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

Harvey, William S., Reputations At Stake. 192 pp. 2023:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <696-267>
ISBN 978-0-19-288652-1 hard ¥8,646.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00 *

Reputation is important to all of us. Reputations at Stake provides evidence-based and engaging examples that reveal a compelling story about the phenomenon of reputation. Organisations cannot ignore reputation because it impacts the sales of its products or services, its share price if publicly listed, and the types of employees it can attract and retain. Reputation is relevant for governments and politicians because it influences public perceptions and voting. It also relates to us at an individual level and impacts on how we can operate and integrate within our home, work, and social lives. Reputation is not merely a macro-level strategic issue (e.g., for governments, corporations, or charities), a meso-level intermediation issue (e.g., for mass media, social media, and PR agencies) or a micro-level operational issue (e.g., for leaders, managers, or employees), but it is a multi-scale phenomenon that impacts everyone. The multiple ways that different and often conflicting reputations are playing out are articulated through research and examples, from the British royal family, libraries during lockdown, the world of influencers, Rio Tinto in Madagascar, white collar inmates in a US Federal Prison, and companies including BP, VW, and McKinsey & Company.

Mezzio, Steven / Stein, Meredith / Campitelli, Vincent, Cloud Governance: Basics and Practice. (Professor of Practice Series) 100 pp. 2022:11 (de Gruyter, GW) <696-268>
ISBN 978-3-11-075526-8 paper ¥6,793.- (税込) EUR 27.95 *

A fourth Industrial Revolution is underway globally; a digital revolution driven by the rapid, wide-scale deployment of digital technologies, such as in high-speed mobile Internet capabilities, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning. Cloud computing is at the vanguard of this disruption and transformation. As a result, organizations of all sizes, sectors, and geographies have substantially and rapidly increased their adoption and use of cloud computing, including reliance on third party cloud service providers (CSPs). One driver in this proliferation and widespread use of cloud computing is the wide range of unparalleled opportunities provided by the cloud. Such opportunities include streamlining and scaling storage, software, and application support; increasing the speed of data access processing and decision-analytics; more productive customer engagement and empowered employees; reducing costs, such as outsourcing costly and difficult-to-update and -manage in-house IT infrastructure. As a result, organizations of all sizes, geographies, and sectors, are developing their own private cloud or purchasing public cloud services from cloud service providers. While such potential benefits are compelling, cloud computing disrupts corporate governance.　 Market intelligence reveals critical data, applications and some important roles and responsibilities for policies, security, IT management are increasingly moving from traditional IT departments internal to the organization to the cloud and to the day-to-day management off third party cloud service providers (CSPs). As a result, cloud computing is stressing enterprise governance in a number of ways, including further extending the enterprise’s reliance on third party service providers, exacerbating existing risks, creating new and unexpected operational, cybersecurity and regulatory risks, and fueling an urgent need for more responsive and resilient enterprise risk management strategies and new skills. This disruptive paradigm is raising concerns and thorny questions from corporate boards, trustees, advisors, managers, regulators, and assurance providers about cloud governance, including strategy, performance, risks, controls, and skills. In this context, this book brings to life the diverse range of opportunities and challenges associated with governing the deployment and enterprise-wide use of cloud computing from a practitioner perspective. It will be a practical reference guide with chapter-based self-assessment questions and written in a user-friendly manner that should appeal to diversified cohorts of international students, operational and risk managers, boards, auditors, and advisors.

Nielsen, Rikke Kristine / Bevort, Frans et al., Navigating Leadership Paradox: Engaging Paradoxical Thinking in Practice. (De Gruyter Transformative Thinking and Practice of Leadership and Its Development) 175 pp. 2023:5 (de Gruyter, GW) <696-269>
ISBN 978-3-11-078885-3 paper ¥6,307.- (税込) EUR 25.95 *

One of the most significant management challenges in modern companies and organizations is dealing with unavoidable, complex paradoxes. Today’s world is multidimensional, multipolar, and multipurpose, and increasingly, classic management challenges such as leadership vs. management; exploitation vs. exploration, virtual vs. physical presence, economic sustainability vs. environmental sustainability, localization vs. globalization, etc. assume the characteristics of paradoxes rather than problems or dilemmas. Leadership of paradox is not about making a decision once and for all or prioritizing tough trade-offs, but about navigating between opposing considerations. Navigating Leadership Paradox argues that academic knowledge pools can support leaders’ decision-making and sense-making in organizations and navigating paradoxes. The book outlines a practical pathway for management leaders and professionals for steering through paradox using 5 phases, 10 paradoxes, 15 tools, 20 cases, and 25 learning points. It delineates how to identify a paradox by assessing the nature of your challenge and discusses the appropriate courses of action individually as well in collaboration with other stakeholders. It also gives inspiration and advice for professional helpers assisting others in navigating paradox as part of organizational development or other educational purposes. This book will be essential reading for practitioners and academicians in the fields of leadership paradox, complexity management, change management, leadership dilemmas and organizational paradox.

Smith, Paul / Monea, Alexander / Santiago, Maillim (eds.), Amazon: At the Intersection of Culture and Capital. 366 pp. 2022:12 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <696-270>
ISBN 978-1-5381-6522-5 hard ¥29,620.- (税込) US$ 132.00 *

This collection offers the first up-to-date, book-length, academic study of Amazon. It is an indispensable tool for any researcher in the humanities and social sciences in the future looking to study not only Amazon, but also other capitalist platform systems, as well as the huge array of social, political, economic and cultural issues that they implicate. Amazon is too complex and multi-faceted a platform for any individual researcher to cover. Structuring the book as an edited collection allows the editors to incorporate a broad range of expertise, critical insight, and methodological depth adequate to the task of being the first comprehensive book to critically analyze Amazon as a technology platform.

Tsang, Eric W. K., Explaining Management Phenomena: A Philosophical Treatise. 250 pp. 2022:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <696-271>
ISBN 978-1-00-932313-0 hard ¥27,379.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

One key objective of management research is to explain business phenomena. Yet understanding the nature of explanation is essentially a topic in philosophy. This is the first book that bridges the gap between a technical, philosophical treatment of the topic and the more practical needs of management scholars, as well as others across the social sciences. It explores how management phenomena can be explained from a philosophical perspective, and renders sophisticated philosophical arguments understandable by readers without specialized training. Covering virtually all the major aspects of the nature of explanation, this work will enhance empirical and theoretical research, as well as approaches combining the two. With many examples from management literature and business news, this study helps scholars in those fields to improve their research outcomes.

Chalaby, Jean K., Television in the Streaming Era: The Global Shift. (Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains) 244 pp. 2023 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <696-188>
ISBN 978-1-00-919931-5 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-919926-1 paper ¥7,778.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99 *

This ground-breaking study explores transformations in the TV industry under the impact of globalizing forces and digital technologies. Chalaby investigates the making of a digital value chain and the distinct value-adding segments which form the new video ecosystem. He provides a full account of the industry's global shift from the development of TV formats and transnational networks to the emergence of tech giants and streaming platforms. The author takes a deep dive into the infrastructure (communication satellites, subsea cable networks, data centres) and technology (cloud computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence) underpinning this ecosystem through the prism of global value chain theory. The book combines empirical data garnered over 20 years of researching the industry and offers unique insights from television and tech executives.