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

Iyengar, Sheena, Think Bigger: How to Innovate. 248 pp. 2023:4 (Columbia Business School, US) <694-367>
ISBN 978-0-231-19884-4 hard ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95

In Think Bigger, Sheena Iyengar-an acclaimed author and expert in the science of choice-answers a timeless question with enormous implications for problems of all kinds across the world: "How can I get my best ideas?"Iyengar provides essential tools to spark creative thinking and help us make our most meaningful choices. She draws from recent advances in neuro- and cognitive sciences to give readers a set of practical steps for coming up with powerful new ideas. Think Bigger offers an innovative evidence-backed method for generating big ideas that Iyengar and her team of researchers developed and refined over the last decade.For anyone looking to innovate, the black box of creativity is a mystery no longer. Think Bigger upends the myth that big ideas are reserved for a select few. By using this method as a guide to creative thinking, anybody can produce revolutionary ideas.

Keil, Thomas / Zangrillo, Marianna, The Next Leadership Team: How to Select, Build, and Optimize Your Top Team. 280 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-368>
ISBN 978-1-03-234340-2 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-234940-4 paper ¥8,543.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

Highly Commended in the 2024 Business Book Awards (International Business Book category)CEOs and organizational leaders are only as strong as the teams they build. And yet it is surprising how little practical advice there is for senior leaders on how to create, build, and optimize their teams. Step up The Next Leadership Team.Illustrated with real-life examples from interviews with CEOs, C-Suite members, and headhunters throughout, The Next Leadership Team explains how senior leaders can improve the performance of their leadership teams by identifying clear team approaches, associated team member profiles, and by leading that team. These ideas are brought to life with case studies and interviews with well-known corporations such as ABB, Allianz, Amazon, AXA, Best Buy, Capita, Danone, Deutsche Telekom, Ferrari, Freudenberg, Haier, Hilti, HSBC, Holcim, Huawei, Logitech, Microsoft, Nestle, Netflix, Nokia, Nordea, Schneider Electric, Tata, Wipro, and Zurich Insurance.This book is an invaluable resource for CEOs and senior executives who need to build and develop leadership teams to drive success in the organizations they lead. It is also relevant to headhunters who are involved in the appointments of members of senior leadership teams.

Levinson, William, Reshoring Production: How to Rebuild Manufacturing and Restore High Wages, High Profits, and National Prosperity in the USA. 192 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <694-369>
ISBN 978-1-03-244540-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-244539-7 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This book addresses the vital importance of reshoring US manufacturing capability to ensure economic and military security and then discusses the proven methods that the United States used to gain manufacturing supremacy in the first place. The vital takeaway is: If the job can be made sufficiently productive, the per-unit labor cost ceases to be relevant which means a business can pay high wages, realize high profits, and deliver low prices simultaneously. The contest is then not between high wages and cheap labor, but between efficiency and inefficiency and, when automation is involved, machine against machine. Readers will be able to put these principles to work very quickly to achieve tangible results. The relatively low Federal minimum wage has meanwhile become a major issue, but inflation skyrocketed in the second quarter of 2022 when higher wages, and higher demand for goods and services, were not matched with higher productivity. The book addresses the relationship between the money supply and the velocity of money to prices, wages, and productivity. A manufacturing resurgence in the United States will not only increase our standard of living enormously but generate taxable economic activity that will help pay down rather than increase the Federal debt. Higher productivity also delivers a greater supply of goods to accompany higher wages, and thus works against inflation. This can prevent looming recessions and disruptions.

Mahajan, Gautam, Creating Value for Leaders: Balancing the Interests of Customers, Employers, Investors, and the Marketplace. 232 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-370>
ISBN 978-1-03-246423-7 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-246422-0 paper ¥12,532.- (税込) GB￡ 43.99 *

Creating value is the foundation of all business. It's what sets you apart from your competition, secures long-term customers, and brings distinct meaning to your brand and your stakeholders. Without creating value for your business, your unique offering will be seen as just another commodity in the eyes of your target market. Creating value is in every business leader's vocabulary and uppermost in their overall strategy. In fact, creating value is the purpose of a company according to the Business Roundtable and the World Economic Forum. That is another key reason why more people want to understand and utilise value creation for their benefit and the good of their stakeholders.Many companies and leaders seek to create value but do not know how to. As a result, they create and destroy value unconsciously. This book shows you how to create value consciously. To create long-term value, organizations need to put in place the mindset, capabilities, and relationships that enable them to meet the needs of their customers and stakeholders.This book makes value creation understood and used by executives and leaders more effectively. The book describes value creation in its various nuances, how it arises, how it is used, and the width and scope of value creation, from how it impacts a company and how that company can become more successful by creating value for customers and other stakeholders. The author also provides tips for CEOs, managers, HR, and other professionals on how to succeed in value creation as a long-term strategy and in day-to-day work. Numerous examples and case studies illustrate the points being made by the author.

Majid Baba, Mubashir / Krishnan, Chitra et al. (eds.), Emotional Intelligence for Leadership Effectiveness: Management Opportunities and Challenges during Times of Crisis. 248 pp. 2023:5 (Apple Academic Pr., US) <694-371>
ISBN 978-1-77491-132-7 hard ¥33,048.- (税込) GB￡ 116.00 *

This new volume provides a broad yet in-depth examination of the workplace challenges faced due to COVID-19 through the lens of emotional intelligence and the roles of leadership. Offering multiple perspectives-theoretical, philosophical, qualitative, and quantitative, this volume brings together many voices from leadership experts on how to effectively apply emotional intelligence principles and strategies to navigate the mental and psychological challenges facing the workforce as well as those in management roles.The book covers:How to use emotional intelligence as a tool to manage conflict, emotions, and behavior during crisisHow to adapt-and even thrive-in the "new normal"How to gauge and enhance emotional resilience of leadership and the workforceHow to practice ethical leadership in crisis managementHow to use mediative fuzzy logic to deal with inconsistent information, providing a solution when contradiction existsHow to encourage self-care approaches during the pandemic COVID-19How to build a supportive organizational culture that helps to promote encouragement, strong team connections, continuous education, and investments in staff developmentThe thoughtful and creative studies and solutions presented here will be of immense value to those in leadership roles in all kinds of workplaces. It will be valuable for human resource and organizational behavior management professionals, government policymakers, educators, and many others.

Noviaristanti, Siska / Boon, Ong Hway (eds.), Sustainable Future: Trends, Strategies and Development: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Managing Digital Industry, Technology and Entrepreneurship, (CoMDITE 2022), Bandung, Indonesia, 24 May 2022. 314 pp. 2022:12 (Routledge, UK) <694-373>
ISBN 978-1-03-237201-3 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

The book contains a selection of papers that were presented at the 3rd Conference in Managing Digital Industry, Technology and Entrepreneurship (3rd CoMDITE) with the theme: Sustainable Future: Trends, Strategies and Development. The Millennium Development Goals, continued as Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs), are effective instruments and have, in recent years, brought many positive changes in numerous countries around the world. Most notably, it has fundamentally changed our way of approaching the tangled set of challenges: States today undertake to achieve concrete development goals; transparency and accountability to citizens and the global public has become a matter of course; and cooperation between the political, economic and societal spheres is no longer questioned. However, in addition to the global pandemic situation it has challenged the business world to develop an outstanding strategy to face extreme uncertainty. Using digital technology and its advancement is believed to be one of the main keys for taking up this challenge.The 3rd Conference in Managing Digital Industry, Technology and Entrepreneurship (the 3rd CoMDITE) has brought forward discussions on implementation of digital technology in strategic, operation, finance, marketing, human resources management, and entrepreneurship around sustainable future issues.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by Telkom University, Indonesia.

Poutanen, Seppo / Kovalainen, Anne, Skills, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Platform Era: Analyzing the New Reality of Professions and Entrepreneurship. (Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship) 200 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-374>
ISBN 978-0-8153-6070-4 hard ¥10,822.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99 *

Skills, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Platform Era: Analyzing the New Reality of Professions and Entrepreneurship brings together two important areas: the separate research topics of professions, platforms, and entrepreneurship, and the various dimensions of what platformization means to work and to professions in contemporary societies. One of the most noteworthy global aspects in current societies is the intensifying presence of technology, to the extent that we can talk about the omnipotence of technologies, a kind of technological imperative that prevails in societies. This new type of technological imperative emerges in the working lives of practicing professionals from medical doctors to lawyers and from teachers to preachers. Platforms have become a powerful actor as enablers and reorganizers of work, creating new types of inequalities but also expanding the market relations for new professions such as social influencers. How do platforms govern and shape work and lead to new questions concerning organizing of work and professions? These are few of the key questions Poutanen and Kovalainen explore in this profound and insightful book.

Tumin, Zachary / Want, Madeleine, Precisely: Working with Precision Systems in a World of Data. 296 pp. 2023:5 (Columbia Business School, US) <694-375>
ISBN 978-0-231-20060-8 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

If you want to win an election, improve the health of a city, or thrill your customers, you're going to need precision systems-the highly engineered working arrangements of teams, processes, and technologies that put data and AI to work creating the change that leaders want, exactly how they want it. Big Tech firms like Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook have mastered their own precision systems, building trillion-dollar businesses using data-driven tools from mass-market "nudges" to industrial-grade recommendation systems.Precisely is the playbook for the rest of us. Zachary Tumin and Madeleine Want show how leaders in every domain are taking real-time precision systems into the marketplace, the political race, and the fight for health-from New York-Presbyterian Hospital to the New York Times, the NFL's Baltimore Ravens to BNSF Railroad, the Biden-Harris campaign to the NYPD-to reveal elusive patterns, perform a repetitive task, run a play, or tailor a message, one at a time or by the millions.Precisely provides insight that will help leaders choose the system that's right for them, decide which problem to tackle first, sell the importance of precision to stakeholders, power-up the people and the technology, and accomplish change that delivers precisely what's needed every time-and do it all responsibly.

Wang, Henry K. H., The Roadmap for Sustainable Business and Net Zero Carbon Emission. 288 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-377>
ISBN 978-0-367-69571-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-69569-9 paper ¥9,683.- (税込) GB￡ 33.99 *

What does sustainable business and net zero carbon emission mean for businesses globally? How should companies globally transform into sustainable businesses with net zero carbon emissions? This book unpacks the institutional, organisational and management challenges in pursuing sustainable business and carbon neutrality for businesses.In this book, Henry K. H. Wang, an internationally recognised Climate and Business expert, provides real-life cases across different countries and business sectors. He outlines potential policy implications and strategy options for companies to consider in their transitions to sustainable business practices. He also explores important new global developments in smart cities, green transport and carbon solutions, and how the adoption of sustainable finance and green investments can accelerate businesses transformation.This book will appeal to anyone interested to learn more about the successful planning and execution of sustainable business and net zero carbon neutrality transformations.

女性、ビジネス、法　2023年版
Women, Business and the Law 2023. 120 pp. 2023:3 (World Bank, US) <694-356>
ISBN 978-1-4648-1944-5 paper ¥8,797.- (税込) US$ 43.95 *

Women, Business and the Law is a World Bank Group project which measures the laws and regulations restricting women's economic opportunities. WBL informs research and policy discussions about the state of women's economic empowerment and emphasizes the work still to be done to ensure economic empowerment for all.

C.Bilton著　文化経営－研究の概観
Bilton, Chris, Cultural Management: A Research Overview. (State of the Art in Business Research) 120 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <694-357>
ISBN 978-0-367-44342-9 hard ¥13,102.- (税込) GB￡ 45.99 *

This shortform book tells the research story of cultural management, helping scholars to analyse and combine theoretical models into an approach of their own.Cultural management emerged and developed out of the field of arts management in the 1980s, which imported managerial techniques and assumptions from mainstream commercial business into the arts. In the late 1990s, the field integrated entrepreneurial approaches to management in the creative industries before adapting to a new model, based on user experiences and co-creation. These historical phases are theorised respectively as cultural management 1.0, cultural management 2.0 and cultural management 3.0. Yet they also overlap. Bringing together theories of management and creativity, this book enables scholars to get a grip on the underlying assumptions and conditions which lie behind an eclectic and evolving field. The author, an established expert in this field, empowers scholars and reflective practitioners to develop their own approach to cultural management, drawing on the available approaches, and to recognise that successful cultural management is contingent on understanding the context (organisational and personal) within which these models will be applied.

Del Giudice, Manlio / Scuotto, Veronica / Papa, Armando, Knowledge Management and AI in Society 5.0. (Routledge Focus on Business and Management) 96 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <694-358>
ISBN 978-1-03-219191-1 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

Society 5.0 points toward a human-centred approach by the use of modern, advanced technologies and artificial intelligence. This book explores and offers an overview of knowledge management embraced in the current scenario of Society 5.0, shedding light on its importance in a society that is increasingly digital and interconnected. The book enhances current managerial and economic research by offering the "human" side of knowledge management (KM) intertwined with the use of artificial intelligences (AIs). Each chapter explores KM from different perspectives, including entrepreneurship, innovation, marketing, and strategy, in a theoretical and practical way. They include insights from both practitioners and scholars, enriched by practical tools that can be used during laboratories, workshops and tutorials. The book presents evidence on how to manage KM and develop new knowledge in different subjects, with the aim of overcoming conventional KM strategy and show how business and society are connected with "power of subjective human knowledge creation". Offering both new insights, research and practical guidance, this book will appeal to academics and students of knowledge management as well as digital transformation practitioners looking for ways to transition their organizations from knowledge economy to digital economy.

Diaz Nieto, Elia Socorro et al. (eds.), Leadership and Organizational Sustainability: The Knowledge Management Approach. (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society) 256 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <694-359>
ISBN 978-1-03-244269-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The book presents a new type of leadership focused on sustainable human development and organizational sustainability, which is based on the self-realization of the person of the leader, which means the satisfaction of their needs, according to the scale of Abraham Maslow, through integral human development in all aspects of life. Because the term "leader" appears to refer to anyone with the authority to confer a position with subordinates, the reality within organizations has shown that a leader must go further and demonstrate commitment, awareness, and concern for the common good. Which person has these characteristics? People who have had more opportunity to develop in different areas of their being, resulting in them being conceived as more educated. The qualities in a person are the basis of leadership. Education and practice are much more important than all hereditary and genetic codes. This volume explores the various ways of making explicit the dimensions of social, economic, and environmental sustainability through knowledge management that addresses the identification, collection, processing, circulation, use, exchange, and preservation of knowledge within operating systems and the context of organizations, considering issues that contribute to sustainability - human and organizational - where the leader is the main actor and the means is knowledge management.

Docters, Rob / Gieskes, Hans, Ethics and Hidden Greed: Your Defences Against Unethical Strategies and Violations of Trust. 172 pp. 2023:5 (Emerald, UK) <694-360>
ISBN 978-1-80455-871-3 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Trust. Loyalty. Friendship. These were once the building blocks of good business relationships. Today, it's becoming increasingly difficult to know whom to trust. How do we protect ourselves and our business interests from the unethical behaviours of others? Why doesn't intuition serve as the best guide for detecting unethical strategies? Concern about falling victim to the tactics of unethical strategies is widespread. The authors connect time-honoured ethical principles to real-world cases and offer the building blocks and counter-strategies you need to fight greed: Knowing the five strategies of greed, and learning how to recognize them. Learning how trust really works, and being able to develop the skill of trusting with discernment. Applying, and being able to communicate, concrete, ethical rules. Ethics and Hidden Greed will reassure readers that while unethical strategies may have increased in sophistication and grown harder to detect in recent years, there are still only five categories of these behaviours. The authors will demonstrate how to recognize the patterns employed by greedy players and provide tactics for combatting all of them.

人間中心の経営と危機
Essens, Peter / Lepeley, Maria-Teresa et al. (eds.), Human Centered Management and Crisis: Disruptions, Resilience, Wellbeing and Sustainability. (Human Centered Management) 184 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-361>
ISBN 978-1-03-236042-3 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

Human Centered Management and Crisis: Disruptions, Resilience, Wellbeing and Sustainability is the new edited book of the Human Centered Management (HCM) Series developed to respond to surmounting concerns of global audiences and human centered scholars, practitioners and students searching for answers to better and objectively understand the effects of unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic disruptions and ongoing crises, affecting the wellbeing of people and workplaces since 2019. The effects linger and solutions are pressing. This new HCM volume presents analytical expertise and practical experiences of a team of international HCM scholars and practitioners targeting objective assessment of causes and effects of disruptions and offering coherent solutions applying HCM principles and practices. The book chapters include topics dealing with specific problem-solving strategies in numerous industries, among them, higher education, health care and entrepreneurship. The book will help readers worldwide to understand the challenges people and organizations are facing in the present global VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment. The audience will benefit from the book and its purpose to deliver enduring HCM solutions anchored in the wellbeing of people as precondition for organizations to secure high performance, quality standards and long-term sustainability.

Finkle, Todd A., Warren Buffett: Inverstor and Entrepreneur. 296 pp. 2023:3 (Columbia Business School, US) <694-362>
ISBN 978-0-231-20712-6 hard ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

Firdaus, Achmad / Ahmad, Khaliq, Islamic Business and Performance Management: The Maslahah-Based Performance Management System. (Islamic Business and Management) 272 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-363>
ISBN 978-1-03-248822-6 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This unique book discovers a new dimension in the study of strategic and performance management in Islamic Business studies. It addresses the missing link of spirituality from modern-day organizational structure in the presence of high-tech pressure in all areas of human endeavours. The authors propose an integrated study of Islamic business approach to strategic and performance management systems to achieve sustainable organizational performance. The book explores employees' wellbeing and organizations' perceiving work environment as a spiritual pathway to cultivate values in Islamic business ecosystem to sustain humanity. It is all about care, empathy, and sustenance of others, about truthfulness and management being truthful to themselves and others and endeavouring to live their values more effusively while performing their work. The book stresses the impact of spirituality in performance management, concluding that for any organization to run efficiently, spirituality is the core component to attain happiness, contentment, and success. The book will be of interest to a variety of management scholars, including those researching and studying performance management, talent management, strategic management, and business ethics.

Hartley, Peter / Marriott, Susie / Knapton, Helena, Professional and Business Communication: Personal Strategies for the Post-Digital Future. 3rd ed. 366 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-364>
ISBN 978-1-03-228586-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-226800-2 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This new edition of Professional and Business Communication is an ideal core communications textbook for students on business, management, and professional courses preferring a practice-focused and colloquial approach that combines accessibility with key theory. Techniques and processes detailed in the book include planning and preparing written communication, effective structures in documents, diverse writing styles, managing face-to-face interactions, using visual aids, delivering presentations, and organising effective meetings. The third edition of this popular text has been thoroughly revised and updated to cover the dramatic shifts in communication practices that have been driven by remote working and increased technology use. It explores the current and likely future impact of these changes on communication practices, both for good (borderlessness; flexibility) and bad (isolation; burnout; fatigue) and looks at contemporary trends and future developments. This edition has also been revised to include even more examples, cases, tasks, activities, and discussion topics, with pedagogical features designed to aid international students. This popular text (and the accompanying website) will continue to support students on business, management, and professional courses for years to come.

Hornby, Robin, A Concise Guide to Project Collaboration: Building a Delivery Organization. 160 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <694-365>
ISBN 978-1-03-243545-9 hard ¥13,102.- (税込) GB￡ 45.99 *

Easy to read and act on immediately, this concise guide shows how organizations can work more effectively with in-house or contracted project managers and their teams, using specific collaborative techniques to improve success rates, reduce project costs, and enable organizations to benefit from common-sense, cost-effective project management approaches that work.Using a clear structure and accessible style, the book demonstrates how:Managers can create an organizational environment more naturally adapted for project work and recognition of business priorities;Barriers to project work can be removed so project managers can focus on resolving real project problems;Specific collaborative project management methods engaging business owners, users, and technical teams can be illuminated and implemented;Projects can fit within an architecture that aligns with business needs using models and workflow designs; andStandardized delivery management can unify in-house and vendor teams to create a uniform and predictable owner experience.The book is aimed at managers and executives (both IT and users) in corporations and vendor firms who are engaged in delivering projects. The book will also be invaluable to any project manager or senior practitioner who is interested in a business-oriented, unified, and collaborative approach to project management.

Ip, Andrew W. H. / Lam, Lianne K. W. (eds.), Management and Sustainability in the Belt and Road. 336 pp. 2023 (CRC Pr., US) <694-366>
ISBN 978-1-03-205569-5 hard ¥31,339.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *

China's Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) is an ambitious infrastructure project conceived in 2013 by President Xi Jinping with development and investment initiatives stretching from Asia and Europe that reflect the original Silk Road with business networks through countries such as Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as India and Pakistan, spanning a route of more than 4,000 miles and history that can be dated back more than 2,200 years.Given the background of China's unique approach in fighting COVID-19, and against the backdrop of sluggish economic growth, innovation, and management, sustainable development of BRI will be the key and the driving force for the post-pandemic economic recovery of many countries, especially as BRI countries now account for nearly 30% of China's foreign trade and 15% of outward direct investment.The vision to create a vast network of railways, energy pipelines, highways, and streamlined border crossings to expand the international use of Chinese currency and improve connectivity to China is good foresight and proved fortuitous when the COVID-19 pandemic came to plague the world, and amid the conflicts between the United States and China as well as the war between Russia and Ukraine.Since the inception of BRI, many books have been written to cover topics ranging from globalization to detailing how China's business and politics are a major motivation for China's overseas economic activities with case studies and practices, yet few of these books provide a structured approach to the sustainable management of BRI projects. This book is about how to manage the innovation, sustainability, and business necessary to make BRI work and how to handle the issues, problems, and crises that may arise in the process. Participants of BRI projects can take on many different roles, but ultimately, it is team effort and leadership that creates successful projects. Here, readers will find guidelines and insights to survive and prosper in a myriad of BRI opportunities and risks. Most important of all, this book provides a glimpse of different approaches for success in BRI projects, including sustainability, environmental issues, social and political aspects, technology, choice of industry, project management, education and training, governance, and many more.

Zhang, Lin, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy. 312 pp. 2023:3 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <694-206>
ISBN 978-0-231-19530-0 hard ¥25,872.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-19531-7 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

From start-up founders in the Chinese equivalent of Silicon Valley to rural villages experiencing an e-commerce boom to middle-class women reselling luxury goods, the rise of internet-based entrepreneurship has affected every part of China. For many, reinventing oneself as an entrepreneur has appeared to be an appealing way to adapt to a changing economy and society. Yet in practice, digital entrepreneurship has also reinforced traditional Chinese ideas about state power, labor, gender, and identity.Lin Zhang explores how the everyday labor of entrepreneurial reinvention is remaking China amid changing geopolitical currents. She tells the stories of people from diverse class, gender, and age backgrounds across rural, urban, and transnational settings in rich detail, providing a multifaceted and ground-level view of the twenty-first-century Chinese economy. Zhang explores the surge in digital entrepreneurialism against the backdrop of global financial crises, the U.S.-China trade war, and the COVID-19 pandemic. She argues that the rise of internet-based industries and practices has simultaneously empowered and exploited digital entrepreneurs and laborers. Despite embracing high-tech innovation, state-led entrepreneurialization does not represent a radical break with the past. It has provided a means for implementing developmental goals while retaining the importance of the traditional family and generating new inequalities.Shedding new light on global capitalism and the digital economy by centering a non-Western perspective, The Labor of Reinvention vividly conveys how the contradictions of entrepreneurialism have played out in China.

Muralidhara, G. V. (ed.), Doing Business in South Asia: A Case Study Collection. (International Cases in Business and Management) 152 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-208>
ISBN 978-1-03-219851-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-219846-0 paper ¥10,822.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99 *

This concise textbook comprises selected case studies on the strategic challenges and opportunities faced by real-world organizations operating in South Asia.The collection includes 15 short case studies from across the region, allowing easy comprehension and class discussion, and covers strategic management, localization strategies, strategic challenges, emerging global brands, digital transformation, sustainability, inclusive business, and economic development. Each case has corresponding reflective questions, references, and further reading and activities, making this a perfect comprehensive guide to help students understand and apply concepts to real-world situations.Providing a solid understanding of the South Asian business environment, this is ideal recommended reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying South Asian and International Business, Strategic Management, Emerging Markets, and Global Entrepreneurship. Online, instructors will find complementary teaching notes to support learning.

Wailerdsak, Natenapha, Business Groups and the Thailand Economy: Escaping the Middle-Income Trap. (Routledge Focus on Business and Management) 240 pp. 2023:5 (Routledge, UK) <694-212>
ISBN 978-1-03-244114-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Business Groups and the Thailand Economy examines the role of business groups, specifically state, local, and foreign capitals in the economic development of emerging economies and highlights why business groups are essential in helping a country break out of the middle-income trap.Wailerdsak reviews Thailand's industrial and economic growth strategies through the local and international investors and explains why business groups are one of the key drivers of economic advancement and why they help to avoid the middle-income trap. The author also examines their business power expansion methods, including selection and specialization, political influence, mergers and acquisitions, outward FDI and business alliances. The book concludes with policy recommendations of how the government can engage business groups to accelerate high-tech industrialization and create jobs.The middle-income trap issue faced by Thailand would be of interest to many emerging economies, especially scholars and policymakers researching on Asian business and management, Asian economies, developmental economics, political economy, policy studies, corporate governance, entrepreneurship, and private company strategic management in emerging countries.