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Healthcare has always involved travel, with people journeying to places traditionally known for healing or to seek out specialist medical expertise that may not be available more locally. More recently, medical tourism has grown at an unprecedented pace, often driven by commercial interests. When something goes wrong far from home, however, the consequences can be severe.

This groundbreaking book challenges the status quo of medical tourism, shifting the focus from competition and volume to what truly matters: value, safety and accountability. It explores the realities of cross-border care, from the motivations behind patient travel to the complex web of facilitators, insurers and providers that shape the journey. With a critical eye, it addresses the recurring challenges of incomplete information, unclear responsibilities, poor follow-up and avoidable harm and will educate, inform, guide and inspire stakeholders to integrate sustainable practices in medical tourism.

Key Features:

? Explains why patients travel to gain faster access, cultural comfort and services unavailable at home.

? Uncovers the hidden complexities including coordination gaps, ethical dilemmas and environmental costs of cross-border care.

? Explores the role of technology and how digital tools can enhance safety-or create new risks.

? Provides a roadmap for the future with practical tools and measurable indicators to ensure care is safe, sustainable and trustworthy.

Written for clinicians, managers, facilitators, insurers, policymakers and patients, this book provides actionable insights, emphasizing environmentally friendly practices, ethical considerations and high-quality patient care needed to transform medical tourism into transnational healthcare that prioritizes outcomes over promises.

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership in Times of Crisis examines how emotional intelligence enhances leadership effectiveness during periods of uncertainty and disruption. Integrating cutting-edge research with practical application, it explores the psychological, ethical, and behavioural dimensions of emotionally intelligent leadership in crisis contexts. Through interdisciplinary insights and real-world case studies, it provides leaders with actionable strategies to foster resilience, navigate turbulence, and drive recovery. This essential resource bridges academic rigour with practical relevance, offering tools and frameworks to empower leaders in high-stakes environments. Key features include a comprehensive exploration of emotionally intelligent leadership, evidence-based interventions, and detailed case studies across sectors such as healthcare, finance, and public administration. Readers will gain access to practical tools, including resilience assessment models, leadership reflection guides, and strategies for fostering trust and adaptability. It equips leaders to enhance emotional awareness, empathy, and self-regulation, enabling them to lead confidently through crises while promoting organizational sustainability and growth. This book is invaluable for researchers, organizational leaders, HR professionals, crisis managers, and educators in leadership, psychology, and management. It also supports advanced students and consultants seeking to apply emotional intelligence frameworks in turbulent environments. By blending scholarly insight with practical application, it serves as a vital resource for leadership development and organizational resilience.

Addressing discipline-specific challenges which have often been ignored in literature, leading experts demonstrate how inclusive, decolonial and anti-racist approaches can improve student engagement and educational outcomes. They also show how these approaches address long-standing inequalities within business education. The book looks to the future, revealing clear pathways for the transformation of business schools in line with principles of social justice and anti-racism.

Presenting evidence-informed frameworks and strategies, How to Embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Business School is essential reading for educators, leaders and practitioners in higher education seeking to drive meaningful change. It will also be of value to scholars working across higher education, organisational development, management and social justice-focused research and practice, offering critical insights into EDI, anti-racist, and decolonial pedagogy and practice.

Drawing from diverse disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, geography and the environmental humanities, the contributors demonstrate how different traditions cross pollinate and enrich tourism theorization. They explore the relational, dynamic and often 'messy' nature of these theories, highlighting how they are shaped by evolving relations of becoming, tension and controversy. Addressing future-oriented ideas, the Research Handbook argues for the role of theory in exploring, expanding and experimenting with what defines tourism, what it ought to be and what it could become.

The Research Handbook on Tourism Theories is a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers who approach tourism from social science and humanities perspectives. It is especially relevant for those working within the anthropology and sociology of tourism as well as tourism geography, where deep theoretical reflection is central to the discipline.

Acknowledging that there several accepted definition of wisdom, a global array of contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on its societal impact. They embrace the inherent complexity and elusiveness of the concept to address its role in personal development, business, political leadership and individual efforts to make positive contributions to a troubled world. Combining scientific, philosophical and spiritual approaches, entries explore the implications of metaphysics and consciousness, integrating practical and theoretical knowledge to provide a broad and deep overview of wisdom.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Wisdom Research is an essential resource for scholars and students of psychology, business and management, sociology, the humanities and innovation studies. Business leaders as well as ethics policymakers and educators will similarly benefit from its broad analysis and practical recommendations.

Key Features:

• Showcases entries from leading thinkers from around the world, including the Global South
• Analyses the social pre-conditions which foster wisdom to enhance community-led development
• Examines the implications of wisdom for neuroscience, spirituality, religious studies, ethics and philosophy
• Investigates aspects of wisdom that have been under-emphasised in contemporary wisdom research

Causal Inference in Marketing: A Practical Toolkit for Panel Data is a two-volume guide to turning messy marketing panels into credible causal evidence. Written for data scientists, marketing analysts, econometricians, and applied researchers, it connects modern causal inference with the operational realities of advertising, pricing, loyalty, platforms, and marketing effectiveness. The set is distinctive in its design-first treatment of panel data: it begins with estimands, assignment mechanisms, support, and diagnostics before moving to estimators. Readers should be comfortable with regression and applied statistics, but the exposition is built to make the assumptions behind causal claims explicit rather than hidden inside software defaults.

Across the two volumes, readers learn how to choose, implement, diagnose, and report causal designs for marketing measurement. Volume 1 develops the foundations, including potential outcomes, design-based thinking for panels, difference-in-differences, event-study designs, synthetic control, hybrid synthetic control methods, interactive fixed effects, matrix completion, dynamic treatment effects, heterogeneity, interference, and spillovers. Volume 2 extends the toolkit to machine learning for nuisance adjustment and treatment-effect heterogeneity, high-dimensional controls, regularisation, continuous and nonlinear panel models, threats to validity, inference and uncertainty quantification, design diagnostics, and applied marketing workflows. The result is a practical framework for evaluating incrementality, media mix models, geo-experiments, platform data, pricing, promotions, customer lifetime value, retention, and reproducibility while keeping the causal target, data limitations, and business decision aligned.

Chapters reframe the narrative of the word 'resistance', treating it as a constructive element of the common good. They dissect the myth of technological determinism to advocate for more socially responsible engagements. Proposing imagination as a pathway of resistance, the book examines themes of leadership, technology, property, and management to redefine resistance. It moves beyond binary choices to place faith in the nurture of complex human connections and solidarity, and stresses the importance of belonging as an essential resource for organizers.

Resistance and the Neoliberal Organization is a valuable resource for students and academics of business management, ethics, and trust. Researchers and policymakers interested in sociology and organizational behaviour will also benefit from the insights provided.

This book offers a clear, practical guide to tackling one of the most pressing challenges in contemporary omnichannel management. As store closures rise and customer preferences shift rapidly toward digital and omni-channel experiences, businesses worldwide must rethink their operating strategies, competitive approaches, and sustainability practices. The book emphasizes that the future of a business lies in the dynamic integration of online and offline channels. Through practical case studies, industry data, and recent research, it demonstrates how effective omnichannel strategies can rebuild buyer trust, enhance profitability, and foster resilience during periods of disruption.

Additionally, the book explores how seamless integration across physical stores, digital channels, and mobile platforms can transform fragmented shopping experiences into valued customer journeys. It addresses complex topics such as evolving consumer behavior, logistics disruptions, big data, analytics, and digital marketing strategies. It also provides actionable insights for scholars, managers, policymakers, and small and medium enterprise owners.

This book is ideal for students, professionals, and academics in retail management, marketing, and business strategy. It is particularly relevant for individuals interested in creating a sustainable, competitive business model through strategic omnichannel management.

The chapters in this book were originally published as special issues in the Journal of Strategic Marketing.

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 Handbook first provides a grounding in key concepts, approaches, and frameworks before moving through four aspects of tourism and migration: consumption, production, regulation, and the future. Leading experts highlight the role of lifestyle in influencing voluntary migration, as well as the importance of political and market forces in shaping mobility and the effects of migration on destinations. Chapters investigate key aspects of the tourism-migration nexus, such as the impact of migrant workers, entrepreneurship, tourism governance, the function of short and long term migration, and sense of place. Emphasising the fluidity of tourism and migration, the Handbook advocates for a better understanding of the dynamic and increasingly contested nature of this interrelationship.

The Handbook on Tourism and Migration is a vital resource for scholars and students of tourism, migration studies, and human geography. Tourism policymakers will also benefit from its broad scope and actionable recommendations.

This book explores how family owned businesses live and act across multiple temporal horizons-past, present, and future-and how those horizons shape strategy, identity, and everyday organizing. The book's motivation is to offer a comprehensive, practice-relevant lens on how family firms uniquely experience and manage the tensions of time: honoring historical legacies without becoming captive to them, meeting present operational realities without myopia, and opening credible futures without severing recognizability. Throughout, the authors show how this dynamic interplay is decisive for long-term sustainability and renewal in enterprising families.

Culture is critical to individuals and organizations. This book offers an in-depth exploration of how Indian managers work, examining their inner struggles and the forces that influence their behaviour in contemporary corporate environments.

The book presents an original framework developed by the author - the Existential Universe Mapper (EUM) - a pluralistic and non-reductionist model of management that employs a novel psychometric instrument to map individual and organizational identity. The model restrains from placing any phenomenon into frozen categories and enables an understanding of their interplay. It highlights India's ambivalent relationship with modernity and the resulting challenges Indian managers face in embracing corporate imperatives largely rooted in Anglo-Saxon frameworks.

This revised second edition - which incorporates contemporary data and links it to significant developments in the world - will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in business management, human resource management, leadership studies, corporate governance, psychology, and sociology. It offers valuable insights for educators, consultants, management practitioners, and corporate leaders navigating the complexities of organizational culture in the Indian context.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the Customs Tariff-its structure, purpose, and role in global trade by combining economic theory, international governance, practical application, and contemporary policy issues. It begins by introducing the fundamentals of the Customs Tariff and the economic principles behind supply, demand, and the impact of unit taxes such as import duties. It then explores the global institutions that shape tariff policy: the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Customs Organization (WCO), explaining their roles in regulating international trade and maintaining the Harmonized System used worldwide.

A substantial portion of the book focuses on the structure and mechanics of the tariff itself, including commodity codes, General Interpretative Rules (GIRs), duty rates, tariff engineering, quotas, and non-tariff measures such as anti-dumping and countervailing duties. It explains how tariffs function as fiscal tools, regulatory mechanisms, and political instruments-covering topics like tariff inversion, protectionism, and the weaponization of tariffs in foreign policy.

The book also addresses modern trade challenges, including supply-chain risk, rules of origin, trade creation and diversion, and the operation of free-trade agreements and customs unions. It highlights the importance of competence and awareness among traders and customs professionals when navigating tariff systems. Later chapters examine recent U.S. tariff policies, including Section 301 and 232 actions, and discuss how tariffs are used to protect domestic industries or influence international behavior. The book concludes by considering the growing role of artificial intelligence in tariff classification and compliance, and reflects on the future of tariff policy in an evolving global trade environment.

Strategic Risk Management represents an organizational capacity to adapt business activities to match the evolving competitive environment.

This updated edition reflects the increasingly disruptive global competitive landscape. Incorporating the latest scholarly developments, the authors advance the risk leadership model to introduce a strategic drift warning system that accounts for behavioral trends across organizational hierarchies. Across five concise chapters, the book traces the evolution from enterprise risk management (ERM) toward a dynamic multidisciplinary approach to strategic risk management (SRM) with more sophisticated perspectives on strategy-making. It demonstrates how conventional models, grounded in probabilistic forecasts, compliance routines, and auditable processes, fail to capture and address emergent threats and systemic shocks. Drawing on decades of research in behavioral science, organizational theory, and dynamic capabilities, it reveals the hidden cognitive biases, social pressures, and structural frictions that distort judgment and undermine even well-designed strategies. The book contends that risk is not merely a technical challenge but a fundamentally human endeavor. Strategy execution falters not from lack of intent or motivation, but because real-world conditions, such as time pressure, cognitive overload, misaligned incentives, and flawed routines, shape behavior in predictable yet overlooked ways. To bridge the gap between strategic intent and frontline action, organizations must cultivate new forms of sensing, learning, and cross-functional collaboration. Central to the book is the emergence of strategic risk leadership (SRL), a forward-looking leadership orientation blending analytical rigor with moral purpose, psychological safety, and adaptive decision-making. SRL reframes risk governance as a sociotechnical practice enabling organizations to navigate sudden environmental shifts, systemic poly-crisis conditions, and AI-driven ambiguity.

A concise yet comprehensive guide to the field, this book distills research that has stood the test of time with emerging trends to present a resource that is valuable reading for researchers, advanced students and reflective business practitioners.

This textbook explores the environmental impact of business systems, particularly emissions resulting from logistics and intra-company operations. It highlights how transportation activities between suppliers, companies, and end users contribute to emissions, while intra-logistics within companies consume significant energy to move components and subassemblies.

By emphasizing efficient use of material handling equipment and machines, the book:

? Provides actionable strategies to reduce energy consumption and minimize carbon emissions at power generation units.

? Offers practical approaches to achieving sustainable operations in industries.

? Uses Case studies reinforce key concepts, along with chapter summaries, keywords and review questions

? Illustrates concepts clearly using tables and figures

An engaging and practical resource for readers, this book would be ideal for students, researchers, and faculty in supply chain management, operations management, and industrial engineering at both graduate and research levels. It would also serve as a valuable resource for consultants and practitioners, providing insights into models and modeling systems to support better supply chain decisions.

The global advertising market is roughly US$1.1 trillion, with digital channels accounting for most of that activity. Marketing measurement therefore increasingly depends on complex data environments: high-dimensional covariates, machine-learning systems, continuous treatments, platform reporting constraints, and organisational pressure to turn evidence into decisions. These settings create opportunities for richer causal analysis, but they also raise difficult questions about validity, uncertainty, diagnostics, reproducibility, and whether an estimated effect is useful for the decision at hand.

Volume 2 of Causal Inference in Marketing: A Practical Toolkit for Panel Data carries the framework of Volume 1 into the advanced and operational half of the book. It extends the core panel toolkit into machine learning, high-dimensional adjustment, continuous and nonlinear treatment settings, threats to validity, inference, diagnostics, applied marketing workflows, data and measurement systems, reproducibility, and open problems. The emphasis throughout is on applying causal principles under the constraints of real marketing data and real organisational settings.

Key Features:

• Develops machine-learning and high-dimensional methods for panel data, including orthogonalisation, cross-fitting under panel dependence, heterogeneous treatment effects, policy learning, regularisation, and double selection.
• Provides a diagnostics and inference playbook covering pre-trends, placebos, sensitivity analysis, bootstrap and randomisation inference, multiplicity, weak instruments, and uncertainty communication.
• Connects advanced causal methods to marketing applications, including media mix models, geo-experiments, platform data, pricing, promotions, customer lifetime value, retention, measurement systems, and reproducible evidence production.

Written for data scientists, marketing analysts, econometricians, and applied researchers, this volume is intended for readers who are comfortable with regression and applied statistics and who want to extend causal design into robust implementation, diagnosis, and reporting. Volume 1 develops the foundations, including potential outcomes, design-based thinking, difference-in-differences, event studies, synthetic control, factor and matrix methods, dynamics, heterogeneity, interference, and spillovers.

Charles Shaw is a Data Science Director at WPP Media, where he leads econometric measurement and optimisation for global brands. His work focuses on causal inference, econometric measurement, Bayesian modelling, machine learning, and marketing effectiveness. He develops applied frameworks for privacy-constrained attribution, media incrementality, platform effects, dynamic pricing, and scalable causal workflows in commercial settings.

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.

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.

This book addresses the urgent need for sustainable practices in property development, particularly within the South African context. It provides an innovative perspective on the transition from traditional Linear Economy Business Models to Circular Economy Business Models through the lens of Servitized Business Model Innovation. It aims to bridge the gap between academic theory and practical implementation, offering insights, strategies, and frameworks for property developers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to effectively adopt and implement circular and servitized approaches in the built environment.

The book is structured to address three interconnected objectives: examining the drivers and challenges associated with transitioning to circular economy practices, analyzing the critical role of servitized business models in enhancing circular performance, and offering a framework to guide and manage these transitions effectively. It systematically examines the socio-economic, regulatory, and operational complexities faced by property developers and offers actionable solutions tailored to the unique challenges of developing countries. The content is informed by an in-depth qualitative study involving key stakeholders from public and private property development sectors across various management levels, ensuring that the findings are both robust and practical, with takeaways for an international audience.

This book addresses the critical need for tools and strategies to enable developers to overcome barriers like financial constraints, policy gaps, and resistance to change, and to achieve sustainable property development goals. It is key reading for all built environment stakeholders, those with an interest in circular economy, and innovative business models.

The global advertising market is roughly US$1.1 trillion, before accounting for the wider investments firms make in pricing, promotions, loyalty, and customer acquisition. Yet the evidence used to measure these investments is often fragile. Traditional marketing mix models offer operational convenience, while modern econometric methods promise stronger causal identification. In practice, marketing teams must work with short panels, staggered rollouts, overlapping campaigns, platform interference, and competitive responses that make simple before-and-after comparisons unreliable.

Volume 1 of Causal Inference in Marketing: A Practical Toolkit for Panel Data develops the foundations and core panel designs needed to turn those messy data structures into credible causal evidence. Grounded in potential-outcomes reasoning and design-based thinking, it translates causal inference into the language of marketing measurement: incrementality, attribution, budget allocation, and decision-relevant reporting. The emphasis throughout is on clear estimands, credible identification, practical diagnostics, and recognising when the available data cannot support the causal claim being made.

Key Features:

• Provides a practitioner-first framework for causal panel design in marketing, including estimands, assignment mechanisms, support, diagnostics, and reporting standards.
• Covers the core modern panel toolkit, including difference-in-differences, staggered adoption designs, event studies, synthetic control, augmented synthetic control, synthetic difference-in-differences, interactive fixed effects, and matrix completion.
• Includes dedicated treatment of dynamic effects, heterogeneity, interference, and spillovers in advertising, pricing, loyalty, platforms, and marketing effectiveness settings.

Written for data scientists, marketing analysts, econometricians, and applied researchers, this volume is intended for readers who are comfortable with regression and applied statistics and want a rigorous, practical route from marketing panel data to causal evidence. Volume 2 extends the toolkit into machine learning, high-dimensional adjustment, continuous treatments, inference, diagnostics, applications, data systems, reproducibility, and future practice.

Charles Shaw is a Data Science Director at WPP Media, where he leads econometric measurement and optimisation for global brands. His work focuses on causal inference, econometric measurement, Bayesian modelling, machine learning, and marketing effectiveness. He develops applied frameworks for privacy-constrained attribution, media incrementality, platform effects, dynamic pricing, and scalable causal workflows in commercial settings.

Cultural management education continues to evolve to meet the needs of the arts industry. Highlighting examples of innovative pedagogical practices, this book brings together an array of academic and practical expertise into cutting-edge teaching methods, emerging trends, and best practices from around the world.

The volume begins with a conceptual framework for understanding the cultural enterprise. Subsequently, the chapters examine the disconnect between academic programs and professional practice; research on teaching foundational courses; creativity as a leadership imperative; interdisciplinary curriculum development; Universal Design for Learning; critical access as fundamental practice; emotional intelligence; essential competencies for cultural leaders; cultural diplomacy; arts marketing reconceptualized through audience engagement; fundraising instruction via case study methodology; arts emergency preparedness; the preservation of popular music as intangible heritage; and a reimagined approach to data literacy in arts administration. The chapters may be read sequentially, as they chart a discipline discovering its contemporary form, or selectively.

Replete with practical strategies for curriculum development, assessment techniques, and experiential learning opportunities, this book is value reading for researchers and faculty engaged with arts administration, creative and cultural industries and higher education more broadly.

This Research Agenda explores the impact of tourism on economies, communities, and places in today's world. It brings together different perspectives to explain how tourism can support economic development, but also why unmanaged growth can create social and environmental pressures.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and with an eye on contemporary challenges - such as macroeconomic impacts, sustainability, and the development of new tourism typologies - this Research Agenda provides a re-reading of tourism from an economic standpoint. Contributing authors examine how tourism outcomes depend on the way destinations are planned, governed, and managed, combining broad economic analysis and concrete examples. Chapters propose new tools and perspectives for understanding tourism in a changing world. Looking to the future, it emphasizes the need for economic assessment and smarter public policies in tourism for long-term prosperity and quality of life.

A Research Agenda for the Economics of Tourism is an essential resource for students, researchers and practitioners seeking to understand the complexities of tourism from an economic perspective.

This book critically interrogates sustainable business and finance practices within the unique African context. With increasing stakeholder pressure for sustainability adoption aligned with Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainable finance emerges as the pathway to create resilient African economies. Sustainable practices in Africa are anchored on integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) tenets into business decisions, creating intersectionality between capital flows and sustainable business goals.

This edited collection delves deeply into sustainable business and finance mechanisms, systems, models, and processes, alongside international best practices. It offers comprehensive assessment of how green finance can unlock sustainable business value in Africa amid unprecedented geopolitical risks. Adopting transdisciplinary and multisectoral approaches with comparative case studies, this book provides practical insights into responsible financial investment models, financial sustainability, sustainable artificial intelligence, green leadership, SDGs, environmental stewardship, green business practices, carbon markets, climate change risks, and sustainability-linked loans from an African standpoint. It addresses regulatory and policy inconsistencies while bridging the gap between theory and practice.

Drawing on theoretical frameworks and empirical studies, this collection equips business practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and postgraduate learners with practical tools to navigate sustainable business and finance complexities in African economies, contributing significantly to global business sustainability discourse.

Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence provides an in-depth exploration of the intersection of business analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI). Tailored for undergraduate, graduate, and professional learners, it equips readers with the knowledge and skills to leverage data-driven insights and AI technologies for strategic decision-making, operational optimization, and innovation in a dynamic global business environment. This book bridges the gap between theory and practice by:

- Introducing the foundational principles of business analytics and AI

- Demonstrating the integration of advanced AI techniques into business analytics processes

- Providing a unified guide to business analytics and machine learning with a focus on real-world applications

- Presenting a clear, practical, and accessible framework to harness AI and machine learning for solving complex business problems, optimizing operations, and driving innovation

- Exploring the ethical, legal, and social implications of AI in business contexts

- Presenting case studies and real-world applications from diverse industries to showcase best practices.

The textbook combines foundational concepts, advanced techniques, and hands-on applications, catering to readers with varying levels of technical expertise. It includes global perspectives of BA and AI, case studies, practical examples, and coding snippets (in Python or R) to help readers implement AI-driven solutions in their organizations. Topics span predictive analytics, machine learning, data visualization, natural language processing, and decision support systems, emphasizing how these tools empower businesses to stay competitive and ensure operational sustainability.

Fleck analyses longitudinal studies across varied industries and ownership regimes, revealing three core requirements for healthy long-term survival: renewal fostering, slack producing and integrity cultivating. Chapters examine the dual role of growth and how it can both constructively and destructively affect the existence of an organization, its members and the relevant environment. The book highlights how responsible leadership is essential to address the entrepreneurial, environmental and organizational trio of growth challenges and to prevent self-destruction. Fleck also demonstrates how fostering a sustainable strategy can result in socially responsible and environmentally conscious behaviors.

This book is a crucial read for scholars and students of business, organization, entrepreneurship and strategic, general and critical management studies. It is also highly relevant to business owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs seeking organizational success.

This book presents a comprehensive yet accessible framework for understanding how business systems generate value within organizations and how leaders can effectively navigate the transition to AI-enabled enterprises. Central to the book is the Business Systems Roadmap (BSR), a five-tier model that illustrates organizational progression from basic administrative systems (Tier 1) to advanced cognitive-autonomous systems (Tier 5).

Drawing on insights from Capability Maturity Models (CMMs), the book bridges established concepts of organizational maturity with the evolving role of digital business systems. It examines how systems contribute value through recordkeeping, workflow automation, decision support, predictive analytics, and autonomous functionality.

Covering all major business functions, including human resources, finance, marketing, supply chain, and operations, the book demonstrates how systems at each tier align with and support strategic business objectives. Each chapter is designed for practical application in the workplace, while the book as a whole serves as a valuable resource in academic settings.

Ultimately, this work serves as both a practical guide for business leaders and an academic text for undergraduate and graduate programs. It supports professionals and organizations in aligning system investments with strategic goals and digital transformation initiatives. By emphasizing application and decision-making over purely technical detail, the book offers a distinctive and impactful contribution to the field.

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.