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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 book is an essential guide for educators seeking to integrate sustainability into business curricula. It bridges the gap between traditional profit-focused models and the urgent need for environmental and social responsibility. The book provides a robust framework for designing programs that equip future leaders with the skills to navigate complex ethical dilemmas and drive systemic change. This book is an essential guide for educators seeking to integrate sustainability into business curricula. It bridges the gap between traditional profit-focused models and the urgent need for environmental and social responsibility. Featuring diverse case studies and practical teaching strategies, it explores how to embed sustainable development goals across disciplines like finance, marketing, and strategy. This book empowers academics to foster a new generation of business thinkers capable of building a truly sustainable and equitable global economy.

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.

This proceedings volume offers the latest developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the tourism and hospitality industry. Feature papers presented at the International Federation of IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT)'s 33rd Annual ENTER International e-Tourism Conference held in Breda, The Netherlands, this book demonstrates the breadth and maturity of contemporary eTourism research with strong focus on AI including large language models (LLMs), GenAI as a research instrument, AI-driven personalization, and the ethical implications of automation. The volume further emphasizes digital ecosystems and governance, with research on smart destinations, digital distribution, blockchain adoption, ICT lifecycles in tourism SMEs, and city metrics.

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) continue to revolutionize travel, tourism, and hospitality. Over 30+ years, the ENTER eTourism conference has been at the forefront of providing insight on the use and impact of new technologies for travel, tourism and hospitality practitioners and researchers. However, the rapid development and deployment of new developments, including generative AI (GenAI), service robotics, IoT, and Extended Realities (XR) technologies, among others, call for a rapid and careful reassessment of ICT in tourism, particularly including ethical and societal considerations.

Bridging the gap between visionary research and practical implementation to foster resilient tourism systems that serve businesses, communities, and the planet, this book is valuable to scholars, researchers, students, and practitioners in tourism and hospitality.

This book provides valuable insights into the ways in which economics and management science contribute to sustainable development, organizational innovation, and social well-being. Featuring peer-reviewed contributions presented at the World Conference on Economics and Management (WorldCEM 25) held in Aveiro, Portugal, this book showcases how advanced research methodologies, innovative models, and empirical studies can inform better decision-making across sectors and regions. Featuring interdisciplinary approaches and real-world applications to offer a bridge between theory and practice, this book provides academics, scholars, researchers, and professionals with advanced scholarship in economics and management while also inspiring future research in responsible leadership, evidence-based policymaking, and inclusive growth in a rapidly changing world.

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 volume is a collection of scholarly essays in game theory, economics, and management science published in honor of Guiomar Martin-Herran, whose work has made significant contributions to dynamic optimization and the analysis of strategic interaction in economic and managerial contexts.

Its twelve chapters address a range of topics, including groundwater exploitation, pollution control, nonrenewable resources, dual-channel competition, environmental regulation, differential games, resource extraction, fisheries, common-pool resource management, climate change, and retail services, with a shared emphasis on equilibrium analysis and dynamic decision-making.

The book will be of interest to researchers, advanced graduate students, and specialists in economics, management science, operations research, and applied mathematics concerned with contemporary applications of game-theoretic and optimization methods.

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 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 explores the sharing economy from an operational perspective, utilizing advanced technologies and optimization techniques to improve efficiency, sustainability, reliability, customer satisfaction, and decision-making support for stakeholders. It introduces a multi-level framework that covers various aspects of sharing economy operations, including supply and demand dynamics, platform management, and stakeholder decisions related to pricing, behavior, and operations. The book provides a thorough analysis of operational challenges in areas such as ride-sharing, operations management, crowd-shipping, security, healthcare matching, hospitality, and tourism. Advanced solutions, including data analytics, optimization models, blockchain, smart pricing, and artificial intelligence, are presented as tools to effectively address these issues. Additionally, the book examines the opportunities and challenges associated with the adoption of these technologies across different segments of the sharing economy, from demand and supply to platform operations. Ultimately, it offers a comprehensive overview of how digital, optimization, and advanced technologies can shape a more efficient, sustainable, and customer-focused future for the sharing economy.

This book offers contemporary insights into the intersection of sustainable development, leadership, innovation, and organizational performance in a global context. Featuring 30 selected papers presented at the 20th Academy of Global Business Advancement (AGBA) World Congress held in Bangkok, Thailand, this book brings together research from scholars across Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States addressing real-world challenges in public governance, green management, digital transformation, and global business. The work also highlights critical themes such as artificial intelligence in marketing and governance, internationalization of global firms, the post-pandemic effects on SMEs, and sustainable practices in hospitality and manufacturing. By offering comparative and cross-country perspectives, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of global trends shaping business and entrepreneurship in an increasingly interconnected and digitalized world. This book is a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and graduate students in the fields of business, economics, sustainability, innovation management, and public administration.

This first 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, chapters explore the idea that MIC 2025 operates not merely as an acadeonomic development programme, but as a mechanism for strategic decoupling - a deliberate restructuring of global production networks aimed at insulating China from external vulnerabilities.

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. An essential read 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 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 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 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 book focuses on the innovative use of multi-source heterogeneous data to address key issues in public transit systems. Readers will explore advanced methodologies for data mining, problem diagnosis, mechanism analysis, and stochastic optimization tailored to the public transit context.

This book stands out by integrating the latest in data processing techniques, pattern recognition, and mechanism analysis, providing a comprehensive framework for systematic diagnosis and optimization of transit systems. By examining both microscopic and macroscopic perspectives, it offers insights into passenger behavior, system reliability, and personalized transit solutions.

The unique approach of this book lies in its holistic perspective, emphasizing the study of patterns, problem diagnosis, mechanism analysis, and model construction through the use of multi-source heterogeneous public transit data. It bridges the gap between multi-source data analysis, Bayesian network technology, and synergistic optimization models, serving as a crucial resource for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who aim to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and passenger satisfaction of public transit systems.

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 volume is a collection of scholarly essays in game theory, economics, and management science published in honor of Guiomar Martin-Herran, whose work has made significant contributions to dynamic optimization and the analysis of strategic interaction in economic and managerial contexts.

Its twelve chapters address a range of topics, including groundwater exploitation, pollution control, nonrenewable resources, dual-channel competition, environmental regulation, differential games, resource extraction, fisheries, common-pool resource management, climate change, and retail services, with a shared emphasis on equilibrium analysis and dynamic decision-making.

The book will be of interest to researchers, advanced graduate students, and specialists in economics, management science, operations research, and applied mathematics concerned with contemporary applications of game-theoretic and optimization methods.

This book examines cyberloafing: employees' use of internet-enabled technologies for personal purposes during paid working time. It addresses a familiar but often misunderstood feature of contemporary work: checking messages, browsing news, using social media, shopping online, or engaging in other non-work digital activity while at work. Rather than treating cyberloafing simply as wasted time or misconduct, the book shows that its meaning depends on context. It may signal boredom, overload, weak engagement, poor role clarity, lack of recovery, or, in some cases, more serious withdrawal from work. The book combines theoretical synthesis, measurement development, cross-cultural comparison, and empirical studies. It develops a clear conceptual framework, validates the CBLS-15 Cyberloafing Scale, and examines cyberloafing across different national contexts, including Poland, Italy, and the United States. It also considers how hybrid work, digital monitoring, and artificial intelligence are changing the boundaries between work, recovery, distraction, and disengagement. The practical contribution is a more balanced approach to managing personal internet use at work. The book argues that broad restrictions and close monitoring are often insufficient and may create additional problems. Instead, organizations need better diagnosis, work design, leadership practices, recovery structures, and ethically responsible digital governance.

Moving beyond a narrowly economic perspective, the Handbook conceptualizes the firm as a multi-dimensional institution embedded in complex environments. Contributions address core themes such as economic coordination, organizational design, and legal structure, while also engaging with issues of social and political legitimacy. Rather than advancing a single unified model, the volume positions the 'Theory of the Firm' as a broad and evolving research agenda for understanding contemporary organizational forms. It highlights the analytical value of pluralism and the necessity of interdisciplinary approaches to capturing the complexity of modern firms.

The Handbook on the Theory of the Firm is an essential resource for scholars and students in economics, strategic management, international business, corporate law, and governance. It will also be of interest to policymakers and public-sector researchers concerned with how firms interact with markets and with legal, political, and societal environments.

Chapters adopt diverse theoretical and practical perspectives, analysing both the contemporary and future relevance of change studies. Moving beyond instrumental models and towards ethical understandings of the subject, the book is divided into four thematic parts: change towards meaningful futures, change through connection and collaboration, change as social and systemic practice, and change as inquiry, play and praxis. Contributors consider organisations as part of a broader ecosystem in the Anthropocene, presenting new and exciting pathways for studies of organisational change theory.

Scholars and researchers in organisation studies and change management seeking novel approaches and challenging research questions will greatly benefit from the book's forward-looking insights. Its practical suggestions will be of equal interest to change professionals, consultants, and practitioners, as well as leaders engaged in organisational transformations.

Beyond the Lean Strategy Canvas, the authors provide practical frameworks and tools for analysing the economic market - including customers, competition, and risks - and translating tactics into disciplined execution. The Lean Strategy Development is grounded in research and enriched by startup case studies and interviews across multiple ecosystems. It explores the impact of integrating AI-enabled decision-making and sustainability considerations into the logistics of maintaining agility. The authors' experience of mentoring businesspersons acts as a foundation to present clear and actionable approaches to building schemes in unsettled environments.

Researchers and academics of business and operations management will benefit from the book's contributions to the intersection of strategic management and entrepreneurship. This is an essential read for early-stage business founders due to its structured yet agile approach tailored to startup realities.

This book provides a theoretical and practical guide to the consultancy cycle, the core framework used by occupational psychologists to deliver evidence-based interventions in organisations.

As organisations face rapid change and workplace challenges, occupational psychologists need to apply a structured approach for their interventions to ensure they add value, maintain good relationships with clients, are ethical in their practice, and use an evidence-based approach. Applying Psychology to Consulting breaks down each stage of the consultancy cycle, offering clear explanations, established theories and frameworks for each stage, real-world case studies, expert voices, and practical tools. Bridging the gap between academic theory and real-world consultancy, the book equips readers with the skills to manage their work confidently and perform to a high standard.

This book will appeal to students of occupational and organisational psychology, and those undertaking a professional doctorate in occupational psychology, as well as early-career occupational psychology practitioners and experienced consultants looking to refresh and build on their knowledge.

Through conceptual contributions and case studies, the book examines innovative methodologies rooted in system dynamics and organizational cybernetics. Chapters explore how these can be applied to diverse areas including socio-ecological and community governance, education, agriculture, climate issues, polycrises and supply chain resilience. This book demonstrates how, due to its strengths in decision-making and the management of complexity, systems thinking is increasingly in demand as a pathway towards a sustainable future.

Systems Thinking is a key resource for scholars and students of business and management with an interest in environmental management, governance, cybernetics and systemic approaches to management. Practitioners of social systems development and business leaders seeking to grow their organization sustainably will also benefit from its practical insights.

The US Army faces an extraordinary people management challenge: managing more than one million service members worldwide who rotate through new roles every two to three years. For decades, the Army relied on a one-size-fits-all, Industrial Age personnel system that treated individuals as interchangeable parts. While effective in a previous era, this approach is increasingly misaligned with a strategic environment that demands adaptability, innovation, and speed. Recognizing that its legacy system was no longer sufficient, Army leaders undertook a rapid and far-reaching transformation to modernize how talent is identified, developed, and employed.

The Talent Imperative tells the inside story of this transformation. Written by leaders directly involved in designing and implementing these reforms, the book blends scholarly rigor with practical insight to explain the Army's approach to talent management as a strategic source of competitive advantage. It examines how the Army's "Triad of Talent"-a talent attribute framework, talent assessments, and talent markets-enhances the Army's ability to place the right person in the right position at the right time, over time, while giving service members clearer ownership of career opportunities the Army values.

While grounded in the military context, the book speaks to a broad audience of scholars, practitioners, and students of human resource management, public administration, and organizational change. In an era defined by competition for talent, the Army's experience offers transferable lessons for large organizations seeking to adapt their people systems in complex, high-stakes environments.

Employing examples and stories from Tolkien's series, Moore outlines basic principles of organization theory and illustrates how management concepts can apply to organizations of any kind. Chapters relate Tolkien's notion of stewardship to sustainability management, discuss how to cultivate 'servant leadership' and examine The Lord of the Rings as a study in good diversity management. The book concludes by exploring the lessons and personal philosophies readers can draw for their own careers as managers, employees and businesspeople in a changing world.

Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is an informative resource for scholars and students of business and management, especially those interested in the relationship of management theory to popular culture. It will also benefit managers and practitioners seeking a greater understanding of general organizational theories.

This book provides a fresh perspective on business strategy and business modeling, tailored to the dynamic creative and cultural industries. It bridges classical strategic thinking with contemporary dynamic approaches, introducing an innovative integrated framework that connects business strategy formulation with business modeling design. Featuring case studies from the film, music, gaming, and museum sectors across Europe and the United States, it offers actionable insights based on interviews with industry leaders. Key features include a comprehensive review of business strategy evolution, a detailed examination of business model innovation, and the introduction of the "Human-Centered AI Business Model" in light of AI's growing influence. The book's integrated framework combines academic rigor with practical relevance, equipping readers with strategic tools to navigate complexity and gain competitive advantage. Ideal for researchers, academicians, and advanced students in strategic management, entrepreneurship, and cultural industries, this book also serves as a practical guide for managers and entrepreneurs seeking to design organizations that thrive in complexity. With its unique focus on creative and cultural industries, it appeals to a global audience, particularly in regions with strong policy support for these sectors, such as Europe, Canada, and the United States.

This timely new text provides a comprehensive and critical guide to ethics and sustainability across the Fashion industry.

Seeking to foster critical analysis, the book encourages students to question common narratives and delve deeper into surface-level approaches to sustainability. It raises awareness of ethical issues in the fashion industry, including the lack transparency, poor labour practices, environmental impact, and social implications of fashion production and consumption. The book provides insights into current trends, emerging regulations, and practical applications, underpinned by examples from industry. Real-life case studies from around the world showcase some of the innovative brands that have shifted the focus from profit-driven motives to value-driven growth, embracing ethics, transparency, and social purpose in their business strategies.

Exploring how the fashion industry can commit to more comprehensive, measurable changes across all aspects of design, production, labour, sales, marketing, and community engagement, this text is essential reading for postgraduate students of Fashion Management, Fashion Entrepreneurship and Fashion Sustainability, as well as reflective practitioners considering fresh approaches to their businesses.

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of Human Resource Management (HRM) and Human Resource Development (HRD) specifically designed for the developing and transitional economies of South Asia. Moving beyond traditional Western-centric frameworks, this comprehensive text integrates strategic, cultural, institutional, and technological dimensions of workforce management. It traces the evolution of HRM and HRD from administrative functions to strategic imperatives that drive organizational resilience, productivity, innovation, and sustainable growth within the unique socio-economic landscape of South Asia.

The book provides extensive coverage of essential HR activities including workforce planning, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, compensation, employee relations, labour laws, and international HRM. It addresses cutting-edge topics such as AI in HR, HR analytics, workforce agility, multiskilling, gig economy employment, and strategic HR control systems. Through theoretical foundations, practical frameworks, and regionally relevant case studies, it demonstrates how organizations can align human capital with business objectives while balancing efficiency, fairness, and employee well-being.

This essential volume serves undergraduate and postgraduate students in business administration, management, commerce, and related disciplines. It is ideal for MBA, PGDM, and specialized HR programs, as well as executive education participants, HR professionals, consultants, policy analysts, and researchers seeking practice-oriented, regionally grounded insights into Strategic Human Resource Management and Development.