and empirical findings from recent scholarly literature. Furthermore, the authors provide some novel insights from their own research at the University of Bremen. This book appeals to business administration, economics, and entrepreneurship scholars and practitioners alike.

バブル経済後の日本の小売産業－100円ショップの発展
Rahman, Md. Arifur, Japanese Retail Industry After the Bubble Economy: Development of the 100-yen Shops. (SpringerBriefs in Business) 99 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-180>
ISBN 978-981-19-2896-3 paper ¥12,943.- (税込) EUR 54.99 *

This book highlights the major institutional changes in the development of the Japanese retail industry after the bubble economy. The Japanese retail structure has been transformed from an abundance of small retail stores to chain stores by notable institutional changes with continuous variations in the post-1990s. It provides an insight into the impact of retail density on the household economy in the stagnant economy of Japan. The issues highlighted in this book include the background of the advent of 100-yen retail stores and strategic approach of the stores during the stagnant economy, a comparative analysis of Japanese 100-yen shops and dollar stores in United States, employment compliance of 100-yen shops and dollar stores in developing countries, factors that contributed to change the Japanese distribution channels after the 1990s, and determinants of retail density in Japan. The stagnant economy in the post-bubble period, along with changes in the large-scale retail store law, led consumers to shift from the most popular department stores to supermarkets and the cheapest retail alternatives. With its recent data and theories, this research work will be of interest to business and economics students and researchers in Japanese retailing and relevant areas.

Mukherjee, Sanjoy / Zsolnai, Laszlo (eds.), Global Perspectives on Indian Spirituality and Management: The Legacy of S. K. Chakraborty. 428 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <682-133>
ISBN 978-981-19-1157-6 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book brings together a collection of articles from eminent scholars and practitioners from India, Europe, the USA, and Australia and investigates the applicability of spiritually inspired business models in Indian and Western contexts. This book is a tribute to the revered Indian management scholar and philosopher Professor S. K. Chakraborty, a pioneer of human values and Indian ethos in management. It explores the potentials and pitfalls of spiritual-based leadership and provides directions for renewing business education to embrace human values and spirituality. The forty contributions in the book are divided into seven sections-introduction; business ethics and management; developing new organizational models and processes; potentials and pitfalls of spirituality-based leadership; leaders and their world; education, spirituality, and society; ways to go-to bring out different aspects of the spirituality in business model endorsed by Chakraborty. The book is a treasure trove for researchers of not only business ethics, but also of leadership and strategy studies, in addition to the organization professionals and the general reader for expert insights on the topic.

Huizing, Russell L. (ed.), Grace Leadership: A Biblical Perspective of Compassion in Management. (Christian Faith Perspectives in Leadership and Business) 193 pp. 2022:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-114>
ISBN 978-3-031-04487-8 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Drawing upon both Jewish and Christian scriptures, this book lays a groundwork for understanding how grace is a critical element of leadership and followership studies. This volume, divided into three sections, begins by defining the concept of grace leadership, using biblical examples. Part two discusses how grace leadership develops while the last part of the book offers contemporary examples of leaders displaying grace to their employees. With cases from the military as well as organizational perspectives, this edited collection adds a new wrinkle to the leadership literature and will appeal to scholars in HRM and organizational studies.