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This book explores how workplace spirituality, trust, and work-life balance can transform organizational performance in developing economies. Drawing on original empirical research with the Sri Lanka Air Force, it demonstrates how nourishing the inner self-through values-based practices-enhances job satisfaction, employee engagement, and productivity.

Amid globalization, automation, and rising job insecurity, the book offers a moral and sustainable framework for HRM that bridges cultural traditions with modern management theory. It challenges Western-centric models by introducing context-specific insights and showing how spiritual values and ethical leadership can drive organizational resilience and labor productivity.

Ideal for scholars in organizational behavior, HRM, ethics, and cross-cultural management seeking strategies to align human resource practices with authenticity, trust, and wellbeing, this book contributes to global conversations on inclusive growth and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

A step-by-step leadership guide to help overcome employee resistance to AI, boost innovation, and unlock AI's full business value

As leaders rush to adopt artificial intelligence (AI)-driven by its potential to revolutionize operations, boost return on investment, and drive innovation-they often encounter significant hurdles. These challenges are not simply technical but also deeply human, involving employee resistance, cognitive biases, and entrenched organizational culture, all of which undermine successful AI adoption.

Drawing on over twenty-five years of consulting experience and rigorous behavioral science research, Gleb Tsipursky shows business professionals at all levels how to harness their greatest resource while solving their biggest challenge: their anxious and resistant people. You will learn how to boost employee engagement, dismantle cultural roadblocks, and build the psychological sense of safety required for AI-powered innovation that maximizes efficiency and effectiveness. Through real-world case studies, including many from clients, readers will see how to transform AI skeptics into empowered AI champions, design upskilling programs that drive engagement and innovation, and weave ethical governance guardrails into every deployment.

The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work includes frameworks, conversation scripts, and metrics based on more than 100 consulting projects, along with over 50 interviews with leaders from Microsoft, Uber, Experian, and many other leading firms. This book delivers a practical roadmap to turn employee anxiety into energy, resistance into results, and promising pilots into scalable breakthroughs, cementing a durable competitive edge in the AI age.

This open access volume employs case studies in selected African countries to investigate the emergence and evolution of sustainable entrepreneurship within the continent. Utilizing a comparative approach, it integrates management, neo-institutional, and entrepreneurship theories to fully understand the meanings and practices of sustainable entrepreneurship across diverse African contexts. Though often viewed as homogenous, entrepreneurship practices in Africa exhibit variations shaped by cultural beliefs. Contributions explore three streams: individual (vision, emotion, rationality, and values and norms), organizational (entrepreneurial orientation, MSP, internal culture, routines), and context (opportunities, industry culture, isomorphisms). Drawing insights from experiences in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, this book is a valuable resource for researchers and policymakers focusing on the development of sustainable entrepreneurship in Africa.

This book explores the evolving landscape of entrepreneurship in higher education, showcasing how universities are becoming central players in regional innovation ecosystems. The central theme of this book is the innovative startup ecosystem in universities, with a particular focus on emerging and transitioning economies across Asia and Africa. Through a series of richly detailed chapters, this volume investigates how universities in countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, and South Africa contribute to economic development by nurturing startups, facilitating technology transfer, and establishing business incubators. Using case studies, process documentation research, and field-based evidence, the book captures both institutional innovations and policy-level engagements that foster entrepreneurship and support MSMEs in diverse sectors including agriculture, aquaculture, digital services, and renewable technologies.

By integrating theory with grounded practice, this book offers a rare glimpse into the operationalisation of innovation at the university level highlighting success stories, challenges, and lessons learned in fostering startup culture in non-Western contexts. It demonstrates how academic institutions are transforming into entrepreneurial hubs, driving social and economic transformation. The reader will gain both conceptual clarity and empirical depth regarding how universities can align research, teaching, and outreach missions with startup development.

This is the 39th volume of Springer's Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics series, the official book series of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES). This volume features selected papers presented at the 52nd EBES Conference, held in Istanbul, Tuerkiye, on July 3-5, 2025. The conference was organized with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association, jointly organized with the Gulf Financial Center and the College of Business Administration, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait, in Collaboration with the Bahcesehir University. At the conference, 215 papers were presented by 471 colleagues from 59 countries. The conference was held in a hybrid format, featuring both in-person and online paper presentations.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of innovation research, focusing on perspectives from the social sciences. Its scope extends beyond the traditional association of innovation with economic change and development, addressing its impact across multiple spheres of society. The handbook examines how innovation impacts various societal spheres. The content is organized around the history, concepts, and themes of innovation research, covering both classical theories and recent developments. The handbook highlights key empirical findings and explores various dimensions of innovation. Topics include coordination mechanisms (via markets, organizations, or trust); the role of innovation in different spheres of society (such as the economy, law, science, and the arts); and selected fields of innovation (including sustainability, nutrition, and energy provision). It also examines the transformative role of digitalization, including phenomena such as social media, digital platforms, and crowdsourcing. In addition, it covers innovation policy, regulatory frameworks, and methodological approaches to studying innovation. Featuring contributions from well-known scholars, this handbook serves as a valuable resource for understanding innovation research across the social sciences.

Note: Parts of the handbook were translated from the original German manuscript using the help of an artificial intelligence machine translation tool. The translated content was subsequently revised by editors, chapter authors, and language editors to ensure accuracy and clarity.

This open-access guide offers a practical, step-by-step introduction to partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) using R and the SEMinR package. PLS-SEM is widely used for analyzing complex relationships between observed and latent variables, valued for its flexibility, predictive capabilities, and ability to handle complex models.

Now in its second edition, the book incorporates the latest research, enhanced model evaluation routines, and updated guidance on methodological choices and result interpretation. Each chapter combines a concise overview of key concepts, metrics, and rules of thumb with a detailed case study to support hands-on learning.

Designed for researchers and practitioners alike, this guide provides the essential tools and insights needed to apply PLS-SEM effectively using SEMinR.

This volume explores how firms, public institutions, and communities are responding to technological change, environmental pressures, regulatory developments, and evolving market and societal demands. Featuring contributions presented at the 2025 International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE) held in Bratislava, Slovakia, this volume address topics such as corporate governance, ESG and sustainability reporting, artificial intelligence (AI), digital public administration, taxation reform, logistics and supply chain resilience, consumer behavior, tourism, education, human resource management, and social inclusion. In doing so, the volume moves beyond a narrow business focus and highlights the interconnected roles of management, policy, governance, and society in processes of adaptation and reform. It also offers empirically grounded insights from a variety of national and sectoral contexts, particularly studies from Greece, Slovakia, Germany, Italy, Thailand, and broader European settings.

By combining empirical research with conceptual and application-oriented contributions, the volume contributes to ongoing academic and policy debates on organizational adaptation, institutional change, and sustainable development. It offers researchers rigorous empirical findings and comparative perspectives, while providing policymakers with evidence-based insights relevant to the design and implementation of policies in areas such as digital transformation, ESG, taxation, and public governance. The volume is also of interest to graduate students and practitioners engaged with contemporary economic and societal challenges.

This book examines the dynamics of knowledge spillovers, sectoral innovation, and firm-level productivity within Vietnam's manufacturing industries. Using Spatial Regression Models and Cross-Classified Models, it analyzes the effects of R&D, foreign direct investment, and trade activities on innovation across 38 sectors and 62 provinces in Vietnam. The findings in the book support the predominance of intra-industry spillovers, aligning with the Marshall hypothesis rather than Jacobs externalities. Sectoral innovation is shown to be positively influenced by R&D and export activities, while FDI and imports exhibit negative associations. At the firm level, characteristics such as size, capital intensity, and export orientation consistently correlate with higher total factor productivity. The book also explores the lagged positive effects of sectoral innovation and provincial human resource externalities on firm productivity, offering insights into the spatial and structural determinants of industrial performance. This book would be an insightful read for those interested in Vietnam's industrial sectors.

This book explores Chinese engagement in Africa's mining sector within the context of international business. Conceptual and empirical contributions by diverse authors examine mining activities of Chinese companies in several African countries. Emerging from those contributions is a theory of minimal investment, defined as the degree to which the companies invest minimally in African operations, communities, and countries just for them to get by (i.e., function as normal).

The volume presents four conditions that explain why minimal investment persists as a dominant logic of foreign firm behaviour in Africa. Institutions permit it, strategies enact it, heritage legitimizes it, and reactions stabilize it. Minimal investment has produced order, and order is safety both for firms and often for host institutions alike. Optimal investment, by contrast, introduces 'danger' because it changes the status quo, redistributes power, and mitigates African rather than firm risk. The Theory of Minimal Investment (TMI) reveals how underinvestment is an intentional, albeit seemingly rational, historically embedded, and institutionally sustained strategy of engagement.

Coming at a time in which African countries are seeing a surge of Chinese interest in Africa, this book offers a cautionary tale of the consequences of organizations seeking the 'help' of Chinese companies. It will appeal to International Business studies and strategy researchers interested in interorganizational relationships, particularly from the African perspective.

This book explores the intersection of human factors, aviation operations, management, and system optimization, focusing on how human-centered design, behavior, decision-making, organizational conditions, and management choices affect safety, system performance, and sustainable operational optimization. It bridges theory and practice through a multidisciplinary examination interpreted through the authors' long-standing aviation industry experience, including operational, technical, safety, engineering, and senior management perspectives.

Key topics include cognitive workload, human error analysis, crew resource management, fatigue risk management, communication, teamwork, situation awareness, human-machine interaction, safety management systems, aircraft maintenance Human Factors, automation, AI-supported decision-making, and ergonomic system design. Using case studies, conceptual models, applied examples, simulation-based thinking, and real-world incident and accident reports, the book provides practical insights into the systemic integration of Human Factors into aviation safety, performance, and management frameworks.

A distinctive didactic feature is the integration of structured analytical thinking with qualitative human-centered approaches and practical interpretation drawn from decades of aviation industry experience, including leadership and C-level management viewpoints. This gives readers a systematic yet adaptable framework for evaluating aviation systems from both frontline operational and strategic organizational perspectives.

By combining rigorous academic research with practical relevance and senior aviation management experience, the book serves as a valuable guide for improving modern aviation systems. Its central message is that optimization means improving the conditions under which people, technologies, organizations, and regulators can perform safely, reliably, resiliently, and sustainably.

This book illustrates how human resource leaders can harness data and AI to solve workforce challenges from turnover and skill shortages to low engagement and strategic misalignment. Using the commercial airline sector in Portugal as a case study, the book introduces a new job satisfaction scale and a predictive churn model providing a practical roadmap for improving talent retention, strengthening leadership, and building a thriving, future-ready workforce.

Bridging academic insight with real-world applications, this book is useful for researchers, scholars and academics as well as practitioners, leaders, and executives in HRM, organizational psychology, aviation management, and data-driven decision-making.

This volume advances a critical conversation at the intersection of business management, innovation, and sustainable development by offering an integrated, multidisciplinary perspective on how organizations can navigate complexity while driving long-term societal value. Bringing together insights from human resource management, technological transformation, and inclusive economic systems, the book develops a coherent framework for understanding how organizations translate strategy into impact.

Structured across five thematic sections, the volume examines: the role of inclusive and ethical leadership in shaping organizational cultures; the mechanisms through which creativity and adaptive capabilities support resilient business models; the linkages between finance, development, and economic inclusion; the strategic implications of emerging digital technologies; and the growing influence of ESG and sustainability frameworks on organizational practice.

Distinguished by its integration of theory and application, the book draws on established and emerging perspectives; including human-centered management approaches, innovation systems thinking, and digitally enabled transformation to illuminate the pathways through which organizations respond to contemporary challenges. It offers both conceptual clarity and practical insight into how firms can align performance with broader societal outcomes.

This volume will be of particular interest to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to understand how management and innovation can be mobilized to address global development challenges. By situating organizational strategy within a broader socio-economic context, it provides a rigorous and forward-looking contribution to the evolving field of responsible and sustainable business.

This book demonstrates how live action roleplay (LARP) and immersive scenario-based training are powerful tools for building high-performing organizations, and establishing competitive advantage. Drawing on organizational psychology and experiential learning, it explains how work itself functions as a socially constructed "game" shaped by goals, roles, and culture-and how intentionally redesigning these elements can shift team dynamics quickly and sustainably. Through practical examples and research-backed methods, the book demonstrates how storytelling, shared narratives, and structured roleplay build trust, accelerate team development, and strengthen decision-making under pressure. It tackles common organizational challenges from conflict resolution and emotional safety to leadership identity, goal alignment, and crisis rehearsal, illustrating how immersive techniques compress months of team learning into hours.

Offering a toolkit of evidence-based and experiential practices, this book equips managers, HR professionals, and consultants as well as scholars, academics, and students with innovative approaches for driving engagement, resilience, and cohesive performance across teams and organizations.

Praise for The LARP Effect

"Watching this work evolve has been a reminder of what meaningful scholarship can be: rigorous, imaginative, and unapologetically useful. This book does not ask readers to adopt a framework, it invites them to step inside a system and see themselves clearly. That is where real learning begins." -- Rosanne Roberts, PhD, Research Liaison, ORS, Capella University

"The danger of our modern society is the stripping of stories into abstractions like data, metrics, and models. Despite its best attempts, modernity does not strip stories, so much as disenchant them and render them invisible to us...The LARP Effect shows us how to glimpse the magic of our every day. Though LARP games and their decisions may be fictional, our actual experience of them grants us perspective on the stories we already live and share with one another, in work, life or any other context." -- David Yu, Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC)

"One of the most experienced designers in the world, Balzac brings over 40 years of organizational knowledge and storytelling to the business world, reteaching us how to play the game." -- Ryan Hart, Creative Director, Sinking Ship Creations (Blooloop's Top 50 Immersive Influencer)

"This book reframes leadership in a way that actually sticks. Work is a game of sorts, and this book shows how to design it, so people engage, decide, and perform better. It's practical. It's memorable. And it gets to how organizations really work." - Sid Probstein, CEO, SWIRL

"...[Steve's] ability to capture the essence of a problem and translate it into real world action but in a non-threatening play environment is astounding...this book offers the blueprint for transforming your organizational culture through shared, living stories."--Ronald Espinosa, Director, Google Category, Softchoice, Inc

"Dr. Balzac masterfully blends conceptual innovation, clear and engaging prose, intellectual depth, and practical business insights. His unique LARP approach significantly strengthens team unity, boosts productivity, and enhances ongoing team effectiveness." -- Eric Bloom, Executive Director, IT Management and Leadership Institute

This book presents a new framework for managing complex projects in environments that integrate new technological developments, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, digital twins, and big data analytics, which are reshaping how decisions are made, how risks are predicted, and how performance is monitored in real time. The framework, named INSPIRE PM (Integrated, Sustainable, Predictive, Innovative, Responsive, and Efficient Project Management), enables professionals, executives and change leaders to create resilient and data-driven projects. It specifically addresses the cultural shift toward hybrid work models, cross-cultural virtual teams, and the need for greater organizational adaptability, which demand new skills and leadership mindsets from project managers.

IINSPIRE PM emphasizes systemic integration over siloed processes, making it particularly well-suited for projects characterized by high levels of uncertainty and interdependency among stakeholders. Focusing on dynamic decision-making, integrated governance, and the ability to respond quickly to evolving constraints and opportunities, this book serves as an appropriate guide for novice or advanced project managers working in a range of industries.

The book shows how managing directors/ CEO create room for growth through the three key roles of the CEO Office - the CEO, the Chief of Staff (CoS), and the Executive Business Partner (EBP).

Many tasks. Little time. Constant decisions.

Anyone leading a company today has to take decisions at speed, solve problems, lead people, and think about tomorrow-all without losing sight of day-to-day operations. For many managing directors, this reality becomes a critical burden. With every additional responsibility, it becomes harder to maintain oversight and ensure that everything runs as planned.

The CEO Office is a structured leadership system that redistributes responsibility to create greater clarity, speed, and impact. It is designed to reduce operational overload, strengthen strategic decision-making, and coordinate internal processes so that leaders can regain time for what truly matters-especially in complex situations. The three roles within the CEO Office are strategically interlinked, enabling clear accountability and effective collaboration.

Discover how to position your company for the future despite a full to-do list-while also clearing your own head. Case studies from mid-sized companies, practical frameworks, and ready-to-use checklists make the system immediately applicable, including in your organization.

This second part of a two-volume work offers a comprehensive exploration of China's ambitious "Made in China 2025" initiative and its broader geopolitical implications. By examining China's strategic shift from a low-cost manufacturing hub to a high-tech powerhouse, chapters provide a critical assessment of the initiative's progress and its impact on global economic dynamics.

In this volume, authors explore the idea that through the MIC 2025 initiative, China seeks not only to reduce structural dependencies on advanced economies but also to redefine the institutional logic governing.

Through expert contributions, readers will gain insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by China's industrial strategies, including the semiconductor "chips war" and the new global bipolarity centered around technology and innovation.

This volume is essential for scholars and practitioners in international political economy, Chinese studies, and global economic governance. It offers a nuanced understanding of China's evolving role on the global stage, making it a valuable resource for graduate-level courses and research institutions focused on contemporary China. With its interdisciplinary approach, the book provides a holistic view of China's rise and its implications for the future of global economic and strategic competition.

This book focuses on the innovative startup ecosystem within universities which combines research and practice from emerging and transitioning economies, offering a comprehensive look at how universities, governments, and communities co-create robust entrepreneurial ecosystems. With a special focus on Southeast Asia and Africa, the book explores how academic institutions can become launchpads for entrepreneurial ventures, especially in contexts where resources are limited but innovation is thriving. Spanning diverse themes such as regulatory challenges, incubation models, funding gaps, technology transfer, and regional development, this book includes empirical case studies and critical reflections that unpack the enabling and inhibiting factors shaping university-driven entrepreneurship. From Jakarta's slum-based MSME incubation models to encrypted funding platforms in the digital age and from policy governance in South Africa to market access frameworks in Cambodia, each chapter offers grounded insights with global relevance.

What distinguishes this work is its interdisciplinary and practice-oriented approach, combining policy analysis, grassroots documentation, institutional theory, and field-based strategies. It presents an accessible yet scholarly lens through which stakeholders such as academics, policymakers, ecosystem builders, and startup founders can explore how innovation ecosystems can be cultivated even in low-resource settings. The reader will benefit from a comparative perspective on what works in diverse institutional and cultural contexts and from actionable insights into designing inclusive and resilient innovation systems. The book aims to inspire universities and policymakers to reimagine their role as knowledge producers and strategic actors driving local development, youth empowerment, and sustainable entrepreneurship.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of mathematical optimization models and techniques for solving facility location problems. It equips students with the theoretical foundations and practical knowledge needed to analyze real-world location planning problems, as well as to use and adapt optimization models and methods suited for these tasks. To support this, the book offers detailed explanations of the optimization theory underlying the methods used to solve the presented location problems. In particular, it discusses Lagrangian relaxation and duality, subgradient optimization, column generation, and Benders' decomposition in substantial depth.

Each chapter concludes with a set of exercises, some of which take the form of case studies that, while fictitious, reflect realistic applications. The book is further supplemented by a Python package, pyloa. At the end of each chapter, examples show how classes and routines from this package can be applied to solve selected location problems introduced in the chapter.

This book is intended for graduate students in operations research, applied mathematics, mathematics-economics, industrial engineering, and business administration with a focus on analytics or quantitative methods. It is also a valuable resource for university instructors designing 5-15 ECTS courses on location-planning optimization, as well as for researchers and practitioners seeking a thorough introduction to optimisation models and methods for facility location planning.

This book brings together selected papers presented at the International Scientific Conference "Digital Transformation in Industry: Trends, Management, Strategies" (DTI), held in Ekaterinburg, Russia, on November 19-21, 2025, as part of the biennial DTI framework. Organized by the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the conference further developed the strategic research agenda initiated at DTI-2024, with particular emphasis on the theme 'Artificial Intellect in Industry: Effects, Barriers, and the Directions of National Policy'. The book is structured around five interconnected thematic areas. First, it addresses applied cases of artificial intelligence and emerging trajectories of industrial development, including comparative national experiences, sectoral applications, human-machine interaction on the shopfloor, and AI-enabled energy and sustainability solutions. Second, it explores the optimization of business processes and business models through digitalization, focusing on data management, organizational change, and the transformation of enterprise decision-making. Third, it considers digital ecosystem architectures and platform-based solutions, highlighting agent-based modeling, adaptive identification methods, cross-border innovation platforms, hardware emulation tools, and regional dimensions of digital transformation. Fourth, the volume examines the human dimension of AI adoption, including human-centered manufacturing, education, employment, digital skills, wages, and human capital formation under Industry 5.0. Finally, the book explores the application of AI-driven tools in FinTech and cybersecurity, with chapters addressing large language models and proactive cyberattack detection. Taken together, the chapters offer theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives on the restructuring of industrial systems under the influence of AI. The book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers engaged in the study and implementation of AI-driven industrial transformation.

Leading experts on greenwashing offer a playbook for achieving competitive advantage by combatting misleading claims and building trust.

Greenwashing has reached epidemic proportions, and consumer confidence in business sustainability commitments is falling. Those most affected by greenwashing are genuine green firms, and companies truly committed to sustainability goals can find it hard to communicate their commitments and distinguish themselves in this sea of greenwash. These companies need to confront their rivals head on to win the trust of stakeholders. From Greenwash to Green Trust offers a new paradigm for how to gain and maintain competitive advantage in a world of exaggerated green claims.

Building on more than a decade of research on greenwashing, Tom Lyon and Wren Montgomery offer a three-step approach for companies determined to rise above their greenwashing competitors:

• Understand why trust has been broken: First, learn how greenwashing works, and hurts, in today's world.
• Build trust: Then, look in the mirror, acknowledge your own shortcomings, and substantiate your company's commitment to sustainability goals.
• Leverage trust: Finally, create powerful relationships to outcompete greenwashers and turn integrity into lasting advantage.

In the end, the message of From Greenwash to Green Trust is a positive one. While there are plenty of businesses doing the "right" thing on sustainability, with this novel strategic approach to beating greenwashing, businesses can center transparency and trust-to restore consumer confidence and support rapid growth.

This interdisciplinary volume introduces Entrepreneurial Life Design (ELD) as a transformative framework for navigating personal and professional transitions in an era of uncertainty. Drawing from entrepreneurship education, human-centered design, and career development, the book offers theoretical foundations, empirical insights, and practical tools to foster purpose, resilience, and adaptability. Contributions from leading scholars and practitioners explore ELD's application across educational, organizational, and societal contexts, with case studies and program models that support learners, professionals, and changemakers. By integrating research-based strategies with real-world relevance, this volume empowers individuals and institutions to design sustainable, value-driven futures. It is an essential resource for educators, coaches, researchers, and anyone seeking clarity and agency in shaping their life and career paths.

At the heart of strategic management is the definition of a company's business unit strategy, which is supported by corporate portfolio management. While the concept of corporate portfolio management, its role within the strategic management process, as well as the corresponding corporate portfolio instruments have been extensively addressed by literature, the communication of corporate portfolio information towards a company's shareholders and other stakeholders has not received in depth research attention yet. This book offers an innovative research approach by creating a concept for corporate portfolio communication including its dimensions, extent and communication, based on which stock market and behavioral CEO antecedents are investigated.

From Risk to Resilience challenges how decisions are made in an era defined not only by climate disruption, but by systemic uncertainty. Traditional risk models rely on historical data and stable assumptions. Yet across infrastructure, financial markets, and national systems, these foundations are breaking down, creating a widening gap between modeled risk and real-world uncertainty.

Sharron L. McPherson introduces The Resilience Method (TM), a decision-grade framework that enables governments, investors, and infrastructure leaders to assess whether systems, assets, and communities will remain viable over time. Moving beyond risk mitigation, she reframes resilience as a strategic discipline for operating under uncertainty.Drawing on three decades of experience across finance, law, and policy, and fieldwork across five continents, she connects complex risk signals to real-world decisions. This is a practical framework for navigating volatility, allocating capital with greater confidence, and building systems that endure.

This book, the second volume of The Synergistic Effect of Sustainable Business Practices on Human Capital and Economic Performance, extends the research and insights of the first volume by focusing on the intersection of human capital development, economic performance, and sustainable business strategy. In an era of rapid technological advancement, shifting workforce expectations, and intensified ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) imperatives, organizations face the challenge of integrating sustainability not only into operational practices but also into the management and development of their human assets. This volume explores how strategic workforce management, employee engagement, and organizational learning contribute to sustainable economic outcomes at the firm, industry, and national levels. The book will covers theoretical frameworks linking sustainability, human capital, and economic performance, research Findings on the role of human resources in achieving sustainability-driven competitive advantage, case studies from diverse industries and geographies illustrating best practices in integrating HR strategy with sustainability objectives, policy implications for governments and international agencies in promoting sustainable and inclusive economic growth and future-oriented discussions on the Future of Work, workforce digitalization, and the skills required in a sustainable economy.

By combining perspectives from economics, human resource management, and sustainability science, this volume will serves as a valuable reference for academics, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to understand and leverage the synergies between people and profit in driving sustainable corporate performance.

Navigating Sustainability: Strategies and Solutions for Business in Emerging and Developing Countries offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how sustainability can be embedded within business practices in rapidly transforming economies. As environmental pressures intensify alongside economic growth, businesses are increasingly required to align operational strategies with ecological limits, social equity, and regulatory frameworks, while responding to evolving global sustainability standards, stakeholder expectations, and increasing demands for transparency and accountability.
This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to address key dimensions of sustainability, including climate change mitigation, water and resource management, circular economy transitions, sustainable finance, digital transformation, governance, and ethical considerations. The book emphasises the interconnected nature of environmental processes, socio-economic systems, and institutional structures, advocating for integrated and context-sensitive approaches that bridge theory, policy, and practice.
With a strong focus on emerging and developing countries, the book highlights both the structural challenges and the innovative potential within these regions, particularly in the context of rapid urbanisation, resource constraints, and institutional diversity. By combining conceptual frameworks with applied case studies, it provides valuable insights for academics, policymakers, and business leaders seeking to navigate sustainability transitions in complex and dynamic environments.

This book examines the transformation of climate innovation from policy-driven environmental necessity into a vibrant, multi-trillion-dollar global economic opportunity. At the time when world is intensifying its commitment to net-zero targets, this book reveals how emerging technologies ranging from carbon capture and storage (CCS) and green fintech to digital carbon markets and AI-powered sustainability solutions are reshaping the climate agenda into a new surge of entrepreneurial and investment opportunity. In the context of rapid climate change, this book offers in-depth analysis of how digital disruption is intersecting with environmental innovation to redefine the worldwide green economy. Our central argument is that the challenge of decarbonisation is now deeply embedded in the architecture of markets, business models and digital technologies. What was prior seen as an ecological burden is swiftly being redefined as an economic engine reshaping investment strategies, industrial policies and international competitiveness. The book draws on a diverse body of evidence, such as market reports, venture capital investments, sartup ecosystems, industry case studies, regulatory structures and global development indicators. It underscores the growth of climate-tech investors, the emergence of sustainable financial markets and the integration of AI, blockchain and fintech in formulating scalable and economically feasible climate solutions. Our finding highlights how these transformative technologies are establishing new value chains in sectors like energy, mobility, agriculture and finance, while providing emerging economies new pathways for sustainable development. This publication is especially pressing and significant at present. Although growing awareness of climate change is increasing, a significant gap remains between sustainability objectives and the financial instruments and technologies required to meet them. This book aims to fill that gap. It outlines the mechanisms by which green innovations can be expanded, financed, and brought to market, providing actionable guidance for policymakers, investors, scholars, and business owners.

This book highlights the interdisciplinary nature of entrepreneurship in today's rapidly changing global landscape. Written by leading scholars and industry experts, it examines how ethnicity shapes entrepreneurial practices among indigenous communities in Namibia. Drawing on diverse theoretical frameworks and real-world insights from local leaders, it offers a unique cultural perspective on entrepreneurship.

The volume explores how indigenous entrepreneurs balance modern economic demands with deep-rooted cultural values, while addressing the challenges and opportunities they face. By foregrounding authentic voices, it contributes to a deeper understanding of indigenous entrepreneurship. This book is an essential resource for researchers, students, practitioners, and communities interested in indigenous business and development.

This book critically explores ethical leadership and responsible business practices in emerging markets, with a particular focus on Ghana and the African continent. Bridging theory and practice, it examines corruption, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder engagement, and public sector ethics through interdisciplinary analysis and real-world case studies. The work challenges Western-centric ethical paradigms by centering African perspectives and experiences, offering a contextual model of ethical leadership. It addresses the moral complexities faced by organizations in socio-politically dynamic environments and provides actionable insights for navigating ethical dilemmas. This timely contribution is essential for academics, students, policymakers, and business leaders seeking to understand and promote ethical governance and sustainable development in the Global South.