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Key Features:

• Presents 19 original cases of ventures founded by university students in different countries, disciplines and sectors
• Provides teaching notes, learning objectives and suggestions for discussion and assignments
• Evaluates the collaborative nature of student entrepreneurship
• Highlights the need for experimentation, setbacks and interaction for learning to occur
• Assesses the role of universities, incubators and pre-accelerators as learning and support environments for early-stage student ventures

Cases on Student Entrepreneurship is a crucial resource for students and scholars of business and management, entrepreneurship and innovation. It will also benefit practitioners in higher education and business schools seeking a toolkit of experiential and case-based learning activities that promote venture creation.

This book explores narratives' contribution to leadership development and how the development of narrative leadership provides leaders with opportunities in an age of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

Bringing together educators, researchers, coaches, and practitioners, the book traverses the dark side of leadership storytelling, leadership storytelling for inclusiveness, and innovative narrative practices. It introduces critical concepts such as narrative betrayal, narrative humility, and narrative reflexivity in order to examine storytelling not only as a source of inspiration and belonging but also as a site of ethical tension, power, and responsibility. This book will deepen readers' understanding of how and why storytelling is important in leader and leadership development contexts and provide practical tools and strategies for leadership development.

Ideal for leadership educators, facilitators, researchers, and organisational practitioners, this book provides essential tools and perspectives for developing leaders in today's complex world. More than a toolkit, it is an invitation to reflect more deeply on leadership itself.

Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Startup Ecosystem: Global Challenges and Opportunities explores the evolving intersection of sustainability, innovation, and entrepreneurship within a rapidly transforming global business environment.

This edited volume comprises 39 rigorously reviewed research papers that examine critical dimensions of sustainable entrepreneurship and startup development. The contributions address themes such as green innovation, ESG integration, circular economy models, sustainable business strategies, digital transformation in startups, entrepreneurial finance, policy frameworks, and global market challenges. The chapters highlight emerging opportunities for startups in addressing climate change, social inequality, and resource optimization while maintaining economic viability. Empirical studies, conceptual frameworks, and case-based analyses provide insights into how entrepreneurial ecosystems can foster resilience, competitiveness, and long-term value creation. Collectively, the book offers scholarly and practical perspectives on building sustainable enterprises in both emerging and developed economies.

This book is intended for students, faculty members, research scholars, corporate professionals, policymakers, and entrepreneurs engaged in management and business studies. It serves as a valuable reference for those interested in sustainability-driven innovation, startup ecosystems, and global entrepreneurial challenges.

Organization Design equips readers with advanced tools and frameworks for understanding and re-designing organizations by simplifying complex roles, processes, and structures. Now in a fully updated third edition, it introduces new pedagogical features to spotlight significant debates and encourage critical reflection on core ideas.

Grounded in both research and practical experience, this book offers a balanced approach to organizational efficiency and complexity, complemented by actionable insights throughout and supporting online material. Drawing on Russell Ackoff's system theory, Worren emphasizes the interconnected nature of all organizational elements as a key to support strategic goals. The book is designed around broad thematic areas: from a review of foundational theory to core components of organization design, methodologies for re-design projects, and a diagnostic framework for complex organizations. This structured division enables readers to follow chapters consecutively or consult each section independently.

Rigorous in focus, this textbook serves as an authoritative source that bridges academia and the professional world. Students, scholars, and practitioners alike will benefit from its comprehensive guidance and pragmatic orientation.

For-Profit K-12 Educational Excellence presents a structured approach to building academically rigorous, financially viable, and globally scalable education businesses, emphasising compliance with local regulations, cultural adaptation, and technological innovation.

For-profit education is a rapidly expanding global industry, offering solutions to the growing demand for high-quality and scalable education. As governments struggle to provide adequate educational opportunities, private and for-profit institutions have emerged to fill the gaps. However, balancing academic excellence, financial sustainability, and regulatory compliance remains a challenge for many education entrepreneurs. This book provides a definitive roadmap for entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and educators seeking to build successful, ethical, and sustainable education ventures. It integrates best academic practices, financial strategies, business models, technology-driven innovations, and regulatory frameworks, equipping readers with actionable insights for thriving in this dynamic sector.

Through global case studies and research-backed insights, this book demonstrates how scalable for-profit education ventures can drive meaningful learning outcomes while ensuring financial sustainability. Whether you're launching a private K-12 school, investing in an EdTech startup, or leading a global education initiative, this book offers the strategic guidance that can help you succeed.

Rather than adding to the noise of quick-fix leadership solutions, Leading from the Inside Out invites you to pause, reflect, and discover the profound impact of self-aware leadership.

Written with the warmth and wisdom of a trusted mentor, this book challenges organizational leaders and managers to look inward before leading outward. Through engaging personal stories, real-world case studies, and moments of unexpected humor, you will explore how reflective leadership becomes your most powerful tool for navigating uncertainty and complexity. Authored by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, this book draws on his decades of groundbreaking work in executive coaching and psychoanalysis and reveals how the most effective leaders aren't those with all the answers, but those who are willing to ask the deeper questions. Here, you'll discover practical insights into understanding your own leadership patterns, recognizing the unconscious dynamics within your organization, and creating space for authentic decision-making in high-pressure environments.

This isn't another leadership manual filled with frameworks and formulas. Instead, it's an honest conversation about the human side of leadership-the doubts, breakthroughs, and the ongoing journey of becoming a more conscious leader. Whether you are a seasoned executive, emerging manager, or someone seeking to lead with greater authenticity and impact, this book offers the reflective tools needed to thrive in our complex world.

Navigating Organizational Complexity: Resilience and Adaptability from Black Swans to Green explores the challenges of contemporary management in an era defined by unpredictability, complexity, and environmental volatility. Drawing on Nassim Taleb's metaphor of the "black swan", this book expands this concept to include a typology of transformative events: Black Swans (negative and unexpected), White Swans (positive and unexpected), Gray Swans (known but neglected threats), and Green Swans (long-term environmental megatrends). Through interdisciplinary analysis, it examines how organizations can build resilience, adapt to uncertainty, and thrive in the face of disruption. It offers practical tools and frameworks for strategic foresight, leadership, and risk management, making it an essential resource for navigating the complexities of the modern business environment. Key features include an innovative approach to the "black swan" metaphor, integrating concepts such as antifragility, organizational resilience, and sustainability. This book combines insights from management, sociology, psychology, and economics, with references to global crises, climate change, and digitization. Readers will benefit from practical strategies for fostering adaptability, learning cultures, and visionary leadership, supported by rich academic literature and real-world examples. It is ideal for academics, researchers, and advanced students in management, organizational studies, and sustainability, as well as business leaders seeking actionable insights to future-proof their organizations.

The Strategic Manager provides a comprehensive, clear, and applied insight in strategic management. Unlike more theory-heavy texts, this book focuses on how strategy works in everyday practice, taking readers' expectations and understanding beyond that of strategy as a matter of planning only. It enables the reader to learn and reflect upon their practical skills and knowledge and critically evaluate the strategy process and their own strategic decision-making.

The book is based around six different strategy theories, individually presented and supplemented with useful lists of questions that encourage readers to become competent strategic thinkers. This fourth edition has been fully updated throughout, including fresh case studies and examples ranging across a broader range of regions, as well as additional illustrations and fresh material considering the strategic implications and applications of new technologies, particularly AI. Chapters on industrial organization and institutional theory have been significantly expanded upon, with the final chapter including an updated framework on institutional theory perspective.

Essential reading for postgraduate students of strategic management, MBA students, and those in executive education, this text will also be a useful tool for reflective managers trying to develop a better understanding. Online resources include PowerPoint slides.

This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of how corporate ecosystems are evolving in the era of Industry 5.0. It brings together insights from organizational theory, human capital management, and digital transformation to provide a comprehensive framework for understanding the complex interplay of strategy, technology, and people in modern business environments. Featuring case studies, empirical research, and theoretical foundations, it acts as an indispensable resource for scholars and practitioners alike. This work explores key aspects of corporate ecosystems, from decision- making biases and power structures to cross-cultural dynamics and the role of artificial intelligence in shaping business practices. It presents readers with practical tools for navigating the complexities of strategic innovation, ethical leadership, and sustainability in an interconnected global economy. Through its interdisciplinary approach, the book bridges the gap between theory and practice, making it essential for those aiming to understand the future trajectory of business ecosystems in both developed and emerging markets.

Targeting academics, researchers, advanced students, and practitioners, this book is designed for those in strategic management, organizational behavior, and international business fields. It also offers valuable insights for policymakers and leaders seeking to effectively navigate the challenges and opportunities of the rapidly evolving corporate landscape shaped by Industry 5.0.

Leading scholars examine the complex interplay of Amazon's encounters with markets, institutions, and actors in national and subnational settings. They analyze the consequences of fast-paced, low-skilled labor mandates against the backdrop of fierce resistance from union and civil society campaigners and local competitors. Chapters contribute to key debates, evaluating Amazon's history of anti-union behavior and increasingly algorithmically driven management. Drawing on empirical research, the book assesses union and community efforts and regulatory initiatives that seek to contest and contain the social impacts of a warehousing and delivery system built on speed, worker exploitation, and refashioning economic geographies around immediate one-click consumerism.

An essential resource for understanding the global infrastructure of increasingly digitized multinational tech corporations, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of business management, economics, political economy, human rights, and labour policy. E-commerce and NGO professionals, as well as policymakers, will similarly benefit from its timely and practical discussion of advocacy approaches and policy controversies.

This book offers a pioneering and comprehensive examination of entrepreneurial leadership as an emerging and transformative approach to leadership theory and practice. Moving beyond traditional leadership models that emphasise innate personality traits and end outcomes, this book advances a dynamic, holistic perspective that foregrounds leadership development across diverse and often underexplored organisational contexts, including corporations, higher education institutions, and small and medium-sized enterprises.

Addressing the fragmented nature of existing scholarship, this book consolidates theoretical and empirical perspectives on entrepreneurial leadership, outlining its core attributes, antecedents, and developmental pathways. It adopts a multi-level lens, examining entrepreneurial leadership development at the individual, team, and organisational levels, and proposes practical development strategies such as experiential, reflective, and social learning, leadership development programmes, and digital and e-learning platforms.

A defining strength of this book lies in its integration of theory with practice. It identifies key entrepreneurial leadership capabilities and illustrates their application through practical case studies. This book also critically engages with contemporary challenges, incorporating ethics, contextual diversity, and technological orientation in an AI-driven world. It bridges theory and practice, offers actionable insights, and provides a roadmap for developing entrepreneurial leaders equipped to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in the twenty-first century.

Contributing authors investigate how MLM schemes create legitimacy by merging commerce, community and belief, while consumer protection is undermined through opaque business practices, weak regulations and industry lobbying. Chapters outline how MLM has created its own ecosystem of self-employment, masquerading as entrepreneurial freedom while advertising false autonomy and ensuring that few participants ever achieve meaningful economic reward. By emphasising participant experiences and tracing the entanglements of ideology, regulation and organisational strategy, this book advances Critical MLM Studies as a framework for understanding MLM as a global industry.

Presenting MLMs as frequently destructive and harmful, Critical Perspectives on Multilevel Marketing is an essential resource for scholars and students of business, economics and finance, management studies, marketing and consumer law. Consumer protection agencies and MLM activists will also benefit from its evidence-based approach.

This comprehensive guide reveals how to systematically identify and capture cross-selling and up-selling opportunities, whether through internal transformation, organisational consolidation or merger and acquisition scenarios. By understanding the fundamental principles of revenue expansion and cost optimisation at the same time, business leaders can dramatically improve their company's value proposition while strengthening market position.

Every business professional will encounter organisational change - whether through M&A activity during economic booms or internal restructuring during downturns. These pivotal moments present extraordinary opportunities to simultaneously increase sales and reduce costs, yet most organisations fail to maximise their potential. This book provides the strategic framework and practical tools needed to excel during these critical transitions, showing how to plan and implement cross-selling initiatives that deliver substantial revenue growth while streamlining operations for maximum efficiency. Drawing from real-world M&A scenarios and internal transformation case studies, this guide demonstrates how to improve profit from both ends of the equation. You will learn to identify cross-selling opportunities that others miss, develop implementation strategies that minimise disruption and create sustainable revenue streams that outlast the initial organisational change.

Whether you are leading a merger integration, managing a divisional consolidation or simply seeking to optimise your current sales approach, this book provides the insights and methodologies to transform organisational complexity into competitive advantage and measurable profit improvement.

In an era where digital transformation promises speed but often delivers complexity, organizations still struggle to turn automation into a lasting advantage. This book offers a practical, proven roadmap for leaders ready to bridge that gap.

Drawing from more than 25 years of transformation experience across global industries, Dr. Marciano B. Hermo IV shows how Lean Six Sigma's (LSS's) discipline becomes even more powerful when paired with intelligent automation. Through a structured integration cycle, real-world examples, and field-tested tools, this book demonstrates how improvement and technology reinforce-not replace-each other.

Whether you lead a team, an enterprise, or a transformation program, you will learn how to: (a) simplify and stabilize work before automating; (b) build digital capability that scales and sustains; (c) strengthen decision logic and reduce exceptions; (d) engage people, develop talent, and reshape roles; and (e) measure value beyond cost savings and uptime.

Clear, practical, and designed for real operations, not theory, this book equips leaders to transform workflows, uplift performance, and create enduring competitive advantage in the digital age.

This book is a forward-looking guide to the convergence of Lean Six Sigma and automation technologies, including Robotic Process Automation (RPA), intelligent automation, and artificial intelligence. Grounded in both rigorous research and hands-on experience, it presents a practical framework for integrating continuous improvement methodologies with digital transformation tools. Through models, case vignettes, and step-by-step strategies, it helps organizations evolve from traditional process optimization to scalable, tech-enabled excellence.

Designed for professionals in operations, quality, and process improvement, as well as digital transformation leaders, LSS practitioners, IT strategists, and decision-makers across enterprises of all sizes, the book also serves as an advanced resource for graduate students and academics in business, industrial engineering, and information systems.

As global organizations face rising demands for speed, accuracy, cost-efficiency, and customer focus, traditional improvement methods must adapt. This book addresses the need to rethink process transformation in the context of Industry 4.0, bridging the gap between LSS and automation to offer a roadmap for sustainable, end-to-end operational excellence.

Readers will gain a strategic, structured approach to integrating automation into improvement initiatives, leading to faster return on investment, greater agility, and enhanced resilience. By empowering professionals to reduce waste, unlock hidden value, and lead transformation with confidence, the book equips enterprises-from startups to global corporations-to stay competitive and future-ready in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

This book integrates theoretical and practical perspectives to equip leaders with tools to thrive in today's complex workplace environments. Combining mindfulness and emotional intelligence, this book provides actionable tools to enhance self-awareness, foster meaningful relationships, and build resilience under pressure.

In an era of increasing burnout and rising expectations for emotional intelligence in leadership, this book equips leaders to meet modern challenges with authenticity, presence, and purpose. It delves into cultivating focus in distraction-heavy lives, managing stress, and creating inclusive cultures that foster psychological safety and connection. Featuring insights from neuroscience, positive psychology, and real-world leadership practices, this book bridges the gap between theory and application. It begins with a discussion of the meaning of leadership in today's world, and an introduction to mindfulness and its real-world applications. Later chapters address self-awareness and empathy before the final chapter brings these concepts together to explain how readers can apply them to any leadership context. This transformative approach enables readers to practice and develop these concepts in real-world settings to mature their own skills to lead with clarity, empathy, and intention.

This is a vital practical resource for any leader, from emerging leaders to HR professionals and seasoned executives alike. Students, particularly those on leadership or business courses, will also benefit from the combination of theory and practice.

The book explores pilgrimage events and annual mass gatherings such as the Maha Kumbh Fair, Hajj, Lourdes, and Kartarpur, conceptualising pilgrimage tourism; its growing significance; social, cultural, and economic benefits; environmental impact; and sustainable development.

It offers valuable insights by capturing mythology underlying the mass pilgrimage, crowd dynamics, supply chain logistics, and environmental and community resilience and fostering local entrepreneurship development and stakeholders' public-private partnerships (PPPs). Drawing on theoretical perspectives, empirical research, and real-world case studies, the book offers prospects of planning, managing, and implementing public health concerns, supply chain, and resilience of the businesses and the local community to hold annual mega spiritual gatherings for the pilgrims. In doing so, it also promotes a shared vision for enhancing connectivity, commerce, trade, and collaboration for peace, progress, and prosperity for social, cultural, and economic impact for the continuation of such centuries-old spiritual pilgrimage events for generations.

The book is intended for academics, tourism researchers, economists, and students studying pilgrimage and religious tourism (RT). It will also be valuable for government departments, international organisations, and practitioners including religious organisations, tour operators, hospitality providers, and event management stakeholders.

Analyzing projects funded by the Small Business Innovation Research program at the US Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health, the authors describe the impact of project managers on entrepreneurial firms' research projects. They argue that these impacts are generally positive, and are felt in terms of commercialization, patenting and publishing, but also in related technical areas and through identifying potential markets for developing technologies. The book concludes with policy recommendations for improving the role of project managers, especially in the area of network development.

Public Sector Support of Scientific Inquiry is an essential resource for scholars and students in economics, business management and innovation policy makers. Public sector project managers as well as their funding supervisors will also benefit from its actionable recommendations.

For readers who want to understand the hidden logic of how teams actually work, this book challenges the myth of the perfectly aligned, "optimized" culture and instead reveals how tension and conflict make real teams resilient.

Drawing on eighteen months of immersive observation inside four small firms, Eric R. Kushins offers a rare, firsthand look at teams in action. He uncovers how effective team cultures emerge, shift, and sustain themselves over time. Readers gain new conceptual tools for recognizing how relationships, rituals, and routines shape organizational performance, along with practical strategies for managing the cultural cycle of stability, crisis, and growth.

Culture is not a program to be rolled out. It is a performance lived every day. By understanding the dynamics that govern team interaction, leaders can better coordinate work, manage tension, and build organizations capable of navigating change. Hidden Rhythms of Teams is an essential guide for executives, HR leaders, consultants, entrepreneurs, family business owners, and MBA students seeking to build organizations that perform, adapt, and endure.

This book reframes leadership for a world transformed by AI, accelerating technologies, and planetary fragility. It argues that leadership is no longer about control or optimisation but about orientation: knowing what matters, sensing direction, and acting with moral courage when certainty collapses. In this new era, inherited formulas fall short. What leaders need instead is disciplined imagination - curiosity expansive enough to explore new possibilities, yet grounded enough to stay accountable to human consequence.

The book invites readers to see leaders as stewards, not owners; organisations as living systems, not machines; and leadership as an act of storytelling. Every story a leader tells shapes the world - connecting or fragmenting, regenerating or extracting, widening horizons or narrowing them. Drawing on leadership theory, systems thinking, ethics, narrative art, futures studies, and spiritual wisdom, the book blends rigorous insight with poetic depth, urging leaders to listen more deeply, imagine more boldly, and act with integrity.

At its core are three navigational frameworks - the Leadership Compass, the Moral Gyroscope, and Cosmic Leadership - guiding leaders at all levels and across disciplines through purpose, people, performance, possibility, and ethics. Ultimately, the book poses a provocative question: when machines can optimise almost everything, what remains unmistakably human about leadership?

This title provides a comprehensive framework for circular design integrating systems thinking, business strategy, service design, and product development. The study examines regulatory environments, financial models, and risk assessment in circular economy transitions and also includes:

• Comprehensive framework integrating systems thinking, futures thinking, and circular design principles for business transformation
• Analysis of regulatory developments in the EU and their implications for competitive advantage in circular economy transitions
• Examination of circular business models, financial mechanisms, and risk assessment strategies for sustainable enterprise
• Application of service design methodologies including Jobs-To-Be-Done framework and customer behavior analysis in circular contexts
• Detailed exploration of circular product design strategies incorporating R Strategies, Cradle to Cradle principles, and biomimicry

This title has been co-published with Professional Publishing Finland. T&F does not sell or distribute the print editions in Finland.

In an era where sustainability shapes the global agenda, The Evolution of Sustainability Accounting Education contributes to our understanding of the role of ac counting as a social practice rooted in public interest. This timely volume explores the urgent need to integrate sustainability into accounting curricula, addressing the social, economic, and environmental imperatives driving this transformation. From mapping the academic landscape of sustainability accounting to examining its impact on public sector accountability and corporate governance, this book of fers cutting-edge research and practical insights from leading experts. It addresses innovative pedagogical approaches, such as experiential learning and mobile learn ing, to prepare future accountants for the complexities of a sustainability-driven world.

Aimed at academics, students, researchers, and professionals, this book serves as an essential resource for those committed to advancing sustainability in account ing education. By highlighting real-world case studies, such as the FTX collapse, and exploring Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks, it un derscores the critical intersection of ethics, accountability, and sustainability. The Evolution of Sustainability Accounting Education is not just a call to action; it is a wake-up call to reimagine accounting education and foster a more equitable and sustainable future.

Alberto J. Costa, PhD in Accounting, is a Professor at the University of Aveiro (Institute of Accounting and Administration, ISCA-UA), where he teaches ac counting and business ethics, as well as accounting and management control. He is the head of the master's degree in accounting and management control. He is a full researcher at GOVCOPP (Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies, University of Aveiro), a certified accountant in Portugal, and a member of GRUDIS-Portuguese Network of Accounting Research. He develops research in the fields of financial accounting, management accounting, accounting education, and business and accounting ethics. He has published papers in national and international journals and edited books with Taylor & Francis.

Margarida M. Pinheiro is a Professor at the University of Aveiro (Institute of Accounting and Administration, ISCA-UA) and a full researcher at the Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF), within the Policies, Evaluation, and Quality research group. With a PhD in Social Sciences, her work focuses on higher education management, quality assurance, and innovative teaching methodologies, particularly in accounting, finance, and marketing. She has published extensively in books, peer-reviewed journals, and international conferences, contributing to the advancement of accounting educa tion and its integration with sustainability. Professor Pinheiro has coordinated international technical-scientific projects, including under Erasmus, and actively participates in scientific committees, editorial roles, and academic event organi zation. Her research and professional activities emphasize collaboration and in novation in teaching, making her well suited to edit these volumes. Through her work, she seeks to support educators, researchers, and professionals in exploring the role of sustainability in reshaping accounting education for a more responsi ble future.

By integrating social ontology and epistemology, the book offers a systematic realist account of tourism, explaining how tourist entities, institutions, and practices are constituted, how tourism reality is structured as a domain of social reality, and how knowledge about this domain can be justified.

It provides a clear philosophical foundation for understanding tourism by learning how tourism reality is constituted and how knowledge about it can be justified. The book delivers these benefits through a systematic framework that integrates social ontology and epistemology, drawing on realist philosophy and Searle-inspired social ontology. It clarifies key concepts, distinguishes types of entities and facts within tourism reality, and explains the institutional mechanisms, such as collective intentionality, status functions, and constitutive rules, which structure the tourism domain. These theoretical arguments are illustrated with real-world examples from tourism practice that help explain how particular aspects of the framework operate in concrete contexts. By combining conceptual analysis with a coherent epistemological account of how tourism knowledge can be evaluated, the book provides researchers and advanced students with a rigorous meta-theoretical framework that supports clearer interpretation, stronger theoretical grounding, and more consistent research in tourism studies.

The book is intended primarily for scholars, researchers, and postgraduates in tourism studies who seek a deeper theoretical and philosophical understanding of tourism as a social phenomenon. It will also be of interest to academics in sociology, human geography, economics, anthropology, and philosophy of the social sciences, particularly those concerned with social ontology and epistemology. It may also benefit advanced graduate students and researchers engaged in theoretical, conceptual, or interdisciplinary work on tourism and social reality for its analysis of tourism reality.

Johanson and Aboagye propose that economics too often focuses on tools for calculation and accounting, leading to excessive consumption and a negative impact on occupational health and safety. Drawing on examples from diverse work environments, they argue that constant reflection on ethical principles and societal norms must be present when economic decisions are made. Chapters advocate for a new democratic economic model which aims to build a world where the economy serves humanity, enabling people to live with less fear and uncertainty.

Pluralistic Economics is a prescient resource for scholars and students of business and management, finance and economics. Governance policymakers and business managers will also benefit from its human-focused insights and practical suggestions for improved workplace dynamics.

The right business model is essential for success in a fast-moving and interconnected world, and it starts with concept development.

The Company Soul is the in-depth manual to building and executing strategy amidst complex external and internal driving forces. Building on the foundation of his first book, international business leader and consultant Staffan Heden clarifies and expands his unique business model framework, showing how to create, build, and retain value while strengthening relationships with all stakeholders. The book offers important insights on navigating a tumultuous sociopolitical and economic environment, dealing with issues such as regional conflicts, cyber risk, climate change, and AI and other technological developments. Introducing the tools SETAI and SOAP, it presents a detailed roadmap for alternative paths for product and service development, recognizing the need for global organizations to constantly map new customer groups, find new ways to sell and price their products, and set up new collaborations.

This thought-provoking book is an ideal resource for owners, board members, and managers at medium to large companies, as well as MBA and advanced business students.

By thinking differently about audit, this exciting book establishes that the conceptual core of audit itself is the art of thinking differently: the making of those new connections that inspire the creativity and confidence to challenge established thinking and provide actionable insight. Audit is reconceptualised as a vital, creative, engine of progress - in society, the economy, the environment and in the appropriate use of technology. Progress requires confidence in the future. Audit addresses whether an audited entity is deserving of confidence and capable of developing - with deserved confidence flowing from creativity, sustainability, resilience and fair treatment. Audit becomes a form of social conscience, responding to, evaluating and influencing the ideas and ideals that a society or an entity within a society holds dear.

Through such framing, audit no longer observes from the sidelines but drives progress in business and society more generally. Whilst audit's traditional notions of conformity, control and compliance can be readily captured by a machine, the insight, imagination and inspiration that comes from thinking differently is fundamentally human. In this respect, the future of audit and of humanity converge. This book is not just for auditors and accountants concerned about the future of their profession but is an invitation to all with an interest in the future well-being of business and society to reformulate how they view audit.

At its core, the book explores whether virtual meetings can enable the creation of common ground. By focusing on practices of coordination, collaboration and coorientation, the book demonstrates the importance of common memories, common matters of concern and common experiences in producing common ground. It does not assume that virtual meetings are deficient compared to co-located meetings, but rather considers meeting virtually to be an interesting phenomenon to study on its own terms. Chapters use empirical evidence to investigate virtual meetings and how they differ from in-person events.

How Virtual Meetings Matter for Community at Work is an essential read for academics and scholars of organisation theory, human resource management, working life studies, sociology, science and technology studies, and communication. Its focus on inclusive working practices will also prove beneficial for managers and HRM practitioners.

Leadership, Art, and Responsibility begins where strategies and tools fall silent: when leaders are drawn into a demanding encounter with poetry and music, where vulnerability, tragedy and moral ambiguity unsettle how responsibility is felt and power is exercised. Building on insights from neuroscience, philosophy and psychology, Julia Romanowska reveals how the shock and beauty of art can unsettle leaders' judgement - and their very sense of who they are.

At the centre of the book is the Shibboleth leadership programme, evaluated in a randomised study showing measurable changes in leaders, with effects extending to stress-related hormone levels among their employees.

Uniting aesthetics, emotion and ethics, the book argues for leadership grounded in exposure rather than control, and in responsibility rather than technique. Romanowska terms this integration aestemethics and challenges reductive models of leadership training, opening another horizon for leadership.

The book will interest scholars and students of leadership, management, organisational health psychology, philosophy and cultural studies, as well as practitioners concerned with ethically serious leadership and the human consequences of organisational life. It insists on responsibility when the dignity of human life is at stake - and consequences cannot be undone.