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

Abdellatif, Mahmoud M. / Tran-Nam, Binh et al. (eds.), Government Incentives for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An International Experience. (Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management) 290 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-428>
ISBN 978-3-031-10118-2 hard ¥41,323.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book examines the role of government fiscal and non-fiscal incentives in spurring innovation and entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies. It explores and examines the role of government programs in different stages of firm growth pre-startup, startup, and scale-up. By developing a theoretical framework and reviewing international evidence, the book identifies the best combination of government incentives to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship, and provides concrete policy recommendations for decision-makers. Some of the issues tackled in this book include national innovation policy, innovation support programs, effectiveness of the support, challenges associated with the programs, risk-sharing and partnerships for innovation. This book is of interest to academics, students, practitioners, policymakers, governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as other stakeholders who wants to be informed about the challenges, progress and current trendin stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship.

Adams, Richard / Grichnik, Dietmar et al. (eds.), Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Unforeseen, and Paving the Way to a Sustainable Future. (FGF Studies in Small Business and Entrepreneurship) 253 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-429>
ISBN 978-3-031-11370-3 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-11373-4 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access edited volume explores the past, present, and future of artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship - the unforeseen consequences and ways to advance to a sustainable future. In particular, it connects artificiality, sustainability and entrepreneurship, intertwining artificial with the specific phenomenon of those novel digital technologies that provoke continuous and significant change in our lives and business. Unlike digital entrepreneurship research, which focuses on digital technology development and management, this book covers processes and mechanisms of sustainable adaptability of entrepreneurs, the business logic of start-ups, and the collaborative behaviours under the mass digital transformation, including the prevalence of artificial intelligence. Some of the questions that this book answers are as follows: How has entrepreneurship reacted to such challenges previously? What lessons have been learned and need to be carried forward? How can entrepreneurship and the artefacts of entrepreneurship respond to current challenges? What should be the mindset of the entrepreneur to assure sustainable adaptation? How to embrace and embed the new business logic?

Amann, Wolfgang / Stachowicz-Stanusch, Agata et al. (eds.), Humanistic Crisis Management: Lessons Learned from COVID-19. (Humanism in Business Series) 338 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-430>
ISBN 978-3-031-04251-5 hard ¥41,323.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book aims at catalyzing our learning from the COVID-19 crisis. Numerous studies have emerged confirming that during the COVID-19 pandemic, crisis management has been far from holistic. Progress previously made towards sustainability has in many cases been reversed and global inequality has grown. This volume scrutinizes the crucial role of businesses in the lived experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for a new goal system in business, establishing human dignity as the ultimate outcome of sound business. Part of the Humanism in Business Series, this book brings together a group of international experts to consolidate the lessons to be learnt from the pandemic and how it was handled. It explores the foundations of the crisis, before focusing on selected sectors and regions for analysis and, finally, drawing conclusions according to the principles of humanistic crisis management. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of business ethics, as well as policy-makers, professionals and all those who practice humanistic management.

Aouinait, Camille, Open Innovation Strategies. (Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Management Series / Smart Innovation Set) 2022 (Wiley-ISTE, UK) <686-431>
ISBN 978-1-78630-708-8 hard ¥37,026.- (税込) US$ 165.00 *

The main aim of opening up innovation is to optimize the process of creating innovations, while pooling human, financial and material resources. Various profiles of actors are thus brought together in order to collaborate to achieve common objectives and share their particular interests.This book describes the challenges of collaboration in the development of innovations in a context where the sustainability of value chains is central. The diversity of collaborative forms, shared spaces (FabLab, LivingLab, co-working spaces), the intrinsic characteristics of innovation, and the actors actively involved in its emergence are all addressed in this book. The structuring of partners collaborating in innovative projects in specific environments is also discussed. Furthermore, it questions the social responsibility of companies and their innovative role in generating sustainable solutions for stakeholders.

Atluri, Venkat / Gaibor Dietzis, Miklos, The Ecosystem Economy: How to Lead in the New Age of Sectors without Borders. 256 pp. 2023 (Wiley, US) <686-432>
ISBN 978-1-119-98478-8 hard ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

It's The Ecosystem Mindset takes a hard look at the Ecosystem Economy, and what it means for companies once siloed by sector. It explores how and why we got here, beginning with the foundations of the sector economy and bringing us up to today--the earliest chapter in the ecosystem economy's history. Readers will see that the truly successful companies are not the ones that have brought old-school best practices to bear on the new economy, but the companies that have thrown out those best practices altogether--the companies that have adopted entirely new mindsets and strategies for this entirely new game. The authors l then explain why adopting a new playbook is so important. They show that ecosystems players stand to partake in $60 trillion of new value, and they will also show that the ecosystem is here to stay. In fact, they explore how the ecosystem economy might continue to evolve, dissolving traditional industry barriers once and for all and giving way to an entirely new playing field where sector-system strategies will become entirely untenable. Finally, they introduce an ecosystem playbook--the philosophies and strategies that enterprises will need to adopt in order to survive and thrive in the ecosystem economy. As the barriers between industries come down, we are all going to need to reshape our thinking about competition, partnership, value, and process. This book engages the reader to consider a new playbook for doing business in a world of digital ecosystems.

Aumayr, Klaus J., Successful Product Management: Tool Box for Professional Product Management and Product Marketing. 514 pp. 2022:11 (Springer Gabler, GW) <686-433>
ISBN 978-3-658-38275-9 hard ¥18,229.- (税込) EUR 74.99

Dieser Sammelband der Sales Excellence fuer den Jahrgang 2018 bietet Ihnen fundiertes Fachwissen im Bereich Vertrieb Wenn Sie im Bereich Vertrieb arbeiten, ist dieser Sammelband genau das Richtige fuer Sie. Er vereint alle zwoelf Ausgaben der Sales Excellence aus dem Jahr 2018, der wichtigsten Fachzeitschrift fuer Vertrieb in Deutschland. Jeden Monat werden dort aktuelle Problemstellungen dieses Bereiches von bekannten Autoren behandelt. Haeufig spielen dabei Themen wie Kundenbetreuung und Vertriebsprozesse eine entscheidende Rolle. Der Sammelband richtet sich an alle, die mit Vertrieb zu tun haben, beispielsweise Geschaeftsfuehrer, Vertriebsmitarbeiter oder Handelsvertreter. Sales Experience sammelt nicht nur sorgfaeltig recherchierte Fachinformationen, sondern bietet dem Leser darueber hinaus auch hilfreiche Tipps fuer die praktische Umsetzung.

Benassi, Mario / Martin-Sanchez, Miryam, Patent Intermediaries: 'New' Actors in the Intellectual Property Market. 235 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-434>
ISBN 978-3-031-10309-4 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

Intellectual property rights are a key element in today's knowledge economy. Specifically, the use of patents as transactional elements has become widespread. However, the market for patents possesses specific features that differentiate it from other markets. This book provides evidence for its existence and addresses its particular conditions. It also takes a deep dive into patent intermediaries, discussing how they emerged, their activity and business models, as well as their impact on market structure, firms, and societies. Patent intermediaries participate in market transactions by offering various services and by bridging supply and demand of patents. In the last decades, some of them (so-called pejoratively 'patent trolls') have become popular for their aggressive litigiousness. However, the activity and presence of patent intermediaries are much more significant. To enhance our understanding of the role of patent intermediaries, the authors provide a comprehensive review of the role of these agents in the Economy.

Bhatt, Swati, Entrepreneurship Today: The Resurgence of Small, Technology-Driven Businesses in a Dynamic New Economy. 176 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-435>
ISBN 978-3-031-11494-6 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book explores how the U.S. has been in the throes of a startup revolution, fueled by a risk-taking culture. There has been a growth of young startup from 1994, accelerating after 2010 through the present day. Most entrepreneurial activity is in the professional and business services sector, which comprises technical services as well as research and development.However, new establishments face a low survival rate, suggesting that starting businesses is not the problem, sustaining their development and growth is the principal challenge. A paradox is presented by the simultaneous presence of declining labor force participation rate among prime working age adults, a decrease in productivity growth rates in the past decade and a startup revolution.There are five native skills that are acquired by experience rather than formal education: resourcefulness, practical intelligence, over-optimism and personal initiative. These are built on a foundation of attributes that form the culture of risk-taking and decision-making. Underlying values and beliefs include collaboration, openness to new ideas, an awareness of the environment and the needs of people in your radius of interaction. A strongly embedded community forms the essence of entrepreneurial culture, and its values cannot be taught, they must be learned through experience.

Bood, Robert / van Ees, Hans / Postma, Theo, The Role of the Board in Corporate Purpose and Strategy. (Elements in Corporate Governance) 75 pp. 2022:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-437>
ISBN 978-1-00-922108-5 paper ¥4,899.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element is an attempt to contribute to the extant literature on boards and corporate governance by exploring in detail the active involvement of the board in the purpose and strategy of the corporation in order to cope with a complex and uncertain environment.

Buechler, Jan-Philipp, Business Wargaming for Mergers & Acquisitions: Systematic Application in the Strategy and Acquisition Process. (essentials) 46 pp. 2022:10 (Springer Gabler, GW) <686-438>
ISBN 978-3-658-38497-5 paper ¥4,858.- (税込) EUR 19.99

Based on a systematic description of possible applications and case studies in the acquisition process, the essential offers a practice-oriented introduction to business wargaming. The high degree of integration of business wargaming with classic strategy instruments from the strategy process is made clear. On this basis, the author describes the development of strategy-compliant acquisition projects that consistently contribute to the achievement of objectives. Readers receive valuable advice for the individual conception of business wargames for strategic, tactical and operational questions from the development of the M&A strategy to post-merger integration

Canals, Jordi, Boards of Directors in Disruptive Times: Improving Corporate Governance Effectiveness. 250 pp. 2022:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-439>
ISBN 978-1-00-916580-8 hard ¥25,934.- (税込) GB￡ 89.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-916578-5 paper ¥8,642.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

The current business context of disruptive, accelerated change requires a new framework for understanding how boards of directors can best support their organizations. In this book, Professor Jordi Canals presents a new model of effective governance, positioning the board of directors as the steward of the firm's future development, and focusing on the notion of corporate purpose. Canals argues that boards of directors should focus on strategy and corporate transformation, CEO and senior management development and succession, the board and the firm's culture, the board as a team, the engagement of shareholders and critical stakeholders, and the firm's overall impact. Moreover, for boards to be effective, directors must develop new competencies. Drawing on well-grounded theory and international case studies, this book outlines a new, holistic model of boards of directors, offering a pathway to effective governance that will enhance companies' reputation and success.

Denning, Stephen, Reinventing Capitalism in the Digital Age. (Elements in Reinventing Capitalism) 75 pp. 2022:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-440>
ISBN 978-1-00-933284-2 paper ¥4,899.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element examines the current crisis of capitalism's legitimacy and concludes that it derives principally from business pursuing an aberration of capitalism known as shareholder capitalism, in which firms sought to maximize shareholder value as reflected in the current share price, at the expense of all other stakeholders and society. Shareholder capitalism began in the 1970s and was renounced by the Business Roundtable in 2019, but continues behind a facade of stakeholder capitalism. Stakeholder capitalism is the most widely cited form of capitalism today, but it is incoherent as a practical guide to action for an entire firm. This Element concludes that a recent evolution of capitalism--customer capitalism--which gives primacy to co-creating value for customers and users, enables firms to master the challenges of the digital age, shower benefits on society, and meet the needs of all the stakeholders.

Eckert, Hans-Wilhelm, Storytelling with Data: Gaining Insights, Developing Strategy and Taking Corporate Communications to a New Level. 147 pp. 2022:10 (Springer Gabler, GW) <686-441>
ISBN 978-3-658-38554-5 paper ¥14,582.- (税込) EUR 59.99

This book shows the role data plays in communication and marketing and how it can be used as an important source for storytelling. Because data, as a raw material of the digital age, inspires corporate strategy. Provided it is collected, interpreted and processed properly, it provides new and sometimes surprising insights into contexts and offers the opportunity to develop exciting stories from it. Stories that also create relevance with regard to corporate goals, spark dialogues and make communication effective. The author explains in an easy-to-understand way how data-based communication strategies can be turned into gripping stories. He also provides useful tools and shows why data can lie, how important its visual processing is, where its use meets ethical limits and why data protection is also a business opportunity. Using practical examples, the book offers marketing and communication experts - but also interested managers from other disciplines - numerous inspirations and new perspectives.

Feldmann, Magnus / Morgan, Glenn, Business and Populism: The Odd Couple? 320 pp. 2022:12 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <686-442>
ISBN 978-0-19-289433-5 hard ¥28,820.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00

Business and Populism analyses the relationship between right wing populism and business with a focus on business responses and strategies in the face of the global populist turn. In the neoliberal era business had become accustomed to favourable economic policy regimes and governance arrangements that facilitated business influence on key policy issues. The rise of populist movements in various parts of the world is widely perceived as a significant challenge to policymaking, mainstream political parties and even to liberal democracy. Yet we know very little about the impact of populism on business, beyond the fact that the anti-elite challenge of populism frequently targets business with policies to restrict globalization, outsourcing, and labour migration whilst at the same time embracing capitalism, low taxes, and deregulated markets. Populists also glory in presenting themselves as authentic representatives of the people, symbolizing this in their demotic language, their rejection of standards of 'polite' society and liberal 'woke' values, including attacking core intermediary institutions such as independent central banks, the judiciary, the civil service, universities and expert knowledge, and a free press central to post-1945 versions of liberal democracy. When faced with these disruptions and the risks they pose for business, how does business respond? Does it choose to support or challenge populists in different countries? This volume advances the debate by providing empirical studies of the impact of right-wing populism on business. Finally, it considers whether populism will continue to be influential and how its success might impact on business strategy and structure.

Frank, Roland / Schumacher, Gregor / Tamm, Andreas, Cloud Transformation: How the Public Cloud is changing businesses. 331 pp. 2022:10 (Springer Gabler, GW) <686-443>
ISBN 978-3-658-38822-5 paper ¥17,013.- (税込) EUR 69.99

In this book you will learn how the public cloud is significantly changing the cost structures of digital business models and thus existing markets. The relationships between the cloud architectures used, the organization of the company and the price and business models that are possible as a result are shown clearly and so that they can be used in your own company. The authors explain how, one after the other, more and more markets are becoming digital markets and what role marginal costs play in this. They describe how cloud-based IT is disrupting classic IT. This enables small teams to build scalable business models worldwide at zero marginal costs with little investment. The economic effects are clearly illustrated using specific examples. In addition, technical laypeople get an overview of which factors are particularly important for the competitiveness of their digital business models and how managers can influence them. Finally, the book gives practitioners specific guidelines on how the cloud transformation can be carried out in their company. The book is aimed primarily at executives and employees in the specialist departments and IT who want to drive the cloud transformation in their companies. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition, Cloud-Transformation by Roland Frank, Gregor Schumacher and Andreas Tamm published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

Halberstadt, Jantje / Alcorta de Bronstein, A. et al. (eds.), Transforming Entrepreneurship Education: Interdisciplinary Insights on Innovative Methods and Formats. 240 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-444>
ISBN 978-3-031-11577-6 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-11580-6 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book provides selected teaching approaches, supporting methods, concrete examples of curricula as well as extracurricular teaching formats, which are predominantly tailored to both African and German requirements. These approaches were developed by the YEEES Training and Research Centers, an international interdisciplinary network of university teachers and researchers from Germany and southern Africa, and combine the fields of management, entrepreneurship, information and communication technologies (ICT), and sustainability. The book shows how current scientific results can be integrated into teaching, how students can contribute to research while learning, and how research can contribute to the development and evaluation of new formats. It is thus relevant for university teachers, researchers, students as well as practitioners who want to educate and act as future change agents.

Hall, Geraldine, Virtue and Social Enterprise: Ethical Alternatives to Capitalism. 182 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-445>
ISBN 978-3-031-14026-6 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *

This book is an exploration of Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on virtue ethics and John Pearce's reformist and radical forms of social enterprise. Although Pearce's work has had academic impact, by his own admission, his ideas lack the necessary philosophical underpinnings. In Virtue and Social Enterprise: Ethical Alternatives to Capitalism, Geraldine Hall draws on MacIntyre to provide such underpinnings. Through a novel synthesis of the works of these two authors, a philosophical grounding is given to Pearce's radical form of social enterprise. In turn, MacIntyre's views on virtue are given greater scope to address global issues created by the capitalist paradigm.With a foreword by Kelvin Knight, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Alasdair MacIntyre, virtue ethics, business ethics and social responsibility.

Kragulj, Florian, Knowledge Management and Sustainable Value Creation: Needs as a Strategic Focus for Organizations. (Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning 11) 318 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-446>
ISBN 978-3-031-12728-1 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of sustainability and responsibility. They are challenged to develop a holistic approach to value creation that reconciles economic, social, and environmental goals. This book describes how knowledge can facilitate this process and amplifies the idea of knowledge management to strategically serve multiple stakeholders in a sustainable and responsible way. In particular, the book introduces the concept of the "Need Knowledge-Driven Organization." It builds on mature research on organizational purpose, stakeholder theory, and phronesis, and advances the concept of "needs." This provides a new lens for understanding the sustainable and responsible business case: First, people are motivated by their needs, and organizations represent social structures that facilitate the satisfaction of shared needs. Second, needs reflect and combine social, environmental, and economic concerns, making sustainability and responsibility more realizable for practitioners. And third, needs provide a reference point for holistic value creation and can thus align knowledge processes and structures in organizations.

Lange, Jessica (ed.), Value-Oriented Leadership in Theory and Practice: Concepts - Study results - Practical insights. 222 pp. 2023 (Springer, GW) <686-447>
ISBN 978-3-662-65882-6 paper ¥14,582.- (税込) EUR 59.99

This book provides a holistic view of the topic of values-based leadership by bridging the important gap between understanding theory and applying it in practice. Based on theoretically sound contributions from experts, a systematic understanding is developed: What are values in general and what do they mean in a business context? What does value orientation mean? How does it work in the different areas of leadership? Practice-oriented contributions by experienced practitioners offer orientation for value-oriented leadership in every kind of company, from the small to the large. From structural familiarization with corporate leadership to day-to-day values-based interactions with employees in people management, you can find helpful inspiration in this book. This book is attractive in its comprehensibility and authenticity. It is about experiencing the life of values in a company as really meaningful, necessary and feasible.

Lange, Jessica, Feelgood Management - Requirements and Tasks: Practical Guide with Case Studies. 159 pp. 2022:12 (Springer, GW) <686-448>
ISBN 978-3-662-65793-5 paper ¥15,798.- (税込) EUR 64.99

This practical guide provides the reader with a comprehensive overview and detailed insight into the essential requirements and tasks of a Feelgood Manager. Feelgood Management is a new management concept that expresses the trend towards employee orientation. After customer orientation, employee orientation is considered a central future competence factor in corporate competition, especially in view of the increasing competition on the labor market (shortage of skilled workers, war for talents). The book is aimed at existing and future Feelgood Managers, who on the one hand want to get clarity and understanding about the position and tasks and on the other hand want to deepen or broaden their knowledge in key areas of responsibility. Beyond that, however, this book is useful not only for Feelgood Managers, but for anyone who manages employees. The recognition and consideration of employee needs is a task of personnel management, which is often neglected through nofault of the operational business. The reader is provided with key insights and simple ways to take advantage of Feelgood Management. The book on Feelgood Management provides an introductory overview of the topic. Many practical tips help with the implementation in one's own business. In particular, the following contents are covered: ? Introduction to Feelgood Management ? Tasks and requirements of the Feelgood Manager at a glance ? Further development of the corporate culture Improvement of internal communication Support of the personnel management Self-management of theFeelgood Manager and support of company health management This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Linder, Natan / Undheim, Trond Arne, Augmented Lean: A Human-Centric Framework for Managing Frontline Operations. 416 pp. 2022:12 (Wiley, US) <686-449>
ISBN 978-1-119-90600-1 hard ¥6,046.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

Explore the real future of work in this expert tech implementation guide that goes beyond automation In Augmented Lean: A Human-Centric Framework for Managing Frontline Operations, serial startup founder Dr. Natan Linder and futurist podcaster Dr. Trond Arne Undheim deliver an urgent and incisive exploration of how to facilitate agile processes amongst a millennial workforce that already lives by many of its tenets. The book demonstrates how to abandon legacy industrial technology that is failing modern operations and hindering operational excellence and digital progress. As an executive and leader, you cannot fall prey to hyped-up notions of industry 4.0's factory of the future automation, artificial intelligence, internet of things, sensors, digital twins, and augmented reality fixing every problem. Instead, to truly reduce cognitive load, complexity, and frustrations in the workplace, we must build cyber-physical technologies so that humans remain at the center. Leaders must ensure that the technology they deploy at an industrial scale has fluid interfaces that demonstrably simplifies work and makes operations more flexible without introducing fear, uncertainty, or doubt. The authors provide: A step-by-step walkthrough of the Augmented Lean framework that shows readers when, how, and why to augment your workforce through cyber-physical principles that go beyond both Lean and Agile management practicesConcrete strategies on how to scale these operational augmentation methods throughout your organization based on real-world case studies of operators in the trenches of manufacturing whose impact far outweighs their seniority in the corporate hierarchyInsightful advice for how to use the augmentation framework in small- and medium-sized enterprises where license and training costs are prohibitive when only using off-the-shelf industry 4.0 approaches A thoroughly practical playbook for augmenting your workforce with the latest cyber-physical adaptations to digital technologies, Augmented Lean provides you with the organizational-, process-, and management-level techniques you need to get the most out of your employees. In turn, as an operator, engineer, or industrial worker reading this book, you will become empowered to be a change agent through no-code interfaces instead of remaining a recipient of endless training demands and ever-increasing technological complexity. Augmented Lean will orient you towards the future with the most effective tools to cut through hype so you can instantly apply your learnings and be productive wherever you currently operate.

Lorange, Peter, Learning and Teaching Business: Lessons and Insights from a Lifetime of Work. 177 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-450>
ISBN 978-3-031-14563-6 paper ¥7,289.- (税込) EUR 29.99

Businesses constantly look for ways to achieve better performance, and business schools play an important role through their curricula by teaching such methods and helping budding and experienced managers find innovative paths. The author of this book, Prof. Peter Lorange, a well-accomplished expert at business and academic leadership, draws on a set of reflections from his vast experience in both fields to offer core messages which help in improving business education. The author believes that experience-based reflections tend to be both more interesting and more useful than mere chronological, biographical ones, or conceptual reviews of management dimensions without links to practice. The book helps academics, business school management, and even advanced students understand how to bring a practical focus to learning and teaching business via a holistic curriculum. The book also features a special focus on how to integrate family business perspectives to the curriculum.

Luceri, Beatrice / Martinelli, Elisa (eds.), Managing Sustainability: Perspectives From Retailing and Services. (International Series in Advanced Management Studies) 184 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-451>
ISBN 978-3-031-12026-8 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

Companies and policy makers are prioritizing environmental, social, and governance goals as part of their strategies. Academic research has started to focus on these issues, but many important matters require deeper investigation and reflection, especially in specific sectors. This book focuses on the sustainability issues within the retailing and services sectors. Starting the discussion around research-knowledge on CSR, the authors discuss the strategic aspects of managing sustainability in retailing and service companies and offer recommendations to effectively manage the marketing levers for sustainability. Readers will benefit from an in-depth analysis of the social responsibility practices of major retailers and their strategies. The authors also take an inside view of CSR by studying the angles of employee perception and job satisfaction, financial performance, and the more recent impact of COVID-19. Using this approach, they highlight the system of relationships existing between stakeholder-related concepts and organizational factors and how they affect sustainability strategy.

McMullin, Tara, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting. 224 pp. 2022:12 (Wiley, US) <686-452>
ISBN 978-1-119-90607-0 hard ¥5,834.- (税込) US$ 26.00 *

Set and achieve your goals in a brand-new way for a more fulfilling life In What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting, celebrated speaker, coach, and author Tara McMullin shows you how to transform the way you set and achieve your goals to create a gentler and more fulfilling way to work toward what you truly want. In the book, you'll explore what's driving your pursuit of "more" (more money, more things, more prestige, etc.), set commitments to help orient your growth, and organize your actions as part of a holistic learning process. The author's actionable strategies and tools go beyond mere platitudes about "slowing down" and "appreciating what you have" to a concrete demonstration of how to prioritize practice over achievement. You'll also find: An antidote to our culture's relentless pursuit of "more"Ways to end the habit of constantly striving for something else at the cost of your own wellbeingStrategies for ending your internal monologue of constant comparison to other peopleAn essential book for the productivity obsessed, unfulfilled career ladder-climbers, and overachievers who are ready to try a new approach to life and work, What Works represents a powerful and exciting new way to tackle life's challenges.

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Nooteboom, Bart, Dynamic Capabilities: History and an Extension. (Elements in Business Strategy) 75 pp. 2022:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-454>
ISBN 978-1-00-901418-2 paper ¥4,899.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

The development of salient ideas and publications on dynamic capabilities is given, extended by ideas outside the literature of strategic management. Dynamic capability is presented as an interdisciplinary subject to which knowledge is central. Diversity of knowledge is treated in terms of cognitive distance, limited through organisational focus. To deal with diversity, development and uncertainty, evolutionary theory and the notion of entropy are used. The relation between individual and organisational knowledge is modelled with the notion of a script and linguistic ideas. The governance of collaborative relations for innovation is discussed, including trust, which are also dynamic capabilities.

Petrevska Nechkoska, Renata / Manceski, G. et al. (eds.), Facilitation in Complexity: From Creation to Co-creation, from Dreaming to Co-dreaming, from Evolution to Co-evolution. (Contributions to Management Science) 433 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-457>
ISBN 978-3-031-11064-1 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99 *

This book trailblazes co-evolution approaches which have been prototyped and tried out by the authors, with global academic and practitioner backgrounds. It was devised to help humanity, people, perceived as complex adaptive systems, to self-organize, co-create, and manage complexity, by showcasing with own example, as individuals and open networks. The book bundles main components needed for facilitation in complexity, while each chapter covers conceptual solutions for specific complexity strategies, tactics, operations - projects. These solutions serve as blueprints and roadmaps, providing approaches for practitioners and researchers alike. The main features incorporated in all the approaches are transcending silos and organizational hierarchies toward a borderless collaboration between diverse stakeholders with dynamic roles and accountabilities regarding purposes, missions and solutions. The book includes suggestions for strategic, tactical and operational managerial and governance approaches for disruptive, short-term, innovative, open, large-scale engagements where rapid onboarding, situational awareness, innovation and innovation in context, and action are expected while fast facilitation, dynamic reconfiguration, and self-organization are required. It also describes how long-term sustained co-creative action needs to be facilitated, to adapt to external and internal complexity dynamics while initiating positive change. This book showcases how co-creation and co-dreaming emerge with co-evolution. Chapters 1, 2, and 11 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Pfiffner, Martin, The Neurology of Business: Implementing the Viable System Model. (Management for Professionals) 302 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-458>
ISBN 978-3-031-14259-8 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book describes the neurology of a business as a new dimension of organization and as a basis for success in a complex world. Comparing organizations with living organisms, it places an organization's neurology (control and communication) as a third dimension beside its anatomy (structure) and physiology (process). Overlooked by classical organizational theory, this third dimension offsets its typical drawbacks. The Neurology of Business introduces Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM) and shows how this helps managers to diagnose, discover, and unleash the potential and performance lying dormant in today's enterprises.The book is based on numerous consulting projects and management seminars conducted in Europe, America, and Asia. It guides the reader through the diagnosis and design process and illustrates application issues with practical examples. In this way, the book provides managers with the language needed to have meaningful conversations about how their organizations are functioning. As such, it will benefit managers in business and nonbusiness organizations, as well as readers interested in general management.

Powell, Philip / Shankar Nayak, Bhabani (eds.), Creative Business Education: Exploring the Contours of Pedagogical Praxis. 297 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-459>
ISBN 978-3-031-10927-0 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This volume critically analyses the conceptual contours of pedagogical transformations in the field of creative business education. It calls for an integrated and ethnographic approach to understand, to analyse and to innovate creative curricula that is different from traditional business and management educations and its compliant culture. The book argues for a pluriversal vision based on social intelligence, critical thinking, inclusivity and creativity resulting in a holistic pedagogy that understands the social needs of people and of the planet. The critical reflections on everyday realities of life is central to this intercultural pedagogic approach to understanding and explaining different forms of contemporary crisis. The book brings together interdisciplinary academic practitioners and their praxis with different philosophical orientations within a single ethnographic and theoretical narrative to reclaim global citizenship rights in the age of artificial intelligence, democratic deficit, hyperreality and alienation. In this way, the volume breaks away from the narrow silo of disciplinary boundaries to outline the pedagogical praxis of creative and critical business education that challenges existing knowledge, power and institutions while offering alternative pedagogic approaches to learning, teaching and research.

Rajagopal / Behl, Ramesh (eds.), Inclusive Businesses in Developing Economies: Converging People, Profit, and Corporate Citizenship. (Palgrave Studies in Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Growth) 293 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-460>
ISBN 978-3-031-12216-3 hard ¥41,323.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book analyzes the emerging concepts and theories of inclusiveness in business by explaining corporate social responsibility, social learning, and value co-creation, as critical elements to the success of firms. The authors explore the causes and effects and challenges associated with the management of inclusive businesses. Divided in to six sections, this edited work includes twenty one chapters that examine the inclusive business philosophy, the social dynamics of managing inclusive business, the role of trade, and inclusive practices at work before concluding with a discussion of how to drive hybrid growth in these types of organizations. Focusing on developing economies, this book portrays the varied corporate experiences in inclusive business designs and customer value propositions across the industries. It surveys the problems, possible solutions, and policy frameworks for integrating business as a resource to alleviate poverty and social and economic inequality.

Ratten, Vanessa (ed.), Heritage Entrepreneurship: Cultural and Creative Pursuits in Business Management. (Palgrave Studies in Global Entrepreneurship) 172 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-461>
ISBN 978-981-19-5148-0 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book explores cultural and creative processes as they occur in a heritage setting, and how they can be applied to business projects. More specifically, the chapters take a detailed look at the importance of culture in entrepreneurial pursuits regarding heritage matters. This involves focusing on how culture is embedded within heritage entrepreneurship and the distinctive comparative advantages of taking a cultural approach to business. The role of entrepreneurial environments in terms of accepting creativity is highlighted, thereby making a new contribution to the study of heritage entrepreneurship. The book also elaborates on how heritage entrepreneurs are embedded in an entrepreneurial ecosystem that consists of a number of different stakeholders. In doing so, the book provides an interdisciplinary perspective about the ways culture, creativity and heritage combine in order to produce novel entrepreneurial contributions. It speaks to researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in heritage entrepreneurship, enabling them to gain ideas for their work, and to move the field forward with a better understanding of heritage entrepreneurship.

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Rautiainen, Marita / Parada, Maria Jose et al. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Managing Family Business Groups. 804 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-462>
ISBN 978-3-031-13205-6 hard ¥53,478.- (税込) EUR 219.99

Family business groups (FBGs) are ubiquitous, influential, and play a major role in national economies. While much of the current research around this topic has so far focused on emerging economies, more knowledge is needed on family business groups in developed economies; specifically, how they innovate, strategize, govern, and grow. Offering a comprehensive and global perspective on family business groups, this Handbook comprises international contributions from leading experts. Split into five sections, it covers strategy and business transformation; innovation strategies; management and governance; and new avenues for research on FBGs including the issues of sustainability and cultural alignment. An important resource for students and researchers of family business, strategy and management, this Handbook signals the emergence of the family business group phenomenon and solidifies research in this evolving area of study.

Rosser, Christian / Pfaff, Conradin, The Sweet Spot of Legitimacy: A Manager's Guide. (Business Guides on the Go) 96 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-463>
ISBN 978-3-031-15170-5 hard ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book provides an overview of legitimacy-related challenges at hybrid organizations and demonstrates legitimacy's importance for the strategic development of organizations. In a reader-friendly way, it addresses the question of how hybrid organizations can gain legitimacy from the perspectives of key stakeholders. To do so, the book examines legitimacy management in the context of two real-world hybrid organizations - the Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine and the Swiss Center for Design and Health in Bern, Switzerland - from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It shows why the systematic combination of three types of legitimacy has the potential to optimize the level of legitimacy in emerging hybrids, contributing to their success. It also explains how organizational legitimacy can be operationalized using governance legitimacy, purpose-rational legitimacy, and value-rational legitimacy.This book equips managers and executives working at hybrid organizations with useful guidance and hands-on strategic tools to develop legitimacy management strategies. It also offers a source of inspiration for academic research and teaching in this field.

Schaefer, Joachim G., Air Cargo: Participants - Processes - Markets - Developments. 463 pp. 2022:10 (Springer Gabler, GW) <686-464>
ISBN 978-3-658-38192-9 paper ¥18,229.- (税込) EUR 74.99

This book uses numerous examples to describe the current opportunities and risks of air freight against the backdrop of stagnating transport volumes since the financial crisis in 2008. It shows what impact these developments have had on those involved, in particular shippers, airlines, airports and freight forwarders. The application-oriented presentation also provides an insight into the design of complex supply chains and the areas of tension in which the players in air freight operate.

Souleles, Daniel Scott / Gersel, Johan et al. (eds.), People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook. 508 pp. 2022:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) * paper 2022:10 <686-465>
ISBN 978-1-00-916586-0 hard ¥25,934.- (税込) GB￡ 89.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-916585-3 paper ¥8,642.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

This innovative volume presents twenty comparative case studies of important global questions, such as 'Where should our food come from?' 'What should we do about climate change?' and 'Where should innovation come from?' A variety of solutions are proposed and compared, including market-based, economic, and neoliberal approaches, as well as those determined by humane values and ethical and socially responsible perspectives. Drawing on original research, its chapters show that more responsible solutions are very often both more effective and better aligned with human values. Providing an important counterpoint to the standard capitalist thinking propounded in business school education, People Before Markets reveals the problematic assumptions of incumbent frameworks for solving global problems and inspires the next generation of business and social science students to pursue more effective and human-centered solutions.

Taillard, Eric D., Design of Heuristic Algorithms for Hard Optimization: With Python Codes for the Travelling Salesman Problem. (Graduate Texts in Operations Research) 280 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-466>
ISBN 978-3-031-13713-6 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book demonstrates all the steps required to design heuristic algorithms for difficult optimization. The classic problem of the travelling salesman is used as a common thread to illustrate all the techniques discussed. This problem is ideal for introducing readers to the subject because it is very intuitive and its solutions can be graphically represented. The book features a wealth of illustrations that allow the concepts to be understood at a glance. The book approaches the main metaheuristics from a new angle, deconstructing them into a few key concepts presented in separate chapters: construction, improvement, decomposition, randomization and learning methods. Each metaheuristic can then be presented in simplified form as a combination of these concepts. This approach avoids giving the impression that metaheuristics is a non-formal discipline, a kind of cloud sculpture. Moreover, it provides concrete applications of the travelling salesman problem, whichillustrate in just a few lines of code how to design a new heuristic and remove all ambiguities left by a general framework. Two chapters reviewing the basics of combinatorial optimization and complexity theory make the book self-contained. As such, even readers with a very limited background in the field will be able to follow all the content.

Thrassou, Alkis / Vrontis, Demetris et al. (eds.), Business Advancement through Technology. Volume I: Markets and Marketing in Transition. (Palgrave Studies in Cross-disciplinary Business Research, In Association with EuroMed Academy of Business) 268 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-467>
ISBN 978-3-031-07768-5 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This two-volume edited collection explores the impact of technology on business advancement. Technology is a multifaceted and multidimensional phenomenon, carrying opportunities and risks. Business advancement therefore, can no longer be considered without technological mediation. Volume I offers insights into technological improvements in the field of global marketing. Covering topics such as mobile banking, social media and neuromarketing tools, the book examines how technology diffusion drives, negates and facilitates change in marketing processes. Volume II, on the other hand, focuses on the implications of changing technology on work and employment. Taken together, the books move forward the study of organizations and technology and are ideal resources for students and researchers.

Thrassou, Alkis / Vrontis, Demetris et al. (eds.), Business Advancement through Technology. Volume II: The Changing Landscape of Industry and Employment. (Palgrave Studies in Cross-disciplinary Business Research, In Association with EuroMed Academy of Business) 248 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-468>
ISBN 978-3-031-07764-7 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This two-volume edited collection explores the impact of technology on business advancement. Technology is a multifaceted and multidimensional phenomenon, carrying opportunities and risks. Business advancement therefore, can no longer be considered without technological mediation. While Volume I offers insights into technological improvements in the field of global marketing, Volume II focuses on the implications of changing technology on work and employment. It covers topics such as the role of technology in change management, digital transformation, and the impact of AI on employment. Taken together, the books move forward the study of organizations and technology and are ideal resources for business students and researchers.

Oertenblad, Anders / Koris, Riina (eds.), Debating Business School Legitimacy: Attacking, Rocking, and Defending the Status Quo. (Palgrave Debates in Business and Management) 394 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-469>
ISBN 978-3-031-12724-3 hard ¥41,323.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book channels the debate on the relevance, value, and future of business schools. Could the Business School be like the Titanic, thought to be unsinkable, but ultimately doomed? And if it sinks, what of it? Or is it a ship which can adapt to the changing waters it sails in? In this book, authors from around the world debate the current and future legitimacy of the Business School from different contexts and perspectives. While some see very little or no hope at all to the future of the Business School as a legitimate centre for research and education, others remain critical, but see a way forward to rectify today's concerns, such as around sustainability and inclusivity. This book highlights to readers thought-provoking complexities on the Business School playground and its legitimacy.

Blijlevens, Janneke / Elkins, Meg / Neelim, Ananta (eds.), Behavioural Business: The Psychology of Decisions in Economy, Business and Policy Contexts. 294 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-220>
ISBN 978-981-19-5545-7 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book explores all aspects of the new and emerging area of behavioural business. This book identifies behavioural business as a powerful application of the latest insights and tools from psychology and behavioural science to decision-making in business, management and policy. This book uniquely positions behavioural business as di?erent from both behavioural economics and psychology. This book instead applies a fresh focus on behavioural interventions in policy and business. This book introduces this new area and showcases what it contributes to a number of important contemporary business and policy issues. These include behavioural insights for managers in diverse and multi-cultural workplaces, designers of organisations, interventions, products and services, ?nancial advisors, public policy makers, business creatives and entrepreneurs as well as charity and NGO practitioners. This book summarises state-of-the-art knowledge in the areas of expertise of the authors, who are members of the Behavioural Business Lab at RMIT University in Australia. This book will interest advanced students in related subjects as well as academics and policy makers hoping to learn and apply behavioural insights to their areas of expertise.

Peren, Franz W., Statistics for Business and Economics: Compendium of Essential Formulas. 2nd ed. 310 pp. 2022:8 (Springer, GW) <686-245>
ISBN 978-3-662-65845-1 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99 *

This 2nd edition compendium contains and explains essential statistical formulas within an economic context. Expanded by more than 100 pages compared to the 1st edition, the compendium has been supplemented with numerous additional practical examples, which will help readers to better understand the formulas and their practical applications. This statistical formulary is presented in a practice-oriented, clear, and understandable manner, as it is needed for meaningful and relevant application in global business, as well as in the academic setting and economic practice.The topics presented include, but are not limited to: statistical signs and symbols, descriptive statistics, empirical distributions, ratios and index figures, correlation analysis, regression analysis, inferential statistics, probability calculation, probability distributions, theoretical distributions, statistical estimation methods, confidence intervals, statistical testing methods, the Peren-Clement index, and the usual statistical tables.Given its scope, the book offers an indispensable reference guide and is a must-read for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as managers, scholars, and lecturers in business, politics, and economics.

Nayak, Bhabani Shankar, Political Economy of Development and Business: Towards Decolonisation, Transformation and Alternative Perspectives. 216 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-264>
ISBN 978-3-031-11092-4 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book presents an alternative, critical perspective on the political economy of development and business. The everyday issues experienced by those on the margins are examined to highlight the Eurocentric bias at the centre of development theory, public policy, and business practices. Ruling class projects within these areas are critically evaluated in order to present a vision of development that recognises pluralistic traditions and people's everyday experiences. Eurocentric liberal myopia and its praxis are outlined in development theory, public policy, and business practices. Particular focus is given to tribal planning, needs based development, public private partnerships, modes of capital accumulation, conscious capitalism, and creative business education. This book stands in defense of critical inquiry and pluriversal knowledge against the monolithic knowledge traditions and use of ruling class projects in development, public policy, and business ethics. It aims to explore new forms of economic transformation that are inclusive and worker led. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the political economy, development economics, and international business.

Odularu, Gbadebo O. A. (ed.), Strengthening Systems Accountability for Enterprise Performance and Development Planning. 236 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-265>
ISBN 978-3-031-11778-7 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

One of the driving forces in catalyzing sustainable development interventions is systems accountability. This book tackles the notion of systems accountability in the context of enterprise and broader development planning, providing diversely institutionalized and applied implications for Africa. This compilation of innovatively selected chapters is not only relevant to contemporary corporate and public sector management, but also a timely guide on the role of digitalization in delivering real-time traceability by bridging gaps in confidence, data silos, distrust, shared credentials, and accountability. Understanding how to eliminate unnecessary layers of middlemen policy brokers and their rent seeking behaviors would provide further insights into how small enterprises and non-profit operate, their challenges or pitfalls, and how they can be improved to better manage the relevant systems.