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This book offers a rigorous yet accessible exploration of organisational politics, providing scholars with a systematic framework for analysing one of management's most elusive concepts. Moving beyond fragmented definitions, it deconstructs politics into seven core dimensions-power, influence, culture, communication, conflict, networking, and strategy-creating a coherent foundation for research and comparative analysis.

Each chapter integrates theoretical discussion with case studies, historical examples, and structured debate prompts, making it a valuable resource for graduate-level study and scholarly inquiry. By combining conceptual clarity with empirical insights, the volume advances understanding of how political dynamics shape organisational behaviour.

Essential reading for academics in management, organisational studies, and business ethics, this work bridges theory and application, challenging sanitised narratives of corporate life and offering an unfiltered look at power, manipulation, influence, and strategic networking.

This edited volume explores how managerial perspectives can shape meaningful and satisfying organizational experiences in the context of evolving structures and sustainability challenges. While management research often draws on organizational theories such as institutional or agency theory, the exchange between organization studies and sustainability remains limited. This book bridges that gap by using sustainability as a critical lens through which to understand organizational behavior, legitimacy, and long-term strategy.

Addressing topics such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate citizenship, sustainability strategy implementation, and the management of complex multi-stakeholder relationships, this book emphasizes the need for scholarship that addresses environmental, organizational, and socio-economic issues across multiple levels, advocating for solutions that are integrated, inclusive, and transformative.

This book proposes the theory of dual (analog-digital) transformation (ADX) as a new framework for business transformation in the digital era, highlighting leading Japanese manufacturing firms. At its foundation, the book presents two core perspectives, the three-core competence strategy and the architecture strategy, which explain how firms build and reconfigure organizational capabilities in response to technological change. By tracing the evolution of manufacturing architecture and competence development, the book shows how analog and digital systems can coexist and reinforce each other.

While digital transformation (DX) has gained global attention, the enduring strength of Japanese manufacturing lies in its continued evolution through analog transformation-the refinement of craftsmanship, process integration, and tacit knowledge. The book examines how current IT technologies, including data analytics, IoT, and AI, are reshaping the traditional foundations of monozukuri (Japanese manufacturing), and how firms can align IT architecture and organizational competences to sustain innovation in the AI era.

Beyond the conventional framework of digitization, digitalization, and DX, this book proposes ADX as the next step for firms rooted in collaborative monozukuri-a model integrating analog excellence with digital innovation. Sustainable competitiveness emerges not from replacing analog systems, but from combining the two.

Through multiple cases of Japanese firms, the book demonstrates how Japanese manufacturers are restructuring capabilities, bridging management and production, and achieving deep analog-digital integration. Ultimately, it offers a roadmap for traditional manufacturing firms to evolve their IT strategies and thrive in the age of AI and organizational reinvention.

At the heart of The Role of Linguistic Profiling within Career Development is the important question: how does linguistic profiling shape careers in an increasingly globalised and diverse economy? From modifying an accent, to word choice, to tone, an international team of authors explore the effects of such modifications (both positive and negative) in various professional environments. The Role of Linguistic Profiling within Career Development brings to life the real-world implications of such bias and provides actionable insights for practitioners and academics alike.

This backbone of innovative research creates a fresh perspective into the relationship between linguistic profiling and career development, grounded in a globalised commitment to diversity and inclusion and aligned with the UNSGs of reducing inequality and promoting inclusive, sustainable economic growth. By pushing the boundaries of current thinking surrounding diversity, the authors lay out a solid groundwork for anybody interested in how the way that we communicate can affect our place in the workforce. Once linguistic differences are seen not as a cultural barrier, but as a source of strength and opportunity, the modern era of work can truly begin.

In the rapidly evolving world of contemporary business, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a disruptive force that is being adopted by companies in a variety of sectors. Its ability to boost creativity, expedite processes, and increase productivity is undeniable. Along with other digital technologies like blockchain, big data analysis, and augmented reality, it is anticipated to be one of the main forces behind the fourth industrial revolution.

Despite the success that artificial intelligence is meeting, there are still a number of concerns about how consumers may perceive artificial intelligence-based products and services, how they act with conversational agents (chatbots), and how they communicate with them. Through this book, the authors attempt to understand how artificial intelligence can be integrated within products and services in a way that generates value for the consumer. In particular, three consumer contexts are considered in which the introduction of AI is changing the way consumers interact with products and services. The first relates to the use of artificial intelligence in the fashion industry, where the creation of AI-generated clothes is generating widespread debate. The second relates to the use of conversational agents who through the use of AI are able to engage in conversations that are increasingly human-like. The third, in the area of social media, evaluates how consumers perceive virtual influencers.

Managing Innovation in Business Strategy, Marketing and Finance has a goal of contributing to understanding the role of business innovation from the perspective of three key functional areas: strategy, marketing and finance.

Born-digital companies are often praised as agile disruptors - until growing scale, legacy decisions and internal complexity slow them down. This book shows how digital-era firms can deliberately renew themselves through internal corporate ventures, turning them from side projects into powerful engines of strategic change. Based on an in-depth case study of a leading European fintech, it reveals how leaders can structure, stage and steer such ventures to keep their organizations fast, innovative and focused.

The book develops a process model of strategic renewal that goes beyond born-digital companies. It offers actionable insights for any organization facing disruption, legacy structures or the challenge of sustaining innovation. By explaining how routines, capabilities and mindsets can be reconfigured over time, the study provides executives, entrepreneurs and corporate innovators with a practical roadmap for building lasting renewal capabilities - in digital natives and established firms alike.

Nurturing AI-Powered HR Analytics and Virtual Reality in Employee Psychology and Workplace Happiness examines how emerging technologies are reshaping the foundations of modern human resource management. Drawing on advances in AI-powered HR analytics, the book demonstrates how data-driven insights can enhance organizational decision-making, predict employee behavior, and support interventions that foster engagement, motivation, and well-being. By illuminating the strategic value of intelligent analytics for understanding workforce dynamics and optimising HR practices, it provides a compelling case for building more responsive, ethical, and psychologically supportive workplaces.

Complementing this analytical perspective, this timely work explores the transformative potential of virtual reality in employee psychology and workplace happiness. It highlights how immersive VR environments can reduce stress, enrich training and onboarding, strengthen team cohesion, and nurture overall mental well-being by simulating real-world experiences within safe, controlled contexts. Offering a clear roadmap for responsible and human-centred implementation, this volume is essential reading for HR professionals, organizational leaders, and researchers seeking to harness technological innovation to cultivate more fulfilling and productive workplaces.

This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of a major paradigm shift in the automotive industry: the transition from traditional system integration to dynamic ecosystem collaboration. It draws on scientific research from LocosLab GmbH and the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, alongside practical insights from Deloitte's Global Automotive Practice. The book examines how automotive companies increasingly cooperate within innovation and transaction ecosystems. It explores the technical architecture of these ecosystems, including customer applications, middleware, and backend systems. Key topics include the evolution of software-defined vehicle innovation ecosystems, challenges in homologation, opportunities for business development, and the changing role of traditional OEMs. It presents the global status quo of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) ecosystems and explores their future coexistence with private car ownership, again highlighting the strategic implications for OEMs.

The book aims to provide inspiration, appeal to both academics and practitioners, and encourage collaboration between different disciplines.

This book examines the complex interdependencies between digital maturity, leadership behavior, organizational culture, and team performance in contemporary organizations. By conceptualizing digital maturity as both measurable and influenceable, the study demonstrates how leadership practices and cultural dynamics jointly shape digital transformation trajectories while affecting team performance, particularly in remote and hybrid environments. Using a multilayered analytical approach, the research develops a four-cell classification model that differentiates organizations based on their digital maturity level and leadership behavior, identifying four distinct organizational types. This model addresses an important gap in understanding high-performing virtual teams by integrating the four interacting dimensions into a coherent analytical and diagnostic framework. The book ultimately proposes a remote-leadership framework designed to enhance leadership effectiveness, strengthen organizational culture, elevate team performance, and accelerate digital maturity. It provides scholars, practitioners, and leaders with a robust, evidence-based tool for assessing and shaping leadership in digitally driven, distributed organizational environments.

Although Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has advanced considerably since the late 1980s, scholarly focus has tended to cluster around talent management, performance, and compensation. Yet employee benefits-despite accounting for nearly a third of total labor costs-have remained surprisingly peripheral in strategic conversations.

A New Perspective on Employee Benefits addresses this long standing gap. Drawing on foundational SHRM and compensation strategy research, this book brings together emerging scholarship that reframes employee benefits as a powerful, underutilized driver of organizational effectiveness. Across its chapters, contributors explore new theoretical perspectives, present empirical insights, and examine practical implications that position benefits as a central component of strategic HR decision making.

This collection offers essential reading for scholars, doctoral students, and HR practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding of how benefits can be leveraged to create sustainable competitive advantage. Rather than viewing benefits as static or purely administrative costs, the book invites readers to reconsider their strategic potential within the broader HRM landscape.

Now in its third edition, this authoritative practitioner-led guide to investor relations (IR) builds on the foundations laid in its 2008 debut and 2013 update, reflecting how the discipline of IR has evolved. While tools, technologies, and investor expectations have developed, the book remains anchored in its core conviction: Investor relations is a strategic management function that influences valuation, access to capital, and the cost of capital.

Combining financial analysis, strategic communication, and capital markets insight, the book provides structured frameworks and practical methodologies drawn from decades of international experience. It offers clear guidance for senior executives, investor relations professionals, financial analysts, and students seeking a rigorous understanding of how companies compete for capital in increasingly complex and scrutinised markets.

Unlike much of the existing literature, which often focuses on compliance or US-specific regulatory practice, this edition adopts a distinctly global perspective. It addresses the realities faced by both public and private companies seeking to attract long-term investors and diversify their shareholder base across borders, including from an emerging markets standpoint.

Whether refining an established IR function or building one from the ground up, readers will find actionable frameworks, real-world examples, and measurement approaches that position investor relations as an integrated driver of valuation discipline, long-term shareholder value creation, and sustained stakeholder trust.

An estimated 20% of humanity are neurodivergent. Their brains develop and function differently from those of the broader population.

In recent years, awareness of neurodiversity has grown. At the same time, organizations are facing questions that challenge traditional understandings of collaboration at work.

This book provides a foundation for anyone seeking basic knowledge or a new perspective on neurodivergence. Decision-makers, leaders, HR professionals, and consultants will find fresh insights to help their organizations gain a genuine competitive advantage in the labor market. In addition to theoretical background information, it includes both practical, research-based tips and solution-oriented approaches, addressing topics along the entire talent and employee journey.

The book also covers areas such as collaboration, communication and inclusive language, diversity and inclusion (DEIB), disruptive thinking, as well as leadership and self management for neurodivergent leaders and employees. Likewise, those who are neurodivergent themselves and looking for ways to collaborate without compromising their well being will find inspiration for their own professional practice.

There is still a strong need for accessible, relatable ways to teach key leadership concepts-tools that support both formal leadership development and everyday life skills. This book aims to meet that need by examining the characters of the hit TV series Stranger Things across its five seasons. It explores their journeys using essential themes of leadership and team dynamics, including adaptability, integrity, and risk-taking.

The series offers a rich narrative woven from friendship, family, courage, and the struggle between good and evil, elevating it far beyond a typical sci-fi story. From a leadership standpoint, Stranger Things excels at showcasing characters who display authentic leadership behaviors without fitting the usual aesthetic or personality stereotypes of a "leader." Viewers naturally root for these beloved characters as they accomplish extraordinary things-not because they are the fastest, the strongest, or the smartest, but because they rise to the moment in ways that feel deeply human and relatable.

The Exploring Effective Leadership Practices through Popular Culture series is designed to demystify leadership concepts and show readers how to put them into action. To do that, it uses popular culture as a relatable and compelling teaching tool.

This book explores how leaders can master the paradox between autonomy and alignment to foster sustainable innovation. It introduces the InnoLEAD model, emphasizing the relational dynamics between leaders and teams as they navigate strategic, structural, and cultural challenges. Combining theory with practice, the text offers actionable tools, reflection exercises, and real-world case studies to strengthen existing capabilities while creating space for creativity and organizational learning. Updated with the latest research and examples, this pragmatic work is an essential resource for innovation managers, leadership professionals, and students seeking to understand and implement innovation-oriented leadership in rapidly changing environments.

Innovation Intelligence: Strategy, Technology, and Culture exemplifies the purpose of the Research in Management Consulting (RMC) series. At a time when innovation is a strategic imperative, this volume explores how organizations actually mobilize expertise, methods, and relationships to navigate complex change; in the process, it demonstrates the many factors that shape innovation capabilities and outcomes.

Collectively, the chapters are anchored in the knowledge that innovation is a driver of technological and economic growth. Innovation is not seen as a one-off event but an evolving socio-technical process that depends on how human capital, organizational routines, and external expertise are orchestrated over time. It is less about generating ideas and more about creating the conditions in which new ideas can survive contact with reality. Management consultants play a role in shifting the question from "What should we innovate?" to "How do we build an organization that continually renews itself?"

This framing from volume editor Dr. Georgios Afxentiou aligns with the RMC series and its longstanding emphasis on consulting as both a field of practice and an arena for rigorous scholarly inquiry. In this way, Innovation Intelligence: Strategy, Technology, and Culture reinforces the series' commitment to examining how consulting contributes to organizational learning and renewal.

The Science of High-Performing Teams describes how leaders need to "be" to manage teams, what they need to understand about human behavior to create teams from groups of individuals, and how to think about some of the basic - and more advanced - types of leader behaviors and group dynamics that often result in successful teamwork. The book will help readers assess their surroundings and their team's environment to make good decisions in the moment. Everything in this book is grounded in decades of rigorous research on team success, drawing on insights from countless scholars across generations.

While "leadership" is all around us, most people in positions of authority or influence have little formal training or education in how to use that authority and influence to manage the teams for which they are responsible. The Science of High-Performing Teams explains and exemplifies the current state of research on team dynamics and leadership. It serves as a tool and training resource for aspiring leaders; new managers in professional settings; organizational consultants focusing on interpersonal dynamics; students enrolled in courses focused on those topics; and the secondary and post-secondary faculty who oversee those courses.

This book establishes the scientific definition of M&A for the first time, that is, M&A is a transaction targeted at business control. Based on this, the book established a theoretical framework of mergers and acquisitions with its 8 core pillars, including motivation, capability, boundary, direction, matching, synergy, performance and market. The theories of mergers and acquisitions will well explain the strategy, valuation, integration and other activities of M&A.

Event Planning Management explores the principles and practices essential to the planning and managing of events. Supported by real-world case studies that provide practical insights for evaluation and implementation, this contributed work systematically covers the crucial elements of event planning, beginning with core principles before advancing to more specialised areas. The chapters are structured to introduce past, as well as emerging challenges in event planning.

By emphasising the feasibility and adaptability of planning and design models, the book encourages critical evaluation and continuous improvement. It also highlights the importance of innovation, sustainability, and collaboration with local communities, businesses, and governing bodies. With contributions from a diverse range of global experts, this an essential resource for practitioners and scholars alike.

This book presents a comprehensive and strategic perspective on product management in today's dynamic and innovation-driven business environment. It examines how organizations design, develop, position, and manage products to create sustainable competitive advantage. Moving beyond traditional product management concepts, the book integrates strategic thinking, market analysis, innovation frameworks, and data-driven decision-making to help readers understand how successful products are conceived, developed, marketed and managed across their lifecycle.

The book begins with the foundations of product management, explaining the nature of products and product line strategies. It then explores the strategic architecture of value creation, value communication, and value delivery, providing a holistic framework for aligning products with market needs and organizational goals. Subsequent chapters discuss competitive product strategy including segmentation, positioning and product branding. The book also covers product innovation, design thinking, and product development processes. Contemporary approaches such as agile development, lean product management, and prototyping are also examined to help readers understand modern product development practices.

The book further integrates analytical tools and frameworks including product analytics, product pricing strategies, digital analytics, and emerging applications of artificial intelligence in product management. Real-world case studies in the book provide practical insights and encourage critical thinking.

This book will be particularly useful for courses such as Strategic Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Management, Product Innovation and

Development, Agile Product Management, Product Analytics offered in MBA, PGDM, Executive MBA and and advanced undergraduate management programs. It will also serve as a valuable reference for product managers, marketing professionals, and entrepreneurs seeking to strengthen their strategic product decision-making skills.

Women, leadership, spiritualty, and religion have been complexly interwoven throughout history and cultures. The Inspirational Women Leaders: The Challenges and Rewards of Religion, Spirituality, Purpose, and Calling in Leadership books explore support and obstacles that women leaders face as shaped by religion and spirituality, the impact of historical and contemporary women leaders influenced by their beliefs, and how women leaders practice spiritual leadership in a variety of contexts. For some women, their leadership connects with finding and exploring a sense of purpose, recognizing and following a calling or vocation, and exploring the impacts of religion and spirituality on leadership and society.

By celebrating women leaders and their leadership styles, these books highlight impactful leadership approaches and heartening stories of endurance. Serving as a model and motivation for women leaders, these books also create a community for women leaders around the world.

Part One, focusing on Contemporary Research and Reflections, delves into the profound and often underexplored connection between a woman's leadership in her life and work with her diverse spiritual, religious, or philosophical foundations. Part Two, focusing on Spiritual Women Leaders across Time and Cultures, features historical figures and contemporary leaders from various faith traditions, revealing how their spiritual journeys have shaped their transformative leadership. Both books illuminate how personal beliefs and a sense of greater meaning can be a source of immense strength and a catalyst for unique challenges in a leader's professional and personal life.

The Transformative Women Leaders Series is published in collaboration between the International Leadership Association (ILA) and Emerald Publishing. Celebrating women leaders and the leadership styles they employ to achieve success, the books in this series highlight successful leadership approaches across contexts, time, and cultures.

This book aims to present case studies on planetary transformations and re-definitions, specifically in the sectors of cultural heritage destruction, conservation, and dissemination through media arts intended for cultural tourism services and enjoyment. The current crises in Ukraine and the Middle East have prompted a need for deeper reflection on various issues and risks, including economic, ecological, political, cultural, media, and tourism-related. The book will include methods such as questionnaires, interviews, direct observation through photos and videos, and the use of 'mobile methods' (Urry, 2007), such as locative media (cell phones, etc.). The book chapters are written to be comparable to future social and sociological situations. The book aims to inform various audiences, including researchers, teachers, students, citizens, tourists, and migrants, about the impact of the Ukraine war on their economic situation, inclusion, everyday life, democratic participation, citizenship, and understanding of information and knowledge.

This edited volume tracks emerging perspectives to understanding contemporary and future-oriented trends relating to entrepreneurship in Africa. Following recent developments, such as the rising interest in Pan Africanism, and socio-economic developments with several African countries emerging as new regional hotspots for economic growth and entrepreneurship (e.g. Nigeria, Egypt), chapters provide case-based evidence and relevant theorisation in order to account for aspects of the emerging realities in Africa. While much of the existing literature takes an overarching economistic approach, in this book contributors do not overlook the necessity for constantly providing evidence and updating such frameworks. Instead, authors take an in-depth look at emerging perspectives to African entrepreneurship, which are currently overlooked and merit further investigation from a theoretical standpoint. Featuring context-based analysis, theoretical and conceptual approaches, case-based material as well as original interviews, the book is a vital resource for students, researchers and policy makers.

This book offers a comprehensive and structured exploration of how financial systems are being reshaped to support the net-zero transition. It guides readers through the evolving architecture of standards, instruments, and market mechanisms that underpin climate-aligned capital flows. Using an accessible but conceptually rigorous approach, it distinguishes climate finance from green and sustainable finance and examines key tools such as corporate and sovereign green bonds, blue finance, and carbon markets.

What sets this volume apart is its integrative perspective: it combines theoretical clarity, policy analysis, and empirical depth to trace the journey of climate finance from conception to implementation. It also explores underexamined topics such as carbon as an anchor asset and the role of climate finance in global monetary dynamics, including RMB internationalization.

Designed for scholars, graduate students, policymakers, and financial professionals, this book provides clear conceptual frameworks and evidence-based insights. It is particularly valuable for readers interested in finance-driven climate transitions and the institutional design of net-zero finance.

Key features include:

1. Provides a comprehensive analysis of climate finance instruments and regulatory systems.

2. Offers a structured treatment bridging theory, policy, and market practice.

Industry 4.0 technologies help in reducing the set -up time and cost, lead times, labor and material cost and enhance productivity, flexibility, customization and value addition. Additionally, industry 4.0 helps in decreasing the energy and resources consumption that leads to decreased waste creation and carbon emission in the assembly, production and supply chain operations.

The research curated here examines the critical link between Industry 4.0 technologies and green supply chain management (GSCM) implementation to achieve supply chain sustainability. The chapters emphasize the necessity of digital transformation in firms in order to achieve sustainable performance, as well as the rising importance of sustainability in organizational strategy, product innovation, and process re-engineering. Furthermore, it investigates the inclusion of Industry 4.0 technologies to enhance sustainability in SCM operations, with a special emphasis on the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG) 2030 and the post-COVID-19 scenario.

This book offers guidance to the next generation of leaders in public service media (PSM) as well as broadcasters, policy makers, governments, and academic researchers around the world on navigating today's most urgent PSM challenges. Drawing on surveys and interviews with 42 CEOs worldwide, the authors provide clear, experience-based strategies for managing political pressure, competing with commercial and digital platforms, responding to social crises, and sustaining trust. The book delivers actionable frameworks for audience engagement, digital and AI transformation, sports-rights acquisition, funding diversification, and internal leadership development. Offering global cases from companies such as ABC iview, NHK Plus, Prasar Bharati, and DW, the book illustrates how forward-looking PSMs adapt while protecting editorial independence and public value.

This book is a comprehensive guide to applying positive psychology principles to leadership and organizational management. It equips leaders with practical strategies for enhancing resilience, fostering a strengths-based culture, and promoting well-being within teams. By integrating the latest research in positive psychology with leadership theories, the book offers actionable tools that leaders can implement to improve both individual and organizational outcomes. The authors draw on their extensive research and teaching experience to deliver insights that blend both Eastern and Western perspectives, offering a culturally inclusive approach to leadership. From building emotionally intelligent leaders to creating positive organizational cultures, this book addresses the most pressing challenges faced by leaders in today's complex environments. The book features case studies, exercises, and real-world applications and is designed for leaders, administrators, educators, and professionals seeking to foster resilience, well-being, and ethical decision-making in their organizations. It provides the tools to enhance leadership effectiveness and create a lasting positive impact. With a strong foundation in evidence-based practices, this book is an essential resource for those looking to bring positive psychology into their leadership strategies for sustainable growth and success.

This book introduces research on computer games conducted in Japan, aimed at students and researchers of games and pop culture in Japan, and explains how to facilitate their studies and research.

Japan, along with the USA and Europe, has been a world leader in computer games. There are many users and companies, and the market is significant. In terms of game content, games developed in Japan have gained popularity outside of Japan and have influenced subsequent games. For this reason, a considerable amount of research on Japanese games has been conducted.

Most of the literature on Japanese games is written in Japanese, however. Therefore, it is difficult for students and researchers living outside of Japan, even if they are interested, to read the literature and to work jointly with Japanese researchers. As a result, there is a disconnection between overseas and Japanese researchers. This book is presented to help bridge that gap. In addition, by introducing Japanese game studies across multiple disciplines, the book makes it easier for readers to find research approaches that match their interests.

The book begins with an overview of Japanese game research to date. It then introduces research results unique to Japan, such as those on arcade games and Doujin (people who make games mainly as a hobby, groups of people with shared strong interests in games). It then introduces research institutions and academic societies in which readers can research game studies in Japan. In addition, it introduces ways to access and obtain relevant resources.

Readers will be better prepared to study in Japan or collaborate with Japanese researchers by reading this book. In addition, it will help readers to know in advance which fields and themes are easier or more difficult to research in Japan, thus preventing mismatches in study abroad and research exchange. The academic significance is that it provides an overview of research on games in Japan that has been conducted from a variety of perspectives and approaches. By using this as a basis, we can expect to promote international and cross-disciplinary game research.